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oogle on Tuesday introduced an online store for business applications in an effort to further push its own suite of productivity software into companies and to compete with Microsoft. The new Google Apps Marketplace extends the search giant's underpowered applications suite, offering a collection of other vendors' Software-as-a-Service applications that work with Google's cloud. In another move to work its way into the enterprise, Google has unveiled an online store where users can buy cloud-based applications designed to work with Google's own apps.
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acebook is allegedly planning to roll out location sharing capabilities next month, once again playing catch-up to other services that have gained popularity thanks to location data. Facebook is expected to enable location sharing in its users' News Feeds, a move that could automatically make the social network the dominant platform for location-based Web services. According to The New York Times, Facebook is set to introduce location sharing into their arsenal of social networking tricks this April at the F8 conference.
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ikers rejoice, Google has just added intelligent biking directions for more than 12,000 U.S. bike trails as a new option inside Google Maps. The new bike directions also provide a new view on maps (see below), one that is more "bike friendly" and emphasizes some features while de-emphasizing others (e.g., freeways, busy roads). Google on Wednesday launched bicycle directions for Google Maps making it easier for cyclists to plan routes in 150 U.S. cities including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Portland and Washington, DC.
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he era of the video games console is under threat after the launch today of a service which streams high-quality games over the internet to the computer or TV set. After eight years of preparation, games-on-demand startup OnLive is announcing today its plans to launch its subscription service for online games using its novel cloud-based gaming technology. The video game industry, where the tradition of proprietary console hardware and high-margin physical media runs deep, is shifting toward the cloud.
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arlier this week, BoomTown visited MySpace headquarters in Beverly Hills, Calif., to interview its new co-presidents, Michael Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, and get a look-see at its evolving revival plans to stop the social-networking ship from sinking further. Those changes, among others, were unveiled by co-presidents Jason Hirschhorn, 38, and Mike Jones, 34, this week following the abrupt departure of CEO Owen Van Natta in February after just 10 months on the job. On Monday, as part of a press hello-there MySpace is doing this week, BoomTown traveled to Los Angeles for the day to finally check in with the new management at the turmoil-plagued company.
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ormer chief executive of Sun Jonathan Schwartz has accused Steve Jobs of threatening patent action against his company in 2003, related to desktop OS technologies, in a long blog post that highlights a series of tech patent squabbles. Schwartz introduced his blog posting commiserating for Google, although Apple's current patent lawsuit is actually being taken against HTC, the hardware partner behind the Google-branded Nexus One, and does not directly involve Google at all. Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has stepped up to defend Google (in a roundabout way, via HTC) from the patent attacks recently leveled by Apple.
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art of the new service is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see some links in e-mail notifications and direct messages from other users written as twt.tl, Twitter said in a blog post. Twitter has just announced that to protect people from scams, links in direct messages and sent via email will be shortened using its own URL shortener. Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.
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he Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced that identity theft protection company LifeLock has agreed to pay $12 million to the FTC and 35 state attorneys general to settle charges that its service doesn't work as advertised. LifeLock, which since 2006 has run TV and print ads displaying the social security number of its CEO, agreed to stop misrepresenting its service as a foolproof way to prevent identity theft, according to the US Federal Trade Commission. The consumer watchdog agency and attorneys general from 35 states claimed the company's $10-per-month service failed to stop the most prevalent forms of the crimes.
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imilar to how Apple's iPod touch came from the development of the iPhone, Microsoft reportedly plans to base the follow-up to its Zune HD media player on the Windows Phone 7 Series mobile operating system. At this week's Game Developers Conference, Microsoft unveiled its new XNA Game Studio 4.0, which allows developers to create games that can run on a variety of devices, including Windows desktops, the Xbox 360 and future phones running Windows Phone 7 Series.
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hough the 3G-equipped version of the iPad will only be able to get data services from AT&T, Verizon apparently sees the introduction of Apple's tablet device as "an opportunity" for the company to sell data services. Though the iPad is only compatible with AT&T's 3G network in the U.S., that hasn't stopped Verizon from telling its employees to pitch its own data plans, shared via Wi-Fi, to prospective buyers of Apple's new hardware. A leaked internal memo reveals that the nation's largest carrier is trying to jump on the Apple bandwagon by encouraging its employees to push its MiFi device as an accessory to the upcoming iPad.
