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New York Times will Charge for Online Access

The New York Times is going to charge readers for an access to some of its Website’s resources. Of course there is a risk that people will go elsewhere to read news. This will affect a traffic and a revenue from online adverts. The company Forrester Research in its recent study mentioned that most people

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Skype has multipoint videoconferencing

Company ViVu has released VuRoom, it is a plug-in for Skype which allows multipoint videoconferencing. Without the plug-in Skype can be used for video chat between no more than two people. VuRoom costs US$9.95 per month for unlimited calls. Only one person who initiate the call has to buy the plug-in, other parties need only

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App Stores is a billion dollars business

According to the analysts from Gartner (a research firm), mobile application stores are estimated to generate revenues of $7 billion during this year. Last year revenue from mobile applications’ download reached $4.2 billion. The analysts predict that mobile application stores’ will grow and grow, to finally by the end of 2013 make $29.5 billion. So

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a Federal holiday marking the birth date of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The holiday takes place on the third Monday of January each year (it is a date around the time of King’s birthday, January 15). Today many schools, business and places of higher education were closed.

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European governments are afraid of Internet Explorer

After the cyber attack on Google from China and information that the hit was possible because of an inaccuracy in a code of a browser Internet Explorer, The German Federal Office for Information (BSI) Security warned users against using Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8 until Microsoft fixed the security hole. Today the French

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Bing has 10.7 percent of the market

According to a report prepared by comScore, Bing (the new web search engine from Microsoft) has reached last month (December 2009) 10.7 percent of the U.S. search engine market. It is up 0.4 percentage points from November 2009. Google is attracting 65.7 percent of searches, it is up 0.1 percentage points from November 2009. Yahoo’s

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Videogames on fire! Best selling Christmas ever

NPD Group reported that sales of videogame hardware and software in USA hit 5.53 billion dollars in December 2009. It is a new monthly record. Sony sold during the month more than 1.3 million of PlayStation 3. Nintendo sold 3.81 million Wii consoles and 3.31 million DS hand-held gaming devices. Nintendo officially said also that

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Flight 1549

One year ago, back at January 15, 2009, a US Airways jetliner with 155 people aboard made a splash landing in the Hudson River.

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Twitter grows abroad

During last few months Twitter’s growth has slowed down, however the website has found plenty of new users who are located outside the United States. According to date from Sysomos (a social media analytics and monitoring firm) right now, 50% of all Twitter users are people from USA. This is down from 62% in June

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Apple App Store Has Lost Millions To Piracy

According to an analysis by 24/7 Wall St., within last 6 months Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and the companies that sell applications for the iPod touch and iPhone at the App Store have lost more than $450 million to piracy. Apple takes 30% of the revenue generated by the App Store, that means the company has

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