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sundancefilmfestival thmb thumb Get your Sundance Film Festival Mania on with iTunes

Now get Sundance Film Festival’s indie movies on iTunes. You get to download up to 10 of the short movies for free throughout the 10 days of the festival (ends at January 25). Todd Luoto, a programmer states:

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lgt bldg thumb LGT Capital raises $373M from Crown Asia Pacific round

LGT Capital Partners announced raising $373 million at the close of Crown Asia Pacific Private Equity plc. The program (private equity investment) is dedicated to gathering funds for the Asian-Pacific region. These also include buyout, growth capital, and venture strategies. Tycho Sneyers, a partner of LGT stated:

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zimbra email 540x304 thumb Zimbra record 20 million paid mailboxes

Yahoo’s open-source email and calendar software, Zimbra has seen 20 million subscribers for its service. This comes after 8 million were recorded last May; and 4 million paid mailboxes back in October 2006. A big achievement for Zimbra, coming in at about 7 months.

dsc 0752 610x407 thumb Green Tech: Recycle trash into energy, in a parking lot! dsc 0766 610x405 thumb Green Tech: Recycle trash into energy, in a parking lot!

Creating energy is not just about getting it through solar panels – this new idea brought forward by IST Energy changes prospective with its container-size contraption. The invention known as the Green Energy Machine (GEM) turns a building’s trash into energy: electricity and heat.

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google pagerank thumb Google Pagerank Predictor still out of order

A blog post I came across reported that iWebTool’s Google Pagerank predictor hasn’t been working correctly anymore. It has been more than six months now that this has happened. Google Pagerank provides a basic authority ranking for the Google search engine, though it hasn’t been working well, and hasn’t got much affect on search results as it previously had.

circuitcity liquidation thumb Circuit City’s liquidation sale after Best Buy knocks it over

Circuit City was heard liquidating all of its stores through big sale, on Saturday. Sales were up to 30 percent off, and saw customers romping all around, buying anything with a sweet price tag. Lines at the checkout were seen going till the back of the store. Best Buy proved to be a better opponent and so Circuit City took the final blow.

lycos euro thumb Lycos not to shut down services in the U.S.

To clarify any misunderstandings created by some mis-reporting by other blogs lately – Lycos will not be shutting down their Mail and Tripod services in the U.S. As reported earlier by us, services are being shut down in Europe only.

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child porn 320 thumb German Government looking to rid porn from Internet through ISPs

The German government has decided to put a stop to ‘child porn’, and will start handing out blacklists to ISPs soon. The German family minister, Ursula von der Leyen said that they’re expecting technical implementation to go live this year. Though it’s easy to say that people will find a way around this; as a press release also notes:

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samsung logo thumb Samsung Electronics makes some changes around the house

Consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics was reported to have been making some reconfiguring moves for its four divisions. The move is said to be made to bring those four divisions into two: TVs, cell phones, and other consumer electronics under one roof, and LCDs and semiconductors under one, reports WSJ. This probably will decrease costs for the company by far, and comes in time when businesses are looking to make changes and cuts to minimize costs.

steve ballmer2 thumb Ballmer’s statement regarding his company’s search business

Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer recently stated in an interview that his impatience to hurry with bettering the company’s search business back-fired. This extract from WSJ states:

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