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mendments made to the digital economy bill by the House of Lords threaten freedom of speech and will lead to British websites being blocked without due judicial process, the chief executives of leading technology companies said today. Plans to suspend the internet accounts of people who download music illegally are unfair, according to the head of Britain's biggest telecoms firm. Mandybill Ian Livingston, the boss of Britain's biggest ISP BT, is lobbying for the government's proposed technical sanctions against filesharers to be replaced with fines.
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icrosoft's Bing search engine continues to gain share in the search market, thanks to organic growth, lots of advertising, and clever tricks like stuffing MSN.com full of links to Bing search queries. Microsoft's efforts to promote its Bing search engine appear to be paying off-at the expense of partner Yahoo. Microsoft's share of U.S. search traffic increased to 11.5% in February from 10.7% in January, according to figures released Wednesday by market watcher comScore.
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isco Systems, the world's largest maker of computer networking gear, said Tuesday it is replacing its aging CRS-1 "core router," which was introduced in 2004. Cisco competes in the core router market with Juniper Networks, which has updated its products more recently than Cisco. Cisco Systems Inc., seeking to boost sales to phone carriers, introduced an Internet router that will let Web users download movies, songs and data faster to computers and mobile devices.
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he online video platform is now serving display ads on m.youtube.com in the U.S. and Japan, according to a blog post, and will sell banner ads on a full-day basis. Today's advertiser is Mazda, which bought the mobile ad in conjunction with its banner on the regular YouTube home page. The YouTube mobile site is more popular than ever: site traffic grew by over 160% in 2009, and now millions of people all over the world are streaming tens of millions of videos every day on their mobile phones.
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oogle Inc.'s chief executive said Wednesday he expects the company will soon reach a conclusion to negotiations with the Chinese government regarding the fate of its China business. "We are in active negotiations with the Chinese government," Eric Schmidt told reporters at a media summit in Abu Dhabi. Google's negotiations with the Chinese government over censorship and Internet search should produce a resolution "soon," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday.
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here's been lots of talk about the band Ok Go lately, with its latest album coming out and two viral videos (of the same song) in the last few weeks. When the first viral video came out, Capitol Records/EMI decided to ban embeds of the video, which seems like the best way to totally kill off a viral video. In another bit of EMI news, less vital to the company's future than today's latest change at the top, OK Go and Capitol Records have parted ways after nine years through mutual agreement.
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tartup Get Satisfaction made a name for itself by moving customer service away from company web sites and onto pages that are created by customers themselves. Two years ago customer support startup Get Satisfaction turned its ear to Twitter to help its clients monitor Twitter for mentions of brands. Get Satisfaction makes a network of customer support forums where customers can post their own questions, ideas, problems, or conversations about a product.
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he recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe. Much has been written anecdotally about the Apple app-approval process, with the words "arcane" and "Kafkaesque" coming up a lot. The EFF was able to get a copy of Rev. 3-17-09 of the developer agreement through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to NASA -- a government agency that has developed several iPhone apps.
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he U.S. Federal Communications Commission will propose a National Digital Literacy Corps to help U.S. residents get online as part of a national broadband plan due out next week. The FCC will also propose new spending to improve the digital training efforts at libraries and community centers, and it will plan to launch an online training program for people interested in improving their digital skills, Clyburn said. The FCC is in overdrive selling Congress, industry providers, and American citizens on the need to address the growing crisis faced by the United States.
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t's not a micro four thirds, but Pentax has lifted the lid on the 645D medium format camera, which will be available this May for close to $10,000. It's also got a SAFOX IX autofocus system with 11 sensor points, a Pentax original Real Image Engine, 14 bit A/D converter, and is the ultimate kick-around camera, with 70 seals making it dustproof, weather resistant and cold-proof.
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iven the roaring success of Wii-exclusive EA Sports Active, the hardcore workout video that masquerades as a video game, a sequel was pretty much inevitable. While the title isn't finalized, the system will rely on wireless control, with leg and arm straps that contain motion sensors, a heart rate monitor and an online hub to record and share workout data. The heart rate monitor will allow users to track the intensity of their workout in real time on the screen and tracks data over time to show users their progress.
