Fri 03 July, 2009
20:39 Fisher Plaza blaze knocks out Internet service - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Sci/Tech - Google News KATU | Fisher Plaza blaze knocks out Internet service Seattle Post Intelligencer A fire at Fisher Plaza late Thursday night disrupted Internet service for several companies - including one that handles online credit card transactions for hundreds of thousands of businesses - and affected Seattle television and ... Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites Fire at Seattle's Fisher Plaza disrupts web sites Fire in downtown Seattle data center knocks out businesses, online ... |
20:26 Why I'm Dropping Bing For Google - InformationWeek Sci/Tech - Google News Straits Times | Why I'm Dropping Bing For Google InformationWeek It's been about a month since I started a Bing experiment, and it's gone pretty well. Search results are about as good as Google, sometimes better. After a month, though, I've decided to go back to Google. The problem isn't with the search results ... Bing: Not Really Gaining on Google Microsoft: Bing needs to improve when news breaks Microsoft Gets Twitter Search First |
19:35 Apple, Acer and…Arrington? - New York Times Sci/Tech - Google News Liliputing | Apple, Acer and…Arrington? New York Times Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch, has been talking for a year about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing. Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to become a reality. ... Tech blog titan Michael Arrington's next big thing: Hardware TechCrunch founder launches hardware startup CrunchPad tablet coming soon, CrunchPad Inc. is already here |
15:40 US Court Rejects IBM Appeal in Executive's Move to Dell
(PC World)
Yahoo! News: Technology NewsPC World - A U.S. court has rejected an IBM appeal to bar David Johnson, the company's former chief of mergers and acquisitions, from working at rival Dell over concerns regarding trade secrets.
15:28 Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store - CNET News Sci/Tech - Google News CNET News | Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store CNET News An employee was shot Friday at this Apple store on Clarendon Blvd. in Arlington, Va. Customers were inside the store when the shooting happened, but no one else was injured, police say. An employee at an Apple store near Washington DC ... Gunfire at Apple Store in DC Suburb Leaves One Injured Employee Shot at Apple Store; Suspect Sought Colonel Mustard, in the Apple Store, with the revolver |
15:25 Michael Jackson sales surge expected to last months
(Reuters)
Yahoo! News: Technology NewsReuters - In the days following Michael Jackson's June 25 death, fans flocked to record stores and digital music outlets to purchase one last memory. And merchants say they expect the Jackson sales surge to last for weeks -- maybe even months.
15:14 Jackson fans told to stay away as tickets up for grabs
(AFP)
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AFP - Fans heading to Los Angeles for Michael Jackson's memorial extravaganza were urged to stay away on Friday as organizers said tickets for the event would be allocated by an online lottery.
14:22 BlackBerry vs. iPhone 3.0: Smackdown Revisited - PC World Sci/Tech - Google News Brisbane Times | BlackBerry vs. iPhone 3.0: Smackdown Revisited PC World The new iPhone 3.0 OS is now old news, but do its enhancements overcome any advantages that the BlackBerry has over the iPhone? In May, I pitted the BlackBerry Bold in a head-to-head competition against the iPhone 3G, which handily beat RIM's business ... Apple Shoots Down Obama's Hope Deathmatch rematch: BlackBerry versus iPhone 3.0 Porn Continues to Plague iphone Apps Store |
14:08 Ericsson announces broadband contracts in China
(AFP)
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AFP - Swedish mobile phone network supplier Ericsson won contracts to supply broadband Internet to millions of users in China by a deal with three operators there, it said Friday.
14:06 Unlocked cell phones coming to U.S. CNN.com - TechnologyNokia and Sony Ericsson are targeting the U.S. with a new set of unlocked phones. But without hefty carrier subsidies, will they ever be able to crack the U.S. market?
13:25 Dell turns netbooks into navigation devices CNN.com - TechnologySay hello to your latest personal navigation device: a netbook. Dell plans to introduce a GPS and Wi-Fi card that can be integrated into the company's netbooks to turn them into gizmos that can offer turn-by-turn direction as well as any Garmin or TomTom.
12:59 Bluetooth "Big Brother" tracks festival-goers
(Reuters)
Yahoo! News: Technology NewsReuters - Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices.
12:40 IPhone 3GS Heats Up, DOJ Takes Aim at Google
(PC World)
Yahoo! News: Technology NewsPC World - The iPhone scored quite a few headlines related to overheating problems with the 3GS this week. Depending on whom you believe, those issues are either real, exaggerated, the fault of users or some combination of the three. Otherwise, as warm weather takes hold above the equator and Bostonians contemplate whether it's time to brush up on our ark-building skills (rain, rain go away), we find this week's IT news offerings cover a broad range.
11:40 10 humor sites sure to make you LOL CNN.com - TechnologyBored with Pearl, the cursing toddler landlord demanding rent money? Not amused by those cutesy pictures of cats with the baby-speak captions? Replenish your list of favorite bookmarks with these 10 new or lesser-known humor Web sites, including some that find comedy in real life.
10:55 Fake Tamiflu out-spams Viagra on Web CNN.com - TechnologyThe number of Internet scammers offering fake anti-swine flu drug, Tamiflu has surpassed those selling counterfeit Viagra, a UK body said Friday.
10:49 'GeoHot' gets a shower, cleans up nice, reveals new iPhone 3G S ... - BetaNews Sci/Tech - Google News PC World | 'GeoHot' gets a shower, cleans up nice, reveals new iPhone 3G S ... BetaNews Either puberty has been very kind to the author of the new 'Purple Ra1n' jailbreak tool, or George Hotz may also have some adequate Photoshop skills. By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published July 3, 2009, 12:44 PM In a comically blatant display of bravado ... AT&T Says iPhone 3GS is Hot in a Good Way Apple Obliquely Addresses iPhone 3GS Overheating First iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Hits The Web |
10:34 Teen Releases First Jailbreak App for iPhone 3GS
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Yahoo! News: Technology NewsNewsFactor - The first jailbreak application for Apple's new iPhone 3GS has been made available just two weeks after the iPhone debuted. George Hotz, a 19-year-old Google employee originally from New Jersey, created the application.
09:21 China Testing Mac Version of Green Dam Web Filter
(NewsFactor)
Yahoo! News: Technology NewsNewsFactor - Despite the delay in China's requirement to install Green Dam Web-filtering software on all new PCs, the controversy is not dead. PC makers are including the software with new PCs even though the July 1 deadline has been postponed indefinitely.
09:03 Facebook criticised over privacy - BBC News Sci/Tech - Google News DailyTech | Facebook criticised over privacy BBC News The social networking site Facebook has come under fire for planned changes to its privacy settings. It wants to "simplify" the process so users only have to set them once, instead of for each individual feature. ... Facebook undergoes drastic changes one more time New Facebook Privacy Controls Take On Twitter Facebook changes privacy controls so members feel safe to share |
08:48 Facebook criticised over privacy BBC News | Technology | UK EditionThe social networking site comes under fire for planned changes to privacy settings.
08:45 Firefox 3.5 Can Still Learn From Its Competition
(PC World)
Yahoo! News: Technology NewsPC World - While Mozilla lights a fire under competing browsers with support of emerging Web standards with Firefox 3.5, it can still improve its performance, reliability, and usability.
07:52 MySpace victim's mom disappointed by ruling - msnbc.com Sci/Tech - Google News Washington Post | MySpace victim's mom disappointed by ruling msnbc.com AP By Mike Celizic Tina Meier had hoped to see her neighbor and former friend, Lori Drew, go to prison for her role in the online hoax that caused Meier's 13-year-old daughter, Megan, to end her life. But even though a judge is throwing out Drew's ... Mom in MySpace case says it was properly dismissed MySpace cyber-bullying conviction tentatively dismissed Lori Drew proclaims innocence in the wake of acquittal by judge |
05:22 Billions stolen in online robbery BBC News | Technology | UK EditionDetails emerge of why billions in virtual cash disappeared from a virtual bank in Eve Online.
05:01 Hybrid cars to make noise to help blind pedestrians BBC News | Technology | UK EditionJapan considers adding noise-making devices to quiet hybrid cars to improve safety for blind pedestrians.
04:00 Regulators eye Google book deal BBC News | Technology | UK EditionUS anti-trust regulators are to examine Google's $125m deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues, reports say.
04:00 You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
(InfoWorld)
Yahoo! News: Technology NewsInfoWorld - You win some; you lose some. This week China decided its Web censorship filtering software was not quite ready for prime time, while U.S. courts sentenced phone hackers and file swappers to some crime time.
03:41 Suit Over China's Web Filter to Target Lenovo, Acer, Sony - PC World Sci/Tech - Google News Boston Globe | Suit Over China's Web Filter to Target Lenovo, Acer, Sony PC World A US company will seek legal action against Lenovo, Acer and Sony next week over their shipment in China of controversial software that the company says stole its programming code. Solid Oak Software may also take action against other PC makers that ... China Says Green Dam Still Coming, Mac Version in the Works China's Green Dam 'Definitely' Coming There's a big hole in China's Green Dam |
03:32 MySpace 'suicide bully cleared' BBC News | Technology | UK EditionA woman accused of "cyber-bullying" a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide sees her conviction provisionally thrown out.
03:31 US wants privacy in new cyber security system
(AP)
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AP - The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections.
01:54 Mixed results for green IT goals BBC News | Technology | UK EditionA majority of tech workers in the public sector do not know about the emission reduction targets they face, says a survey.
01:50 dot.life BBC News | Technology | UK EditionWill Twitter alienate users if it becomes too corporate?
Thu 02 July, 2009
20:13 "Asteroids" lands at Universal
(Reuters)
Yahoo! News: Technology NewsReuters - Universal Pictures has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids."