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Bits: Google Puts Privacy Link on Main Page
by By SAUL HANSELL
4 Jul 2008 at 12:23pm
The move brings Google into clear compliance with a California law that requires many Internet sites to have a link to their privacy policy on their home page.
Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube
by By MIGUEL HELFT
4 Jul 2008 at 12:30am
The order raised concerns that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed.
Bits: What Is Facebook Worth? (Part 37)
by By BRAD STONE
4 Jul 2008 at 11:43am
A document in the settled Facebook ConnectU litigation reveals that Facebook?s common shares are worth a quarter of the value of the stock Microsoft purchased when it invested in the social network.
Bits: Justice Looks Further at Google-Yahoo Deal
by By STEVE LOHR
4 Jul 2008 at 11:43am
The Justice Department?s antitrust division has begun issuing subpoenas as it probes further into whether a planned Google-Yahoo partnership in search advertising is anticompetitive.
Nvidia Reports Problem With Laptop Chips
by By Agam Shah, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau, IDG
3 Jul 2008 at 8:07pm
Nvidia will take a charge against second-quarter earnings to cover the expected cost of repairing and replacing the products, which include graphics processing units and media and communications processors.
Business Briefing | Acquisitions: Vodafone Acquires Majority Stake of Ghana T...
by By REUTERS
4 Jul 2008 at 12:38am
The Vodafone Group said it had agreed to acquire a 70 percent stake in Ghana Telecom, the African country?s third-largest mobile phone operator, for $900 million.
Apple to .Mac Subscribers: Sync Bookmarks by Sunday
by By Philip Michaels, Macworld.com, IDG
3 Jul 2008 at 8:07pm
The warning came as part of Apple?s transition from .Mac to the new MobileMe online service, which was announced at last month?s Worldwide Developers Conference.
Bits: A Sucker Is Converted Every Minute
by By ERIC A. TAUB
3 Jul 2008 at 1:53pm
Those ads for the free digital TV signal converter box? Beware.
Obama Voters Protest His Switch on Telecom Immunity
by By JAMES RISEN
3 Jul 2008 at 11:32am
Thousands of Barack Obama?s backers are using the online organizing tools his campaign created to protest his recent support for expanding government surveillance powers.
Bits: Former H.P. Executive Indicted for Leak of Secrets
by By MATT RICHTEL
3 Jul 2008 at 1:58pm
Atul Malhotra joined Hewlett-Packard in May 2006. His employment ended four months later. In between he got himself into hot water with H.P., and, now, the federal government.
Cyberfamilias: See Spot Run. Now Find Out Where He Went.
by By MICHELLE SLATALLA
4 Jul 2008 at 2:28am
This summer, a new generation of pocket-size gadgets offer anyone willing to spend $129.99 or more a way to use the Global Positioning System to track the people, pets and possessions they love.
Apple?s Video of iPhone 3G Shows Its Marketing Prowess
by By Matt Hamblen, Computerworld, IDG
3 Jul 2008 at 8:07pm
A slick 30-minute online video narrated by Bob Borchers offers a guided tour of the iPhone 3G coming July 11.
Bits: Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy
by By BRAD STONE
2 Jul 2008 at 8:25pm
A forthcoming study from Carnegie Mellon shows that people are more inclined to divulge private information online in some contexts than others.
Bits: Making Music With Verizon Wireless
by By LAURA M. HOLSON
2 Jul 2008 at 4:39pm
John Harrobin of Verizon Wireless sees music distribution via cellphone becoming more important as artists leave the big record labels.
Microsoft Buys Online Concern
by By DOW JONES
2 Jul 2008 at 12:36am
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would buy Powerset Inc., an Internet search company, the latest in a string of acquisitions aimed at bolstering its position online.
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Does the truth hurt that much?
4 Jul 2008 at 11:52am
Don Reisinger explores truth in journalism and wonders why it hurts so much to hear it.
Collaborative Software Initiative in Time Magazine
3 Jul 2008 at 7:22pm
Finally open source gets some mainstream press
Video: Latest in Viacom-Google lawsuit raises questions
3 Jul 2008 at 5:48pm
News.com's Dan Farber tells what's at stake for users' privacy as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn data over to Viacom.
EIC Squared: Indexing Flash; Powerset; and Viacom vs. Google
3 Jul 2008 at 3:34pm
On this week's EIC Squared podcast, CNET News.com's Dan Farber and ZDNet's Larry Dignan discuss the week's big stories.
Why text messaging may be on the way out
3 Jul 2008 at 2:51pm
Text messaging may be huge right now, but Don Reisinger believes it won't last forever. And with the advent of chatting applications for cell phones, he thinks its end may be near.
Identi.ca--open-source Twitter?
3 Jul 2008 at 1:59pm
An open-source Twitter might create a true communication utility.
Yahoo's top U.S. sites get traffic help from Google search
3 Jul 2008 at 1:57pm
Report finds that most of Yahoo's top 20 Internet properties receive a greater share of traffic from a Google search, rather than a Yahoo search.
So now what happens to Zimbra?
3 Jul 2008 at 11:30am
Zimbra may get caught in the crossfire between Yahoo! and Microsoft.
The Mac approaches 8 percent market share: Is it ready for popularity?
3 Jul 2008 at 10:43am
Apple's market share is on the rise. Is it ready to support popularity?
Yahoo and Microsoft making the rounds with old lovers?
3 Jul 2008 at 2:11am
Recent media reports have Microsoft whispering into the right ear of News Corp. and Time Warner's AOL about potential partnerships, while Yahoo is whispering in their left.
Microsoft "endorses" Linux?
2 Jul 2008 at 11:33pm
Novell is trying to co-opt Microsoft into its marketing for Linux. Is this wise?
Open Season Episode 19: Kermit the Frog or Bill Gates? You decide.
2 Jul 2008 at 7:21pm
Enjoy this latest podcast in our Open Season series.
XMPP plus RabbitMQ gateway = high performance Twitter?
2 Jul 2008 at 5:54pm
Message volume shouldn't be a problem for services like Twitter. RabbitMQ and XMPP might help to explain the solution.
Guinness bestows download record on Firefox
2 Jul 2008 at 5:32pm
The official tally of Firefox downloads surpassed 8 million. Sounds like the Download Day PR stunt hit pay dirt.
On indexing Flash content, Microsoft silent
2 Jul 2008 at 5:02pm
Google and Yahoo say their search engines will start to index Flash content. Microsoft is staying mum on whether or when it might add such support to Live search.
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Garmin Nav devices run Gnome Linux
4 Jul 2008 at 11:40am
Garmin has posted Linux source code for its Nuvi 8xx and Nuvi 5xxx-series GPS navigation devices. The Nuvi 8xx offers a 4.3-inch, 480x272 display, and appears to be based on a Marvell PXA-3xx processor, Gnome Mobile Linux, and GeoClue location technology.
Hello: Macs Are About to Get Interesting Again
4 Jul 2008 at 9:40am
On the future of macs, starting with all new technologies in 10.6, new GPUs that help with general purpose processing, iPhone/iPod halo effect etc. Looking forward to what the future will bring.
Flash 10-beta2 Linux
4 Jul 2008 at 8:20am
Flash Player 10 beta 2 was released on 7/2/2008 and includes new features and bug fixes.
The Coolest iPhone Timeline you will see Today
4 Jul 2008 at 6:00am
iPhone timelines are not usually cool but this one is. Take a look at it and see.
NVIDIA - "significant quantities" of laptop GPUs defective
4 Jul 2008 at 2:50am
informed investors that "significant quantities" of previous-generation graphics chips have been failing at "higher than normal rates," and that it's lowering its Q2 estimates due to pricing pressure.
Dashboard widget: Organized brings the productivity pain
4 Jul 2008 at 2:10am
OS X and its technologies offer a dizzying amount of ways to get productive. Organized is a new Dashboard widget that combines a world clock with Leopard's events, to-dos, and notes in a handy little package.
LifeHacker's Five Best Windows Maintenance Tools
4 Jul 2008 at 1:00am
You download, create, delete, and move around countless files and endless piles of data on your PC every day. While your PC would ideally handle all of this data for you, it doesn't take long before you end up with a disorganized, cluttered PC.
It's not the Gates, it's the bars
4 Jul 2008 at 12:40am
To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.
1.8GHz SSD MacBook Air Drops $500
4 Jul 2008 at 12:10am
Apple has quietly dropped the price of the high end MacBook Air by $500. The high end MacBook Air comes equipped with a 1.8GHz upgrade (from 1.6GHz) and a 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD). The total price for the high end laptop is $2598. Compare this to the original price of the 1.8GHz/SSD MacBook...
OpenMoko FreeRunner Linux phone to launch on July 4
3 Jul 2008 at 10:50pm
OpenMoko has announced plans to launch the Linux-based FreeRunner mobile phone on July 4. The highly-anticipated open source handset will be distributed through OpenMoko's web-based store and will begin shipping on July 7. The FreeRunner will also be available from several vendors in Europe and India.
How To Get Started Programming With Django
3 Jul 2008 at 10:20pm
Django is a web framework designed to help you build complex web applications simply and quickly. It's written in the Python programming language. Django can do some very complex things with less code and a simpler execution than you'd expect. This tutorial breaks down how to start working with Django.
Mac OS X Market Share Surges 32% In One Year
3 Jul 2008 at 9:20pm
Vista grows by 256% in the same period, but Windows is down overall. Last month, Apple's Mac OS X accounted for 7.94% of the operating systems powering computers that accessed the 40,000 Web sites Net Applications monitors for its clients, the company reported yesterday. A year ago, Mac OS X's usage share stood at 6.03%.
Mac OS X Market Share Nears 8%
3 Jul 2008 at 9:00pm
Apple's share of the global operating system market is climbing steadily, and could top 8% this month, statistics from a Web metrics firm showed Wednesday.
Playable demo of first Blender Open Game released!
3 Jul 2008 at 8:50pm
Blender's first open game, codename "Apricot" and featuring the characters from Blender's open movie "Big Buck Bunny", is making great strides forward, with the first playable demo now released to the public.
10.5.4 update adds RAW support for new Canon, Pentax SLRs
3 Jul 2008 at 8:40pm
Apple has updated its list of digital cameras supported by Mac OS X's Camera Raw. 10.5.4 adds support for eight cameras from Canon, Pentax, Epson, and Leaf.
