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AOL Canada Launches Netscape Nitro Internet Accelerator |
| 2/20/2005 |
AOL Canada today announced the immediate availability of Netscape Nitro, a new stand-alone Internet accelerator software that improves the speed of Web surfing for dial-up and high speed light users across Canada. |
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First concrete global warming proof emerges |
| 2/20/2005 |
Source: EDIE.net :
Experts at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California and their colleagues claim that their study, which clearly shows that human activity has caused the world's oceans to warm up, will remove much of the uncertainty hanging over the global warming debate.
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Nokia and Microsoft: Rivals face the music |
| 2/15/2005 |
Source: IHT.com
After a sometimes discordant past, Nokia and Microsoft are now singing from the same page about the future of mobile music.
Nokia, the leading cellphone manufacturer and a longtime Microsoft rival in mobile phone software, said on Monday that it had agreed to use ... |
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Successful Launch of the Heavy-Lift Ariane 5 ECA |
| 2/15/2005 |
Source: Infosat.lu
The Ariane 5 ECA launcher successfully orbited two satellites on Saturday, February 12: the XTAR-EUR
communications satellite for operator XTAR, and the Sloshsat scientific satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA). The MAQSAT-B2 structure was also integrated in the Ariane 5's upper composite to validate the launcher's performance |
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Microsoft and Flextronics to make phones |
| 2/15/2005 |
Source : ENN.ie
The platform, codenamed Peabody, will run on the Windows Mobile operating system and will be marketed at mobile handset manufacturers and mobile network operators around the world. The platform ..... |
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Sweet success for Ariane 5 Heavy rocket |
| 2/15/2005 |
Europe's biggest rocket made its first successful launch on Saturday from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
The Ariane 5 Heavy booster delivered two satellites into geosynchronous orbit two years after an engine malfunction caused the first Ariane 5 Heavy to veer off course and be destroyed.
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Sony launches portable playstation |
| 2/7/2005 |
Source : TVNZ.co.nz: Game fans stood in lines through a chilly Tokyo night to be among the first in the world to get their hands on Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable, the consumer electronics firm's first handheld game machine.
About 200,000 of the sleek black devices, able to play movies, music and games, went on sale early Sunday morning as part of a drive by Sony to loosen rival
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Sharapova outlasts gutsy Davenport |
| 2/7/2005 |
Maria Sharapova, hailed by many as the future of women's tennis, defeated an injured but gritty Lindsay Davenport in a third-set tiebreaker to win the Toray Pan Pacific Open on Sunday.
The 17-year-old Russian ended Davenport's improbable comeback following a first-set disaster with a backhand winner to pocket 19.8 million yen and deny Davenport a third straight title in the event.
``I played the World No. 1 and I performed,'' Sharapova said after her 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5) win at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. ``I believe in myself. It went right down to the wire and I'm thrilled
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Sania ready for dream clash |
| 1/21/2005 |
TimesofIndia: She may be playing Serena but it takes more than a Williams sister to rattle Sania Mirza
"Playing against Serena is such a great opportunity. She's one of the most exciting players in tennis and am sure every player loves taking on the best. That said, I don't want to expect too much from |
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Airbus unveils 'superjumbo' |
| 1/18/2005 |
Airbus today unveiled the world's largest civilian plane, capable of carrying 550 passengers, at an elaborate ceremony in France.
Hailed by the prime minister, Tony Blair, as "the world's most exciting new aircraft", the A380 made its debut at a launch featuring dancers and clouds of dry ice. Projected images of planes from the Airbus range
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Apple goes "mini" with Mac, tiny iPod |
| 1/12/2005 |
SeattleTimes.com: On the heels of one of Apple Computer's most successful holiday seasons, Chief Executive Steve Jobs yesterday introduced new stylish products that build on the company's growing mass appeal.
At the annual Macworld Conference and Expo, Jobs showed off a new "Mac mini" computer that doesn't include a monitor, keyboard or mouse and retails for $499. The square, brushed-aluminum computer is just 2 inches tall, with a width and depth of 6.5 inches. For $100 more, Apple sells a version with a slightly faster processor and an 80 GB hard drive — twice that of the basic model. Both versions are expected to go on sale Jan. 22.
