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restore the entire machine including operating system, applications,
and all the data in the event of a fatal system crash or virus attack
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Fiji
not happy with Microsoft's 'Fiji' Island nation none too pleased that Microsoft is using the name. Will
it be mollified knowing it is just a code name for a Windows Media
Center update?
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
'WoW'
to sell token device for added security Electronic device offers code that World of Warcraft
account holders can use as optional security measure when logging on to
thwart account hijacking attempts.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Andreessen
to join Facebook's board There's no conflict of interest with Marc Andreessen's
social-networking start-up Ning, both companies say. The veteran
entrepreneur will provide some guidance to Mark Zuckerberg and his
largely young team.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Apple
updates Leopard to 10.5.4 The latest version of Apple's Mac OS X Leopard is ready for
installation, with fixes to applications like iCal and a few
security-related updates.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Sprint
may be making a comeback Word has it that Sprint Nextel is turning things around with the new
Samsung Instinct smartphone.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
iPhone
3G to need 'unbricking' when purchased? Apple and AT&T had said new iPhones would have to be
activated
in-store at time of purchase, but it looks like store employees will
actually need to "unbrick" the phones.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Yahoo's
version of the past 5 months As it gears up for a proxy battle, Yahoo releases its version of a
detailed timeline of Microsoft's failed buyout. Sometimes, the devil is
in the details.
(Posted in News
Blog by Dawn Kawamoto)
Sunday,
June 29
q&a
Verizon's
fiber guru talks strategy Mark Wegleitner, CTO of the company's broadband division, talks about
the Comcast-BitTorrent controversy and the future of Verizon's
fiber-to-the-home network.
Web
still taking backseat to TV at Olympics Despite great strides in bringing online content to viewers over the
years, NBC is still putting restrictions on content that are intended
to keep you in front of your TV.
(Posted in News
Blog by Steven Musil)
EMI
sues Hi5, VideoEgg over user-uploaded videos Record label defends copyrights of songs from the Spice Girls, Roxette,
and other pop stars of yesteryear, claiming "massive and blatant"
infringement by Hi5 users.
(Posted in News
Blog by Jennifer Guevin)
Twitter's
weakening pulse The digital natives who love Twitter are getting restless as company
engineers try to save the patient from flatlining.
(Posted in Outside
the Lines by Dan Farber)
iPhone
gets one step closer to China Earlier this month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs hinted that the iPhone would
eventually come to China, but making that happen hasn't been easy.
(Posted in News
Blog)
Search
ads trigger trademark lawsuit NameSafe, an identity theft protection company, has sued rival
LifeLock for allegedly placing ads that prominently use its name.
Yahoo
ups annual domain registration fees Users are notified via e-mail that annual service fee for
small-business site has increased by $25. And not everyone is happy
about it.
(Posted in News
Blog by Holly Jackson)
David
Sedaris: I'm a Mac Until a few years ago, he was a typewriter guy. But traveling
with
the thing became an added pain after Sept. 11. These days, the author
uses a MacBook Air.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Virgin
Mobile USA buys Helio for $39 million The two mobile virtual-network operators combining forces to better
compete against the big nationwide carriers: AT&T, Verizon
Wireless, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile USA.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Marking
Gates' last day--with videos To mark Bill Gates' last day as a full-time employee of Microsoft,
we'll have plenty of coverage all day. First up, videos from over the
years.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
ConnectU
founders make U.S. Olympic crew team Best known as the twins who sued Facebook's founder, Cameron and Tyler
Winklevoss will now be known for something else: the men's straight
pair event in the Olympics.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
London
transit cards cracked and cloned Researchers clone public transit cards in London to demonstrate
vulnerabilities in the Mifare Classic smartcard used by millions
worldwide.
(Posted in Defense
in Depth by Robert Vamosi)
Palm
still waiting for new products to end losses Company's fourth fiscal quarter was just like the last few: sales of
the Centro are taking off, but Palm's making little if any money on the
sale of each $99 smartphone.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Report:
Microsoft to buy Powerset Software behemoth has agreed to buy the semantic search engine for a
price of upwards of $100 million, according to VentureBeat.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
ICANN
adopts new Web site naming rules The Internet organization loosens its rules to allow companies, cities,
and others to use just about any suffix they want for a Web address.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Fingerprint
registry encounters Senate setback Vote on housing bill likely to be postponed a bit. It's
unclear
whether there's sufficient interest in eliminating bill's section
creating national fingerprint registry.
(Posted in The
Iconoclast by Declan McCullagh)
Icahn
battles for Yahoo's gold Billionaire files proxy statement, urging shareholders to send in
gold-colored ballot and vote for his slate of directors. (It's white
for Yahoo's current board.)
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
I'm
In Like With You raises $1.5 million Spark Capital leads the funding round with contributions from
Betaworks, Ron Conway, and Marc Andreessen. Site now turns focus to
multiuser casual games.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Atom
Films relaunched as Comedy Central kin Short-form comedy, from sketch to animation to prank videos, is the
name of the game at the new Atom.com, touted as "jukebox-style, proudly
low-budget, (and) super-late-night."
