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Creators of rejected App Store comic book appeal for rating system
Publié: août 30, 2008, 12:22am CEST
After its 'Murderdrome' comic book was rejected by Apple's iPhone App Store, Infurious Comics this week appealed to Web site visitors support its request to Apple for a rating system similar to one already used on iTunes. -
Analyst: Over 100 new handsets, including 3G, on tap for Q4
Publié: août 29, 2008, 11:47pm CEST
The economy might be rocky, but one analyst says mobile device makers will still be releasing a total of over 100 new cell phone models in the second half of 2008 alone -- and about three-quarters of those will be 3G network-capable. -
Google Maps to get better satellite imagery from GeoEye
Publié: août 29, 2008, 11:45pm CEST
Search giant Google signed a deal with Dulles, Va. startup GeoEye to use imagery from its newest satellite after it launches in September of this year. -
Sony sued over Blu-ray patents
Publié: août 29, 2008, 11:12pm CEST
Sony has been sued for patent infringement for its Blu-Ray technology once again, this time by California intellectual property company Orinda IP USA. -
Open source group sues Quebec, Microsoft for no-bid software contracting
Publié: août 29, 2008, 11:09pm CEST
A major problem for the development of free software is, ironically, the fact that it isn't worth anything. Not monetarily, that is, but now an open source group says its government must be forced to consider its value anyway. -
Google markets Android Market as the 'anti-App Store'
Publié: août 29, 2008, 9:26pm CEST
Android Market -- Google's upcoming content distribution system announced this week -- will operate more along the lines of YouTube, according to a revealing post on the Android Developers Blog Thursday. -
Apple looks to fix 'minor' iPhone security flaw
Publié: août 29, 2008, 9:23pm CEST
The expected 2.1 software update for Apple's iPhone in September will include a fix that could allow for disclosure of personal information when the device is locked, Apple said. -
Debian Live 5.0 Beta 1 released
Publié: août 29, 2008, 9:02pm CEST
This week, Beta 1 of the Debian Live 5.0 bootable CD image was made available for download. This is the first official release of a 5.0 build for the OS also known as "Lenny." -
802.11r now a published IEEE standard
Publié: août 29, 2008, 8:33pm CEST
The newest Wi-Fi protocol, 802.11r, which has become the de facto "Wireless VoIP standard", received final approval this morning by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards board. -
Rogers adjusts data plans for iPhone, BlackBerry Bold
Publié: août 29, 2008, 7:07pm CEST
With the BlackBerry Bold now available, Rogers, Canada's leading carrier has decided to extend its iPhone 3G promotional data plan until next month, while adjusting other plans. -
Microsoft buys a shopping service for $486M, but will only keep part
Publié: août 29, 2008, 6:51pm CEST
Microsoft today took another step in its strategy to beef up Live Search versus Google and Yahoo, unveiling a complicated deal to buy Greenfield Online and its subsidiary Caio, a European-based online price comparison and shopping site. -
Google extends its investment in Mozilla, restores MPL license
Publié: août 29, 2008, 6:21pm CEST
Mozilla has renewed its agreement with Google that was set to expire in November, extending it into 2011. The deal carries with it the reinstatement of the Mozilla and Eclipse Public Licenses that were recently cast aside. -
Dell's new low-end strategy for emerging markets includes Linux
Publié: août 29, 2008, 6:11pm CEST
Although the international Vostros Dell unveiled this week are similar in many respects to its existing Vostros, they are also reportedly designed in line with the needs expressed by customers in emerging markets. -
Where does Barack Obama stand on technology issues?
Publié: août 29, 2008, 12:20am CEST
In the second of our four-part series examining the positions of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on technology policy, BetaNews' Ed Oswald takes a look at the Illinois Democrat. -
Comcast to deploy 250 GB/month usage caps in October
Publié: août 28, 2008, 11:29pm CEST
No longer having throttling as a weapon in its arsenal in the fight to control network overuse, Comcast is now deciding the only way it can implement controls on its network is if it spreads throughput monitoring out to everyone equally. -
Microsoft and Nikon ink deal around digital, perhaps wireless, cameras
Publié: août 28, 2008, 10:48pm CEST
After teaming up on Windows Vista, HD Photo, codecs, and wireless technologies over the past few years, Microsoft and Nikon last night unveiled a cross-licensing deal involving digital cameras and still unnamed additional products. -
WB network returns as Web site
Publié: août 28, 2008, 10:21pm CEST
Deceased television network The WB has been resurrected, at least on line, emerging from beta as an ad-supported streaming TV show repository. -
Paid Google ad appears to state McCain picked Lieberman
Publié: août 28, 2008, 10:11pm CEST
A Google AdWords ad first spotted by BetaNews contributor Sharon Fisher, along with ads for the McCain campaign that have appeared today on BetaNews and elsewhere through Google, appear on first glance to have spoiled McCain's VP pick. -
Blogger arrested for leaking Guns N' Roses MP3s
Publié: août 28, 2008, 10:06pm CEST
A blogger going by the name of Skwerl on music site Antiquiet was arrested by the FBI at 7:00 am PDT on Wednesday for making nine demo tracks from Guns N' Roses' upcoming album "Chinese Democracy" available to the public for download. -
Competitors look to take on MobileMe for iPhone
Publié: août 28, 2008, 9:29pm CEST
In light of problems that plagued Apple's new e-mail synchronization service since its launch, it may soon have to fight third-party providers that are setting their sights on providing their own "push" services for iPhone. -
Russia to get iPhone 3G through VimpelCom
Publié: août 28, 2008, 6:45pm CEST
The nation's second largest mobile carrier is the first to confirm that it would indeed be carrying the popular device, though other carriers are expected to follow. -
Deeper inside IE8 Beta 2
Publié: août 28, 2008, 6:42pm CEST
It's increasingly looking like a whole new browser war is forming, as Microsoft is showing evidence of having re-entered the race to add innovative features to the rapidly aging tool. -
Orange France admits to capping iPhone 3G speeds
Publié: août 28, 2008, 6:22pm CEST
Hit with a petition from thousands of irate French customers, wireless operator Orange has reportedly admitted to throttling download speeds for the iPhone 3G, and is promising some relief by September 15. -
Judge grants Veoh DMCA safe harbor in copyright suit
Publié: août 28, 2008, 6:11pm CEST
Yesterday, Federal Judge Howard R. Lloyd dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit against video sharing site Veoh, granting it "safe harbor" under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. -
Have Microsoft's online ads for Live Search really worked?
Publié: août 28, 2008, 4:53pm CEST
It's hard to tell, for sure. But during the month of June, when Microsoft ran an aggressive campaign for Windows Live Cash Back and games, the number of searches on Microsoft's sites leaped 15 percent, according to comScore. -
Where does Joe Biden stand on technology issues?
Publié: août 28, 2008, 12:27am CEST
As the Democrats' presumptive vice presidential nominee prepares to take the stage to accept the nomination of his party this evening in Denver, BetaNews' Ed Oswald takes a look at his long record. -
RIAA defendant sanctioned for destroying evidence
Publié: août 27, 2008, 10:41pm CEST
Defendant Jeffrey Howell was scolded by an Arizona court earlier this week in a move that could potentially give the recording industry a decisive victory. -
IE8 Beta 2 adds standards mode, suggestions, 'Web slices'
Publié: août 27, 2008, 10:23pm CEST
Validating all indicators since Monday that a revamped beta was ready for public eyes, Microsoft lifted the lid on Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8 this afternoon, offering the first glance at some very competitive new features. -
Haptic game controller patent suit finally draws to a close
Publié: août 27, 2008, 8:55pm CEST
Immersion, the corporation which owns patents for haptic technologies used in the automotive, industrial, medical, and entertainment fields, will have to pay Microsoft $20.75 million to finally end litigation that began over six years ago. -
