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Google Sees YouTube Products Soon, Warm On Yahoo
Google expects to launch new products for its YouTube Web video service in the next few months and sees reason for closer cooperation with Yahoo, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday.
U.S. Court Mulls Standard For Business Method Patents
A U.S. appeals court heard arguments Thursday over whether a patent should have been issued for a method to reduce the risk of sudden changes in energy costs.
Google Founders Have Grown Up, CEO Says
It's official: The guys who founded Google are grown up.
Rocker Neil Young Steals Limelight At JavaOne
Neil Young is using Java to create a multimedia musical archive of his work, updatable with new material and accessible to millions.
ID Theft Monitoring Services: What You Need To Know
Fee-based services say they'll protect your identity, privacy, credit, name, and more. Find out what they can and can not do -- and learn what you can do to defend yourself.
Windows Vista More Vulnerable To Malware Than Windows 2000
Vista let 639 threats per thousand computers through, compared with 586 for Windows 2000, 478 for Windows 2003, and 1,021 for Windows XP, security vendor PC Tools said.
Microsoft Disbands Board Slate For Yahoo
Microsoft withdrew its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo last weekend after the two sides failed to agree on price.
Vonage Reports 1Q Loss, Slow Customer Growth
The VoIP operator added only 30,000 net subscriber lines in the quarter, a sharp decline from 56,000 additions in the previous three months.
Apple Reportedly Offers $44 Credit To Canadian iPod Owners
The reward is based on a class-action lawsuit complaining some of the rechargeable batteries in devices bought before June 2004 died after three hours of use.
DARPA Plans Cyberwar 'Matrix'
The agency's National Cyber Range for cyberwar simulation would be similar to Star Trek's holodeck or a Snow Crash-style Metaverse.
Intel, Sun: So Happy Together, When It Comes To Software
The joint development efforts have been broader and deeper than anticipated, company executives reveal.
Ultra Low-Cost Notebooks Destined As Second Computers
The most compelling reason to own the small device is to avoid carrying around a heavier and bulkier regular notebook, IDC analysts found.
Activist Investor Carl Icahn Ups Motorola Stake, But Skips Annual Meeting
Investor Carl Icahn put his wallet where his mouth is and increased his stake in the company from 6.4% to 7.6%.
Equipment Makers Make Good In Sprint-Clearwire Match
For example, Airspan's share price jumped by 56% on Wednesday, and Airspan isn't even involved in the WiMax build-out as a primary supplier.
MySpace To Share User Profiles With Other Sites
Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter have joined the site's "data-availability initiative" using OAuth integration technology.
FBI Withdraws Probe Of Wayback Machine Users
The settlement stems from a lawsuit claiming the FBI's request for information about the Internet Archive's Web library violated the First Amendment.
TorrentSpy Ordered To Pay $110 Million In Piracy Case
The Motion Picture Association of America announced that it won a permanent injunction against the site for distribution of pirated video.
Google Cuts Price, Rebrands Postini Security Service
Google has slashed the cost of its security service by 40% and added an optional protection feature for public Wi-Fi users in its continued efforts to lure businesses to Google Apps.
Broadband Over Powerline Future Fading Away
A Texas company's purchase of Current Group's BPL business, combined with downgrades in Australia, does not bode well for future use of utility powerlines for broadband transmission.
Facebook Commits To Stronger Safety And Privacy Measures
Facebook is working with state officials to protect young users of its social networking service.
Climate Researchers Tap 4,000-Chip IBM Supercomputer
Scientists will use the Bluefire computer to model drought patterns, agricultural seasons, global warming, and hurricane development.
Google Among Sites Under Investigation In China For Illegal Mapping
The Chinese government's concern may have been heightened by an image of a new naval base that appeared in magazines and online back in April.
T-Mobile Begins 3G Roll Out, Adds Nearly 1 Million Subscribers
Earlier this week, T-Mobile said it plans to deploy the new high speed network across 20 to 25 of the major U.S. cities it currently serves.
Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain
The problems with XP SP3 range from spontaneous reboots to outright system crashes.
Cablevision To Launch Wireless Broadband Network
Cablevision Systems plans to build a wireless broadband network to serve its subscribers in the New York area.
Nokia Says To Sell 35 Million GPS Phones In 2008
Nokia, the world's top cell phone maker, expects to sell 35 million Global Positioning System equipped phones this year, its chief executive said on Thursday.
