Blog Microsoft on Thursday took steps to avoid entanglement with a new version of the General Public License, the most widely used license in the free and open-source software domain. The Redmond, Wash.-based company long has objected to the GPL and generally prefers its secretive, proprietary software development practice. But a...

• Jul 07, 2007 02:22 AM
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Blog Europe's major consumer group BEUC said Wednesday that it feared Internet search engine Google Inc.'s takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumers' choice of Web content. Their plea to EU regulators comes after U.S. consumer privacy advocacy groups asked the U.S....

• Jul 07, 2007 02:19 AM
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Blog TCS Financial Solutions has successfully launched a unified European payments solution — TCS BaNCS Payments — using which clients can homogenously process multiple payment products, achieve consolidation of operations and IT infrastructure as well as dramatically improve client servicing and operational efficiency. The payments solution has also been honoured...

• Jul 07, 2007 02:09 AM
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Blog This branch will be Infosys’ first in Latin America for the development of software. The state Chief Executive made it clear that the city of Monterrey will soon come to be viewed as a strategic location for information technology and software worldwide. State Governor, José Natividad González Parás, announced the establishment of...

• Jul 07, 2007 02:06 AM
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Blog In today's competitive environment, many advertisers resort to using competitor trademark names as keywords in paid-search advertising. These trademark names appear in the search engine results pages for Google, Yahoo! and affiliates and partners when you buy Google AdWords or Overture Precision Match sponsored listings. Therefore, it's possible for...

• Jul 07, 2007 01:58 AM
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Blog Google Inc. still hopes to influence changes that Microsoft Corp. plans to make in Vista's desktop search function, even after the parties involved in Microsoft's 2002 antitrust settlement agreed to alterations to the search system. On Monday, in response to Microsoft's opposition to an earlier request, Google asked that the U.S....

• Jul 07, 2007 01:37 AM
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Blog San Francisco (InfoWorld) - Google has updated its Google Code Search site for finding publicly available source code, adding greater coverage and improvements in ranking and access. Launched in October 2006, Google Code Search enables developers to locate source code on the Web, searching through billions of lines of code. "Today...

• Jul 07, 2007 01:34 AM
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Blog Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a serious rival in the long-awaited Firefox 1.0 web browser, which has just been released. Few people get excited when some new software is released, especially when the program is not a game or a music or movie player. But the release of the first full version...

• Jun 13, 2007 10:44 PM
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Blog Google confirmed Tuesday that it is about to begin testing video identification software on its YouTube and Google Video sites to identify copyrighted videos that users have uploaded without the copyright holder's consent. Google has been using Audible Magic's audio fingerprinting technology to identify copyrighted music since the beginning of the...

• Jun 13, 2007 10:35 PM
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Blog It had all the appearances of a marketing stunt gone awry, the Internet industry’s version of a wily playground taunt that quickly escalated into a tense standoff, until the taunter — Google, in this case — blinked. Here’s what happened. As thousands of eBay’s largest sellers prepared to gather in Boston...

• Jun 13, 2007 10:26 PM
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