Ziff Davis indefinitely postpones DigitalLife, blames the economy
Publié: août 23, 2008, 1:25am CEST
The yearly technology expo that had become a centerpiece of New York City's Digital Technology Week, and a viable alternative to CES has been postponed for 2008. -
European solidarity crumbling on digital mobile TV
Publié: août 23, 2008, 12:38am CEST
A technology for mobile digital television in Europe may have had a better chance for a full rollout before the EC mandated it as Europe's official standard. Now, a leading analyst reports that hope may be fading for DVB-H. -
OLPC laptops now blanket the Pacific nation of Niue
Publié: août 23, 2008, 12:36am CEST
The small country of Niue today became the first nation to provide OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) laptops to all of its public school students -- but then again, that number amounts to only 500. -
Security lab warns of possible Chinese ISP DNS exploit
Publié: août 23, 2008, 12:20am CEST
An apparent case of DNS poisoning in the caches of a major China-based ISP is causing extra concern today, in light of security engineer Dan Kaminsky's recent warnings about just how serious a cache poisoning exploit could become. -
Report: Google to be Verizon Wireless' default search
Publié: août 23, 2008, 12:14am CEST
Verizon and Google may be close to establishing a revenue sharing mobile search deal, according to a report which have yet to be confirmed though have certainly not yet been denied. -
Is CDMA cell phone technology already dead? Analysts disagree
Publié: août 22, 2008, 10:39pm CEST
In separate reports issued this week, one prominent analyst firm proclaimed the impending death of CDMA cellular technology, while another touted its resurgence. So which is it? -
Intel works on wireless laptop battery recharging
Publié: août 22, 2008, 10:22pm CEST
The groundwork may have been laid by Nikola Tesla for wireless transmission of electricity, but Intel is putting it to good use through a new effort to charge a laptop in much the same manner. -
Pro-Tibet album may be behind China iTunes block
Publié: août 22, 2008, 9:58pm CEST
Users of Apple's music store in China have been reporting problems downloading music since the beginning of the week. -
Is BlackBerry Bold really having iPhone 3G-like issues?
Publié: août 22, 2008, 8:59pm CEST
Research In Motion launched its newest BlackBerry, the Bold, in Canada yesterday. Reviewers who have hastily compared it to Apple's iPhone have been asked by RIM to remove a side-by-side review comparing browsing speed between the two devices. -
Vista's image problem personified
Publié: août 22, 2008, 7:34pm CEST
Microsoft is reportedly investing $300 million in a new advertising campaign starring comedian Jerry Seinfeld and designed by the firm responsible for Burger King's popular, yet disturbing King ads. -
Apple's iPhone 3G gets ho-hum response in Poland and India
Publié: août 22, 2008, 7:03pm CEST
Mobile service provider Orange Poland this week hired actors to help "warm up" reception to Apple's latest phone. Meanwhile, in India, a new iPhone 3G costs the US equivalent of $712 -- another indicator of barriers in some emerging markets. -
Apple makes e-mail harvesting easy with MobileMe
Publié: août 22, 2008, 7:00pm CEST
A curiously simple oversight may have opened every MobileMe user to the risk of having their e-mail address harvested just by looking through the company's iDisk folder hierarchy. -
Nintendo sued for controllers again
Publié: août 22, 2008, 12:57am CEST
A Maryland company has sued Nintendo, alleging that the Wii's controller infringes upon four of the company's patents. -
Corel: We are not...not for sale
Publié: août 22, 2008, 12:13am CEST
The Canadian software producer published a statement this morning confirming that it is discussing a sale to undisclosed third parties. -
'Contractor error' suspected in $12,000 FEMA phone hack
Publié: août 22, 2008, 12:08am CEST
FEMA is now investigating a hack attack against its voice mail system that racked up $12,000 in international calls, with preliminary evidence indicating that "contractor error" was probably involved. -
McKinnon's extradition delayed again over human rights
Publié: août 21, 2008, 11:31pm CEST
EU courts have asked Great Britain to not send the accused mastermind of a DOD systems break-in to the US, in order that they can review his complaint that conditions in US prisons are inhumane. -
UK law firm looks to begin prosecuting file sharers
Publié: août 21, 2008, 11:13pm CEST
Davenport Lyons has been working with the music industry in the UK to sniff out P2P users. Now it will ask the UK courts to force ISPs to release information to identify them. -
