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March 31
Intel:
Cool future for PDAs In
Shanghai this week, company will share news about research into
extending the intelligence of mobile devices. Things are starting to
get interesting, says News.com's Charles Cooper.
Escape
from social network frenzy? From
FriendFeed to Pulse and Digsby, there's no shortage of sites that want
to help you make sense of it all. Meet the "lifestreamer."
Improv
Everywhere's public hijinks New
York-based group pulls off pranks such as lugging desktop computer
setups into a Starbucks and showing up in the subway sans pants.
Photos:
Top 10 reviews of week CNET Reviews' favorite items include the LG Glimmer, Sony
PCM-D50 handheld audio recorder, and wireless mouse from Microsoft.
TechCrunch
acquires Tiger Beat, will rename it CrunchKids
In a pre-April 1 post announcing the deal, TechCrunch editor Michael
Arrington throws down the gauntlet in a new feud with the mainstream
media of teen and pre-teen publications.
(Posted in News
Blog by Jim Kerstetter)
Livescribe
starts shipping, barely
Digital pen maker says it will start shipping the first of its
preorders starting Monday, narrowly hitting its already delayed
shipping date. No word on when the pen will be more broadly available.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
IBM
suspended from federal government contracts
Company added to list of "excluded" contractors after EPA alleges
serious wrongdoing; it's unclear whether the company has been given a
chance to respond to the charges.
Robotic
cars take their rematch to the track
Carnegie Mellon's "Boss," an autonomous Chevy Tahoe, and
Stanford's
self-driving "Junior" will face off against each other again at the
Toyota Grand Prix.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
Yahoo
shares get a dose of Miracle-Gro
The company's stock has sprung up over the past two weeks, hedge fund
managers say, for a pretty down-to-Earth reason.
(Posted in News
Blog by Dawn Kawamoto)
Video:
Weekend QuickCast Here's what's happening: The hour is nigh for a key vote on
Open
XML; Windows Vista looks pretty in pink; and the big CTIA Wireless show
is about to get under way.
(Posted in CNET TV)
Attackers
booby-trap searches at top Web sites Growing number of sites are affected including USAToday.com,
Target.com, Walmart.com, and several sites owned by CNET Networks, the
publisher of News.com.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
Nvidia
to blame for many early Vista crashes Among the nuggets in the suit over Microsoft's "Vista Capable" logo
program are some stats that show whose drivers were at fault in
reported crashes. Nvidia errors accounted for nearly 30 percent of
crashes.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Saturday,
March 29
A
95-year payoff for plug-in hybrids?
They
get better mileage and pollute less than standard cars or regular
hybrids, but a retrofit is tough to justify in dollars and cents.
photos
Top
10 reviews of the week
CNET Reviews rates the LG Glimmer phone, Sony's PCM-D50 voice recorder,
Mozilla Thunderbird 2, and more.
Rep.
Berman: Pro-IP bill will become law in 2008 Major rewrite of U.S. copyright law is on track to be signed
by
President Bush by year's end, says congressman representing Hollywood,
Calif., area.
(Posted in News
Blog by Declan McCullagh)
So
where's that Web video shakeout? The
ranks of video start-ups were supposed to have been trimmed by now. Are
they just tardy or is there really gold in the sector?
Saturn
moon findings NASA's Cassini spacecraft flies through the top of a geyser
spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Robots
inspired
by geckos Scientists are mimicking the mini-reptiles' natural gifts in
high-tech ways.
EA
to Take-Two: OK, we'll give you an extra week
In the latest in a series of back-and-forths, Electronic Arts has
amended its takeover offer for the publisher of the Grand
Theft Auto series.
(Posted in News
Blog by Caroline McCarthy)
Dell
offers sub-$1,000 Blu-ray laptop
The PC heavyweight touts a Blu-ray disc playback option for its lineup
of Inspiron 1525 laptops, starting at $879.
(Posted in News
Blog by Jonathan Skillings)
Report:
Music downloads on your Net access bill?
Jim Griffin, a new Warner Music Group exec, says he hopes a
monthly
fee tacked onto Internet service bills will enable unlimited music
downloads and curb piracy.
