Archive for the ‘Technology Internet’ Category

Movies in social media: Flickme, Facebook offer titles to watch

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

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NEW YORK -- Streaming movies might not yet have the equivalent of a theater experience, with roaring crowds crunching on popcorn, but they are getting more social. ...

Maria Sharapova beats Jelena Jankovic in Cincinnati

Thursday, August 25th, 2011
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Serbian world number 14 Jankovic was 4-1 down in the opener but rattled off seven successive games to snatch the set and move a break up in the second. ...

The Daily Dot Is A Local Newspaper For The Social Web

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
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I cover the social web/social networking, Internet start-ups and other Silicon Valley topics. I was previously a reporter for Dow Jones VentureWire, where I covered venture capital and Internet start-up companies, from search engines to seed investing to special purpose vehicles. I also previously worked for Red Herring, the Long Beach Press-Telegram, and other outlets. ...

Samsung Electronics holds a Floor Salesmen Training for the first Half of 2011

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Samsung Electronics, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, in cooperation with Yassin Group Electronics, Samsung's electric and electronics appliances distributor in Jordan, held a training workshop in the Sheraton Amman Hotel for 120 of Samsung's distributors. The workshop showcased the latest Samsung products; ...

Google+ has its minuses

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
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To be fair, Google+ is only weeks old and is still generating its user base from among the hundreds of millions of Google account holders. While we don't expect absolute perfection in a first-generation Google product any more than we would from other software vendors, a variety of us CNET editors using Google+ have pinpointed ...

Web censorship moves to democracies

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
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During World War II, letters like this one were censored. Now, censorship has moved to the Web. (Susan Biddle - The Washington Post) Web censorship by governments such as Iran, China and countries embroiled in the Arab Spring has been well-documented. ...

Story of the week: Online advertising

Sunday, June 26th, 2011
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Also this week, the Financial Times' Tim Bradshaw revealed Twitter's plans to include 'promoted tweets' in user streamlines. He wrote that the move is 'likely to be controversial with users who have seen only limited and unobtrusive marketing messages so far in Twitter's five-year history'. ...

Google Digitizing 40 Million Pages Of British Library Books

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
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The project is anticipated to take several years, but the first items on the slate for digitization are feminist pamphlets about Queen Marie-Antoinette (1791), a story about the invention of the first combustion engine-driven submarine (1858), and an account of a stuffed Hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange (1775), according to the British Library's ...

Google acquires DVR software maker SageTV

Monday, June 20th, 2011
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SageTV has been developing its software since 2002. The platform allows users to record live television, including full seasons, thanks to support for antenna TV, cable, and satellite. A place-shifting feature lets users start watching a show on one device, such as their PC or Mac, and continue watching it elsewhere, including on mobile devices ...

Nintendo May Fail to Replicate Wii Success as IPhone, Facebook Games Bloom

Monday, June 20th, 2011
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A Nintendo Co. representative displays a WiiU video-game handheld console for a photograph at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Photographer: Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg ...