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Microsoft Set To Launch WorldWide Telescope, Gates Says

Fri, 9 May 2008 12:39:00 EDT

With the launch of WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft will extend its battle for Internet dominance with Google to the cosmos.

Google Sees YouTube Products Soon, Warm On Yahoo

Fri, 9 May 2008 10:00:24 EDT

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.

Google Founders Have Grown Up, CEO Says

Fri, 9 May 2008 09:29:37 EDT

It's official: The guys who founded Google are grown up.

Rocker Neil Young Steals Limelight At JavaOne

Fri, 9 May 2008 09:20:00 EDT

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

Fri, 9 May 2008 04:00:00 EDT

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.

Microsoft Disbands Board Slate For Yahoo

Thu, 8 May 2008 19:15:30 EDT

Microsoft withdrew its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo last weekend after the two sides failed to agree on price.

DARPA Plans Cyberwar 'Matrix'

Thu, 8 May 2008 18:55:00 EDT

The agency's National Cyber Range for cyberwar simulation would be similar to Star Trek's holodeck or a Snow Crash-style Metaverse.

MySpace To Share User Profiles With Other Sites

Thu, 8 May 2008 15:50:00 EDT

Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter have joined the site's "data-availability initiative" using OAuth integration technology.

TorrentSpy Ordered To Pay $110 Million In Piracy Case

Thu, 8 May 2008 14:54:00 EDT

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

Thu, 8 May 2008 14:39:00 EDT

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.

Facebook Commits To Stronger Safety And Privacy Measures

Thu, 8 May 2008 14:20:00 EDT

Facebook is working with state officials to protect young users of its social networking service.

Google Among Sites Under Investigation In China For Illegal Mapping

Thu, 8 May 2008 12:54:00 EDT

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.

Samsung Making 'High-Bright' Digital Signage Panel

Thu, 8 May 2008 06:00:00 EDT

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'

Wed, 7 May 2008 19:00:00 EDT

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

Wed, 7 May 2008 18:49:48 EDT

In October, Microsoft took a $240 million stake in Facebook, which valued the start-up at $15 billion.

Microsoft To Move On Without Yahoo, Gates Says

Wed, 7 May 2008 17:00:00 EDT

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

Wed, 7 May 2008 16:30:00 EDT

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.

Fake MP3 Trojan Detected On 27% Of PCs

Wed, 7 May 2008 14:30:00 EDT

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

Wed, 7 May 2008 13:19:00 EDT

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

Wed, 7 May 2008 12:41:00 EDT

Still, MySpace held 73.82% of the market share of U.S. visits in April, and Facebook accounted for 14.8%.

Mac Clone Offered On eBay

Wed, 7 May 2008 06:41:00 EDT

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.

World Of Warcraft's Legal War To Defend Copyrights Heats Up

Wed, 7 May 2008 06:00:00 EDT

Advocacy group Public Knowledge claims Blizzard's use of copyright infringement laws to crack down on MDY's Glide automation software is outrageous.

Another Google Executive Joins Facebook

Tue, 6 May 2008 18:54:00 EDT

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.

Piracy Becomes Focus Of Net Neutrality Debate

Tue, 6 May 2008 16:45:00 EDT

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

Tue, 6 May 2008 15:54:00 EDT

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

Tue, 6 May 2008 15:49:00 EDT

Users of the portable media player can now download friends' nine most recently played songs, as well as nine tunes flagged as favorites.

Yahoo Partners With McAfee To Make Search More Secure

Tue, 6 May 2008 14:54:00 EDT

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

Tue, 6 May 2008 14:35:10 EDT

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

Tue, 6 May 2008 14:30:41 EDT

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.

Microsoft: 'We've Moved On' From Yahoo

Tue, 6 May 2008 12:14:00 EDT

"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.

Xobni Makes Outlook Searchable And Social

Tue, 6 May 2008 09:00:00 EDT

Xobni makes Outlook social by scanning your e-mail to find connections between e-mail senders and recipients.

