Comcast Sued Over BitTorrent Blocking - UPDATED
A California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company's secret use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent ...
'Virtual theft' leads to arrest
A Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from "rooms" in Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website. — The 17-year-old is accused of stealing 4,000 euros (£2,840)...
Dell to carry Solaris 10 on PowerEdge servers
Sun Microsystems and Dell announced Wednesday a distribution agreement under which Dell will distribute Sun's Solaris 10 operating system on Dell PowerEdge servers. — Under the multiyear agreement, ...
Announcement
1.8 million pages of federal case law to become freely available. — Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, includ...
Sun launches xVM virtualization platform
At Oracle OpenWorld Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, unveiled his company's latest twist on virtualization-the Sun xVM platform. Sun xVM is based on the Xen hypervisor and sup...
Music boss: we were wrong to go to war with consumers
The boss of Warner Music has made a rare public confession that the music industry has to take some of the blame for the rise of p2p file sharing. — Speaking at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Maca...
Exclusive: Barack Obama to name a "Chief Technology Officer"
The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has given VentureBeat an exclusive look at his technology plan, which he plans to unveil officially tomorrow (Wednesday) before a visit t...
Surprise: eSnips May Monetize Better Than Digg
Israeli digital crafts social network eSnips launched a new feature tonight that could change the social networking game. Called Social DNA, it's essentially a collection of personality quizzes that ...
Oracle offers a peek at social apps and Fusion
Oracle showed how it is bringing a social dimension into its software and offered a peek at Fusion applications this afternoon at Oracle OpenWorld. It demonstrated that Oracle has fully grokked the c...
Warner Music Boss: We Were Wrong
Someone in the music industry finally seeing the error of their ways? A blue moon rose over Macau Wednesday when Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Music Group Edgar Bronfman admitted on ...
Radio Google
Google's phone plan begins a war with Verizon, Microsoft and the wishes of the feds. — Google's November surprise will rattle the wireless industry for months. On Nov. 5 the Mountain View, Calif. s...
Ballmer Welcomes Google's Android OS to "Microsoft's World"
Ballmer has some more interesting insight into looking at the world through Microsoft-colored glasses. — At a recent Tokyo press conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had some interesting things t...
Dell's Latitude XT and XPS ONE make first public appearance
Dell fans, we've got some juicy meat for you to sink your teeth into. During Michael Dell's keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld today, the company unleashed (or at least demoed) its forthcoming all-i...
Forrester Calls Desktop Linux a Credible Threat to Windows
Nearly half of enterprises have concrete plans to deploy Windows Vista, and 7 percent will have started by Dec. 31. — Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow ove...
november black tuesday overview
# Affected Contra Indications Known Exploits Microsoft rating ISC rating(*) clients servers — MS07-061 — An input validation failure allows remote code execution. — Replaces MS06-045. — Note t...
Direct Comparison of iPhone and Hard-Key QWERTY Phone Owners Indicates Higher
Text Entry Error Rate for iPhones — User Centric, Inc., a Chicago-based usability consultancy, finished a third and final study examining the user experience of Apple's iPhone.
Apple monster update fixes 41 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities
Apple today released a monster update to provide belated cover for at least 41 security holes in its flagship Mac operating system. — With Security Update 2007-008 and Mac OS X v10.4.11, Apple patch...
Singing a New Zune
Microsoft's Retooled Player Marks a Vast Improvement; However, It's Still No iPod — November 14, 2007 — by Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret — Last year, when Microsoft Corp. introduced i...
Meet the PayPal mafia
An inside look at the hyperintelligent, superconnected pack of serial entrepreneurs who left the payment service and are turning Silicon Valley upside down. Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien reports. — (Fo...
Apple (AAPL): Estimating China iPhone Revenue Potential
Yesterday, Dan Frommer assessed a potential Apple iPhone deal with China Mobile (CHL) or China Unicom (CHU). Last night, Reuters reported several reasons why a China deal isn't imminent, and we respo...
Singapore's MobileOne phone operator eyeing acquisition targets, Apple's iPhone
Singapore's third-largest telecommunications company MobileOne Ltd., or M1, is looking at overseas acquisition targets as its domestic market is already saturated, its chief executive said.
