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  • Birst offers concurrent user pricing for BI

    On-demand BI vendor Birst announced Tuesday that it is now offering the option of concurrent user pricing, a licensing model few BI providers use because it can limit the amount of money they make compared to typical "named user" pricing.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus21 July 10 04:09
  • Facebook user satisfaction 'abysmal'

    While Facebook is expected to announce this week that it's grabbed its 500 millionth user, a new study shows that not everyone is so happy with the social networking site.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin20 July 10 20:11
  • Foursquare registers 100 millionth check-in

    Foursquare, the location-based social-networking service, registered its 100 millionth "check-in" on Monday evening, the company said Tuesday.

    Written by Martyn Williams21 July 10 09:20
  • Bomb-making tips tied to blog shut-down

    The Internet has been abuzz with rumors and conjecture about why blogging Web site Blogetery.com and its reported 70,000 bloggers went dark last week.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin21 July 10 08:56
  • Google revamps its photo search engine

    Google has given a major overhaul to the layout of its Images search engine's results page and introduced a new advertising format specific for this service.

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez21 July 10 04:37
  • Wikileaks turns submissions engine back on

    Wikileaks has turned back on its system that allows whistleblowers to securely submit documents to the site after it was down for maintenance, according to the organization's blog.

    Written by Jeremy Kirk21 July 10 04:35
  • Oracle announces service bus for SOA

    Oracle announced this week Oracle Service Bus 11g, an enterprise service bus providing integration services in SOA environments and featuring improvements around caching and service governance.

    Written by Paul Krill21 July 10 07:08
  • Twitter's tech problems take a toll on developers

    The recurrent technical problems that have affected Twitter for the past seven weeks have also taken a toll on developers of external applications built for the microblogging service.

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez21 July 10 08:01
  • Disagreements on transparency fail to stop ACTA treaty leak

    Disagreements between the European Union and the US over whether to release the current negotiating text of a secretive international copyright treaty became moot this week, with the publication on a French website of a leaked version of the latest draft of the treaty.

    Written by Peter Sayer17 July 10 01:56
  • Google making strides in emerging businesses

    Google's second-quarter financial report last week provided further signs that, after years of trying, Google may finally be seeing material results from emerging businesses that could help it diversify from search advertising, which still generates most of its revenue.

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez20 July 10 09:27
  • Crash course: HTML 5 video

    If you want to watch Internet-delivered video on your PC, the vast majority of Web sites have settled on a single, consistent way to do that. That's the good news. The bad news is that this single, consistent delivery system is Adobe Flash, with all its security and stability issues.

    Written by Serdar Yegulalp20 July 10 03:38
  • Google buys Metaweb, chases more complicated search

    Google on Friday said it acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains a database of information that it offers to website operators wishing to aggregate content about specific topics on their sites.

    Written by Nancy Gohring19 July 10 06:16
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