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Samsung: Tizen is the second-largest OS in the budget segment in India

Usama Jawad — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:24:01 +0000

At its Z3 launch event yesterday, Samsung claimed that its Tizen OS is the second-largest operating system in the budget segment in India, ahead of Microsoft's Windows Phone. Read more...

Google earning 10 million a day from click-through ads

Sam Symons — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:51:35 +0000

According to the lads at Tech Radar, Google's just today announced some rather admirable increases in profits; they've managed to pull in Â£900m in the second quarter of this year alone. Apparently, total revenues for... Read more...

Supreme Commander gets a second life on Impulse

Spencer Scott — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:47:37 +0000

Supreme Commander gets a new life with the announcement that Supreme Commander Gold is now available on Impulse. Supreme Commander Gold combines the awesome action of both Supreme Commander and Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.... Read more...

Second Life on its last life

Marcel Klum — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:51:41 +0000

Lynden Lab's Second Life virtual world was so popular that people were investing in virtual real estate and making significant sums of money off their investments. This was in the glory days last year and... 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...

Turkey Bans YouTube for Second Time

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:33:31 +0000

A Turkish court has again blocked access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube because of clips allegedly insulting the country's founding father; the first ban was also due to clips deemed disrespectful to Mustafa... Read more...

QuickTime hack allows Second Life currency theft

Steven Parker — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:10:26 +0000

Security researchers Dino Dai Zovi and Charlie Miller have found a way to exploit an unpatched QuickTime vulnerability to steal Linden Dollars from users in the Second Life virtual world. Dai Zovi (the hacker behind... Read more...

Mozilla scrambles to patch Firefox for second time this week

Steven Parker — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:59:16 +0000

Mozilla Corp. will probably release a Firefox update tomorrow to patch a bug in the just-released 2.0.0.10 version, according to the company's bug database. If so, it would mark the first time that Mozilla has... Read more...

IBM and Second Life to build 3D internet

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:12:47 +0000

IBM and Second Life creator Linden Lab have teamed up to further advance digital 3D worlds. The partnership seeks to accelerate the development of open standards to promote the creation of more digital 3D environments.... Read more...

Avatar-on-Avatar Legal Action in Second Life

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:55:05 +0000

We have a rather odd story this Saturday coming all the way from the idyllic digital shores of Second Life. Last Month entrepreneur Kevin Alderman, founder of Eros LLC, a company specializing in the manufacture... Read more...

Lufthansa takes a second shot at in-flight internet

Tom Warren — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:39:23 +0000

Lufthansa is planning to launch broadband internet connection services on its laung haul routes by early next year, a company spokesperson confirmed to vnunet.com. The airline is currently in the final stage of its request... Read more...

Windows Live hits second generation

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:05:07 +0000

Microsoft is adding photo sharing and Web-based hosted storage to Windows Live on Wednesday, though for now the services will be limited to a few thousand preselected testers.The first new service, Windows Live Photo Gallery... Read more...

XM service outage continues for second day

Tue, 22 May 2007 16:51:48 +0000

XM Satellite Radio is experiencing a second day of outages after software problems resulted in the loss of one of the network's four satellites. Company officials initially expected to correct the problem yesterday evening, but... Read more...

Child porn 'found in Second Life'

Tom Warren — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:53:15 +0000

Second Life is being investigated by German police following allegations that some members are trading child pornography in the online world. The investigation follows a report by a German TV news programme which uncovered... Read more...

Over Half of Second Life users come from Europe

Tue, 08 May 2007 23:09:05 +0000

Research firm comScore has found that throughout March, 61% of active Second Life residents were from Europe, compared to 19% from North America and 13% from Asia Pacific. Germany had the most Second Life residents,... Read more...

Apple releases second quarter results

Simon Andrews — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:09:21 +0000

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 second quarter ended March 31, 2007. The Company posted revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share. These... Read more...

Boffins unveil trillion calculations per second chip

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:52:25 +0000

US boffins have unveiled a prototype for a revolutionary new general-purpose processor which they claim has the potential to clock up trillions of calculations per second. The Tera-op Reliable Intelligently adaptive Processing System (Trips) was... 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...

HP files second patent lawsuit against Acer

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:18:13 +0000

Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest PC vendor, has filed another lawsuit against its fastest growing rival, Acer, as competition in the PC industry continues to heat up. The new suit alleges that Acer and a U.S.... Read more...

Asus Offers up Its Second Generation UMPC

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:20:16 +0000

Asus has decided it is time to replace the R2H, which the company launched last year with a price tag under $1,000 USD. The R2H features a 900MHz Celeron M ULV processor, 768MB of... Read more...

