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Dear Rupert: Google responds to News Corp’s criticisms point-by-point in ongoing EU antitrust case

Sep25
by on September 25, 2014 at 9:52 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

Google Opens New Berlin Office

Google has responded to an open letter, written by News Corp for the European Commission, which criticises the company and claims its search engine is negatively impacting news organisations. In the original letter, News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson said Google was changing the way links are ranked and shown in its search results, which would “inevitably maximise income for Google” and “punish” small companies. Thomson argued this, alongside its handling of Android, was evidence Google now “exploit(s) its dominant market position to stifle competition.” Today, Google responded with a ‘Dear Rupert’ blog post: “With the Internet, people enjoy greater…

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Valve launches its Steam Music Player with free Half-Life and Portal video game soundtracks

Sep25
by on September 25, 2014 at 8:52 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

Valve is slowly expanding Steam‘s functionality beyond buying and playing PC, Mac and Linux video games. Now, the company has launched a Steam Music Player which resides within the desktop client and makes it simple to play all of the tunes stored on your computer. While this in itself is useful, removing the need to constantly switch between applications, perhaps of greater note is the integration with Steam video game soundtracks. When players purchase a game from Valve’s digital marketplace, developers often throw in the soundtrack as an extra reward. Now, it’s easier for gamers to both buy and play this…

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ACDSee’s photo editor upgrade for Windows highlights pixel-based edits

Sep25
by on September 25, 2014 at 7:01 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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ACDSee has released a major upgrade to its Windows photo editing and management apps — ACDSee Pro 8 and ACDSee 18, the standard version. Together they target photographers ranging from amateur to pro. ACDSee, which also has a Mac version that was not updated, views itself as a viable competitor to similar photo management apps, such as Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom app and Corel’s AfterShot Pro. ACDSee features several modes, such as Manage, View, Edit and Develop (pro version), which offer a wide range of functionality within a single app. New features such as Pixel Targeting, which lets you precisely adjust pixels within Edit Mode and…

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