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 EMI, which first signed a historical agreement with Apple to provide DRM-free music on iTunes in April, has announced that video clips from famous artists enlisted at the British record company will be available for integration in YouTube users’ videos.EMI, which is based in London and is considered the third largest record company in...
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 Google Inc. recently announced at Google Developer Day 2007 in Sydney that it is providing developers with Google Gears, an open source technology for creating offline web applications. Google Gears comes in the form of a browser extension and is only in its early stages of development, so that everyone can test its capabilities and...
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 Police have reported the arrest of one of the world’s most prolific spammers, a 27 year old guy who was already on Spamhaus’ black list.Robert Alan Soloway, 27, is accused of using networks of compromised "zombie" computers to send out millions upon millions of spam e-mails.U.S. attorney Jeff Sullivan declared that Soloway’s...
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 Beginning in mid-June, Apple TV will wirelessly stream videos directly from YouTube and play them on a user’s widescreen TV.“This is the first time users can easily browse, find and watch YouTube videos right from their living room couch, and it’s really, really fun,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “YouTube is a worldwide sensation, and...
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 Google’s efforts to digitalize quite everything (and then make it available on the company’s search engine) are now showing some results: major streets in big US cities are now available for 3D view in Google Maps.The recent addition to the maps searching service brings even more detail to the already detailed cartography Google has been...
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 Google said it will have an answer ready for EU’s concern about data retention and server logs at Mountain View by June 19.In March, increasing concerns voiced by human rights groups about the security of data gathered from users on the Web have determined Google to change their privacy policy, meaning that Mountain View server-logs will...
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 A new study published by Pew Internet& American Life Project shows that spam e-mails have become more numerous, but improved filters help people thwart the annoyance.Apparently, although statistics show that spamming has reached record levels in our days, US Internet users are decreasingly concerned with its existence or influence...
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 Google has had for a long time a service called Google Zeitgeist, but since it has not been accessed very much the Mountain View giant thought at transforming it into Google Trends.Don’t get me wrong: Google Zeitgeist will continue to exist in the future too, but the idea behind it has been revamped. Instead of showing weekly charts...
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 MySpace has finally agreed to reveal data about thousands of sex-offenders lurking on the popular site to state attorneys, in an attempt to fend off criticism coming from both worried parents and the authorities.Initially, MySpace had announced that it is “working” with a group of state attorneys from North Carolina, Connecticut,...
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 The Silverlight technology, recently unveiled at MIX ’07 by Microsoft, is now being presented as the basis of the company’s first Web-mash-up, called Popfly.Mash-ups are Web-based applications running on a company’s servers that allow users to create new content by combining different popular Internet features, like RSS fluxes, images...
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