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Monday, October 06

Verizon bets big on infrastructure
While other companies try to scale back the bandwidth their customers use, Verizon is going the other way, spending billions to get people the high-definition content they want everywhere they go.

q&a Henry Blodget's life as a blogger
The one-time Wall Street darling is trying his hand at journalism after being barred from the securities industry. He says blogging isn't always easy, but at least he laughs more.

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Supreme Court ignores EchoStar appeal against TiVo suit
The Supreme Court is refusing to hear EchoStar's appeal against a patent infringement suit brought against it by TiVo.
(Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

Microsoft planning add-on to SQL Server
The software maker says the "Kilimanjaro" add-on, due in the first half of 2010, will add business intelligence features.
(Posted in Microsoft by Ina Fried)

Delta to filter porn on planes
Airline says it is looking at ways to filter pornography from its in-flight Wi-Fi service, without going overboard.
(Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

Adobe offers Elements with Photoshop.com promo
Adobe Systems' enthusiast-level Photoshop and Premiere editions are out, with a promised promotion for the online Photoshop.com site.
(Posted in Underexposed by Stephen Shankland)

30 percent of iPhone 3G buyers dump existing carriers
Nearly one-third of all iPhone 3G buyers have been willing to ditch their provider to go with exclusive carrier AT&T in order to get the popular smartphone.
(Posted in Wireless by Dawn Kawamoto)

SAP shares free-fall on third quarter warning
Shares plunge 17.6 percent in intra-day trading after the enterprise software behemoth warns its third quarter revenues will come in short of analysts projections.
(Posted in Business Tech by Dawn Kawamoto)

Ford's key-with-a-chip to control teen drivers
Programmable key allows parents to limit a car's maximum speed, keep the stereo down, remind the driver to fasten the seatbelt, and warn about a low fuel tank.
(Posted in Planetary Gear by Candace Lombardi)

Netflix shares plummet on lower quarterly outlook
Shares of movie rental service Netflix take a 13 percent hit in early-morning trading after the company lowers its outlook for fourth-quarter revenues and subscriber levels.
(Posted in Digital Media by Dawn Kawamoto)

Analyst: Half of 'social media campaigns' will flop
New research from Gartner, to be presented later this month, encourages marketers and businesses to approach social media with caution because it's just so easy to screw up.
(Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

Yahoo price target cut to $21 a share
Sanford Bernstein analyst takes a dim view of a deal between Yahoo and AOL, in light of antitrust concerns over a Yahoo-Google tie-up.
• 'Brief delay' for Yahoo-Google search-ad deal
(Posted in Digital Media by Dawn Kawamoto)

Two Europeans indicted over U.S. cyberattacks
A 24-year-old from England and a 25-year-old from Germany face conspiracy and computer damage charges related to a large-scale DDoS attack resulting in major financial losses.
(Posted in Security by Matthew Broersma)

Judge halts sales of RealDVD
Legal fight heats up between Hollywood and RealNetworks over DVD-ripping software.
(Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

GigaOm's tech blogs pull in $4.5 million
Alloy Ventures leads Giga Omni Media's third round of funding, which was planned both as a means for growth and a safeguard against economic troubles.
(Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

Sunday, October 05

How 'carders' use your stolen ID info
An executive whose company monitors the criminal underground tells how a person's "full" set of personal data can sold via shady online forums for a mere $20.

video Becoming 'Iron Woman'
CNET's Kara Tsuboi heads to Industrial Light & Magic to try out a motion capture suit like the one used in the movie "Iron Man."
• Photos: Iron Man in real time
• Playing Iron Man for a day

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Who's to blame for spreading phony Jobs story?
Silicon Alley Insider and CNN are at center of controversy surrounding false report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs suffered a heart attack. Citizen journalism may not be solely to blame.
• SEC probes phony Jobs heart attack report
• Jobs heart attack rumor not true, Apple stock swings
• Video: Apple's encounter with 'citizen journalism'

Report: Palin, Obama lead in election-related spam
The spam study doesn't mean much in terms of who actually wins the election, but it does show spammers are staying on top of what names are hot among Net users.

Saturday, October 04

Kids keep parents in the dark about cyberbullying
A study finds that online bullying is pervasive among teenagers, but few report the incidents to their parents or other adults.