Nintendo warns of Wii shortages
A chronic shortage of Nintendo's popular Wii console could mean disappointment for those putting it at the top of their Christmas list. — The BBC has learned that high street retailers are strugglin...
Inbox 2.0 Makes Me Sad
Saul Hansell at the The New York Times is reporting that both Yahoo and Google are planning to use their email services as the core of their social networking strategy over time. — Of course, by soc...
Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed
Jason Calacanis has a new videoblog called Mahalo Daily. The show is starring Veronica Belmont. [I'm a big fan of Veronica (Hi Veronica!)] Unfortunately, I think Veronica will not be able to get mu...
WordPress Traffic Passes TypePad, Execs Getting Rich?
WordPress is now the No. 2 most-visited blog host, passing rival SixApart's TypePad last month, according to the latest tally from Nielsen Online. WordPress-hosted sites drew 11.4 million unique visi...
Hacker finds 492,000 unprotected Oracle, SQL database servers
A survey by renowned database hacker David Litchfield has found a whopping 492,000 Microsoft SQL and Oracle database servers directly accessible to the Internet without firewall protection. — Litchf...
Mozilla responds: Firefox is independent
In this interview, Mozilla's technology strategist Mike Shaver responds to and rejects recent claims that Firefox and Google are getting a bit too close for comfort. Mozilla is independent, he says, ...
Software update for Nokia N800 tablet leaks, fans go gaga
Updated: This post was edited for clarity, and to link to an alternate source for a N810 serial number (see below). — Details of a major operating-system upgrade for Nokia's Linux-based N800 Interne...
AT&T to Sell Equipment to Monitor Workplaces
AT&T plans to introduce a nationwide program today that gives owners of small- and medium-size businesses some of the same tools big security companies offer for monitoring employees, customers and op...
Price cut boosts PlayStation 3 sales
LOS ANGELES - U.S. sales of the PlayStation 3 more than doubled in the weeks after the company slashed the video game console's price $100 and launched a low-end model, Sony Corp. CEO Howard Stringer ...
It's what cameras have become - the new Nokia N82
Nokia introduces a leading edge connected camera, navigation device and multimedia computer in one — Espoo, Finland - Nokia unveils the Nokia N82, the latest multimedia computer optimized for photog...
Apple iMac: Still the Desktop Star
A minimalist redesign, a zippy new OS, and terrific new software make the iMac the all-in-one desktop computer of choice for multimedia lovers … Zooming around a sharp corner while playing Electronic ...
New computer interface: Blow on the screen
Georgia Tech researchers have created a hands-free user interface that uses a microphone to tell where on a computer screen a person is blowing. (From News.com's Underexposed blog.) — Marvel pops c...
With Web 2.0, a new breed of malware evolves
Web 2.0 technologies may be laying the groundwork for a new generation of hacker tools, a noted security researcher said Wednesday. — Google Mashups, RSS feeds, search, all of these can be misused b...
SanDisk Offers New Flash-Based Accelerator to Speed Up System Performance in Consumer Laptops and PCs
SanDisk Vaulter Disk, a PCI Express Module, Wins — 2008 Best of Innovations Award From Consumer Electronics Association — SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today unveiled …
Google Hits European Hurdle on DoubleClick Deal
European regulators refused Tuesday to approve Google's $3.1 billion purchase of the Internet advertising company DoubleClick. They ordered a review of the deal amid opposition from rivals, publisher...
Google Transit trip planning in Europe
We are very happy to announce the launch of Google Transit trip planner in Europe. For quite some time, Google Maps has featured transit stop icons with helpful information like lines serving a stati...
Senate helping make gov't more searchable
Let's say you're looking for some publicly available government information online. Maybe you're searching for property records or background on your local school district. Chances are, you'll start...
VeriSign Refines Strategic Direction to Focus on Internet Infrastructure
Strategy Broadens Footprint in Core Businesses and Returns to DNA — VeriSign, Inc. (NasdaqGS:VRSN - News), the leading provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, unveiled ...
OpenDocument Foundation closes up shop after slamming OpenDocument Format
The OpenDocument Foundation, a little-known industry group that was originally created to promote the OpenDocument Format (ODF), has closed its doors after controversially dropping support for ODF in ...