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Cartoon Network Working on Browser-based Kids' MMO Game
Cartoon Network announced on Thursday that it's established a partnership with Grigon Entertainment to create a Web…
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Microsoft demos robotic receptionist
Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie used his speech on Thursday to show off a robot that can perform basic tasks. [Link]
Microsoft to Acquire DATAllegro (Microsoft)
Microsoft:
Microsoft to Acquire DATAllegro — Leaders in data warehousing team to provide large-scale business intelligence solutions. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it intends to acquire DATAllegro Inc., a provider of breakthrough data warehouse appliances.
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Apple's MobileMess - Two weeks ago, Apple launched MobileMe … (David Pogue/New York Times)
David Pogue / New York Times:
Apple’s MobileMess — Two weeks ago, Apple launched MobileMe, the successor to its.Mac service, which costs $100 a year. Among other benefits, it can keep multiple Macs, PCs and iPhones in sync. E-mail, calendars and address books are wirelessly kept up to date. Very cool idea.
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Microsoft to Buy Data-warehouse Appliance Vendor (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft continues a shopping spree to bolster SQL Server by purchasing data-warehouse appliance vendor DATAllegro. [Link]
Teaching Audio Engineering While on the Road With Ozzy
Greg Price doesn't mince words when it comes to giving career advice to aspiring audio engineers who want to rise to the top…
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Microsoft to Buy Data-warehouse Appliance Vendor
Microsoft continues a shopping spree to bolster SQL Server by purchasing data-warehouse appliance vendor DATAllegro.
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Court records: MPAA sought info on PirateBay founders
The man who acknowledges spying on TorrentSpy for the MPAA, also promised to obtain information on the Pirate Bay, court documents show. [Link]
CNET News Daily Podcast: MS, Ballmer ready to up the online ante
Microsoft puts on its game face, discovering the real Carl Icahn, and Facebook makes nice to developers. Now what? [Link]
Video: Cars charging forward for a plug-in future
From scooters to off-road trucks to utility vehicles, all sorts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are on display at the Plug-In 2008 car conference in San Jose, Calif. CNET News reporter Kara Tsuboi stops by the world's first showcase of its kind to see what's new in the industry. [Link]
Kaminsky (finally) provides DNS flaw details
In a Webinar on Thursday, researcher discloses specifics about his DNS cache poisoning flaw, and cites statistics on the number of systems that are patched. [Link]
Open Web Foundation Officially Launches (Nik Cubrilovic/TechCrunch)
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Open Web Foundation Officially Launches — This morning at that OSCON conference David Recordon of Six Apart will announce on stage the formation of the Open Web Foundation. The new foundation is about providing a home for the development and ratification of web-related standards efforts.
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Web Site Owner Faces Obscenity Charges
A California Web site owner faces obcenity-related charges.
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Not So Fast, 3G
You can't miss the slogan–it's plastered everywhere. "Twice as fast. Half the price." Just this morning, in fact, Apple…
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Buying an E-mail List? Marketing Company Says Never Again
A marketing company is warning others to stay away from e-mail lists offered for sale by other companies.
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Microsoft scoops up data warehousing firm
Company buys Datallegro, which Microsoft says will help the company compete with Oracle at the high-end of the market. [Link]
Google Offers Knol, a Wikipedia Copy with Attribution (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - On Wednesday Google took the lid off a new product called Knol. The search-engine giant first announced it was testing the product in December. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. [Link]
D-Link DSM-330 DivX Connected Home Review
I’m impressed with the D-Link DSM-330 DivX Connected HD Media Player’s interface and ease of use and the playback quality for formats supported out of the box. There is a market for this type of device, similar to Apple TV, and there’s compelling online content that will appeal to many with this media extender. Unfortunately that online content is relatively scarce. A bigger issue is the default restriction to only …
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HP brings Voodoo into the consumer PC fold
The enthusiast PC line will be merged into the company's consumer line, Voodoo's co-founder says. [Link]
'Wallace & Gromit' to become episodic video game (AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/d~ src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg~ align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="This image provided by Telltale Inc. shows a scene from the 'Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure' game. Telltale Inc., the leader in interactive episodic entertainment, is announcing that development is underway for Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures, a new series based on Aardman Animations Wallace & Gromit. The new series will join Telltale's all-star lineup. (AP Photo/Telltale Inc.)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Wallace & Gromit" … [Link]
VMware to Offer Low-Fooprint ESX Hypervisor Free
To help it compete against Microsoft's low-cost Hyper-V, VMware will offer the low-cost version of its hypervisor at no cost.