Can't open your e-mailbox? Good luck
What would you do if you logged onto your e-mail and received an unfamiliar message: "User name and password do not match"?
(From The New York Times)

Amazon's Kindle 2 leaked?
Boy Genius Report gets ahold of some photos that appear to be the next-generation digital Reader from Amazon. Could it be the real thing?

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including the 120GB iPod Classic, Nikon D90 digital SLR, and Seagate's FreeAgent Go portable hard drive.

A broken link economy? Then fix it
One approach is not necessarily better, but each tries to engage the community in the best way it knows how.

Hanky-panky distorts Obama iPhone app results
Someone apparently found a way to inflate the recruitment call statistics for Barack Obama's iPhone application. The problem was fixed late Friday, though.

Hack and tell: Teen hacker Mafiaboy writes memoir
Michael Calce, aka "Mafiaboy," who shut down major Web sites in 2000, has written a tell-all book that is due out next week.

Business Software Alliance makes antipiracy push
The BSA trade group sends 48,000 peer-to-peer-related takedown warnings and asks sites to shut down 18,000 auctions for the first half of this year.

'Brief delay' for Yahoo-Google search-ad deal
The search-ad deal was set to go into effect shortly, but the companies postponed it to give antitrust investigators more time. The new deadline for review: Oct. 22.

Steve Fossett's unfinished legacy
The adventurer, who died in a plane crash last year, was planning to be the first explorer of the Pacific Ocean's deepest point. Now Hawkes Ocean Technologies is hoping to commercialize the craft it built for him.

Friday, October 03

A bailout's effect on tech
While a large chunk of a bill just passed in the U.S. House of Representatives is devoted to green technology, other provisions are included for IRS snooping and even tuna canning.
• Troubled times ahead for the tech industry?

video Apple's encounter with 'citizen journalism'
An unverified rumor--this time, that Steve Jobs had a heart attack--has again impacted the stock. CNET's Charles Cooper and Tom Krazit chat about what amounts to a big black eye for CNN's iReport.
• Shares tumble with false rumor

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Study: Microsoft Cashback attracting visitors
Hitwise finds evidence Microsoft Cashback is attracting more search users. So good news for SearchPerks: maybe incentives can help Microsoft's search effort.
(Posted in Microsoft by Stephen Shankland)

Windows XP gets another lifeline
Microsoft again extends the time frame in which large PC makers can sell Vista machines that come with its older operating system in the box.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

Facebook exec Dustin Moskowitz quits
Head of engineering from day one, Moskowitz's involvement with Facebook goes back to when he and CEO Mark Zuckerberg were students together at Harvard.
(Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

Craigslist founder criticizes telecoms for 'artificial' Net neutrality debate
Online classifieds site founder Craig Newmark would like to see more transparency in Washington, D.C., from politicians and telecommunications companies.
(Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

Friday Poll: Which tech gadget is Palin?
Vote in our weekly poll: If Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were a tech gadget, which would she be?
(Posted in Crave by Ina Fried)

Security Bites podcast: Investigating data breaches
Verizon Business' Bryan Sartin talks about investigations into data thefts by third parties, and the possible ties to organized crimes and terrorism.
(Posted in Security Bites podcast by Robert Vamosi)

Thursday, October 02

Gawker Media to lay off 14 percent of editorial staff
Attributing the decision to the threat of an advertising recession, publisher Nick Denton has opted to cut back on editorial staff and suspend next year's bonus program.
(Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

Gadgets go greener, thinner, and wireless
As the consumer technology expo in Tokyo wraps up, we look at themes among the highly imaginative prototypes and new products. Which will make it to the upcoming CES?
• More Ceatec coverage
• Ceatec firms feel credit crunch
(Posted in Crave by Erica Ogg)

Skype: We didn't know about security issues
The company's president says he knew its Chinese partner filtered messages, but he was unaware that it was storing personal information in an insecure way.
(Posted in Security by Marguerite Reardon)

Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
CERN's ground-breaking particle accelerator, which was shut down after a malfunction caused a leak of liquid helium, is scheduled to begin operating again in April.
(Posted in Cutting Edge by Tom Espiner)

