AP Technology News
Innovation on display at Games Conference | | SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives.... | | 3/13/2010 2:21:49 AM |
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AP Technology News
Disney to shut Zemeckis-run motion-capture studio | | LOS ANGELES (AP) -- To further cut costs at its movie studio, The Walt Disney Co. said Friday that it will shut a San Francisco-area facility used to capture the performance of Jim Carrey for his digitally animated character, Scrooge, in "A Christmas Carol."... | | 3/12/2010 5:23:33 PM |
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AP Technology News
Privacy issues nix Netflix movie-picking contest | | SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. has canceled a sequel to a $1 million movie-recommendation contest, avoiding a potential courtroom drama over the privacy rights of its subscribers.... | | 3/12/2010 4:01:58 PM |
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AP Technology News
Apple gives chief operating officer $5M bonus | | SEATTLE (AP) -- Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.... | | 3/12/2010 2:43:32 PM |
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Court OKs TV rules opposed by Comcast, Cablevision | | WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal court Friday upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make sports programming and other channels they own available on equal terms to rival TV providers such as satellite companies.... | | 3/12/2010 1:11:20 PM |
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Internet fraud losses doubled last year | | WASHINGTON (AP) -- The cost of Internet fraud doubled in 2009 to about $560 million, the FBI said Friday. The most common type of frauds reported were scams from people falsely claiming to be from the FBI.... | | 3/12/2010 12:23:33 PM |
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AP Technology News
Chinese minister insists Google obey the law | | BEIJING (AP) -- China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking.... | | 3/12/2010 11:32:32 AM |
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AP Technology News
Apple takes pre-orders for April 3 iPad launch | | CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) -- Apple is accepting pre-orders for the iPad, its new touch-screen gadget for reading books, watching video and surfing the Web.... | | 3/12/2010 10:08:51 AM |
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AP Technology News
Lenovo says business will focus on mobile Internet | | BEIJING (AP) -- Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said Friday.... | | 3/12/2010 12:38:54 AM |
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Gizmodo
Black Ninja Monday is When the Commenter Trolls Get Their Due [Comments] |
Several star commenters have noted recently that the troll factor is rising again. This post is reminder that all comments wasting words and the comment moderator's time wondering about such issues as "why does gizmodo love/hate/get paid by company XYZ?" may result in zero warnings and then a ban. And whatever happens to your comment account, remember: it's not my fault if you lose your account because you said something stupid. Black Ninja Monday is when the action goes down, so you've got two days to turn things around. The obvious choices: You can have fun in troll hell, or join the ranks of the thoughtful, starred, proud and clever commenters everyone appreciates. Again, Monday: that's when there'll be internet blood everywhere. But it won't be mine. More »
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MS-NBC Technology & Science
It's daylight science time |  It’s that time of year again, when most Americans lose an hour’s sleep setting their clocks ahead. Here are answers to your questions about the time switch - and about sleep.
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MS-NBC Technology & Science
Orders for Apple's new iPad start today |  Apple began taking orders online Friday for its new iPad tablet computer, with delivery scheduled for April 3, the same day the iPad goes on sale in stores.
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MS-NBC Technology & Science
Feds' e-mail botch earns a raspberry | | As the Justice Department hunts for the latest batch of missing federal e-mails, the officials who oversee spending of $71 billion a year for information technology got a big raspberry Friday for a 14-year-long failure to ensure that government e-mails are preserved. | | 3/12/2010 4:19:18 PM |
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MS-NBC Technology & Science
Some Mars channels carved by lava, not water |  Comparison of images of Martian channels to lava flows in Hawaii indicates that lava, not water, may have been the creative force behind at least some of the channels, according to a NASA researcher.
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MS-NBC Technology & Science
Internet fraud losses hit $560 million in 2009 | | The cost of Internet fraud doubled in 2009 to about $560 million, the FBI said Friday. The most common type of frauds reported were scams from people falsely claiming to be from the FBI. | | 3/12/2010 1:35:27 PM |
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MS-NBC Technology & Science
Suborbital spaceships spark scientific frenzy |  Space.com: Reusable rocket-propelled vessels are expected to offer quick, routine and affordable access to the edge of space, along with the capability to carry research and educational crew members.
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MS-NBC Technology & Science
No .xxx yet: 'Net agency delays porn decision | | A global Internet oversight agency has deferred a decision for at least 70 days on whether to create the ".xxx" domain name as an online red-light district. | | 3/12/2010 9:46:36 AM |
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MS-NBC Technology & Science
Cosmic Log: Pluto finds its place |  Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Pluto and the other small fry of the solar system are getting their due 80 years after the dwarf planet's discovery was announced to the world.