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he service first launched in beta seven months ago, with 300 hours from the BBC archive and major independent company All3Media - responsible for shows such as Peep Show and Derren Brown Mind Control. It has now come out of its testing phase and incorporated all of its short form content which was was previously scattered across MSN, Microsoft's portal, such as music videos and film trailers. Microsoft has taken the beta wraps off its MSN homepage, which the company relaunched in the US in November 2009.
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raud losses due to counterfeit payment cards fell by half in 2009 from the year prior in the U.K., but online banking losses continued to rise, according to new banking industry figures released Wednesday. Fraud losses on UK credit and debit cards totalled 440m in 2009 - a drop of 28% compared with the previous year - the UK Cards Association said. While other forms of fraud dropped online banking losses increased 59.7m in 2009, an increase of 14 per cent on losses of 52.5m during 2008.
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Microsoft researcher has received the Turing Award in recognition for his pioneering work in personal computing hardware and networking technology development. The Turing Award, bestowed annually by the Association for Computing Machinery and named after wartime cryptographer and computing pioneer Alan Turing, comes with a prize of $250,000. If a pioneer can be described as a person with arrows in the back, Charles P. Thacker may qualify, because his contributions to computing, although brilliant, often flopped initially.
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able operators want Washington to prohibit broadcasters from yanking channels during fee negotiations, a move that might help consumers avoid missing their favorite TV shows but would change the balance of power in price negotiations between station owners and cable companies. A coalition of cable and satellite companies will this week call on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to create a new process to resolve increasingly bitter disputes over carriage fees paid to broadcasters. The group, which includes rival TV distributors such as Time Warner Cable Inc (TWC.N), DirecTV Group (DTV.O) and Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) serve more than 65 million U.S. homes.
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SI is introducing two new Wind netbooks, replacing a previous 12-incher with two models pairing dual-core AMD processors with Bluetooth a first for the Wind lineup. The prolific MSI announced the availability of the Wind12 U230-033 and U230-040 netbooks on March 9, just a day after rolling out the Wind U160, a 10-inch netbook running the Intel Pine Trail Atom platform. The 12-inch system overrides the U210 and, in one model, includes MSI's first use of AMD's dual-core, 1.6GHz Athlon Neo X2 to give it better-than-usual performance for the size and price.
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tudents of the hadouken have a new venue to test their fighting mettle: Street Fighter IV launched Wednesday for the iPhone and iPod touch. This seminal arcade fighter brings high-end graphics, complex combos, and a memorable cast of characters to the mobile platform. Street Fighter IV, spawned from the classic Street Fighter II Turbo that you no doubt spent many an hour playing, perhaps even bunking school to do so, has hit the iPhone App store for those looking to go retro.
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fter showing a prototype of its first electronic reader at CES in January, Samsung on Tuesday officially rolled out the new device, spilling all the details about the final feature set while also unveiling a new partnership with Barnes & Noble. Samsung will partner with Barnes & Noble for its upcoming E60 eReader, which will access Barnes & Noble's e-book store for downloadable texts and leverage the booksellers e-book lending feature. Originally announced at CES, the 6-inch Samsung device will rely on either a PC connection or built-in WiFi for book downloading, and include a stylus for inputting notes or using the scheduling and memo features.
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ags: PC, Tablet PC, News, Tablets, Notebooks, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks Tablets, Sam Diaz. During a presentation in front of the Federal Trade Commission yesterday, Google's Chief Economist painted a picture of a newspaper industry whose demise was caused by a number of sources, not just the Internet. Newspapers have blamed Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for their woes, and Google, in turn, has helped remind newspapers that they did a pretty good job of digging their own grave.
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cer in 2009 came within a hair's breadth of supplanting Dell as the world's number two PC maker, as the Taiwan-based computer maker achieved leading growth among the world's top-five brands for the year, according to iSuppli. Despite severe economic turmoil in 2009, PC shipments defied expectations to reach 302.3 million units, up 1% from 299.2 million in 2008. In contrast, Dell's desktop PC shipments fell at a greater rate than the overall desktop segment.
