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Facebook opens up to OpenID

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:17:27 +0000

Facebook has stepped forward and joined OpenID with a growing number of popular web sites that have recently joined OpenID. Up till now, Facebook has only allowed third-party developers to access user's data strictly... Read more...

Hackintosh store opens in Europe

Brad Sams — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:34:16 +0000

When Apple made the switch to Intel processors it opened up its software to potential piracy to non Apple branded machine. Fast forward to today and PearC has opened a store in Germany that... Read more...

CES Chairman Opens 2009 CES

Neowin Staff — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:40:03 +0000

Office Opens Up

Wed, 21 May 2008 18:34:02 +0000

Microsoft has just announced plans to add new file formats to Microsoft Office 2007. The formats include ODF, PDF, and XPS. These new formats will come in the form of a Service Pack,... Read more...

Wireless Auction Opens with $2.4 Billion in Top Bids

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:41:17 +0000

Top bidders put up a total of more than $2.4 billion on Thursday in the opening round of the Federal Communications Commission's auction of coveted U.S. government-owned airwaves. The figure represents the highest bids received... Read more...

Dell Opens Second European Plant in Poland

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:10:12 +0000

Thanks to the Dell's decision to open the company's newest and most advanced manufacturing facility in Poland, Dell production and personalization capabilities will now be closer to increasing numbers of consumers and businesses in Central... Read more...

EU opens Microsoft Investigation (again), Thanks to Opera

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:09:25 +0000

After Opera’s complaint and after the European Committee for Interoperable Systems announced Microsoft did not disclose enough interoperability information for a range of its products, the European Commission has opened a new antitrust probe against... Read more...

NY School Opens Lab for Serious Games

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:22:48 +0000

A new research lab at the prestigious Parsons design school aims to develop video games with a conscience - called "serious games" - and study whether playing them can be a force for social good.... Read more...

Facebook opens platform to other social networks

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:25:45 +0000

Online social network site Facebook has opened up its developer platform to other social networking sites, with rival site Bebo the first major rival to implement the platform. The move comes in response to criticism... Read more...

YouTube Opens its Ad Program to Amateurs

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:28:20 +0000

Google's YouTube said two days ago that it would expand its pilot advertising program to a select number of amateurs, giving more users a shot to make money from their homemade videos. YouTube said it... Read more...

Man opens Eee PC, adds internal USB ports

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:00:06 +0000

Want to boost the storage capacity of your Eee PC in a cheap and - more to the point - upgradeable way? Want to add Bluetooth while you're at it? Then follow the lead of... Read more...

Microsoft Officially Opens @live.com Email Registration

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:45:43 +0000

Microsoft has officially opened the much anticipated and well overdue registration for the new @live.com email addresses. This minor update along with the rest of wave 2 of Microsoft's Windows Live Suite allows users to... Read more...

MySpace opens up to developers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:08:45 +0000

MySpace will open up to third party developers within the next few months. Facebook opened up its APIs in May this year and has been rewarded with a flood of applications written by third parties... Read more...

Red Hat Opens Portal For Linux Partners

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:54:57 +0000

As part of its broader effort to refashion itself into a channel-driven company, Red Hat plans to go live this week with a new partner portal Web site, the Red Hat Partner Center. The site... Read more...

EU Opens In-Depth Probe of IBM's Telelogic Buy

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:24:24 +0000

The European Commission announced today that it had opened an in-depth investigation of plans by IBM to buy Swedish business software company Telelogic AB for about 5.2 billion crowns ($798.6 million). The proposed transaction raises... Read more...

AMD opens door to ATI Linux drivers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:26:23 +0000

AMD's ATI division is reversing its open source strategy by offering better open source drivers. The graphics chips maker has traditionally demonstrated a poor performance in allowing open source drivers. Dell, for instance, made a... Read more...

Facebook Opens Profiles to Public

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:06:18 +0000

Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates. The function will initially allow anyone who is not registered with the site to... Read more...

Google opens click-fraud Web site

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:07:35 +0000

Google has launched the Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center, an online "resource center" concerning click fraud, which many consider a potential threat to the search giant's main source of revenue: Pay-per-click advertising. In the pay-per-click... Read more...

Yahoo Opens Panama Search Advertising Platform to Developers

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:34:14 +0000

Yahoo has announced that its Panama search advertising platform is open to third-party developers via the new Yahoo Search Marketing Commercial API Program, giving businesses and individual developers access to a series of application program... Read more...

IBM Opens Market Doors for Partners

Mon, 07 May 2007 01:27:43 +0000

IBM Corp. is helping shepherd increasing numbers of local software companies onto the global stage as they move outside of the comfort zone of their home markets. As well as software vendors looking to grow... Read more...

With XPS as PDF killer, Microsoft opens second front...