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Mobile
Linux standards forum gives up Efforts to standardize mobile Linux get put on hold after the Linux
Phone Standards Forum announced it's merging with the Linux Mobile
Foundation.
(By David Meyer of ZDNet
UK)
Microsoft
tries to hit VMware where they ain't Faced with wooing rivals' virtualization customers, Microsoft
execs
say they initially expect its biggest market for Hyper-V will be among
those not already using server virtualization.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Facebook
suspends app that built peephole Security hole in the Top Friends application let strangers view the
birth dates and relationship statuses of anyone on Facebook--including
possibly Paris Hilton.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Score
one for the clean-tech do-gooders Dell hits server efficiency--a good first step, but the bigger question
of clean technology and curbing data centers' energy output remains a
jump ball.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
The
new geek chic: Data centers At GigaOM's Structure 08 conference in San Francisco,
infrastructure--"clouds" of servers, storage, and networks--is the
headliner.
(Posted in Outside
the Lines by Dan Farber)
Adobe
says Acrobat 9 is good to go In combination with the new Acrobat.com service, Acrobat 9 lets
multiple users collaborate in real-time online to share documents.
(Posted in News
Blog by Mike Ricciuti)
Social
network Multiply goes premium High-resolution photo storage and ad-free browsing are part of
the
new paid account system, as Multiply targets grownups who don't want
their photos all over the Web.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Free
Wi-Fi at Beijing Olympics? It's spotty so far As testing begins for Chinacomm's Wicity Internet access in key parts
of Beijing, free until after the Summer Olympic Games, service is
spotty in advertised coverage areas.
(Posted in Sinobyte
by Graham Webster)
Dell
hits server efficiency targets a year early PC and server vendors are starting to comply with published
industry
standards for energy consumption, which should make comparing products
easier.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
SodaHead.com
slurps up $8.4 million Polling start-up, founded by a former MySpace veteran, says great ad
revenues are on the horizon because it can easily target users'
preferences.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Comcast's
goal: Integrate the screens Webware's Rafe Needleman interviews Amy Banse, head of Comcast
Interactive Media and architect of the company's buys of Fandango,
Plaxo, and other Web 2.0 companies.
(Posted in Webware
by Rafe Needleman)
Vint
Cerf: Video downloading is the future Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet and Google's
chief
Internet evangelist, talks with Beet.tv's Andy Plesser about the future
of video and broadband.
(Posted in Outside
the Lines by Dan Farber)
Charter
drops controversial tracking program Internet service provider announces it is indefinitely suspending the
use of a controversial tool to track its customers' movement on the
Web.
(Posted in News
Blog by Steven Musil)
New
group makes broadband a national priority FCC commissioner Jonathan Adelstein joins Net pioneer Vint
Cerf and
others to form "Internet for Everyone" initiative for making broadband
top on policy makers' agendas.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Lawsuit
accuses Google of trade secret theft Court filing says Google
purloined secrets from an erstwhile
partner, LimitNone, which sold a product that helps customers move data
from Microsoft Outlook to Google Apps.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stephen Shankland)
Yahoo
licenses neighborhood map data Urban Mapping's
neighborhood boundary data is expected to improve geographic-related
search results on Yahoo.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stephen Shankland)
Google
tool lets advertisers scrutinize site stats Ad Planner, which competes
with offerings from ComScore and Nielsen
Online, is designed to let advertisers find Web sites with particular
demographic characteristics.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stephen Shankland)
SAP
chief: Big software isn't going away Web-based business software
sold by companies like Salesforce.com
will likely augment, not replace, complex enterprise systems, SAP's CEO
Henning Kagermann says.
(Posted in News
Blog by Mike Ricciuti)
Facebook-ConnectU
hearing ends with no ruling
ConnectU's founders want to reopen a settlement, saying Facebook
entered into it fraudulently. A federal magistrate said he wanted to
get started behind closed doors.
(Posted in News
Blog by Declan McCullagh)
T-Mobile
to prorate early termination fees
Mobile operator has outlined details of its new policy, which reduces
the cost of ending a cell phone contract early over time.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Photos:
Boeing's Dreamliner feels the power
Electricity flows into first 787 on the assembly line--months behind
schedule, but Boeing is upbeat in its latest progress report.
Marc
Benioff's mantra: Anything but Microsoft
Latest alliance with Google is part of Salesforce.com CEO Marc
Benioff's quest to remake the software world and replace Microsoft as a
leading business software platform.
(Posted in Outside
the Lines by Dan Farber)
IAC
ad network to cover brands it's ditching
Media and retail conglomerate InterActiveCorp, which is set to split
into five companies, will focus its new ad network on demographic
niches, with keen attention paid to "affluents."
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Delaying
news in the Internet era
Tim Russert's death and NBC's decision to delay reporting it until
family members were informed came face-to-face with the instantaneous
nature of the Net.
