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and all the data in the event of a fatal system crash or virus attack
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To
store solar power, try splitting water Inspired by photosynthesis, MIT researchers devise a catalyst
to capture the sun's energy by unyoking hydrogen and oxygen.
California
judge rules Sprint's early termination fees illegal Sprint Nextel suffered a heavy legal blow earlier this week when a
judge in Alameda County, Calif., ruled the fees it charges customers
for ditching their service early were illegal.
(Posted in Wireless
by Marguerite Reardon)
Photos:
Rare books resurrected online At the British Library, software called Turning the Pages brings new
and sparkling digital life to old works, including Alice's Adventures
Under Ground.
Selling
video ads? Standardize first The Interactive Advertising Bureau proposes a new standard for digital
video commercials, hoping to add a few more billion dollars to the $21
billion online ad market.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stefanie Olsen)
Friday:
Yahoo shareholder meeting live coverage CNET News will provide live coverage of the meeting from San Jose,
Calif. Carl Icahn won't be there, but other disgruntled shareholders
likely will voice opinions he'd agree with.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
Car
source Kelley Blue Book goes green With options growing for fuel-efficient cars, Kelley Blue Book offers a
"green" buying guide and picks its top 10 most fuel-efficient cars,
most of which are hybrids.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Yahoo
gives Delicious more speed The service for storing and sharing bookmarks gets a speed boost and
changes to its user interface and search abilities. Plus no more
periods in the name.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
New
iPod Nano to bring back slim design? Is it retro if it's just two years old? Apple may be heading back to
the long, lean Nano design after a year with the short, fat Nano on
store shelves.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Calif.
official votes for optical scans, hand tallies Secretary of State tells attendees at Usenix security
conference
that optical scanning of paper ballots combined with hand tallies is
more accurate and secure than an e-voting system that uses paper
trails.
(Posted in Security
by Elinor Mills)
Apple
seen as likely new ARM licensee Chipmaker says "a leading handset OEM" has signed up for a
far-reaching architectural license to the company's mobile-chip
designs, following Apple's acquisition of P.A. Semi.
(Posted in Apple
by Tom Krazit)
Watching
the watchers: TiVo tracks ad viewing Ad agency Starcom teams with TiVo to be the first to use its Nielsen
ratings-like data to track which television shows and ads people
fast-forward through, watch, and time-shift.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stefanie Olsen)
Broadband
war gets bloodier Comcast's quarterly results show that competition between cable and
phone companies is heating up, which could lead to better pricing
packages for consumers.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Marguerite Reardon)
Report:
Google readying in-game ad initiative The search giant may finally be ready to unveil the fruits of
its
purchase of Adscape and compete for what is expected to be a
billion-dollar market by 2011.
(Posted in Gaming
and Culture by Daniel Terdiman)
Apple:
MobileMe e-mail issues are behind us The e-mail problems that have affected Apple's MobileMe service for a
month have apparently been fixed, but Apple still has work to do to
satisfy critics of the service.
(Posted in Apple
by Tom Krazit)
Video
site scooped the journalism star Controversies that sprang from information obtained by average citizens
used to be filtered by traditional journalists, but sites like YouTube
are helping cut out the middle man.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Greg Sandoval)
EA's
'Spore' hits its final growth spurt The long-awaited game from Sims creator
Will Wright's Maxis studio is only about a week from going 'gold.' And
it looks very slick.
Net
censorship plagues journalists at Olympics Despite earlier assurances that journalists would have unfettered
access to the Internet, some 5,000 reporters covering the games will be
subjected to Web roadblocks.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Steven Musil)
Click
here for first-run movies, MPAA lawsuits Copyright suits are filed against MovieRumor.com and Free Online Movie
DataBase for linking to pirated versions of films such as I
am Legend and Sex and the City.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stefanie Olsen)
Hollywood
takes FreeWheel-ing approach to ads FreeWheel, a start-up that helps content owners sell and manage ads
across numerous Web sites, has signed some top media companies,
including CBS.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Greg Sandoval)
Debating
the future of the desktop We've been stuck for too long in an idea rut about how to move forward.
Maybe Nova Spivack's got the right idea.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Calif.
AG urged to probe Yahoo-Google ad deal State assemblyman Joel Anderson, concerned about privacy issues, wants
California to join the list of states scrutinizing Yahoo's
search-advertising agreement with Google.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
New
Juniper CEO to get $5 million signing bonus Microsoft's Kevin Johnson, a key player in Yahoo talks, lands a tidy
compensation package as the new CEO of Juniper Networks, according to
SEC filing.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Dawn Kawamoto)
Intel
outside Apple's pending MacBook launch? Apple's not dumping Intel's processors, but it might be using another
company's chipset inside new notebooks expected to arrive within the
next month or so.
New
York gets Fios TV The Monday launch of Verizon's TV service in the city was the company's
largest such roll-out to date.
NYPD
probes cop in YouTube body-check video Officer is stripped of his gun and badge after a video posted on
YouTube shows him body-checking a bicyclist during Critical Mass
bicycle ride.
Oracle
amends SAP TomorrowNow suit Oracle broadens allegations against rival SAP and third-party
outsourcing maintenance and support company TomorrowNow.
Dell's
mini-desktop launching tomorrow Initially pitched at a green-tech conference in April, the
Studio
Hybrid uses a fraction of the energy used by a standard desktop. It's
also 80 percent smaller.
