The fourth installment of the controversial video game “Grand Theft Auto” goes on sale worldwide Tuesday with expectations that it will break sales records.
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and video games - CNNMoney.com and software by Elliott Back
Advanced Micro Devices’ high-end quad-core Phenom chips are facing compatibility issues with select circuit boards as the chipmaker struggles to churn out processors that are competitive with Intel’s offerings.
AMD quad-core Phenom X4
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AMD confirmed Monday that high-end quad-core Phenom processors have compatibility problems with some motherboards …
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Tudou, which had been scolded for insufficient censorship (namely, of porn) and faced either threats or rumors of a government shutdown as recently as last month, is looking a little healthier this week.
China Web 2.0 Review reports:
Tudou, the largest video-sharing Web site in China, finally officially announced …
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Tudou, which had been scolded for insufficient censorship (namely, of porn) and faced either threats or rumors of a government shutdown as recently as last month, is looking a little healthier this week.
China Web 2.0 Review reports:
It has been rumored for quite a long time, Tudou, the
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Online-ad platform Adify has been sold to Cox Enterprises for $300 million, according to a PaidContent.org report citing unnamed sources.
Adify, which is used by the online arms of the Guardian, Forbes, NBC Weather Plus, and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, helps other companies develop their own ad networks, according …
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Online ad platform Adify has been sold to Cox Enterprises for $300 million, according to a report in paidContent.org citing unnamed sources. Adify, which is used by Guardian, Forbes.com, NBC WeatherPlus, and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, helps other companies develop their own ad networks, paidContent reported.
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Sanford Wallace, the so-called spam king, has often been accused of sending annoying messages that are typically ignored by the recipient. Perhaps he considered a series of court orders as something he could blow off.
If he did he was wrong. MySpace has won a legal judgment against Wallace after
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Shares of game publisher Take-Two were up Monday on the heels of positive reviews of the forthcoming video game Grand Theft Auto IV, which is being released to the public at midnight Tuesday.
Take-Two plans to launch "Grand Theft Auto IV" on Tuesday.
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Original post by Steven Musil and software by Elliott Back
Searching forums for specific posts can seriously suck. Most have proprietary search tools that can be unfamiliar or downright difficult to use. Some even require you to fill out a captcha to avoid getting attacked by bots or having its forums infested with spam. Twing is a new service that’s attempting to solve these problems […]
Shares of game publisher Take-Two were up Monday on the heels of positive reviews of the forthcoming video game Grand Theft Auto IV, which is being released to the public at midnight Tuesday.
Take-Two plans to launch "Grand Theft Auto IV" on Tuesday.
(Credit: Rockstar Games)
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Original post by Steven Musil and software by Elliott Back
The nuclear winter in technology talk sparked by Marc Andreessen wasn’t exactly on my mind as I got rid of some boxes in the garage over the weekend.
But beneath a tub of paperback books and snow chains I’d managed to never use, there was an archeological treasure: …
Original post by Jim Kerstetter and software by […]
A Dutch hacker activist and journalist has launched the Small Sister Project which is designed to help consumers counter the privacy invasions of Big Brother.
Brenno de Winter launched his project on Saturday with the aim of making it easier for people to keep their online communications safe from the …
Original post by Elinor Mills and […]
Those who prefer getting help from peers over negotiating the sometimes headache-inducing labyrinth of traditional tech support will have an additional online outlet come Tuesday. FixYa, a user-generated Web site for product care support, is set to announce a co-branded effort that brings Best Buy customers and the Geek Squad together to swap real-world solutions […]
A jury in Alameda County, Calif., on Monday afternoon found Linux programmer Hans Reiser guilty of first-degree murder in the 2006 killing of his estranged wife, Nina Reiser, according to news accounts.
The jury made its decision after three days of deliberation following a drama-filled six-month trial. The jury had …
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PALO ALTO, Calif.–It looks and feels like a square, yellow crayon.
But it’s actually a lot more sophisticated than that. It’s ink in solid form (aptly called “solid ink”) made of a polymeric resin, and Xerox researchers are using it, combined with advances in print head technology …
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I have written unkindly in the past about Redzee, a search engine with a too-cute-by half search results page. But I like the new visual search experiment Viewzi, which brings more variations to search interfaces.
Viewzi gives you different options to visualize search results. There is one that’s very much like Redzee (and Apple Cover Flow). […]
Hundreds of officials from agencies around the world including the FBI, Interpol, state attorneys general, city and county police, and the Air Force are attending a three-day technology training session at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus beginning on Monday.
Microsoft is training the officers how to use technologies that can …
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Jeff Dachis, one of the original Internet cowboys while running Web consultancy Razorfish, is again offering advice to corporate America.
