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Can Microsoft retail succeed where others have failed?
ZDNet Asia By Charles Cooper, CNET News.com commentary Did Microsoft just serve up more fodder for the wits who direct Apple's lacerating series of Mac versus PC commercials? Microsoft should hook up with The Source by Circuit City IT World Canada Blogs Microsoft Retail Strategy Doomed to Fail DaniWeb PC World all 6 news articles |
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SoundExchange settlement for small webcasters
p2pnet.net p2pnet news view | Radio:- Obviously overtaxed by actually talking to the NAB, SoundExchange fell back on its favored tactic of negotiating by press release last week by promoting a “settlement” with small webcasters that would extend the current rates … Why Web radio faces another crisis CNET News CNET: Webcasters, Music Industry Battling Over Royalties Digital Media Wire p2pnet.net all 4 news articles |
Glyn Moody writes “The February 2009 Netcraft survey is not the usual ‘Apache continues to trounce Microsoft IIS’ story: there’s a new entrant — from China. ‘This majority of this month’s growth is down to the appearance of 20 million Chinese sites served by QZHTTP. This web server is used by QQ to serve millions of Qzone sites beneath the qq.com domain.’ What exactly is this QZHTTP, and what does it all mean for the world of Web servers?”
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CNETNate writes “Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is ’30 times faster than IE7,’ and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include ‘Top Sites,’ which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, ‘Full History Search’ for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while.”
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Many readers noted an outage affecting Google’s gmail service last night. Firmafest points to a statement from Google, according to which only a small subset of users were affected. According to reader CaptHarlock, mail itself remained accessible through IMAP clients, and the chat feature via external applications. jw3 asks “Of course, gmail is just one of the many providers of web-based e-mails. When I look around, almost everyone seems to be using them nowadays. So — what do you do? Do you trust that the site of your web-based e-mail provider will never go down? Do you make backups of all your e-mails?” (Some readers still seem to be unable to reach the site, too.)
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Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard demonstrated the latest innovations in standards-based Web development technology during a presentation at the Southern California Linux Expo.
Apple today announced the public beta of Safari® 4, the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac® and Windows PCs. The Nitro engine in Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3.
CNETNate writes “Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is ’30 times faster than IE7,’ and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include ‘Top Sites,’ which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, ‘Full History Search’ for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while.”
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Many readers noted an outage affecting Google’s gmail service last night. Firmafest points to a statement from Google, according to which only a small subset of users were affected. According to reader CaptHarlock, mail itself remained accessible through IMAP clients, and the chat feature via external applications. jw3 asks “Of course, gmail is just one of the many providers of web-based e-mails. When I look around, almost everyone seems to be using them nowadays. So — what do you do? Do you trust that the site of your web-based e-mail provider will never go down? Do you make backups of all your e-mails?” (Some readers still seem to be unable to reach the site, too.)
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Glyn Moody writes “So the European Commission is going to require Microsoft to offer competitors’ browsers with Windows. ‘…Microsoft will be obliged to design Windows in a way that allows users “to choose which competing web browser(s) instead of, or in addition to, Internet Explorer they want to install and which one they want to have as default…” [Microsoft] now has until mid-March to respond to the Commission, and might also ask for a hearing. Brussels will not adopt a final decision until it has received Microsoft’s official reply.’ But having the option to install Firefox, say, is useless unless people know what it is. The implication is that we need some kind of campaign to ensure that people understand the choices they will have. How can open source best exploit this latest EU decision?”
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