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Congress questions high cost of texting
Submitted Thursday, September 11, 2008 @ 07:09 AM
news.yahoo.com -- The price of text messaging has doubled industry-wide in the last three years, and Congress wants to know why.
Sen Herb Kohl, chair of the Antitrust Subcommittee in the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter Tuesday to the four major wireless carriers--AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile--asking them to explain the dramatic price increases for text messaging services. See the complete story here.
Google Aims To Digitize Old Newspapers
Submitted Thursday, September 11, 2008 @ 06:51 AM
Google company information - ( Google News )
crn.com -- Google has started an ambitious project to digitally archive millions of pages of old newspapers.
In 2006, Google started working with the New York Times and the Washington Post to index existing digital archives and make them searchable via Google's search technology. The new effort expands that initiative, with the goal of reaching every story ever printed, "from the smallest local weekly paper up to the largest national daily," according to a post on Google's official blog. See the complete story here.
BitTorrent Tracker Admin Jailed for 18 Months
Submitted Thursday, September 11, 2008 @ 06:40 AM
torrentfreak.com -- The fallout from the FBI raid on EliteTorrents in 2005 continues. Today, 26 year-old Daniel Dove has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $20,000 fine for the work he put in on the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents. See the complete story here.
OLPC to Sell Its Low-Cost Notebooks Via Amazon
Submitted Saturday, September 06, 2008 @ 04:58 AM
pcmag.com -- The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization on Friday announced plans to sell its XO notebook via Amazon.com.
When OLPC designed its low-priced, low-watt, neon-green XO laptop, the company never intended to make it commercially available to consumers in developed countries. The purpose of the program, after all, was to benefit children from poor nations. See the complete story here.
Red Hat buys Qumranet, adds gasoline to the spreading VDI bon...
Submitted Saturday, September 06, 2008 @ 04:55 AM
blogs.zdnet.com -- Open-source giant Red Hat has upped the ante in the PC desktop virtualization market with its acquisition of Qumranet, Inc. in a $107-million deal announced this week. See the complete story here.
ISPs Hand Over Details of ‘Several Thousand’ Pirates
Submitted Saturday, September 06, 2008 @ 04:50 AM
torrentfreak.com -- Two major UK ISPs have been ordered by the High Court to hand over the identities of several thousand alleged file-sharers. BT has confirmed it is involved while Virgin Media was less direct in admitting that lawyers Davenport Lyons, working with Topwear Inc., are about to start threatening thousands more people. See the complete story here.
First look: Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 officially released
Submitted Saturday, September 06, 2008 @ 04:45 AM
Firefox company information - ( Firefox News )
arstechnica.com -- Mozilla has officially announced the availability of the second Firefox 3.1 alpha. This release includes support for the highly-anticipated HTML 5 "video" element and a handful of other features that move the browser forward. See the complete story here.
Dell Plans to Sell Factories In Effort to Cut Costs
Submitted Saturday, September 06, 2008 @ 04:43 AM
Dell company information - ( Dell News )
online.wsj.com -- Dell Inc. is trying to sell its computer factories around the world, a move to sharply overhaul a production model that was long a hallmark of the PC giant's strategy but is no longer competitive. See the complete story here.
Google: Happy Tenth Anniversary--Now What?
Submitted Saturday, September 06, 2008 @ 04:34 AM
Google company information - ( Google News )
cnbc.com -- Ten years ago, when there were far fewer websites than there are today, a couple of guys living in Stanford's Escondido Village got the idea to create an easy-to-use, searchable directory so friends and family could easily find the net's newest, coolest destinations. See the complete story here.
Amazon launches video on demand service
Submitted Friday, September 05, 2008 @ 01:02 AM
ft.com -- Amazon has announced a video-on-demand streaming service as internet and consumer electronics companies strive to match the capabilities of US cable and satellite providers. See the complete story here.
Serious Security Flaw in Google Chrome
Submitted Thursday, September 04, 2008 @ 05:33 PM
Google company information - ( Google News )
readwriteweb.com -- Google Chrome has quickly become one of our favorite browsers here at RWW, but as Ryan Narraine, a security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, reports, Chrome has also inherited a potentially serious security flaw from the old version of WebKit it is based on. An attacker could easily trick users into launching an executable Java file by combining a flaw in WebKit with a known Java bug and some smart social engineering. See the complete story here.
What exaflood? 'Net backbone shows no signs of osteoporosis
Submitted Thursday, September 04, 2008 @ 05:28 PM
arstechnica.com -- Given recent media coverage, it's easy to believe that P2P and streaming video traffic is a rising hurricane battering upon ISP levees, that ISPs are frantically sandbagging their systems against disaster, that throttling, bandwidth caps, and traffic management are urgent and absolute necessities to keep the storm surge at bay. But new research from Telegeography only confirms what we've been saying for some time: the Internet backbone isn't drowning beneath any kind of exaflood. In fact, backbone capacity has grown faster than Internet traffic in the last year—for the second year in a row. See the complete story here.
It Looks Like Yahoo Dislikes Internet Explorer Too
Submitted Thursday, September 04, 2008 @ 05:19 PM
Yahoo company information - ( Yahoo News )
Firefox company information - ( Firefox News )
techcrunch.com -- Even though the drama surrounding Microsoft’s Yahoo acquisition has subsided, it looks like there’s still some bad blood.
A tipster yesterday sent us a screen shot of Yahoo’s front page running on Internet Explorer with a Firefox recommendation sitting atop the page. “Yahoo recommends upgrading to the NEW safer, faster Firefox 3,” the ad says. See the complete story here.
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Available Now: Windows XP $399, Ubuntu $349
Submitted Thursday, September 04, 2008 @ 05:17 PM
Dell company information - ( Dell News )
Intel company information - ( Intel News )
gizmodo.com -- The way Dell introduced the Inspiron Mini 9 was pretty inspired, so it's almost been depressing watching the steady stream of leaks deflate it into a now familiar device, even though it's only being released today. As leaked, inside is an Intel Atom Diamondville processor and it has a 1024x600 LED-backlit screen with 4, 8 and 16GB SSD options (plus you get 2GB free online storage at Box.Net) and about three hours of battery life. Only the Windows XP version is available now for $399, in black or white—the $349 Ubuntu flavor, along with the rest of the six-color rainbow are a few weeks away. Update: You can pick one up for $99 if you buy another Dell. See the complete story here.
Internet traffic grows 53 percent from mid-2007
Submitted Thursday, September 04, 2008 @ 05:04 PM
news.yahoo.com -- International Internet traffic kept growing in the last year, but at a slower rate than before, and carriers more than kept pace by adding more capacity, a research firm said Wednesday. See the complete story here.
Microsoft: Expect four bulletins on Patch Tuesday
Submitted Thursday, September 04, 2008 @ 04:59 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
news.cnet.com -- On Thursday, Microsoft announced four security bulletins for Tuesday. The announcement is intended as a heads-up for IT departments before Patch Tuesday. All four are considered critical, the most serious ranking offered by the software giant.
Among the critical patches, two affect Windows Media Player, one affects Windows, while the other affects Microsoft Office. All could enable remote code execution if exploited. See the complete story here.
Google Fixes Chrome's End User Terms Of Service
Submitted Thursday, September 04, 2008 @ 04:59 PM
Google company information - ( Google News )
informationweek.com -- In an effort to dispel fears that it might claim ownership rights over all work done using its new Chrome browser, Google has revised Chrome's Terms of Service agreement. See the complete story here.
Recalls
Submitted Thursday, September 04, 2008 @ 04:56 PM
Sony company information - ( Sony News )
ap.google.com -- About 73,000 VAIO VAIO VGN-TZ100, VGN-TZ200, VGN-TZ300 and VGN-TZ2000 series notebook computers, manufactured in Japan and United States by Sony Electronics Inc., because of a possibility the computers could short circuit and overheat. The company has received 15 reports of overheating, including one report of a minor burn. The notebooks were sold online and by SonyStyle stores, authorized electronics retailers and authorized business-to-business dealers around the country between July 2007 and August 2008. Details: by phone at 888-526-6219; by Web at http://www.sony.com/support or http://www.cpsc.gov. See the complete story here.
Chrome Strong Against Firefox And Safari, IE Untouched
Submitted Thursday, September 04, 2008 @ 04:54 PM
Firefox company information - ( Firefox News )
Google company information - ( Google News )
crn.com -- Even though Google's Chrome has been publicly available for less than a week, its Web browser market share has already reached over 1 percent.
According to reports from Market Share and Stat Counter, the new Web browser from Google is making inroads into relatively well established browser turf. As of 2 p.m. EDT, Market Share reports that Chrome usage was at 1.03 percent, down from its high watermark of 1.57 percent set at 4 a.m. EDT on Thursday morning. Stat Counter notes that the global market share for Chrome is at 1.15 percent on September 4. See the complete story here.
Letter lottery defines spam load
Submitted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 @ 06:50 PM
news.bbc.co.uk -- How much spam you get may depend on the first letter in your e-mail address, a study reveals.
The analysis, of more than 500 million junk messages, revealed those letters that get more junk than average.
It found that e-mail addresses starting with an "A", "M" or "S" got more than 40% spam. By contrast those beginning with a "Q" or "Z" got about 20%. See the complete story here.
Google to launch browser to compete with Microsoft
Submitted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 @ 03:37 AM
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Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
latimes.com -- Bidding to dominate not only what people do on the Web but how they get from site to site, Google Inc. plans to release a browser today to compete with the likes of Internet Explorer and Firefox.
It's yet another salvo in the company's intensifying battle with Microsoft Corp., which last week released a beta, or test, version of Internet Explorer 8 that makes it easier to block ads from Google and others. See the complete story here.
PsyStar Strikes Back at Apple
Submitted Sunday, August 31, 2008 @ 12:23 PM
Apple company information - ( Apple News )
internetnews.com -- As expected, upstart PsyStar responded to Apple's copyright infringement suit with a counterclaim of its own Thursday, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. PsyStar's counterclaim charges Apple with restraint of trade, unfair competition and other violations of antitrust law. See the complete story here.
iPhone security flaw exposes private data
Submitted Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 08:10 PM
Apple company information - ( Apple News )
news.yahoo.com -- A security flaw in Apple Inc's iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked, but the company said a fix is on the way. See the complete story here.
Bloomberg mistakenly publishes Steve Jobs obituary
Submitted Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 08:10 PM
Apple company information - ( Apple News )
news.yahoo.com -- An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire on Wednesday afternoon, and a tipster promptly sent the soon-retracted file to gossip blog Gawker. See the complete story here.
Mystery 'iPhone Girl' generates Internet intrigue
Submitted Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 08:09 PM
news.yahoo.com -- Who is the "iPhone Girl"?
Pictures of an Asian factory worker found on a new iPhone sold to a British customer have generated keen discussion on the Internet about her identity — and her fate. See the complete story here.
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