CNET - President Bush on Friday signed into law a bill that would facilitate the collection of data regarding broadband access in the United States, though most of the actions required by the law have already been accomplished by federal regulators.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:59:00 GMT
NewsFactor - Amazon Web Services announced Friday that it will be lowering prices for its Simple Storage Service, known as Amazon S3. Beginning Nov. 1, there will be new volume discounts, based on a tiered pricing structure that offers greater discounts as storage volume increases.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:51:59 GMT
AFP - IBM on Friday opened online doors to a virtual version of the famed Forbidden City in China that served for centuries as an exclusive realm for the nation's emperors.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:50:48 GMT
NewsFactor - Zoho Mail has emerged from its private beta-testing stage. Tapping functionality built into Google Gears, Zoho's Web-based e-mail application now sports a "setup offline" link at the top of the page that gives users offline e-mail access.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:49:59 GMT
AP - When Yahoo Inc. co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang spurned Microsoft Corp.'s rich buyout offer this spring, he promised brighter days in Sunnyvale were just over the horizon.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:47:25 GMT
NewsFactor - For people who worry that it's impossible to escape from Google's amazing search capabilities, the ability to hide just got harder. Last month, Google helped sponsor the launch of the high-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. After a month of calibration and testing, the satellite's first image was released Friday by Satellite Imaging, a Houston-based remote sensing and survey company.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:20:55 GMT
PC Magazine - Crystal ball-peering transhumanist Ray Kurzweil has recently unveiled the world's first massively multiplayer online forecasting game, Superstruct.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:45:32 GMT
PC Magazine - On November 18, Codemasters and Turbine will release Mines of Moria, the first expansion to The Lord of the Rings Online. But only a dedicated fan is going to have time, given that its chief competitor, World of Warcraft, releases its own expansion a few days earlier.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:40:57 GMT
Reuters - Internet users in Kazakhstan complained of censorship Friday after being unable to access the popular blogging service Livejournal, but the state-owned telecoms company denied it was blocking it.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:15:10 GMT
InfoWorld - Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering code names and citing the company's DSL (Domain Specific Languages) concept as a lynchpin of the platform.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:00:00 GMT
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