Academics
to get a glimpse of Microsoft's Sphere Those attending this week's Faculty Summit in Redmond will have a
chance to see the spherical surface computer that Microsoft has been
cooking up in its labs.
Dell
hints it's working on smartphone PC maker has been long-rumored to have a handheld device in the works.
When pressed by an interviewer on the subject, Michael Dell says,
"We're kind of working on that."
The
CW to bring back 'Gossip Girl' streams After removing free, ad-supported episodes of teen drama from its Web
site to boost ratings, network confirms that they'll be returning in
time for show's second season.
MSN
to follow Yahoo in issuing music refunds? Yahoo is setting a new standard for music services that stop issuing
authorization keys for songs sold that are laced with copyright
protection software.
Glam
channel targets hybrid-driving yoga moms Best known for advertising on fashion and celebrity gossip sites, Glam
Media continues its rapid-fire expansion with a "Wellness" content area
for health-conscious, "green" set.
Angst
over iPhone 3G networking issues Users
around the world are reporting problems with signal strength and
quality of service on their new Apple handsets, but no specific issues
have been identified.
FCC
set to punish Comcast on P2P blocking
Three of the five commissioners have reportedly voted in favor of
punishing Comcast for allegedly slowing or blocking file-sharing
traffic on its network. (Posted in Digital
Media by Jennifer Guevin)
Apple's
culture of secrecy Under its chief executive and founder Steve Jobs, Apple has
created
a culture of secrecy that has served it well in many ways--from new
products to the health of Jobs.
(From The New York
Times)
FCC
approves Sirius-XM satellite radio merger Federal regulators formally approve Sirius Satellite Radio's
$3.3
billion buyout of former competitor XM Satellite Radio with conditions.
(Posted in Wireless
by Steven Musil)
AT&T
threatens WiMax joint venture Company has filed a petition with the FCC to stop Sprint Nextel and
Clearwire from combining WiMax assets to build competing nationwide
wireless broadband network.
(Posted in Wireless
by Marguerite Reardon)
Google:
We're not a monopoly, not by a long shot Company's top lawyers say rivals are largely responsible for the
static, suggest that the old measurements regarding monopoly don't
apply to very New Economy phenom.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Gateway
ends direct PC sales Now part of Acer, the Gateway brand will be distributed through retail
and channel partners only.
(Posted in Crave
by Erica Ogg)
Mojave
experiment gets a Web site Microsoft has created a teaser site for its Mojave project, in which it
showed Vista to XP users, pretending it was a new version of Windows to
see if they liked it.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Vonage
to get new CEO Vonage is about to get a new CEO as it secures debt financing and gets
its financial house in order, according to a Wall Street
Journal report. » All
News.com headlines
Saturday,
July 26
Why
I became a Gmail convert Filters
and labels helped move me from Yahoo Mail to Gmail; search and keyboard
controls made me happy. Too bad about the rocky transition.
photosTop
10 reviews of the week Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including
a 61-inch rear-projection HDTV, D-Link's dual-band wireless router, and
the simple but handy Nokia 6205.
FCC
approves Sirius-XM satellite radio merger Federal regulators formally approve Sirius Satellite Radio's $3.3
billion buyout of former competitor XM Satellite Radio with conditions. (Posted in Wireless
by Steven Musil)
AT&T
threatens WiMax joint venture Company has filed a petition with the FCC to stop Sprint Nextel and
Clearwire from combining WiMax assets to build competing nationwide
wireless broadband network. (Posted in Wireless
by Marguerite Reardon)
Google:
We're not a monopoly, not by a long shot Company's top lawyers say rivals are largely responsible for the
static, suggest that the old measurements regarding monopoly don't
apply to very New Economy phenom. (Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Gateway
ends direct PC sales Now part of Acer, the Gateway brand will be distributed through retail
and channel partners only. (Posted in Crave
by Erica Ogg)
Mojave
experiment gets a Web site Microsoft has created a teaser site for its Mojave project, in which it
showed Vista to XP users, pretending it was a new version of Windows to
see if they liked it. (Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Vonage
to get new CEO Vonage is about to get a new CEO as it secures debt financing and gets
its financial house in order, according to a Wall Street
Journal report.
Google
reveals scope of Web-crawling task Multiple times each day, Google recomputes the relative ranking of the
world's Web sites. And it must index several billion new Web pages
added daily.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
Inspiring
computer professor Randy Pausch dies Carnegie Mellon professor who inspired millions with his "last lecture"
after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer died Friday at age 47.
(Posted in News
Blog by Maggie Reardon)
imagesWhat's
behind those Northern Lights? NASA satellites reveal that an explosion of magnetic energy a third of
the way to the moon causes the beautiful aurora borealis.
Google
reveals scope of Web-crawling task Multiple times each day, Google recomputes the relative ranking of the
world's Web sites. And it must index several billion new Web pages
added daily. (Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
Inspiring
computer professor Randy Pausch dies Carnegie Mellon professor who inspired millions with his "last lecture"
after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer died Friday at age 47. (Posted in News
Blog by Maggie Reardon)
Open-source
electronic voting A group is advocating the use of open-source software and a unique
tablet PC and printer as a solution to concerns surrounding voting
integrity. (Posted in Security
by Robert Vamosi)
Terrorism
hits India's high-tech hub A series of explosions killed at least one and injured many more. But
if history is a guide, the attacks will do little to slow the city's
development. (Posted in Business
Tech by Jim Kerstetter)
Indian
entrepreneurs focus on energy efficiency Real-time energy monitoring, carbon taxes, and disruptive
technologies were all topics of discussion at a forum of The Indus
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley this week.
