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- Tech Roundup: Google Hiring Slowdown, Intel Mobile Platform, iPhone Games, More
- Google slows hiring; Google, Nokia, and Intel busy on handheld platforms; iPhones offer an interesting game develoment challenge; Indian Reliance Communications, Orange Slovekia, and Carphone Warehouse in the U.K. give away netbooks; and TI bails on part of wireless business. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Tech Roundup: Microsoft Web Store, Games Are Green, Students Consider Engineering, More
- Microsoft sells software at its own web store and probably gives heart failure to resellers; game companies continue raking in the bucks; HomeAway got big funding, partly to buy stock back from employees and early investors; students turn from finance to engineering; AMD bets on Shanghai; and Mark Papermaster countersues...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
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- Hacker breaks into jailbroken iPhones and asks for money
- A hacker in The Netherlands broke into some jailbroken iPhones and sent text messages to the owners asking them to pay to find out how to secure their phones, according to postings in a Dutch forum called Tweakers.net. This is a screen shot of the SMS the hacked iPhone users...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Legal Tech Week: Spansion, Samsung, LG, Kodak, Google, Microsoft, More
- I thought that adding an occasional round-up of high tech legal machinations might be interesting to readers. If you think it's worthwhile, or not, email or comment and let me know. Spansion sues Samsung -- Memory chip maker Spansion, a Fujitsu and AMD joint venture, has decided...
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Latest Intel SSD firmware can cause data loss
- Intel recently released a firmware update for its well-known X25 line of solid state disks SSDs that delivered a massive 40 percent performance improvement and added support for the "trim" feature in Windows 7. However, it was quickly pulled due to reports of data corruption. If you've been...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Bluebeat stopped from selling almost all Beatles downloads
- A judge stops back catalogue sales of old popular Beatles tracks - and we have more information about the company behind the seller, Bluebeat Bluebeat suddenly has far fewer Beatles tracks for download A judge has ordered Bluebeat, the US website that had been...
- News items 2009-11-06
- How much would you pay to see your future?
- My dad used to say technology is advancing so quickly that, by the time a product reaches market, it is already obsolete. Moreover, if you wait just a little longer, you can pay a lot less. The sequencing of the human genome takes the advancement of technology, and its fast...
- News items 2009-11-07
- In dispute, Viacom threatens to pull shows "on TV and online"
- As Time Warner Cable TWC customers realized at 12:01am New Year's Day, Viacom-owned channels weren't yanked from the lineup after all. Viacom had threatened to pull all of its 19 channels, including MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central, from TWC after the two companies failed to ink a renewal deal, but...
- News items 2009-08-07
- How Much Would Mozilla Fetch on the Market?
- Netscape and Internet Explorers will come and go, but Mozilla will stand forever -- or at least many would like to think so. But what if they went public? Would it "undermine" the entire mission of Mozilla? It seems the conspiracy theories about such a possibility have been bouncing...
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Old Man IE6 shakes fist as Firefox surpasses him in browser share
- Filed under: Internet , Browsers Web designers and standards advocates have tried everything to kill Internet Explorer 6 , but it just refuses to die. In fact, Microsoft has extended support for the aging browser until at least mid-2010, and longer for some versions of...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Yahoo + Microsoft = Disaster?
- So Microsoft and Yahoo are at it again. Speculation is running wild on whether the deal, that some have valued at $50 billion, will actually go down. But if it does, will a Microsoft and Yahoo marriage go down in flames ala AOL and Time Warner? Or is this the...
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Employees Edge Over Viruses as Top "Security Problem"
- This year marks the first of the Computer Security Institute survey's 12-year history in which inside employees are the leading cause of network security problems [PDF]. The organizations polled experienced a $350,424 loss on average -- more than twice last year's average loss. The CSI received...
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Does Copy Protection Hamper Sales?
- If stats from U.K. music e-tailer 7 Digital are any indication by way of Ars Technica, then the answer to the headline would be, "yes." Music with digital rights management DRM is four times less likely to sell than tracks without DRM protection. Additionally, those who buy DRM-free music are...
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Spam Accounts for up to 95% of All Email
- One of my favorite bloggers from Ars Technica has uncovered another stat that will shock and surprise. Jacqui Cheng cites Barracuda Networks' recent analysis of 50,000 email customers. Its findings show that 90-95% of all email is spam (and, no, it's not the kind that goes good with eggs...
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Skip the Coffee, Power-Nap for 20 Minutes to Combat Afternoon Fatigue
- It's about 2:30 p.m. here in the Eastern time zone -- right about the time my energy starts flagging. Normally I'd head for the coffee machine, but a group of scientists says I'm better off with a 20-minute nap. That's the conclusion of a recent study that pitted naps against an...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Media Roundup: Congress Bails Out Pandora, Wal-Mart Yanks DRM-free Songs, and More
- A reprieve for Pandora -- On Saturday, Congress voted to give internet radio sites more time to negotiate royalty rates with recording companies, which may save popular site Pandora. [Sources: Portfolio, Silicon Alley Insider] Creative Loafing files for bankruptcy -- The publisher of alt weeklies including Washington...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Tech Roundup: Game Companies Hunt Pirates, Bad Oracle Consultants, Green Google Investments, and More
- Activision Blizzard chases individual game pirates -- Clearly some in the gaming community have been watching the RIAA a bit too closely. Activision Blizzard has been suing individuals who have pirated its game Call of Duty 3. Out of six people so far pursued, three settled for $100,000, one for...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Tech Roundup: TCP/IP and iPhone Security Vulnerabilities, Internet Radio Temporary Resuscitation, Microsoft to Build European Research Centers, and More
- Researchers claim new networking vulnerability -- A couple of researchers are claiming that they've discovered flaws in TCP/IP protocol stacks that hackers could use to unleash new denial of service DoS attacks on Internet-connected computers. The results supposedly could range from crashing a device to forcing the administrator to reboot...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Tech Roundup: Linux Boomerangs, Faux Military Chips, and More
- Linux laptops become boomerangs, strong returns -- At least one OEM, MSI, is seeing much stronger returns on Linux laptops than on those running Windows, to the tune of four to one. Apparently people like the price, open the box when they get home, start the laptop up, and then...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Tech Roundup: Drunken Email Regrets, MySQL Becomes TheirSQL, and More
- Someone keep me from clicking send -- For those addicted to working into the wee hours and complete exhaustion there's a new meaning to morning after regret. That's the feeling people get when they realize exactly what they sent in emails before they finally gave in to sleep. Google has...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
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