MySpace may not need any more chaos on its festively designed pages, but with traffic numbers down it could probably use some good news on the apps-development front, not to mention some good apps. To the rescue: Microsoft. On Monday MySpace announced that its Open Platform will support Silverlight, Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework. (This runs the table for Silverlight, by the way, putting it on iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Sidekick, Palm, Nokia, and now Windows Mobile phones.) The SDK will be available from Microsoft's CodePlex site on Thursday.
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MySpace to be bathed in a Silverlight
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 11:31pm CEST par Angela Gunn
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Virginia anti-spam law now dead after Supreme Court rejects appeal
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 11:12pm CEST par Scott M. Fulton, III
After losing a unanimous decision by the state's Supreme Court last September, the State of Virginia appealed to the US Supreme Court to breathe new life into an anti-spam law that was intended to put serial spammers behind bars. A constitutional rights appeal by convicted spammer Jeremy Jaynes, convicted in 2005 and sentenced to nine years' imprisonment, met with overwhelming victory, but state lawmakers saw the nation's highest court as their last chance.
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Found: An Achilles heel for Conficker
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 10:39pm CEST par Angela Gunn
The Honeynet Project makes a big discovery, while 30% of Windows machines remain unpatched.
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Now Western Digital enters the SSD market with SiliconSystems buyout
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 10:18pm CEST par Scott M. Fulton, III
WD once said it would enter the solid-state disk drive industry the moment it actually existed. Knock, knock.
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T-minus two days...Ready or not, here comes Conficker
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 9:17pm CEST par Angela Gunn
Should we prepare to reap the whirlwind, or is the hype excessive?
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Subsidized netbooks on the way, say Verizon representatives
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 9:10pm CEST par Tim Conneally
Verizon will reportedly begin selling subsidized netbooks next month, like AT&T began doing late last year with the Acer Aspire One. Representatives of the company note that netbooks could begin selling as early as the next quarter in Verizon stores.
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New Nvidia GPUs geared to work with multiple physical, virtual systems
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 8:59pm CEST par Scott M. Fulton, III
The Quadro FX professional graphics card line includes SLI Multi-OS support, which is supported by Parallels.
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CERT suggests one-click Conficker check
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 8:56pm CEST par Angela Gunn
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Microsoft v. TomTom: Both parties emerge mostly unscathed
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 8:49pm CEST par Tim Conneally
Though some may have been hoping this would be the venue for the Linux IP showdown, TomTom apparently had other plans.
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Netflix raises Blu-ray surcharge by 300% to $4 per month
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 8:48pm CEST par Nate Mook
Although it's been over a year since Blu-ray won the format war against HD DVD and almost all new movies are simultaneously released in the high-definition format, prices have not fallen, with Blu-ray discs still costing up to 3 times more than DVDs. In turn, Netflix has begun informing subscribers that it is raising the cost of those who receive movies on Blu-ray from $1 to $4 per month.
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Motorola's first US touchphone announced
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 7:52pm CEST par Tim Conneally
Motorola has finally released a phone in the form factor that dominates the American mobile business.
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Skype for iPhone launches tomorrow with Wi-Fi calling functionality
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 7:40pm CEST par Tim Conneally
The popular voice-enabled instant messaging service will land in the iPhone App Store tomorrow.
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Chasing the dragon of online popularity with social-networking sites
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 6:56pm CEST par Angela Gunn
We see from new comScore numbers that MySpace is making like Friendster and earlier stars in the social-networking space -- losing numbers to the newer, more hyped Facebook. (In February, MySpace traffic was down 2% to 124 million unique users, while Facebook's traffic was up 16.6% to 276 million unique visitors.) Meanwhile, Facebook has been Facelifted to look more like Twitter, which many believe to be the next next big thing. May we offer a suggestion?
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IBM deal with Sun could leave Fujitsu servers up in the air
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 6:35pm CEST par Scott M. Fulton, III
With the industry at large collectively having verified that IBM and Sun Microsystems are in talks toward a possible merger deal, the question of the fate of Sun's long-standing SPARC system architecture becomes a topic of intense conversation. Today, a Fujitsu America executive probably did the opposite of what he'd intended, first by telling Reuters he wouldn't comment, and then commenting in a way he might not have planned on.
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Behold the Open Cloud Manifesto: Insert your ideas here
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 5:27pm CEST par Scott M. Fulton, III
"This document is intended to initiate a conversation that will bring together the emerging cloud computing community," reads the new Manifesto's preamble.
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Report: Sony to introduce $99 PlayStation 2
Publié: mars 30, 2009, 5:01pm CEST par Tim Conneally
The most popular sixth generation console, and best seller of all time for less than $100?
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Samsung Mondi, first WiMAX MID in US...maybe?
Publié: mars 28, 2009, 2:10am CET par Tim Conneally
Nokia canned its WiMAX tablet device this year. Now Samsung has said its equivalent will come to the States.
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Fortinet releases monthly threat report
Publié: mars 28, 2009, 12:45am CET par Angela Gunn
Seven high-severity exploit attempts and one that rates as critical -- that would be Conficker, of course -- made the March Threatscape Report from Fortinet, the Top of the Pops for the rightfully unpopular, released Friday. No new malware variants made the list, compiled between February 21 and March 20. Malware infection attempts made up the lion's share of threatening traffic, with spyware and phishing attempts together making up less than a third of attempts.
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Going back in time with Google Earth
Publié: mars 27, 2009, 11:18pm CET par Angela Gunn
Google Earth has added a Wayback Machine of satellite images over the years. In the application, click the clock icon at the upper left. If there are multiple images available in that region, you'll get a sliding timeline that'll let you check them out. depending on where you're looking you may find images dating back as far as 1945, which you can step through shot by shot.
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Enter the Jaunty Jackalope: Ubuntu 9.04 begins in beta
Publié: mars 27, 2009, 9:33pm CET par Tim Conneally
Considered one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions, Ubuntu today presented its first glimpse at version 9.04.
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Final SuSE Linux 11 includes Moonlight 1.0 for Silverlight
Publié: mars 24, 2009, 11:09pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
The first link in a bridge between Web site architectures is now officially part of a Novell Linux distro.
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Zeevee releases HTPC movie browser Zinc Beta 3
Publié: mars 24, 2009, 9:39pm CET par Tim Conneally
Built on Mozilla's browser technology, Zinc focuses on Internet movie content.
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Controversial copyright violator provision struck down in New Zealand
Publié: mars 24, 2009, 9:18pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
If someone appears to be sharing an unauthorized file a lot of times, should his ISP do something to stop it? A law requiring it to do so has been stalled.
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DialUsername seeks your identity here and there
Publié: mars 24, 2009, 8:38pm CET par Angela Gunn
It's allegedly designed to help folk manage their online identities by spotting where "their" usernames might be in use without their knowledge, but DialUsername can also provide some amusement for a slow day at work. Find all the services you never even heard of among their list of 68, then rush to them and register your preferred username, just in case the service becomes popular. We can call it Land Rush Tuesday or something.
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Novell intros SuSE Enterprise Linux 11, with Windows and data center support
Publié: mars 24, 2009, 8:08pm CET par Jacqueline Emigh
Along with a new server and desktop, the final release includes new extensions for Windows interoperability and high availability.
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Sprint to provide 3G connectivity to Ford in-dash PC
Publié: mars 24, 2009, 7:41pm CET par Tim Conneally
Sprint Nextel's iDEN network has a special place in job site communication. The network's push-to-talk feature is ideal for maintaining constant contact with multiple individuals in separate locations, and its familiar "chirp" is a sound heard echoing across construction sites throughout the country.
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Chinese Internet is 'open enough,' says foreign minister
Publié: mars 24, 2009, 6:47pm CET par Tim Conneally
Reports that YouTube has been blocked in China has renewed discussion about Internet freedom there.
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Sony Ericsson takes a merciless beating
Publié: mars 24, 2009, 5:17pm CET par Tim Conneally
First the joint venture predicted a huge loss for its upcoming earnings call, then it lost its North American leader. What's next?
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Mozilla experiments more with 'New Tab' in Firefox 3.1
Publié: mars 24, 2009, 4:16pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer have added functionality to their fresh browser tabs. Should Firefox take a different tack?
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ExecuTweets sees the C-level side of Twitter
Publié: mars 24, 2009, 2:24pm CET par Angela Gunn
The long overdue business model for the microblogging service may now, at long last, be tried.
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The big squeeze: JPEG to jpeg to jpge to jphzepxpg
Publié: mars 24, 2009, 4:48am CET par Angela Gunn
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Cox to roll out tru2way, new UI this summer
Publié: mars 23, 2009, 11:29pm CET par Tim Conneally
Cox Communications may finally be making tru2way a reality. Tru2way is a common software platform that allows software developers, cable companies, or in this case set top box DRM maker NDS, to create interactive software and Web-based applications for use on the TV.
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Sprint and Verizon take top wireless quality honors
Publié: mars 23, 2009, 11:01pm CET par Angela Gunn
The latest J.D. Power survey also found remarkable trend in text-messaging popularity.
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Vodafone and Telefonica partner up in 4G progress
Publié: mars 23, 2009, 10:50pm CET par Tim Conneally
Two of Europe's largest mobile carriers announced a cost-saving partnership today.
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Salesforce.com cloud adds Twitter, stirs privacy concerns
Publié: mars 23, 2009, 9:39pm CET par Jacqueline Emigh
With a controversial new business application, Service Cloud will now enable "enterprises to be active participants on Twitter."
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Bye-bye, Microsoft adCenter Analytics
Publié: mars 23, 2009, 9:35pm CET par Angela Gunn
In a blog post over the weekend Mel Carson, community manager for Microsoft's adCenter Analytics, announced that the project will not be leaving beta. The project, which began its pilot stage in France back in 2005, will remain online through the end of the year, and the associated blog will continue as "Insights & Analysis" -- indicating that perhaps Microsoft's not entirely done thinking about the Web numbers problem.
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One game console per child: Zeebo
Publié: mars 23, 2009, 7:51pm CET par Tim Conneally
Zeebo, soon to be the "fourth console" in video gaming, today received support from major software companies.
