Friday, December 9, 2005
Business Tech
- Google, Red Hat, 10 others join NASDAQ-100
- Gartner: IT managers should use Xbox
- Intel calls MIT's $100 laptop a 'gadget'
- Chip sales on upswing
- Gateway wins patent appeal in HP suit
- Power could cost more than servers, Google warns
Threats
- Former software chief admits stealing trade secrets
- Worms and holes and exploits, oh my
- Symantec merges enterprise IDS products (News in brief)
- This week in worms
- Sober code cracked
- eBay halts auction of Excel flaw
Access
- BellSouth, 8x8 launch VoIP service
- Prodigy up for sale
- Alltel to spin off local-phone unit
- Matsushita restructures cell phone unit
Digital Life
- Deal of the day: Sirius radio receiver for $19.99 (News in brief)
- NTP says payment would end RIM dispute
- Creative unveils video and MP3 player (News in brief)
- Creative wants to make Apple pay
- Xbox 360 takes aim at Sony in Japan
- Ogre to slay? Outsource it to China
Media 2.0
- Viacom nearing deal to acquire DreamWorks
- Clogger of P2P networks to shut down
- Yahoo gobbles up Del.icio.us
- NBA to create huge digital archive
- This week in wikis
- This week in the music industry
- Police blotter: Nude 'profile' yields Yahoo suit
- Yahoo ventures further Down Under
- High-tech animation in indies' grasp
- Google click fraud plaintiff gets 'cold feet'
- Wikipedia's open-source label conundrum
Cutting Edge
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Business Tech
- Intel narrows its forecast
- Study: IT outsourcing services multiply
- Red Hat gains full control of Indian unit
- Open-source software start-up bags $5 million (News in brief)
- Public beta of IE 7 nears
- Pirates stunting software growth
- Sony Internet arm sets $286.4 million IPO
- Microsoft eyes services for business
Threats
- Symantec hopes to deliver antivirus online
- Airport ID checks legally enforced?
- Sony fixes security hole in CDs, again
- Fixes coming for Windows flaws
- U.S. passenger tracking plan under scrutiny
- Unpatched Firefox 1.5 exploit made public
- When privacy glitches are good for business (Newsmaker)
Access
- Nokia gets into retail (News in brief)
- Mobile WiMax gets green light
- Verizon Wireless to deliver CBS to phones
Digital Life
- Sony says PS3 still on track for spring launch
- EA bid sends Jamdat shares up
- Consumers snap up LCD monitors
- Deal of the day: TiVo DVR for $19.99 (News in brief)
- Commentary: RIM on the brink
- RIM speaking to NTP through mediator
Media 2.0
- EFF moves to block e-voting system certification
- Icahn warns Time Warner about 'errors in judgment'
- Patriot Act renewal draws filibuster threat
- Quote of the day: The 'organized piracy' trend (News in brief)
- The many faces of Web search
- Connotate looks beyond traditional search
- AOL catches up on Hollywood gossip (News in brief)
- SwarmSketch taps Web's 'collective consciousness'
- Google takes the bus
Cutting Edge
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Business Tech
- Feds side with Microsoft in Korea flap
- BEA bulks up Web portals
- Siemens to join OSDL (News in brief)
- Microsoft to invest $1.7 billion in India
- Itanium: A cautionary tale
Threats
- ID theft fears overblown, study says
- Survey: Most home PC users lack security
- FBI: We're not worried about terrorist cyberattack
- Clock's ticking on new Sober onslaught
Access
- Virgin Mobile board rejects NTL offer
- Inmarsat beams about satellite broadband
- Gartner's advice: Halt BlackBerry deployments
- I want my BlackBerry (Perspective)
Digital Life
- Microsoft CEO will have to shop for Xbox (News in brief)
- Deal of the day: Palm Tungsten PDA (News in brief)
- Quote of the day: Even MIT grad needs network help (News in brief)
- Microsoft to phase out toxic plastics
- South Korea fines Microsoft $32 million
Media 2.0
- Yahoo launches Q&A service (News in brief)
- ICANN told to clamp down on dodgy domain names
- Patriot Act may be renewed without reforms
- Yahoo makes its telecom play
- Web gives power to the people, surfers say
- News.com readers: Is Steve Jobs pigheaded?
- Trying times for Wikipedia
- Microsoft offers a new angle on maps
- DVD sales likely nearing global peak
- Answers orders a Brainboost (News in brief)
- Ballmer 'keen' on Web advertising, mum on AOL
- Battle over control of Fast Search & Transfer
- Microsoft, Google still vying for AOL
- CBS goes mad: free college hoops online
- Dot-eu domain goes live
- Is Wikipedia safe from libel liability?
