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22 Jan 2010 Comments:
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New York - Facebook has ceased using Microsoft’s (NASD:MSFT) services to
sell display advertising in some international markets, and may do the same in
the U.S., Robin Domeniconi, Microsoft’s VP of U.S. ad sales, told BusinessWeek.
"We are in discussions with them on adjusting it or changing it as we go
forward," Keith Lorizio, another Microsoft VP, said of the companies
agreement. "They have a desire to sell their own advertising." Read the rest of this entry »
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21 Jan 2010 Comments:
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The U.K. government has decided to make the non-personal data it holds available for web developers to create a new wave of public applications. It’s a bold move which will open up more data than even the U.S. government holds at its Data.gov. The new Data.gov.uk site is officially launched today by Web creator Sir Tim Berners Lee and been has been running for the last six months in beta with almost 3,000 data sets available. By contrast, the U.S. site Data.gov, has less than 1,000 data sets. So far over 2,400 developers have registered to test the site and 10 applications built. These include PlanningAlerts, a free service that emails you if someone has put in a planning application to build near your house and FillThatHole, which lets people report potholes and other road hazards across the UK.
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20 Jan 2010 Comments:
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Big changes are coming to Facebook Platform. Today, Facebook is granting developers on Platform the ability to request (or require) users to hand over their email addresses so they they can send periodic messages directly to users. This doesn’t come as a surprise: Facebook first talked about these changes last October and has kept developers updated on the timing in its Developer Roadmap. But it’s a very, very big deal.
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20 Jan 2010 Comments:
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New York
- The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) announced on Wednesday that it will introduce a
"metered" paid model for access to its website at the beginning of
2011. Under the plan, online readers will be able to access a set number of
articles per month for free, and then be charged once they exceed that number. Read the rest of this entry »
Date:
20 Jan 2010 Comments:
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For something that doesn’t officially exist yet, the Apple tablet is generating an awful lot of coverage - but this time there appears to be fire inside all the smoke.
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20 Jan 2010 Comments:
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If you go to the Silverlight version of Bing Maps, at the bottom is an application gallery which adds different features and layers to the maps. Two new Silverlight apps added today are for Events and Destination Maps.
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20 Jan 2010 Comments:
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London - Britain’s Oxford University has banned students
from using the streaming music service Spotify, having classified it as a
peer-to-peer application and thus prohibited on campus networks, The Register
reported, citing student paper Cherwell. The Register notes that Spotify’s use
of peer-to-peer technology is actually intended to reduce the bandwidth load on
service providers, by caching songs locally on users’ computers rather than
delivering many individual streams of the same track from a single, central
source. Read the rest of this entry »
