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Monday, August 24, 2009

 
 

Tech giants oppose Google book project

 
Google's vast book scanning plan, already facing anti-trust scrutiny, a court review and privacy concerns, has run into another hurdle.

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! are reportedly planning to join non-profit groups and library associations in opposing the legal settlement with authors and publishers which would allow Google to digitize and sell millions of books.

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O T H E R   R E P O R T S

 

Media giant News Corp. is holding talks with other newspaper publishers on forming a consortium that would charge for news online and on portable devices, The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.

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Globe Business assures its customers that it delivers consistent and effective business processes in the provisioning and hosting of its ICT services with the ISO 27001:2005 certification of its Globe Data Center for having met the Information Security Management System (ISMS) standard.

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The boom in "smartphones", led by Apple's iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago -- and a Hong Kong firm is leading the charge.

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A court in eastern China has sentenced four people to up to three-and-a-half years in prison for selling bootleg versions of Microsoft's Windows XP software, court officials said Friday.

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NEWTECH

The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is Nokia’s first music-optimized device to offer a slide-out QWERTY keyboard — ideal for quick messaging. The heart of this music device is the Homescreen for XpressMusic, providing access and dynamic...

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HARDWARE

GIGABYTE Technology CO., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, has announced the worldwide “GIGABYTE Dragon Overclocking Contest 2009” in cooperation with the Futuremark Corp.

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DIGITALLIFESTYLE

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MY COMPUTER
By Jing Garcia

Despite the number of PC memory modules, or better known as RAM, as well as flash drives manufacturers out there, one brand has remained on top of the computer memory game - Kingston.

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