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Wikipedia reaches 2008 donation target

Damien Reynolds — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:44:35 +0000

Wikimedia Foundation, the company behind the Wikipedia website, set themselves a target in 2008 for donations and announced today they reached it. Running a website like Wikipedia costs a lot of money and asking... Read more...

Facebook reaches 140 million users

Damien Reynolds — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:55:01 +0000

Facebook has recently hit a milestone when they reached 140 million signed up users. The statistics are quite astounding when you look at them, over 600 thousand users are signing up a day which has... Read more...

Yahoo Reaches Google Advertising Deal

tiddlie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:19:29 +0100

No sooner had the news that Microsoft and Yahoo! were no longer talking hit the web, the follow-up emerged. The much rumoured deal between Yahoo! and Google has been announced and sealed. Expanding on the... Read more...

Bidding reaches $18.55 Billion in U.S. Wireless Auction

Slimy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:29:22 +0000

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Bidding has reached $18.55 billion in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's record-setting auction of government-owned wireless airwaves, covering five separate blocks of spectrum in the auction. The FCC is keeping bidders' identities secret until the... Read more...

U.S. reaches Deal on Internet Gambling

Slimy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:18:19 +0000

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The United States has reached a deal with the European Union, Japan and Canada to keep its Internet gambling market closed to foreign companies, but is continuing talks with India, Antigua and Barbuda, Macau and... Read more...

Halo 3 Reaches $170 Million In First Day Sales

Spartan_X — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:34:27 +0100

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Microsoft has announced that its Halo 3 has sold an estimated $170 million in its first day, making it "the biggest entertainment launch in history," noting that it has now beat out opening day theatrical... Read more...

China's Blogging Population Reaches 20 Million

Slimy — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:55:45 +0000

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Over the course of the 2006 year, the Chinese online consumer market grew a whopping 47%, in comparison to 2005. Compared to 150 yuan in 2005, Chinese web surfers are spending an average of 170... Read more...

Mozilla: Firefox reaches 2 million downloads in 24 hours

Lee® — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:30:30 +0100

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Mozilla recently posted that just 24 hours after releasing Firefox 2.0 (reported by Neowin here) to the public on 24th October, 2 million people downloaded it - that is 30 downloads a second. To compare... Read more...

Mac OS X 10.4.8 Reaches Beta

MonkeyClaw — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:39:54 +0100

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Apple is working hard to deliver the next Mac OS X system update for Tiger. Developers report that an initial pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.4.8 has begun circulating. The release is described... Read more...

Email Viruses Reach New Low While Spam Reaches New High

Christopher Vendemio — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:04:20 +0100

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May of 2006 gave us not one, but two new email records. The first record may surprise you a bit. Emails containing malicious programs (viruses) reached an all time low, accounting for a minute 0.73%... Read more...

Firefox Reaches 100 Million Downloads

stncttr908 — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:03:46 +0100

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Mozilla Corp. announced yesterday that its Firefox browser had surpassed 100 million downloads since its release roughly one year ago. The company stated that the figures have exceeded expectations since the release last November.... Read more...

Opera Reaches One Million Downloads in Two Days

Rapier — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:20:45 +0100

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Twice the Speed and No Speedos: Opera Reaches One Million Downloads in Two Days More than one million people have downloaded the Opera browser in the two days since Opera announced it... Read more...

Firefox Reaches 75 Million Downloads

galoosh33 — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:19:43 +0100

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Other milestones are close to be reached aswell, as Mozilla's open-source mail client ThunderBird is nearing on its 10 millionth download, and Minimo, the browser for small devices had its first prerelease version with tabs,... Read more...

Windows Flaw Reaches Beyond XP

malebolgia — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:51:29 +0100

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A security flaw that could let an attacker remotely crash computers running Windows exists in several versions of the operating system, not just Windows XP. Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server... Read more...

McAfee Reaches Out to Linux

malebolgia — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:25:32 +0100

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Citing the rapid adoption of Linux in the enterprise, security software company McAfee Inc. is broadening the reach of its Entercept host intrusion prevention technology to the Linux platform. The company's Entercept for Linux release... Read more...

Ghost Recon 2 reaches new Summit

malebolgia — Thu, 26 May 2005 17:04:27 +0100

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Ubisoft announces Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike for Xbox; August release will include new missions, multiplayer maps, and weapons. Fresh off of being part of one of the center stage games for... Read more...

Microsoft Reaches Out to Open-Source Community

malebolgia — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:50:23 +0100

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Microsoft Corp. has extended an olive branch to the open-source community, calling for a sit-down to discuss how the software giant can better work with the open-source world. But don't expect to see an open-sourced... Read more...

PC Drive Reaches 500GB

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:15:49 +0100

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Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K500 drive marks several milestones in the storage industry: It's the first desktop hard drive to reach 500GB and one of the first to use the speedy new SATA II interface. In... Read more...

Abit reaches tentative agreement with creditor banks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:00:08 +0000

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Abit Computer has reached a tentative agreement with its creditor banks, allowing it to use its funds deposited at the banks as well as access to banks' credit lines available to the company, sources at... Read more...

Pentium 4 Reaches the Speed Limit

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:39:17 +0000

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As expected, Intel has introduced a 3.8GHz Pentium 4 processor in what could represent the end of an era for the chip maker. The Pentium 4 570 processor at 3.8GHz will have the fastest clock... Read more...