Sun Has Ambitious Plans For JavaFX
Sun plans to follow JavaFX for the desktop, due this fall, with JavaFX for mobile devices in the spring of 2009.
Microsoft's Windows Vista Spin Merits Second Look
Vista uptake is unquestionably on the rise, but a variety of factors need to be considered with looking at the numbers, says Gartner.
Embarcadero Buys CodeGear
The price for CodeGear, the business unit of Borland that offers software development tools, is $23 million.
Intel, SGI To Work On NASA Supercomputer
The plan is to build a 1-petaflop system by 2009 and a 10-petaflop supercomputer by 2010.
Think Over Data's Value When Deciding What To Store
A report from the Society of Information Management says it is just as important to figure out what data you can throw out as it is to decide what to store.
Samsung Making 'High-Bright' Digital Signage Panel
The 46-inch display was built for use in transit centers, bus shelters, shopping malls, and at point-of-sale retail locations as a replacement for poster advertisements.
Hackers Join Social Network Craze With 'House Of Hackers'
GnuCitizen's site promotes exchanging ideas through elite circles and tiger/red teams, but frowns on all criminal activities.
Yahoo Behind Them, Microsoft Sends Out Feelers To Facebook
In October, Microsoft took a $240 million stake in Facebook, which valued the start-up at $15 billion.
Hitachi Ships Latest Mobile Hard Drive
Besides notebooks, the 7K320 can be used in compact desktops, gaming systems, blade servers, and video surveillance systems.
Dell Launches Virtualization-Optimized Servers
The PowerEdge R805 and R905 are available with either VMware ESXi 3.5 or Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition hypervisors preinstalled.
Microsoft To Move On Without Yahoo, Gates Says
Despite firm statements by Microsoft's top two leaders that it's no longer interested in acquiring Yahoo, some investors appear confident that a deal will still happen.
Sprint Wins In WiMax Deal, But Risks Still Loom
The nation's No. 3 wireless carrier retained majority ownership in the wireless broadband network while spreading the financial risk across a diverse set of partners.
AMD Plans 12-Core Server Chip In 2010
The chipmaker introduced its two-year product road map for servers and workstations on Wednesday.
MainSoft Integrates Microsoft SharePoint With IBM Lotus Notes
The software allows for drag and drop of documents, spreadsheets and presentations hosted on a SharePoint site from a sidebar into e-mails, calendar appointments and task lists.
Congressman Seeks Second Life Ban In Schools, Libraries
Illinois' Mark Kirk hopes to quash online sex predators lurking around the virtual world by reviving the 2006 Deleting Online Predators Act.
911 Services Can't Handle Advanced Wireless Devices, Services
The 911 Industry Alliance says there is a problem because most call centers are analog and digital data isn't delivered.
Windows XP SP3 Now Available For Public Download
The service pack contains all the updates issued since SP2 was released in 2004, as well as new elements, including several borrowed from Vista.
Fake MP3 Trojan Detected On 27% Of PCs
McAfee Avert Labs says more than half a million of the adware programs disguised as media files have been detected in less than a week.
Sprint, Clearwire Partner With Intel, Cable Companies To Spread WiMax
Google, Comcast, Time Warner, Intel, and others are investing $3.2 billion to resuscitate the Sprint-Clearwire WiMax partnership.
MySpace Traffic Down From Last Year
Still, MySpace held 73.82% of the market share of U.S. visits in April, and Facebook accounted for 14.8%.
Grand Theft Auto Reaps Record Sales
About 6 million copies of the game have been sold worldwide, which marks a retail value of more than $500 million, in its first week of release.
Hacker Kept On NDS Payroll After Accused Of Piracy
A high-ranking News Corp. official testified Tuesday that he kept two hackers on the payroll for years after one of them was accused of infiltrating the security system of rival satellite television company Dish Network.
Mac Clone Offered On eBay
The unauthorized Apple desktop was flaunted with an Intel Core 2 Duo chip, 2 GB of memory, a 250-GB 7200 RPM serial ATA hard drive, and an Intel 3-D graphics chip.
Network Operations 2.0 Helps JBoss Manage Itself Better
The software establishes a simple, customizable agent on a piece of middleware that can report measurements and activity on the application related to its operational health.