Pummeled In The Stock Market, Yahoo's Yang Looks Ahead

Mon, 5 May 2008 19:10:00 EDT

Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo wanted $37 per share because they believed that Microsoft's offer undervalued their company.

SAP's Kagermann Reveals Plan To Bring SaaS To Large Companies

Mon, 5 May 2008 16:52:00 EDT

SAP will offer by early next year on-demand "components" that integrate with a customer's existing ERP suite, Kagermann says.

Ballmer: Microsoft's Web Strategy Doesn't Stop With Yahoo

Mon, 5 May 2008 15:20:00 EDT

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.

With Microsoft Out, All Eyes On Yahoo CEO Yang

Mon, 5 May 2008 14:01:00 EDT

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.

Nine Inch Nails Offers Free Album Online

Mon, 5 May 2008 11:04:00 EDT

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.

AOL, Yahoo, RealNetworks Suffer Setback In Music Licensing Fees

Fri, 2 May 2008 16:22:00 EDT

ASCAP estimates that the court's formula would lead to a total payment of $100 million from the three companies.

Wikipedia Battles Literary Agent Over Negative Comments

Fri, 2 May 2008 15:25:00 EDT

While many sites add user-generated content to enhance user experience, Wikipedia relies almost entirely on posts from contributors.

AT&T Launches Mobile TV Service For Cell Phones

Fri, 2 May 2008 14:43:00 EDT

The AT&T service will be available 58 markets and give customers access to more than 150 programs from a variety of TV networks, cable channels, and exclusive content providers.

IBM To Launch Web-Based Application Market

Fri, 2 May 2008 14:13:00 EDT

IBM's Blue Business Platform will feature a mix of business applications and services aimed primarily at small- and mid-sized companies.

Spam Turns 30 And Never Looked Healthier

Fri, 2 May 2008 14:05:00 EDT

One e-mail security company estimates that spam, initially a nuisance, now makes up 95% of all e-mail.

Amazon Sues New York State Over Online Sales Tax Law

Fri, 2 May 2008 14:02:00 EDT

The company argues that it should not be subject to New York taxes because it lacks a physical presence in the state.

Microsoft Poised To Detail Next Moves On Yahoo

Fri, 2 May 2008 09:03:30 EDT

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday that walking away from a deal with Yahoo remained one of "three big options" the company is weighing and to expect an announcement shortly.

Lego's Latest Brick Trick: A Virtual World

Fri, 2 May 2008 06:00:00 EDT

Lego Universe's upcoming MMOG will let players create online versions of themselves and interact with each other.

IBM CEO Palmisano Says New Trends Will Spur Old Company

Thu, 1 May 2008 19:10:00 EDT

In addition to data centers, IBM expects to capitalize on the 3 billion people joining the middle class in the next 20 years.

Google, IBM Join Forces To Dominate 'Cloud Computing'

Thu, 1 May 2008 18:37:00 EDT

The companies plan to exploit their common technological world view and considerable talent to build a worldwide network of servers for consumer and business use.

Apple Trick Triples Safari Market Share

Thu, 1 May 2008 18:21:00 EDT

Using its software update service to offer a new product to millions of Windows users was risky, given that the unusual tactic annoyed some people.

Giant Wireless Hotspot Planned For Las Vegas Resort

Thu, 1 May 2008 16:30:00 EDT

Sprint and MobileAccess are building a universal communications system to deliver wireless voice and data services throughout the M Resort's 2 million-square-foot facility.

Warez Site Operator Sentenced To 30 Months

Thu, 1 May 2008 15:38:00 EDT

Prosecutors said David Fish's sentencing is linked to the largest and most successful global criminal enforcement actions ever taken against organized piracy.

Google Lets AdWords Users Buy TV Ads

Thu, 1 May 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Google says to expect to pay anywhere from $100 to $1,000 to create a TV ad, which seems rather inexpensive given that a national 30-second spot may cost millions to produce.