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| Blogging live from Spiral Jetty | Fri, Jul 3 03:26 PM |
| Never say never, but this may be the first blog ever posted live from the monumental earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake called Spiral Jetty. | CNET News.com |
| Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store | Fri, Jul 3 02:25 PM |
| The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell. | CNET News.com |
| Jackson fans told to stay away as tickets up for grabs
(AFP)
| Fri, Jul 3 02:14 PM |
 AFP - Fans heading to Los Angeles for Michael Jackson's memorial extravaganza were urged to stay away on Friday as organizers said tickets for the event would be allocated by an online lottery.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Why Sony's PSP Go speed boost won't up the eye candy | Fri, Jul 3 01:34 PM |
SonyInsider dug up an FCC filing that indicates that the forthcoming PSP Go will have a significantly faster top processor speed than than current PSP models. Specifically, the Go's CPU can clock up to 480MHz, compared to the 333MHz speed of the existing models.
The site ends the post by asking the obvious question: "What will a 480MHz PSP Go bring to the table?" I suspect the answer to this is, "Nothing that hasn't already been announced." Let me explain.
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 | Ars Technica |
| Environmental group WWF urges G8 to make climate pledge
(AFP)
| Fri, Jul 3 01:13 PM |
 AFP - The environmental group WWF on Friday urged the Group of Eight industrialised nations to show global leadership by making a commitment to keep climate change in check at their summit next week.
| Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites | Fri, Jul 3 12:14 PM |
| At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following Thursday night electrical fire at Fisher Plaza data center. Verizon's Seattle-area DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted. | CNET News.com - Media |
| Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites | Fri, Jul 3 12:14 PM |
| At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following Thursday night electrical fire at Fisher Plaza data center. Verizon's Seattle-area DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted. | CNET News.com |
| What soccer team would your company be? | Fri, Jul 3 12:11 PM |
| Martin Veitch at CIO.co.uk riffs on how certain football clubs resemble software companies, to good and painful effect. | CNET News.com |
| How the Declaration of Independence Changed the World
(LiveScience.com)
| Fri, Jul 3 11:10 AM |
| LiveScience.com - In between mouthfuls of hot dogs and potato salad, Americans on
this July Fourth might actually ponder those famous phrases scrawled near
the top of the Declaration of Independence: | Yahoo! News: Science News |
| iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web | Fri, Jul 3 10:54 AM |
| Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way. | CNET News.com |
| Are "deleted" photos really gone from Facebook? Not always | Fri, Jul 3 10:32 AM |
In an age where your boss, coworkers, parents, and even (*gasp*) grandparents are finally joining social networks, we are all more aware than ever that we had better keep things relatively clean. And if you were someone who joined MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, or a number of other sites years ago, you may have more cleaning up to do than usual—after all, back then, you were probably young(er) and dumb(er), posting silly pics of your drunken escapades or questionable updates regarding your unusual interest in English cucumbers.
If you delete questionable images of yourself, you may be in the clear—or you may not, depending on the social network. As it turns out, some social networks delete your images right away while others hold onto them even after claiming they've been deleted. This was the discovery made by researchers at Cambridge University last month when they found that images deleted from social media sites are often left on the server, ripe for anyone to embed elsewhere or link up.
We put this finding to the test and found that some of the most popular sites on the Internet do, in fact, keep images on their servers after you delete them. On May 21, 2009, we deleted photos from four of the networks most used by the Ars staff and readership and monitored them for six weeks. The four networks we checked were Flickr, Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook.
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 | Ars Technica |
| Iran Pro-Regime Voices Multiply Online | Fri, Jul 3 10:06 AM |
| Supporters of Iran's regime are taking a cue from the opposition's strategy: They're mounting an online offensive.
 | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Oracle to Cut Up to 1,000 Europe Jobs, Union Says | Fri, Jul 3 09:46 AM |
| Oracle is planning to cut up to 1,000 jobs in Europe, according to a French labor union.
 | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID | Fri, Jul 3 09:43 AM |
| Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices. | CNET News.com |
| Dish Wins Stay in TiVo Spat | Fri, Jul 3 09:18 AM |
| TiVo was set back in its patent fight with Dish Network after a judge said the satellite-TV provider's customers could continue to use their digital video recorders.
 | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Game publisher Midway joins Time Warner empire for $33M | Fri, Jul 3 08:32 AM |
There's no denying that gaming publisher Midway has had a rough time in the past year. After an insane saga of strange twists, turns, accusations, and increasingly dire news, most of us weren't entirely certain that the beleaguered publisher would actually survive to see 2010. Despite our doubts, it turns out that Midway is living to see another day, having just been acquired by Time Warner for $33 million.
