For three days from January 31 to February 2, the Locus 2006/07 technological festival at Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering in Lalitpur will be the center of attraction for techno savvy people with its lineup of various formal and informal technology-related events.( The Kathmandu Post )
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TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq:TIVO - news) said on Tuesday it will start to sell digital video recorders with dual tuners that allow users to record two television programs simultaneously. The new feature can help TiVo boxes( Reuters )
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Microsoft Corp. announced a shake-up Thursday of the unit that includes its flagship Windows operating system, two days after the company admitted it won't have its next consumer version of Windows ready for the holiday season as planned.( ALLISON LINN )
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) on Tuesday said it plans to boost shipments of its Xbox 360 video game console by "two to three times" this week to address shortages that have crimped game sales across the industry. ( Reuters )
China has moved to protect its fixed telephone line business by banning free Internet telephone services for at least two years, the Financial Times reports. Wang Leilei, chief executive of Chinese internet portal group Tom Online, which has a joint venture with Luxembourg-based telephony provider Skype, said China would not issue any licenses for computer-to-telephone calls until 2008.
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The finance section Google Inc. unveiled Tuesday continues a philosophical shift that's turning its once-pure Internet search engine into an all-purpose Web site that seems increasingly interested in getting people to stick around instead of sending them elsewhere. ( MICHAEL LIEDTKE )
Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index. The civil complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose by KinderStart.com, seeks to be ...( MICHAEL LIEDTKE )
A federal judge on Friday ordered Google Inc. to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine, but rebuffed the government's demand for a list of people's search requests — potentially sensitive information that the company had fought to protect. ( MICHAEL LIEDTKE )
As expected, hackers have found a way to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system on new Macintosh computers, winning an ad hoc contest and a ,854 cash prize to boot. Or, make that dual-boot — the way to make a computer switch between two operating systems. ( MAY WONG, AP Technology Writer )