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Oracle buys health software vendor Relsys
Publié: mars 23, 2009, 6:55pm CET par Jacqueline Emigh
Despite the bleak economy, Oracle keeps forging ahead with its acquisition strategy.
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TomTom calls in the 'Linux Defenders'
Publié: mars 23, 2009, 6:05pm CET par Tim Conneally
TomTom has become a licensee in the Open Invention Network during its patent litigation with Microsoft.
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Riders of the next wave in music: Topspin Media
Publié: mars 23, 2009, 5:21pm CET par Tim Conneally
Eventually, technology will change every corner of the music business, Topspin tackles the marketing aspect.
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Cloudera open source start-up offers Hadoop cloud software for 'mere mortals'
Publié: mars 21, 2009, 12:15am CET par Jacqueline Emigh
First created by Facebook, Google and Yahoo, Linux-based Hadoop is now available free of charage to health care centers, banks, and other businesses.
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Can Mozilla escape a premature endgame for Firefox?
Publié: mars 21, 2009, 12:07am CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
It was born from the remains of Netscape Navigator, but suddenly, there's a plausible scenario pointing to Firefox becoming the victim of its own success.
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IEEE begins work on new 1900.4 standards
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 10:54pm CET par Tim Conneally
With so many mobile wireless networks available, and only more coming, IEEE is working on a way they can work together.
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Region woes hose Obama gift to UK prime minister
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 9:54pm CET par Angela Gunn
It's either a minor diplomatic gaffe or an incredibly nuanced commentary on the current state of international copyright protec... nope, definitely a gaffe: The 25 classic DVDs given to British prime minister Gordon Brown when he recently visited President Obama turned out to be more DRM than drama.
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Slow, but steady usage share growth in IE8's first day
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 9:52pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
The early numbers from Web analytics firm NetApplications indicate a slower than expected, but steady uptick in usage share for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, a product which was introduced at noon yesterday on the East Coast. It's not being pushed as an update to the Windows operating system, so trading up for now is still a voluntary affair for users.
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Here Lies SpiralFrog (2007-2009)
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 8:04pm CET par Tim Conneally
SpiralFrog, the ad-supported music service launched by Universal Music Group and EMI in 2007, is now defunct.
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Skydiving through the cloud: Windows Azure gambles with 'Full Trust'
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 7:54pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
Up to now, Azure has been a cloud-based staging service for the .NET platform. To go beyond that stage, that cloud has to be able to run native code for its customers.
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TomTom countersues Microsoft in Linux patent battle
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 7:18pm CET par Tim Conneally
It's either a simple battle over intellectual property, or it's a move in the war against open source software.
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New clouds floated by NetSuite and SAS
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 5:35pm CET par Jacqueline Emigh
After Sun's wider cloud rollout on Tuesday, two more vendors are jumping into clouds, one on the platform side and the other on the infrastructure side.
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Windows Mobile 6.5 drops its 'honeycomb'
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 5:11pm CET par Tim Conneally
Microsoft has listened to user feedback and updated the Windows Mobile 6.5 UI.
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A new recession hallmark: the pay-as-you-go iPhone
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 3:48pm CET par Tim Conneally
Want an iPhone while you're waiting for the Palm Pre? AT&T will have no-contract iPhones starting next week.
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Much ado about undo: A new Gmail feature literally lasts five seconds
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 3:45pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
In perhaps another sterling demonstration of the effectiveness of Google's own product announcements by way of its blog posts, the world awakened this morning to an experimental capability in Google's Gmail that, if you think about it, you wonder why no one's thought about it before: An independent developer with the handle Yuzo F is distributing a Gmail add-on that gives users five seconds after clicking on the Send button to click on an Undo link that stops distribution from going forward.
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Great minds think alike... on hacker exploits
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 12:55pm CET par Angela Gunn
Rutkowska's got the whole story on her site. Invisible Things and Duglot's team are all good eggs, so Intel was informed about the exploit well before CanSecWest attendees got the details. The exploit itself (PDF available here) allows for privilege escalation from Ring 0 to the SMM on various newer motherboards with Intel CPUs. "Informing Intel," by the way, turns out to be the weirdest part of the story -- turns out that not only has the company known about the SMRAM-related security gap since 2005, they've mentioned it in a patent application.
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In search of better Web security: Three approaches
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 12:23pm CET par Angela Gunn
There's an evolutionary transition that even the latest Web browsers have yet to make. Three research teams are staking their claim to the browser kernel of truth.
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Diebold admits serious design flaw in e-voting machines
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 3:00am CET par Angela Gunn
The testing, conducted after an election last June in Humboldt County, Calif., revealed at the time flaws in Diebold / Premier's GEMS system later confirmed by the California Secretary of State. The hearings now underway will help state officials to decide whether to decertify the GEMS v. 1.18.19 system for use in future state elections. The Humboldt testing revealed that the software dropped ballots under certain circumstances. Further investigation by the Secretary of State's office confirmed that problem -- and revealed that the audit logs themselves could be radically altered, sometimes with just one click. The problems with the audit logs, had they been known during the certification process (as Diebold knew for years, it was revealed today), should have disqualified the systems from being certified at all.
