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“Icann said it had received 21 requests for IDNs in 11 different languages, including Chinese, Russian, Tamil and Thai.”
“five-cylinder, 2.5 litre turbo-charged engine and 340bhp”
“"All three are Arabic script domains, and will enable domain names written fully right-to-left," said Kim Davies of Icann in a blog post.”
“Microsoft will release three versions of its dominant Office software that users can access over the Web”
“Egypt's communication and information technology minister Tarek Kamal told the Associated Press that three Egyptian companies were the first to receive registrar licences for the '.masr' domain, written in Arabic.”
“Microsoft will also host one internet business version of Office at its own data centres”
“When Icann first announced its plans for non-Latin web names it said it was the "biggest change" to the net "since it was invented 40 years ago".”
“All three are Arabic script domains, and will enable domain names written fully right-to-left,”
“Tina Dam, told BBC News that this has been 'the most significant day' since the launch of the internet”
“ICANN first announced its plans for non-Latin web names it said it was the 'biggest change' to the net 'since it was invented 40 years ago'.”
“The Facebook features would be part of the finished Starcraft II when it goes on sale on 17 July.”
“Ushahidi was built amidst the post-election violence in Kenya in 2008 to document the trouble.”
“Ushahidi is a free, online mapping tool that can be used to collect and plot reports coming in from people via e-mail, SMS and Twitter.”
“The two firms announced the alliance - aimed at breaking the dominance of Blackberry - in August 2009.”
“The new software will initially run on Nokia E52 and E72 phones running the Symbian operating system.”
“Microsoft Communicator Mobile has previously been available for phones running Java.”
“The firms will offer phones running Microsoft Office later in the year.”
“It's a cover version of the Isley-Jasper-Isley version from 1985.”
“To date Google has scanned over 12 million books, both in-print and out-of-print, giving it a greater selection of material than either Apple or Amazon.”
“Google said it would make 'millions of books searchable via the web'.”
“The first devices to use the second generation of Atom processors should appear in the second half of 2010.”
“To cut power consumption the processing elements of the chips are separated into 19 power islands, each one of which effectively handles a separate task such as video decoding or audio playback.”
“The parsimonious power consumption suggests, he said, that a smartphone built around the Atom chips would get 10 days of standby power.”
“For the same full battery it could offer 48 hours of audio playback, five hours of 720p video or six hours of 3G calls.”
“This is about Intel's third attempt to do a reference design for phones.”
“They have a not very happy history going back over eight years or so,”
“it was only going to be the smaller chips due in 2011 that would allow them to produce small enough phones.”
“has won two People's Voice gongs for its news website and mobile site”
“It is the sixth year running that the BBC has won the People's award for its news site”
“The Webbys were set up in 1996”
“The 14th Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries”
“Winners will accept their awards with five-word speeches at a ceremony in New York in June”
“The Webbys were set up in 1996 and are predominantly voted on by a 750-member body of web experts”
“The FCC wants to boost net speeds from 4 megabits per second to 100Mbps”
“Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, now accounts for less than 60% of the market, down from 95% at its peak in 2003, according to new figures.”
“Latest statistics, from measurement firm NetApplications, show that IE has 59.9% of the market, with Firefox gaining on it, with 24.5%.”
“While third-place Google Chrome's 6.7% share of the market looks tiny by comparison it is rising sharply, up from just 1.7% this time last year.”
“In the UK, research firm Nielsen suggests that IE still commands 70% of the market, with Mozilla's Firefox on 18%. It does not include figures for Apple's Safari.”
“It still shows a downwards trend for IE, losing 6% of market share since last year.”
“Microsoft introduced browser choice to European Windows users in March.”
“This was the result of a ten-year dispute with the European Union over the fairness of IE being installed as the default browser on billions of computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system.”
“Now customers get the choice of 12 browsers.”
“And with the release of version 9 of Internet Explorer, the battle could really hot up.”
“That day it was showing more than 100 and I thought that was kind of interesting," said Mr Fletcher.”
“When I hung up my phone and looked at the screen, it showed that I had received and missed 40+ phone calls during that 30-minute conference call," he said.”
“"That day it was showing more than 100 and I thought that was kind of interesting," said Mr Fletcher.”
“At 0900GMT he watched as the counter flipped over to 450: more than Star Labs usually caught in a day.”
“By the end of the day it had caught more than 13,000.”
“"When I hung up my phone and looked at the screen, it showed that I had received and missed 40+ phone calls during that 30-minute conference call," he said.”
“Star Labs, which became MessageLabs soon after, now stops more than one million viruses every day.”
“"We were in a room with four programmers and a guy burst in shouting 'Don't open any e-mail from me!'"”
“In all about 45 million Windows PCs were thought to have been hit on 4-5 May.”