World Of Warcraft's Legal War To Defend Copyrights Heats Up
Advocacy group Public Knowledge claims Blizzard's use of copyright infringement laws to crack down on MDY's Glide automation software is outrageous.
Cisco Quarterly Results Top Expectations
Analysts point to strong demand from global telecommunications service providers, though they remained cautious over the strength of U.S. enterprise spending.
Electronic Arts Looks To Wii To Drive Sports Growth
Key games such as "Madden" football, "NBA Live," and "FIFA" soccer are expected to come out in special versions for the game console soon.
Another Google Executive Joins Facebook
Eliot Schrage joins several other former Googlers at Facebook, including Sheryl Sandberg, who left her job as Google's VP of global online sales and operations.
Sun Bids For Rich Internet App Builders With JavaFX
A mobile version of JavaFX for developers for use in building applications for smartphones, handhelds, and other mobile devices is expected soon.
AMD Says Intel Paid PC Makers To Boycott Rival
The add-on to the 2005 antitrust suit claims Intel paid off Acer, Dell, Gateway, major Japanese manufacturers, and system builders to block out AMD.
SAP Plans NetWeaver Tools That Eliminate Coding From Business Process Development
The technologies will let business users work with developers to quickly create changes to business processes, SAP said at Sapphire 2008.
Piracy Becomes Focus Of Net Neutrality Debate
The Recording Industry Association of America weighed in on the Internet traffic management issue at a House subcommittee hearing Tuesday.
District Of Columbia Tests Google Apps
Google has "donated" 1,000 user licenses for Google Apps, Premier Edition, to the District's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, according to the city.
Microsoft Gets More Social With Zune Update
Users of the portable media player can now download friends' nine most recently played songs, as well as nine tunes flagged as favorites.
HTC Tries To Cut Apple With Touch Diamond Smartphone
The device, which runs on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, includes a 2.8-inch VGA touch screen and supports carriers' 3G broadband-like networks.
IBM Launches Program To Attract More Hispanics Into Technology Jobs
IBM hosted a summit this week to harness and share best practices for recruiting the growing Hispanic population into scientific, technology, engineering, and math careers.
NASA To Launch Names Into Space In Search For Planets
NASA plans to launch millions of names into space as part of the Kepler Mission to find planets in a habitable zone beyond our solar system.
Yahoo Partners With McAfee To Make Search More Secure
The collaboration covers Web site security issues, such as identifying sites associated with adware, malware, spyware, phishing, and spam.
Web Firm Sounds Alert On Criminal Data Trove
A Web security firm said on Tuesday it had tipped off international banks and police after finding a huge trove of stolen business and personal data amassed on a server in the space of just three weeks.
Yahoo Shares Up On Hope Of Talks, Google Deal
Yahoo investors latched on to hopes the company would resume talks with Microsoft or soon forge a deal with Google, sending shares up 6 percent Tuesday.
'Terrorists' Legal Team' Sues Abu Ghraib Contractors
The Center for Constitutional Rights alleges tech outsourcers at the Iraqi prison committed torture and other war crimes during a civilian interrogation.
Microsoft's Zune Store Adds South Park, Other TV Shows
With the new offerings, the Zune online store's inventory now includes 3.5 million song tracks, 4,800 music videos, 3,500 audio and video podcasts, and 800 TV shows.
Qwest Switches From Sprint To Verizon For Cell Phone Service
The deal is a blow to Sprint Nextel, which had been supplying the service to Qwest customers after the company sold off its own wireless service a few years ago.
Microsoft: 'We've Moved On' From Yahoo
"Yahoo would have been an accelerator, but we've moved on and now we're focused on how fast we can grow organically," Windows Live general manager Brian Hall said.
Sprint Explores Selling Nextel Unit, Other Options
A wave of suitors, possible partners, and investors have been talking with the struggling Sprint, the third largest U.S. cell phone provider.
Tibco Adds Service Performance Monitoring To ActiveMatrix
Tibco's Service Performance Manager monitors services to detect any latency in response times.
Xobni Makes Outlook Searchable And Social
Xobni makes Outlook social by scanning your e-mail to find connections between e-mail senders and recipients.
After Oracle, Former Sleepycat CEO Hunts For Next Gig
Mike Olson says he'd like to step back from the database world and explore the world of cloud computing.