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Palm, holding tight for Pre, reports Q3 earnings
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 12:42am CET par Angela Gunn
Analysts swarm with launch-related questions; now, who stole $5 million in phones?
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720p for keeps: iTunes gets HD movie downloads
Publié: mars 20, 2009, 12:03am CET par Tim Conneally
Apple has turned up the juice on its iTunes movie store and now offers HD downloads of Hollywood motion pictures.
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IDC: Linux poised for more growth when economy recovers
Publié: mars 19, 2009, 11:37pm CET par Jacqueline Emigh
Factors ranging from netbooks to a new Linux OS kernel will spur more Linux ramp-ups when the recession lifts, a new study says
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Samsung launches a beta of its movie download service
Publié: mars 19, 2009, 9:39pm CET par Tim Conneally
First Sony, now Samsung...it looks like the major CE makers are starting to jump on the digital content distribution bandwagon.
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Performance test: IE8 easily doubles IE7 speed
Publié: mars 19, 2009, 9:31pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
Internet Explorer 8's speed will be better, its product manager said today, for folks who live in the real world. Tell that to the planet with the Firefox and Safari users.
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Notes-to-Exchange migration tool gets Microsoft Exchange Online support
Publié: mars 18, 2009, 3:28am CET par Jacqueline Emigh
Binary Tree has now updated its widely used systems administration tool for migrating users from IBM Lotus Notes to the more prevalent Microsoft Exchange messaging system. The new CMT Universal 2.7.1 supports not just on-premises editions of Exchange, but also Exchange Online, a component of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).
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Maryland city under blogger siege, says outgoing mayor
Publié: mars 18, 2009, 3:23am CET par Tim Conneally
The departing mayor of Salisbury, Maryland said that blogger intimidation may be more detimental to democracy than the financial crisis.
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Twitter folk preyed on (again)
Publié: mars 18, 2009, 1:02am CET par Angela Gunn
Abuse of Twitter users is getting so be such a regular thing than a wiser journalist would write a macro for the story, though for once they're not being duped into revealing their passwords. That said, Rik Ferguson at Trend Micro is reporting today that a site sharing a name with a brand-new iPhone application for the popular microblogging service has a nasty little malware payload waiting for the unwary.
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Swedish dread over looming IPRED copyright law
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 11:42pm CET par Angela Gunn
TorrentFreak and other peer-to-peer-interested sites are taking a hard look at a controversial law that will make it easier for copyright holders to get personal information on people they claim are infringing on their rights. Despite massive public disapproval, rules based on the EU's Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) goes into effect on Wednesday, April 1. (No fooling.)
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Discovery says it thought of the Kindle first, wants royalites
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 11:15pm CET par Tim Conneally
Here's a discovery Amazon may not have noticed: Discovery Communications has a familiar-looking patent portfolio.
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Cisco's servers should stay away from HP and IBM, analysts say
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 11:11pm CET par Jacqueline Emigh
Major analysts concur that Cisco's new servers will fare best, at first, in "greenfield" deployments, isolated from the servers of IBM, HP and Dell.
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The heat is on: Latest Google Chrome closes the gap with Safari 4, Firefox 3.1
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 10:55pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
It was the 1990s when the speed and performance of a computing tool to be used by millions, mattered this much. This afternoon, Google is answering the call.
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Adobe results weak, but makes its Q1 targets
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 10:25pm CET par Angela Gunn
Revised estimate given two weeks ago proves, of all things, slightly pessimistic.
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Google releases new 2.0 beta of Chrome browser
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 9:43pm CET par Tim Conneally
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Apple totally turns iPhone 3.0 into a game platform
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 8:42pm CET par Tim Conneally
Today, Apple has opened the iPhone 3.0 SDK in beta, endowing the iPhone with dozens of new abilities.
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US Defense Dept. goes public with some open source plans
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 7:38pm CET par Jacqueline Emigh
Finally edging out of stealth mode around its open source activities, the DOD announced plans to share the code for 50 of its applications.
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The end of the PC pothole, for everyone but Apple
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 7:27pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
Blue skies may be shining for America's PC makers, but the high-priced Macs aren't joining the party, says NPD's Stephen Baker.
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After years in eclipse, L0phtCrack 6 re-released
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 7:18pm CET par Angela Gunn
The fabled hacker tool ran aground on Symantec's lawyers.
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After years in eclipse, fresh L0phtCrack version released
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 7:18pm CET par Angela Gunn
The fabled hacker tool ran aground on Symantec's lawyers.
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Not to be outdone by Cisco, Dell launches Xanadu II servers for clouds
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 5:47pm CET par Jacqueline Emigh
With Sun and newly initiated server market competitor Cisco also rolling out data center servers this week, Dell has made its own announcement of XS-23 II servers, formerly codenamed Xanadu II. Dell launched the new high-end x86 servers on Monday in celebration of the second birthday of Data Center Solutions (DCS), a division producing servers aimed at easy customizability for cloud computing and other data center applications.
