Canonical, the London-based company which acts as open-source community Ubuntu's commercial sponsor, has released version 7.10 of its Linux operating system. The release of the software, code-named Gutsy Gibbon, marks Ubuntu's third anniversary. Ubuntu 7.10 is designed to be easier to ...

 

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Guidelines released this week by leading Internet firms could help to de-fuse the growing tension between copyright owners and sites that host user-generated content. A group including Viacom, Walt Disney, Microsoft Corp, Myspace, Dailymotion, CBS Corp and NBC Universal, have set the guidelines ...

 

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Researchers from UC San Diego and UCLA have used a Google Labs widget to make computers behave in a more 'common sense' way. The scientists have given a computer the ability to use context to help identify objects in photographs in ...

 

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Apple Inc will release the latest version of its Macintosh operating system on 26 October. The new software, called Leopard, is being released after a four-month delay. This was attributed to the diversion of software development resources to the company's iPhone, which ...

 

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Samsung is developing white-LED backlit display for laptops, with 10,000:1 contrast. So for the company has produced LED-backlit LCD panels only - the next stage will be to incorporate them into laptops. The company has developed three displays: 18.4-inches (1,920 ...

 

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Google's video-sharing site, YouTube, has launched filtering tools to help prevent unauthorised video-sharing. The 'Video Identification' tools are designed to stop copyrighted material from appearing and spreading on the site. Copyright is a major concern for YouTube, which is currently ...

 

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Simon Dury, business partnerships director of the Envirowise Project, has advised firms to choose IT equipment that can be re-used, with easily replaceable parts, rather than recycled. Envirowise is a UK government project which provides free advice to businesses on ...

 

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Hitachi's Global Storage Technologies division has developed the world's smallest read head for hard drives. The new 'current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive heads' (CPP-GMR heads), will allow Hitachi to continue to increase the density of drives. Hitachi expects to be able ...

 

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BT's Tradespace website and ecommerce platform has signed up 21,000 small businesses since its launch in April. Tradespace allows small business to offer their products on the Internet, without incurring the expense of setting up and maintaining a website. Up to ...

 

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Flash memory specialist, SST (Silicon Storage Technology),and Insyde Software Corp, have developed FlashMate hybrid hard drive technology, which allows data to be read, even when the computer is switched off. The technology combines hardware, firmware and software in a system application subsystem ...

 

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The Belfast Telegraph website is in danger of going offline in a matter of days - because they failed to renew their domain name in July. After noticing this, Britecorp contacted their IT dept offering to help use their specialise ...

 

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According to a global study by comScore, Google was the global leader for searches in August. During the month, over 61 billion searches were performed by more than 750 million users, and 37 billion of these searches were carried out via ...

 

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New research commissioned by Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), finds that small and medium-sized enterprises are less aware of the principles of the Data Protection Act than larger organisations. Less than a quarter of the SMEs surveyed were aware that they are ...

 

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Google is acquiring Jaiku, a mobile social-networking provider based in Helsinki, Finland. Jaiku announced the merger on its site, along with the news that it has decided to temporarily close new-user sign-ups while it focuses on innovation. It may also be to ...

 

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The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan is confident that phase-change memory products (PRAM) will be available within three years, while magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) could be available by the end of 2008. ITRI started developing phase-change memory in 2005, in partnership ...

 

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IBM has released a preview version of a new mashup tool which allows businesses to remix information and data from different sources to create new applications. IBM's Mashup Starter Kit is available at its AlphaWorks site in preview version, and will ...

 

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Orange is preparing to launch business hardware that improves indoor mobile coverage. Orange's Onsite Coverage services uses Picocells - small, low-powered, indoor cellular base stations which can be installed in offices. The devices have been trialled in Switzerland and will be ...

 

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Google is believed to be beta testing AdSense ads embedded into YouTube video players. The technology would allow publishers to embed YouTube clips in their websites and generate revenue via AdSense. An AdSense unit would appear above the clip. The ...

 

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Google Inc is catching up with Chinese rival Baidu, after years of trying to increase its presence in China, the world's second-largest Internet market after the United States. Google gained more market share in China after announcing a partnership with Chinese Internet ...

 

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Yahoo is upgrading Yahoo Mail with DomainKeys technology designed to block phishing spam and bogus emails purporting to come from eBay and PayPal. Phishing scams usually consist of emails which claim to be from trusted sources. They direct the recipient to a ...

 

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