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/ 19 January 2007
United States computer maker Hewlett-Packard on Thursday reveled in news that it had extended its lead as the world’s top personal computer vendor late last year, pressuring arch-rival Dell. Overall PC shipments in 2006 reached 228,6-million, 10% higher than the previous year.
<i>YouTube.com</i> and Warner Music Group rang in the new year online despite a seemingly broken promise by the superstar video-sharing website to have an anti-piracy system in place by 2007. Warner music, messages from artists, and feeds of live performances at celebrations were featured at a YouTube New Year’s Eve festival.
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/ 31 December 2006
YouTube was poised on Saturday to ring in 2007 on a sour note by missing a deadline to deploy a system to prevent piracy of copyrighted music on the video-sharing website. Creating and installing an "advanced content identification and royalty reporting system" was at the heart of a precedent-setting agreement between YouTube and Warner Music Group in September.
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/ 30 November 2006
Microsoft will announce availability of business versions of its long-awaited Vista operating system on Thursday, according to analysts invited to a release event in New York City. The final version of Microsoft’s Office 2007 business applications software is to be available along with Vista.
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/ 25 October 2006
Google announced this week that bloggers and website operators are free to customise its powerful search engine and put it on their internet pages complete with money-making ads. Google Custom Search Engine provides online tools to tailor query boxes for websites or blogs in a guided step-by-step process.
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/ 25 October 2006
Mozilla on Tuesday released a new version of its Firefox web browser that has gained popularity as a free alternative to Microsoft’s ubiquitous Internet Explorer software. In the two years since its release by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, the Firefox browser has won millions of devotees worldwide.
SanDisk Corporation introduced the world’s highest-capacity flash-memory MP3 player on Monday and priced it to take a bigger bite of the market dominated by Apple’s iPods. The player features eight gigabytes of flash-based memory, expandable to 10 gigabytes, which translates into the potential to store as many as 2 500 songs.
Key internet freedoms are under threat in a legal battle between online search leader Google and pornography publisher Perfect 10, a prominent internet rights foundation said on Wednesday. At issue is whether Google infringed on copyrights by creating links to Perfect 10 pictures copied from its website and posted elsewhere on the internet.
World-renowned mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson has died in the American state of New Mexico after a years-long battle with breast cancer, opera officials said there on Saturday. Lieberson was known internationally as a captivating "arch-maverick" of an opera singer.
Yahoo! and Microsoft released software on Wednesday that built a bridge between their previously exclusive online instant messaging (IM) systems. The move fulfilled a promise the United States internet titans made late last year and marked the first time rival global messaging service providers arranged to co-mingle members.
The <i>MySpace</i> website deemed a virtual clubhouse where teenagers bare details of their lives has eclipsed internet oldster <i>Yahoo!</i> as the most popular website in the United States, a research firm said on Tuesday. Yahoo! rejected the claim as "misleading" because it ranked the search engine’s domains such as search, news, and e-mail separately instead of adding them together.
A Silicon Valley judge is being asked to stop an aviation designer from gabbing about a plan by high-flying Google’s founders to convert a wide-body passenger jet into a globe-ranging party plane. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Joseph Huber scheduled an August 7 hearing to resolve the dispute.
Online search giants Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft are not doing enough to combat fraud that cost United States advertisers $800-million last year, a study released on Wednesday claimed. "Pay-per-click" advertising is a core revenue source for search engines and has come under attack by those concerned about fraud.
Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, said on Thursday he would give up the daily running of Microsoft by July 2008 to concentrate on his foundation’s work tackling health and education problems. The Microsoft co-founder wanted a two-year transition "to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates’ daily responsibilities", Microsoft said in a statement.
Apple Computer on Tuesday unveiled a new mini-computer designed as a hub for digital entertainment, and a home stereo system linked with its popular iPod music player. The mini-PC is Apple’s answer to the so-called digital media hubs that run on Microsoft’s Windows Media Centre platform.
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/ 21 January 2006
A legal stand-off between the United States Justice Department and internet search giant Google has added fuel to an already heated debate over the government’s right of access to potentially personal data. Google has decided to oppose a government subpoena to turn over records on millions of its users’ search queries.