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Microsoft in an IP deal with manufacturer that brought DMCA case
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 5:22pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
What Lexmark so vehemently sought to keep secret five years ago, it's happy to share now, at least with Microsoft.
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A phishing scheme may have exposed 700 Comcast customers
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 4:29pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
A document that appeared on the online sharing service Scribd appeared to show thousands of comcast.net accounts, along with their passwords. It was probably posted there as a display of somebody's phishing prowess, though it would appear it took two months or more before anyone finally noticed.
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Encouraging notebook anorexia: Dell launches Adamo
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 4:11pm CET par Tim Conneally
Dell's ultra sleek notebooks are available for pre-order today
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AMD to Intel: We'll come clean if you will
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 4:05pm CET par Scott M. Fulton, III
This morning, AMD raised the bid in a high-stakes game of poker with Intel, and it's looking more and more like both sides are playing according to big plans.
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Analysts: Where is (and isn't) SaaS headed?
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 3:31pm CET par Jacqueline Emigh
There's some who say Software-as-a-Service is a dying concept, and others who say it's just being born. Who's right depends on where you look.
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Apple Macs get Carbonite online backup, with free trials
Publié: mars 17, 2009, 3:22pm CET par Jacqueline Emigh
It's already established itself as a reputable online backup service for Windows XP and Vista. Now Mac OS is being added to the mix.
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Berners-Lee warns of privacy threat on the Web's 20th birthday
Publié: mars 14, 2009, 4:48am CET
It was twenty years ago today: Tim Berners-Lee taught the band to play wrote up his "Information Management: A Proposal" paper and hatched the idea for the "Mesh," which on further review he'd decide to call the World-Wide Web. What started as a simple tool for managing the dataflow at CERN has become the most disruptive technology of our lifetime. If you're reading this, raise a glass -- but don't get too comfortable.
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ACTA shielded from sunlight as court rejects FOIA claim
Publié: mars 14, 2009, 4:09am CET
A request filed by various public-interest groups asking that details of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act be revealed to the public has been denied by an official of the Office of the US Trade Representative. Knowledge Ecology International made seven document requests, all of which were denied "in the interest of national security." -
It's a more solid-state Sun, embedding flash memory in servers
Publié: mars 14, 2009, 1:14am CET
As the latest step in its gradual move to "end-to-end" flash, Sun has unveiled solid-state drive options for some of its high-end servers.
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It has come to this: A claim that patent reform threatens the environment
Publié: mars 13, 2009, 11:37pm CET
A bit like mixing chocolate and mustard, you'd think the subjects of green technology and patent reform wouldn't mix. One new advocacy group disagrees.
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Vivek Kundra's maiden-voyage speech: content 8, timing 2
Publié: mars 13, 2009, 11:19pm CET
Change is still coming to Washington, but first, some warrants needed to be served.
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Intel's Atom and the return of the thin client
Publié: mars 13, 2009, 7:42pm CET
While the fast-growing netbook segment is being credited with the source of demand for Intel's single-core processor, there's another new category where it's making a big play.
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Analysts predict smartphones will thrive, even in this market
Publié: mars 13, 2009, 5:22pm CET
Gartner iillustrates a trend toward a smartphone-driven mobile device market
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Tests: Firefox 3.1 JavaScript outpaced by Safari 4, Google Chrome
Publié: mars 13, 2009, 5:05pm CET
If the race to be the biggest alternative Windows Web browser to IE8 comes down to JavaScript interpreter speed, the latest Firefox will have some catching up to do.
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T-Mobile USA: UK report on Android Cupcake is 'just a rumor'
Publié: mars 13, 2009, 3:44am CET
Speaking with Betanews, a US-based T-Mobile rep cast doubt on a report about Cupcake emanating from the other side of the Atlantic.
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Google ad exec tapped to head AOL
Publié: mars 13, 2009, 2:02am CET
After AOL has become the widest-reaching online advertiser with its Platform-A, who better to become CEO than a Google advertising guru?
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Palm Pre and Sprint reveal plan pricing options
Publié: mars 13, 2009, 12:25am CET
They won't say when it'll arrive and they won't say how much it'll cost, but representatives from Palm and Sprint on Thursday were willing to talk about stuff like service plans for the wildly anticipated (though not anytime soon) Palm Pre.
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Quel horreur: French president wants to chop net access for alleged downloaders
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 11:36pm CET
Didn't fly in the UK, didn't fly in New Zealand...Will it fly in France?
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Quelle horreur: French president wants to chop net access for alleged downloaders
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 11:36pm CET
Didn't fly in the UK, didn't fly in New Zealand...Will it fly in France?
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Microsoft exec to join DHS as CIO nominee gets tangled in FBI raid
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 10:41pm CET
The DHS adds a 'cyber point person,' but Vivek Kundra's got a dark cloud at his back.
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Version 3.0 of iPhone software to debut next week
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 10:14pm CET
Next Tuesday in Cupertino, California, Apple will unveil iPhone software version 3.0, according to an invitation received by the Apple faithful today.