(Posted in News
Blog by Caroline McCarthy)
Report:
CBS testing high-definition video
Buried in the lab's section of the network's site, the company is
allowing users to watch short clips from its shows in HD.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
Video:
Friday QuickCast, 1st edition
Where's that promised video shakeout? What will CTIA bring us?
Also,
BitTorrent's president says the agreement with Comcast is a win. See
the latest headlines from News.com.
Craigslist
turns multilingual
The classified announcement service expands its reach by adding more
foreign-language support.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
video
Robots
inspired by geckos From their hands and feet all the way down to their tails, scientists
are mimicking the mini-reptiles' natural gifts in high-tech ways.
Safari
for Windows: Only for 'Apple-labeled' computers?
Hot on the heels of the auto-update kerfuffle: It turns out that
Apple's license terms for the Safari Web browser on Windows have
included a curious restriction.
(Posted in News
Blog by Martin LaMonica)
Video:
Thursday Quickcast, 1st edition
Is silence a sign of progress for a potential Microhoo? Also, Firefox 3
shows off, and Adobe lets loose with Photoshop Express.
(Posted in CNET TV)
Companies
wrestle with employee blogs After
a Cisco lawyer's personal blog sparked a defamation lawsuit, the
company tightened its employee-blogging rules. How do other high-tech
companies compare?
A
95-year payoff for plug-in hybrids?
They
get better mileage and pollute less than standard cars or regular
hybrids, but a retrofit is tough to justify in dollars and cents.
Mail
Trends looks deep into your in-box
The project, from a Google developer, lets users analyze and visualize
their e-mail in-box. It's useful, but what's really needed is a
software agent that can perform e-mail triage.
(Posted in Outside the
Lines by Dan Farber)
Networked
Insights: A peek at social-media analytics
The start-up is offering a way for companies to learn what
people
are saying about their brands on social networks--and to skirt a
roadblock to advertising on those sites.
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Take-Two
rejects EA's bid as 'inadequate'
Board says it's studying alternatives--including an alliance with
EA--that it might embrace after the release of Grand Theft
Auto IV.
(Posted in News
Blog by Richard Defendorf)
Service
links Gmail and Outlook, bypassing Exchange
A new service from Cemaphore Systems lets you access Google's
e-mail
program through Microsoft's, cutting the ties to the software giant's
Exchange Server.
(Posted in News
Blog by Mike Ricciuti)
Video:
Wednesday QuickCast, 1st edition
Here's what's happening: News.com looks at the true costs of running a
plug-in hybrid, the evolution of tech companies' policies on employee
blogging, and more.
(Posted in CNET TV)
Cloud
computing: More than just smoke? The hype cycle is picking up speed, but cloud computing is
also getting a solid boost from new tech, notably virtualization.
New
models at NY auto show Sporty Hyundai coupe meets clean diesel Mercedes SUV meets
Volvo with electronic warnings.
Google
shareholders to vote on censorship, human rights
Google releases proxy that includes proposals related to
censorship
and human rights that will be voted on by shareholders at the company's
annual stockholder meeting in May.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Video:
Tuesday QuickCast, 2nd edition
Here's what's happening: Yahoo, Google, and MySpace form non-profit
OpenSocial Foundation; a government laptop is stolen from the trunk of
a car; and Elvis Costello gets hip on the Net.
(Posted in CNET TV)
Microsoft
pokes at iPhone developer kit
The software maker is looking at ways it may develop for the iPhone.
Microsoft has said it is interested in getting Silverlight on the
device, but Office for Mac is also a possibility.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Netflix's
minor glitches appear to be fixed
A day after an undisclosed systems malfunction knocked out its Web
site, Netflix is once again shipping DVDs. Ratings and recommendations
features seem to be working again.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
O'Reilly
releases guide to iPhone hacking
Everything you've ever wanted to know about creating applications for
the iPhone without using Apple's software development kit, but were
afraid to ask.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Harnessing
the power of wind and wave Ireland is in the right place to generate electricity, and a
lot of it, out of oceanic surges, but it won't be easy sailing.
Google-DoubleClick:
The next phase
The merger wait is over and the display-ad gains are real, but
the newly combined company still faces a number of questions.
Can
Microsoft make Silverlight shine? Would-be
Flash killer works on Windows and Mac OS and is headed to Linux, but
Web developers want to see it on lots and lots of machines before
they'll give it a thought.
VMWare
to invest $100 million in India
Virtualization software company will establish a new Bangalore
R&D site and will double its staff based there.
(Posted in News
Blog by Mike Ricciuti)
Online
advertising's protracted adolescence
Worries about Google's secondary-search feature, couple with media
companies' ad network efforts, indicate an increasingly rocky and
interesting online-ad landscape.
(Posted in News
Blog by Richard Defendorf)
Video:
Monday QuickCast, 1st edition
Here's what's happening: News.com looks at what comes next in the
Google-DoubleClick merger, how Ireland is harnessing wave power, and
what Microsoft is doing to make Silverlight shine.
(Posted in CNET TV)
MetaCarta:
Mapping the news
New Web site mixes local news items with a map for geographic-based
search. For now, there are no ads on the site.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
My
good deed done for Mike Arrington E-mail overload is a fact of life but there are already
existing
solutions. What's missing is real commitment from the likes of
Microsoft and IBM, et al.
(Posted in Coop's
Corner by Charles Cooper)
Dell
taking more risks
Dell CEO Michael Dell maintained for years
that the
company
was only
interested in pursuing high-volume markets. So what's with all the
niche products these days?
(Posted in News
Blog by Erica Ogg)
Sports
fans: Belly up to the virtual bar
In a move to branch out into new markets,
Numedeon, the
maker of kids'
virtual-world Whyville.net, launches SportsBlox, a digital environment
for sports nuts.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
photosTop
10 reviews of the week CNET
Reviews rates the Skooba Shuttle laptop
backpack, the 2008 Honda
Accord EX-L coupe, the Pioneer DEH-P6000UB car stereo, and more.
Let
them watch basketball The
March Madness of college basketball is on. So why are cubicle dwellers
sneaking around and pretending they're not tuning in on the Internet?
Ocean
on Titan, and salt on Mars NASA
finds clues of an ocean that may exist on a
Saturn moon
and one that may have dried up on Mars.
Harnessing
the power of waves S.F.
mayor thinks tapping into tidal and wave
power is a
swell idea. But how realistic is it?
Photos:
Nissan electric Cube at the NY auto show
Based on Nissan's existing Cube small car,
currently sold
in
Japan, the
Denki Cube concept uses an electric powertrain with lithium-ion
batteries.
Dish
Network may be eyeing mobile TV biz
The new 6MHz of spectrum that satellite TV
provider Dish
Networks won
in the 700MHz spectrum auction is ideal for mobile TV.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Battelle
talks Google, blog roll-ups, media
q&a John
Battelle, founder of Wired and The
Industry Standard magazines, discusses his latest online
venture, Federated Media Publishing.
With
iPhone, is Apple playing hard to get?
Software
developers would like Apple to give them more freedom in creating apps,
but "everybody else is doing it" isn't always the best rationale.
Apple
pushes Safari on Windows via iTunes updater
Company makes a more aggressive move to gain
browser market
share by
offering Windows users the option of downloading Safari 3.1 via its
Apple Software Update.
(Posted in News
Blog by Martin LaMonica)
Lessig:
Ban corporate lobbyists in D.C.
Net legal guru urges politicians and citizens
alike to support his
"Change Congress" movement, which borrows approaches from Wikipedia and
his own Creative Commons setup.
(Posted in News
Blog by Anne Broache)
Sequoia
Voting Systems site hacked
Under fire for New Jersey vote discrepancies
and legal threats
against researchers of electronic voting systems, SVS sees its Ballot
Blog section go dark Thursday.
(Posted in Defense
in Depth by Robert Vamosi)
FBI
casts Net to nab child porn suspects Agency
posts hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of children and then
raids the homes of anyone willing to click on the links.
Collision
course for Facebook As
the social network builds out its communications services, it will
increasingly compete with the giants--AOL, Google, Microsoft, and
Yahoo.
Ford's
boxy, high-tech taxi The
Transit Connect Taxi concept yokes generous headroom with
an in-dash computer and entertainment options galore.
Loaded:
Adobe backtracks Don't
go looking for Flash for the iPhone anytime soon. Plus:
We mosey on down to the New York auto show to check out the rides.
Cable
chief: Let us 'experiment' with our networks
In light of Comcast-BitTorrent controversy,
trade group head says
engineers need freedom to manage file-sharing traffic--and combat
piracy--without regulators getting in the way.
(Posted in News
Blog by Anne Broache)
New
U.S. rule: One H-1B petition per foreigner
Concerned that some people are gaming the
system, immigration officials
decree an end to duplicate applications, which may boost a company's
chances of getting coveted visas.
(Posted in News
Blog by Anne Broache)
Are
Apple ads hurting Microsoft's brand?
Ranking of brand image has Microsoft falling
from No. 11 to
No. 49.
The study's authors say Apple's "I'm a Mac" ads could be partly to
blame.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
X
Prize dangles $10 million for fuel-sipping car
Air-powered autos to be part of space travel
foundation's competition
to find a "real" superefficient vehicle for the masses, rather than a
concept car.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
Photos:
Gadgets to fight germs, fat, and frizz
Consumers obsessed with bug-proofing their
homes and
frizz-proofing
their hair could find many new products at the International Home and
Housewares Show 2008.
Video:
Thursday QuickCast, 1st edition
Apple's "I'm a Mac" ads might not just be
amusing, but actually
effective. Rival music service says Apple is anti-competitive. FBI
turns to fake hyperlinks. Plus, the International Home and Housewares
Show in Chicago.
(Posted in CNET TV)
Bezos:
Sorry for the delays, more Kindles on the way
Amazon.com's CEO says the company is finally
ramping up production of
its electronic book reader as customers continue to face long delays in
receiving it.
(Posted in News
Blog by David Carnoy)
How
to start a merger rumor
Merger rumors--they are fun to start, but not
as easy as you might
think. To do it successfully, you need to sound like a strategist and
think like a stoner.
(Posted in News
Blog by Michael Kanellos)
A
new party line for Verizon Wireless Its
open network could help spur innovation and provide a testing ground
for new devices, apps, and services. Just not anytime soon.
photos Ford's
boxy, high-tech taxi
The
automaker shows off the Transit Connect Taxi concept, which
combines generous headroom with an in-dash computer and entertainment
options galore.
Microsoft
sets November date for WinHEC
Software maker will hold the conference in
November in Los Angeles, a
week after it has its Professional Developers Conference in the same
locale.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Obama,
McCain tied among tech workers If
the presidential election were held today and only IT folks voted, a
survey says, it would be a toss-up between Barack Obama and John
McCain.
Facebook
fires up IM, ratchets up privacy
New
privacy controls give users more choices on what gets
shown; also, Facebook Chat is due in the not too distant future.
Al
Gore, John Chambers to discuss climate change
The former vice president and the Cisco
Systems CEO are teaming up to
get the word out about how companies can help reduce greenhouse
emissions.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Qwest
offering buyout to workers
As phone company continues to lose traditional
landline customers, it
offers voluntary buyouts to "less than 2 percent" of its employees to
cut costs.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
eBay
exec: It's all about the platform
Facebook's developer network has popularized
Web apps for the
Internet's largest auction house, says eBay's senior director of
platform and disruptive innovation.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
eMarketer
lowers online ad spending forecast
New report lowers projections for 2008 online
ad spending in the U.S.
due to soft economy and advertisers not flocking to social networks.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Images:
Intel to build first six-core chip
Catchy names aren't Intel's specialty. But the
company
promises
Dunnington, Tukwila, and Nehalem will take us to the next level of
computing.
Cell
phone as boarding pass
Continental is testing a new system that
allows passengers to have a
boarding pass sent directly to their cell phone, eliminating the need
for a printed version.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Video:
Tuesday QuickCast, 2nd edition
Here's what's happening: Yahoo releases its
long-range financial
forecasts, Apple's Safari Web browser may be vulnerable, and Silicon
Valley weighs in on the presidential candidates.
Intel,
Microsoft to back multicore research
Chip giant and software titan are united by a
need for better ways of
allowing software to take advantage of machines with many processor
cores.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Intel's
graphics plans gain new vector Upcoming
Larrabee chip will be easier on developers than rivals' products, Intel
says, despite new class of vector-processing instructions.
Top
10 reviews of the week CNET's
highest-rated items from the past week include a
digital guitar amp, a modded MacBook, and a ruggedized cell phone.
