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Archive for January 28th, 2008

Sony Ericsson unveiled the next stage in the evolution of PlayNow arena, its popular over-the-air (OTA) download service. At the MIDEM conference in Cannes, Sony Ericsson announced deals with 10 major record labels, adding over 5 million new tracks to its extensive catalogue. Sony Ericsson also unveiled the design and URL for PlayNow arena [...]

700MHz Wireless Spectrum Bidding At $3.7 Billion

Posted by: ADMIN on: January 28, 2008

The bidding in the US Federal Communications Commission’s auction for wireless spectrum licenses in the 700MHz band went over 3.7 billion dollars, after only four rounds.
The bidding topped the 2.78 billion dollars and the federal government hopes that it would raise 10 billion dollars until the end of the auction for the government- owned airwaves.
The [...]

Amazon MP3 would get international launch this year

Posted by: ADMIN on: January 28, 2008

Amazon has said that they are now working on launching their Amazon MP3 Store in other nations around the world.
The Amazon MP3 store was launched late last year and has become one of the most potent challengers to the Apple iTunes.
Amazon MP3 has on offer more than 3.3 million songs in DRM free format.

Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2 released

Posted by: ADMIN on: January 28, 2008

Microsoft has now made available yet another test version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
The company said that this Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2 edition has been made available to around 15,000 beta testers.
Microsoft added that this release is still on schedule for release in the first quarter of the current year.

HP announced a software governance initiative to help companies address the legal, financial and security risks faced when adopting free and open source software (FOSS).
To help enterprise customers mitigate these kinds of risks and realize the full business benefits of free and open source software, HP has introduced FOSSology and FOSSBazaar – the industry’s [...]