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CNET - A fresh look at Yahoo’s search results Thursday by Hitwise Intelligence raises the question of whether Yahoo could survive just fine without its search engine.
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Yahoo’s top U.S. sites get traffic help from Google search
(CNET)
posted by on Jul 3
Reuters - The deteriorating U.S. economy and
slumping stock prices will frame discussions among top media
and technology executives at the 26th annual Allen & Co confab
in Sun Valley, Idaho, next week.
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Economy casts pall on Sun Valley media fest
(Reuters)
posted by on Jul 3
Reuters - If “American Idol” and a modern
fairy tale combined to create a video game, you’d get “Boogie
SuperStar” — Electronic Art’s latest game for the Nintendo Wii
system.
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Game makers eye young girls with “Boogie SuperStar”
(Reuters)
posted by on Jul 3
NewsFactor - I first met our solution provider, Ray Tetlow, the founder of Skyytek, on the Oracle Small Business (OSB from now on) user forum. At the time we were struggling with version 7 of OSB. It was really incomplete and badly tested software. Not only was it painfully slow, but also a lot of the features on which we based our purchasing decision just did not work.
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Blogger Opinion: Why We Left NetSuite
(NewsFactor)
posted by on Jul 3
NewsFactor - Sony is feeling some gaming-division woes this week with a double PlayStation 3 whammy. First, Sony’s PlayStation Web site fell victim to SQL-injection attacks. Now Sony’s PS3 firmware update is turning some consoles into bricks.
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Sony PS3 Update Locks Consoles, Web Site Attacked
(NewsFactor)
posted by on Jul 3
AP - A baby boy removed from his parents’ custody after they offered to sell him on eBay for just a euro
posted by on Jul 3
AP - The Bee Gees’ Robin Gibb and other European music composers warned Thursday that standardizing music royalties across Europe could hurt musicians and the songs they write.
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EU musicians oppose Europe-wide online licensing
(AP)
posted by on Jul 3
Reuters - The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia
said on Thursday it had signed a cooperation agreement with
Norwegian telcom group Telenor for its “Ovi” Internet services
platform.
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Nokia and Telenor sign Internet services deal
(Reuters)
posted by on Jul 3
Reuters - British computer games retailer Game
Group smashed first-half profit forecasts, boosted by
new releases like Grand Theft Auto IV and Wii Fit, but its
shares slumped on concern that demand has peaked.
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Game Group falls on fear demand has peaked
(Reuters)
posted by on Jul 3
PC World - Google has made public a beta version of one of its internal tools used for testing the security of Web-based applications.
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Google Gives Away Free Web Application Security Scanner
(PC World)
posted by on Jul 3
InfoWorld - Krugle plans to ship next week an upgrade to its search appliance for enterprise software development projects, which makes it easier for teams of developers to maintain code.
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Krugle enhances code search appliance
(InfoWorld)
posted by on Jul 3
Filed under: Desktops
We weren’t exactly hot on MSI’s Titan 700 mini-PC when it first hit back in May, and now that TrustedReviews has had a chance to look one over, it looks like our initial impression wasn’t that far off the mark. Although the diminutive case was stylish in an industrial way, the fit and finish left something to be desired, and the DVD door is apparently rather convoluted. The machine itself, powered by a ULV 2GHz VIA C7M, is “annoyingly audible” when running, and you’re not getting a ton of horsepower in return — a 720p AVI file barely played, and a .mov at the same res brought Windows Media Player to its knees. Like we said last time, unless space is at a premium, you’re probably better off investing $500 into a real PC — even if that means you have to forgo the Darth Vader looks.
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posted by on Jul 3
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
As with quite a few things unveiled at CEDIA Expos, the Ovei is also aimed squarely at folks with wallets so fat they can hardly contain themselves. This home cinema pod made its most recent debut at the CEDIA UK show, where the creators explained that users could slip into the air-conditioned capsule and control their home theater and / or gaming experience via the built-in touchscreen. We are told that it was designed by Lee McCormack and engineered by McLaren Applied Technologies, but aside from that, pretty much everything else remains a mystery. The Ovei can be ordered up now for around
posted by on Jul 3
CNET - After navigating some rough seas, Sony’s Electronics division has been starting to right the ship.
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Sony’s Stan Glasgow talks TVs, Blu-ray
(CNET)
posted by on Jul 3
PC Magazine - Thanks in part to the Guinness Book-making Download Day debut of Firefox 3, Mozilla’s popular browser has managed to secure an overall marketshare of 19 percent.
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Firefox 3 Share Shoots Up
(PC Magazine)
posted by on Jul 3
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974.OS) Wii game
console once again outsold Sony Corp’s (6758.T) PlayStation 3
in Japan in June, but its lead is fading, a game magazine
publisher said.
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Sony PS3 catching up to Wii in Japanese sales
(Reuters)
posted by on Jul 3
Filed under: Robots
Korean artist, Choe U Ram, possesses something most artists don’t: a deep understanding of robotics. With it, he creates massive, precision engineered sculptures with an eerie organic feel. While his show titled, Anima Machines (Anima is Latin for life or soul) just wrapped up at the SCAI The Bathhouse gallery in Japan, we’ve managed to collect a few images and video of the exhibition as disturbingly beautiful and tragic as the uprising itself.
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posted by on Jul 3
Reuters - The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia
said on Thursday it had signed a cooperation agreement with
Norwegian telcom group Telenor for its “Ovi” Internet services
platform.
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Nokia, Telenor sign Internet services deal
(Reuters)
posted by on Jul 3
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974.OS) Wii game
console outsold Sony Corp’s (6758.T) PlayStation 3 for the
seventh consecutive month in Japan in June, a game magazine
publisher said.
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Nintendo Wii outsells Sony’s PS3 in Japan in June
(Reuters)
posted by on Jul 3
PC World - Readers debate merits of XP and Vista, and speculate on Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7.
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Windows XP, Vista–and Windows 7?
(PC World)