Loaded:
Happy St. Patrick's Day It's
St. Patrick's Day but we're speaking Spanish. Also, China pulls
YouTube, Japan blocks Torrents, and Flickr might have video sharing
soon.
Court
upholds ban on Minnesota video game law
State wanted to fine kids under 17 who
purchased games with mature or
adults-only rating. A district court rejected the law, and now an
appeals court agrees.
(Posted in News
Blog by Anne Broache)
Herding
cats at Microsoft
Tim O'Brien has one of the more difficult jobs
at Microsoft. He is
tasked with getting different parts of the company to dance to the same
tune. Herding cats might be a less fractious profession.
(Posted in Outside
the Lines by Dan Farber)
The
word on Wales' Wikipedia woes
Jimmy Wales, founder of the famed online
encyclopedia, is ensnared in a
sex scandal. Oh, wait, now it's a money scandal. Who knows what to
believe anymore?
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Former
Qwest CEO to get new trial
Joseph Nacchio gets a second chance as U.S.
court of appeals overturns
his insider trading conviction and orders a new trial.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
LED
company aims to improve TVs, gets $72 million
Luminus Devices says it has a super-efficient
LED that can direct light
like a laser; the company also now has the cash to see if it can pull
it off.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Michael Kanellos)
Video:
Monday QuickCast, 2nd edition
Here's what's happening: Microsoft courts
Adobe Flash Lite for
Windows Mobile, Intel unveils its microprocessor road map, and China
cracks down on YouTube and Google News.
(Posted in CNET TV)
video Screening
room for new gear CNET Reviews looks at the
BlackBerry Pearl 8120, the Lumeneo Smera car,
BMW's in-car Internet, and more.
video Finding
home sweet home online Despite
the softening real-estate market and record foreclosure rates,
search sites for home buyers continue to pop up and thrive.
Revisiting
Apple's iPhone strategy
Steve Jobs is right not to license the Mac,
iPhone, or iTunes
software to hardware makers. Getting into a battle for OEMs is a losing
strategy right now.
(Posted in Outside
the Lines by Dan Farber)
Short-term
investors take aim at EA's offer
While EA takes its buyout offer to Take-Two
shareholders, newcomers to
the shareholder group consider ways to boost their return if the deal
goes through.
(Posted in News
Blog by Richard Defendorf)
Photos:
Greening the home, New England style
At
the BuildingGreen conference in Boston, small wind turbines, solar
thermal tubes, heat pumps, and recycled materials are on display.
Trend
Micro's Web site hacked in massive attack
The malicious code--which has spread to
hundreds of other
sites--tries to embed software that steals passwords from users as they
visit Web sites.
(Posted in News
Blog by Martin LaMonica)
Friday,
March 14
CNET
readers weigh in on smartphones Poll
of News.com readers shows that Windows Mobile is king of the
smartphone, but only for now as anticipation builds for a 3G iPhone.
Bat
plane to spy for Army University
of Michigan researchers win $10 million contract to help build a 6-inch
bat-shaped plane for spying in urban combat zones.
Finding
home sweet home online Despite
the softening real-estate market and record foreclosure rates, search
sites for home buyers continue to pop up and thrive.
Homeland
Security 'Cyber Storm' simulates crisis
Second exercise of its kind designed to test
the readiness of
government and business officials if confronted by cyberthreats to
critical networked services.
(Posted in News
Blog by Anne Broache)
Video:
Friday QuickCast, 1st edition
Here's what's happening: a Swedish start-up's
browser-based
desktop
could be the future of cloud computing; News.com readers tell us what
they want in a smartphone; and more.
(Posted in CNET TV)
Digital
art from vile viruses What would malware look
like if it came to life in a mad
scientist's lab? One artist has the answer.
Finding
home sweet home online Despite
the softening real-estate market and record foreclosure rates, search
sites for home buyers continue to pop up and thrive.
Widget
makers woo big money, VCs
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners' Will Price
leaves his post as general
partner to join Widgetbox as chief executive officer.
(Posted in News
Blog by Stefanie Olsen)
Virgin
Mobile turns Spitzer woes into ad copy
As part of campaign promoting more
personalized service, Virgin Mobile
Canada is running a print advertisement featuring shamed former N.Y.
governor.