(From The New
York Times)
Nokia
to acquire Plazes, eyes geo market
In a market where start-ups in the location-based mobile apps are a
dime a dozen, Nokia makes its pick for its growing software arsenal.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Disney
sells Movies.com to Comcast's Fandango
Ticketing site, which Comcast purchased last year, will be
able to
provide more movie news and reviews information with the Movies.com
acquisition.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Microsoft's
Kevin Johnson on Yahoo
An article out of Europe suggests the top-level exec said Microsoft
would bid for a Yahoo under new management, but the software giant says
such words were never uttered.
(Posted in News
Blog by Dawn Kawamoto)
'Guitar
Hero,' 'Rock Band' soon playing Beatles?
Representatives of the band's music are in talks with Activision and
MTV Games to license the Fab Four's tunes for use in the video games,
according to the Financial Times.
Obama
vs. McCain: It's Twitter time The YouTube debate was so 2007. Representatives for the two
candidates are going head to head right now in a Twitter debate
sponsored by the Personal Democracy Forum.
(Posted in News
Blog by Michelle Meyers)
Photos:
Top 10 reviews of the week CNET Reviews rates the LG Decoy phone, the Firefox 3 browser, a
contoured keyboard from Kinesis, and more.
Saturday,
June 21
California
pols ask ISPs to block child porn Governor and attorney general are asking more Internet service
providers to follow lead of Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint in
trying to block access to child porn.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Jammie
Thomas likely to get another day in court A move's afoot to get a new trial for Jammie Thomas. She's Minnesota
woman a court ordered to pay recording industry $222,000 for copyright
violations related to sharing songs.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Photos:
Green building gear in Gotham The Green BuildingsNY event this week had a little bit of everything,
from LED lights to living walls and recyclable carpets.
ComScore:
Facebook is beating MySpace For the first time, the Mark Zuckerberg-founded social network has
passed its bigger corporate rival in global visitors--but it still lags
behind in the U.S. (Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Verizon
edges closer toward open network Company says it has certified the first device for its new open network
initiative, but offers no details about the new handset.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
California
pols ask ISPs to block child porn Governor and attorney
general are asking more Internet service
providers to follow lead of Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint in
trying to block access to child porn.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
ComScore:
Facebook is beating MySpace For the first time, the
Mark Zuckerberg-founded social network has
passed its bigger corporate rival in global visitors--but it still lags
behind in the U.S.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Jammie
Thomas likely to get another day in court A move's afoot to get a new
trial for Jammie Thomas. She's Minnesota
woman a court ordered to pay recording industry $222,000 for copyright
violations related to sharing songs.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Photos:
Green building gear in Gotham The Green BuildingsNY event
this week had a little bit of everything, from LED lights to living
walls and recyclable carpets.
Verizon
edges closer toward open network Company says it has
certified the first device for its new open network
initiative, but offers no details about the new handset.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
eBay
pumps up PayPal protections Starting this fall, the
company says it will cover 100 percent of the
price of items in soured transactions for both buyers and sellers using
PayPal.
(Posted in News
Blog by Jonathan Skillings)
Ballmer:
Spending spree is not plan B Reiterating earlier
comments, Microsoft's CEO says the company has no
plans to make up for a failed Yahoo bid by acquiring a string of other
companies.
(Posted in News
Blog by Mike Ricciuti)
Mini-subs
exploring Sacramento River UC Berkeley researchers are
developing new devices to better
understand how water flows from California's Sierra Nevada into
drinking water supplies.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Carl-Gustav Linden)
Project
to use coal to grow algae for biofuel Two companies--one in
Seattle, the other in Tel Aviv--are working
together to use coal plant emissions to feed algae in order to create
biofuels.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Infosys:
Holograms on handsets by 2010 Devices being developed
will routinely beam 3D films, games, and
virtual goods into our laps, according to the Indian tech giant.
(By Nick Heath of Silicon.com)
Intel's
Classmate PC adds some Sugar Company spun off from rival One Laptop Per Child will develop a version
of the Sugar user interface for the Intel low-cost laptop platform.
(Posted in News
Blog by Erica Ogg)
Register.com
probing Photobucket DNS hijack Photobucket's domain registration firm is investigating a DNS hijack
that caused outage for customers of the photo site for as long as two
days.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Former
Nortel execs face criminal charges The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have charged three former Nortel
execs on several criminal fraud-related counts.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Facebook's
No. 5 employee to join VC firm Many early employees of companies such as Google and Yahoo are hearing
the call of venture investing, but the exit of Facebook's Matt Cohler
for Benchmark Capital will be a first for high-flying social network.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
AT&T
paying Apple $325 per iPhone 3G? New subsidies could be as high as $325 per iPhone, somewhat higher than
carriers pay for other smartphones, according to one analyst.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Cloned
dogs could fetch big bucks Biotech start-up BioArts is giving five bidders the opportunity to
replicate their canines. Do I hear $100,000?
(Posted in News
Blog by Holly Jackson)
Netflix
to eliminate profiles, instigate roommate feuds The rental-by-mail service is eliminating a feature that allows a
single account to be split into separate profiles for family members or
housemates. At least some members aren't happy.
(Posted in News
Blog by Caroline McCarthy)
Nvidia
plays hardball with 3D card pricing As part of an effort to regulate advertised pricing, Nvidia is
requiring certain retailers to make consumers click through to their
shopping cart in order to see prices for Nvidia-based 3D graphics
cards.