The
Arab oil embargo we really needed What's it going to take to force public opinion to dispense with the
fiction that cheap oil is only one or two big drilling projects away?
Too bad history worked out differently. (Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Red
Lasso closes video search after being sued Company that indexed video clips from TV shows shuts down search engine
two days after NBC Universal and Fox filed a copyright suit against the
company. (Posted in Digital
Media by Greg Sandoval)
iPhone
OS 2.1 might be coming soon A beta version of an update to Apple's iPhone operating system is
making the rounds with apparent GPS-related improvements but no sign of
a 3G reception fix. (Posted in Apple
by Tom Krazit)
Embarq
pressured by politicians over NebuAd Three House members who have questioned the concept of Web monitoring
to display relevant advertisements are questioning DSL provider Embarq.
Their concern: Why not require customers to opt in? (Posted in Politics
and Law by Declan McCullagh)
Sprint
Nextel sells cell towers to reduce debt The troubled wireless operator is selling most of its cell phone towers
for $670 million in an effort to help reduce its debt and shed
nonstrategic assets. (Posted in Wireless
by Marguerite Reardon)
Microsoft
to power Facebook search ads Software maker will deliver an API that Facebook can use to integrate
both Microsoft's Web search and its paid search results into the social
network's U.S. site. (Posted in Digital
Media by Stefanie Olsen)
Scrabble
maker Hasbro sues over 'Scrabulous' Hasbro launched an official version of its Facebook Scrabble
application a few weeks ago. Now it wants the far more popular Scrabulous
knockoff deleted. (Posted in Digital
Media by Declan McCullagh)
Zimbra
Desktop gives Yahoo Mail offline access Yahoo, an early leader in Web-based e-mail, is trying to leapfrog
Google with its Zimbra Desktop software, which offers online documents
and offline access. (Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
Mossberg
pans MobileMe amid service outages In a rare slap at an Apple product, Walt Mossberg suggests people avoid
the MobileMe service, even before taking into account the e-mail
outages of its first few weeks. (Posted in Apple
by Tom Krazit)
Sources:
Google soured on long-form video In talks with entertainment companies, Google focuses on licensing
short-form content, telling studio executives that it doesn't want to
become a media company. (Posted in Digital
Media by Greg Sandoval)
Kevin
Johnson to leave Microsoft for Juniper No successor has been named for Johnson, who has been president of
Mircosoft's Platforms and Services Division and is leaving to become
CEO of Juniper Networks.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Facebook
opens up with Connect CEO announces a way for apps that aren't on the Facebook
Platform to
leverage the Facebook social network. Apps like Digg and Movable Type
will benefit.
(Posted in Webware
by Rafe Needleman)
XM-Sirius
merger heads to home stretch FCC review process appears to be near a close, with a tentative deal
reached between the parties, according to a Wall Street
Journal report.
(Posted in Wireless
by Dawn Kawamoto)
Defense
asks for dismissal of MySpace case Lawyers for Lori Drew, a Missouri woman who allegedly harassed a
teenage neighbor who later killed herself, say prosecutors are using a
flawed and vague law.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Holly Jackson)
Blogspot.com
cited as the No. 1 host for malware Sophos research says the anonymity of setting up a blog site plus the
ability to post malicious code links in the comments section makes
Google's blog site a target.
(Posted in Defense
in Depth by Robert Vamosi)
Record
labels ask for ruling against Lime Wire Warner Bros., Sony, and others file request for decision in suit,
claiming peer-to-peer software company is "promoting infringement,"
among other complaints.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stefanie Olsen)
Crossing
the line on Steve Jobs' health CEO
health issues are serious business for corporate boards and
shareholders. But that doesn't give writers license to make cancer
diagnoses from the 12th
Servers
in the home remain scarce A
year after its release, Microsoft's Windows Home Server product is
still rare on store shelves and well known only among hard-core
techies.
MySpace
confirms OpenID support Social network, which is
also unveiling its Data Availability program in a phased launch, wants
to be the hub of identity.
(Posted in Webware
by Rafe Needleman)
Yang
note welcomes Icahn's 'fresh perspective' After months of exchanging
barbs with investor activist Carl Icahn,
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang tells employees he's looking forward to working
with Icahn on the board.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Dawn Kawamoto)
No
consensus at FCC broadband hearing Regulators hold public
hearing with few ground rules, resulting in
haphazardly meandering comments on spam, porn, privacy, Net neutrality,
and copyright infringement.
(Posted in Politics
and Law by Declan McCullagh)
Viacom
CEO on Google's 'rogue company' Philippe Dauman suggests
that it was Google's strategy all along to ignore piracy until YouTube
could "dominate the space." (Posted in Digital
Media by Greg Sandoval)
Sometimes
you have to reboot the cloud Don't be surprised by Amazon's S3 outage, and don't be complacent about
it. But think carefully before you say cloud computing is doomed.
