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Microsoft says ready to cut time search data held |
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Microsoft said Tuesday it was prepared to cut the amount of time it retains Internet users' search data to six months from 18 if other web giants also agreed to do so.
The European Union is piling pressure on Internet companies to reduce the amount of time they hold users' personal web searching data, saying in April that there was no basis for such information to be kept more than six months.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Web users banned from Wiki page over nude girl
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Several Internet service providers have blocked users from accessing a Wikipedia page about a German hard rock band, after a watchdog warned that a photo of a naked girl on it could be illegal.
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Electronic Arts and 2K add reality to videogames with PhysX
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Elite graphics chip maker NVIDIA announced Monday that Electronic Arts and 2K Games will use its PhysX technology to add realism to their videogames.
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E-GOVERNMENT
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Solon welcomes Qatar Telecom's RP venture
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Wireless broadband user rates seen falling to as low as P500 monthly
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Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago, chairman of the House information and communications technology committee, has welcomed the plan of San Miguel Corp. (SMC) and Qatar Telecom (QTel) to build a new Philippine partnership that would venture into wireless broadband and mobile communications.
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TECHBYTES
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Yahoo! and Nielsen release key insights into Southeast Asia's online industry
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Yahoo! and Nielsen today announced the results of a joint study which has identified the challenges, opportunities and potential solutions for digital media practitioners and marketers in this region.
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TECHSTUFF
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Lenovo launches two new ThinkCentre PCs
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Places focus on power management and on emerging markets
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Lenovo announced two new PCs, the ThinkCentre M58 and the ThinkCentre A57e, aimed at helping customers stretch their IT dollar.
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HARDWARE
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A docking station of the modern hard drive
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Here’s a hard disk docking station from
Sunbeamtech that allows users to connect a 2.5” (used for
notebooks) or 3.5” (for desktops) SATA HDD of up to 1TB to a High
Speed USB 2.0 or ESATA port.
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DIGITALLIFESTYLE
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Nokia N96
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If you’re looking for a Nokia mobile phone
this Christmas, probably for yourself or maybe as a gift to a loved
one, then look no further as this week Tech Times gives you three
Nokia phone models that would create a smile in this season of
giving.
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