Beset by performance issues, Microsoft has decided to extend the beta testing period for its upcoming Visual Studio 2010 software development platform and will postpone the planned March 22, 2010, launch date by a few weeks, a Microsoft executive said in a blog on Thursday.
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Computer hackers blocked Twitter.com on Thursday, redirecting its users to a website where a group calling itself “Iranian Cyber Army” claimed responsibility for the disruption.
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A picture of an experimental Android handset given out to Google employees had blogs buzzing over the weekend amid signs that the company could offer a Google-branded smartphone next year.
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Google announced the addition of three new Web Elements to its Google Web Elements mechanism which allows easy embedding Google products onto a Web site according to the Google Code Blog.
Translate element which enables visitors to automatically translate web pages
Reader element which embeds the headlines from recent shared items on Google Reader
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PC Magazine – On Monday, Google announced real-time search results from Twitter. And now, according to a Yahoo! Search blog entry that will be posted later today by team members Ivan Davtchev and Shiv Ramamurthi, Yahoo will show relevant tweets of popular, “buzzing” topics in the results page.
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Technorati Japan, a localized service of the blog search and ranking service, will close down on Oct. 23, it said Wednesday.
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A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country’s communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize.
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A Taiwanese woman’s ambition to kiss 100 men in Paris has become an overnight web sensation after she provided details of the quest on her much-visited blog.
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According to Nielsen, americans have been devoting 17 percent of all their Internet time to social networks like Facebook and blogging Web sites like Blogger.
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