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Software Piracy Hurts the Open-Source Community Too
OpenOffice.org community manager sees fallout when proprietary wares are jacked.
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PPM Software Yields Savings for Energy Company
HP's updated software shows IT managers where resources spend their time and why projects get delayed.
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My Book Mirror Edition RAIDs Your Data
Western Digital's new desktop storage system offers a 1TB dual-disk enclosure with RAID for under $600.
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New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos (Sarah Perez/ReadWriteWeb)
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos — Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Punishes Community Managers and Causes Follower Counts to Drop — Did you notice a big drop in your Twitter follower numbers yesterday? It seems that the Twitter team recently decided to step up their Twitter spammer detection …
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Checking on ITunes' Unchecked Items
I figured this was part of everyone's DNA by now, but, given a message I just received, apparently not. A reader who shall…
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Trade Group, US Officials Rally for Free Trade
The Consumer Electronics Association and several U.S. officials speak up for free trade at a rally.
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Look Out, Cisco: Here Comes Brocade/Foundry
$3 billion deal raises stakes in Ethernet switching market.
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Study Paints Open-Source Software as a Security Risk
"Go into this with your eyes wide open," says Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity czar.
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Control Freaks: Network Admins Can Spell Trouble
'Keys to the kingdom' are often the center of IT strife.
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Ballmer Seeks to Justify Online Services Push
Steve Ballmer, speaking at the annual analysts meeting, defends Microsoft's plans to invest more in online services.
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Project CrackBerry
U.K. college wants the dope on your BlackBerry addiction.
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Laptop Security: Keep the Bad Guys at Bay
Joe's laptop computer boasts some advanced security gizmos.
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Microsoft: Windows 7 on track
Windows business head Bill Veghte says the new operating system, "tracking very, very well," is still scheduled to ship within three years of Vista's January 2008 debut. [Link]
Trade Group, US Officials Rally for Free Trade (PC World)
PC World - The Consumer Electronics Association and several U.S. officials speak up for free trade at a rally. [Link]
Sprint Nextel sells cell towers to reduce debt
The troubled wireless operator is selling most of its cell phone towers for $670 million in an effort to help reduce its debt and shed nonstrategic assets. [Link]
Breaking: Facebook Signs Search and Advertising Deal with Microsoft (Adam Ostrow/Mashable!)
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Breaking: Facebook Signs Search and Advertising Deal with Microsoft — CNBC is reporting that Microsoft and Facebook have signed a search and advertising deal. The partnership involves integrating Microsoft Live Search on Facebook, which will include the software giant's search advertising.
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Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued (AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/d~ src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg~ align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Toy-makers Hasbro and Mattel have demanded that social networking website Facebook remove the online game Scrabulous due to alleged copyright infringement(AFP/File/Leon Neal)" border="0" /></a>AP - T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook.</p><br clear="all"/> [Link]
Microsoft CEO backs Web spending, "done" with Yahoo (Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/d~ src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg~ align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer speaks during the launch ceremony of Microsoft's new research and development centre in Herzliya near Tel Aviv May 21, 2008. Ballmer on Thursday defended the company's need to make steep investments in its Internet business in order to compete with Google Inc and said such moves could boost its value in time. (Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - … [Link]
Once media-shy Taliban go hi-tech in propaganda war (Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/d~ src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg~ align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Dale Whitesell, 54, a teacher and registered Democrat of McLean, Va., poses for a photograph after expressing her views to The Associated Press on the upcoming presidential election in Tysons Corner, Va., Washington's northern Virginia suburbs, Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Whitesell said she was delighted to see Obama spend time with U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. 'I like the fact that he was … [Link]
Zune absent from Microsoft exec's speech
At Microsoft's annual meeting for financial analysts today, Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach spent a lot of time talking about mobile phones and mentioned all of the other businesses he oversees, save one. [Link]
Adaptec Transfers India Product Development to HCL
Adaptec transfers its product development operation in India to HCL Technologies.
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Collaboration Under SOA: The Human Aspects
This book chapter from Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service-Oriented Architect shows how Web 2.0 business concepts apply to businesses, especially those enterprises that adhere to the philosophy of SOA.
