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Home Media Magazine is reporting that for the week ending October 21st, Blu-ray squeaked out a victory in sales, a fact that would dispute Paramount’s sales numbers for “Transformers.”
The report says Blu-ray won the week by the thinnest of margins, 51% to 49%, but many expected HD DVD to dominate the week thanks to the […]

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Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s VP of Engineering, said just two weeks ago that Firefox mobile plans to “sync bookmarks, history and extensions between desktop and mobile editions” - ‘Opera Link’ syncs bookmarks, Speed Dial and the personal bar. You say tomato…
The first service to leverage the breadth of Opera’s entire browser portfolio, Opera Link unites the […]

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Cupertino, California - The latest version of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system is due to hit store shelves in late October. The program, known as Leopard, will include more than 300 new functions.
Among those are a new Finder to ease the exchange of files between multiple Mac computers. Also new is a preview function […]

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“The FCC is butting heads with wireless phone companies over ‘wiggle room’ the government organization wishes to allow consumers. Along with the move to the auction system, the government is removing restrictions on pieces of the wireless spectrum, which will allow a freedom of choice not usually seen with wireless communication devices.
‘In the past, when […]

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MP3s are music to stock spammers’ ears. As Internet users become wary of more file attachments, so-called pump-and-dump scammers have move to MP3 files to entice victims, security experts said.
Security experts said the MP3 files include an audio come-on encouraging people to buy a company’s stock. The spam, first detected Oct. 17, so far doesn’t […]

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Software giant Microsoft has revealed that they are working on redoing the core kernel of the Windows OS to make it smaller as mobile devices become more essential in daily life.
This kernel is likely to become the base of the Windows 7 which would succeed Vista in the coming years.
This project has been named MinWin.
Eric […]

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Cable giant Comcast is using filtering technology effectively blocking file-sharing on its broadband network, a report said. The practice was called “the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service provider.”
According to the AP, Comcast, the second-largest cable Internet provider, disguises itself as a user, causing uploads to BitTorrent, GnuTella or […]

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The CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, has made the announcement that starting in February Apple is going to be releasing development kits to third-party developers to create applications for the iPhone.Jobs has stated that in his mind the iPhone is the best mobile platform ever for developers. Four months after launch though the iPhone still […]

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A group of media and internet heavyweights have teamed up to establish guidelines to protect copyrighted material online.
The alliance of Viacom, Walt Disney, Microsoft, Fox, CBS and MySpace hopes to use technology to halt the growth of pirated material and prevent the uploading of content that infringes copyright rules.
“These principles offer a road map for […]

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Even before the ink was dry on all of the analysis surrounding SAPs recently announced acquisition of business intelligence pureplay Business Objects, BusinessWeek predicted that the deal would prompt a flurry of similar marriages in the software industry  not all of them for love or even money.
It sure didnt take long for that to happen. […]

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