Owners of Nintendo Wii consoles could soon be watching streamed films as well as playing games through the machines as a deal is struck with Netflix in the U.S. The company has already signed deals with Microsoft and Sony as manufacturers attempt to position the games consol as the predominant ...
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New reports say that the breach in security that led to Microsoft advising Hotmail users to change their passwords may just have hit users of Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. Internet hackers managed to obtain around 10,000 passwords from users in the U.K. when they set up a fake Hotmail site ...
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For the second time in a month, Google has experienced technical difficulties with its Gmail service that has left customers unable to properly access their accounts. At the beginning of September the service had an outage that lasted for nearly two hours and meant that anyone needing to get into ...
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This autumn shoppers at Tesco's will be able to take advantage of a partnership with Microsoft Corp. that has just been announced. Customers in the U.K. will now be able to buy digital versions of movies they would usually pick from the shelf and get them downloaded onto their computer. ...
Journalists at MSN’s London office don’t just aggregate other peoples stories claims Michael Ball, Microsoft's British editor-in-chief. Although not known for its breaking stories MSN is aiming to take on other news sites as a major news outlet.
MSN already boasts 19.9 million visitors to its pages every month which is ...
The Open Book Alliance has signed up Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon to its cause of stopping Google becoming the internets biggest virtual library.
Last year Google reached a settlement with authors and publishers to spend $125 million setting up the Book Rights Registry. Here, publishers and authors can register work and ...
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Microsoft has outlined further plans for its latest version of Windows Mobile application store. The company confirmed that it has now opened up its Marketplace app store for submissions in several countries including the UK, the US and Australia.
Aside from confirming when developers can submit apps to the yet to ...
In the States, Microsoft has launched the "ergonomist-approved" Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000 desktop set. Gearing up for the general availability of its next operating system in October, the new hardware offers "smart" one-touch features for Windows 7 "to help consumers make the most of their new Windows 7-based PCs".
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Microsoft was quick to respond to Google’s attempt to move onto its turf. In less than a week after Google announced that it would offer a free online operating system, Microsoft followed suit saying that it would make a version of its popular MS Office suite available for use on ...
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Regulators in Europe have indicated that the proposal by Microsoft to sell a Windows operating system without a browser does not go far enough to satisfy anti-trust concerns.
The negative reaction by the regulators to the computer software giant’s plan has left some anti-trust lawyers on the continent wondering why it ...