(Posted in News
Blog by Rich Brown)
Wednesday,
June 18
images
Futuristic
PCs trump the beige box Winners of Microsoft-sponsored Next-Gen PC Design Competition dream up
concepts that tap into niches like travel, sports, fitness, cooking,
and children.
Sprint
to launch WiMax service in September CEO Dan Hesse tells NxtComm attendees that Sprint Nextel's WiMax
service will be available commercially in Baltimore starting in
September.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Google:
Make computers think like humans Google has untold thousands of computers, but the head of the company's
search work says the difficulty is making them understand the human
mind. (Posted in News
Blog by Stephen Shankland)
New
geotagging method draws on Flickr photos Adding location information to photos is hard. Carnegie Mellon has
found an easier way: compare your photo with similar ones on Flickr
that already are geotagged. (Posted in Underexposed
by Stephen Shankland)
Microsoft
looks to nab Yahoo workers Software maker touts fact that it has search-related jobs available in
the Valley and in a not-so-subtle way suggests it, rather than Yahoo,
is a company committed to search.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Verizon
plans more Fios for cities Company says it will target more large cities, such as Philadelphia and
Washington, D.C., as it deploys its Fios fiber-to-the-home broadband
and video service.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Cell
phones to measure blood sugar levels? Georgetown University teams with two other tech research firms to
develop a new way to measure the glucose levels of diabetes patients
without a finger prick.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
AMD
eyeing netbooks with low-power chip? Presentation slide for a new AMD processor has turned up, perhaps
signaling company's future intention to spruce up products for small
notebooks and handheld devices.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Report:
YouTube looking to long-form video Video-sharing site is doing away with its 10-minute maximum for at
least some videographers. Move comes as company struggles to boost
revenues.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
'One
Red Paperclip' house up for bids Got something interesting to barter with? The blogger who achieved fame
and a house by trading up from a single paper clip wants to hear from
you.
(Posted in News
Blog by Jonathan Skillings)
Europe's
first mobile WiMax launches Amsterdam is the first site for a commercial network that uses
a
mobile version of the WiMax standard to enable broadband browsing on
the go.
(From Reuters)
photosA
soft landing at Rocket Park News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman visits the U.S. Space and Rocket
Center in Huntsville, Ala., checking out what former astronaut John
Glenn has called the "finest rocket collection in the world."
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Google
App Engine suffers outages Google's vaunted facility for hosting Web applications is experiencing
problems. The company is "working hard" to track down the source and
fix it.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stephen Shankland)
New
DNSChanger Trojan variant targets routers New variant of trojan changes DNS look-up settings on routers, putting
any computer on the network at risk of being sent to malicious Web
sites.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Web
ad sales lose momentum in first quarter From January to March, Internet ad spending hit $5.8 billion, down from
an all-time recorded high of $5.9 billion in the fourth quarter of
2007, new research shows.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
AT&T
CEO looks toward mobility for growth Randall Stephenson believes that mobility will accelerate growth in the
telecom market, but companies will have to work together to reap the
benefits.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Economics
of alternative energy improve A study predicts that falling prices means solar energy could provide
10 percent of U.S. electricity by 2025, while rising fossil fuel prices
give hybrids a boost.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Totlol:
YouTube for 6-month-olds The month-old Web site leaves it up to parents to moderate which
YouTube videos their kids can see.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
GPU
standard may start with Apple's OpenCL PC and mobile-computing industries are looking at ways to exploit
graphics processors on future computers--and they'll will start with
Apple's OpenCL technology.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Photos:
Toshiba takes on MacBook Air, gamer laptops Toshiba's new notebook lineup includes a super-skinny model with a
bigger hard drive than the MacBook Air, a flaming red gaming laptop,
and one that runs on Cell-chip technology.
Not
guilty plea for former Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas III responds in court to charges stemming from an
alleged stock options backdating conspiracy and to federal drug
charges.
(From Reuters)
Mom
in MySpace hoax pleads not guilty Woman charged with conspiracy for creating fake MySpace account used to
taunt teen denies role in girl's suicide.
(Posted in News
Blog by Holly Jackson)
Apple
settles suit over iPhone visual voice mail Klausner Technologies can now count Apple and AT&T as licensees
of
its technology after convincing them to settle a patent-infringement
lawsuit filed last year over the iPhone.(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
photos Dinosaur
Sighting: The Mac Classic The
shape of the Apple Mac
is still an icon of personal computing, and a reminder of the days when
$1,000 got you a monochrome display.
SproutCore
to spruce up Safari Web apps? SproutCore could allow Apple developers to use an open-source Web
development technology to build desktop-like applications without
Adobe's Flash.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Windows
XP era draws to a close Love it or hate it, Vista will soon be the only Windows game in town
for most computer buyers. News.com's Ina Fried takes a look at the
dwindling options for those who want to buy XP.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Google
prepping broadband-monitoring tools Internet giant is reportedly developing a suite of tools to help
broadband users identify traffic discrimination by their Internet
service providers.