For those of you new to the situation: after the company's much-hyped Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe earned lukewarm reviews and reasonable (though not amazing) sales numbers, Sumner Redstone sold his controlling interest in Midway for $100,000, and the publisher wound up laying off roughly 25 percent of its workforce and killed many games that were currently in development. It was then revealed that, even though employees weren't getting paid what was owed to them and the publisher was filing for bankruptcy, executives were still raking in a great deal of cash during all this.
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 | Ars Technica |
| Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle | Fri, Jul 3 08:00 AM |
| q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed. | CNET News.com |
| No Fireworks in Space on July 4
(SPACE.com)
| Fri, Jul 3 07:15 AM |
| SPACE.com - This Fourth
of July weekend will be filled with dazzling fireworks displays for many
Americans, but not for NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, who is flying high above
Earth on the International Space Station. | Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Snowfall on Mars? NASA's Phoenix Lander recorded it | Fri, Jul 3 06:05 AM |
NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander, which spent the summer in Mars' northern polar regions performing a variety of science experiments, caused quite a stir when rumors circulated that it had discovered signs of life on the Red Planet. NASA eventually held a press conference to dispel the rumors, promising that more details would eventually be revealed when scientists got around to publishing papers that would describe the experiments in detail. That day has finally arrived; today's issue of Science contains four papers that describe various findings from the mission. There's no sign of alien life, but the studies do reveal an active water cycle on Mars—including night-time snowfall.
The papers rely on evidence from a variety of the instruments on the lander, and the description of the data provides an impressive catalog of the various ways that Phoenix could prod and query the Martian pole. In the months before Martian winter shut the lander down, it managed to dig a dozen trenches, taking soil samples from each. These samples went into wet and dry chemistry labs, had their conductivity tested, and were even examined using an atomic force microscope. Meanwhile, cameras and a LIDAR system (a laser-based range detector) scanned the surroundings.
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 | Ars Technica |
| Australian dinosaur that lived 98M years ago found
(AP)
| Fri, Jul 3 04:27 AM |
 AP - Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and they've named it like something from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Meet the Australovenator.
| Yahoo! News: Science News |
| US wants privacy in new cyber security system
(AP)
| Fri, Jul 3 02:31 AM |
 AP - The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Justice Probes Google Deal | Fri, Jul 3 01:34 AM |
| The Justice Department confirmed that it is investigating a settlement between Google and authors and publishers due to antitrust concerns.
 | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard
(AP)
| Fri, Jul 3 01:03 AM |
| AP - Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States. | Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Japan may add noise to quiet hybrid cars for safety
(AFP)
| Thu, Jul 2 11:05 PM |
 AFP - Japan's near-silent hybrid cars have been called dangerous by the vision-impaired and some users, prompting a government review on whether to add a noise-making device, according to an official.
| Yahoo! News: Science News |
| States Plot New Path to Tax E-Retailers | Thu, Jul 2 09:59 PM |
| Several states are contemplating new laws or revisions to existing laws that could eventually force online retailers to collect sales taxes.
 | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Troubles Plague Cyberspy Defense | Thu, Jul 2 07:57 PM |
| The flagship system designed to protect the U.S. government's computer networks from cyberspies is being stymied by technical limitations and privacy concerns.
 | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Siemens Settles With World Bank | Thu, Jul 2 07:35 PM |
| Siemens agreed to forgo bidding on World Bank projects and pay more than $100 million toward anticorruption campaigns as part of efforts to settle a bribery scandal.
 | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules
(AP)
| Thu, Jul 2 06:08 PM |
| AP - In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence. | Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Do not perform! | Thu, Jul 2 05:49 PM |
It isn't often that you find AT&T and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in agreement, but consensus has been reached on one matter: ASCAP's demand that wireless companies pay it license fees for ringtones is, well, ridiculous.
On Wednesday EFF called the move "outlandish" and "a ploy to squeeze more money out of the mobile phone companies." The advocacy group filed a friend of the court brief with the United States District Court for the Southern District New York this week, which is hearing the dispute between ASCAP, AT&T, and Verizon over whether the telcos have to pay the music licensing body royalties for wireless ringtones. Joining the amicus brief are Public Knowledge and the Center for Democracy and Technology. Meanwhile CTIA - The Wireless Association, to which the big telcos belong, has also filed an amicus brief in the case.