(Posted in News
Blog by Leslie Katz)
FCC
rapped over handling of citizen complaints
Government auditors claim the regulators don't
act on thousands of
complaints about telemarketing calls, indecent TV, and the like, but
the regulators sharply disagree.
(Posted in News
Blog by Anne Broache)
Yahoo
Search opens to third-party developers
The Microsoft acquisition target announces
plans to support semantic
Web standards and open its search platform to third parties. Will it be
a hit with Web developers?
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Video:
Thursday QuickCast, 2nd edition
Here's what's happening: We're keeping tabs on
Yahoo's informal meet-up
with Microsoft, what Bebo means to AOL, and how to protect your privacy
online.
(Posted in CNET TV)
Democrats
plan last-minute FISA vote Thursday
House bill wouldn't shield telecommunications
companies
accused of
unlawfully opening their networks to government spies. President Bush
says he'll veto it if it passes.
(Posted in News
Blog by Anne Broache)
YouTube
opens up for developers API
updates make YouTube functions accessible to more apps and
offer players without its traditional interface and branding.
'Printed'
solar cells coming to windows, clothing
"Wherever plastics occur," says Konarka
founder Howard Berke, "you'll
have PV"--that is, photovoltaics, the key technology in turning the
sun's rays into electricity.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Martin LaMonica)
House
Democrats refuse to delete pending spy lawsuits
New bill would not shield phone and Internet
companies from lawsuits
alleging illegal cooperation with the Feds. It's already under attack
from the White House.
(Posted in News
Blog by Anne Broache)
AOL
ad exec gone in shakeup
The president of AOL's Platform-A ad group is
replaced by another ad
manager in shakeup at Time Warner company.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Turning
wood chips into cheap fuel
video Biofuel start-up ZeaChem
has mixed brewing and petrochemical technology
to turn wood chips into ethanol that could sell for around $1.50 a
gallon or less.
Saturn
geyser, moon rings, Mars A
space probe will attempt to fly through a geyser on one of Saturn's
moons, and an orbiter spots evidence of an ancient lake on Mars.
Touring
Microsoft's science fair At
TechFest 2008, Craig Mundie talks about the latest from
Redmond's labs and where the company is placing its bets these days.
House
Democrats refuse to delete pending spy lawsuits
New bill would not shield phone and Internet
companies from lawsuits
alleging illegal cooperation with the Feds. It's already under attack
from the White House.
(Posted in News
Blog by Anne Broache)
AOL
ad exec gone in shakeup
The president of AOL's Platform-A ad group is
replaced by another ad
manager in shakeup at Time Warner company.
(Posted in News
Blog by Elinor Mills)
Nortel
to quadruple network speeds
Nortel Networks is set to announce optical
networking gear that will
increase Internet backbone speeds fourfold over existing technology.
(Posted in News
Blog by Marguerite Reardon)
Microsoft
updates new Mac Office
The company says the first update to Office 2008 for Mac
adds stability
and performance improvements and fixes certain security
vulnerabilities.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
Rising
rap star doesn't need RIAA
Flo Rida, whose song "Low" recently spent 13
weeks as the country's
top-selling ringtone, offers other artists advice on engaging fans at a
time of falling CD sales.
(Posted in News
Blog by Greg Sandoval)
photos Dextre
the robot ready for space It's
got a socket wrench and sensors, and it's ready to go to work on
the outside of the International Space Station.
Beatles
on iTunes: Sony/ATV says 'untrue' The
company with a large say over the publishing rights for
the Fab Four questions reports of a deal with the fab Steve Jobs.
Top
10 reviews of the week Logitech's Squeezebox Duet,
the Apple MacBook Pro 2008
Edition, and "one of the fastest laptops on the planet."
Hands-on
mapping from Microsoft CNET
News.com's Kara Tsuboi reports on two mapping ideas that
debuted at Microsoft's Techfest 2008.
Wi-Fi
is not dead
Ericsson's chief marketing officer says he
sees Wi-Fi going
the way
of the public phone booth, but News.com's Marguerite Reardon says the
technology still has a long life ahead.
(Posted in NewsBlog
by Marguerite Reardon)
Former
Googler's social take on search
Steffen Mueller, an ex-Google product manager
from Munich, Germany,
unveils his own version of Web search with some social elements.