(Posted in News
Blog by Steven Musil)
Motorola
to halve research labs To reduce costs, the loss-making mobile-phone maker will halt projects
and transfer some employees to other units.
(From Reuters)
Verizon:
Drop your landline, get a discount Wireless operator says it will offer discounts to landline-free
wireless customers who combine Internet or TV service from the company.
(Posted in News
Blog by Leslie Katz)
Circling
the wagons against Nick Carr Author's provocative Atlantic essay asks whether
the Net is turning us into multitasking scatterbrains. It's not such a
far-fetched question.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Google-Yahoo
deal good for IM, but... Tucked into the Yahoo-Google ad deal is an agreement to bridge IM
services. That's great news for users, but it doesn't fix underlying
flaws of online chat.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stephen Shankland)
No
unmasking of MySpace profile spoofer MySpace won't have to reveal name of spoof profile creator in case
involving Illinois official who declined to provide details of alleged
defamation.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Web
video pioneer returns with checkbook Tom McInerney, co-founder of video-sharing site Guba, invests in
Shopflick, a site with aspirations of becoming the Web's version of the
Home Shopping Network.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
No
unmasking of MySpace profile spoofer MySpace won't have to reveal name of spoof profile creator in case
involving Illinois official who declined to provide details of alleged
defamation.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Web
video pioneer returns with checkbook Tom McInerney, co-founder of video-sharing site Guba, invests in
Shopflick, a site with aspirations of becoming the Web's version of the
Home Shopping Network.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
Fake
Steve says namaste to 'Newsweek' The outed author of the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs blog, Daniel Lyons,
is taking his show over to Newsweek after a decade
at magazine-publishing rival Forbes.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Acer
promotes top execs Company President Gianfranco Lanci moves into CEO role, and Chairman
J.T. Wang takes over as Acer Group chief.
(Posted in News
Blog by Erica Ogg)
Facebook
F8 conference set for July 23 Social-networking company, which recently reached a unique-user
milestone, is bringing its developer community together in San
Francisco its second annual F8 platform conference.
(Posted in News
Blog by Dan Farber)
Humanoid
Reem-B robot walks, talks, listens Abu Dhabi-based company shows off an autonomous robot developed in
Spain that is capable of walking, talking, grasping objects, and
responding to voice commands.
(Posted in Planetary
Gear by Candace Lombardi)
MySpace
to release major site redesign Over the past six months, News Corp.'s social network has been working
on a revamp of the entire site--just as rival Facebook has been working
on interior decoration as well.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
The
Enterprise 2.0 mishmash of muddle Over the next year we'll see the hype around Enterprise 2.0 reach a
fever pitch, and many will be lost in disillusionment when most of the
panning fails to yield gold. (Posted in The Open
Road by Matt Asay)
Congressmen
say Chinese compromised PCs China denies compromising computers of two U.S. congressmen who have
criticized the country's human rights record. (Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
FCC
mulls wireless termination fees Federal Communications Commission is considering ways to lessen the
impact of early termination fees, as a California court upholds the
fees in a case against Sprint Nextel.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Silicone
chipmaker fights for patent rights, IPO Biochips that speed up lab tests can help researchers analyze the
genetic makeup of an unborn child. They can also spark drama in the
courts.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
2008
a peak growth year for laptops, analysts say Tech analyst firm IDC predicts that portable personal computers, helped
by popular mininotebooks, will help keep average selling prices up,
boosting the worldwide market.
(Posted in News
Blog by Erica Ogg)
Microsoft
gets bipartisan support The software maker, already supplying tech for the Democratic National
Committee, lands a deal to offer up its wares at the Republican confab.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Wednesday,
June 11
Internet
Week New York: Let it blend Media
companies big and small pitched in for the city's first-ever digital
culture festival, but there wasn't enough of the cohesion and
collaboration that the industry needs.
At
NBA finals, tech puts on full-court press News.com's
Erica Ogg goes behind the scenes to get a look at the gear used in
gathering, analyzing, and distributing real-time stats.
eBay
ends online ads sales system Internet auction house pulls the plug on Media Marketplace, a
controversial pilot program designed to buy and sell radio and TV
advertising on the Internet. (Posted in News
Blog by Steven Musil)
Casual
games help disabled, survey says Study concludes that disabled gamers play puzzles, trivia, and arcade
games more often--and reap benefits such as stress relief and
distraction from ailments.
(Posted in News
Blog by Holly Jackson)
Turning
the TV into a 'social-media center' Like Microsoft and Apple, start-up Boxee wants to tie televisions to
computers, eventually enabling users of social networks to update their
profile through a living-room set.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
Microsoft
creating TownSquare Site to blend Facebook-like functions with SharePoint feeds, according
to a Computerworld report.