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 | Ars Technica |
| Report: Guilty verdict overturned in MySpace suicide case | Thu, Jul 2 02:26 PM |
| Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenager to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her. | CNET News.com - Media |
| Net neutrality gets a boost from the feds | Thu, Jul 2 02:25 PM |
The Obama administration includes the FCC's Net neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| DOJ opens formal investigation into Google Books settlement | Thu, Jul 2 02:10 PM |
| Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws. | CNET News.com - Media |
| TracFone offers $45 unlimited plan | Thu, Jul 2 01:21 PM |
| TracFone's new StraightTalk service delivers 30MB of data plus unlimited calling and messaging for $45 per month. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| AT&T breaks sales records with iPhone 3GS launch | Thu, Jul 2 01:12 PM |
| Carrier sells more phones the first day the iPhone 3GS went on sale than it ever has, even on the two previous iPhone launch days, according to an internal memo. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| Baaad news? Global warming now shrinking sheep
(AP)
| Thu, Jul 2 11:14 AM |
 AP - Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.
| Yahoo! News: Science News |
| British Airways won't retrofit for mobile communications | Thu, Jul 2 09:43 AM |
| Airline is planning to launch a mobile e-mail, Web browsing, and texting service on two new Airbus A318 planes this fall. But retrofitting old planes is too costly, CEO says. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| Ad industry groups agree to privacy guidelines | Thu, Jul 2 09:27 AM |
| Four trade groups, including the IAB, assemble a set of self-guiding principles for maintaining consumer privacy in connection with targeted advertisements. | CNET News.com - Media |
| Consumer Reports: iPhone bests Pre, BlackBerry | Thu, Jul 2 08:30 AM |
| Apple's iPhone 3GS beats out the Palm Pre and several BlackBerry models in Consumer Reports' testing, taking the top spot in its 2009 smartphone list. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| Microsoft chucks vomit ad | Thu, Jul 2 07:57 AM |
| The rather colorful ad--in which a wife pukes after seeing what her husband has been viewing online--has been removed from the Microsoft IE 8 "Browse Better'' campaign. | CNET News.com - Media |
| PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in China
(AP)
| Thu, Jul 2 06:08 AM |
 AP - Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Court: MySpace not liable for offline assaults | Thu, Jul 2 05:26 AM |
| Consistent with other federal rulings, court rules that a Web service can't be held responsible if a minor is assaulted offline by someone whom he or she meets online. | CNET News.com - Media |
| Companies pledge more openness about Web tracking
(AP)
| Thu, Jul 2 04:43 AM |
| AP - Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed. | Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Unlocking the unlocked cell phone market | Thu, Jul 2 04:00 AM |
| Nokia and Sony Ericsson are looking to crack the unlocked phone market in the U.S., but their quest will be an uphill battle. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| Jammie Thomas will appeal, lawyer says | Wed, Jul 1 06:05 PM |
| One of Thomas-Rasset's attorneys says she will appeal and will argue that the $1.9 million in damages she was ordered to pay are unconstitutional. | CNET News.com - Media |
| YouTube doubles video file size to 2G
(AFP)
| Wed, Jul 1 03:51 PM |
 AFP - Video-sharing site YouTube announced on Wednesday that it was doubling the size limit for uploads to its website to allow users to post more high-definition (HD) video.
| Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Facebook plans to simplify privacy settings
(AP)
| Wed, Jul 1 02:14 PM |
| AP - Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site. | Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Joost exits consumer online video business
(AP)
| Wed, Jul 1 01:24 PM |
| AP - Struggling online video startup Joost, begun with much fanfare in 2007 by the same people behind Skype and Kazaa, is restructuring its business after discovering that it can't survive on advertising to fund its operations. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Shrunken Joost Will Focus on Online Video Platforms
(NewsFactor)
| Wed, Jul 1 08:28 AM |
| NewsFactor - Several years ago, when online video was beginning to really catch on, a startup named Joost was among the hottest new sites. On Tuesday, however, Joost announced it will "reorganize and restructure its business," wind down some operations, and focus on providing "white label online video platforms" to media companies. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Joost Unplugs Web TV Service, Concentrates on Selling Tech
(PC World)
| Wed, Jul 1 04:50 AM |
| PC World - Web video site Joost is restructuring, abandoning its hopes to be a successful ad-supported Web TV provider. Instead it will sell its video-serving technology to other media companies. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Sony struggling as Walkman hits 30th anniversary
(AP)
| Wed, Jul 1 03:27 AM |
 AP - When the Sony Walkman went on sale 30 years ago, it was shown off by a skateboarder to illustrate how the portable cassette-tape player delivered music on-the-go a totally innovative idea back in 1979.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| YouTube Readies Redesign Amid Chorus of Complaints
(PC World)
| Tue, Jun 30 04:30 PM |
| PC World - YouTube plans to soon switch all of its members to a redesign of its channel pages that it has been testing for several months, although many people want the Google video-sharing site to give them the option to keep the old layout. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Web video site Joost cuts service, jobs, CEO goes
(Reuters)
| Tue, Jun 30 02:04 PM |
| Reuters - Joost, an early pioneer in bringing popular TV shows and movies to the Web, is dropping its consumer service, cutting jobs and losing its high-profile chief executive as it struggles to find revenue to survive. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| `Thriller' viewed 8.5 million times since Thursday
(AP)
| Tue, Jun 30 01:19 PM |
 AP - People are clamoring to see Michael Jackson's old videos in the wake of his death especially "Thriller."
| Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Photos: NASA's science, tech showcase | Tue, Jun 30 07:00 AM |
| A look at the high-tech research and development going on inside the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
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| SMP-enabled Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 Turns Up the Heat on VMware | Fri, Jul 3 09:58 AM |
Version 3.0 of Sun's xVM VirtualBox desktop virtualization tool adds support for multiple guest processors--a major feature addition which, when considered alongside the product's low cost (free) and broad host platform support, is certain to give VMware Workstation a run for its money.
- Sun Microsystems' xVM VirtualBox, a no-cost virtualization tool that enables virtual machines to run on a variety of standard operating systems, continues to improve its position as a potential challenger to workstation products from VMware and Parallels. Sun release version 3.0 of xVM VirtualBox on...
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| Apple iPhone 3GS Jailbreaking Tool Hits the Street | Fri, Jul 3 08:24 AM |
The hacker who made the news in 2007 for unlocking Apple's first iPhone has released the a new application for jailbreaking the iPhone 3GS. The tool is currently available for Windows only.
- George Hotz, the 19-year old hacker who made headlines for unlocking Apples original iPhone, has now released the first-known jailbreaking tool for iPhone 3GS.
The tool, called purplea1n, is only available for versions of the Windows operating system - excluding Windows 7 - at the moment, but H...
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| China Says Green Dam Still Coming, Mac Version in the Works | Fri, Jul 3 07:36 AM |
Chinas Ministry of Industry and I.T. reportedly said it will definitely carry on the directive on Green Dam. And while Apple has so far been on the sidelines of the Windows-based filtering software mandate, Green Dam maker Jinhui is said to be testing a Mac-compatible version.
- The latest news on China's Green Dam filtering software is that the debates not over yet and Apple may finally be pulled into the fray.
In early June the Chinese government announced to PC makers that, by July 1, all computer sold in China would have shipped with Green Dam Youth Escort, a Web...
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| Government Spends $440 Million Per Year on Wasteful Printing, Report Says | Fri, Jul 3 05:09 AM |
A report from printer manufacturer Lexmark claims the federal government wastes $440 million dollars a year (almost $1 million per day) on unnecessary printing.
- While it could probably be said that most businesses, large, medium and small, print more paper than is necessary, a report by printing company Lexmark International revealed the U.S. government wastes a staggering $440 million annually on unnecessary printing--more than $1 million per dayalmost as...
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| Spate of iPhone Overheating Reports Roast Apple | Fri, Jul 3 04:17 AM |
Sales of Apple's iPhone 3GS aren't the only thing hot about the device: Reports of overheating issues on the new version of the smartphone caused Apple to release an advisory on how to keep your iPhone cool.
- While the debut of the iPhone 3GS, the latest edition of Apples sleek, popular smartphone, has been a runaway success (sales after three days on the market bested one million models sold) Apple acknowledged the devices may have an issue when it comes to overhearing.
In response to numerous co...
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| Apple Fixing Broken iPhone Screens In-Store | Fri, Jul 3 03:53 AM |
Apple's popular smartphone, the iPhone 3GS, is prone to mishandling and subsequent cracks in the screen. Apple is making it easier to fix the screen now by adding an in-store repair service.
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Whether theyre dropped, squashed, smashed or outright
trashed, many users find Apples sleek, delicate screens are prone to cracking.
While Apple cant do much to help you prevent dropping your iPhone, they have
made it easier to get the screen replaced. Apple blog The Loop confirme...
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| DOJ Launches Formal Investigation Into Google Book Search Settlement | Fri, Jul 3 03:06 AM |
The Department of Justice confirms its investigation into whether Google's $125 million Book Search settlement violates U.S. antitrust laws. Opponents fear the agreement gives the search engine giant too much power in the digital book world. The fairness hearing is set for October 7, 2009.
