CAN software expo on the Way

With an objective of promoting Nepali software and exploring markets for knowledge-based industry, the first national software expo began here at United World Trade Centre (UWTC) today. [...]

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Google rejects liability in $1 billion Viacom suit

Responding to Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement suit over video clips on YouTube, Google says it will not back off, declaring that the law is on its side.”We are not going to let this lawsuit distract us,” Michael Kwun, managing counsel for litigation at Google, told reporters Monday.
In its response to the lawsuit, filed Monday [...]

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Yahoo’s new ad campaign plays to users’ needs

NEW YORK — Yahoo, the Web brand that’s a distant No. 2 behind Google in search market share and search ad revenue, will try to click better with consumers with a new message: Be a better — (whatever you want to be).
“We’ll let our customers fill in the blank,” says Allen Olivo, vice president, global [...]

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Websense to Buy SurfControl

Two of the industry’s best-known end-user monitoring tool vendors — Websense and SurfControl — proposed a merger yesterday, putting an end to a storied rivalry and raising some questions about the future of the SurfControl line.
Websense (nasdaq: WBSN – [...]

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Microsoft adds streaming, services to Silverlight

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, said on Monday it plans to offer a streaming video service that stores and hosts video for its new Silverlight online media platform.
Silverlight, which is now available for download in a test version, is a rival to Adobe Systems Inc.’s dominant Flash player and a new application [...]

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Belgian newspapers return to Google

BRUSSELS, Belgium – Belgian French-language newspapers were back on Google on Thursday after agreeing that the search engine can link to their Web sites, the first signs of a thaw in a bitter copyright dispute.
But neither has so far settled on a key part of the dispute: the use of newspaper story links used on [...]

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