(Posted in NewsBlog
by Stefanie Olsen)
Study:
H-1Bs boost U.S. tech hiring
A free-market-leaning group offers a challenge
to claims that hiring
more temporary foreign workers is bad for Americans' job prospects.
(Posted in NewsBlog
by Anne Broache)
A
dark side of solar power
In China, making polysilicon to meet the
booming demand for solar
panels is leaving behind toxic waste, according to a report.
(Posted in Green
Tech by Elsa Wenzel)
Fire
guts historic Silicon Valley building
IBM's Building 25 was renowned for the
invention of an ancestor of the
modern hard drive, as well as a precursor to the modern high-tech
campus.
(Posted in NewsBlog
by Steven Musil)
Why
we should care about the spectrum debate
The debate of who should manage the wireless
spectrum and
whether it
should be open is key to the future of mobile and personal computing,
industry experts say.
(Posted in NewsBlog
by Elinor Mills)
SXSWi:
Hello, Austin!
I've landed in the capital city of the Lone
Star State for this year's
South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Now that I'm on the ground...
(Posted in The
Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Will
Diggers dig a corporate overlord?
TechCrunch is reporting that as many as four
companies are looking at
acquiring the social news site. So far, the Digg commmunity is not
pleased.
(Posted in NewsBlog
by Jim Kerstetter)
Sun
seeks a storage revolution
Storage may not be the most exciting topic in
the world, but big
changes are coming that will likely drop the cost of hardware for those
of you building data centers.
(Posted in NewsBlog
by Michael Kanellos)
South
by Southwest attendee bag waste problem lingers
Although there seems to be fewer materials in
the SXSW Film conference
bag than last year, there are still pounds of paper being wasted this
year on each attendee.
(Posted in Geek
Gestalt blog by Daniel Terdiman)
Intel
to argue its case in Europe
The world's largest chipmaker is defending
itself against charges that
it competed unfairly with Advanced Micro Devices by selling chips below
costs and writing huge rebate checks.
(Posted in One
More Thing by Tom Krazit)
Itty-bitty
lethal weapon Tiny
revolver, dubbed the smallest gun ever by Guinness World
Records, makes the list.
Loaded:
Apple releases SDK iPhone
users, get ready for an onslaught of apps. Plus: bring
your iPhone to work.
U.S.
judge praises Microsoft's open-source steps
In contrast to European overseers, judge
presiding over Redmond's U.S.
antitrust compliance has kinder words for its recent attempts to better
accommodate open-source developers.
(Posted in NewsBlog
by Anne Broache)
Mozilla
VP talks IE 8, Firefox 3
Mozilla's Mike Schroepfer says Microsoft's
decision to support a more
standards-compliant mode by default should keep Web developers from
having to waste so much time.
(Posted in Beyond
Binary by Ina Fried)
update
Advice
for Apple iPhone start-ups
CNET
News.com talks to
Matt Murphy of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers about the
firm's
$100 million fund to invest in game-changing applications for the
mobile Internet.
(Posted in NewsBlog
by Stefanie Olsen)
Musicians
still waiting on a YouTube payday Some
top music managers say their clients haven't seen any money from the
licensing deals the four largest music labels have signed with YouTube.
Furniture
cut out from cardboard A
small but growing market for cardboard furniture has cropped
up as shoppers seek eco-friendly furnishings.
Microsoft's
Worldwide Telescope Virtual
map of outer space is within months of its public debut. News.com's
Kara Tsuboi shares video of what these celestial tours will look like.
IE
8, Firefox 3 to tackle malware
It's browser wars all over again. Updates
coming soon from Microsoft
and Mozilla promise better protection against phishing, spyware, and
other maladies.
Gates
dethroned as world's richest man
After 13 years, Gates loses his top spot to
close friend
Warren
Buffett, who is in the process of donating the lion's share of his
fortune to Gates' foundation.
Report:
Intel Atom for low-cost desktops coming
Chipmaker will bring out a dual-core version
of the Atom processor for
desktops and set-top boxes, according to Chinese-language Web site
HKEPC.
Sync
your Google and Outlook calendars
New Google calendar sync tool lets you share
your Google Calendar
events with your Outlook calendar and vice versa.