Judge affirms takedown notice recipients' right to sue
Publié: août 21, 2008, 11:10pm CEST
A two-year-old California boy may today be the hero of the digital age, as a Federal Judge ruled that the holder of the copyright to the song he was dancing to in a YouTube video, should have thought twice before suing his mommy. -
AT&T to form its own 'Geek Squad'
Publié: août 21, 2008, 10:30pm CEST
AT&T today launched ConnecTech, an in-home support team that deals with setup and repair of home media services, and not exclusively to AT&T customers. -
Analysts: Consumers, businesses want phones with more 'features'
Publié: août 21, 2008, 7:47pm CEST
Customers are now buying more costly cell phones with features such as GPS, Bluetooth, and music enablement, not just in the US but worldwide, according to recent research by two industry analyst firms. -
FTC clears EA's bid for Take-Two, talks continue
Publié: août 21, 2008, 7:20pm CEST
The FTC has given EA the go-ahead to purchase the smaller rival, and EA has indicated that it had shifted strategies away from a hostile bid to more friendly talks. -
Intel, Yahoo, Comcast to partner on widgets for live TV
Publié: août 21, 2008, 7:05pm CEST
Are you ready for 3D, overlaid, interactive widgets to move off of the PC desktop onto your television set? An initiative announced yesterday by a powerhouse team of developers will probably make it happen, whether you're ready or not. -
Comcast will cut back some customers' speeds after FCC order
Publié: août 21, 2008, 6:26pm CEST
Just one day after the Federal Communications Commission released its official opinion and order regarding the cable provider's throttling practices, Comcast has changed its ways. -
Apple hit with class action suit over 'defective' iPhone 3G
Publié: août 21, 2008, 6:24pm CEST
Claiming that the iPhone 3G doesn't really perform "twice as fast for half the price," a user in Alabama has filed a class action suit against Apple, charging that the phone is "defective" and that it has failed to live up to its hype. -
Four US news broadcasters expand on fast-growing Facebook
Publié: août 19, 2008, 1:03am CEST
With Facebook growing at a far brisker clip than any other major social network, four big news organizations, including Fox News -- whose parent company owns rival MySpace -- are now expanding their Facebook presences. -
Skyfire Beta 0.6 heats up pocket screens
Publié: août 19, 2008, 12:56am CEST
Upstart mobile browser Skyfire this weekend rolled out its Beta version 0.6 to select testers in the US, using the Olympic craze to highlight the browser's native support of Microsoft's Silverlight. -
CEO Mel Karmazin admits Sirius XM is in bad financial shape
Publié: août 19, 2008, 12:48am CEST
The satellite radio company's CEO told reporters this past week that the company had to accept less than favorable debt terms to close the merger of the two companies. -
Android SDK moves to 0.9 beta status, on track for 1.0
Publié: août 19, 2008, 12:41am CEST
It may be unusual for the SDK for a platform to be finalized on or about the same time as the release of the platform itself, but news from Android's key developers today indicates they're quite comfortable with cutting it close. -
Dell's cloud computing effort must proceed without exclusive trademark
Publié: août 18, 2008, 10:42pm CEST
Key to Dell's comeback as the leading server manufacturer is the repair of its image as a fair corporate citizen. So this week's public notice that it probably can't trademark the phrase "cloud computing" won't help. -
Verizon users can now block numbers, track down children
Publié: août 18, 2008, 10:34pm CEST
Whether for screening out irate ex-spouses or persistent telemarketers, a new feature announced by Verizon Wireless today enables customers to block communications with specific phone numbers. -
GOP uses Facebook-like site to expose Obama's 'friends'
Publié: août 18, 2008, 8:58pm CEST
Through a design that mimics the look of the popular social network Facebook, Republicans hope to build an image of Barack Obama based on the company he keeps. -
Android phone may have Google ads, but no Exchange support
Publié: août 18, 2008, 7:34pm CEST
With Google still touting the first Android phone for late 2008, reports state the forthcoming HTC "Dream" phone might lack support for Microsoft Exchange, and further, that it will come with Google's advertising software pre-installed. -
Qwest, unions reach agreement to avert strike
Publié: août 18, 2008, 7:23pm CEST
A communications strike that could have affected both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, set to be held within the next two weeks, has been avoided. -
Toshiba: Not HD-DVD, 'HD' DVD!
