Amazon.com to launch digital music store (AP)

Yahoo! News: Technology News - May 16, '07 4:51pm

AP - Amazon.com plans to open an online music store offering only songs that are free of copy-protection technology and can be played on anything from PCs to portable gadgets such as Apple's iPod or Microsoft's Zune.

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Sun Responds to Microsoft's Patent Claims (NewsFactor)

Yahoo! News: Technology News - May 16, '07 11:22am

NewsFactor - Microsoft is targeting Sun Microsystems for patent violations in its open-source software, claiming OpenOffice.org breaches 45 of its patents. Sun wasted no time in responding to the claims coming out of Redmond.

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Symantec sues eight companies over software piracy (Reuters)

Yahoo! News: Technology News - May 16, '07 10:02am

Reuters - Symantec Corp. , maker of the Norton Antivirus software, said on Wednesday it has sued eight companies it accuses of illegally copying its computer security software, seeking more than $55 million in damages.

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Skype for Mac 2.6 released today: new features abound

ZDNet Blogs by Russell Shaw - May 16, '07 9:51am

Skype today rolls out Skype for Mac 2.6. There's even a feature exclusive for Mac users (i.e. not available yet in Windows versions). This is a call-transfer feature that can transfer an ongoing call to another Skype user on user's contact lists. It works via More > Call Transfer. Other new features in Skype for Mac 2.6 have previously been available only on other platforms. These include: The ability to join public chats; A chat typing indicator that lets Skype chatters see when others are writing a message; Skype Prime: call a premium-service provider and pay for their advice and knowledge with Skype credit; Automatic updates where Skype users can get new features and updates without having to visit...

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Open Thread: Where do you Bookmark?

Web Worker Daily by Anne Zelenka - May 16, '07 8:52am

Bookmarking widget supplier Add This! has launched a trends page showing what services we use to store and share links of interest. Using data aggregated over all their widget accounts, they can make a guess at overall bookmarking trends and market share. The Add This blog discusses current trends shown in the charts below. As seen [...]

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The State of Open Source Business

InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers - May 16, '07 9:34am

Cost is driving users to open source, but there are still concerns about interoperability and support.

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ThoughtWorks launches CruiseControl Enterprise

InfoQ Personalized Feed for Unregistered User - Registered to upgrade! - May 16, '07 7:40am

ThoughtWorks has launched a CruiseControl Enterprise project to enhance and support CruiseControl. InfoQ speaks with Paul Julius, Product Manager of CruiseControl Enterprise about the new features and the relationship between CruiseControl Enterprise and the open-source distribution.

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[AJAX Magazine] Wordpress 2.2 Released and Switched To jQuery

PHP Magazine - May 16, '07 4:12am

Today released Wordpress 2.2 with many exciting new features including integration of WordPress Widgets in the core, full Atom support, a new Blogger importer, and AJAX-based comments editor. There are some improvements when installing new plugins, now the system will make the necessary checks to ensure that the new plugin will not break your blog so you can install with confidence.

The news in Wordpress code is that it is now switching all Javascript from prototype to jQuery and the team still need volunteers to finish the transition for all the admin page. The decision goes back to December 28, 2006 when Matt posted critical look at Prototype Js. In that time it was about switching to Mootools, jQuery, or Dojo for WP 2.1, but it have been a little delayed to WP 2.2. Wordpress is now stick to jQuery for the next releases.

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Yahoo upgrades online mapping service (AP)

Yahoo! News: Technology News - May 16, '07 7:37am

AP - Yahoo Inc.'s online mapping service in the United States will begin giving driving directions in 34 European countries Wednesday as part of an upgrade aimed at luring traffic away from rivals AOL and Google Inc.

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N.Y. attorney general accuses Dell of fraud

CNET News.com - May 16, '07 12:45am

Suit accuses Dell of fraud, false advertising and deceptive business practices.

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