Cutting Edge
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Business Tech
- Sun makes Niagara an open-source chip
- Sun unleashes Niagara servers
- W3C looks at next-gen voice technologies
- Chipmakers drive race to $20 cell phones
- SanDisk files patent lawsuit (News in brief)
- Windows Server update ready to ship
- Is the PowerPC due for a second wind? (Newsmaker)
- Red Hat edges into higher-level software
- IBM, AMD further cut chip power consumption
- Microsoft CRM update aims at firms big and small
Threats
- New IM worm chats with intended victims
- New Sony CD security risk found
- Google Desktop tweaked to block attackers
- 9/11 panel faults government on cybersecurity
- Tens of thousands mistakenly matched to terrorist watch lists
Access
- Cingular launches 3G network
- Verizon to cut managers' pensions
- Ericsson signs key managed-services deal in U.K.
Digital Life
- Gimme a turkey on rye with a side of Sinatra
- Greenpeace: HP stands for 'harmful products'
- VCs invest in alternate reality
- Deal of the day: X2Gen 19-inch LCD monitor (News in brief)
- EA to localize games in Asian languages (News in brief)
- Virtual stars compete for real money
- New gateway to multiple virtual worlds?
Media 2.0
- 180solutions upgrades security
- Ingenio brings pay-per-call ads to InfoSpace (News in brief)
- Trovix completes funding, releases first product (News in brief)
- Tech executives: Time is of the essence
- Commentary: iTunes gets more TV
- Broadcast giants join forces on HD radio
- Google tops list of most-prominent tech firms
- In and out of tune on the Web
- Liberty Media to buy Provide Commerce (News in brief)
- NBC teams up with iTunes
- Cautious ad spending this year, but Web spared
- Can there be another Google?
Cutting Edge
Monday, December 5, 2005
Business Tech
- Sun begins Sparc phase of server overhaul
- John Swainson: CA's Mr. Fix-It
- One city's move to open source
- Chips here, there and everywhere
- XenSource beefs up virtualization software
- New bundles mark Adobe's Macromedia merger (News in brief)
- Intel, STMicro team up for phone memory
- Red Hat opens directory server code (News in brief)
- JBoss buys tech from Arjuna, HP
- Novell CTO gets lucrative pay package (News in brief)
- Intel to invest $1 billion in Indian operations
- Gates visits Bangladesh projects
Threats
- ID thieves try to steal millions from U.K. taxman
- Cisco responds to OpenSSL security flaw (News in brief)
- RSA acquires authentication company
Access
- Time Warner Cable hits million-phone milestone
- Cisco to enable advanced wireless services
- Deep discounts on IP telephony
- WiBro to get a workout at Turin Olympics
- FIFA: Adidas 'smart ball' not ready for World Cup
- China to register all mobile users (News in brief)
Digital Life
- HP defends environmental record ahead of protest
- Xbox 360 to hit Korea in February
- Court blocks Illinois video game laws
- Insiders: Digital living room still just a dream
- Man sues Microsoft over alleged Xbox 360 glitch
- Reader response: Wal-Mart frustration (News in brief)
- The tech inside Cirque's big tent
Media 2.0
- AOL deal may omit stake sale
- Sharman cuts off Kazaa downloads in Australia
- Glaser turns wrath on Apple, Jobs
- Free speech under Net attack, study says
- ESPN looks to score iTunes deal
- Singapore to pump millions into digital media industry
- A new world order for television
- Thomson plans to buy Japan's Canopus
- Digging for dollars in TV-on-demand
- A la carte TV
- Growing pains for Wikipedia
Cutting Edge
Sunday, December 4, 2005
Business Tech
Threats
Access
- Verizon may shed directory division
- Branson in talks to sell Virgin Mobile stake
- Home network 2.0: Synchronized computing
Media 2.0
Saturday, December 3, 2005
Business Tech
Digital Life
- Deal of the day: Canon ZR100 digital camcorder (News in brief)
- Bye Bye BlackBerry?
- Music players, game consoles top lists
Media 2.0
Friday, December 2, 2005
Business Tech
- Chatting with Intel CEO Paul Otellini
- Microsoft tweaks browser to avoid liability
- IDC: Tech to see 'Google effect' next year
- Adobe's Macromedia takeover clears final hurdle
- 2008 Olympics could go open source
- HP hires consulting chief with familiar name (News in brief)
- Data storage grows at record pace
- IBM introduces self-healing data center software
Threats
- Sober worm stalls MSN, Hotmail
- IE flaw lets intruders into Google Desktop
- Gmail gets security upgrade
- Cat-and-mouse games in security
- Flaws found in RealNetworks media player
- Police blotter: Best Buy 'hacker' loses in court
Access
Digital Life
- Deal of the day: Free upgrades on Dell notebooks (News in brief)
- Matsushita bets big on plasma
- EA sued over feature in 'Madden NFL'
- Consumers snap up computers on Black Friday
- Week in pictures: Laptops get blue-suede hues
- Camera phone sales on upswing
- Plan for 'iPod tax' in Japan unravels
Media 2.0
- Film documents software creation, the fun way
- North Carolina defends e-voting certifications
- Advertisers see static in radio's future
- AIM exec steps down (News in brief)
- U.K. reviewing intellectual-property laws
- ICANN drops plan to approve .xxx
- Yahoo uses online behavior to target ads
- SNARFing your way through e-mail
- That Google feeling, but on the cheap
- What creature will succeed the couch potato?
- Wikipedia and the nature of truth (Perspective)