Publié: août 18, 2008, 7:23pm CEST
Withdrawing from the fierce high definition format war was considered a "losing move" by Toshiba. Now, instead of concentrating on the next generation of hard-copy home media, Toshiba will focus on improving the 13 year-old DVD format. -
In the Nehalem era, it'll be AMD's HyperTransport vs. Intel's QuickPath
Publié: août 18, 2008, 7:10pm CEST
Just when Intel thinks it's getting ready to score one of the biggest "ticks" in its "tick-tock" cadence, designed to aggravate AMD, its competition may go beyond just leveling the playing field, with a new point-to-point interconnect scheme. -
GraphOn adds Google to lengthening list of lawsuit targets
Publié: août 18, 2008, 6:23pm CEST
In the latest of a barrage of lawsuits against various and sundry operators of "automated and network-automated databases," Web development company GraphOn is now hauling Google into court on allegations of patent infringement. -
Having lost its own bid, Google advocates giving analog TV space to public
Publié: août 18, 2008, 6:09pm CEST
Since the 1940s, the US' TV space has been referred to as "the public airwaves." Now, Google is using a Web site to build public support for an effort to convince the FCC that it should be allowed to use that space in the public interest. -
EA to let Take-Two bid expire, re-evaluate offer
Publié: août 18, 2008, 5:09pm CEST
EA's hostile takeover bid for software company Take-Two Interactive is finally set to expire after a series of extensions failed to cull outstanding stock in the company necessary for a takeover. -
TSA to allow travelers' laptops to stay packed
Publié: août 16, 2008, 12:32am CEST
Beginning August 16, the US Transportation Safety Administration will no longer expressly require laptops to be removed from luggage at airport security checkpoints if they are kept in appropriate bags. -
Lower income Tennessee residents to get free cell phones
Publié: août 15, 2008, 12:56am CEST
The maker of a popular pre-paid cell phone today announced a program that will give low income Tennessee residents free cell phones and mobile service on a year-to-year basis. -
Class action suit hits Facebook and affiliates with breach of privacy
Publié: août 15, 2008, 12:49am CEST
The biggest and most significant legal action against now-leading social network Facebook was filed on Tuesday, and will actually test the theory of whether its Beacon behavior sharing program constituted a criminal conspiracy. -
Senators: Space station jeopardized by Georgia conflict
Publié: août 15, 2008, 12:44am CEST
The Russia-Georgia conflict has US senators worrying about NASA's future in the International Space Station project. As it is now, US law may eventually prohibit NASA from enlisting the help of its only way into space after 2011. -
Facebook's global growth catapults it to #1 worldwide
Publié: août 14, 2008, 11:30pm CEST
New independent data shows Facebook enjoyed 153 percent growth year over year, while MySpace remains essentially flat. The site's growth is biggest overall outside of the US. -
Microsoft launches its own blog for 'Windows 7'
Publié: août 14, 2008, 11:23pm CEST
The official marketing channel for the next edition of Windows was opened this afternoon, as Microsoft quietly raised the curtains on what it's positioning as an open channel for ideas regarding what the company should add to its next OS. -
Intel to bring next -generation wired connections closer to reality
Publié: août 14, 2008, 10:05pm CEST
Intel this morning made available its updated Extended Host Controller Interface (xHCI) specification that will allow manufacturers to start work on USB 3.0 devices. -
California legislature moves on cyber-bullying measures
Publié: août 14, 2008, 9:50pm CEST
If a bill now being considered by the California State Senate and Assembly becomes law, schoolyard bullies who use the Internet and text messaging to intimidate others may be expelled from school. -
Netflix admits it's experiencing shipping delays
Publié: août 14, 2008, 7:46pm CEST
Netflix is currently experiencing "significant shipping issues" that are preventing the popular movie rental service from delivering discs. Affected customers have been notified by e-mail. -
Attacks continue on Russian and Georgian Web sites, but who's to blame?
