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21 September 2007
Domain name Saudi-binladin-group.com is on sale on E-bay. Start price — $150.000. This information was found at the website www.saudi-binladin-group.com.
There is a short story about domain placed at website by its current owner:
"On September 11, 2001, the United States experienced the most significant and violent attack by terrorists even on its own soil. The terrible events that ensued have been linked to the mastermind of Osama Binladin, the leader of the group Al-Qaeda.
Although the Binladin family group denounced their...
20 September 2007
DFC predicts the game industry as a whole could generate $47 billion by 2009.
September 18, 2007 - According to a series of recent reports by the research group DFC Intelligence, the PC game market could swell to $13 billion by 2012.
DFC estimates that the videogame market will swell to $47 billion by 2009, a 42 percent increase over the $33 billion generated by the industry in 2006. That forecast includes revenue from videogame hardware and software, dedicated portable system hardware and software (i.e. the DS and PSP - not mobile...
19 September 2007
Second-generation perpendicular recording technology drives capacity to 450GB with blazing 164MB per second transfer rate, exceptional reliability and lower power consumption.
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Sept. 6 /CNW/ - Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX - News) today announced its Cheetah(R) 15K.6 hard drive, the newest generation of Seagate's award-winning enterprise Cheetah family. Built for the most demanding transaction-intensive enterprise servers and storage systems, the Cheetah 15K.6 is the highest-performance hard drive ever in a 3.5-inch form...
18 September 2007
NASA Ames Research Center, located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, and Mountain View-based Google Inc. today announced plans to collaborate on a number of technology-focused research-and-development activities that will couple some of Earth’s most powerful technology resources.
NASA and Google have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that outlines plans for cooperation on a variety of areas, including large-scale data management, massively distributed computing, bio-info-nano convergence, and encouragement of...
17 September 2007
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. pop star Prince plans to sue YouTube and other major Web sites for unauthorized use of his music in a bid to "reclaim his art on the Internet".
The man behind hit songs "Purple Rain", "1999" and "When Doves Cry" said on Thursday that YouTube could not argue it had no control over which videos users posted on its site.
"YouTube ... are clearly able (to) filter porn and pedophile material but appear to choose not to filter out the unauthorized music and film content which is...
11 September 2007
IBM has officially joined the open-source community and will contribute code to its alternative to Microsoft Office and work on further integration with Lotus.
After years of holding out, IBM has joined the OpenOffice.org open-source community and will contribute code to the office suite that serves as an alternative to Microsoft's Office software.
IBM has been using code from the project in its development of productivity applications it included in Lotus 8, the latest version of its collaboration suite, but until now had not been an...
03 September 2007
Amid ongoing problems with Paypal’s subscription service, a Google patent has come to light related to mobile payments. The so-called “GPay” patent doesn’t propose a direct Paypal competitor, however: instead, it covers a text message-based payments system. The patent was filed on February 28, 2006 and published on August 30, 2007. Google already holds a patent for a cross-platform micropayments system.
Google’s Eric Schmidt said back in March 2006 that GPay is “not made to compete with PayPal or to...
31 August 2007
Social network providers build highly engaging Web sites that have managed to rope in the majority of U.S. Internet users, but they still haven’t managed to find a way to turn those millions of users into a steady influx of greenbacks from advertisers.
That’s according to a report released Wednesday by IDC.
Karsten Weide, the IDC analyst who wrote the report, pointed out that despite their current status as tech media darlings, social networks are still a work in progress. “Few offerings generate an income that would be in...
30 August 2007
Partnership with Google and Yahoo! Maps Enables New Telematics Innovation.
MONTVALE, N.J., Aug. 29 -- Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) today announced a first for U.S. drivers: the ability to send directions directly from their computers to their vehicles. The new technology, called Search & Send, which will be available September 5, has been developed in partnership with Google, Yahoo! and DaimlerChrysler Research, Engineering and Design North America (Palo Alto, CA). It is being phased into the Mercedes-Benz model line starting with select...
28 August 2007
Microsoft just released Tafiti, a Silverlight- and Live Search-powered search engine experiment. TechCrunch asks the question that matters: Will people use it? Their answer: Probably not.
But it's worth checking out, because beneath its glitzy user interface are some cool experiments that could easily be implemented on a more plain-Jane search site. I like the "shelf" on Tafiti, where you can drag search results that you want to save or look at later. And I like the stack of search queries that Tafiti collects as you use the...
