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The huge success of Samsung’s Instinct smartphone surprised
even the company’s officials, which worked on its development and planned its
release with the powerful wireless telecommunication network, the Sprint Nextel Corporation.
Sprint Nextel needed the sales boost
in order to get back in the front line, as its reports for the past year showed
some rather upsetting figures. Even though the phone’s reviews mixed about its capacities
and market potential, once released, it managed to break the company’s record for
the biggest first week sales of any high-speed Evolution-Data...
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After it was repeatedly criticized by the privacy advocates
for not including a Privacy link to its home page, the biggest search engine
decided this weekend to replace the word Google with a link to its Privacy
page.
Last month several privacy advocacy groups have sent a
petition to Google over the lack of visibility of its privacy policy on the
Google home page. They have asked Google to submit to the California law, which requires a direct link
to its privacy policy on its homepage.
The petition was signed by representatives from Privacy
Rights Clearinghouse, the World...
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A July 1 ruling gave Viacom access to YouTube’s huge database, a 12 Terabytes collection of user data information, including capabilities to track down the videos that a person viewed. The ruling could be seen as a partial victory in the lawsuit that Viacom filled against YouTube and its parent company, Google, claiming that the two are infringing copyright laws. Viacom, which owns the Paramount movie studio as well as the MTV and VH1 television networks, demands $1 billion from YouTube, because the site allows people to post Viacom copyrighted videos. Google defends itself citing the...
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Mozilla’s Firefox 3 seems to be getting more popular with
each passing day, with a current market share of about 19 percent. The updated
Firefox 3 browser was released on June 17 and since them the company’s user
base increased with 4 percent.
Mozilla’s officials announced that even though most of the
Firefox 3 users are people updating their Firefox 2 browsers, there is a cut of
about 0.4 percent of the users which switch to their product at the expense of
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Microsoft IE’s market share encountered a small but
continuous decline over the past few...
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AT&T released a new statement about its upcoming iPhone release, meant to reaffirm the pricing details of the new smartphone. iPhone enthusiasts will be able to purchase the device at a $199 price tag for the 8 Giga Bytes model and $299 for the 16 GB version. The lauch is set for July 11 and AT&T will be the only carrier offering Apple’s smartphone in the United States.The $199 price will be accessible only for a special segment of clients, which will have to meet certain requirements. The eligible users, either have purchased an iPhone before July 11, or are currently activating a...
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Popular Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Corp. announced
today through its spokesman Naoki...
The company’s CEO and chairman, Rick Wagoner announced this morning that GM will have to close four...
The United States publishing industry’s largest annual
trade, BookExpo, came to an end in Los...
Time Warner Cable Inc. announced for Thursday the start of a
metered Internet access trial that...
Popular electronics retailer Best Buy Co Inc announced
yesterday the launch of its new recycling...
A newly released cancer vaccine which reportedly doubles the survival time of people with brain...
Microsoft has announced that it has made a deal with Hewlett Packard, the world’s largest computer...
News about the insufficient stocks of Nintendo’s Wii console
begin to surface again. The game was...
Unicom Ltd., China’s second-biggest mobile-phone carrier
after China Mobile, offered to buy and...
Wachovia Corp, the fourth largest banking chain in the United States based on total assets, has...
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