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Month: April 2006 (Page 4 of 4)

Download Movies Legally, for a Price

New online download services supply movies on demand that you can keep.

First came legal music downloads. Then, last fall, Apple’s iTunes Music Store unleashed download-to-own television shows for portable devices. Now, the two leading Web-based movie services–Movielink and CinemaNow–offer digital movies for purchase.

Both Movielink and CinemaNow launched the new services earlier this week. Previously, both services focused on online rentals, letting customers download a movie for a limited rental period. The movies available ranged from catalog titles to recent releases.

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Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux

Microsoft today lobbed three massive bombs into the server virtualization market. First off, it will now support – wait for it – Linux, when the OS is running on top of its Virtual Server product. Secondly, Microsoft has made Virtual Server free. Thirdly, in a move few thought possible, Microsoft has teamed with the developers of the open source Xen product to gang up on server slicing leader VMware.

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Baidu and Google make up 89.4% of China’s search market in ‘05

Apr. 3, 2006 (China Knowledge)Baidu was China’s most popular search engine in 2005, with a market share of 56.6% while Google was second with 32.8%, according to an iResearch report.

China’s search engine market has been dominated by Baidu and Google. They account for as much as 89.4% of the market.

The report also illustrates that the number of China’s search engine users amounted to 97.06 million in 2005, which is 87.4% of the total number of Internet users. The percentage figure was 7.4 percentage points more than the previous year. iResearch forecasts that China’s search engine users will exceed 100 million in 2006, accounting for 88.1% of the total number of Internet users.

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Google Outwits Others in Search

Google has beaten arch rivals to once again notch top slot in the search engines’ category.

As per the Nielsen/NetRatings report Google has been voted the world s most popular search engine, with 48.5 percent of all searches conducted in the US in February 2006 having been carried out on Google.

Lagging behind Google are Yahoo that managed 22.5 per cent of online searches, while MSN took-up 10.7 percent of the total online search share. AOL and My Way Search rounded out the top five search providers with 6.6 and 2.7 percent of searches, respectively.

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