Security
threat discovered in Google's Android
Researchers find some issues with the search
giant's Android
software--but it's way too early to panic as the platform is still in
development.
Be
here Thursday for live iPhone SDK coverage
The event at Apple's headquarters in
Cupertino, Calif., should provide
a much better sense of how the company plans to roll out iPhone
applications--and we'll bring it to you live. (From News.com's One More Thing
blog)
Today's
Venus weather forecast The Venus Express is able
to cut through some of the planet's
haze to discover dramatic global weather patterns and acid clouds.
Hanging
with the 'MythBusters' Can
magnets control sharks? MythBusters
will look into commonly held beliefs about the creatures.
AMD's
integrated graphics get a boost
Its new, integrated graphics chipset can run
DirectX10 games.
AMD is
also nearing the day when its 45-nanometer chips are available. (From
News.com's One More Thing blog)
Free
Web map shows where the wind blows
Renewable-energy assessment company 3Tier
releases global map
that
shows the potential for wind power around the world. (From News.com's
Green Tech blog)
Cleaning
400 years of dust from books
Think of the Old Library at Dublin's Trinity
College as the Grand
Canyon for bibliophiles. There's even a geologist analyzing the dust on
its antique tomes.
Intel
cuts margin expectations on soft flash prices
Softer-than-expected flash memory prices will
knock Intel's
profits
down a tad in the first quarter, the company says. (From News.com's
Just One More Thing blog)
Pizza
time for OpenSocial applications
Developers are working long hours to deliver
the first set of apps
built on Google's OpenSocial APIs; Google also introduces a Social
Graph API. (From News.com's Outside the Lines blog)
Top
10 reviews of the week Favorite items include Canon EOS-1Ds
Mark III, Dell's second
run at a gaming PC, and two Volvos.
Hanging
with the 'MythBusters' Can magnets control sharks? MythBusters
will look into commonly held beliefs about the creatures.
Microsoft,
Visto settle mobile e-mail patent dispute
The two companies enter into a licensing deal
that involves both "cash
and non-cash" elements. Still unresolved: Visto's lawsuit with
BlackBerry maker RIM.
q&a Yelp
CEO gives NY a 5-star rating
Jeremy Stoppelman, who
runs the San Francisco-based reviews site, talks business in the wake
of a $15 million funding round and a new office in New York. (From
News.com's The Social blog)
Microsoft
Online adds some big-name customers
Autodesk, Blockbuster, and Coca-Cola are among
those using Microsoft's
hosted Exchange and SharePoint service, but software maker says it'll
now work with businesses of all sizes. (From News.com's Beyond Binary
blog)
Vista
prices fall even further
In a weekend promotion, Vista Home Premium was
selling for as little as
$99 at OfficeMax. That's the same as the suggested price for Vista Home
Basic. (From News.com's Beyond Binary blog)
Turn
offers automated online ad market
Silicon Valley start-up is launching a beta of
what it says is the
first fully automated market for online advertising.
Microsoft's
supersize data center plans
Software maker is rumored to be adding 12
million square feet of data
center space to support its colonization of the Web. (From News.com's
Outside the Lines blog)
New
worldwide multimedia game linked to Olympics
A box arrives in the mail with clues related
to an
alternate-reality
game that seems tied to this year's summer Olympics. (From News.com's
Geek Gestalt blog)
Take-Two
says it has more offers Grand Theft Auto's publisher has gotten
additional
offers since
EA bid $2 billion for it, but also says it isn't negotiating with
anyone. (From News.com Geek Gestalt blog)
Google
partners with homeless shelters
Expanding a service that was started by
start-up Grand
Central,
Google will give out free phone numbers and voicemail to San Francisco
street dwellers.
Microsoft
cuts prices on Windows Vista In
a practically unheard of move, Microsoft cuts the price of several
boxed versions of its desktop operating system, leaving some analysts
scratching their heads.
Take-Two
says it has more offers Grand Theft Auto's
publisher has gotten additional
offers since
EA bid $2 billion for it, but also says it isn't negotiating with
anyone. (From News.com Geek Gestalt blog)
Google
partners with homeless shelters
Expanding a service that was started by
start-up Grand
Central,
Google will give out free phone numbers and voicemail to San Francisco
street dwellers.
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