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| Microsoft Gives Rival Browsers a Lift |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: nytimes.com |
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| Paris - Rivals of Microsoft’s market-leading Web browser have attracted a flurry of interest since the company, fulfilling a regulatory requirement, started making it easier for European users of its Windows operating system to switch. Mozilla, whose Firefox browser is the strongest competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer worldwide, said that more than 50,000 people had downloaded Firefox via a “choice screen” that has been popping up on Windows-equipped computers in Europe since the end of last month. The screen displays links to a dozen browsers, including Explorer, Firefox, Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari and Opera. Opera Software, based in Oslo, said downloads of its browser in Belgium, France, Britain, Poland and Spain had tripled since the screen began to appear. “It’s definitely being taken up, so consumers are paying attention and taking advantage of the choice being offered to them,” said Thomas Vinje, legal counsel to the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, a lobbying group based in Brussels whose members include Opera. It was Opera’s complaint to the European Commission that gave rise to an antitrust case against Microsoft that resulted in the company’s agreement last year to promote greater browser choice. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/technology/08browser.html |
| Date Posted: Mar,08 2010 - 09:06 am |
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| YouTube rolls out automatic video captioning |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: networkworld.com |
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| YouTube is rolling out automatic captions to millions of the clips hosted on the video-sharing site. The Google-owned site trialled automatic captions on a handful of videos from the University of California, Yale University and National Geographic last November in a bid to make the site more accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing. YouTube said it plans to add automatic captions to all of its nine million English-language videos, with other languages following in the coming months. It warned web users the service wasn't perfect and where necessary a transcript of the video will be made available for download to improve the experience. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/030810-youtube-rolls-out-automatic-video.html |
| Date Posted: Mar,08 2010 - 09:04 am |
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| Lawyers get cross over fake Intel CPU reports |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: tgdaily.com |
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| Two tech sites have received 'cease and desist' letters after reporting that online retailer Newegg was inadvertently supplying counterfeit Intel chips to customers. HardOCP was contacted by a reader who said that he ordered a Core i7-920, but found it was a fake - and one certainly hopes that Intel can spell a little better than whoever made the packaging. The blank instruction booklet was a little unusual as well. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/48734-lawyers-get-cross-over-fake-intel-cpu-reports |
| Date Posted: Mar,08 2010 - 09:03 am |
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| President Obama to Defend NASA Aim |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: wsj.com |
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| The White House is launching a political counterattack to fend off escalating congressional criticism of its proposals to outsource U.S. manned space missions to private industry. Facing bipartisan opposition on Capitol Hill and lacking prominent champions of such unprecedented space ventures among most large aerospace contractors, the administration hopes to regain momentum on the issue with a personal appeal from President Barack Obama. The White House said the president would outline his plans for space exploration at a conference in Florida on April 15. The event will give him a forum to defend his proposed cancellation of existing National Aeronautics and Space Administration projects intended to take astronauts back to the moon and deeper into the solar system. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704706304575108101640983666.html?mod=googlenews_wsj |
| Date Posted: Mar,08 2010 - 09:02 am |
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| 10 Twitter Types to Know, Love and Hate |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: computerworld.com |
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| The diversity of Tweeple on Twitter is, of course, what makes it so damn compelling and addictive: There's always somebody, somewhere offering 140-characters' worth of communication. [ Don't miss CIO.com's Twitter Bible | When it's time to quit Twitter ] Most of us can be classified into a Twitter user category, and just for fun, CIO.com tried to categorize the different types of Twitter users: those we love, those we hate, and those we love to hate. (You can stop following someone, you know.) Mr. Politico Explainer: You're just trying to find out what this person thinks about, say, marketing strategies or CRM software. Next thing you know, you've got the second-coming of Rush Limbaugh or James Carville on your Tweetdeck. Buzzwords: Obama, Palin, Cheney, Bush, Hillary, Palin, Beck, Olbermann, Clinton Typical Tweet: "I wish Cheney had been president" or "This would never have happened during Bill's 8 years in office" |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9166598/10_Twitter_Types_to_Know_Love_and_Hate |
| Date Posted: Mar,05 2010 - 04:02 pm |
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| Xbox Live changes policy on referencing gender, race |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: cnet.com |
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| Xbox Live members will for the first time be able to express their sexual orientation, race, or religion in their gamertags and profiles, Microsoft announced Friday. The move comes as a result of what Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten said was significant feedback from the service's community asking for the ability to be open about such personal details, as well as their nationalities. "Since the beginning, Microsoft has made an investment in the security and safety of Xbox Live and created tools and monitoring practices to ensure it is a fun and welcoming entertainment experience for people of all races, nationalities, religions and sexual orientations," Whitten wrote in an open letter Friday. "With that in mind, I'd like to announce an update to the Xbox Live terms of use and code of conduct which will allow our members to more freely express their race, nationality, religion and sexual orientation in Gamertags and profiles. Under our previous policy, some of these expressions of self-identification were not allowed in Gamertags or profiles to prevent the use of these terms as insults or slurs." |
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| Original URL (new window): http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10464728-52.html |
| Date Posted: Mar,05 2010 - 04:01 pm |
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| Leaked Photos Show Microsoft 'Pink' Phones |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: informationweek.com |
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| Before Microsoft announced its intention to debut a mobile environment called Windows Phone 7 later this year, the company was already at work on slick new mobile devices under a separate initiative known internally as Project Pink. Pictures and other materials leaked to a popular tech blog this week appear to reveal new details about two phones Microsoft is known to be developing under the Pink line—the Pure and the Turtle. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223101696&subSection=News |
| Date Posted: Mar,05 2010 - 04:00 pm |
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| Google's Smart Captioning Move |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: businessweek.com |
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| Ah, video and search. Frank Sinatra said it best: Try, try, try to separate them – it’s an illusion. Here’s proof of that: Speech Technology. This week, Google sealed the deal on video search capabilities for its YouTube portal, saying it would provide auto-captions for all of its uploaded videos using proprietary Google’s Speech Technology. Google’s initiative, piloted in November, began with a handful of partner channels including PBS, Stanford University and National Geographic. It has now expanded to all uploaded English-speaking videos, with more languages to be added later this year. With this news, Google establishes itself as a frontrunner in the Internet programming space. As a company built on search, search, and more search, Google is now able to capitalize on its investment in speech-to-text technology to index videos, target advertising and create an actual profit margin for YouTube. In fact, video search is likely why Google acquired YouTube in the first place. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2010/03/googles_smart_c.html |
| Date Posted: Mar,05 2010 - 03:58 pm |
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