Stories by: Stacy Cowley

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    Web 2.0: At the tipping point 27/03/2006 09:15:19

    As the World Wide Web evolves into a more collaborative platform, the technologies and business models involved in that transition are being swept up into the "Web 2.0" rubric, a term vague enough to encompass almost anything one cares to push under its banner, but catchy in summing up the widespread sense that the Internet is at a tipping point.
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    Vendors unite to promote AJAX tool development 02/02/2006 08:37:39

    A group of top industry vendors plans to announce on Wednesday a new community initiative aimed at popularizing AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and Extensible Markup Language), the nickname given to a collection of software development tools and standards that help Web applications mimic the speed and smoothness of desktop programs.
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    Google CEO on censoring: 'We did an evil scale' 30/01/2006 08:03:30

    It took Google more than a year to make the decision that offering a censored version of its search services in China would be a lesser evil than boycotting business in the country altogether, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
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    Experian buys PriceGrabber.com for $485 million 15/12/2005 08:00:20

    Financial services company Experian got into the holiday shopping spirit on Wednesday by acquiring PriceGrabber.com, a popular online comparison shopping site. Experian's parent company, London-based Gus, said it paid US$485 million for PriceGrabber.com.
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    HP buys Pixaco to expand photo services offerings 14/12/2005 07:20:28

    Looking to expand its share of the growing digital photo services market, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has agreed to buy European online photo prints retailer Pixaco, the companies said Tuesday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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    New TiVo service to encourage skipping TO the ads 29/11/2005 09:16:54

    After introducing a generation of television viewers to the joys of skipping over ads, TiVo plans to launch a new service to let its subscribers seek out the advertisements they've cut loose from their TV viewing.
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    Google attracts developers 25/11/2005 08:18:26

    Google's heft means that where it goes, developers follow. This year, the company has been an accidental catalyst for two major advances in Web application development: AJAX and mashups. Google didn't invent or evangelize either technology. It just quietly began making use of them, and the Web followed in its wake.
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    Study: AMD chips edge past Intel in retail PC sales 09/11/2005 09:51:15

    Chip-making underdog Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) edged past Intel last month in supplying processors for the U.S. retail PC market, according to a study by research firm Current Analysis.
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    Skype update adds call forwarding and ringtones 30/09/2005 08:50:57

    Skype Technologies went live Thursday with an updated version of its Internet telephony software, adding call forwarding and personalization options to its popular VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service.
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    Microsoft, JBoss link up 28/09/2005 08:31:28

    Bowing to market realities, Microsoft said it will begin working with an ideological foe, open-source development and services company JBoss, on optimizing interoperability between JBoss' middleware and Microsoft's Windows Server software.
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    Symantec updates consumer security lineup 27/09/2005 12:48:26

    Symantec has released the latest version of its Norton security software, adding a new protection centre to its Norton Internet Security 2006 applications suite.
 
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