How to save MSN music files ...The Charlotte Observer: 321 views since May 5, 2008 at 07:49 AMQ. Should I do anything extra to back up the songs I bought from MSN Music? Microsoft's recent e-mail said my purchases would still work. Microsoft's MSN Music store has been dying a slow death since the arrival of the company's Zune player in 2006. Last week, it officially moved to pull the plug by announcing an Aug. 31 shutdown of the store's "digital rights management" (DRM) system. ...
Adobe makes mark on Web photos ...The Charlotte Observer: 140 views since May 4, 2008 at 08:09 AMThe biggest name in photo software for many years has been Adobe's Photoshop. But, as more and more photos migrated online, Adobe became concerned that people would associate photo software less with its own locally installed programs than with Web-based products and services. So, last month, the photo giant introduced Photoshop Express, its free Web-based service for storing, sharing and ...
T-Mobile launches 3G in NYC ...Addict 3D: 133 views since May 5, 2008 at 05:12 PMT-Mobile launched its first 3G network, in New York, but customers can't yet use the fastest speeds that the network offers. Customers can use phones that will let them download data at UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) speeds of as fast as 384Kbps.
Cyberpunk sci-fi author honored with degree ...The Myrtle Beach Sun News: 127 views since May 11, 2008 at 01:27 AMWilliam Gibson, the novelist who coined the term "cyberspace" and whose novels anticipated the Internet age while home computers were still rarities, received an honorary doctorate Saturday from the university in his hometown.
Superfast internet may replace world wide web ...The West Australian: 109 views since April 6, 2008 at 08:19 PMThe internet could soon be made obsolete by a new ?grid? system which is 10,000 times faster than broadband connections. Scientists in Switzerland have developed a lightning-fast replacement to the internet that would allow feature films and music catalogues to be downloaded within seconds.
US general warns on space ...Financial Times: 81 views since May 7, 2008 at 05:33 PMThe US general in charge of military operations in space said China?s destruction last year of an orbiting satellite had dispelled the notion of space as a sanctuary and called for heightened international co-operation to share information about what was orbiting the earth.
Cambodia says rice cartel would ensure global food security ...Philippine Daily Inquirer: 75 views since May 5, 2008 at 08:40 AMPHNOM PENH -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that a proposed OPEC-style rice cartel in Southeast Asia would ensure global food security, rejecting concerns that it would increase hunger and poverty.
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: Win, place or soak ...Miami Herald: 29 views since April 1, 2008 at 03:20 AMThe skies were cloudy, the air a clammy 44 degrees. Packs of feral teens on skateboards scooted among shoppers and dog walkers while avoiding the ever-widening mud bogs in the garden beds along the main drag. Everywhere, you could hear water dripping as gray-tinged snow melted and springtime tried to make inroads in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.