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No softies need apply for Microsoft's big opening
Who's in line to become Kevin Johnson's replacement? The answer may go down as one of software giant's most important decisions. [Link]
Microsoft to power Facebook search ads
Software company will deliver an API that Facebook can use to integrate both Microsoft's Web search and its paid search results into the social network's U.S. site. [Link]
Microsoft Live Search Coming To Facebook (Greg Sterling/Search Engine Land)
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft Live Search Coming To Facebook — When Microsoft made its investment in Facebook I always had thought that Live Search would come to the site, together with search monetization. Later it appeared that search wasn't part of the deal. Facebook's competitors all have web search …
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First Solar and Sempra plan thin-film solar plant
The 10-megawatt solar farm being built in Nevada would be the largest thin-film installation in North America. [Link]
Atom-Powered Ripple Mini PC Available in Korea
Undoubtedly, Intel's Atom processor is one of the most successful products of this year, a fact that be easily by just looking at the high number of Atom-based computer devices that have been announced recently. No matter if we are talking about portable or desktop computer systems, most of the recent low-cost, small-size solutions are based on the Atom processor. This also appears to be the case of a recent … [Link]
Major shareholder advisory firm backs Yahoo board (AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/d~ src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg~ align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Microsoft is shaking up management of its online division and strengthening its tie to Facebook in the aftermath of a failed bid to buy Yahoo to bolster its lagging Internet business.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)" border="0" /></a>AP - An influential shareholder advisory firm endorsed the re-election of Yahoo Inc.'s entire board Thursday, reducing the chances that the Internet company's directors will be ousted for spurning Microsoft Corp.'s … [Link]
Post.Office mail server compatible with Leopard (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Tenon Intersystems has announced the release of Post.Office 3.8.4, an update to its mail server for Mac OS X. Post.Office costs $349 for a 100 mailbox/10 list system; updates for current users are free. [Link]
Report: Microsoft, Facebook to Sign Search Deal (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft and Facebook will announce an Internet search and ad deal, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. [Link]
Ballmer Distances Microsoft From Yahoo Deal
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touched on the talks with Yahoo during the company's annual analyst meeting.
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Report: Microsoft, Facebook to Sign Search Deal
Microsoft and Facebook will announce an Internet search and ad deal, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
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Final Cut Server 1.1
Apple's long-awaited Final Cut Server 1.1 is a complex and powerful tool for Final Cut Pro users who have advanced…
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Jumsoft Releases Personal Finance Tool, Money 3
Jumsoft released Money 3, the company’s financial application designed for personal and small business use.
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New IPhone 3G Ads Tout 'twice as Fast'
Arthur C. Clarke once famously wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. One corollary…
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Torque Game Engine Developed for IPhone
GarageGames on Thursday has announced that their Torque game engine can be used to create iPhone games. Torque is inexpensive…
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Slick IMovie Plug-ins Maker 'graduates' to Final Cut
Gee Three is now offering SlickFX plug-ins for Final Cut Express and final Cut Pro. The plug-ins offer Final Cut users…
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Native Instruments Updates Traktor 3 and Traktor Scratch
Music software and hardware company, Native Instruments, released updates for its professional DJ line of software products…
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Post.Office Mail Server Compatible With Leopard
Tenon Intersystems has announced the release of Post.Office 3.8.4, an update to its mail server for Mac OS X. Post.Office…
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Open Typed URLs in New Tabs
Everyone is probably aware of how to open links in new tabs in your favorite browser–just Command-click the link, and it will…
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Scrabble maker Hasbro sues over 'Scrabulous'
Hasbro launched an official version of its Facebook Scrabble application a few weeks ago. Now it wants the far more popular Scrabulous knockoff deleted. [Link]
Hasbro Orders Facebook to Remove 'Scrabulous' (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - While "DMCA" may not be a valid word in "Scrabble," it may be the "Scrabulous" software that loses a turn — or all of them. [Link]
Steve Ballmer: Killing Apple and Google With Kindness? (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Steve Ballmer: Killing Apple and Google With Kindness? — BoomTown is flatly fascinated by the rather incredible memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer penned to his troops yesterday, with news of the reorganization of its massive Platforms and Services Division and the departure of its president, Kevin Johnson.
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SecuriKey Professional Edition 2.1
Whether we’re traveling across the country or just down to the local coffee shop, we’re increasingly on the go. And our…
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Cro-Mag Rally for IPhone
Between Enigmo and Cro-Mag Rally, Pangea Software decided to recycle its existing games to support the new platform rather…
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Vulnerable to a DNS cache poisoning at home?
Tools and patches are available to see whether your home Internet connection is vulnerable to Dan Kaminsky's DNS flaw.
• DNS exploit code is in the wild [Link]
The case of Twitter's missing followers
The disappearance of a large number of followers from Twitter users' accounts has caused a big uproar in the blogosphere. [Link]
Study: Vista still struggling to gain business users
Less than 10 percent of 50,000 companies surveyed are using Vista, according to Forrester Research, which calls the operating system "New Coke." [Link]
Samsung Rolls $799 Home Theater in a Box
Samsung, a worldwide leading consumer electronics manufacturer, has recently announced that it will expand its home theater in a box (HTiB) systems equipped with Blu-ray players. The offer will now include an additional HTiB, which will begin shipping next month. With the new product, Samsung's offer will include a total of three models, the last one of the lot being the cheapest of them all. The new $799-suggested model is … [Link]
Microsoft to expand Facebook ad pact: source (Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/d~ src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg~ align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="A sample Facebook profile is seen in an undated handout image. (Facebook/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp will announce plans to expand its relationship with online social network Facebook to provide web search and search advertising, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> [Link]
Microsoft to expand Facebook ad pact: source (Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/d~ src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg~ align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer speaks during the launch ceremony of Microsoft's new research and development centre in Herzliya near Tel Aviv May 21, 2008. Ballmer on Thursday defended the company's need to make steep investments in its Internet business in order to compete with Google Inc and said such moves could boost its value in time. (Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - … [Link]
Microsoft looks to 'Mojave' to revive Vista's image (Ina Fried/Beyond Binary)
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft looks to ‘Mojave’ to revive Vista's image — REDMOND, Wash.—After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista's skeptics. — Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks …
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Zimbra takes Yahoo Mail offline just as I've learned to love it online
Yahoo has introduced offline access to its Mail product through Zimbra. But this is almost a step backward for me. [Link]
Ring. Ring. It's Fedora calling
Fedora has found a way to brings its dispersed Internet community together. It's called the phone. [Link]
Zimbra Releases Version 3 Of Open Source Email Client, And It's Awesome (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zimbra Releases Version 3 Of Open Source Email Client, And It's Awesome — Yahoo's Zimbra launches version 3 of its open source desktop email client this morning that is designed to compete with Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mac Mail, etc. This is a new iteration of their browser-based offline product announced in March 2007.
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XM and SIRIUS Confirm Discussions to Settle FCC Enforcement Matters (Sirius)
Sirius:
XM and SIRIUS Confirm Discussions to Settle FCC Enforcement Matters — WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, July 24, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: XMSR) and SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) today confirmed that the companies …
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Mossberg pans MobileMe amid service outages
In a rare slap at an Apple product, the Journal's Walt Mossberg suggests people avoid the MobileMe service, even before taking into account the e-mail outages of its first few weeks. [Link]
Ballmer: No current talks with Yahoo
A deal would have boosted the company's search query volume, something Microsoft knows it needs. [Link]
CORRECTION: New York state passes video game labeling law (Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/d~ src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg~ align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Guests play the Xbox 360 'Halo 3' Multiplayer Beta video game during a preview party at Quixote Studios in Los Angeles May 15, 2007. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - (Corrects NYCLU position to it considering a legal challenge to the law instead of planning a legal challenge)</p><br clear="all"/> [Link]
Plug-In 2008: Electric cars charging ahead
A roundup of coverage from CNET News and elsewhere from the Plug-In 2008 conference in San Jose, Calif. [Link]
Five Free BlackBerry Downloads
We know you BlackBerry lovers can never get enough software for your RIM smartphones–especially free downloads. So we assembled another handful of BlackBerry applications you don't want to miss. Grab all five of 'em right here, gratis.
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Batman Joins Online Gaming
Sony launches the DC Universe Online in a multiplayer game at Comic-Con.
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China Tops 250 Million Internet Users
China reasserted itself as the world's largest Internet market, with 253 million total users by the end of June.
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US Man Sentenced to Four Years for Piracy, ID Theft
An Oregon man is sentenced to four years in prison on criminal copyright and ID theft charges.
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MobileMe 1.1
Synchronization is hard. It may sound simple: copy personal information, such as contacts and events, between computers and…
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Lostify 0.7
Videos bought from the iTunes Store come nicely tagged with all the relevant information that iTunes, an iPod or iPhone, Front…
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Facebook Takes The Fast Lane To Boring (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Takes The Fast Lane To Boring — I agree with Sam Gustin when he says that yesterday's Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco was in the end a snoozer, but not because CEO Mark Zuckerberg failed on stage. — First of all, saying the event itself was sleep-inducing is just factually incorrect.
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AdMob Makes Mobile Ads Suck Less. … (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AdMob Makes Mobile Ads Suck Less. Will Give Away One Million Dollars Worth of Ads To iPhone App Developers. — On the iPhone, even the ads are cool. Mobile advertising network AdMob is launching a whole new set of customized ads for iPhone apps. As CEO Omar Hamoui explains in the video above …
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Ballmer: Time to ante up online
CEO Steve Ballmer again tries to make the case that Microsoft's online investments represent just a fraction of its operating income. But when will it start to pay off? [Link]
Hasbro says sues Scrabulous creators (Reuters)
Reuters - Toy maker Hasbro Inc said on Thursday it filed a suit against the creators of the online game Scrabulous, saying it infringes Hasbro's Scrabble intellectual property rights. [Link]
Qualcomm earns outlook falls short of expectations (AP)
AP - Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of chips that run cell phones, issued fourth-quarter and full-year earnings guidance Thursday that fell short of Wall Street targets, but the stock soared on a broad-ranging legal settlement. [Link]
China Tops 250 Million Internet Users (PC World)
PC World - China reasserted itself as the world's largest Internet market, with 253 million total users by the end of June. [Link]
Embarq provides more details on Web tracking test
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Embarq Corp. has revealed more details about its exploration of a program that tracked Internet subscribers' Web-surfing habits for advertising purposes, telling Congress that it performed the test on 26,000 customers in a Kansas town…. [Link]
Embarq provides more details on Web tracking test (AP)
AP - Embarq Corp. has revealed more details about its exploration of a program that tracked Internet subscribers' Web-surfing habits for advertising purposes, telling Congress that it performed the test on 26,000 customers in a Kansas town. [Link]
China's mobile users top 600 million: govt (AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/d~ src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg~ align="left" height="130" width="129" alt="A woman speaks on her mobile phone in Beiijng on April 6, 2008. The number of mobile users in China, the world's biggest cellphone market, now tops 600 million, the government said, as subscribers increasingly abandon fixed lines.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The number of mobile users in China, the world's biggest cellphone market, now tops 600 million, the government said, as subscribers … [Link]
Video: Cars charging forward for a plug-in future
From scooters to off-road trucks to utility vehicles, all sorts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are on display at the Plug-In 2008 car conference in San Jose, Calif. CNET News reporter Kara Tsuboi stops by the world's first showcase of its kind to see what's new in the industry. [Link]
British Companies Settle Piracy Claims
Four companies have reached out-of-court settlements with the Business Software Alliance over software licensing violations.
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Sony opens e-book reader to outside publishers
Take that, Kindle. Sony's Reader Digital Book to read .epub formatted books from wide variety of publishers supporting the industry standard. [Link]
Live: Microsoft meets Wall Street
As software maker meets with financial analysts, all eyes are on its online services business in the wake of its failed Yahoo bid and the departure of Kevin Johnson. [Link]
RiskMetrics recommends re-election of current Yahoo board
Yahoo wins strong endorsement from influential institutional investor advisory service RiskMetrics, which recommends the re-election of all current Yahoo directors. [Link]
Yahoo Music follows MSN into DRM controversy
Yahoo announced it will stop issuing keys to unlock DRM starting October 1. [Link]
12seconds.tv launches in alpha
Let me disclaim in no uncertain terms that this site was started by some very close friends, and I am personally involved as well. I mean for this post to be informational. I want both of my readers to know about 12seconds.
As you will see from their blog post, 12seconds.tv is launching their public alpha today.
12seconds is the brainchild of some friends in Santa Cruz who …
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British businessman wins Facebook libel case (Reuters)
Reuters - A British businessman won a libel case and 22,000 pounds in damages at London's High Court on Thursday after false claims about him were posted on the hugely popular social networking Web site Facebook. [Link]