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 Microsoft announced Friday
that it would finish its attempt to create an online library of the world’s
books. The two projects Live Search Books and Live Search Academics have
already been cancelled, as Satya Nadella Microsoft, senior vice president of
search, announced on a company blog.
This announcement came as a big shock...
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 As it usually happens with any new product, Netflix’s Roku, announced on Tuesday, brought about both positive and negative opinions. While some still prefer Apple TV, others were willing to give it a try and they appear to be rather satisfied with it. The $99 Netflix Player gives customers access to more than 10,000 movies and TV...
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 On Thursday, Hewlett-Packard launched a commendable initiative with the objective of getting customers to reduce the negative impact printing has on the environment. It its attempt to make people go green, the company unveiled a new printer model, made almost entirely out of recycled plastic, a product labeling system that can inform...
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 On Wednesday, AT&T announced its plans to introduce the High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) in six new US markets. The deadline for completing the HSPA deployment is the end of June. Once everything is taken care of, uplink speeds will vary between 500 and 800Kbps; AT&T’s current downlink is of 1.4Mbps. Obviously enough,...
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 On Tuesday, a new set-top made by Roku was announced by Netflix. The $99 Netflix Player gives customers access to more than 10,000 movies and TV series. As Roku's vice president of consumer products, Tim Twerdahl said, the Netflix Player represents the first stage of Roku's plan to implement its "Internet to the TV strategy,"...
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 On Tuesday, a prototype of One Laptop Per Child’s upcoming technology was unveiled by chairman Nicholas Negroponte. According to him, the machine’s price could be as low as $75, as this particular laptop "comes from a different point of view."The new XO 2.0’s size has been significantly reduced and targets students who must...
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 Are cell phones bad for our
health?
That is a question that
preoccupies people since the invention of the cell phones. However, specialists
have lately conducted a study centralized on the peril cell phones represented
for unborn children.
The study took into consideration
more than 13,000 children whose mothers used cell...
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The Bluetooth specialist Alpin
has announced this week the release of a new headset, Jawbone 2, a
revolutionary model from every point of view. This new powerful product on the
market, which is believed to reach 120 million units worldwide by 2009,
contains a few advantages over its opponents.
The special headset is two...
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Tuesday, May 20 is the day when
Napster Inc. launched a new product, the world’s biggest digital music store
with more than 6 million MP3 songs, just ready to be downloaded. The songs
belong to the most important music labels on the market. Additional advantage consists
of the fact that audio files will be compatible with any MP3...
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 On Thursday, Microsoft officials announced that a deal was reached with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Its Windows XP operating system will thus be made available on the low-cost notebook computers which are intended to reach developing countries’ students. According to Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy...
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