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            <title>Amazon Will Sell DRM Free Warner Music</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Followers of Digital Rights Management (DRM)  restricted music may have suffered yet another blow into their cause when Warner Music announced that it would be making available digital music sans the DRM software through <a href="http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sv_m_7/103-3759283-8501465?ie=UTF8&node=163856011">Amazon's music store</a>. By unrestricting its music Warner is hereby embracing the widely popular MP3 format.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/technology/28music.html?th&emc=th">NYT</a> is reporting that Warner Music which has in its roster, musical talents such as Josh Groban and Matchbox Twenty, made a decision to drop the music anti-piracy restrictions four months after music industry's biggest player, Universal Music Group announced that it will be selling digital music without copyright restrictions.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:53:33 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Mozilla is Going Social, Wants to Weave the Web</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>As the Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data and personal information. </blockquote>

<p>And so says Mozilla's <a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/">rationale</a> behind the launching of Weave, a new Mozilla project which is aimed at deeper integration of Mozilla's Firefox browser with the desktop and the web. Specifically Weave will look at finding ways to enhance the Firefox user experience through increase control over personal information and provide new opportunities for developer to build innovative online experiences.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:39:52 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Pew Study Reports, Social Media Widely Used by Teens</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>A <a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/230/report_display.asp">study</a> by the Pew Internet and Americal Life Project revealed that social media are gaining a stronghold on teens life as more and more teens are using social media for content creation and interactive communication.</p>

<p>Based on the study 64% of online teenagers whose ages range from 12 to 17 years old, are increasingly creating online content, as compared to 2004's data.35% of this teenagers are girls who are into blogging while 20% are online boys.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:04:27 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Amazon Launches Database-as-a-Service</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Amazon.com has launched a new Web service for running queries on structured data; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=342335011">SimpleDB</a>. Similar to what it has successfully done with online book buying service, Amazon is hoping to achieve the same with database service.</p>

<p>The Amazon SimpleDB offers the same core functionality of a database such as real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data. The big difference is that it eliminates the operational complexity of how an operational database works.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:35:21 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Corporate Bloggers Get Organized, Launches Blog Council</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>What would you get when bloggers from top corporations such as Cisco, Coca-Cola, Dell, GM, Microsoft among other top corporations organized through a formal <a href="http://blogcouncil.org">Blog Council</a>? Best Practices. </p>

<p>That is basically the reason why this group of corporate bloggers decided to band together and forms a what they call “vendor-free environment” to share tactics, offer advice based on past experiences and develop standards-based best practices that will serve as a model for corporate blogs and corporate blogging.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:59:05 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Google Launches  Google Maps for Mobile With &quot;My Location&quot; Technology</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Google just launched the upgraded version of <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20071128_maps_mobile_my_location.html">Google Maps for mobile</a> service with the new My Location feature that can be used even for non GPS-enabled mobile phones. My Location technology uses the information broadcast from cell towers that approximates a user’s current location on the map. User would know where they are, what’s around them, where they want to go and how to get there without having to key in a lot of data.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:04:08 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>ABC News and Facebooks Bring  Politics Online</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Facebook partners with ABC News to offer Facebook members the US Politics application where they can access political reports from ABC and discuss issues about the upcoming election in 2008.</p>

<p>With the US 2008 election barely a year away, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3899006&page=1">ABC News</a>’ president David Westin said the partnership is considered “a great opportunity to make available to the people already having the ongoing discussion and debate on Facebook the full range of ABC News political reporting." The new Facebook application will contain up to date information about the presidential candidates and other campaign reports while members exchange ideas, express opinions, or debate about election issues.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:47:58 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Pet Lovers Get a Social Networking Site, Petside.com</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p><img alt="chasmo_itgumbo.JPG" src="http://www.itgumbo.com/it20/chasmo_itgumbo.JPG" width="85" height="135" align="left" />Who would have thought that two big industrial names would ever thought of coming up with a portal for pet lovers? Well, brace yourselves folks, as NBC Universal and Procter & Gamble team launches <a href="http://petside.com">Petside.com</a>, a feature-rich web portal for, well dog and cat lovers.</p>