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A future for eBay that's solidly on the back burner
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 10:07pm CET
PayPal and Skype have begun their ascent to the 'chief asset' positions, ahead of former giant eBay.com
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Vodafone now offers DRM-free music
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 5:48pm CET
Three of the "Big Four" major record labels, Sony, EMI, and Universal, have gotten on board with European carrier Vodafone to provide DRM-free music for the wireless carrier's music store.
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Microsoft silent on whether version 8 will be the last Internet Explorer
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 5:43pm CET
IE has been presumed to be a perennial part of the Microsoft roadmap, but now, blog speculation has for some reason made the company quiet down.
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Greener batteries: Li-ion cells could charge up in mere seconds
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 5:17pm CET
Those countless hours journalists have spent chained to trade show walls recharging, could soon be a remnant of the past.
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Amazon EC2 customers can pay up front to drive down hourly costs
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 5:08pm CET
In a move that could help cloud computing leader Amazon realize much of its revenues almost a year earlier, the company this morning announced an alternative payment structure for users of its EC2 cloud-based hosting service. For subscribers willing to pay up front for a one-year contract between $325 for a standard virtual machine instance and $2,600 for a CPU-intensive instance, their per-hour usage charges can be reduced around 75% - 80%.
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iTunes 8.1 adds multi-remote feature
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 4:45pm CET
Since the newest iPod shuffle requires iTunes 8.1 to function properly, Apple has released an update to the desktop music organization software. Though the update was brought around for the new iPod, the real benefits of the update go to multi-iPhone user groups. -
Final preparations under way for Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 public rollout
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 4:42pm CET
A final day of concentrated developer bug testing is preceding Mozilla lifting the curtain on its newest JavaScript engine.
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TV.com blasts competitors with 1080p streams
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 4:31pm CET
TV.com -- CBS Interactive's answer to video sites like Hulu, Veoh, and Joost -- has announced today that it is beta testing streams in full 1080p high-definition.
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GAO warns that feds aren't ready for 2010 census
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 10:25am CET
You won't be beating the rush if you start worrying now about how the GAO will count the citizens.
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Google Voice debuts in previews for GrandCentral users
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 8:09am CET
A trio of Google product developers on Wednesday night blogged the arrival of Google Voice, a new service for phone and voicemail management. The application, which includes such features as SMS text searches and voicemail transcripts, will preview first to GrandCentral subscribers. -
T-I-double-guh-Er...The unique and fierce Tigger Trojan pounces
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 1:16am CET
Playing the role of Pooh in this production: Your stock-trading accounts. (Think, think, think...)
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Cisco's plans might include data centers, might not include Flip camcorders
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 1:13am CET
Beyond more verifiable reports about a new data center strategy, rumors swirled this week that Cisco will buy consumer device maker Pure Digital.
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New toolkit makes Eclipse into a Silverlight IDE
Publié: mars 12, 2009, 12:15am CET
The graphic library's next exercise in cross-platform deployment will take it beyond the need for Microsoft's IDEs.
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Here's something that sells well in a bleak economy: set-top boxes
Publié: mars 11, 2009, 8:40pm CET
Market research from Dell'Oro shows shipments of STBs from communications service providers are on the rise
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Dell confirms new layoffs, may number hundreds
Publié: mars 11, 2009, 8:37pm CET
The company says it's part of an existing cost-cutting program, but the news came as the surprise to several employees and at least one mayor.
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Opera CEO von Tetzchner: Microsoft's IE8 'turn-off' is not enough
Publié: mars 9, 2009, 9:25pm CET
If the Windows 7 producer is truly interested in playing fairly, states the founder of browser maker Opera Software, it needs to present users with a clearer choice.
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Windows Market Place, Blackberry App World take shape
Publié: mars 9, 2009, 8:29pm CET
Windows Mobile Marketplace was announced at 3GSM in Barcelona in February, noting that it would be available when Windows Mobile 6.5 is released before Christmas this year. -
Seagate throttles up to 6 Gbps throughput, with some help from AMD
Publié: mars 9, 2009, 7:21pm CET
Slated to start showing up in products later this year, the faster PC storage interface will support video, graphics, and gaming applications.
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Blu-ray could be Blockbuster's bailout
Publié: mars 9, 2009, 7:10pm CET
Blockbuster could have saved Circuit City, and it could save Blu-ray, according to CEO Jim Keyes. But who will save Blockbuster?
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Ballmer: Yes on Windows 7 for netbooks, but maybe not a specific SKU
Publié: mars 9, 2009, 6:50pm CET
Did the Microsoft CEO really say what the financial press says he said about netbooks and Win7? Not really.
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Report: Apple netbook touchscreen supplier named
Publié: mars 9, 2009, 4:50pm CET
Taiwanese electronics company Wintek reported to the Chinese Language financial newspaper Commercial Times that it is working with Apple to develop new products that utilize the company's touch panels.
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Google Docs security hole may have exposed private documents
Publié: mars 9, 2009, 4:11pm CET
If you thought you made all your docs and presentations private in one batch, you might have received a little notice over the weekend.
