Motorola ROKR E8 coming to US next month

Wireless-Mobile June 29th, 2008

Motorola ROKR E8 coming to US next month
Motorola has announced that they are going to launch their Moto ROKR E8 cellphone in the US market through T-Mobile.
This new phone would be available in their domestic market starting July 7.
Moto ROKR E8 is a candybar-style mobile device designed to provide enhanced media playing capabilities.
It also features [...]

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Apple iPhone 3G challenger: LG Dare from Verizon

Wireless-Mobile June 27th, 2008

Apple iPhone 3G challenger: LG Dare from Verizon
Verizon Wireless has launched yet another mobile device to take on the upcoming Apple iPhone 3G from AT&T.
The company has launched the LG Dare which is a touchscreen mobile phone.
LG Dare comes with a 3-inch LCD touchscreen featuring a proximity sensor that turns off the LCD when [...]

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Google, Yahoo and Baidu dominates in Asia

Search Engine News June 25th, 2008

Google, Yahoo and Baidu dominates in Asia
Market research company comScore has revealed in a report that the Asian search engine market is dominated by Google, Yahoo and Baidu.
The report further said that Korean web users are the heaviest users of search engines in the region.
Google dominated the market with 39.1 percent of all searches in [...]

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Alibaba.com launches Alimama.com advertising service

Online Advertisement June 22nd, 2008

Alibaba.com launches Alimama.com advertising service
Alibaba.com Inc has announced the launch of their latest web service named Alimama.com.
Alimama.com is their free online advertising service. The company did not reveal when they plan to start charging for this service.
A company representative said: “The goal for Alimama.com set by Ma is to acquire the largest share of online [...]

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Flickr Sadness: Founders leave Yahoo

Personalities June 18th, 2008

Flickr Sadness: Founders leave Yahoo
Flickr remains one of the most loved web services owned by Yahoo currently.
However, Flickr fans would be sad to know that the founders of the company Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are both leaving the company.
They are joining the long list of senior executives at Yahoo who are moving out as [...]

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Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable to block child pornography websites

Internet June 10th, 2008

Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable to block child pornography websites
Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable has announced that they are now going to block access to websites with child pornography.
They announced this as part of their agreement with the New York state officials who were seeking this block.
The two companies also announced their plans [...]

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Sony Ericsson 760i MTV Edition launched in Europe

Wireless-Mobile June 8th, 2008

Sony Ericsson 760i MTV Edition launched in Europe
Sony Ericsson has announced the launch of their 760i MTV Edition mobile phone in the European markets.
The phone comes loaded with GPS, high quality games and music playing capabilities.
The company said that this new device has support for tri-band HSDPA networks.
Users get the power to download media [...]

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Seagate launches Savvio 10K.3 hard drive

Data Storage - Hard Disks - Flash Memory, Hardware News June 7th, 2008

Seagate launches Savvio 10K.3 hard drive
Seagate this week launched their latest Savvio 10K.3 hard drive.
Savvio 10K.3 is the company’s 300-GB 2.5-inch drive designed for servers and storage arrays.
Seagate said that this new product consumes 70% less power compared to the previous generation model.
It also offers more storage compared to traditional 3.5-inch drives. The [...]

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Yahoo to sell advertising on Wal-Mart and CBS sites

Online Advertisement June 4th, 2008

Yahoo to sell advertising on Wal-Mart and CBS sites
Yahoo is under intense pressure from billionaire investor Carl Icahn who wants to replace the company board and signup a deal with Microsoft.
The company has been rather aggressive in signing up new deals to improve their financial position to avoid the confrontation with Icahn.
Yahoo has now announced [...]

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Wikia Search opens up to unregistered web users

Search Engine News June 4th, 2008

Wikia Search opens up to unregistered web users
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has announced that their open source search engine Wikia is now open to all.
Until now, only registered members on the service had the ability to provide feedback to search results helping in improving the quality of the engine.
Now, any web user can participate in [...]

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Apple iPhone 2 expected this month

Apple Computers, Market Rumors June 3rd, 2008

Apple iPhone 2 expected this month
Market rumors are all pointing towards the launch of the second generation iPhone sometime this month.
Apple had launched their first mobile phone product Apple iPhone last year.
The company is expected to introduce the 3G edition of the iPhone at the upcoming Apple’s developers’ conference next Monday.
Apple has already revealed that [...]

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Facebook in privacy related issues in Canada

Networks June 1st, 2008

Facebook in privacy related issues in Canada
Canada’s federal privacy commissioner has revealed that they are now looking into the Facebook social networking platform for potential privacy related violations.
The complaint was filed by a group of students at the University of Ottawa who said that the service has committed 22 violations of the law.
One of the [...]

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Samsung launches a 256 GB solid state drive

Data Storage - Hard Disks - Flash Memory, Hardware News May 26th, 2008

Samsung launches a 256 GB solid state drive
South Korean tech giant Samsung has launched their new solid state drive. This new drive has a storage capacity of 256 GB.
The company claims that this new drive is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives.
Samsung is now planning to begin mass production of this drive later this [...]

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Facebook set to get a facelift

Networks May 22nd, 2008

Facebook set to get a facelift
The developers behind the Facebook social networking service have revealed that they are working on a redesign to reduce clutter on user pages.
Facebook has grown a lot in the recent months with the addition of third party applications which tends to make a lot of clutter on user profile and [...]

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Hulu to provide content to seven third party web services

Digital Media May 21st, 2008

Hulu to provide content to seven third party web services
Hulu has announced that they are now going to provide video content to several third party services.
This would further boost the availability of their content.
Hulu has seen a very successful launch as the traffic on this portal has exceeded all major networks’ websites.
They are now going [...]

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comScore: Google most popular online destination in USA

Internet May 15th, 2008

comScore: Google most popular online destination in USA
comScore has for the first time ranked Google at the top of their list for most visited destinations online in the USA.
As per the latest report, Google has now overtaken Yahoo to become the most popular website in the USA.
This ranking is by the number of unique monthly [...]

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Maps on Ovi launched

Wireless-Mobile May 13th, 2008

Maps on Ovi launched
Nokia has now made available their mobile navigation system on desktops through their OVI online service.
Users would now be able to save their map locations and routes on the computers and sync them with their mobile devices.
This new service was launched at the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, California. It is powered [...]

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LG Prada 3G mobile phone launched in Japan

Wireless-Mobile May 10th, 2008

LG Prada mobile phone launched in Japan
South Korean tech giant LG has now launched their LG Prada mobile phone in the Japanese market.
The phone is already available in several markets around the world.
The Japanese edition of Prada comes with 3G functionality which is missing from their earlier variants.
They have named this phone LG L852i for [...]

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Dell launches PowerEdge R805 and R905 servers optimized for virtualization

Hardware News May 9th, 2008

Dell launches PowerEdge R805 and R905 servers optimized for virtualization
US based PC maker Dell has announced that they are now shipping two new server products named PowerEdge R805 and R905.
These servers are optimized for virtualization and would ship with either VMware ESXi 3.5 or Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition hypervisors preinstalled.
The company said that the [...]

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Project Playlist sued for copyright infringement

Digital Piracy, Digital Media April 29th, 2008

Project Playlist sued for copyright infringement
Project Playlist is an online service which enables web users to find, play and share music with others for free.
The company has become the latest target of media companies which have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against them.
This new lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court [...]

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