In January, Yahoo and Intel plan to show off their new Yahoo Widget Channel at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which plans to bring online interaction and social networking capabilities to digital TV watching. The Yahoo Widget Channel will showcase the ability to view Flickr albums with friends while watching television, serve targeted ads to the end user and order videos on demand via Yahoo.
For Yahoo, it’s establishment of the Widget Read the rest of this entry »
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Guyana, Suriname to boost phone, Internet service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana and Suriname plan to invest a combined $60 million in an undersea fiber optic cable to improve phone and Internet service.
The 746-mile (1,200-kilometer) cable will run north through Trinidad to Florida, backing up an existing cable that often experiences service disruptions.
Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo announced the plan late Monday, saying construction Read the rest of this entry »
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Sure, it may sound like a great idea. After all, we do it for movies, TV, and video games. Everybody can make snap decisions about what they will and won't watch based on these handy albeit often wildly inconsistent guides. Of course, to buy into this, you need to put aside the fact that these ratings are often misleading: One man's NC-17 or Mature rating is another's R or Teen. Look at the latest Facebook imbroglio. Facebook's decency police Read the rest of this entry »
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Until recently, travelers attending conferences or trade shows had simple Internet needs. They would check e-mail messages and maybe look up information on the Web or connect to the home office.
Now, meetings are likely to include streaming video and online interaction. And back in their rooms, travelers are downloading movies and logging onto peer-to-peer networks.
Event organizers and hotels and conference centers are struggling to keep Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
29
Apple, along with fellow tech heavyweights Google and Microsoft, are accused in a new lawsuit of patent infringement for their use of icons that include a graphical representation of a file's contents.
The 4-page complaint filed this month by Arizon-based Cygnus Systems, Inc charges all three companies with infringing on its March 2008 US patent No.
, titled "System and Method for Iconic Software Environment Management."
"The [patent] generally Read the rest of this entry »
Dec
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The state of Kentucky and their governor, Steve Beshear, have begun an all out assault on online casinos. Beshear has seized the rights to 141 domain names of online casino sites.
That creates what seems to be a conflict of interest for the governor of the state since his in-state horse tracks allow gambling online.
Florida horsemen have negotiated a deal with two racetracks in Miami, Gulfstream Park Racing and Casino, and Churchill Downs Inc. Read the rest of this entry »
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You miss the point - delivering the Internet to conumers is only profitable for a company if they are a near-monopoly. Having a couple of customers here, a couple there doesn't work - there are labor-intensive resources that are tied to geography. Like fixing wires when they break.
So what we have been seeing for the last 10 years or so is just a pure market penetration play. If AT&T gets to take people away from Comcast they "win" and Comcast Read the rest of this entry »
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State officials say they're expanding the hours Minnesotans can apply for unemployment insurance online.The Minnesota department of employment and economic development will have the self-service system on the internet open the next four Sundays.Those seeking unemployment benefits will be able to apply between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. starting tomorrow Dec. 28Officials say the state's unemployment insurance program is busier than normal in part Read the rest of this entry »
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Rest in peace?
As the Internet entered America's households, some had predicted that would be the future of public libraries.
"There was a lot of fear about it," said Dawn McCleery, head reference librarian at the Marion Public Library. "The fear was it would replace us."
So far that hasn't happened. Marion and other public library systems have transformed themselves, becoming community centers that offer computer classes, programs for children Read the rest of this entry »
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — A proposed Internet filter dubbed the "Great Aussie Firewall" is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries.
Consumers, civil-rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties are among the critics of a mandatory Internet filter that would block at least 1,300 Web sites prohibited by the government — mostly child pornography, Read the rest of this entry »