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he launch of Apple's iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year, an Arm executive said Wednesday, predicting more than 50 tablet PC devices will be launched globally. "The first tablet devices will launch in the second quarter by mobile network carriers," said Roy Chen, Arm's worldwide mobile computing ODM manager, during a press meeting in Taipei. ARM chips are used in all sorts of mobile gadgets, especially in the expected flood of tablets to be released this year.
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n other words, if a site wants to deploy a single-click checkout system for registered customers, it's gotta license the tech from Amazon. PatentlyO, on the nuts and bolts: In a recent notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate, the USPTO confirmed the patentability of original claims 6-10 and amended claims 1-5 and 11-26. The approved-of amendment adds the seeming trivial limitation that the one-click system operates as part of a "shopping cart model".
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or the second time already in 2010, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday security bulletin release has come with a footnote -- an unpatched zero-day exploit affecting Internet Explorer (IE). Security vendors are reporting more incidents of this new IE vulnerability being exploited in the wild, so IT administrators need to understand the threat and take action to protect vulnerable browsers. When the browser opens the page, the exploit causes the user's computer to download and execute another piece of malware, which is an Infostealer/Backdoor Trojan ".
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hat's right, we bet you didn't see that coming, right? LG is expanding their current 3D TV portfolio, and hoping that the competition doesn't bog down the selection too much. LG has been pushing out some models of their 3D TV line-up over the last few months to some locations in the UK, mostly pubs, but all of that is about to change. Both will feature 400Hz frame interpolation technology, LED array backlighting - 864 on the 47in set, 960 lights on the 55in telly - a 10m: 1 contrast ratio, two 10W "invisible" speakers, and four HDMI 1.4 ports.
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oopt v2.2 is expected to hit the App Store at any moment today, which will expand on the app's Pulse feature to help you find even more local events that you can share with friends. How convenient? By accessing the now conveniently placed Pulse tab, you will be able to find, check-in at, share tips, and RSVP to tens of thousands of events with ease. With SXSW starting Friday in Austin, Texas, every location-based service out there is right now finalizing updates that they hope will be the one that gets them used more than all the others.
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icrosoft and Adobe are working to port Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on the Windows Phone 7 Series, according to an Adobe executive, which would allow devices running Microsofts upcoming smartphone operating system to play rich content on a variety of Websites. Reports from February had suggested that Flash would not be supported on the first generation of Windows Phone 7 Series devices. Microsoft's WP7S will also be compatible with Silverlight and it could be interesting to see if there's a bit of development tool battle.
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ast month, Verizon Wireless and Skype announced their exclusive partnership in the U.S., along with their plans to bring Skype's popular VoIP calling and messaging service to your Verizon cell phone. Now, through the miracle of animation - and the help of a woman with a really high pitched voice - Verizon and Skype are shedding a little light on how Skype integration will work on your phone. Skype's known for its voice and video chat capabilities, but the experimental version of Skype for Mac adds indexed search to Skype's underrated text chat feature.
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urround sound bars are generally about the width of a 42-inch flat panel, which is perfect if you have a large TV. But Asus now has a solution for smaller sets and computers with the Cine5 PC speaker that claims to accurately recreate the surround sound experience in a lot smaller package. Over years that's changed in one way or another, and even more recently these sound bars, a single bar with set speakers within them, seem to be taking up all the attention.
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alm has announced the beta release of its Plug-in Developer Kit - or PDK - a new component in the webOS SDK that will make for dramatically better gaming on the Palm Pre, Palm Pixi and all future webOS devices. Originally announced back in January at the CES show, the release's venue - the ongoing Game Developers Conference in San Francisco - is as much an indication of Palm's gaming ambitions for its platform as the release itself. Palm has released its Plug-in Development Kit, enabling native development for those who find AJAX just can't cut it.
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009 TechCrunch50 winner Redbeacon, a service that pairs consumers with service providers, is releasing a number of new features today, launching a distribution relationship and sharing key data from their beta trial. Users go to Redbeacon and search for real world service providers (housekeepers, plumbers, handyman, personal trainers, etc). The service first went live in the San Francisco bay area in October, and now has thousands of local service providers.