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:37:08 +0000

Silverlight, the rich media technology that Microsoft Corp. trotted out last week, isn't Redmond's only attack on Adobe Systems Inc.'s multimedia dominance. In addition to Silverlight, touted as a potential Flash-killer, Microsoft is quietly putting... Read more...

Yahoo opens up e-mail APIs to outsiders

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:31:45 +0000

Yahoo on Wednesday is expected to release software that will allow third-party developers to write applications using Yahoo Mail. The move to open up the application programming interfaces (APIs) to Yahoo Mail is meant to... Read more...

Mozilla: Firefox 3.0 opens door to Web apps

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:21:24 +0000

Firefox 3.0, the open-source browser which is slated for release in the second half of 2007, will include many new features, including offline support for Web applications and new bookmark and search features. While the... Read more...

BitTorrent Opens Legal Movie & TV Show Online Store

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:07:03 +0000

BitTorrent has launched the BitTorrent Entertainment Network, featuring a comprehensive library of digital entertainment content available for free, for rent and for purchase from 20th Century Fox, Lions Gate, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros.... Read more...

Sweden opens diplomatic relations with Second Life

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:53:34 +0000

Sweden is hoping to increase the country's profile by establishing an officially sanctioned embassy in the Second Life virtual online world. A digitally created building will be based on Sweden's actual embassy in Washington and... Read more...

Sun opens Java

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:45:43 +0000

Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has released the source code to its widely used Java programming language. Analysts see the move as one that should widen the reach of the already-prevalent language. The... Read more...

Reuters opens a news bureau in Second Life

Todd Tanner — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:39:49 +0000

Joining CNET News, Reuters has now opened a new news bureau inside Linden Lab's "parallel world" game Second Life. The story here is that Reuters will now bring their own news, photos, and video news... Read more...

'DVD Jon' Opens Up Apple's FairPlay

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:39:13 +0000

The infamous DRM hacker "DVD John", known by his friends and family as Jon Johansen, has successfully reverse engineered Apple's FairPlay digital rights management technology. However, Johansen is taking a different approach this time. He... Read more...

Amazon Opens Video Download Store

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:39:58 +0000

Amazon.com unveiled the Unbox Video Store yesterday, a direct rival to Apple's iTunes 24-7 video store, which allows U.S. users to buy or rent TV shows, movies, and other video content from the Internet. Amazon... Read more...

Yahoo Opens Hack Day to Developers

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:24:42 +0000

We've opened up Yahoo! from the inside out with our world-renowned Hack Day, and from the outside in through the Yahoo! Developer Network. Now we're opening up Yahoo! itself to a select group of hackers... Read more...

Microsoft Patch Opens Users to Attack

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:13:33 +0000

Microsoft is rushing to fix a flaw introduced by the company's latest security update to Internet Explorer--a flaw that opens Windows users to attack, a security firm said on Tuesday. The flaw, initially thought to... Read more...

Registration opens for 2006 London Games Summit

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:45:14 +0000

Industry leaders from around the world are set to gather in London in early October this year to discuss the future of the market at the London Games Summit. The Summit, which will run on... Read more...

Ubisoft Opens Production Studio in Bulgaria

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:35:58 +0000

Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced the opening of a new studio in Sofia, Bulgaria. Alexandru-Ion Radu, recently named director of recruitment and training at Ubisoft's Romania studio, has been appointed... Read more...

Codeplex opens its doors to Developers

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:41:44 +0000

Thanks CoolCatBad for the heads up on this new developer site from Microsoft. CodePlex is an online software development environment for open and shared source developers to create, host and manage projects throughout the project... Read more...

Splinter Cell Double Agent Website Opens

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:10:59 +0000

Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, today announced the launch of the official Web site for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent. Available at https://www.splintercell.com – the only place to get your... Read more...

EU Domain Registration Opens Today

Joe Cashman — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:04:19 +0000

The new .eu domain opens to the public today, after four months of being available to businesses during a 'sunrise' period. Those of us based in the EU can take advantage of the new domain,... Read more...

Sun Opens Niagara Chip Design to the World

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:10:01 +0000

Sun Microsystems today complemented the release of two new serverswith some potentially significant changes to its processor architecturelicensing policy and the way in which Oracle will price its databasefor the fresh gear. We covered... Read more...

Google Opens Up Library Doors

Joe Cashman — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:30:00 +0000

Google have opened up the library doors to their beta "Google Print" service. Whilst questions still remain as to how Google will tackle the topic of copyrighted material it seems as though they have at... Read more...

iTunes Australia Music Store Opens its Doors

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:24:20 +0000

This morning, Apple finally cut the ribbon on it's Australian iTunes Music Store, years after the service first launched overseas. Up until now, all iPod users have technically been breaking the law by... Read more...

AMD Opens Chip Foundry, Delays 65nm Chips

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:27:41 +0000

AMD opened its new chip making foundry, Fab 36, in Dresden, Germany yesterday with much fanfare. The new facility is intended to be a centerpiece of the company's growth and expansion. The foundry... Read more...