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Android gets skinned, finally
Publié: mars 9, 2009, 3:37pm CET
The standard "analog clock floating over blue water" home screen is getting much-needed skinnability with the Open Home app
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Internet Explorer 8 can be turned off in Windows 7
Publié: mars 8, 2009, 6:41pm CET
It's not the same as letting users say they don't want it in the first place, but as Microsoft confirms, Windows 7 users will be allowed to tell setup to remove IE8.
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Microsoft Research finds future value in family history
Publié: mars 8, 2009, 12:00am CET
The company's British researchers apply the notion of connectivity to not only who we are but in the generations that brought us here.
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Beckstrom resigns National Cybersecurity Center post
Publié: mars 7, 2009, 4:43am CET
The buzz online today may have been about Robert Scoble's exit from Fast Company, but there's a major change afoot at the top of the NCSC: Rod Beckström, the director, has submitted his resignation to DHS head Janet Napolitano effective in one week (that is, Friday the 13th). The move comes after rumors of ferocious power struggles at NCSC, which Beckström has led since its inception last year. -
Phishers hijack 750+ Twitter accounts
Publié: mars 7, 2009, 3:45am CET
Trend Micro is reporting, and Twitter confirms, that Twitter users are once again under attack by people who need to upgrade their ethics. Targets receive a tweet from someone claiming to be female, 23, and in possession of a webcam. Click the link and you end up on an "adult" site that both attempts to phish your credit-card info and slathers your computer with ads for the same stuff. -
Will patent reform diminish or restore the value of originality?
Publié: mars 7, 2009, 12:13am CET
Once again, Congress takes up the issue of renovating the nation's patent system, and in so doing must summon the courage to resolve fundamental issues.
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Boxee RSS feature gives Hulu a backdoor
Publié: mars 6, 2009, 9:34pm CET
Open source media center Boxee may have officially lost Hulu, but the latest alpha update adds another way to watch the service's videos.
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Greener Apple: New Macs, iPods aim for efficiency, cleaner environment
Publié: mars 6, 2009, 9:29pm CET
Once a target of environmental activists, Apple has been making a turnaround, putting a big push lately on the greener aspects of its products.
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Chicago sheriff declares Craigslist 'a public nuisance' for aiding the sex trade
Publié: mars 6, 2009, 5:16pm CET
Prostitution on Craigslist is too out of hand for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, and he wants to shut down the site's "most popular section"
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Why did the RIAA sue one Shaun Adams of Grand Island, Nebraska?
Publié: mars 6, 2009, 5:08pm CET
The record industry group said late last year it wouldn't pursue any new lawsuits. Today, we learned this isn't a new lawsuit.
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Sun's Jonathan Schwartz takes up the fireside chat habit
Publié: mars 6, 2009, 4:17pm CET
From the elegant Sun ballroom in Santa Clara, we bring to our listeners from coast to coast the soothing sounds of Sun's CEO.
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Zoho spiffs up its 2.0 version of Writer
Publié: mars 6, 2009, 3:57pm CET
The word processor portion of a pioneering Web apps suite has finally gained some family resemblance.
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So much for 'Firefox 3.1:' Mozilla gives its next browser an early promotion to 3.5
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 11:52pm CET
Responding to comments that the TraceMonkey engine is a very important addition, a Mozilla engineer says the new Firefox should make that clearer.
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Quietly, Kundra steps into federal CIO position
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 11:35pm CET
We mentioned back in January that Vivek Kundra, Washington DC's CTO, was a highly plausible pick to take on the top tech job in the Obama administration. Switch that T to an I, please: Thursday morning, before tackling a full day of health-care meetings, President Obama named Kundra the White House's Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO). -
Barnes & Noble closes in on the e-Book market
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 11:09pm CET
Today, the major US book retailer announced it has acquired e-bookstores Fictionwise.com and Ereader.com
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DTV broadcasters: Suddenly loss of signal could be a problem
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 11:05pm CET
The lesson of February 17, it turns out, could be that DTV signals could have been stronger after all.
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Thief cops personal information from NYPD pension database
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 10:50pm CET
UPI reports that a civilian employee of the New York Police Department has been charged with burglary, grand larceny, and computer trespass after disabling security cameras and stealing eight backup tapes from a warehouse on Staten Island. Anthony Borelli, the accused, is the former director of communications for the NYPD pension fund, and the tapes found in his home contain Social Security numbers and direct-deposit information for 80,000 current and retired officers.
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Greener Gadgets: Are people really saving money with 'green PCs?'
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 9:14pm CET
Panelists pondered the economic pros and cons of newer and more "energy-efficient" computers, voicing decidedly mixed opinions.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg: Copy to Win
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 8:33pm CET
The CEO's reputation as a copycat has led to misperceptions about Facebook's UI update.
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Alltel gets Treo Pro first
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 8:17pm CET
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Analysts: Steep decline in PC shipments still expected for H1
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 6:47pm CET
But IDC is pointing to a bottoming out of the shipment decline in H2, and itemizes some possible reasons for improvement.
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HP launches 'no phone calls' remote support software for SMBs
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 6:00pm CET
It's a package designed for 24/7 remote support of installations of one to 50 servers, without the need for support phone calls.
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Ballmer: The challenge for Windows Mobile
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 5:56pm CET
The Microsoft CEO addresses a public that, at least last year, appeared to signal it doesn't want Windows Mobile devices.
