Court May Decide Next Week To Hear BCE Appeal
May 30, 2008
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is leading the attempt to privatize BCE, which is Canada’s largest telecom and the parent of Bell Canada.
Xerox Ink Expands Commercial Use Of Digital Printers
May 30, 2008
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The gel-like substance is expected to allow digital print on foil and plastic, both common materials in packaging.
“Idol” winner Cook scores digital hit with “Life”
May 30, 2008
Reuters - It’s the first time songs
performed on “American Idol” have been made available for
immediate download on iTunes — and the audience’s ability to
make an instant-gratification purchase has paid off handsomely
for winner David Cook.
FoneLink 2.0 Targeted At Apple Macintosh Users
May 30, 2008
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The syncing software has been overhauled to improve the speed, stability, and features for the latest Mac OS X operating system.
Measuring Web Site Performance From The Edge
May 30, 2008
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Gomez CTO Imad Mouline says Web 2.0 applications are pushing even simple retailers to provide the same level of richness as major Web players to maintain their brand presence.
iPhone market share at 19 percent in 1Q, IDC says
May 30, 2008
AP - Apple Inc.’s iPhone, a new model of which is widely expected this summer, took 19.2 percent of the U.S. market for “smart” phones in the first quarter of 2008, according to research firm IDC’s vendor survey.
FTC clears Icahn to purchase Yahoo shares
May 30, 2008
AP - Federal antitrust regulators have cleared activist billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s purchase of another $1.5 billion of shares of Internet company Yahoo Inc.
Android Innovations Make a Splash at Google I/O
May 30, 2008
NewsFactor - An Android demonstration took center stage this week at the Google I/O event in San Francisco attended by 2,900 developers. The latest version of the mobile platform was introduced amid nearly 100 in-depth technical sessions about Google’s developer products and general Web application development.
Satellite companies DISH and EchoStar sue TiVo
May 30, 2008
Reuters - DISH Network Corp and
EchoStar Corp said on Friday they had filed a lawsuit
against TiVo Inc and asked a Delaware court to find
that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent.
Microsoft Office Standard Challenged By India, Brazil, South Africa
May 30, 2008
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Members of a Brazilian technical committee said the process that led to OOXML’s ratification was flawed, in part because not all participants were given enough time to make their views heard.
