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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Facebook, the No. 2 online social networking site, on Tuesday said it would give away 10 million music samplers to Macintosh and PC users from the iTunes Music Store in a back-to-school promotion.
Several of the popular Web site’s users have been held up at gunpoint by individuals posing as buyers and sellers, according to a number of police departments.
read more from the San Francisco Chronicle
SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. said Friday it plans to release a new music and entertainment player and accompanying software under the “Zune” brand this year, in a belated attempt to challenge the dominance of Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod player.
Sometimes, you have to wonder whether Silicon Valley’s MBA elite paid attention when their professors lectured about why it’s a good idea to put customers first. Then again, maybe that was an elective course they skipped.
Case in point: the big goof not to embrace interoperability from the very start. All the public-relations palaver in the world can’t disguise what everyone who uses computers and software already knows–erecting unnecessary technology barriers has benefited only a handful of companies. As the tech business closes in on the 25th anniversary of the original PC from IBM in August, I find it incredible that the industry is still wrestling with this anachronism.
As swiftly as a speeding shot on goal, riffs on Zinedine Zidane’s infamous moment of soccer rage have invaded cyberspace. Though fans across the world are clearly divided on whether the French star deserves condemnation or sympathy for head-butting an Italian opponent in the World Cup final, the Web has been typically merciless.
AP – The House passed legislation Tuesday that would prevent gamblers from using credit cards to bet online and could block access to gambling Web sites.
VH1’s Best Week Ever more or less sums it up with Christian Finnegan and Nick Kroll’s spoof of the ad campaign.
Unidentified hackers stole info, passwords, and implanted backdoors to allow them to return. The Pentagon warned earlier this year that China’s army is emphasizing hacking as an offensive weapon.
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