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ublic bodies have been banned from using internet companies that refuse to block a range of websites that contain images of child sex abuse, The Times has learnt. Yesterday the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) called on the social networking website Facebook to feature its alert button following the conviction of Peter Chapman for the murder of Ashleigh Hall. The ban was announced by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and comes amid growing concern over the exploitation of the internet by sex offenders.
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pen-source Java framework specialist SpringSource has unveiled a new incarnation of its Apache Tomcat-based tc Server, offering application developers and operators additional tools for building, deploying, and monitoring their software on the lightweight runtime platform. SpringSource vice president of product management Shaun Connolly bills the new tc Server Spring Edition as "the best place" to build and run Spring-framework applications. That text actually appears on a site VMware created to share internal engineering projects -- software code that is interesting but not yet ready for VMware's flagship virtualization products 5 things VMware must do to fend off Microsoft.
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BM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate. "As the population in Europe and North America ages, the need for specialized mobile devices will become acute," said Ben Wood, research director at British consultancy CCS Insight. As part of the project, announced Wednesday, Big Blue will collaborate with India's National Institute of Design and the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology.
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amsung, the Japanese electronic giant, plans to launch a 3D range that will be in shops before the end of March. The televisions will come with two pairs of 3D glasses and a Blu-ray version of Monsters vs Aliens, Samsung said. The friendly green monster Shrek, the blue-skinned Na'vi of the planet Pandora and Wayne Rooney's shots on goal will shortly take on a new, three-dimensional glory.
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arring a last-minute fix or change of strategy, at midnight Tuesday Hulu.com will switch from a co-host for online video of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to a referral engine for the popular shows. Viacom (NYSE: VIA) execs like to call it a test but after 21 months it's become a habit for those who relied on Hulu for one-stop viewing. Since there is no public API if that happens you will only see public domain videos in hulu) until we get FLASH and a firefox or IE useragent spoof, there will be NO HULU on the PRE
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heir software offers free tethering without any special add on plans through your carrier and without hacking your phone. TetherBerry has since evolved into simply Tether and they have just released a beta version of their software for Android. Their lead engineer is reporting speeds up to 6.8 Mbps using the Android beta which is far faster than anything they achieved on BlackBerry.
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he internet's nomination has been championed by the Italian version of Wired magazine for helping advance "dialogue, debate and consensus". The director of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, told BBC News that the organisation had received "thousands of nominations" for the coveted prize. The Internet is in the running for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has confirmed.
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ioneer hoped to move the technology of DJ mixers forward today by launching a new addition to the DJM line. The DJM-2000 is the first mixer with a multi-touch display and uses the 5.8-inch LCD to provide control over the sound that would be difficult with buttons. At a basic level, it lets musicians put up a set of custom interfaces for controlling a Mac or PC's music software through MIDI.
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itrix has unveiled XenApp 6 after re-architecting the product from the ground up to take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2. Citrix Systems has launched version 6 of XenApp, its platform for centralized application delivery that features centralized management and access to Windows applications from Android-based smartphones and Apple computers, the company said on Wednesday. It can also be used as an integrated part of XenDesktop, Citrix's platform for desktop virtualization Track the latest trends in virtualization in InfoWorld's Virtualization Report newsletter null. null.
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ntering the info into the iPhone app allows users to access the desktop interface via any Internet connection such as Wi-Fi, 3G or EDGE. The app supports multi-touch gestures to replicate mouse clicks, right-clicks, drag-and-drop, scroll wheel and zooming. Users can switch monitors in a multi-monitor desktop setup, with each screen scaled down to fit the iPhone resolution.
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he man at the top of the news network believes that the social network is more of a threat to his business than other broadcast media organizations. The intriguing statements come just weeks after Hitwise released data showing that Facebook's new role is becoming that of a news site. As a news portal and discovery engine, Facebook has the power to make or break a story, a power that clearly threatens the rank and file of the old media elite.
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outh Korea has overhauled its public transport network with recharging roads, where the vehicles use power from buried electric strips in the road. It was invented at the University of California, before South Korea adopted it for an amusement park. The system is being tested at an amusement park in Seoul, but if all goes well, the country hopes to expand it to the whole city's bus route-helping minimize unsightly overhead power lines and obviously doing a good turn for the environment.