VMware Launches Second 'Fusion' Beta for Macs

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:34:45 +0000

The Palo Alto, California-based VMware has announced that Beta 2 of its free "Fusion" virtualization software for Macintosh desktops and laptops can now be downloaded from its Web site. VMware launched the original beta on... Read more...

Second Life avatars to speak

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:37:15 +0000

The animated avatars for members of the popular virtual world Second Life are about to get more realistic. Massachusetts-based Vivox said that its technology will enable the three-dimensional avatars representing people in Second Life to... Read more...

Second Google Desktop attack reported

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:16:14 +0000

Google's PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS pinning that could give an attacker access to any data indexed by Google Desktop, security researchers said this week.... 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...

AOL to open up shop in Second Life

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:39:40 +0000

Second Life, the popular three-dimensional virtual world, seems to be becoming an attractive option for many owners wanting to advertise their companies. AOL's Second Life section, dubbed AOL Pointe, will be available for beta testing... 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...

Mazatech releases the second AmanithVG technology preview.

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:28:43 +0000

AmanithVG is a crossplatform implementation of OpenVG, the new API for hardware accelerated 2D vector and raster graphics. Differently from any other OpenVG implementation, AmanithVG is entirely built on top of OpenGL (from 1.1 to... Read more...

Microsoft hit with second lawsuit over WGA

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:42:58 +0000

Microsoft has been hit with a second lawsuit over Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), its antipiracy program that checks if the Windows operating system on a machine has a valid license. The class-action suit was... Read more...

Sun Brews Second Desktop Java Beta

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:32:29 +0000

Sun Microsystems has released a Beta 2 version of its Java Standard Edition 6, formerly known under the codename Project Mustang. Java SE 6 is the runtime environment that allows Java applications to run on... Read more...

The second coming of Intel's Core Duo

Mon, 08 May 2006 01:14:00 +0000

Intel has decided to borrow the sequential naming scheme it used for its famous Pentium brand and apply it to the new Core line of chips. Earlier this year, Intel released the Core Duo processor,... Read more...

Microsoft To Ship Longhorn Server In Second Half Of 2007

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:20:28 +0000

The next Longhorn server beta is due "shortly" but the final product won't ship until the second half of 2007. During his keynote at the Microsoft Management Summit 2006, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of... Read more...

Episode 28: Microsoft vs. the EU, Second Life and More!

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:59:38 +0000

This week Kristin, Derek and Brad discuss Microsoft's ongoing embroilment with the European Union over monopolistic practices, and the Senate considers the fairness of the way the Internet is currently run, i.e.,... Read more...

Microsoft Readies Second Anti-Spyware Beta

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:07:54 +0000

Windows Defender Beta 2 will add support for Outlook, a new interface, and automated updates to the spyware definitions and scanning engine. Where Beta 1 has been available only for Windows XP, Beta 2 will... Read more...

Second Metafile Vulnerability Found in Windows

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:41:40 +0000

Round two begins for Microsoft, as they are faced with yet another WMF vulnerability. A hacker who goes by the name "concoruder" posted his two newly discovered WMF vulnerabilities on Monday, on the popular security... Read more...

AOL Releases Second AIM 'Triton' Beta

Fri, 27 May 2005 13:11:12 +0000

The second installment of Triton, the next generation of AOL Instant Messenger, has left AOL's beta sandbox. As first reported by BetaNews, Triton is a replacement for the existing AIM 5.9 series client... Read more...

Lexmark suffers second knock back in DMCA case

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:24:00 +0000

A federal appeals court has denied Lexmark's request to consider reimposing an injunction against a firm that makes components that allow generic replacement ink cartridges to work in Lexmark printers. The ruling by the US... Read more...

Second Key Mozilla Developer Joins Google

Tom Warren — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:57:37 +0000

Another key Mozilla Developer, Darin Fisher, announced today that he has joined Google inc. Ben Goodger, on Monday, announced that he had joined Google Inc but pledged to continue work on the... Read more...

Second Halo 2 update expands matchmaking

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 02:38:33 +0000

Bungie lives up to its promises of regular updates, adding Team Slayer and Rumble Training to matchmaking. Call it Halo 2.2. Bungie's second major Halo 2 update was announced by the company... Read more...

Microsoft's Second Mistake: Boring Upgrades

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:48:55 +0000

When was the last time Microsoft released an upgrade that got you really excited? An upgrade you wanted because it did something new that you actually needed done? I'm not talking about a security fix... Read more...

House Passes Second Anti-Spyware Bill

Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:06:39 +0000

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously passed a second bill targeting perpetrators of computer "spyware" that hides in users' computers and monitors their activities. The House voted 415 to 0 to stiffen jail... Read more...