(Posted in Business
Tech by Stephen Shankland)
Ultrasonic
frogs discovered in China Researchers have discovered the existence of frogs in central China
whose ears can tune to different frequencies. No joke.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
More
problems for Apple's MobileMe Mail The MobileMe service has gotten off to a rocky start, and now some
customers are reporting great difficulty in accessing their e-mail.
(Posted in Apple
by Tom Krazit)
Will
you be ditching your antivirus app soon? As malware seems to be proliferating at an alarming rate, security
vendors appear ready to rethink their approach to blocking code that
may be harmful to your PC.
(Posted in Defense
in Depth by Robert Vamosi)
Why
I became a Gmail convert Filters and labels helped move me from Yahoo Mail to Gmail; search and
keyboard controls made me happy. Too bad about the rocky transition.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
Replay
Solutions on 'TiVo for software' CEO Jonathan Lindo discusses how enterprise Java developers, like those
at game companies, would use its bug replication software to fix
applications faster and more effectively.
(Posted in Negative
Approach by Dave Rosenberg)
Hacker
team releases iPhone 2.0 jailbreak New Pwnage 2.0 software allows unauthorized third-party applications to
be loaded on iPhones and iPod Touchs running the iPhone 2.0 operating
system.
(Posted in Crave
by Steven Musil)
Amazon.com's
S3 experiencing outage Problems with online storage service--a major component of its online
computing strategy--are causing many sites to present broken images.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Steven Musil)
The
Internet--a private eye's best friend In a world where privacy is just as good as dead, a private
investigator explains how he can find almost anything out about anyone
using the Internet, cell phones, cameras, and video cameras.
(Posted in Security
by Elinor Mills)
Saturday,
July 19
VC
funding either flat or falling Major VC watchers release somewhat conflicting reports. However,
neither one said venture capital funding is actually on the rise.
(Posted in Business
Tech by Stefanie Olsen)
India's
outsource giants feeling the pinch Infosys, Tata, and Wipro blame global economic conditions, with the
former warning the new quarter may be difficult too, as companies
postpone decisions on outsourcing.
(By Nick Heath of Silicon.com)
Facebook
sues German rival Social networker, which launched its own German language version this
year, asserts that StudiVZ simply replaced Facebook's "blue color
scheme with a red one."
(Posted in Digital
Media by Natalie Weinstein)
Photos:
Up, up, and away at England air show At Farnborough Air Show, much of the action took place on the ground,
but the true excitement for most people had to be the flyovers.
(Posted by Jonathan Skillings)
Friday,
July 18
Blogging
and bringing home the bacon As
many as 3,000 women are at this year's BlogHer Conference to talk about
their lives, businesses, and blogs; and in some cases, they're all one
and the same.
Photos:
Up, up, and away at England air show At Farnborough Air Show, much of the action took place on the ground,
but the true excitement for most people had to be the flyovers.
(Posted by Jonathan Skillings)
Pondering
Microsoft's 'Everett Dirkson moment' Call it Google envy, if you will. But Redmond is willing to
spend
what it takes to turn its online services--including Internet
advertising--into a more powerful offering.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Mom
continues to chase Prince over 'fair use' Prince accused Stephanie Lenz of violating his copyright in a
YouTube video of her child. His label has backed down, and now it's
Lenz suing the artist for violating her rights.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Greg Sandova)
Evite
gets more social interface (but still no API) Big improvements are afoot for the invitation service, which
has
been re-engineered to stuff noncritical features into tabs, simplifying
the layout. And more data portability is on the way.
(Posted in Webware
by Rafe Needleman)
Why
did investors freak out about Google? Three culprits conspired to hurt Google's stock: interest income,
caution about the economy, and Google's overshooting the mark on
screening out low-quality ads.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
Cuba,
Venezuela to lay undersea Internet cable The two countries are teaming up to lay fiber-optic cable to bring
high-speed Internet access to the island nation, according to documents
recently made public.
(Posted in Wireless
by Marguerite Reardon)
Circuit
board orders point to new MacBooks? Surge in orders of printed circuit boards by Apple seems to
fit
nicely with other suggestions that the company is getting ready to
introduce new notebooks for back-to-school time.
(Posted in Apple
by Tom Krazit)
Google
acquires ad unit of Russia's Rambler Google is buying its way into the accounts of more than 40,000 Russian
advertisers and also signs a search and advertising pact with the
Internet site. (Posted in Digital Media
by Stephen Shankland)
Icahn's
latest lament: Et tu, Legg Mason? Heading into his big showdown with Yahoo management, Carl Icahn might
have expected to have Wall Street in his pocket. Instead, he received a
slap from some of his former buddies.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
NebuAd
grilled in Congress over privacy Start-up engaging in deep packet inspection to deliver relevant
advertisements faces hostile questioning by politicians who demand an
opt-in standard instead of NebuAd's current procedures.
(Posted in The
Iconoclast by Declan McCullagh
New
T-Mobile Sidekick set for July 30th debut An entry-level T-Mobile Sidekick, code-named Gekko, is set to hit the
market by the end of the month, according to blog The Boy Genius.
(Posted in Wireless
by Marguerite Reardon)
AMD
quitting handheld, TV chips amid more losses The company will take a $876 million charge to get out of its handheld
graphics and TV processor business, as it keeps looking for a way to
return to profitability.
