Scientists: Cosmic blob biggest thing in universe
An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe, scientists say.
Archive for July, 2006
There’s lots of instant messaging news today. Google isn’t letting the fact that it has less than 1% market share and only 44,000 people used its Google Talk client last month get it down. they’ve released three significant new features to the product - file transfers, voicemail and music status. Information on all of these features is here.
From Techcrunch
Google challenges SourceForge in open source project hosting
At an OPen Source conference, Google announced that it has launched an open source project hosting site that will rival SourceForge.net. The service has been given the unglamorous name Google Code Project Hosting.
Amazon planning ad-free video download service
Advertising Age is reporting that Amazon is close to launching an ad-free video download service, side-stepping Apple and Microsoft on the music front in hopes of snagging a chunk of the video market while the going’s still good. It seems they weren’t always so focused on video though, initially planning on a music service before deciding it wasn’t worth the effort to take on Apple’s mighty iTunes empire — Microsoft apparently disagrees. Exact details on Amazon’s proposed video service — currently dubbed Amazon Digital Video (or Amazon DV) — are understandably a bit sketchy, but it appears that it’ll let users either download individual movies / TV shows for a yet-to-be-determined price or subscribe to a Netflix-type rental model. More details should be emerging soon enough — if Ad Age is right, the service is gonna launch in mid-August.
Via Engadget
From Engadget
Now are they really bad or was it just pop culture?
Published July 24, 2006 Uncategorized 0 CommentsThe software firm will give away $40 billion
The Internet Is Your Next Hard Drive
New Web-based services don’t just store your data online — they keep it synchronized across your laptop, desktop, and mobile phone.
Dutch city of 175,000 people drops Microsoft Office for OpenOffice.org
This link is in German, but basically says that the Gronigen, the capital city of the Province by the same name, will save a net of 140,000 Euros by the move in the first year.
Microsoft Zune to Battle iTunes/iPod
Microsoft today confirmed the existence of a new portable music player and integrated service called Zune. Launch is scheduled for launch some time this year.
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