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On antitrust, is Google the next Microsoft?

Google is under fire in Washington by an unlikely combination of onetime antitrust defendants like Microsoft and AT&T and liberal consumer groups that have been their traditional antagonists because of the takeover deal with DoubleClick.

David Evans, a consultant with the firm LECG hired by Microsoft, calculates that Google currently has a 27 percent share of the market for "publisher tools." But if combined with DoubleClick, Evans says, the company would command 78 percent of the publisher tools market.

July 24, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Adobe

Adobe Introduced Captivate 3

Adobe Systems Inc. announced Adobe Captivate 3 software. Adobe Captivate 3 is a powerful eLearning authoring tool for the delivery of robust and engaging computer-based simulations, scenario-based training, and interactive quizzes.

July 23, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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General

New version of Firefox 2 launched

Mozilla released the next version of its "award-winning Firefox web browser". Firefox 2 is improved in terms of speed, security and online customization.
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July 19, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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General

PHP 4 end of life announcement

PHP.net announced they will discontinue support for PHP 4 at the end of the year because of the upcoming release of PHP 6.

"Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5", is the PHP development team advice.

July 19, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Microsoft

Warning about Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy"

"Microsoft marketing the trail version of Office 2007 as 'try-before-you-buy.' But there is a catch, once you 'try' a Microsoft 'upgrade' you can not easily go back, because your files will be replaced by new versions that you need the new software to read."

July 19, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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General

Now PDF Is The Format For Spam Delivery

According to Dmitri Alperovitch, principal research scientist at Secure Computing’s Trusted Source Labs the GIF and JPEG formats have been replaced by PDF files as the new mechanism for delivering their junk mail.

"The makers of e-mail filters have figured out how to recognize image-based spam and have updated their products to stop it. So now [spammers] wrap it up in the PDF," says Alperovitch.

July 16, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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General

Report: Firefox threatens IE in Europe

The French web monitoring service XiTiMonitor reports that Mozilla's Firefox is threatening to overtake IE as the market leading browser in Europe. The open source browser is rapidly gaining in popularity in comparison to Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).

July 16, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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General

Blogging Is 10 Years Old

According to The Wall Street Journal it's been 10 years since the first blog was born.

"On Dec. 23, 1997, on his site, Robot Wisdom, Mr. Barger wrote: "I decided to start my own webpage logging the best stuff I find as I surf, on a daily basis," and the Oxford English Dictionary regards this as the primordial root of the word 'weblog.'", states the journal.

July 16, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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General

How To Define Web 3.0

Steven Spalding has written a great article about the current trends in technology, and the direction in which the web is developing, the future of Web 3.0.

"Web 1.0 lacked context, Web 2.0 lacked interoperability, Web 3.0 will be a web where websites become web services and access to any information you desire is no more difficult than installing a widget onto your website", says Spalding.

July 16, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Adobe`s invisible software

I found a very interesting article on Adobe`s "create a market for your product, that will always be there" strategy, namely invisibility, written by Robert Cringely.

"Being the owner of two invisible technologies makes Adobe more powerful than most of us can even imagine", says Cringely.

July 16, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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