(Posted in Business
Tech by Tom Krazit)
Last.fm
gets a makeover, but can't stay standing The social music site has been redesigned to make it easier to
discover new music, but has been plagued by bugs and server outages
with its debut.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Google's
search ad share now up to 77 percent In the second quarter, those buying ads on search engines gave Google
an even larger share of their money than before, according to Efficient
Frontier.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
Nokia
racks up more handset sales Fueled by sales in emerging markets, Finnish phone maker is gobbling up
handset market share as some of its competitors likely fall further
behind.
(Posted in Wireless
by Marguerite Reardon)
Google
Docs gets a profusion of templates Nearly 300 prefab documents now are online for resumes, photo albums,
expense reports, fantasy basketball success predictors, mileage
calculators, and more. But where's the user-generated content?
(Posted in Webware
by Stephen Shankland)
Fuel
cell vehicles still in first gear Study finds fuel cell vehicles will only make a big dent in
oil
consumption and greenhouse gas emissions with years of work from
government and industry.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Obama's
Web-video strategy revealed The Democratic candidate for president sends nearly a half dozen people
to shoot videos of him and get them up on YouTube fast.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Greg Sandoval)
Wednesday,
July 16
Microsoft
faces Silverlight lawsuit Gotuit
Media sues Redmond over the use of video metadata with the Flash rival,
which has a featured role in next month's Olympics coverage.
video
No
iPhone for you CNET News' Kara Tsuboi and Erica Ogg talk about empty shelves at
AT&T stores and three-week waits. Stocks are better at Apple
stores, but expect a long line.
Why
it matters what Chad Hurley watches Viacom may argue that YouTube is guilty of contributory copyright
infringement if records show that employees of the video-sharing site
watched copyright material.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Greg Sandoval)
BlogHer
nabs iVillage deal, NBC investment The partnership is a coup for BlogHer because it gives the
blog
network a chance to promote content across NBC Web sites like
Oxygen.com and BravoTV.com.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stefanie Olsen)
Yahoo
plans Groups improvements Yahoo Groups will get many new features in the next year, including
product reviews, address books, event planners.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
Yahoo,
Microsoft step up AOL discussions Both are accelerating their respective deal-making talks with
Time
Warner's AOL, as Yahoo heads toward a proxy battle that threatens its
current board.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Dawn Kawamoto)
MTV's
'Soundtrack' jumps on stage One part social network and one part pop culture discovery hub, this
new site from MTV refocuses the company's wayward vision back to music.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Microsoft
opens up Live Mesh Anyone with a Windows Live ID can now sign up for the synchronization
services, which lets people share data across multiple PCs.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Fat
Spaniel: Distributed energy meets Web 2.0 The maker of a Web app for monitoring solar arrays and other
distributed energy sources is publishing APIs to encourage third-party
applications.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Ex-Samsung
chairman convicted of tax evasion Although a three-year prison sentence is suspended, a South Korean
court rules that Lee Kun-hee must pay a hefty fine, according to an AP
report.
(Posted in Business
Tech by Dawn Kawamoto)
For
teens, the future is mobile Marketing firm Fuse talks to Sony, MTV Networks, Yahoo, and Nokia to
find out what the future of technology will look like for the teens.
The conclusion: It's mobile.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stefanie Olsen)
IT
worker arrested in SF network hijack Disgruntled city worker in jail on $5 million bail after allegedly
locking administrators out of the city's wireless area network.
(Posted in Security
by Elinor Mills)
Sopogy
to make megawatts of solar power The Hawaiian company's "micro concentrating solar power" troughs shrink
the basic design of equipment used in large-scale solar power plants.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Viacom,
YouTube agree to mask user data YouTube will be allowed to mask out usernames, IP addresses, and
viewing histories from data it must hand over to the entertainment
giant as part of a copyright-infringement suit.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Greg Sandoval)
Social
search on the way for Google? A Google user takes screenshots of what appears to be a Digg- or
StumbleUpon-like voting system; it might never see public release, but
it may mean the company is building new technologies in-house.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Google
wins over more Net users in June The Net leader gains on Yahoo and Microsoft when it comes to share of
U.S. Internet users, but still lags in terms of time spent on the site.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland
Amazon
invests in Engine Yard's cloud computing The $15 million second round of financing will help the
2-year-old
Engine Yard develop a cloud computing platform for the programming
framework Ruby on Rails.
(Posted in Business
Tech by Stefanie Olsen)
roundupHigh
notes from a low-profile E3 The
new-style E3 is no
longer a huge free-for-all, but that doesn't mean Microsoft and others
in the video-game business aren't making some noise.
Photos:
BigBots at Robot 250 Robot 250's art installation of robots at Pittsburgh landmarks
challenges conventional ideas of what makes a robot a robot.
(Posted in Planetary
Gear by Candace Lombardi)
Veoh
Networks launches behavioral ads Online video site has begun testing a service that matches ads to
users' viewing history, searches, and other activity. Behavioral ads
have been controversial, though.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
Glam
Media jumps into e-newsletter market Glam Today will give its independent publishers some exposure
and
provide a new place for the company to put ads, but it's entering the
same market as big players like DailyCandy.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Contrary to reports, some customers say the Apple co-founder didn't
wait in line all night for the iPhone 3G, but instead cut in front at
the last minute.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Greg Sandoval)
Apple
iPhone v2.0 software: Still M.I.A. Even on Saturday, customers of the original iPhone were having problems
downloading the new version of the system software.