(Posted in News
Blog by Rafe Needleman)
Study:
Display ad growth dips in first quarter Sales of Internet display ads rose 8.5 percent in the first three
months of 2008, off their double-digit percentage growth of years past.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
Toyota
to make plug-in hybrid by 2010 In a break with the Prius, the Japanese carmaker plans to
produce
lithium ion batteries for a plug-in hybrid fleet of vehicles geared
toward customers in Japan, the States, and Europe.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Google's
Brin books space flight The company co-founder has paid a $5 million deposit for an advanced
ticket aboard Space Adventures' new rocket.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Apple's
Jobs: P.A. Semi to design iPhone chips The engineers Apple acquired from P.A. Semi will be put to work
designing the system-on-chips that will power future iPhones and iPods,
says Steve Jobs.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Tackling
Facebook's 'app spam' problem Panel at Graphing Social Patterns: East conference pits
moderator
against four high-ranking Facebook Platform officials. Here's a
preview: Lots of talking points.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Tuesday,
June 10
New
York pushes ISPs to curb Usenet access Time
Warner Cable pulls the plug on all newsgroups after the state AG's
office finds child porn on 88 of them. Verizon and Sprint plan to limit
Usenet too.
Movie
industry taps FCC to change rules The FCC is considering a proposal submitted by the Motion Picture
Association that would bring new movies to living rooms quicker, but it
could also restrict the use of DVRs.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Self-driving
Ford hybrid SUV for sale, only $89K Torc Technologies, which worked with Virginia Tech on a vehicle that
placed third in DARPA's Urban Grand Challenge, is offering researchers
a version of its creation.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
O2
offers U.K. iPhone users upgrade path to 3G Current iPhone users will be able to get a free upgrade to the
faster model if they pick an expensive rate plan and sign up for a new
18-month contract.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
iRobot
sets sights at sea The Roomba and PackBot manufacturer secures exclusive rights to develop
an autonomous underwater vehicle for commercial use.
(Posted in Planetary
Gear by Candace Lombardi)
Another
lawsuit for Time Warner Cable? Costa Mesa, Calif., is considering suing the cable provider for what
the city says is poor service. That would make it the second such
lawsuit in the Los Angeles area.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Youths
ordered to apologize on YouTube A Florida judge rules that two teenagers must post a video apology for
a malicious prank against a fast-food worker that they'd uploaded to
the Google video-sharing site.
(Posted in News
Blog by Dawn Kawamoto)
Cisco
acquires video management start-up DiviTech's software enables broadcasters and TV service providers to
provision programming for specific geographic areas.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Amazon.com
suffers another outage After
a mysterious 2-hour TKO Friday, the e-commerce site on Monday goes on
the fritz again, this time for users in the U.S. and the U.K.
AT&T's
iPhone 3G subsidy will cost 'em AT&T and Apple renegotiate their iPhone deal, allowing
AT&T to
subsidize the new handset. But the subsidy comes at a price for the
mobile carrier.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Sun's
Gage joins Gore in clean-tech investing John Gage, the man who coined the phrase "the network is the computer,"
has left Sun Microsystems to become a venture capitalist with Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
Mac
OS X 10.6 details leak out New operating system, which Apple hopes to ship in "about a year," will
bolster support for multicore processors and graphics chips, but focus
on stability over flash.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
As
gas costs climb, driving dwindles With average gasoline prices topping $4 per gallon, more Americans plan
to limit driving without ditching their cars altogether, according to a
AAA Fuel Gauge Report survey.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Elsa Wenzel)
WiMax
patent alliance announced Six companies together launch a patent pool to keep the cost of WiMax
patents affordable for businesses developing devices that connect to
the broadband wireless network.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Study:
Tykes, teens outdo adults on Youtube A new study from Nielsen
Online shows that the largest number of
preschoolers and preteens go to YouTube for video. Is this a sign of
TV's future?
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
Cell
phone operators cautiously back Wi-Fi As cell phone carriers wait for 4G, some are turning to Wi-Fi. But
they're being careful about how much they integrate it into their
service.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
EMI
hires 'Second Life' co-founder Record label continues to
hire tech whiz kids to help it navigate
the Digital Age. The latest: virtual-world designer Cory Ondrejka, to
watch over digital strategy.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
Mark
Lucosky visits the Gillmor Gang Google's Mark Lucovsky talks about search APIs, cache semantics, cloud
computing, Live Mesh, and his fondness for Microsoft Outlook.
(Posted in Outside
the Lines by Dan Farber)
3G
iPhone in the flesh? CrunchGear has some alleged photos of the phantom 3G iPhone, or iPhone
2, which is expected to debut June 9.
(Posted in News
Blog by Dan Farber)
T-Mobile
sues Starbucks over Wi-Fi deal T-Mobile says the coffee giant "secretly" developed a plan with
AT&T to provide Wi-Fi at its cafes, despite an exclusive
partnership with T-Mobile.
Report:
Hans Reiser might lead authorities to wife's body Deal could be in the works in which Linux programmer convicted of
murdering his estranged wife would disclose the body's location in
exchange for a reduced sentence.
