Archive for July 4th, 2009
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The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that is has opened a formal investigation into the settlement between Google and book publishers over the digital publishing rights to certain books, citing antitrust concerns. Deputy Assistant Attorney General William Cavanaugh disclosed the investigation in a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin, who is scheduled to review the
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If you visit Bing Travel today, you’ll be greeted with this message: “A fire occurred at Fisher Plaza in downtown Seattle just after midnight on Friday morning, July 3. A blown transformer knocked out power to the entire building, which is home to the Bing Travel among numerous other sites servers. This is isolated to
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Imagine Cup 2009 Worldwide Competition Finals kicks off in Cairo for 444 students from 124 countries and regions at the . More than 300,000 students from 100 countries accepted this challenge and registered for Imagine Cup 2009. This year, the students’ efforts are focused on using technology to help address the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. These goals
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Google Voice recently snagged about a million US phone numbers to use for the service, which lets users give out a single phone number that will ring all their phones and record, transcribe, and email voicemail messages. Now, if for some reasons, you want a number change, Google is
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George Hotz has unveiled a new utility “Purple Ra1n tool” that he claims enables iPhone 3G S users to download, install, and utilize the applications of their choice, outside of Apple's and AT&T's control. The utility is currently for Windows users only, though Hotz says a Mac OS X version is on the way. 3G
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Feedly is a Firefox extension which weaves your favorite Twitter and Google Reader content into a fun, magazine-like start page. Just install and add your RSS feeds; next when you load up Feedly, you get a newspaper style interface with favourite stuff at the top. With Feedly, you can read inline text contents, watch videos &
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Apple may be exempted from China's mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country. China in recent weeks ordered foreign and domestic PC makers to package Green Dam Youth Escort, a program that blocks pornography and some sensitive political content online, with all computers sold in the country. While
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The upcoming release of the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 contains a comprehensive set of Win32 samples illustrating Windows 7 technologies. Over 1,200 samples were changed since the release of the Windows SDK for Windows 7 RC release. Many “new to Win 7” samples were added, simplified,
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Random From The New Win32 samples in Windows 7 SDK RTM for Multimedia & Networking and Related Services
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