Michael Bay: Microsoft Wants HD-DVD and Blu-Ray To Fail

Michael Bay: Microsoft Wants HD-DVD and Blu-Ray To FailMicrosoft wants both Next Gen HD DVD formats to fail, is the allegation that looks to be made by Michael Bay, the US film director & producer of many well known films such as Transformers; Armageddon; The Rock; Pearl Harbour and Bad Boys.
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Le Moteur Search: FranceTelecom Takes On Google

Le Moteur: FranceTelecom Take On Google SearchDo you remember back in the early Web days when everyone wanted to start their own search engine? You couldn’t move for people starting search engines, then Google hit and everyone – bar Microsoft, their huge cash pile and their Live search – backed away.

FranceTelecom have now launched their search engine, Le Moteur – The Engine, to any non-linguists.
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UK IT Usage Rivals Airlines In Carbon Emissions

UK IT Usage Rivals Airlines In Carbon EmissionsThere’s been many stories in the newspapers about how bad the aviation sector is at producing emissions harmful to the environment.

A survey carried about by Global Action Plan, an environmental charity, has indicated that the IT sector in the UK has a similar carbon footprint to the aviation industry. As the usage of computing rapidly expands, it’s impact could well be over that of the airlines.
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Firefox Claim 125 Million Users

Firefox Claim 125 Million UsersOpen-source Web browser, Firefox, has over 125 million users according to John Lilly, claims Mozilla’s Chief Operating Officer on his personal blog.

How do they come to this figure, beyond guessing? As part of its daily routine, Firefox checks back with the ‘Mother’ servers to ask if there’s been an update. It’s by counting these pings that they derive the numbers.

Firefox has gradually built up a following, in a world dominated by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Last time we covered it, in March this year, the research indicated that Firefox had around a 14% share. Lilly’s posting leads to the actual Firefox figure being more like 10.5%, based on their estimate of 1.2 billion Internet users worldwide.

John Lilly’s blog posting

EC Mobile Carbon Footprint App Launches

EC Mobile Carbon Footprint App LaunchesIt’s a good thing that we’re all becoming aware of the impact of our actions on the world as a whole. One of the problems is being able to know what the impact different types of actions make.

To that end, the European Commission (EC) has launched an application, mobGAS, that you run on your mobile phone to help you monitor your daily activities, and enable you to understand the impact of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide generated.
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Activision Blizzard: Vivendi Games And Activision To Merge

Activision Blizzard: Vivendi Games And Activision To MergeBig moves in the video game industry arose yesterday, as media giant Vivendi announced plans to take a controlling stake in Activision. They plan to call it Activision Blizzard.

The real strength to Vivendi’s hand is having Blizzard Entertainment in their small portfolio of game companies.
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