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AMD gives birth to Global Foundries, which is now hiring
Publié: mars 5, 2009, 5:52pm CET
AMD's gamble to create the processor production foundry to which it will outsource its own projects, in an effort to scale down while maintaining some measure of control over its production methods, is now offically under way. Global Foundries is the official name of "The Foundry Company," formed by a vote of approval by AMD's shareholders last month.
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No kudos yet for Microsoft's Kumo
Publié: mars 4, 2009, 3:14am CET
A leaked internal memo asks Microsoft employees what they think of its search plan. The evidence makes us wonder what the plan is.
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Firefox 3.1 beta 3 developers prepare for freeze
Publié: mars 4, 2009, 2:17am CET
Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, sent out the call Tuesday afternoon on mozilla.dev.planning: It's time to lock the trees and land the bugs on beta 3 of the 3.1 version of the browser.
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Will Palm survive until the Pre launch?
Publié: mars 4, 2009, 1:55am CET
Ugly earnings alert make it clear how high the stakes are
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Demo'd at DEMO 09: ARM netbook, 15 hours of battery life
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 11:59pm CET
At the Demo 09 show in Palm Desert, CA today, a start-up named Always Innovating showed off a Linux-based netbook with a touch screen, a detachable keyboard, and a touted battery life of 10 to 15 hours. The company's Touch Book netbook also happens to be the industry's first with an ARM processor, as opposed to the Intel Atom CPU used in most other netbooks.
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Schwarzenegger to CeBIT: 'Go green!'
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 11:40pm CET
At the CeBIT fair in Germany this week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is acting as a cheerleader (and unofficial ambassador of sorts) for the green computing products of the Silicon Valley, exhorting attendees from Europe and elsewhere to "Go green!" In an energetic speech during opening ceremonies, Schwarzenegger pumped up the audience at the recession-rocked show, down 25 percent this year in numbers of exhibitors.
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Web ads in Office 14? Not very likely
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 11:35pm CET
While a Microsoft president sounded like he could be selling space on Excel today, his company is saying no.
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Pirate Bay trial closes, verdict in 45 days
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 11:29pm CET
After ten days of hearings, closing statements were heard in the Pirate Bay copyright infringement trial.
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Cisco and NASA grow a Planetary Skin
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 11:15pm CET
Environmental effort gathers, analyzes data from around the world
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Official: Genachowski nominated FCC chairman
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 9:31pm CET
With a net neutrality supporter ready to change course, the course of net neutrality itself may have already altered.
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Justice Dept. charges EMC with kickbacks and false statements
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 8:52pm CET
Storage giant EMC now faces allegations from the DOJ around making kickbacks to partners, issuing false statements, and overcharging government agencies.
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Embedded Java-on-a-chip could lead to 'smarter trash'
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 7:57pm CET
With the recently increased focus on Green technology and intelligent energy consumption, aJile Systems looks to the forthcoming growth in smart infrastructure with its direct execution 32 bit Java system on a chip, announced today. -
Two more cloud storage services close: Yahoo's Briefcase, HP's Upline
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 7:03pm CET
With the curtain still opening on cloud computing, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard are abruptly shutting the door on two online storage services.
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So that's why we can't call it 'netbook:' Intel suit exposes a trademark dispute
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 6:51pm CET
As the holder of the "Netbook" trademark, Psion Teklogix asserts itself in court against Intel.
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Amazon Video On Demand released to Roku's STB
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 6:22pm CET
Amazon's on-demand video streaming service on the Roku set top box began beta tests in early February, and today has officially been released to the public. -
Confirmed: Micron in talks with Taiwan to create new DRAM 'entity'
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 5:57pm CET
In a memory industry that's taken damage, Micron wants to leverage Taiwan's goodwill to work out a recovery plan.
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Apple refreshes its Mac desktops with Intel Nehalem CPUs
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 4:34pm CET
The latest Mac desktops will include a new Mac Mini, iMac, and Mac Pro, as well as a new dual band Airport Extreme Wi-Fi base station and Time Capsule.
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Greener Gadgets: SunNight eyes powering radios with flashlights
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 2:30pm CET
SunNight's solar flashlights last 750 to 1000 hours withouut recharging, and the company is considering deploying them in the African jungle.
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Marine One docs fly to Tehran, but not from Lockheed
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 5:29am CET
A Maryland company appears to have made it possible for sensitive information on Marine One -- President Obama's helicopter -- to turn up at an IP address in Tehran, according to Tiversa, a third-party monitor of peer-to-peer networks. Blueprints, avionics information and cost breakdowns were found on the Iranian computer.
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IndiEclectic musicians do end-run around distribution
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 4:36am CET
Like music? Want to hear some more music like the stuff you like? IndiEclectic, which launches this week after a lengthy beta period, taps a powerful fount of musical knowledge: Actual working musicians. The site features independent artists who are recommended by, and in turn recommend, artists who have something in common with what they do. -
English teachers embrace 21st century composition skills
Publié: mars 3, 2009, 4:19am CET
Time to move past the pen-and-paper model, srsly