“now 90% of all e-mail sent is spam.”
“Updated hourly, on a busy night it stopped 40 or 50 pieces of malware.”
“Since 'gmail' is 50% fewer characters than 'googlemail' we estimate this name change will save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day,”
“Within a year of launching the free e-mail service in the UK, Gmail became Google Mail.”
“"Since 'gmail' is 50% fewer characters than 'googlemail' we estimate this name change will save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day," wrote software engineer Greg Bullock on Google's Gmail blog.”
“It added the drilling is estimated to take three months.”
“Smartphones could have their battery life extended by up to 20% by changing what type of memory they use.”
“Samsung said modules made of the memory material would roll off its production lines later in 2010.”
“At its mobile technology forum held in Taipei, Samsung announced plans to start producing PCM modules 512megabits (Mbit) in size.”
“These will be made to be compatible with traditional flash memory modules that have individual components only 40 nanometres wide.”
“Samsung lab tests suggest that the 512Mbit phase change memory can read and write data up to 10 times faster than some existing flash memory types.”
“Overall, said Samsung, phase change memory is about three times faster than existing flash memory.”
“The electronics giant said it eventually expects PCM to replace flash memory in many gadgets.”
“He said it was now "cumbersome" for developers who were forced to have "two workflows".”
“The Apple boss added that Flash fell short on security and was "the number one reason Macs crash".”
“He said Adobe expected to release Flash Player 10.1 on Google's Android operating system in May and then for it to be on general release in June.”
“Adobe's announcement followed a change to the terms and conditions of the licence that software developers must sign when writing code to run on Apple products.”
“He also pointed out that Flash fell short on security and was 'the number one reason Macs crash'.”
“In it he criticised Flash, saying it was not fit for an era of smartphones and touchscreen devices.”
“He described Flash as a closed system and said that it was bad for the smartphone era because it did not support multi-touch systems and helped drain battery power unnecessarily.”
“He also pointed out that there were now alternatives to Flash technology, particularly for web video.”
“He said Adobe has decided to shift its focus to get Flash working well on gadgets made by Google, RIM, Palm, Microsoft, Nokia and others.”
“The RepRap project was started in 2005 by Adrian Bowyer, who teaches mechanical engineering at Bath University.”
“the current version, called 'Mendel', can be built for around £350.”
“The project has inspired thousands of people around the world”
“the provisions of the 'Digital Modelling Bill' in ten years time.”
“The partnership between One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and the East African Community (EAC) aims to deliver 30 million laptops in the region by 2015.”
“OLPC has also announced a partnership with a UN agency which aims to deliver 500,000 machines in the Middle East.”
“It has been conducting trials with 1,500 machines in the region”
“Mr Keller said that there were currently around 1.6 million machines distributed around the world, with commitments for another 400,000.”
“Mr Keller said the country already had an order for 70,000 more and had shown the other countries in the area the benefit of technology in schools.”
“and has begun to distribute a further 2,100 to a school in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza strip.”
“He admitted the project had still not reached its 'tipping point', but said if the EAC was successful it may prove to be the decisive moment for the project. 'We want [these computers] to be as a fundamental as electricity,' he said.”
“Yahoo is one of the largest sites in the world with an audience of more than 200m, according to analysts Nielsen.”
“It competes with Google in the search market, but has only 17% of the US market, compared to Google's 65%, according to Comscore.”
“Yahoo has more than 70 websites and services, many of which are available in 20 languages around the world.”
“She described the site, which has more than 400 million users and has stated that its ambition is to be at the heart of the 'social web', as a 'frenemy'.”
“The firm currently has its mobile application on around 2,000 different handsets from various manufacturers.”
“Russian and Iranian officials have said the plant should be up and running in the next several months.”
“Technology supplies from Germany to Iran account for 80% of the volume of trade between the two countries”
“Russian and Iranian officials have said the plant should be up and running in the next several months”
“Gizmodo editor Jason Chen had computers and other equipment taken from his house after he paid $5,000 (£3,200) for the phone, which was found in a bar.”
“The prototype was left in a bar by Apple software engineer Gray Powell and details and pictures of it were subsequently published on the Gizmodo website.”
“The laptops, hard-drive and USB memory sticks that belong to Mr Chen are currently being held by the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (React), the state's high-tech crime taskforce that conducted the raid.”
“Its analysis of 240m web pages over 13 months showed that fake anti-virus programs accounted for 15% of all malicious software.”
“It discovered more than 11,000 web domains involved in its distribution of fake anti-virus.”
“More than half of the fake software - which predomianntly targets Windows machines - was delivered via adverts, Google said.”
“The study, which was presented at the Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats in California, analysed websites between January 2009 and February 2010.”
