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Archive for July 2008

Yahoo Unveils Offline Email Client

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 29, 2008

Zimbra, a Yahoo! company announced the release of Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop Beta. Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop gives everyone access to a simple, centralized place to manage work, school and personal e-mail even when they are not connected to the Internet.
Through internet protocol support called Post Office Protocol (POP) and Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), Yahoo! [...]

Software industry prepared to sue eBay over Pirates

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 29, 2008

The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) is considering taking legal action against online auctioneer eBay.
The group claims that eBay refuses to take several simple steps to reduce sales of the counterfeit software. The group has had years of discussions with the site but says eBay refuses to do more than simply take down [...]

Microsoft announced at the Open Source Convention (OSCON) that it will sponsor $100,000 toward the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
Microsoft will also be adding an additional 150 protocols to its Open Specification Promise (OSP) effort. The OSP is a Microsoft program to make specifications available to third-party developers without asserting legal rights over their patents..
The ASF [...]

Google walks away from Digg $200M Acquisition

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 29, 2008

Google will not put Digg technology in Google News after it reportedly ended all negotiations to buy the social news website for USD 200 million.
Reports suggest that the acquisition may have fallen through due to technological incompatibilities, although Digg has proven that it is capable of merging its code with third party’s.

Cuil, a technology startup founded by former Google and IBM engineers is unveiling a new search engine ‘Cuil’, pronounced as cool, combining a Web index of 120 billion Web pages with content-based relevance methods, ideas, and user privacy..
Cuil returns results in a page of excerpts in two or three columns, rather than a numbered list [...]

Intel to launch second version of Moblin

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 28, 2008

Intel has said that they are preparing the second release of Moblin. Moblin is Intel’s open-source platform for mobile computing.
The computing hardware is based on Intel Atom Processor Technology, which requires software optimized for low power, low footprint, high performance, wireless, and graphics to deliver a full Internet experience.
The first devices using Moblin based software [...]

Spam King Edward Davidson And Family Found Dead

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 28, 2008

Convicted spammer, Eddie Davidson, committed suicide immediately after murdering his wife and 3-year-old daughter. Authorities found the bodies of Davidson’s 29-year-old wife, Amy Lee Ann Hill, and their 3-year-old girl, shot to death, in a 2006 silver Toyota Sequoia located beside Davidson’s body.
A wounded teenage girl, who has reportedly been identified as Davidson’s daughter, managed [...]

Microsoft BrowseRank to take on Google PageRank

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 28, 2008

Microsoft aims to challenge Google’s PageRank with their own version that is named BrowseRanks.
Microsoft claims that their mechanism is superior compared to Google PageRank as it is based on user-browsing graph generated from actual internet usage.
The company said: “User-behavior data can be recorded by Internet browsers at Web clients and collected at a Web server.”

Creative launches Zen Mozaic media players

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 28, 2008

Creative has introduced some more portable media players under the Zen brand name called Creative Zen Mozaic. Creative Zen Mozaic comes loaded with Flash memory and are going to be available in four capacities: 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB.
The company said that these players would come loaded with built-in speaker, a 1.8-inch color LCD, voice [...]

Samsung introduces INNOV8 mobile phone

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 28, 2008

Samsung has introduced a new mobile phone named Samsung INNOV8.
Samsung INNOV8 is powered by the Symbian OS v9.3 and it comes loaded with features like an 8-megapixel camera, internet browsing and ergonomics.
The company claims that the device brings the highest level of power efficiency, platform security and phone performance.