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Google expresses concern on Microsofts' bid to aquire Yahoo! - 22-11-2008

After Microsofts' announcement of a $44.6 billion bid to aquire Yahoo!, Google warned about the threat of this merger to the openness on which the Internet is based.
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CBS boosts succes with Last.fm music streaming - 22-11-2008

Over the past years, ad-supported music streaming was considerend an alternative to paid music downloads as well as online piracy. But not all projects (see SpiralFrog) that have tried to implement this idea came close to success. Can CBS and Last.fm?
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Gates' grand vision, the 'creative capitalism' idea - 24-01-2008

Bill Gates, one of the world's wealthiest men, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, called on companies to rethink the way their products and solutions can serve the poor.
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Windows Seven forecast - 22-11-2008

Just after the recent big release of Windows Vista, Microsoft began work on it's follow-up client operating system, currently code named Windows 7, and initially codenamed Vienna. The fact that the new Windows is set to be released by the end of 2009 means that this appears to be a much faster release than Windows Vista, which was shipped more than five years after Windows XP.
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Yahoo! joins OpenID standard community - 22-01-2008

There have been many voices doubting Yahoo's stability in the past few years but as of January 13, the 248 million Yahoo! users will be able to use a special feature of Yahoo! login to log in to OpenID-compatible websites.
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Microsoft launches Mac version of Office 2008 - 20-01-2008

Another step for Microsoft in the software business involves the launch of the new Office 2008 for Mac Computers, at the MacWorld conference.
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Google and Matsushita join to create a TV that connects to the internet - 18-01-2008

There's no stopping Google as they prepare to take on another challenge after the mobile phone. This time, they will join the japanese manufacturer Matsushita to create a television that will be able to access the internet.
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Intel unveils dual-core Intel Celeron microprocessors - 18-01-2008

Starting 20th of January 2008 Intel has announced the launch of the first Celeron Dual-Core processors. The first model of the new E1000 series, that will work at a 1.6 Ghz frequency, is going to be E1200.
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World organizations modify Wikipedia - 18-01-2008

WikiScanner is a tool developed by a few american researchers, used to identify the changes made by important world organizations to the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The tool revealed that the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and the Vatican have modified certain information from Wikipedia.