Publié: août 14, 2008, 7:29pm CEST
Armed conflict between Russia and Georgia has been paralleled by what many in the media have classed a "cyberwar," where Georgian Web sites have been crippled by DDoS attacks and defacements. -
Subway agency wants to keep MIT students quiet over hack
Publié: août 14, 2008, 7:27pm CEST
Although the Defcon conference has ended, Massachusetts' transit agency is looking to prevent three student researchers who uncovered holes in its fare collection system from divulging their discoveries to anyone else. -
Sprint to discontinue its PCS Mail service
Publié: août 14, 2008, 7:25pm CEST
In another apparent effort to streamline its services to focus on revenue, wireless carrier Sprint will stop providing the servers for e-mail service for its PCS phone customers, although it will let customers pick their own providers. -
Twitter cuts off tweets by SMS in the UK over costs
Publié: août 14, 2008, 5:53pm CEST
It appears as if Twitter was unable to reach agreements with UK carriers to keep costs of its SMS tweets down. While users will still be able to send updates to a phone number, they will no longer be able to receive them on phones. -
Appeals court upholds validity of open source licenses
Publié: août 14, 2008, 5:49pm CEST
When a developer distributes a modified version of open source code as his own without attribution to the original author, is that a copyright violation? Earlier, a district court said no. Yesterday, an appeals court strongly disagreed. -
Both houses of Congress to debate nationwide free broadband
Publié: août 14, 2008, 1:27am CEST
While the FCC continues to stall and postpone its debate over holding yet another auction for free broadband service spectrum, two bills certain to be debated in both houses of Congress may just get its attention. -
Alcatel-Lucent extends its offer to Motive Inc. shareholders
Publié: août 14, 2008, 12:43am CEST
Telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent has extended the tender offer it made in June to buy Texas automation software company Motive. -
Alltel lurches toward its acquisition by Verizon
Publié: août 13, 2008, 8:56pm CEST
The United States' fifth largest wireless carrier, with the largest network by area looks to be simply holding on until Verizon takes over, leaving open questions as to where its new customers will go. -
In-car wireless Internet to become a reality with Chrysler
Publié: août 13, 2008, 7:51pm CEST
The EV-DO-enabled hotspot will be installed as an option in 2009 models of Chrysler, Jeep, and Dodge vehicles, as well as some earlier models. -
Eleven major soft spots addressed by latest Patch Tuesday
Publié: août 13, 2008, 7:25pm CEST
The full effect of yesterday's round of patches from Microsoft is just now being felt. This time, it's not the worldwide DNS flaw that's the big issue, but the typical stuff that afflicts Microsoft products, including and especially Office. -
Yahoo's Fire Eagle has landed, offering open mobile services
Publié: août 13, 2008, 6:58pm CEST
In March, Yahoo opened the beta of Fire Eagle, its location-based middleware that allows developers to build services tailored to the user's geographic area. Fire Eagle is now open to the public with 22 launch partners providing their services. -
Two key Icahn 'dream team' members may join Yahoo's board
Publié: août 13, 2008, 6:05pm CEST
If the door is going to be left open for a possible future merger of Yahoo and Microsoft, someone's going to have to volunteer to plant their feet there. Today, it appears a Microsoft favorite and Viacom's former CEO may do the honors. -
Best Buy becomes first US retailer to stock iPhone
Publié: août 13, 2008, 5:40pm CEST
The leading US electronics retailer will begin selling the hit phone on September 7 in 970 stores, including all the stores where Apple has launched its "mini-store" pilot program. -
Fire may have damaged key Apple R&D building
Publié: août 13, 2008, 4:50pm CEST
A three-alarm fire swept through a building at the Cupertino company, damaging the roof and the second floor of the building known as "Valley Green Six." -
PCIe bus boosts speed of new high-end, dual-GPU ATI card
Publié: août 13, 2008, 1:02am CEST
Monday, AMD unveiled its latest and most powerful graphics card to date, the Radeon HD 4870 X2. It achieves its specs by running two RV770 GPUs in tandem that communicate efficiently instead of relying on a single, faster chip. -
Few hours remaining in ZoneAlarm ForceField one-day giveaway
Publié: août 12, 2008, 11:44pm CEST
You have until 9:00 am EDT Wednesday morning, August 13, to download ZoneAlarm's ForceField browser virtualization envelope and receive a license key good for a one-year subscription to the product on one PC. -
Internet firms admit to tracking users' behavior for advertising
Publié: août 12, 2008, 11:41pm CEST
Responses to a congressional inquiry into targeted online advertising indicate that some companies were indeed tracking their users without first asking their consent. -
Old musicians want their download money
Publié: août 12, 2008, 10:44pm CEST
Four Allman Brothers band members sued Universal Music Group for more than $10 million in royalties from both hard-copy sales and downloadables. -
New iPhone app makes it a wireless storage device
Publié: août 12, 2008, 10:41pm CEST