(Posted in News
Blog by Declan McCullagh)
MobileMe
launch sputters So far, the wait to use Apple's MobileMe storage service has proven
longer than any line for an iPhone 3G.
(Posted in Webware
by Elsa Wenzel)
Photos:
Top 10 reviews of the week CNET Reviews rates the Gateway T-6836 laptop, Tritton AX Visor phone,
2009 Mercedes-Benz SLK350, and more.
'Madden
Football' marks 20 years Electronic Arts will celebrate the occasion with a Rock Band
tie-in and Maddenpalooza, a one-day Madden 09
tournament and concert.
(From Reuters)
Antitrust
hearing to draw top tech legal eagles Legal counsel for Yahoo, Google, Microsoft will testify at
Congressional hearing next week, as lawmakers consider potential
effects of a Yahoo-Google search ad deal.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Dawn Kawamoto)
Can
you trust your business to Google's cloud? Cloud computing is ever more fashionable. This week's Google Apps
outage shows that online applications and services aren't perfect, but
that the concept is growing up.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
Microsoft
bests Apple, Ubuntu on OS updates During the second quarter of 2008, Windows Update was always available,
Apple's was not far behind, and Canonical's Ubuntu lagged by
comparison, test shows.
(Posted in Business
Tech by Stephen Shankland)
Malware
targets 'Simpsons' fans on AIM Dormant Simpsons-related AIM buddy promises Web-exclusive
episode of
the show but instead infects the machine with software that turns it
into a botnet zombie.
(Posted in Security
by Elinor Mills)
IBM
to prime pump for smart-grid start-ups The
world needs better ways to plug newfangled tech into the venerable
power grid, says Big Blue's clean-tech venture capital expert.
YouTube
tests geo video search The video-sharing site is taking a page from parent company Google by
improving its search features, a little bit at a time.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stefanie Olsen)
Murdoch:
News Corp.-Yahoo deal unlikely And he doesn't think Yahoo will come to terms with Microsoft,
either--"bad personal feelings," the mogul says, will put the kibosh on
that.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Dawn Kawamoto)
Guardian
News buys PaidContent.org operator The company behind PaidContent had been planning a new funding
round
when it was approached by Guardian folks looking to bolster B2B
efforts.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Dawn Kawamoto)
FCC
chief to push sanctions against Comcast Sanctions stem from Comcast's reported blocking of
file-sharing
traffic. The company has argued that some P2P users hog too much
bandwidth.
(Posted in Wireless
Tech by Margaret Kane)
Verizon
Wireless settles early-termination suit Verizon Wireless agrees to pay $21 million to settle a case
filed by
customers who claim the company's early termination fees are excessive
and unfair.
(Posted in Wireless
Tech by Marguerite Reardon)
Report:
No charges in Apple backdating probe Justice Department ends stock options probe and declines to charge any
current or former executives, including Steve Jobs, according to a Wall
Street Journal report.
(Posted in Business
Tech by Steven Musil)
live chat
Ask
the editor: Smartphones CNET's Bonnie Cha answers all your questions on the mobile gadgets,
from what to look for when shopping to how best to use them.
Apple
TV gets a security update Six patches address buffer overflows and arbitrary code execution.
Apple TV devices are set to automatically detect and download the
update within a week.
(Posted in Defense
in Depth by Robert Vamosi)
AllVoices
blends traditional, citizen journalism Start-up claims to be first global news site with unedited
user
content that weaves traditional news, blogs, and video from anyone who
wants to share their voice.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Hanna Sistek)
Photobucket
forges iPhone app, Ask deal The photo-sharing service has an iPhone application, which isn't all
that newsworthy. Here's what is: it has teamed up with Ask.com on a
search and ads effort.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Prius
to be American-made Toyota's U.S. plant reorganization includes the addition of its star
hybrid, while SUV production is suspended and consolidated.
(Posted in Planetary
Gear by Candace Lombardi)
MTI
Micro partners for fuel cell ultra-mobile PC Rather than look for an electrical outlet in the airport, you could
pull out a liquid methanol cartridge to charge your gadget, if this
deal pans out.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Globetrotting
YouTube dancer shares secrets Man behind "Where The Hell Is Matt" forced high-quality video
into
YouTube's embeddable player and is quietly a big fan of the rival Vimeo
player.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Greg Sandoval)
NASA
satellites show offshore wind potential The wind blows strong and steady out at sea. NASA releases maps to
measure where wind energy on the the oceans is best for setting up
turbines.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
First
Take: Apple's MobileMe service MobileMe takes over for the .Mac subscription service for publishing
photos and other personal content to the Web. It's yet another part of
the iPhone 3G festivities.
(By Elsa Wenzel of CNET
Reviews)
Surround-sound
technology explained Revised textbook of Tomlinson Holman, a developer of Lucas' THX Sound,
offers in-depth overview for recording professionals and home theater
enthusiasts alike.
(Posted in The
Audiophiliac by Steve Guttenberg)
Senate
scrutinizes Web monitoring for ads The practice of targeting ads by monitoring broadband customers' Web
surfing draws fire on Capitol Hill. But NebuAd says what it's doing is
entirely legal.
