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Publié: octobre 17, 2007, 6:24pm CEST
The chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee has issued requests for Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and senior vice president and general counsel Michael Callahan to appear before Congress on November 6. Their purpose there will be to answer allegations that Callahan made false statements to Congress in February 2006, regarding whether Yahoo turned over private customer data about a Chinese journalist to Chinese government authorities.
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Publié: octobre 17, 2007, 6:08pm CEST
Following a similar move by Verizon Wireless in January of last year, AT&T said Wednesday that it will change its policies to reduce early termination fees and change their contracts without penalty.
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Publié: octobre 17, 2007, 5:54pm CEST
Professional photographers are about four times as likely to use Lightroom versus Apple's competing application Aperture, Adobe's Photoshop product manager said Tuesday.
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Publié: octobre 17, 2007, 5:37pm CEST
After months of silence on the matter, Apple finally announced Wednesday that it plans to enable developers to create native third-party applications for the iPhone (not just Web-based applications), and will deliver an SDK in February. The delay has been blamed on security concerns.
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Publié: octobre 17, 2007, 5:34pm CEST
An appeals court ruled Monday that two remaining antitrust claims brought against Microsoft by Novell could go forward, upholding an earlier court decision that dismissed the company's other four claims.
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Publié: octobre 17, 2007, 5:33pm CEST
Cisco's Brazilian offices in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janiero were temporarily closed yesterday and employees were reportedly arrested under suspicion of tax fraud amounting to approximately $830 million dollars in unpaid duties.
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Publié: octobre 17, 2007, 5:28pm CEST
OpenDocument took another step away from obscurity Tuesday, as Apple confirmed that Mac OS X version 10.5 -- known as "Leopard" -- will natively support ODF files, alongside Microsoft's Word 2007 formats. Apple had previously added support for the format in its Pages word processing application.
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Publié: octobre 17, 2007, 4:56pm CEST
A bill intended to grant journalists the right to protect the identity of their sources when questioned in court passed the US House of Representatives yesterday, by a vote of 398 to 21. The version as passed contained much clarified language, closing a legal loophole that might have enabled courts to compel journalists to divulge their sources anyway.
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Publié: octobre 17, 2007, 4:31pm CEST
Although the TiVo Series3 has been out for more than a year, its external storage expansion port has remained inoperable - until now. With software update 9.2, TiVo customers can boost the amount of programming they can store by simply plugging in a verified Serial ATA hard drive.
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Publié: octobre 17, 2007, 4:26pm CEST
Microsoft has launched what developers are calling version 2.0 of Windows Live Maps, which has been completely revamped inside and out. A number of new features have also been added, including "Party Maps," which enables users to send invitations to 50 people with a simple link to directions.
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Publié: octobre 17, 2007, 4:08pm CEST
While some iPhone users in the United States are busy playing a cat-and-mouse game with Apple in order to unlock the device, mobile operator Orange will begin selling an unlocked iPhone in France next month. This is due to a French law that prohibits exclusively bundling a handset with a wireless carrier.