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Monthly Archives: April 2008

OMG! The Webby Awards are coming!

OMG! The Webby Awards are coming!

The annual digital-media awards will be held in June in New York. Until then, there's a whole lot else going on to distract us.
   

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IBM Buys InfoDyne

IBM Buys InfoDyne

Big Blue will connect InfoDyne's market data platform with WebSphere middle- and back-office processing technology

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Nokia Confident Of Profit From Music Downloads

Nokia Confident Of Profit From Music Downloads

Offering unlimited music downloads to phone buyers will be a profitable business for Nokia as well as for record labels, the handset maker said, dismissing talk the move would come at the expense o…

Confirmed: Mister Wong acquires Lifestream.fm

Confirmed: Mister Wong acquires Lifestream.fm

German social-bookmarking site makes purchase to get a foot in the hot "social feed" market, representatives tell CNET News.com.
   

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Artsy side of search: Designers, pop stars create iGoogle themes

Artsy side of search: Designers, pop stars create iGoogle themes

New campaign from Mountain View draws attention to  iGoogle personalized home pages by introducing "themes" designed by artists and pop culture figures.
   

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Giant squid has biggest animal eyes in world

Museum of New Zealand technician, Mark Fenwick thaw out the largest known specimen of a colossal squid, caught in the Ross Sea, in a pool of brine in Wellington, New Zealand, Wednesday, April 30, 2008.  Marine scientists in New Zealand were thawing the corpse of the largest squid ever caught to try to unlock the secrets of one of the ocean's most mysterious beasts. Marine scientists studying the carcass of a rare colossal squid said Wednesday they had measured its eye at about 11 inches across — bigger than a dinner plate — making it the largest animal eye on Earth.

Ling Ling, Japan’s oldest giant panda, dies

In this Saturday, April 20, 2002 file photo, male panda Ling-Ling sits in the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City. Japan's oldest giant panda, a longtime star at a Tokyo zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, has died of illness, zoo keepers said Wednesday. Ling Ling was 22 years old. Japan’s oldest giant panda, Ling Ling, a longtime star at Tokyo’s largest zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, died Wednesday of heart failure, zookeepers said.

Nokia Confident Of Profit From Music Downloads

Nokia Confident Of Profit From Music Downloads

Offering unlimited music downloads to phone buyers will be a profitable business for Nokia as well as for record labels, the handset maker said, dismissing talk the move would come at the expense o…

First Hyper-V Support Emerges From Desktop Virtualization Supplier

First Hyper-V Support Emerges From Desktop Virtualization Supplier

Provision Networks is the first vendor to make Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor the focus of its desktop virtualization efforts.

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First Hyper-V Support Emerges From Desktop Virtualization Supplier

First Hyper-V Support Emerges From Desktop Virtualization Supplier

Provision Networks is the first vendor to make Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor the focus of its desktop virtualization efforts.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh