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Video appears in paper magazines
Submitted Thursday, August 27, 2009 @ 09:55 PM
news.bbc.co.uk -- The first-ever video advertisement will be published in a traditional paper magazine in September.
The video-in-print ads will appear in select copies of the US show business title Entertainment Weekly. See the complete story here.
Internet Addicts Get First U.S. Treatment Clinic
Submitted Thursday, August 27, 2009 @ 09:34 PM
livescience.com -- Hardcore Internet junkies now have their very own version of the Betty Ford clinic.
The Heavensfield Retreat Center, located in Fall City, Wash., claims to be the first U.S in-patient center to treat Internet, video game and texting addictions. Enrollment in the clinic’s 45-day Internet addiction recovery program, called reStart, costs roughly $14,500. See the complete story here.
Overheated computer blamed for fiery death
Submitted Thursday, August 27, 2009 @ 09:33 PM
thestar.com -- A laptop computer that burst into flames after being left on a couch is to blame for a Vancouver man's death, prompting a public warning from the British Columbia Coroners Service not to leave the devices on soft furniture.
The 56-year-old man became the first British Columbian to die from a laptop fire earlier this year when he plugged the device in and left it running on his sofa. The laptop caught fire 50 minutes later and his residence was soon engulfed. See the complete story here.
Confirmed: Microsoft Is The New Owner Of Office.com
Submitted Saturday, August 08, 2009 @ 08:23 AM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
washingtonpost.com -- We speculated about this when we first reported on Microsoft's recent announcements regarding its software-in-the-cloud strategy, and now it's official: istartedsomething and Download Squad have confirmed that the domain name office.com is now a property of the Redmond software behemoth, based on a simple WHOIS query. See the complete story here.
Tool To Make Online Personal Data Vanish
Submitted Thursday, August 06, 2009 @ 02:15 PM
sciencedaily.com -- Computers have made it virtually impossible to leave the past behind. College Facebook posts or pictures can resurface during a job interview. A lost cell phone can expose personal photos or text messages. A legal investigation can subpoena the entire contents of a home or work computer, uncovering incriminating, inconvenient or just embarrassing details from the past. See the complete story here.
Twitter down: Denial of service
Submitted Thursday, August 06, 2009 @ 02:14 PM
money.cnn.com -- Social networking Web site Twitter was unavailable for roughly two hours Thursday morning after being hit by a denial of service attack.
Twitter went down at about 9:30 a.m. ET. It was back up by 11:30 a.m. ET, but access to twitter.com has remained spotty since then, with frequent network timeouts. See the complete story here.
Deciphering Windows 7 Upgrades: The Official Chart
Submitted Thursday, August 06, 2009 @ 02:12 PM
Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News )
mossblog.allthingsd.com -- Over the past two weeks, in my Personal Technology columns, here and here, I’ve explained some of the challenges and limitations that will be involved in upgrading an existing Windows XP or Windows Vista PC to the forthcoming Windows 7 operating system, due out October 22. Several readers asked me to publish a chart showing which current versions of Windows could be easily upgraded to which planned versions of Windows 7, and which couldn’t. So I asked Microsoft to supply such a chart we could publish, and the company graciously did so. It is reproduced below, unaltered. You can click on it to make it larger. See the complete story here.
Apple bans third-most prolific developer from the App Store
Submitted Monday, August 03, 2009 @ 06:49 PM
Apple company information - ( Apple News )
neowin.net -- When the App Store launched, it was relatively bare, leaving it an untapped resource for new (and seasoned) developers. There have been many success stories, which have led to other developers wanting in; if you look around the store today, you might see hundreds of applications that do the near exact same job, except all by the same developer. This is a classic example of monetizing the community, without regard for quality, and Apple seems to have had enough of it. TechCrunch's MobileCrunch division is reporting that the developer Khalid Shaikh, responsible for 943 applications, has been banned from submitting any further products to the App Store. See the complete story here.
Mozilla patches three public Firefox bugs
Submitted Monday, August 03, 2009 @ 06:25 PM
Firefox company information - ( Firefox News )
computerworld.com -- Mozilla today patched Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.0 to quash three security vulnerabilities, including a pair unveiled last week at Black Hat, and a third Mozilla itself revealed last month.
Firefox 3.0.13, the update to the older browser that Mozilla will drop off the support list in January 2010, includes two bugs, while Firefox 3.5.2 fixes a separate flaw. See the complete story here.
Apple Snow Leopard Presales Begin at Amazon
Submitted Monday, August 03, 2009 @ 06:21 PM
Apple company information - ( Apple News )
pcworld.com -- Pre-orders for Apple's upcoming Snow Leopard operating system topped Amazon.com's bestseller list Monday, just days after the online retail giant put Mac OS X 10.6 on its site.
As of 3 p.m. ET, the $29 Snow Leopard and the $49 Snow Leopard Family Pack were ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, on Amazon's software sales chart. The $49 Family Pack provides licenses for five Macs. See the complete story here.
Search Options now on Google Images
Submitted Monday, August 03, 2009 @ 06:20 PM
Google company information - ( Google News )
googleblog.blogspot.com -- A few months ago when we announced the Search Options panel, we promised that you would soon see similar functionality across our other search properties. Today we are rolling out Search Options for Google Images.
This new feature offers quick access to existing tools, including search by color and image type. Color search will find images that are only in color or only in black and white, or even images that contain a specific color, such as red, pink, or green. Type search is a great way to narrow down your results if you are looking for a specific kind of image, such as a photo, clip art, line drawing or face. See the complete story here.
Apple fix to iPhone security flaw
Submitted Monday, August 03, 2009 @ 06:09 PM
Apple company information - ( Apple News )
news.bbc.co.uk -- Apple has released a software patch to address a recently described security flaw in the iPhone.
Experts revealed on Thursday that modified SMS messages could result in iPhones being disconnected from the network or hijacked altogether. See the complete story here.
NJ man is first to be charged with Web name theft
Submitted Monday, August 03, 2009 @ 06:05 PM
tech.yahoo.com -- A northern New Jersey man is charged with stealing a prime piece of Internet real estate and reselling it to basketball player Mark Madsen in one of the nation's first prosecutions of a suspected domain name thief. See the complete story here.
Twitter Reaches 44.5 Million People Worldwide In June (comScore)
Submitted Monday, August 03, 2009 @ 05:57 PM
techcrunch.com -- Well, Twitter didn’t win a Nobel Peace Prize for its role in getting the word out about the Iran election protests earlier this summer, but it did gain about 7 million new visitors in the month of June. Twitter’s website attracted a total of 44.5 million unique visitors worldwide in June, 2009, according to comScore. See the complete story here.
PayPal suffers from e-commerce outage
Submitted Monday, August 03, 2009 @ 05:49 PM
eBay company information - ( eBay News )
news.cnet.com -- PayPal suffered a global outage and slow performance Monday, but eBay said its online payment system is mostly back in working order.
"About an hour ago, PayPal started experiencing site issues that affected the ability to send and receive money. We have all hands on deck to get this fixed," said PayPal spokesman Anuj Nayar in a blog post about noon PDT. "We're really sorry for the inconvenience." See the complete story here.
Buyer's E-Morse: 'Owning' Digital Books
Submitted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 @ 04:44 PM
Digital company information - ( Digital News )
online.wsj.com -- Buying electronic books on the Internet is easy -- but so is taking them away.
That became clear last week when Amazon.com Inc. used its wireless technology to reach into customers' Kindle e-readers and deleted some e-books written by George Orwell. Amazon, which returned the cost of the e-books, said it made the move when it realized that the publisher didn't have the proper rights to sell the book in the U.S. See the complete story here.
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