(Posted in The
Iconoclast by Declan McCullagh)
Click
Forensics, Yahoo take on click-fraud cases Auditor says it built software in partnership with Yahoo that
lets
advertisers automatically deal with the costs of fraudulent clicks in a
search ad campaign.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stefanie Olsen)
Is
Yahoo eyeing Demand Media? Despite its current state of affairs, rumors are swirling that Yahoo
has approached the social networks company with an offer. Yahoo sources
shrug off the reports.
(Posted in News
Blog by Dawn Kawamoto)
Google
advertisers get more on keyword search Advertisers bidding for Google keywords now can see how often
people
actually search using those terms. That's smart: advertisers love
quantitative analysis.
(Posted in Digital
Media by Stephen Shankland)
Study:
Prescription-free drug sites still abound Columbia University survey finds that while there's been a
sharp
decline in the number of Web sites selling controlled drugs, often sans
prescription, their existence is still a problem.
(Posted in Cutting
Edge by Caroline McCarthy)
Viacom
grapples with corporate-bully image Google is trouncing Viacom for the hearts and minds of Internet users.
This could be a lesson for other big media firms that consider
challenging Google on copyright issues.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
Gmail
now blocking fake eBay, PayPal e-mails Google turns to DomainKeys e-mail authentication technology to
keep
phishing attempts disguised as messages from eBay and PayPal out of
Gmail in-boxes.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
CEO
out at VMware; former Microsoft exec in Virtualization software maker abruptly announces founder's
exit,
installing former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz as new CEO. Also,
full-year revenue will be below expectations.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Intel
and DreamWorks go to the movies The chipmaker and the movie studio announce an alliance designed to
enhance DreamWorks Animation's 3D movie-making technology.
(Posted in News
Blog by Dawn Kawamoto)
T-Mobile
readying Android phone for 3G launch? Several blogs speculate T-Mobile will launch its 3G service nationwide
in October and will debut an Android phone with the service. T-Mobile
remains tight-lipped.
(Posted in Wireless
by Marguerite Reardon)
Web
2.0 Summit courts clean-tech start-ups Conference theme reflects the "greening" of Silicon Valley, using the
Web and tech to address environmental and social challenges.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Will
ISPs survive the video onslaught? You want video, and video eats up a whole lot of bandwidth. Your
Internet provider would do well to pay heed to the ways of P2P-savvy
folks like BitTorrent.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Segway
CTO is riding away to Apple Doug Field, an early employee at the maker of the much-hyped
motor
scooters, is leaving to become a vice president of product design at
the Mac maker.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
'Scrabble'
on Facebook: Too little, too late There's finally an official Scrabble game for U.S.
users of Facebook. But everyone's still playing imitator Scrabulous,
and legal threats against it appear to have died down.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
World
Bank: Biofuels lift food prices 75 percent U.K.'s Guardian newspaper excerpts "secret" World
Bank
study that says biofuels have massive impact on food prices, sharply
higher than official U.S. estimates.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
LiMo
gets Openwave browser and messaging Openwave sells those parts of its business to LiMo member
Purple
Labs, which plans to use the mobile Internet technologies in its Linux
platform.
(By David Meyer of ZDNet
UK)
Apple
MacBook: Change is in the Air Some of the upgrades we might see in the next MacBook Air
include a
bigger and better solid state drive, improved design, and upgraded
processors.
(Posted in Nanotech:
The Circuits by Brooke Crothers)
photosTop
inventions of the U.S. Army Every year, the U.S. Army designates a set of its best inventions. This
year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for
saving severely injured soldiers.
Photos:
Top 10 reviews of the week CNET Reviews rates the Garmin Nuvi 880 car GPS gadget, a Panasonic
Viera flat-screen TV, the Asus Eee PC 901 laptop, and more.
Photos:
Take a trip inside the Mac Classic Just what went into one of the most famous personal computers ever
made? See what Apple was up to in 1991.
(Posted by CNET's Mark Kaelin)
1
euro eBay baby goes home Parents had put their baby boy up for sale on eBay--apparently
as a
joke--but German authorities didn't find it particularly amusing.
(Posted in News
Blog by Natalie Weinstein)
Ask.com
closes Dictionary.com deal Fourth-ranked search engine completes its acquisition of the parent
company of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
(Posted in News
Blog by Natalie Weinstein)
VeriSign
names interim CEO Company's founder takes the place of the CEO and president, who
resigned abruptly earlier this week.
(Posted in News
Blog by Natalie Weinstein)July
4, 2008
Apple
cuts price of flash-drive MacBook Air If you'd been considering the best configuration of the MacBook
Air--with a faster processor and solid-state hard drive--it's now $500
cheaper, but still expensive.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
LCD
making worse for environment than coal? "Missing greenhouse gas" called nitrogen trifluoride, used in
production of flat-screen TVs, chips, and synthetic diamonds, could
accelerate global warming, says a report.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Elsa Wenzel)
Using
tech, TMZ gets in your face fast A
new digital-video system helps the feisty celebrity news site get
stories up first, in the "raw video" look that TMZ says fans want.
Photos:
Take a trip inside the Mac Classic Just what went into one of the most famous personal computers ever
made? See what Apple was up to in 1991.
(Posted by CNET's Mark Kaelin)
1
euro eBay baby goes home Parents had put their baby boy up for sale on eBay--apparently as a
joke--but German authorities didn't find it particularly amusing.
(Posted in News
Blog by Natalie Weinstein)
Ask.com
closes Dictionary.com deal Fourth-ranked search engine completes its acquisition of the parent
company of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
(Posted in News
Blog by Natalie Weinstein)
VeriSign
names interim CEO Company's founder takes the place of the CEO and president, who
resigned abruptly earlier this week.
(Posted in News
Blog by Natalie Weinstein)
EA
debuts new family, sports titles Following its pairing with board game maker Hasbro, Electronic Arts
shows off family-oriented games and an "All-Play" sports series for the
Wii.
(Posted in News
Blog by Holly Jackson)
Apple
cuts price of flash-drive MacBook Air If you'd been considering the best configuration of the MacBook
Air--with a faster processor and solid-state hard drive--it's now $500
cheaper, but still expensive.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
LCD
making worse for environment than coal? "Missing greenhouse gas" called nitrogen trifluoride, used in
production of flat-screen TVs, chips, and synthetic diamonds, could
accelerate global warming, says a report.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Elsa Wenzel)
Apple
cuts price of flash-drive MacBook Air If you'd been considering the best configuration of the MacBook
Air--with a faster processor and solid-state hard drive--it's now $500
cheaper, but still expensive.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
LCD
making worse for environment than coal? "Missing greenhouse gas" called nitrogen trifluoride, used in
production of flat-screen TVs, chips, and synthetic diamonds, could
accelerate global warming, says a report.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Elsa Wenzel)
Report:
Yahoo sites get traffic boost from Google Most of Yahoo's top 20 Internet properties receive a greater share of
traffic from a Google search, rather than a Yahoo search, according to
a report from Hitwise.
(Posted in News
Blog by Dawn Kawamoto)
Q&A
Sony's
Stan Glasgow talks TVs, Blu-ray The head of Sony
Electronics' U.S. division shares his vision for OLED TVs and Blu-ray,
along with the future of retail electronics.
(Posted in News
Blog by Erica Ogg)
Report:
Some dial-up users wish to stay that way A report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds
that 10
percent of Americans use dial-up access, and many of them are standing
firm.
(Posted in News
Blog by Dawn Kawamoto)
Google
opens up Ratproxy code Company is showing an increasing affection for open source. If
only
Viacom would have asked for source code nicely, instead of litigating
for it...
(Posted in The
Open Road by Matt Asay)
Chinese
military tries out Segways Skilled riders, it seems, should be able to keep both hands on a
weapon, take aim, and fire while still accelerating and turning the
device with their body movements.
(Posted in Planetary
Gear by Candace Lombardi)
Jobs,
Apple directors face new backdating suit The lawsuits continue to pile up for Apple, as shareholders try to
punish members of the board for the practice of backdating stock
options in the early part of this decade.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Human-powered
news tracker launches Blogged.com's new Internet news memetracker helps news hounds follow
the breaking hot stories.
(Posted in Webware
by Josh Lowensohn)
Obama
flip-flops on telecom immunity Barack Obama supporters are lashing out against the Democratic
presidential candidate for changing his position on the telecom
immunity issue.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Office
subscription service ready to go Circuit City will be the first to offer the $69 per-year service, which
bundles Microsoft's Office Home and Student and the OneCare antivirus
software.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Start-ups
in trouble: Blame the messenger? The hyperactive tech press thrives on "newness," but the real
story
is often whether last year's next big thing is doing well or falling
apart.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
PlayStation
3 gets firmware upgrade The 2.40 software update for Sony's latest video game console
adds
in-game Cross Media Bar access, a trophy system, and a shortcut to
Google searches.
(Posted in Crave
by John Falcone)
Should
troubled start-ups blame the messenger? The hyperactive tech press thrives on "newness," but the real
story
is often whether last year's next big thing is doing well or falling
apart.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Apple
considering slider-style iPhone? New report suggests that company has developed prototypes of an iPhone
with a hardware keyboard that slides under the display, but it won't be
out until next year.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Adobe
unveils Reader 9 with Flash The latest version of Adobe's free PDF-reading software, which plays
movies and animation for the first time, is available.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elsa Wenzel)
The
rising cost of texting Text message prices have risen as quickly as gas prices at the pump
over the past two years. What gives?
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
videoDrivers
caught red-handed holding phone CNET.com's Kara Tsuboi
rides along with the California Highway Patrol as officers nab
violators on the first day of the state's new hands-free law.
(Posted in CNET TV)
Facebook
close to putting ConnectU behind it Facebook founder's legal dispute with former college buddies
may be
winding down, but CNET still wants to see some of the sealed documents
in the case.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
'The
Onion' offers lesson in Viral Video 101 The humorists at alternative news site The Onion
report that the country is burning through the precious resource of
Miley Cyrus and we're headed for doom.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
Microsoft
to buy Powerset Confirming reports from last week, Microsoft says it is indeed buying
the semantic search company.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Skype
taps former Motorola exec as COO Scott Durchslag, who led the strategy and innovation efforts
for
Motorola's mobile device unit, becomes the Internet calling provider's
chief operating officer.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Images:
Dubai's skyscraper in motion Architect David Fisher says that by the end of 2010, an
80-story
tower in Dubai will stand tall as the world's first-ever shape-shifting
skyscraper.
(Posted in Image
Galleries)
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