Windows Vista SP1 Disaster Recovery Guide
Vista's SP1 was expected to solve a lot of problems; instead, it caused even more trouble. Here are fixes to some top complaints, from a Windows Update that won't update to endless reboot loops.
'Grand Theft Auto' Publisher Sues Over Pulled Ads
The suit seeks an order for the Chicago Transit Authority to run the ads as well as monetary damages of at least $300,000.
Pummeled In The Stock Market, Yahoo's Yang Looks Ahead
Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo wanted $37 per share because they believed that Microsoft's offer undervalued their company.
EMC Upgrades VoyenceControl Network Management System
Version 4.0 lets customers create vendor-neutral compliance templates for network devices, rather than creating a policy and template for each vendor.
Amazon's CreateSpace Puts Out-Of-Print Music Back On The Market
The online retailer works with Sony BMG and EMI Music to make hundreds of out-of-print albums available.
Software Helps Agencies Manage Foster Care For Texas Kids
Software-as-a-service KaleidaCare is helping keep case workers up to date on the situations and needs of 463 kids removed from Yearning for Zion ranch.
HP Launches 'Extreme' Storage System
Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks 9100 Extreme is designed for Web companies and other organizations that need multipetabytes of data storarge.
SAP's Kagermann Reveals Plan To Bring SaaS To Large Companies
SAP will offer by early next year on-demand "components" that integrate with a customer's existing ERP suite, Kagermann says.
FCC Caps Subsidies For Rural Wireless Expansion
The FCC is limiting payments through its Universal Service Fund that are used to expand services into rural areas.
Ballmer: Microsoft's Web Strategy Doesn't Stop With Yahoo
Microsoft will continue to improve search relevance, build out its own advertising platform, invest in engineering for the Web, and pursue partnerships around the world.
Report: Femtocells Off To Slow Start This Year, But Booming By 2010
ABI Research says that shipments of the units, which soup up cellular phone coverage, will grow from just 100,000 to tens of millions in the next two years.
T-Mobile USA Eyes 25 U.S. High-Speed Markets In '08
T-Mobile USA said Monday it launched its first commercial high-speed wireless service in New York City, and plans to expand the service to 20 to 25 other major U.S. markets by the end of the year.
Apple Corrects iTunes Store Math
The inventory inflation appeared in a note that Apple sent to iTunes customers last week announcing that iTunes was 5 years old.
With Microsoft Out, All Eyes On Yahoo CEO Yang
Just two days after Microsoft pulled out of merger talks, Yahoo's stock dropped more than 15%, erasing roughly $6.5 billion in market value.
Report: T-Mobile Considers Sprint Acquisition
Such a deal would leapfrog rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless to create the largest cell phone service provider in the U.S.
SAP Teams With HP, IBM For Business Software Appliances
The pre-configured appliances will include SAP's ERP suite for midsize businesses, a database, and the SUSE Linux OS.
Chicago High School Students Test For IT Certification
CompTIA helps nearly 500 students get up to speed on computer support and networking hardware, protocols, and services.
Nine Inch Nails Offers Free Album Online
Nine Inch Nails is offering The Slip in a variety of digital formats and plans to make it available on CDs and vinyl in a few months.
Your Computer Keyboard Is Covered With Germs
Computer keyboards are so dirty they could cause symptoms of food poisoning and other illnesses, says a British computing magazine.
Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared
We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1. All performed well, and each had at least one truly outstanding feature.
Microsoft Yanks Yahoo Bid
"After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! do not make sense for us," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in withdrawing the $44.6 billion bid.
External Hard Drives Buyer's Guide
We assess 25 of the hottest external hard disk drives from Cavalry, Iomega, LaCie, Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital, and more.
Acrylic Ships Newspaper-Like Reader For Macintosh
Unlike other newsreaders, the Times shows an entire story on its own, and doesn't launch the article in a separate Web browser.
Microsoft Simplifies Game Development With Popfly Game Creator
The mashup can be used to create any kind of two-dimensional game like the original Super Mario, Frogger, or Asteroids.
iPhone-BlackBerry Battle Will Be Fought Over Keyboards
Independent tests have found iPhone users make way more errors than users of handsets with tactile QWERTY keyboards.
ID Security Firm LifeLock Sued For Misleading Marketing
LifeLock CEO Todd Davis says his service, while not 100% bulletproof, is an effective deterrent to identity theft.
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