Oct 9 - By Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer
Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year.
Oct 8 - By Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer
Microsoft Corp. will be releasing games developed by top Japanese designers for its Xbox 360 console, a senior executive said Thursday, the latest effort by the U.S. software maker to make inroads in a market where it has long struggled.
Oct 8 - By Marcus Wohlsen, Associated Press Writer
A Silicon Valley gene-testing startup is responding to criticism that the tests could spur bad health-care choices by teaming up for a broad study of how the results affect behavior.
Oct 8 - By Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer
Shares of IBM Corp. jumped Thursday after the technology company's surprise announcement that it was still plenty prosperous in the third quarter despite the worsening economic climate.
Oct 8 - By Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer
Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker.
Oct 8 - By Gene Johnson, Associated Press Writer
Two former software executives grossly overstated their company's revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found a set of cooked financial books as she was cleaning out a desk.
Oct 8 - By LOU KESTEN, Associated Press Writer
For a self-effacing, portly little plumber, Mario may be the most ambitious guy in video games. It's not enough that he has the most recognizable face in the industry; his parents at Nintendo have promoted him everywhere, from T-shirts and lunchboxes to cartoons and cell-phone ringtones. He's probably more familiar to kids of a certain generation than Mickey Mouse.
Oct 7 - By Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer
Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.
Oct 7 - By Barbara Ortutay, AP Technology Writer
Google Inc., the leader in online search and advertising, is muscling in on video game territory — though it won't exactly be in the form of a shoot 'em up game.
Oct 7 - By Raf Casert, Associated Press Writer
The European Commission wants to give Internet shoppers more rights and better protection, in an effort to boost Internet shopping across the continent and provide consumers with more competitive prices.
Oct 7 - By Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer
Online video leader YouTube has opened up its version of a home shopping network in its latest effort to wring more revenue from its massive audience and justify the $1.76 billion that Google Inc. paid for the site two years ago.
Oct 7 - By Rachel Metz, AP Technology Writer
Among all the profiles on MySpace, the social networking site's users have uploaded almost 4 billion photos. Now through an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co., MySpace hopes people will increasingly print these images and, eventually, buy photo-embellished merchandise, too.
Oct 7 - By Rachel Metz, AP Technology Writer
U.S. Internet advertising revenue dipped slightly in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, which likely is a ripple effect from the bad economy given that prior to 2008 the market had seen several consecutive quarters of increases.
Oct 7 - By Jessica Mintz, AP Technology Writer
Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty.
Oct 7 - By Anick Jesdanun, AP Business Writer
Talk about your captive audience.
Oct 7 - By Daniel Woolls, Associated Press Writer
Conservationists working with Google Inc. have unveiled a tool that lets people view protected marine areas with the click of a mouse — a bid to harness the Internet's top search engine to raise awareness of endangered ocean habitats.
Oct 7 - By Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer
A robotic suit that reads brain signals and helps people with mobility problems will be available to rent in Japan for $2,200 a month starting Friday — an invention that may have far-reaching benefits for the disabled and elderly.
Source: linux.com
Few free and open source software projects have attracted such a range of reactions as Mono.
Source: PC World
According to a report released by Websense Security Labs, recently, spammers have used a combination of different Google Web 2.0 services to carry out a range of attacks.
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hilarious-- a couple named their kid "linux" haha "Will Richard Stallman insist that the baby be called GNU/Linux? Does a baby named Linux go to sleep and wake up without problems? How often does he outgrow his footwear and require a reboot?"
Source: Australian News Network
VODAFONE Australia's $500 million 3G network upgrade has been delayed after the company's equipment supplier, Ericsson, called for more time to finish the build. The carrier had set a self-imposed deadline of Christmas to complete the work.
Source: softwarebyrob.com
But getting back to the point: what's the one sentence that makes software developers angry? You might be thinking it's the insidious: "This bug is only reproducible on Opera v0.3 for the Commodore 64, but fix it anyway," or the always favorite
Source: networkworld.com
This should be a vendor's first rule when inviting 1,200 IT pros to a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information: Make sure you protect the personal information of the 1,200 professionals you're trying to impress.
Source: MarketWatch.com
IAN staff and Frostburg State University physics and engineering professor Hilkat Soysal are teaming -- through a $165,000 project recently approved by the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program -- to create renewable energy-powered, electromagnetic pulse (EMP)-protected …
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
I'm collecting questions for an interview with Lessig over here
Source: torrentfreak.com
Three days before the Canadian elections, the party leader of the New Democrats has spoken out in favor of BitTorrent sites, calling them "fundamental to democracy." At the same time, isoHunt, the largest Canadian BitTorrent site advises its users not to vote for the Conserva …
Source: PC World
"If you're one of the few Xbox 360 owners without at least 256 MB memory card or hard drive, don't worry: Microsoft has you covered.
Source: Wired News
After e-mailers and commentators explained to Wal-Mart how much harm shutting down its DRM authentication servers would cause its customers, the company backpedaled, and will keep its DRM servers running -- for now anyway.
Source: businessgreen.com
"Wind energy projects are quality projects and when credit is tight, money usually goes to quality projects."
Source: freehtc.com
HTC T8290 DUE TO RELEASE ON THE RUSSIAN WIMAX NETWORK SOON.
Source: waxy.org
While most political blogs are extremely partisan, their biases aren't immediately obvious to outsiders like me. I wanted to see, at a glance, how conservative or liberal the blogs were without clicking through to every article.
Source: networkworld.com
An article about the new blackberry touchscreen device
Source: Independent.co.uk
A computer drive with the private details of a huge proportion of Armed Forces personnel is missing, the Ministry of Defence said today.
Source: CNN
It's a machine that prints lights. The size of a semitrailer, it coats an 8-inch wide plastic film with chemicals, then seals them with a layer of metal foil. Apply electric current to the resulting sheet, and it lights up with a blue-white glow.