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NewsGator does have plans to push the recommendations feature out to its desktop clients, but there isn’t a timeline for that, yet.
Brian Kellner, NewsGator’s vice president of products, compared the process to more common Web-based ratings systems. “It takes attention from the client or online site, just like your rating on Amazon, but you’re [...]
What’s the fuss about? Electronic Arts imposed copyright protections that limited the number of times a user can install the game to three. EA has likened the system to the limits imposed on songs bought through Apple’s iTunes store (though in the case of iTunes, users can easily manage their libraries by specifying which computers [...]
The FBI on Wednesday arrested a Los Angeles-area blogger on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws after he allegedly streamed tracks of the unreleased Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy on his Web site.
The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 makes the sharing of pre-release copyright material a felony punishable by up to [...]
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Nightly Tester Tools can revitalize dead extensions…for a price.
Session Manager offers in-depth tools for saving and restoring sessions.
I wouldn’t recommend doing this unless you can’t find the same feature [...]
Google scans websites to identify sites that may be dangerous to users. When it finds such sites, Google issues warnings in the search results. This morning, they inadvertently added these warnings to nearly all websites, causing user confusion.
We maintain a list of such sites through both manual and automated methods. We work with a non-profit [...]
But the company now seems more serious about offering long-form videos more widely. During the Los Angeles Film Festival this week, YouTube began pitching independent directors about showcasing their work on the site, according to a story published Wednesday at the Web site of Fortune magazine.
YouTube has for a long time allowed several videographers with [...]
The verdict is still out on that one.
Getting the 3G service up and running in as many markets as possible is key to T-Mobile’s overall strategy. But even with the planned network expansion, T-Mobile will still be woefully behind its competitors when it comes to its 3G coverage.
And on Thursday T-Mobile said it would expand [...]
It’ll be officially announced on the Facebook developer blog.
The update doesn’t change much for the developer experience, so it’s unlikely to be a controversial move. The average Facebook application creator will probably appreciate having the stats available.
In part, the move is a way of helping developers transition to the newly redesigned Facebook profile pages, which [...]
For example, he said, somebody in charge of maintenance might have been directing Internet traffic to a particular group of servers, but selected the wrong group.
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“Amazon’s systems are very complex and on rare occasions, despite our best efforts, they may experience problems. We work to minimize any disruption and to get the site [...]
The technology industry has yet to settle on a definitive home-networking standard and powerline is just one of the competing ideas, along with Wi-Fi, DLNA, Bluetooth, and others, although Wi-Fi is the best established of the group.
The four are the largest members of what they are calling the HomeGrid Forum. The group says it [...]