With a multitude of applications now available from the App Store, few stand out. Vieosoft's DataCase may be one of those that does. -
Facebook users unite in outrage over changed layout
Publié: août 12, 2008, 10:36pm CEST
Some don't like it when others clean out their houses while they're gone on vacation, and a few might hate it when someone else cleans up. Facebook is now cleaner, brighter, and whiter, and tens of thousands are unhappy. -
Liberty Media signals interest in AOL's dial-up business
Publié: août 12, 2008, 9:02pm CEST
Yesterday's Liberty Media Q2 earnings call was liberally dosed with rather frank disclosures from chairman John Malone about potentially big business moves, including swapping its majority stake in Time Warner for AOL's dial-up business. -
Twitter sets 'following' limits to combat spam
Publié: août 12, 2008, 8:54pm CEST
Twitter's new limits, which some are discovering just today, seems to have been made effective since the middle of last month, but don't appear to be fixed in stone. -
Open source mobile platforms converge on LinuxWorld
Publié: août 6, 2008, 10:22pm CEST
During this year's LinuxWorld, it was more obvious than ever before that open source technology is finding a place in mobile phones. But some hurdles stand in the way, including the sheer number of competing platforms in this space. -
Google's MP3 search engine debuts in China
Publié: août 6, 2008, 9:53pm CEST
Confirming about six months of speculation, the search giant said Wednesday it had launched a music search feature on its Chinese site with partner Top100.cn. -
Oracle boosts its own Linux with 'templates' to aid virtualization
Publié: août 6, 2008, 9:50pm CEST
In a realm where a "server" is no longer one box with one processor, it isn't always practical to keep reinstalling the same applications for multiple servers. Today, Oracle is proposing a unique solution, involving "templates." -
Three new IBM / Linux partnerships aimed at a 'Microsoft-free' world
Publié: août 6, 2008, 8:45pm CEST
At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco this week, IBM strengthened its ties with the open source community by announcing partnerships with Canonical, Red Hat and Novell. -
Adobe, Kaspersky warn of botnet worm spreading via social networks
Publié: août 6, 2008, 7:02pm CEST
The maker of Flash and the leading security lab said earlier this week that a worm first discovered last Thursday is being spread through social networks disguised as a update to Flash Player. -
Pioneer now says it can add four more layers to its Blu-ray disc
Publié: août 6, 2008, 6:49pm CEST
With the optical disc industry upping the ante last month, raising its goals for optical disc-based storage to a half-terabyte, Pioneer returned to testing a possible multi-layer BD, and now says it can squeeze more capacity onto one disc. -
Huge correction: More opposition to Yahoo's Yang than first tabulated
Publié: août 6, 2008, 6:01pm CEST
In an error literally akin to finding the "0" key stuck on your typewriter, a major securities service admitted it had problems adding values ranging into the hundreds of millions, in its tabulation of Yahoo shareholder votes last Friday. -
AOL to split its access and advertising businesses next year
Publié: août 6, 2008, 5:22pm CEST
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes confirmed yesterday that his company will split its Internet division into two components, while stopping short of spinning either off or selling them as was expected. -
Mozilla: Tell us how you see the future of Web browsing
Publié: août 6, 2008, 12:29am CEST
With new versions of Firefox adding welcome features but no radical changes to the way people live and work, its producers are wondering whether the general public may have better ideas about Firefox' future than their own engineers. -
iPhone 2.0.1 software update seems to focus on speed
Publié: août 5, 2008, 11:25pm CEST
While Apple's release notes only mention "bug fixes," early updaters are noting improvements to the second major release of the iPhone software. -
Japanese iPhone provider reduces its data plan fees
Publié: août 5, 2008, 11:17pm CEST
The third largest mobile phone operator in Japan, Softbank Mobile, announced it will reduce the data subscription rate for its Apple iPhone service later this month to as low as ¥2,990 ($27) per month from ¥7,280 ($67) per month. -
Microsoft to share more vulnerability data with select partners
Publié: août 5, 2008, 11:00pm CEST
In what may be becoming a semi-annual ritual, Microsoft chose the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas to unveil its latest initiative to share details about Windows vulnerabilities with outside sources who may be able to help. -
Jobs: MobileMe launch 'not our finest hour'
Publié: août 5, 2008, 10:29pm CEST
In an internal e-mail sent Monday afternoon by Steve Jobs and subsequently leaked across the Internet, the Apple CEO laments the launch of the service and shakes up management to prevent it from happening again. -
Search providers agree on policies regarding China, others
Publié: août 5, 2008, 10:26pm CEST
With politicians increasingly questioning US Internet companies' acquiescence to countries with restrictive Internet policies such as China, a 'code of conduct' is now being developed. -
Can a Qualcomm veteran revive Motorola's cell phone unit?
