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YouTube doubles video file size to 2G Washington (AFP) July 1, 2009 
Video-sharing site YouTube announced on Wednesday that it was doubling the size limit for uploads to its website to allow users to post more high-definition (HD) video. YouTube, in a blog post, said the size limit for uploads to the site was being doubled -- from one gigabyte to two gigabytes. "The increase means you can upload longer videos at a higher resolution as well as large HD fil ... read moreGoogle to sell new e-books online 
Washington June 1, 2009Google plans to begin selling electronic versions of new books online this year, posing a potential challenge to market leader Amazon. "We've consistently maintained that we're committed to helping our partners find more ways to make their books accessible and available for purchase," a Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker said in a statement on Monday. "By end of this year, we hope to give ... more
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Wikipedia blocks Scientology from altering entries
San Francisco (AFP) May 29, 2009Wikipedia has blocked the Church of Scientology from editing entries at the communally-crafted online encyclopedia due to an unrelenting battle over the group's image. A "longstanding struggle" between admirers of Scientology and critics of the group prompted Wikipedia on Thursday to bar online edits from computer addresses "owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates." ... more Yahoo! search worth 'boatloads of money': Bartz 
San Francisco (AFP) May 27, 2009Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz said Wednesday that the pioneering Internet firm would be willing to sell its online search business to Microsoft but only for "boatloads of money." Bartz's comment came during an onstage interview at an annual All Things Digital technology conference run by The Wall Street Journal in southern California. "If there's boatloads of money and there's the ... more Russian Web firm invests 200 mln dlrs in Facebook 
San Francisco (AFP) May 26, 2009Facebook said Tuesday that a Russian Web investor had purchased a nearly two percent stake in the social network giant for 200 million dollars, valuing the company at some 10 billion dollars. Digital Sky Technologies (DST) was also offering to purchase at least 100 million dollars of Facebook common stock held by current and former employees of the Palo Alto, California-based company ... more EU picks two operators for satellite services to remote areas 
Brussels (AFP) May 14, 2009The European Commission announced on Thursday that Inmarsat Ventures and Solaris Mobile had been chosen to beam high-speed Internet services to rural and remote areas in Europe not connected to existing networks. Once the system is up and running, in a targeted two years' time, millions more EU consumers and businesses all over Europe will have access to mobile satellite services thanks to ... more |
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Google profit up but first quarterly revenue drop
Washington (AFP) April 16, 2009 Internet search giant Google reported a 9.2 percent rise in quarterly net profit on Thursday but said revenue declined for the first time ever in consecutive quarters. The Mountain View, California-based company reported a net profit for the first quarter of the year of 1.42 billion dollars compared with 1.31 billion dollars in the corresponding quarter last year. Revenue was 5.51 billio ... more US drawing up national broadband plan 
Washington (AFP) April 9, 2009Supporters of US presidential candidate Herbert Hoover famously pledged during the 1928 campaign that he would "put a chicken in every pot and a car in every backyard" if elected. While Hoover failed, presiding instead over the Great Depression, President Barack Obama is determined to fulfil a similar campaign vow of his own but one with a 21st century twist -- to put broadband in every home ... more Skype comes to iPhones on Tuesday
San Francisco (AFP) March 30, 2009Skype has confirmed that a free software application enabling iPhone owners to use its Internet telephone service will be available in Apple's online App Store beginning Tuesday. The Skype application will also enable people to use the service to make telephone calls from newer-generation iPod Touch MP3 players, according to a Skype spokesman. "Skype software has been the Number One requ ... more Control needed over 'God's eye' digital view of lives: expert 
Geneva (AFP) March 26, 2009An MIT computer expert is calling for a "new deal" to allow individuals to control the "God's eye" view of their daily lives built up from the traces left behind when they phone or surf the Internet. Alex Pentland, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argued in a report released Thursday that the growing amount of "digital breadcrumbs" were of enormous social and scientific value. ... more |
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