<p>Petside.com is your usual web portal in the likes of Yahoo and AOL with full menu of information about dogs and cats. You'd definitely find a lot of useful information in Petside.com. From links to diagnosing pet's illnesses, to shopping sites for pet stuffs.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:06:43 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Amazon Launches E-Book Reader, Kindle</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Announced sometime in <a href="http://www.itgumbo.com/it20/2007/09/is_it_the_end_of_the_book_as_w.php">September,</a> the new Amazon E-Book Reader, Kindle is finally out and bears a costly  price of $400 at Amazon. But of course, the price is a measly sum compared to what you're going to get  with the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=amb_link_5873612_3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=1CC2D0SVJTK82B3JN0DY&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=329252801&pf_rd_i=507846">Kindle </a>in terms of power and functionality. </p>

<p>Amazon describes its innovative <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/ref=two_tab_gw/103-3214245-0115039">E-Book device</a> as a:</p>

<p>"Revolutionary Portable Reader Lets Customers Wirelessly Download Books in Less Than a Minute and Automatically Receive Newspapers, Magazines and Blogs, no PC Required, No Hunting for Wi-Fi Hot Spots."</p>

<p>That seems pretty powerful and nifty indeed.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:37:36 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Going.com Starts Selling Tickets  Online</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.going.com">Going.com</a>, a social networking site, recently announced that users can now buy concert tickets online. Starting with the Moby concert this week, the Web site now allows its users to check on who plans to go to the concert, know how many are interested, make decision on whether they want to go or not, and be able to buy the tickets they need in case they do.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:36:09 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>MyARTINFO: Social Networking for Artists</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>From a Canadian publisher and philanthropists comes a social networking site specifically made for artists, <a href="http://www.myartinfo.com/">MyARTINFO</a>. Although, the My+Niche Word branding is kinda cliché already, for Louise McBain it doesn’t really matter at all. </p>

<p>McBain established MYARTINFO as a venue for artists whether famous or lesser known to showcase their artistic work, chat with fellow artists online and even blog about, what else but art.  MyARTINFO aims to assemble all artists, and even non-artists who are members of the art community under one whole network of people and art works freely available to the web consuming public.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:58:26 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>HP Announces SOA Service Delivery Platform (SDP) 2.0</title>
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HP has launched its Service Delivery Platform (SDP) 2.0, a service-oriented-architecture (SOA) platform that enables operators to offer customers better and fast access to convergent, multimedia and Web 2.0 services on mobile devices.</p>

<p>While reducing the cost and risk of  creating convergent service, the SDP 2.0 will also address the needs of operators to increase their revenue. SDP 2.0 is a useful platform that incorporated  software technologies for corporate governance,  management and quality.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:20:46 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>The World Doesn&apos;t Need  the Google Phone</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>So finally Google ended the speculations and rumors about its entry into the mobile phone industry. But ironically, it was not about its own phone, it’s not even an iPhone killer. What Google announced was universal mobile operating systems, aka <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rYozIZOgDk">Android</a>,  which some 32 mobile phone manufactures and industry leaders can freely use to develop mobile applications. So enter the Open Handset Alliance, spearheaded by none other than the almighty Google.<a href="http://www.itgumbo.com/it20/2007/10/does_the_world_needs_another_m.php">http://www.itgumbo.com/it20/2007/10/does_the_world_needs_another_m.php</a></p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:17:31 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Survey, SaaS to Continue Growth in UK IT Departments</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>A survey conducted by business communications solutions provider <a href="http://www.colt.net/uk/en/press_centre/press_releases/european_businesses_look_to_on-demand_ict_to_increase_competitiveness">COLT</a> showed that 88% of UK  IT directors believe that they will continue to increase their usage of on-demand software in the next two years. Together with this <a href="http://www.itgumbo.com/it20/2007/09/google_apps_gets_a_new_busines.php">SaaS</a> growth is the growing popularity of another on-demand software, virtualization with some 94 per cent of UK business companies expecting to increase their investment on virtualization until 2009.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:42:33 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Does the World Needs another Mobile Phone?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>The much talked about, widely blogged, extensively covered Google Phone is once again resurrected courtesy of  and article from the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119369951717475558.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news">Wall Street  Journal</a>. Prior to this WSJ article, countless blog posts, online forum discussions, numerous news media coverage have been going around but Google refuse to say anything about its GPhone.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:53:23 -0500</pubDate>
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