Two online health site operators to announce a merger
In a deal valued at $300 million, Revolution Health Network plans to announce a merger with Waterfront Media, a publisher that owns several health Web sites.
(From The New York Times)

Facebook exec Dustin Moskowitz quits
Head of engineering from day one, Moskowitz's involvement with Facebook goes back to when he and CEO Mark Zuckerberg were students together at Harvard.
(Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

Craigslist founder criticizes telecoms for 'artificial' Net neutrality debate
Online classifieds site founder Craig Newmark would like to see more transparency in Washington, D.C., from politicians and telecommunications companies.
(Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

Friday Poll: Which tech gadget is Palin?
Vote in our weekly poll: If Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were a tech gadget, which would she be?
(Posted in Crave by Ina Fried)

Security Bites podcast: Investigating data breaches
Verizon Business' Bryan Sartin talks about investigations into data thefts by third parties, and the possible ties to organized crimes and terrorism.
(Posted in Security Bites podcast by Robert Vamosi)

Jobs heart attack rumor not true, Apple stock swings
One of CNN's "iReporters" posts a rumor that Apple CEO Steve Jobs suffered a heart attack Friday morning and was rushed to the hospital. It's not true.
• Video: Apple's encounter with 'citizen journalism'
(Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

Wednesday, October 01

Kevin Mitnick's brush with the law
After a recent flight from Colombia, the renowned hacker is detained by U.S. customs for four hours in his first run-in with the law since being released from prison eight years ago.

Microsoft still paying people to search
The software maker introduces SearchPerks, a new program that offers prizes to people willing to use its search engine, browser, and operating system.

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OLED, 3D displaying the future
Ceatec exhibitors show off prototype displays for our mobile devices and televisions, including display measuring just 0.3 millimeter thick.
• More stories from Ceatec
(Posted in Crave by Erica Ogg)

StumbleUpon 2.0: Good-bye, software toolbar
Social recommendation site moves forward with an updated service that removes the need to install software to take advantage of its "stumbling" feature.
(Posted in Webware by Josh Lowensohn)

Netflix adds 2,500 streaming movies from Starz
Netflix is partnering with Starz to make 2,500 additional movies available to subscribers for instant viewing online.
(Posted in The Web Services Report by Harrison Hoffman)

Slide adds CBS, Comcast, Time Warner to its friends list
Start-up plans to announce a new deal that would bring major media companies' videos directly to social-networking sites, according to a report.
(Posted in Digital Media by Jennifer Guevin)

Imeem cleans up its act
Social music site reorganizes and restructures its home page, adds a few new features--just after the launch of rival MySpace Music.
(Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

Pandora, Webcasting see victory in Senate
Senate passes Webcaster Settlement Act, and the legislation Web radio stations need to get reduced royalties is almost law.
(Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

Google's stock plummets to $249 due to 'erroneous orders'
As if this week wasn't already stressful enough on Wall Street, the search giant's stock drops over 200 points, apparently due to errors on the exchange.
(Posted in The Web Services Report by Harrison Hoffman)

Skype 4.0 beta 2 gives you more say
Skype's second attempt to preview version 4.0 of the VoIP calling application adds several changes that beta users have been clamoring for.
(Posted in The Daily Download by Jessica Dolcourt)

Lessons learned from the sad end of a great little company
We all know the rules of the game when we get into it, but that doesn't mean that these rules are right. Just ask Identity Engines.
(Posted in Business Tech by Jon Oltsik)

Intel bucks gloom with upgrade
Amid all the doom and gloom in the financial arena, Intel cops an upgrade. Piper Jaffray has raised its rating on Intel to "buy" from "neutral."
(Posted in Nanotech: The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

Broadcom to use Wi-Fi positioning tech in chips
Chipmaker strikes a deal with Skyhook Wireless to use its Wi-Fi positioning technology in its chips for mobile devices.
(Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

AT&T reorganizes at the top
Company has carved the company into four segments to help align its wireline and wireless businesses.
(Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

Simonyi signs up for another rocket ride
Space Adventures says that Charles Simonyi, who spent time on the space station in 2007, is ready to return to orbit sometime next spring.
(Posted in Cutting Edge by Jonathan Skillings)