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Microsoft offers spyware and antivirus tools |
| 1/8/2005 |
VNUNet: Microsoft has unveiled two newly developed tools designed to combat spyware and viruses, both acquired as a result of takeovers.
The first beta of Windows AntiSpyware is now available for download from Microsoft's website here. It is built using software designed by spyware company Giant, which Microsoft acquired in December last year.
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Top 3G players to build Super 3G standard |
| 1/3/2005 |
Asian, U.S. and European mobile phone operators and telecommunication manufacturers have agreed to work on a unified standard for a super fast mobile transmission technology, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Friday.
NTT DoCoMo, says 26 operators and manufacturers have agreed to develop a new standard for mobile phones that will be called Super 3G
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TOLL EXPECTED TO TOP 100,000 |
| 12/30/2004 |
Cargo planes carrying water purifiers, doctors and medicine touched down yesterday as thousands of bodies were found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, bringing the death toll from the killer Asian tsunamis to more than 80,000.
And as the first signs of communicable disease were reported in Sri Lanka, the International Red Cross warned the toll could easily surpass 100,000.
Thousands were missing and hundreds of thousands
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Oracle takes control of PeopleSoft |
| 12/30/2004 |
The news that Oracle has formerly taken control of PeopleSoft and that David Duffield has resigned as PeopleSoft's CEO comes as no surprise.
Larry Ellison, Oracle's mercurial CEO, says the obvious in announcing on Oracle's Web site that PeopleSoft stockholders had tendered approximately 75 percent of PeopleSoft outstanding stock, giving Oracle control of the company.
"The combination of these two companies |
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'Worst' Quakes in the World |
| 12/26/2004 |
The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Indonesia today was the world’s fifth most powerful since 1900 and the strongest since a 9.2 quake slammed Alaska 40 years ago, US earthquake experts said.
The globe’s most potent quake since 1900 struck with a 9.5 magnitude in Chile in 1960. The quake in Prince William Sound Alaska occurred in 1964, the US Geological Survey’s Web site said.
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Tidal Waves Kill More Than 3,000 in Asia |
| 12/26/2004 |
The world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into villages and seaside resorts across Asia on Sunday, killing more than 3,000 people in five countries.
Tourists, fishermen, homes and cars were swept away by walls of water up to 20 feet high unleashed by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake, centered off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Sri Lanka's prime minister said 1,500 people were killed
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400-Meter Asteroid May Hit Earth on 13 April, 2029 |
| 12/25/2004 |
A recently rediscovered 400-meter Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) is predicted to pass near the Earth on 13 April 2029. The flyby distance is uncertain and an Earth impact cannot yet be ruled out. The odds of impact, presently around 1 in 300, are unusual enough to merit special monitoring by astronomers, but |
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Opera 8.0 Beta Launched |
| 12/25/2004 |
With more and more users opting for "alternate browsers", Firefox and Opera have been getting a fair deal of attention. Firefox 1.0 has already been downloaded 10 million times since its release in November. Now Opera has released the much awaited beta version of its next browser for the Windows platform.
Opera was in fact preparing for the 7.60 release, but according to Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, "as work progressed and we kept adding improvements and functionality, it became very evident that we now have a browser that is so powerful, secure, and easy to use that it exceeds the next logical version number and warrants a major release". |
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Opera 8 to Include Speech Commands |
| 12/25/2004 |
PHYSORG: Opera started out as a research project in Norway's telecom company, Telenor, in 1994, and branched out into an independent development company named Opera Software ASA in 1995. Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products.
"We were preparing for the 7.60 release, but as work progressed and we kept adding improvements and functionality, it became very evident that we now have a browser that is so powerful, secure, and easy to use that it exceeds the next logical version number and warrants a major release," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, and adds that all those who have licensed Opera 7 will, of course, receive free upgrades. |
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