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Technology NewsYouTube, MySpace blocked in Indonesia2008-04-10 05:15 - Indonesian ISPs heed government order aimed at stopping people from watching a film critical of the Quran. Gates sees next Windows ’sometime’ in next year 2008-04-09 06:01 - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he expects Windows 7 to be released ’sometime in the next year or so’. Yahoo demands more dowry 2008-04-09 06:01 - Yahoo brushes aside Microsoft’s threat of a hostile takeover battle, refusing to sell for less than $US45 billion. Tangled up in the new web 2008-04-09 06:01 - Privacy, safety, plus ads and restrictions: it’s Web 3.0. Yahoo demands more dowry in Microsoft marriage 2008-04-09 06:01 - Yahoo brushes aside Microsoft’s threat of a hostile takeover battle, refusing to sell for less than $US45 billion. Online Sales to Grow 17 Percent in ’08 2008-04-09 06:01 - Retail sales online are set to grow to $204 billion in 2008 from $174.5 billion last year, fueled by sales of apparel, computers and autos, according to a survey conducted by Forrester Research. HP Unveils Small Laptop for Schoolkids 2008-04-09 06:01 - HP executives say their new machines, which go on sale later this month, are an important piece of the company’s effort to build market share in schools. DoCoMo Market Share Fell in March 2008-04-09 06:01 - NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s dominant cellular carrier, saw its market share drop to less than 50 percent for the first time in almost 10 years in March, according to government figures. Bits: Phorm’s All-Seeing Parasite Cookie 2008-04-09 06:01 - Phorm has developed a variation on the cookie ? code numbers stored by Web browsers ? that can help track far more information than cookies have before. Google Offers to Host Services on App Engine 2008-04-09 05:56 - Google is offering to host enterprise Web applications on its own infrastructure with a new tool for developers, App Engine. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 |
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