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Reuters Internet News
Iran arrests 30 over U.S.-linked cyber ring: report | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has arrested 30 people suspected of belonging to a U.S.-linked cyber network gathering information on Iranian nuclear scientists and sending people abroad for training, a news agency reported on Saturday. | | 3/13/2010 10:13:36 AM |
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Reuters Internet News
Google "99.9 pct" sure to shut China search engine: report | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday. | | 3/13/2010 2:34:03 AM |
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Reuters Internet News
FCC to propose 10-year Internet expansion: report | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission will submit a 10-year plan to Congress on Tuesday that would establish high-speed Internet as the country's dominant means of communication, The New York Times reported in Saturday editions. | | 3/12/2010 11:13:12 PM |
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Reuters Internet News
FCC releases Internet speed test tool | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday launched a broadband test service to help consumers clock the speed of their Internet. | | 3/11/2010 6:18:33 PM |
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Reuters Internet News
British Conservatives promise superfast Internet | LONDON (Reuters) - Investing in a high-speed Internet network would open up a new global trade route for Britain, boosting economic recovery and creating thousands of jobs, the opposition Conservative party said on Thursday. | | 3/11/2010 10:12:11 AM |
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Reuters Internet News
Motorola, Microsoft in deal to put Bing on phones | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc has reached a deal with Microsoft Corp that will put Bing search and mapping services on its phones that use Google's Android operating system. | | 3/10/2010 6:19:55 PM |
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Reuters Internet News
Google chief sees outcome "soon" in China row | ABU DHABI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday. | | 3/10/2010 1:53:54 PM |
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Reuters Internet News
MySpace readies site overhaul to rekindle growth | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year. | | 3/10/2010 9:10:26 AM |
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Reuters Internet News
U.S. weighing China Internet censorship case | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results, the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday. | | 3/9/2010 9:55:58 PM |
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Reuters Internet News
Cisco leapfrogs rivals with faster router | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc introduced its first major new routers in six years and said they can be configured to handle Internet traffic up to 12 times faster than rival products. | | 3/9/2010 3:54:55 PM |
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SlashDot
Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus | | suraj.sun tips a report up at CNet which begins:
"Browser makers, grappling with outmoded technology and a vision to rebuild the Web as a foundation for applications, have begun converging on a seemingly basic but very important element of cloud computing. That ability is called local storage, and the new mechanism is called Indexed DB. Indexed DB, proposed by Oracle and initially called WebSimpleDB, is largely just a prototype at this stage, not something Web programmers can use yet. But already it's won endorsements from Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google, and together, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome account for more than 90 percent of the usage on the Net today. 'Indexed DB is interesting to both Firefox and Microsoft, so if we get to the point where we prototype it and want to ship it, it will have very wide availability,' said Chris Blizzard, director of evangelism for Mozilla. ... Microsoft publicly endorsed Indexed DB on its IE blog: 'Together with Mozilla, we're excited about a new design for local storage called Indexed DB. We think this is a great solution for the Web,' said program manager Adrian Bateman." 
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SlashDot
SCO Asked O'Gara To Smear Groklaw | | I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "PJ of Groklaw has found some really interesting documents coming out of the never-ending SCO trial. Specifically, in SCO v. Novell, SCO doesn't want the jury to find out about the email Blake Stowell (then a PR guy for SCO) sent to Maureen O'Gara that asked her to 'send a jab PJ's way.' For those who don't remember that far back in the SCO saga, the 'jab' was when O'Gara wrote an inaccurate, rambling and irrelevant 'exposé' on PJ which got O'Gara fired for violating journalistic ethics after angry readers complained to the publisher — an act which caused Ms. O'Gara to tell SCO, 'I want war pay.' For those wondering how they can keep going after that final judgment against SCO over a year ago, it's hard to do the saga justice without glossing over everything, but the short version is that SCO ran to bankruptcy after they were mostly dead, but before becoming completely dead. That automatically stopped all the cases against SCO due to standard bankruptcy court rules, then SCO effectively re-litigated a bunch of issues via bankruptcy court rules. Currently, they're accusing Novell of 'slander of title' over copyrights that two different courts have ruled SCO does not own, and we're waiting to see if a jury will reach the same conclusion. They're also trying to use the company's lawsuits as assets and to sell them to various SCO insiders so that the legal wranglings can continue even if nothing is left of SCO. From the very start, SCO has always been the type to fight dirty."
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