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Youtube has a very lenient policy to copyright infringement. With a gazillion videos in their servers and just an office full of people scouring their database for pirated videos, it's really quite easy to get original copyright videos on Youtube. Of course some valiant brown noser might flag it or the video owner might request Youtube to take it down. All without persecuting users who duplicated original content and posted it online.
However, that may be about to change. Google, the owner of Youtube, has been in a court battle with Viacom regarding these infractions since the search engine acquired the video sharing site. Today, a judge in New York handed down a decision that will put Youtube users in Viacom's crosshairs.
The order states that Google hand over all records of all videos uploaded ...more
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Congratulations to the Firefox team.
On June 17th this year, Mozilla released the latest version of their wildly popular browser Firefox. Firefox 3 was also set with all the hype and anxious community that the engineers behind the browser set out to set a new world record.
Today it's official , the Guinness Book of World Records awarded Mozilla the record for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.”
Of course, the whole record is thanks to the people who downloaded the browser and Mozilla acknowledges that by having anybody printout their own certificate of participation here .
Firef...more
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Tags: adobe systems, pdf, portable document format, iso, international organization for standardization
The popular Portable Document Format (PDF) from Adobe Systems is now an international standard for Document Management. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) made the announcement of the new standard, ISO 32000-1:2008.
The standardization of the PDF follows just after a year since Adobe made plans to open up the portable document format to the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM). Of course this was one of the requirements for the ISO certification.
In a press release from the ISO, Adobe Chief Technology Offic...more
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Tags: microsoft, windows, office
Microsoft today announced that they will be selling a new software subscription package starting mid-July. The package includes MS Office Home and Student 2007. The whole package is called Microsoft Equipt which will cost $69.99 for a one year renewable subscription.
Each Equipt package, like the regular MS Office Home and Student 2007 software will be good for 3 computers. However, the $69.99 subscription fee is a lot cheaper than the one time $150 for the regular software.
The whole Equipt package has a lot more value than the regular software hence the subscription worth renewing. Microsoft Equipt comes with the Office Suite along with Windows Live OneCare, the all-in-one security and PC management service; Wind...more
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2 Jul 2008
Tags: microhoo, microsoft, yahoo, acquisition
I'll try to summarize it again, Microsoft -> Yahoo -> Icahn -> Google -> Microsoft -> Yahoo. That probably doesn't make sense.
Apparently the Microhoo saga won't go away immediately as we expected. After a couple of volleys between Microsoft and Yahoo finally ending in Microsoft backing out causing Carl Icahn to launch a proxy battle then some rumors that there may be another possible buyout while Yahoo signed a deal with Google. Wow! That's a mouthful revolving Yahoo. Anyway, just type in "microhoo" in the TJ search bar and you'll get pretty much everything we ever wrote about the topic since it started.
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Tags: andreessen, facebook, zuckerberg, netscape, browser, ning, social network, social graph
Remember Marc Andreessen? Well, if you don't or was not old enough to care back in the 1990's, he was the founder of Netscape (that browser of choice the Web1.0 generation used). Anyway, as you might have expected, Netscape went down when the bubble burst and was replaced by Internet Explorer from Microsoft and eventually Mozilla Firefox.
Anyway, that guy, Marc Andreessen has been on a low profile recently, maybe he made a few headlines when he co-founded the social network creator service Ning, but aside from that, he was mostly under the radar. Today, he's joining Facebook with a chair on the board of directors.
Despite the seeming conflict between Facebook and Ning, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, says that Andreessen's Ning is "a complementary platform to Facebook that allows people to ...more
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved and passed a the law in his state of California that prohibits the use of calling on a cellphone without a hands free device while driving. California joins 32 other states in the US to have such a law. The law is effective July 1 2008, 12 AM.
Under the new law, drivers cannot have calls while driving with the phone pressed against their ear. However, it's unclear if texting is also prohibited since drivers will be allowed to dial and place calls. A hands-free device must be used while engaging in a call while driving.
The new law will of course increase the sales of hands free devices both wired and wireless / bluetooth. Furthermore, Headsets.com will be giving away headsets for thos...more
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Tags: microsoft, live search, powerset
We've written about it and now it's confirmed. Microsoft's plan to buy Powerset has pushed through, today, semantic search engine Powerset joins Microsoft Live Search.
In review, Powerset is a natural-language or semantic search engine that focuses on the intent of the query rather than on the keywords a user includes in the query. So, as Powerset claims, their search algorithm would get you better results to the questions you ask.
Anyway, let's just look at it from a point of view that's more relevant to Microsoft. The search engine market is dominated by one player, Google. Yahoo used to comptete and was at a comfortable number 2, but the new partnership between Google and Yahoo, there is...more
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Tags: adobe, adobe flash, search engine optimization, SEO, dynamic web pages, web content, search engine spiders
Popular software maker Adobe Systems is helping search engine giants Google and Yahoo! to be able to "see" and index web content that was previously invisible to and not included in the engines' web searches.
In a statement released Monday, Adobe announced that it is providing the two search giants with optimized Adobe Flash Player technology in order to bring web searches to a whole new different level. This team up would very well improve search results for dynamic Web content as well as rich Internet applications or RIA's.
Currently, search engine technology is mainly based on determining and indexing text content of Web pages in coming up with relevant search results. This is done by powerful search engine spiders that scour the World Wide Web for text content periodically and then stored and indexed on ...more
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Tags: ebay, court rulings, louis vuitton
It seems that eBay may have gotten the ire of high end fashion houses for being so popular online. A French court just recently ordered the popular online auction site to pay popular fashion company LVMH Moet Henessy Louis Vuitton SA the amount reaching $61 million for selling counterfeit goods online. This fashion company is the home for such popular high-end brands like Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, Fendi, Emilio Pucci and Marc Jacobs.
The decision stemmed from the popular fashion company suing eBay for condoning the selling of knock-offs and counterfeit goods that may have harmed the company's business. But on the other side of the coin, eBay has been saying that the suit by the fashion company against them has been an attack on the online business model from which the fashion company may have felt threatened because it eliminates the mi...more
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