(Posted in News
Blog by Michelle Meyers)
Apple
eyeing Nvidia's CUDA technology? CUDA makes it easier for developers to exploit Nvidia's
graphics
chips, and Apple might be getting ready to formally welcome that
technology into Mac OS X.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Yahoo
SearchMonkey gallery now live Gallery of SearchMonkey add-ons to gussy up Yahoo search results is
live, and some of the extensions look useful.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stephen Shankland)
Why
Mark Cuban's only half right about tiered broadband There's no argument that the Internet is getting clogged up by massive
dumps of video--and that's only going to get worse. But there are
better ideas than a pay-as-you go approach.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Windows
Live Expo set to expire next month The classifieds site started by Microsoft's Web services division will
be kaput on July 31, according to a notice on the home page.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
USB
3.0 spurs spat among chipmakers The
spec should be 10 times faster than current connections. AMD and Nvidia
say that Intel's grip on it could make them late to the game.
Apple
eyeing Nvidia's CUDA technology? CUDA makes it easier for developers to exploit Nvidia's graphics chips,
and Apple might be getting ready to formally welcome that technology
into Mac OS X.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Yahoo
SearchMonkey gallery now live Gallery of SearchMonkey add-ons to gussy up Yahoo search results is
live, and some of the extensions look useful.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stephen Shankland)
Why
Mark Cuban's only half right about tiered broadband There's no argument that the Internet is getting clogged up by massive
dumps of video--and that's only going to get worse. But there are
better ideas than a pay-as-you go approach.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Windows
Live Expo set to expire next month The classifieds site started by Microsoft's Web services division will
be kaput on July 31, according to a notice on the home page.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
FTC
plans formal investigation of Intel Chipmaker has been under fire for its business practices in other parts
of the world, but its home country finally opens its own investigation
into alleged anticompetitive conduct.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Live
coverage of WWDC 2008 starts Monday We'll have live coverage of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference
beginning at 10 a.m. PDT, and complete coverage of all WWDC news later
in the day.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Is
the Verizon-Alltel deal good for consumers? The $28.1 billion merger on its own won't likely impact pricing, but if
the market continues to consolidate, prices could stagnate, especially
for data services.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
U.S.
climate bill blocked Debate on Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act is scuttled.
Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency calls for $45 trillion
energy revolution.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Microsoft's
pre-iPhone 'salute' to Apple
A reminder to Windows Mobile partners that Microsoft will sell nearly
20 million Windows Mobile smartphone licenses. The timing--right before
Apple's expected iPhone news--is purely coincidental, we're sure.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Q&A
IBM
AlphaWorks: From software theory to fact
Laura Bennett, senior
engineering manager at IBM's software development community, discusses
how the group helps turn research concepts from the labs into practical
products.
(By Adrian Bridgwater of ZDNet
UK)
True
or false: Is file swapping legal?
Students at one Missouri university have to ace a pop quiz on digital
copyright law if they want to access peer-to-peer software on campus.
(Posted in News
Blog by Holly Jackson)
FCC
decision on XM-Sirius merger coming soon
After 16 months of evaluating the merger between XM Satellite Radio and
Sirius Satellite Radio, FCC chairman says a decision will be announced
soon.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Facebook:
How much do you hate that ad
Members of the social-networking site can now give thumbs-up and
thumbs-down to advertisements, which might actually get users to start
paying attention and clicking through.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
ConnectU:
We're not through with Zuckerberg
Longstanding lawsuit from three of the young Facebook CEO's former
Harvard classmates hits a new development as they claim to have come
across incriminating IM conversations.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Microsoft
rallies behind PC gaming
Kevin Unangst, senior director of global gaming, has made the rounds to
dispel the notion that PC gaming is in trouble. Company also has big
plans for Games for Windows Live.
(Posted in Crave
by Rich Brown)
Who's
afraid of online video? Not Michael Eisner
At Digital Content Newfronts event in New York, former Disney chief
preached a familiar gospel to advertisers: online video might not be a
treasure trove yet, but it will be. (Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
NASA
spawns smart twin in 'Second Life'
Space agency is trying all manner of Web 2.0 tools to promote missions
to the tech-savvy crowd. First it was tweeting, and now it has a
cybertwin.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
Gates-Ballmer
rifts marked Microsoft power shift
The chairman and CEO have been close friends and business partners for
nearly 30 years. But they sometimes clashed over sharing power,
according to a Journal report.
(Posted in News
Blog by Mike Ricciuti)
The
business plan for Windows Vista Microsoft
continues its Vista PR campaign with a message to businesses: move now,
save money, and avoid pain later. But what about Windows 7?
FriendFeed
summaries coming soon Former Googler and FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor offers his views
on Twitter and describes the new summarization feature coming to his
social network.
(Posted in Outside
the Lines by Dan Farber)
Motorola
close to hiring handset chief Company is reportedly closing in on a new CEO for its
soon-to-be-spun-off cell phone business. An HP executive is one of two
finalists mentioned. (Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Yelp
plans debut in location-aware mobile market The business reviews site is working on an application for Apple's
iPhone that will let "Yelpers" find out what's nearby and whether it's
lame, representatives tell News.com.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Google
signs $146 million lease for NASA campus The deal, negotiated over the last year, builds on an agreement the
search giant signed with NASA in September 2005 to collaborate on space
and technology research.
