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YouTube music videos accessible again in UK

September 3, 2009

In the United Kingdom for the first time since March weather to watch music videos on YouTube. Access to the videos had been blocked because Google and recovery organization PRS a dispute over the payment of rights. Access to the videos had been blocked because Google and recovery organization PRS a dispute over the payment [...]

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Google unveils speedier search engine

August 31, 2009

Google is working on a new test version of its search engine, which the company claims will be faster and more relevant than ever before. The company has dubbed the new search engine “caffeine”. Look-wise, the new engine doesn’t appear different, but its developers hope that the technology they have used will noticeably index new [...]

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Three top Hollywood studios bring films to Web

August 31, 2009

It is a dash of Hulu and a sprinkle of YouTube, features a crystal clear picture, can rewind or fast-forward at lightning speed, and doesn’t require a download of any special software. But epixHD.com, the soon-to-launch video website, will have its success dictated more by the movies, concerts and original programs it offers than the [...]

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Google goes to gardens of Versailles

August 31, 2009

Google’s tricycle-mounted cameras on Monday shot footage of the 17th century gardens of France’s Chateau de Versailles destined for its Street View service by year’s end. The tricycle, carrying nine cameras set to take automatic shots every two metres, provided footage of some of the most popular spots of the onetime home of Louis XIV, [...]

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Twitter, FB, Google hit by cyber attacks

August 31, 2009

Cyber attacks hammered Twitter, Facebook, and Google, disrupting the hip micro-blogging service and causing stumbles at the hot social-networking site while Google fended off assaults. Twitter was down for more than an hour early in the morning on Thursday, before the eponymous California firm got it back online. “The continuing denial of service attack is [...]

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Now, a mechanism to measure happiness of bloggers

August 29, 2009

Scientists at the University of Vermont have created a very basic remote-sensing hedonometer, which can measure a person’s happiness by picking out words in his or her blog.
The method created by Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth, a mathematician and computer scientist working in the Advanced Computing Center at the University of Vermont, show that Election Day, November 4, 2008, was the happiest day in four years and the day of Michael Jackson’s death, one of the unhappiest.

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MS moving Office online in duel with Google

August 28, 2009

Microsoft on Monday said that the 2010 version of its popular Office software will feature online collaboration as the technology giant duels “in the cloud” with Internet titan Google.

Microsoft made the announcement at the opening of a Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.

Next-generation Office, Visio, Project, and SharePoint Server programs to be released in the first half of next year are being given to tens of thousands of people selected to test the nearly completed software.

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