Venture capital firm Austin Ventures is putting up $50 million to back Dachis’ new venture, a consultancy that plans to help companies use social networks as well as sell them
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Jeff Dachis, one of the original Internet cowboys while running Web consultancy Razorfish, is again offering advice to corporate America.
Venture capital firm Austin Ventures is putting up $50 million to back Dachis’ new venture, a consultancy that plans to help companies use social networks as well as sell them
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Lenovo first introduced its new consumer notebook line, IdeaPad, back at CES in January. Now, the smallest–and arguably best-looking–of the bunch is set to ship to consumers very soon.
The U110, Lenovo’s foray into consumer-oriented ultraportable notebooks, is now available on Lenovo.com, with other retailers soon to follow.
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Intacct announced Monday it raised a $15 million round of venture funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
The on-demand financial management and accounting applications company also received a portion of the round from its existing investors Emergence Capital, Sigma Partners, and Sutter Hill Ventures. That brings total funding for Intacct, …
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Google Apps + Salesforce.com = BFF?
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I started using the Salesforce.com/Gmail integrated product this weekend and was largely happy with the experience. The main thing for my company is getting information into one centralized system. We do so very effectively with our developer sites (wiki-based) but have been using SF.com with only middling success.
My theory […]
About a decade ago, wireless heart monitors hooked to patients at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas went on the fritz, causing much scrambling among the building’s engineering team.
The culprit, as it turned out, was interference from a nearby broadcast television station, which was testing its digital signal …
Original post by Anne Broache and software […]
Browser side-bar chat and friend app extrordinare Me.dium has just released a new version this afternoon. I met up with founder David Mandell at last week’s Web 2.0 Expo to chat about the new functionality, which he says is a very early version of Me.dium’s next big thing. This big thing is actually a small […]
The recording industry has filed a lawsuit alleging that Project Playlist, the company that provides an embeddable music player most often used at MySpace and Facebook, has violated its copyright.
According to a copy of the complaint obtained by CNET News.com, the Recording Industry Association of America filed suit
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Calameo is a new service for publishing documents from your computer to the Web. Like Scribd, it’s dead simple to use, and will slurp up all sorts of documents of up to 100MB in size. What makes the service noteworthy is that you can take documents online and offline with a click of a button, […]
The “Long Tail” explains the growing use of services outside of the core domains of SOA, business process implementation and integration, says XAWare chief science officer, Kirstan Vandersluis. Commentary–The “Long Tail” moniker has been used extensively (some would say overused) in marketing and mass media over the last couple…
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Before I became a marketing wonk I was a knowledgeable technologist, which is probably why I’ve never once enjoyed any e-mail system that I have used or implemented. Over the last 15 years, I have tried pretty much everything, from Pine to Zimbra, to MS Exchange to Lotus Notes and several different IMAP and POP […]
Updated at 10:58 a.m. PDT to add comment from the broadband-over-power lines industry.
In a potential setback for fans of broadband over power lines, a federal appeals court has sided in part with amateur radio operators who challenged rules designed to speed the nascent Internet service’s rollout.
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Original post by Anne Broache and software by Elliott Back
Remember Brightkite, the social network meets microblogging tool we wrote about last week? The creators have been nice enough to grace us with 100 invites to give away to Webware readers. Just fill in the Wufoo form after the break and we’ll get one your way as soon as we can. Invites will be sent […]
Remember Brightkite, the social network meets microblogging tool we wrote about last week? The creators have been nice enough to grace us with 100 invites to give away to Webware readers. Just fill in the Wufoo form after the break and we’ll get one your way as soon as we can. Invites will be sent […]
Supercomputer expert Cray and Intel have entered a multiyear agreement on high-performance computing, a deal that seems to leave rival Advanced Micro Devices in the lurch.
Under the alliance, Intel will provide chips and silicon expertise to Cray, which in turn will design supercomputers and servers around Intel’s chips. …
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As Yahoo and Microsoft prepare to do battle now that the software giant’s Saturday deadline has come and gone, don’t think of the Internet pioneer as a 20-pound weakling when it comes to takeover attempts.
Two members of Yahoo’s board are battle-tested–Gary Wilson and Ron Burkle have …
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As Yahoo and Microsoft prepare to do battle, now that the software giant’s deadline has come and gone, don’t think of the Internet pioneer as a 20-pound weakling when it comes to proxy fights and various takeover attempts.
Two members of Yahoo’s board are battle-tested - Gary …
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Zoho continues its quest to build the most comprehensive online productivity suite, adding support for macros and pivot tables in its spreadsheet, Zoho Sheet.
