Archive for October, 2008

The solution to gaming’s problems

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Don Reisinger thinks he knows what will fix all of gaming’s woes. Find out what he thinks in his latest Digital Home entry.
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Skyfire now browsing north of the border

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Skyfire’s mobile browser for Symbian and Windows Mobile phones reaches out to Canadians.
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1 Trojan + 3 years = 500,000 online financial accounts

Friday, October 31st, 2008

RSA discovers half a million bank and credit card accounts compromised by the Sinowal Trojan that sneaks onto machines from Web sites and steals information. And it’s been going on in one gang’s case for nearly three years.
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Sony recalls 100,000 PC batteries

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Sony said five PC makers including Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba will recall 100,000 computer battery packs made by the Japanese electronics maker due to a fire hazard. SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO–Sony said five PC makers including Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba will recall 100,000 computer battery packs made by the Japanese electronics maker due…
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Dick Armey: Treasury Dept. should not overreact to Net gambling

Friday, October 31st, 2008

An opinion article by the former House Majority Leader says the Bush administration is pushing last-minute regulations that could have “devastating consequences for privacy and e-commerce.”
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Dick Armey: Treasury Department should not overreact to Net-gambling

Friday, October 31st, 2008

An opinion article by the former House Majority Leader says that the lame duck Bush administration is rushing through some last-minute regulations that could have “devastating consequences for privacy and e-commerce.”
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Electric-car race could strain lithium battery supply

Friday, October 31st, 2008

With lithium ion batteries becoming the power pack of choice for a new wave of plug-in electric cars, more people are studying the question of worldwide supply.
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Electric car race could strain lithium battery supply

Friday, October 31st, 2008

With lithium ion batteries becoming the power pack of choice for a new wave of plug-in electric cars, more people are studying the question of worldwide supply.
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and video games - CNNMoney.com and software by Elliott Back

Download full seasons of popular TV shows for $5

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Get Battlestar Galactica, House, Heroes, and more for just 5 bucks per season.
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Microsoft’s other new platform: Live Framework

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Expected to be a big deal at PDC, the developer component of Live Mesh finds itself overshadowed some by Windows Azure, the cloud-based OS that the mesh sits on top of.
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Browser extension YooNo launches revenue strategy

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Can affiliate fees make a browser extension profitable?
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Apple fanboys vs. Microsofties: A scientist’s verdict

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Love and hate apparently use the same circuits in the brain, which might help explain the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft devotees.
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Apple fanboys vs Microsofties: the scientists’ verdict

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Love and hate apparently use the same circuits in the brain. Which might help to explain the Apple vs Microsoft fan rivalry.
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EA to slash workforce after reporting loss

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

The video game publisher cuts its forecast for the fiscal year and says it will slash its workforce 6 percent to reduce costs.
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Phillies 1, Mitsubishi 0

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

The mob wrecked Ted Passon’s car. Now he’s asking them to fix it.
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TSMC says PC chip shipments down 20 percent

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, said chip shipments are expected to be off 20 percent in the fourth quarter.
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Patent ruling good or bad for tech?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Ruling should force weed out trivial patent suits, but will require companies to be more specific about what process they’ve invented.
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Court rejects business methods patents: Good or bad for tech?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Ruling should force weed out trivial patent suits, but will require companies to be more specific about what process they’ve invented.
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Google’s JotSpot exposes user data

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Harvard researcher finds sensitive JotSpot user information on the Web and says it doesn’t elicit confidence in Google’s ability to be a secure hosted services provider.
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Scanned documents found…by Google

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

If you’ve ever had trouble finding scanned documents on Google, it’s probably because it was not indexing them. On Thursday, this all changed. Google has announced that it is now indexing scanned documents.
Google is now able to perform optical character recognition (OCR) on any scanned document it finds stored in the PDF format. OCR technology […]

Scanned documents found–by Google!

