31 Jul 2010
As policymakers, we are in a constant process of examining our laws to ensure that the protections we place on intellectual property are sufficient to encourage invention without hindering innovation that builds on previous work or unfairly limiting consumers from using the goods they purchase in a way that is fair to creators.
I will [...]
30 Jul 2010
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When you’re done working, you can enjoy MP3, WMA, AAC, MPEG4, WMV, and other music and video formats with the built-in media player. In addition, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 has a 2-megapixel camera with flash [...]
30 Jul 2010
As Microsoft counts down the final days to when it feels that Internet Explorer 8 is ready for public use, you can take a look at what’s coming in this slideshow of
IE 8’s first Release Candidate.
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Photos: Internet Explorer 8 RC 1
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30 Jul 2010
So will it work? Yup. Whether it’s Trend Micro or its competitors, many security vendors are creating new hybrid models that enhance native endpoint security safeguards with additional network intelligence. The company may be the first vendor to walk down this road but it certainly won’t be the last. All in all, this is a [...]
30 Jul 2010
Dell YouthConnect plans to focus on education and digital inclusion in emerging technology countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
In addition, the computer maker plans to increase its overall charitable donations to 1 percent of its pre-tax profits by the beginning of February 2010. The contributions will come in the form of corporate [...]
30 Jul 2010
The We Demand Donuts group takes a jab at those who objected to Flickr's new video service.
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Flickr)
First came Flickr video on Tuesday. Then came the anti-Flickr-video outcry on Wednesday. Now there’s the anti-anti-Flickr-video outcry.
This last movement takes the highly facetious form of Flickr’s new We Demand Donuts group. “If we get 20,000 people to [...]
30 Jul 2010
Other services in this space include Diigo (coverage), Evernote (coverage), Fleck (review), and TrailFire.
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CNET Networks)
In addition to Word docs and PDF files, the service works with entire Web pages. You can plug in any old URL and it will take a snapshot of the page in a similar fashion to Iterasi (review). These same [...]
30 Jul 2010
The headline speaker for the evening was Michelle Obama, wife of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
A highlight of the first day included a tribute to long-serving Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, as well as an unscheduled appearance on the stage by Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer.
The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday [...]
30 Jul 2010
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The Aspire features a 2GHz dual-core Pentium processor, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and a 15.6-inch wide-screen LCD. It also has a multiformat DVD burner, but I think its most impressive asset is 802.11n Wi-Fi (which also supports b and g, natch). That’s a [...]
29 Jul 2010
As one of the firm’s investors told the Journal, “Perhaps they should have told us about this, but it was such a small deal. Would we have wanted a piece of it in hindsight? Sure. But for every one of these successes, there are a hundred failures.”
The firm’s investors weren’t notified and didn’t reap any [...]