The new version includes support for Visual Basic (VB), the scripting language used for Microsoft Excel for macros, said Raju Vegesna, Zoho’s chief evangelist. Zoho built its VB engine independent from any […]
Verizon Communications’ hot streak continues during the first quarter of 2008.
On Monday the company said that first quarter profits jumped about 10 percent to $1.64 billion, fueled by demand for its mobile phone service and fiber-to-the-home service called Fios.
Revenues grew about 5.5 percent to $23.8 …
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Yahoo shares fell slightly in morning trading Monday, following the passing of Microsoft’s closely watched Saturday deadline without the parties hammering out a merger deal.
Shares of Yahoo dipped to $26.60 per share in morning trading, off 0.75 percent from its close of $26.80 on Friday. …
Original post by Dawn Kawamoto and software by Elliott Back
Yahoo shares fell slightly in morning trading Monday, following Microsoft’s closely watched Saturday deadline passing without the parties hammering out a merger deal.
Shares of Yahoo dipped to $26.60 per share in morning trading, off 0.75 percent from its close of $26.80 on Friday. Investors were …
Original post by Dawn Kawamoto and software by Elliott Back
Following rumors last week that Apple would soon be releasing a new iMac, the Mac maker on Monday started selling an updated version of the computer, featuring a faster processor and an option for a souped-up graphics chip.
The lowest-end new iMac, which retails for $1,199, features a 2….
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Apple dished up Monday an iMac update for users to bite on.
The new iMac update, as noted in News.Com’s Tom Krazit’s blog, features a faster chip and also an option for a souped-up graphics chip. The updated iMacs are available now in stores.
The new iMacs, …
Original post by Dawn Kawamoto and software by Elliott […]
The Pennsylvania mother who sued Universal Music over a YouTube video of her toddler dancing to a Prince song isn’t having much luck in court.
Last October, we wrote about the suit that Stephanie Lenz filed in federal court in San Jose claiming the record label had abused the …
Original post by Declan McCullagh and software […]
HP dc5850 can be configured with Phenom triple-core and quad-core processors
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The Phenom processor is ready for business. On Monday, Dell and Hewlett-Packard refreshed their business desktop lineups with triple- and quad-core processors from Advanced Micro Devices, which is launching a small and medium-size business initiative.
Called “Business …
Original post by Brooke Crothers and […]
My Vista laptop kept losing its Internet connection when it came out of sleep mode. It turns out the problem was related to the Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) Client service, or dhcpcsvc.dll, which tried to rewrite routing information to the network store interface. This caused a failed write …
Original post by Dennis O’Reilly and […]
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AMD is planning to make a big push into the small business sector, according to ZDNet and The Wall Street Journal (subscription required).
The chipmaker is set to announce on Monday an initiative called AMD Business Class, formerly code-named Hardcastle, that is geared …
Original post by Jennifer Guevin and software by Elliott […]
The European Union launched Giove-B, the second (and last) test satellite in its $5.3 billion Galileo project, on Sunday, according to Reuters.
The first test satellite, Giove-A was launched in December 2005. Giove-B will test the program’s high-precision atomic clock and signal transmission, said Reuters.
Galileo is Europe’…
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Last week I discovered I was using Twitter too much. After an hour online with Twhirl, I got this message in the app: “Limit exceeded, paused 5 min.” The error condition cleared up shortly, but the next morning, after just a few minutes, it came back and did not resolve. I had to go […]
Microsoft is denying that a recent rash of Web server attacks are the company’s fault.
In a blog posted late Friday night, Bill Sisk, of the Microsoft Security Response Center, wrote that the attacks are not due to any new or unknown security flaws in Internet Information Services or …
Original post by Jennifer Guevin and software […]
The current iPhone does not give sensory feedback when a user presses keys on its touchscreen.
(Credit: CNET Networks)
An anonymous Apple employee says company executives are in talks with Immersion Corporation to license its haptic technology for use in the iPhone, according to a report at Palluxo.
Haptic technology …
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Time Warner’s AOL has acquired Fleaflicker, a free fantasy football site.
Site founder and operator Ori Schwartz confirmed the acquisition Saturday but declined to describe terms of the deal. AOL’s move was reported Friday by TechCrunch.
MediaPost Publications reported that AOL will add the site to its AOL Sports …
Original post by Stephen Shankland and software by […]
Time Warner’s AOL has acquired Fleaflicker, a free fantasy football site.
Site founder and operator Ori Schwartz confirmed the acquisition Saturday but declined to describe terms of the deal. AOL’s move was reported Friday by TechCrunch.
MediaPost Publications reported that AOL will add the site to its AOL Sports …
Original post by Stephen Shankland and software by […]
