Google announced on Tuesday that it has launched a free music search service in China that will give users access to free downloads of licensed songs.
Google said its service would let users search tens of thousands of Chinese songs by singer or song title on its Web site, then download them from partner Top100.cn, a [...]
“Oracle understands that enterprises would like the flexibility of choosing to run their enterprise systems in either private or public clouds, but in order to do that, cloud computing needs to be highly efficient, secure and standards based,” Robert Shimp, Oracle’s technology business unit group vice president, said in a statement.
The technology giants announced Wednesday [...]
From deep inside TechCrunch50… Although there are 50 companies presenting on stage, even the companies that didn’t qualify for stage time get attention at the event. I explored the demo pit yesterday, where the runners-up pitch to the passers-by.
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Nehalem can deliver greater performance at the same power consumption level of the Core 2 architecture, Intel says.
Current high-profile netbooks include the Asus Eee PC
and Acer Aspire.
An Intel IDF blurb that describes the technological highlights of Nehalem also states that chips will have “dramatic new energy efficiency gains when workloads are scaled back.” Intel [...]
In keeping with Apple’s long-standing retail pricing policy, Best Buy’s iPhone prices will mirror those at Apple and AT&T: $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model. Best Buy customers will also still have to sign a two-year contract with AT&T.
Best Buy will begin selling the iPhone 3G in September.
The new distribution [...]
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It wasn’t the world’s worst-kept secret but [...]
“Over the last 20 years, the flood of physical counterfeit projects and the scale of digital theft (have) gone off the chart,” he said. “What drives (the U.S. economy are) precisely technical invention, innovation, and creativity–if we don’t protect that, we dramatically undermine our economic future.”
The bill was stripped of a controversial measure that would [...]
Here at the CTIA Wireless conference in San Francisco, Quickoffice, historically a mobile documents viewer for Nokia phones, is showing off demos for four new
iPhone and
iPod Touch apps aimed at Apple’s contingent of MobileMe users.
The first, called MobileFiles, will let you view e-mail attachments, including Google and Box.net documents from your iPhone, something that iPhones [...]
“Curriculum standards aren’t written around having a computer” as part of the teaching process, said Jeanette Hammock, chief technology officer for True North Logic, which trains teachers on how to use technology in academically rewarding ways. There’s a lot of pressure on teachers these days to follow lesson plans aimed at standardized tests, and [...]
According to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal, Dell is considering re-entering the MP3 player market later this year. This time, the company is considering building its own software based on technology it gained in its acquisition of Zing, as well as a modified version of somebody else’s subscription music service, most likely Rhapsody’s.
This [...]
