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San Francisco - Social networking site Facebook has won an 873-million-dollar damages award against a spammer who inundated users of the site with millions of unwanted messages, the company said Monday.
In a blog posting, the company's director of security Max Kelly said the award by the US District Court in San Jose was the largest judgment in history for an... |
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Thanks to a social mapping
service everyone will know where he or she is, where their friends, relatives,
children and entire family are, while distances will really remain just
fugitive ideas, disappearing when grabbing your phone. The brand new social
mapping service has been announced by Sprint Nextel Corp. and loopt to...
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He has not been to stolen; he has
been head-hunted! Peter Moore was a major priority for Electronic Arts and it
seems that the company has finally succeeded in luring him to leave Microsoft for
EA’s Sports unit. Moore
was the head of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment unit and an important
figure in the industry, whose leaving...
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Who said that Google is the
company where only important amounts of money are taken into account? Google’s
AdSense program is just one of the proofs that the famous company is used to
finding ways of transforming common people into less or more creative bloggers
only for gaining some money. The same mind seems to be behind this new...
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Warner Music Group Corp. had been
so angry against the web site Imeem that the company asked the social
networking web site for a date in front of the judge. And they seemed to like
each other a lot, that Warner Music dropped the copyright infringement lawsuit
and proposed Imeem to become its partner. Imeem accepted, and now Warner...
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Kevin J. Martin’s new rules
haven’t come into action yet, but if so, the world of the United States’ telecom will be
revolutionized. Secondly, Google Inc. and other high-tech companies will score
an important victory over the broadband providers, as much of the companies’
demands have been incorporated in Federal Communications...
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Sci-fi movies have been pure
fantasy till people realized that science could really be able one day to
create such “thinking robots” like RoboCop or the Terminator. And that day
seems to be about to come.
Recently, armed track-wheeled
robots will be created for the Pentagon and for the police, as a stun-gun
manufacturer has...
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Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 has
been outsold by Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s Wii in June in Japan. Wii game console has outsold
Sony’s product by a ratio of over 6 to 1. The leading position of Wii is a
normal fact, as Nintendo’s game console have seemed to be in a continual run
for top places since its being released in Japan last year....
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Google and Intel are just two of the members of a new green alliance that comprises high-profile names like HP, Dell, IBM, Microsoft or Lenovo, poised to fight against climate change.Called Climate Savers Computing Initiative, the alliance will be focused on energy-efficient policies and the reduction of greenhouse gases, by setting...
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Nokia, the Finnish telecom giant who invented a “variant” of the Bluetooth technology called Wibree, announced that the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) will “absorb” the ultra low power wireless technology in the near future.Wibree is an open industry initiative extending local connectivity to small devices. This new radio...
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On April 18, Web-search behemoth Google filed an anti-trust complaint against Microsoft, alleging that the Redmond-crafted Vista OS is interfering (i.e. impairing) its own software.In 2004, Google introduced the highly praised Google Desktop Search, bridging the Web-search and the offline search and thus gaining more ground on...
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