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he online retailer has posted a job listing for a software development engineer in its Lab126, the consumer products division that designed the Kindle. The role of the new employee would be to "design and implement new features on the browser". Apple is scheduled to release its device April 3, while HP has yet to provide a release date for its unnamed device.
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cons have come a long way in the past decade, evolving from tiny, pixelated pictures into glossy, gorgeous artwork. Why customize your icons? At a basic level, you might just dislike or be bored with a specific icon and want to change it. But are you taking advantage of all the ways it can make your work easier? I looked at tweaking the Dock's looks in "Five tips for customizing the Dock".
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eebly, the startup that allows users to build rich websites using a straightforward drag and drop interface, is about to get a lot more colorful. The site has opened a new Theme Community, allowing any of its 3.5 million users to submit their own themes for use by other Weebly members. To help launch the new feature, Weebly is holding a contest where it's giving $10,000 to the top submitted design, as determined by a panel of professional designers.
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rizzly, the social media client from the team behind Google Reader, just launched a wiki-style guide to Twitter trending topics that stays long after hot stories fade from view. Each trending topic will get its own guide page that is a permanent source for up-to-date information where anybody can see the latest about a topic. Brizzly was among the first companies that allowed regular users to add explanations for why certain keywords had sudden bursts of mentions on the microblogging network.
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ileMaker, the popular cross-platform relational database application (and Apple subsidiary), announced FileMaker Pro version 11, which sees productivity features such as on the fly reporting and charting added to the application, which is compatible with Windows and Mac computers. Version 11 allows users to make reports in a spreadsheet-like fashion, group and summarize information on the fly directly in Table View and modify reports by adding, sorting, or hiding fields and records. You'd think there'd be a huge audience for powerful, easy-to-use database programs-especially ones that run on both Windows PCs and Macs.
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entilla has released an update to its data-center energy management tool, which lets IT and facilities staff track the energy usage of servers and other equipment. The latest version is a software-only product that adds a chargeback capability, allowing companies to bill individual business units for the energy they use. The new product announcements continue at this week's AFCOM Data Center World conference and expo in Nashville.
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arpia's new Easy Dock could do with a new name and a prettier box, but the promise of the product is an enticing one: rid yourself of (almost) all cable-clutter. The wireless-USB kit consists of a USB stick that plugs into your notebook and a base station that plugs into everything else: your monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse. Apart from hooking your laptop up to the mains once in a while, you never need to snake cables across your clean desk again.
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ony's Playstation Network is now carrying HD movies from 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros., the company announced today. Sony recently announced plans to extend the download platform to Bravia TVs, Sony PCs and other connected devices. It also plans to extend its new HD line-up to the UK, France, Germany, and Spain soon.
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WC has a big range of external storage solutions and other gear that is typically aimed at Mac users, but often work with Windows machines as well. OWC has launched its OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini 1TB portable drive, which it claims is the first ever 2.5-inch 1TB drive shipped with a quad interface. The bus-powered drive has eSATA, USB 2.0, and FireWire 800/400 connectivity in a brushed aluminum, fanless enclosure.
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ell has refreshed its Vostro line of laptops with a 3000 series that packs more computing and graphics power. The new series, which is aimed at small and medium-sized business, sport Intel's latest Core processors and have display sizes ranging from 13 inches to 17 inches. The Dell Vostro 3000 series of laptops offers small business customers new performance options that are secure, affordable and present a professional appearance to complement their brand images.
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IM's BlackBerry line managed to hold off Apple to claim the top spot for US smartphone market share at the start of the year, new comScore data shows. The surge in Android's popularity due to the Motorola Droid helped give Google the largest single gain in the top five. Collectively, all Android phones leapt from an average of just 2.8 percent share in the late summer to 7.1 percent by January.
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hey say imitation is the highest form of flattery, for design agency Metalab it must be difficult to see it that way. Quite simply, Mozilla's new design for Jetpack, a platform that lets developers build new and improved add-ons for Firefox, is a complete rip off of Metalab's own website. In a post, Metalab outlines how the company had in fact been contacted by Mozilla regarding the project and had even sent in a proposal which Mozilla eventually rejected.
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