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Microsoft is a company with a winner’s mentality. This is
what keeps it going in its quest to be number one in its chosen domains of
activity. Just as everyone expected, not long after the announcement that a
partnership with Yahoo is no longer of interest, Microsoft presented its plans
for purchasing Powerset in its attempt to become the most popular search engine
in the world.
The company is sure that by acquiring Powerset it will be
able to offer a significantly better search platform, with a semantic Web
technology, which follows the words’ meaning and their context in order...
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News and rumors about Apple's new 3G iPhone have been
circulating since its initial announcement. The highly anticipated release, set
for July 11recently received a set of official additional information regarding
AT&T’s plans for its distribution and pricing plans. AT&T is the iPhone’s
official and sole carrier in the United States.
According to the carrier company, the prices will vary from
$199 to $699 depending on the model and contract options. The 8 Giga Bytes
version will be sold for $199 and the 16 Giga Bytes for $299, but only for
certain customers, who will have to...
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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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Yesterday, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced the
release of its new "Black" Phenom X4 which will be joined by
two energy-efficient versions of the Phenom X4 chip.
All three chips present the company’s 65-nm process, with 2
Mega Bytes of shard level 3 cache and a 512 Kilo Bytes of level 2 cache/ core.
The 2.6 Giga Hertz AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition
processor targets the sector of power users and also gamers, where performance issues
overcome the economy factors. On the other hand, 2.0-GHz AMD Phenom X4 9350e
and the 1.8-GHz AMD Phenom X4 9150e processors are...
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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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Microsoft has acquired a new company specialized in mobile technologies. MobiComp, which is based...
Verizon Communications’ fiber-to-the-home network plan
proved to be an excellent business idea as...
The news about the upcoming deal involving the $100 million
purchase of Powerset by Microsoft seem...
IBM has launched an interesting strategy in Africa, which aims to help the nations on the continent...
Dell released yesterday its new Studio line of notebook
computers with a variety of colors meant...
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, approved a proposal to create an...
Sony recently announced its initiative for a corporate-wide
strategy looking to "roll out...
Wireless carrier T-Mobile, the American division of the german Deutsche Telekom AG, wants to...
One of Japan’s biggest mobile phone carriers, Softbank
Corp., recently announced its plans to sell...
Taking into consideration the general demand, Microsoft reminded its Windows XP strategy through...
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