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From Reuters: Finally, coming to New York, a fashion show devoid of skinny models and serious faces — in fact the models don’t even exist. Discount retailer Target Corp , known for its innovative marketing, is staging a “model-less” fashion show in Manhattan next week that will feature holograms strutting down a runway in its …
From Wired News: A coalition of privacy and consumer advocacy groups are asking government regulators to create a “Do Not Track” list that Americans can use to block online advertisers from silently recording people’s browsing habits. Advertisers use the data to display targeted ads. The groups petitioned the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to establish …
From the Orlando Sentinel: The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them. What’s less clear is how badly the country that gave birth to the Internet is doing, and whether the …
From Reuters: Work colleagues who spend their day gossiping, organizing their home lives, or who press “reply all” on e-mails are among the biggest nuisances in the office, according to a survey released on Monday.
From USA Today: Can’t get to Milan to see Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece “The Last Supper?” As of Saturday, all you need is an Internet connection. Officials put online an image of the “Last Supper” at 16 billion pixels — 1,600 times stronger than the images taken with the typical 10 million pixel digital camera. …
From the New York Times: Microsoft has won a high-profile technology industry battle with Google and Yahoo to invest in the social networking upstart Facebook. The two companies said on Wednesday that Microsoft would pay $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. The investment values Facebook, which is three and a half years …
From LinuxInsider: Teenagers are using their parents’ credit cards to buy thousands of dollars’ worth of virtual property, including real estate, on Web sites such as Second Life. NetSafe chief executive Martin Cocker says parents are shocked because they don’t realize it’s possible to buy something that doesn’t exist in the real world — and …
From Fox News: Out of 1.4 million iPhones sold since the hot gadget debuted June 29, fully 250,000 have not been activated to run on AT&T’s wireless network, The New York Times and The Register, a British technology blog, both reported Tuesday. An Apple executive admitted the discrepancy during a conference call with analysts following …
From NewsFactor: To hear Ballmer tell it, Microsoft is the little engine that will eventually surpass the behemoth that is Google. Comfortable with sports metaphors, he referred to Microsoft’s search and advertising teams as young athletes who will eventually rule the basketball court. “You’re growing up quickly. You’re getting better every day,” he said. “You’re …
From the New York Times: Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections. The research libraries, including a large consortium in the Boston area, are instead signing on …