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Google can now index scanned documents.
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Google brings text-messaging to online chat

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Before: Gmail Chat worked only with computer-based instant messaging services. Now: send text messages to contacts with phones.
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FriendFeed offers ‘push’ service to Twitter users

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

FriendFeed’s now offering a way for users to publish to other services straight from the app. It’s starting out with Twitter, but what services are next?
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iPhone gaining ground with lower-income fans

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

The iPhone might have been one of the most expensive–and therefore trendiest–smartphones of 2007, but this year more parts of the economic spectrum are getting in on the action.
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Rant: AT&T iPhone Wi-Fi free as in money, but not as in time

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Getting a Wi-Fi connection requires a cellular data link. What?
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Study: Google runs more than 10 million Web sites

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

According to new statistics from Netcraft, Google runs more than a tenth of the world’s active Web sites.
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The first wiki president? Obama adviser votes ‘yea’

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Reed Hundt, technology policy adviser for Barack Obama, said the Democratic candidate would use a bottom-up communications strategy in his administration. Yep, wikis too.
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The first wiki president? Obama advisor votes ‘yea’

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Reed Hundt, technology policy adviser for Barack Obama, said the Democratic candidate would use a bottom-up communications strategy in his administration. Yep, wikis too.
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and video games - CNNMoney.com and software by Elliott Back

Symantec layoffs coming

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Security firm plans a 4.5 percent cost savings in its workforce budget and will cut jobs to achieve that goal, spokesman says.
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Verizon gets DOJ approval for Alltel purchase

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday gave the green light to the acquisition, but Verizon is required to divest assets in 22 states.
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Motorola’s struggle for survival

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Motorola, the company that invented the cell phone, is on the brink of disaster, but can the company ‘pull an Apple’ and make a comeback?
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Clipping via bookmarklet service Snipd launches

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Snip things with nothing more than a bookmarklet using Snipd. It works on photos, videos and text and goes into a stream other people can follow.
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Apple hires top IBM chip designer and blade server guru

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Mark Papermaster has agreed to join Apple as a high-ranking executive, but his former employer, IBM, is fighting that move.
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Apple hiring top IBM chip designer and blade server guru

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Mark Papermaster has agreed to join Apple as a high-ranking executive, but his former employer, IBM, is fighting that move.
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Google promises reliability for Docs, Calendar

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Overall, Gmail has been available 99.9 percent of the time. Now Premier customers get a promise of that level of reliability for all of Google Apps.
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Sun misses analyst forecasts for revenue, earnings

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

CEO says economic downturn has weighed on Sun’s customers and hurt its high-end businesses, but says the company will be able to weather a poor economy.
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Prizefight: Battle of the browsers

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

We pit Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome against each other in a winner-take-all throw-down for ultimate browser bragging rights.
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Graspr teams with Diet.com to distribute online video

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Graspr has teamed up with Diet.com to distribute online video content across its entire network.
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TheStreet.com names Jim Cramer chairman

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Market commentator and TheStreet.com co-founder Jim Cramer is given a top title, after the investor site separated the two roles of its CEO Thomas Clarke.
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Panasonic wants to make you green

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Panasonic Announces Nationwide TV and Consumer Electronics Recycling Program
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Missing teen hooked on Xbox game

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Microsoft is offering reward money in effort to find 15-year-old Canadian boy who ran away after dad took away console.
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YouTube deep video links go live

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Want to send someone a YouTube link that takes them to the precise part of a video? It’s a little easier now, and requires no third parties.
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Early impressions of Windows 7 security

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

The information could change as Microsoft nears the final build of its next operating system, but CNET security reporter Robert Vamosi offers some initial thoughts.
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Ford gives hybrids green gauges

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Ford shows off the instrument clusters in its 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid and 2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid.
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What does Microsoft have against Windows Vista?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Don Reisinger thinks Microsoft is running away from Vista. But why would it want to do that already with Windows 7 more than a year away?
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Video: Daily Debrief: The customization of Gmail

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

On this edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET’s Kara Tsuboi talks with senior writer Stephen Shankland about the constantly evolving features on Gmail, Google’s Web-based e-mail program. From calendar modules to colored stars to quick access to your Google Docs, Shankland explains how the popular service is trying to become a one-stop shopping landing page […]

Where have Silicon Valley’s Republicans gone?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Venture capitalist Tim Draper was George W. Bush’s point man in Silicon Valley. Now he’s voting for Barack Obama. And he’s not alone: enthusiasm for John McCain is hard to find.
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Digital Railroad extends photo download time

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Photoshelter and DRR extends the time for DRR’s customers to download their archives.
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BlackBerry Storm gets hip LA launch party

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

The touch-screen would-be iPhone rival is the guest of honor at a star-studded LA concert featuring Foo Fighters.
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23andMe named best 2008 invention

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Time Magazine names the Tesla Roadster, Hulu.com, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Large Hadron Collider runners-up to the consumer DNA service.
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