News: Software & Web

• Five Reasons the Google Chrome OS will Flop
  Tony Bradley
  Nov 20 2009

  Yesterday Google hosted a press event at its Mountain View campus to reveal a first glimpse at the Chrome OS. The excitement around the operating system has led to rampant rumors and speculation, ...

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• Five Reasons Google Chrome OS will Succeed
  Jared Newman
  Nov 20 2009

  Google's Chrome OS doesn't signal the apocalypse for Apple and Microsoft, but that doesn't mean the operating system won't succeed when it arrives next year. Just like the Chrome Web browser, ...

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• Happiness on Facebook Cuts Canadian Woman's Health Care
  Brennon Slattery
  Nov 20 2009

  Facebook can be a dangerous beast. As social media evolves -- and the freedom of the Internet diminishes our self-censorship -- many have run into situations where Facebook has landed them in ...

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• Ballmer: Windows 7 Sales 'Fantastic'
  David Coursey
  Nov 20 2009

  Excitable Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer actually had something to be excited about at yesterday's shareholder meeting, where he announced that Windows 7 sales are "fantastic." "Since launch, we've ...

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• Google Adds Captions to YouTube Search
  Jacqueline Emigh
  Nov 20 2009

  In a step to make YouTube videos more accessible to deaf people as well as to anyone else searching for videos online, Google has launched an automatic video captioning service. Captioned videos are ...

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• FCC: Internet program for deaf cheated out of millions
  Michael Cooney
  Nov 20 2009

  In court the Federal Communications Commission has charged 26 people with defrauding the agency of “tens of millions of dollars” from its program that lets people with hearing disabilities to ...

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• Open-source virtualization: Who's biting?
  Nicole Lewis
  Nov 20 2009

  Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open-source software has been on the IT radar for a while now. So does that make open-source virtualization twice as ...

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• Free Web apps to help organize your holidays
  Sharon Machlis
  Nov 20 2009

  It's That Time of Year again, and even if you don't celebrate The Holidays, chances are you have other people in your life who do. There's so much to get done as the end of year approaches, it can ...

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• Open-source CloudMade takes on Google Maps
  Mark Hattersley
  Nov 20 2009

  CloudMade is gearing up to release a set of tools that will enable people to quickly and easily contribute to the OpenStreetMap project.At the same time the company is looking to create a developer ...

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• Techies gather for a lunch to save the world
  Stephen Lawson
  Nov 20 2009

  The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with unfinished white walls overlooking a ...

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