Publié: août 5, 2008, 8:20pm CEST
Motorola's mobile phone division, spun off from the rest of the company, now has a new chief executive: Sanjay K. Jha, an engineer who's held a variety of roles at mobile chip maker Qualcomm over the past 14 years. -
FCC finds Comcast in violation of net neutrality rules for BitTorrent blocking
Publié: août 1, 2008, 11:20pm CEST
The Federal Communications Commission has concluded its vote on Comcast, finding the cable operator in violation of net neutrality rules by a margin of 3-2, but it will not issue fines. -
Toyota developing a Segway-like transportation device
Publié: août 1, 2008, 10:16pm CEST
Better known for its automobiles, Toyota is now planning to move into the personal transport business with the "Winglet," scheduled to become available in the early part of the next decade. -
Next-generation FireWire finalized, but USB 3.0 will be faster
Publié: août 1, 2008, 10:03pm CEST
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recently approved IEEE 1394-2008, a faster version of the standard known to most simply as FireWire and used for connecting PCs with digital video devices or external hard drives. -
Police: Skip YouTube and upload eyewitness videos to us
Publié: août 1, 2008, 9:50pm CEST
Videos or photographs implicating members of the police force in acts of misconduct will soon be directly uploadable to the New York Police Department, representatives reported yesterday. -
Apple's fix for major DNS security hole finally arrives
Publié: août 1, 2008, 9:40pm CEST
Nearly three weeks after Microsoft patched its Windows operating system to protect against attacks exploiting a flaw within the DNS system, Apple has delivered its own fix. -
Sun releases preview of Silverlight, Flash competitor JavaFX
Publié: août 1, 2008, 9:30pm CEST
Sun Microsystems has released a preview version of its JavaFX technology for building rich Internet applications, which it announced last year would compete with Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash-based AIR. -
Sun's stock drops sharply after 73% drop in profit
Publié: août 1, 2008, 9:09pm CEST
A slowing economy has led computer server and software manufacturer Sun Microsystems to post a 73 percent drop in net income for its fourth fiscal quarter. So far in 2008, the company's stock has lost almost half of its value and most recently dropped 13 percent down to $9.24 per share. -
Bill to ban in-flight mobile phone calls goes to House
Publié: août 1, 2008, 8:00pm CEST
A bill that calls for a ban on all in-flight cellular voice calls will be put up for vote before the full House of Representatives after being approved by the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee. -
Apple pulls iPhone broadband sharing tool from App Store
Publié: août 1, 2008, 6:44pm CEST
For a few hours, iPhone users got the chance to download an application called NetShare that could turn the devices into a broadband modem for a laptop. -
Yahoo tries to make Delicious bookmarking site more mainstream
Publié: août 1, 2008, 6:00pm CEST
Yahoo's social bookmarking site Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) has received its long-awaited user interface overhaul, which the company hopes will attract more mainstream users and make the site less niche. -
China relents to critics, opens Internet to Olympic journalists
Publié: août 1, 2008, 5:05pm CEST
Several Internet news sites blocked by the Chinese government are now available once again following growing criticism about the country's censorship during the Olympic Games. -
Amid controversy, Google Street View gets approval in UK
Publié: août 1, 2008, 12:40am CEST
Despite strong apprehension from EU legislators toward Google's Street View mapping technique, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has reportedly found Google's privacy safeguards acceptable and will allow the company's roving 360 degree cameras to record British streets for its mapping service.