Microsoft
plug-in lets users try group search SearchTogether, an IE7 plug-in, enables people to collectively search
the Web, annotating results, sharing the labor, and saving sessions for
later perusal. (Posted in News
Blog by Stephen Shankland)
Apple's
iPhone coming to Japan One of the most mobile-phone-inundated countries in the world will get
a crack at the iPhone later this year, courtesy of No. 3 carrier
SoftBank.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Pretend
you're a venture capitalist, with VenCorps From the user's perspective, this is a prediction market: You pick
winners and pay for your picks with your online reputation, and get
paid back primarily in kind.
(Posted in Webware
by Rafe Needleman)
Comcast
targets bandwidth hogs in test After coming under fire for targeting peer-to-peer
file-sharing
traffic, Comcast is about to try out a new network management approach
that slows down traffic for heavy bandwidth users.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Take
a look inside, it's my Last.fm In A Box The social music service, now owned by CBS Interactive, will be
distributing its streaming radio stations to partners like Bebo, Ning,
and eMusic.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Siemens
to open wind turbine R&D center in U.S. German industrial company says the planned facility, in collaboration
with the National Renewable Energy Lab, will contribute to Colorado's
green-economy effort.
(Posted in Planetary
Gear by Candace Lombardi)
YouTube
monetization chief departs Shashi Seth, who had led the effort to make money from Google's popular
video-sharing site, has left the company.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stephen Shankland)
Glam
CEO: Female audiences just 'our first target' At the ContentNext EconAds seminar, Samir Arora fleshes out visions for
the ad network's expansion--and denies to comment on whether he made up
buyout rumor. (Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
AT&T
offers free Wi-Fi at Starbucks But to get the free service, customers have to buy a Starbucks Reward
Card with a minimum $5 credit on it and sign up for the service at
Starbucks.com.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Confessions
of a (tech) Deadhead As Seagate CEO Bill Watkins gears up for a fund-raising push
to
house the band's archives at UC Santa Cruz, he bemoans a nascent trend
toward sartorial formality.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Ubuntu
version coming to mobile devices As expected, Canonical says a release of its Ubuntu Linux operating
system called Ubuntu Netbook Remix is in the works for mobile Internet
devices and mininotebooks.
(Posted in News
Blog by Mike Ricciuti)
Legal
P2P music site Qtrax signs EMI Music Last January all four of the major recording companies denied the
start-up's assertion that it had cut deals with them. But now Qtrax is
starting to gather momentum.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
Photos:
Code makers and breakers of WWII era These advanced encryption and decoding machines were key to the message
senders and interpreters of the German, American, British, Polish, and
Japanese military.
Roku's
Netflix Player sells out Two weeks after launch, Roku runs out of its Netflix Player.
Company
says there's at least a two-week wait for new shipments to arrive.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
At
microloan sites, the new college try Social
networking comes to student loans via start-ups GreenNote and Fynanz,
which aim to help defray tuition a few dollars at a time.
MySpace
leads singer to star role with Boston For many, social-networking sites are a way to keep in touch with
friends and family. But they may also be a foot in the door to rock
greatness.
(Posted in News
Blog by Steven Musil)
Google
fixes several site security issues Company blocks cross-site scripting hole at Grand Central site, fixes
Google.com redirect issue, and works to fix redirect problem at
DoubleClick.com.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Networking
with hackers New social network called House of Hackers aims to serve as information
and social hub for people who like to tinker with technology.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Apple's
iPhone loses U.S. market share in Q1 The iPhone is still the second-most sold smartphone in the U.S. behind
RIM's BlackBerry, but RIM and Palm gained ground in the first quarter
at Apple's expense.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Can
tech make chemistry greener? Green chemistry programs have prevented hundreds of millions of tons of
hazardous materials from entering the environment, says EPA official.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Wi-Fi
start-up challenges Bluetooth technology Ozmo Devices launches software and chips that will let Wi-Fi enabled
devices connect to headsets and other peripherals without need for a
separate Bluetooth radio.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Ex-Yahoo
CEO Terry Semel to snap up IMG? The former chief is is reportedly banking on his Internet experience at
Yahoo to bolster IMG's Internet operations and media offerings.
(Posted in News
Blog by Dawn Kawamoto)
Yahoo
fails to keep pay plan details secret Court documents unsealed on Monday show the inner workings of the
company's efforts to create a plan that pays workers in the event of a
takeover.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
roundup The
next wave of PCs New
chips like Intel's
Atom and Nvidia's Tegra are shaping the development of PCs from the Eee
Box desktop to the emerging category of Mobile Internet Devices.
Top
10 reviews of the week photos
CNET Reviews rates a Panasonic Viera flat-panel TV, the Falcon
Northwest Mach V desktop, the Pentax K20D camera, and more.
Is
there a management exodus at Bebo? Angel Gambino, who has been in charge of Bebo's music strategy, has
resigned and is following Bebo's founders--and maybe others--out the
door.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
Yahoo
gets more social with new Messenger beta The new Yahoo Messenger 9 beta lets users import contacts from
other
services, notify others of user activities on Yahoo sites, and play
games.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stephen Shankland)
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