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The U.S. Justice Department July 2 said it is formally investigating the $125 million settlement between Google and authors and
publishers that lets the search engine scan books online and grant access to them for a fee.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General William Cavanaugh...
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| FAA Gets Its New Virtualized Flight-Plan System Off the Ground | Thu, Jul 2 04:26 PM |
EXCLUSIVE: The FAA, which has suffered a series of embarrassing flight-plan system crashes during the last several years, has upgraded its legacy flight-plan filing system to a new open-systems server and storage infrastructure supplied by Stratus Technologies. This architecture is now replacing critical systems that directly affect all air travelers in the United States.
- The people whose job it is to schedule aircraft for takeoff, help guide passengers to their destinations and get them safely back down on the ground finally have some powerful new open-standards computer systems up and running to help them do their work more reliably.
The Federal Aviation Admini...
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| iPhone 3GS Tops Consumer Reports Ranking, with Palm Pre Close Behind | Thu, Jul 2 01:52 PM |
The Apple iPhone 3GS asserted itself to the top of Consumer Reports' newest smartphone rankings, though the Palm Pre was close behind. The new capabilities and form factors of smartphones this year forced the advice-giver to reconsider its testing model.
- The Apple iPhone 3GS topped Consumer Reports newest smartphone ratings,
according to the blog of the no-nonsense magazine that Americans have trusted
for its unbiased reviews since 1936.
The iPhone 3GS was not, however, a runaway winner, with the keyboard-boasting
Palm Pre following clo...
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| Google Apps Opens Up Contacts to Socialize the Enterprise | Thu, Jul 2 01:29 PM |
Google makes it easier for users to find contacts within an enterprise, a move that mirrors some of the functionality in existing enterprise social software providers such as IBM, Socialtext and Jive. In-box socialization is table stakes for software makers that want to appeal to new enterprise customers by making it easier for workers to find company colleagues.
- For Google Apps users who have been waiting for the software-as-a-service
suite to resemble some of today's social networks for businesses, Google is surfacing Gmail contacts more readily within companies.
When corporate employees search for a contact in Gmail, they'll see relevant
contacts from ...
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| Five Continuing Trends in Data Storage | Thu, Jul 2 12:48 PM |
As we do at six- or 12-month intervals here at eWEEK, we offer a short list of key continuing trends in data storage, based upon daily conversations with storage vendors, analysts, data center managers, CIOs and CTOs -- even a few former industry executives now blissfully retired and simply watching this evolution with continued amazement.
- Data storage historically has been thought of as a solid, super-important but not-very-exciting sector of IT. Well, quot;not-very-exciting quot; is a value judgment made strictly in the mind of the beholder, and storage certainly is not a newsless valley in the overall IT landscape.
New products...
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| CSC to Resell Microsoft Cloud Services | Thu, Jul 2 12:45 PM |
CSC announces an agreement with Microsoft where the systems integrator will resell the software giant's cloud-based online services.
- CSC has announced an agreement with
Microsoft where the systems integrator will resell cloud-based Microsoft online
services.
Under the agreement, CSC will resell the
Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, part of Microsoft Online
Services. The move is an expansion of a cloud services an...
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| Labs Gallery: Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 Ramps Up Challenge to VMware with SMP Support | Thu, Jul 2 12:42 PM |
VirtualBox, Sun's open-source, cross-platform desktop virtualization product, now boasts support for multiple guest processors. Starting with Version 3.0, which began shipping on June 30, Sun's virtualization tool can expose up to 32 virtual processors to its guest instances. The rest of the changes in VirtualBox 3.0 are primarily bug fixes and tweaks. Even so, the non-free workstation products from VMware and Parallels will seem a little less shiny now that VirtualBox is sporting its SMP chops.
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| 10 Additional Ways to Geek Out Your Office | Thu, Jul 2 11:57 AM |
Anyone can dress up the office with Ikea lamps and funky furniture, but if you want to truly stand out you have to find the objects and accessories no one else is going to have. Sure, an office desk crafted from an airplane wing may not be your style, but for the tech geek who wants it all, eWEEK presents 10 cool ways to customize your cube, including unusual iPhone docking stations, flying alarm clocks and even an ejection seat.
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| Peak Oil: Bugatti Makes a Car for the Ages | Thu, Jul 2 09:00 PM |
| Bugatti's convertible is the pinnacle of internal-combustion car tech -- one that will probably never be surpassed with the auto industry's focus shifting to electric vehicles. Here's what it's like to drive it.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Keeping It Reel — Five Pieces for Your Must-Have Angling Kit | Thu, Jul 2 09:00 PM |
| Fly fishers dread the question: "Catch anything today?" Dazzling your interrogators with cool gear might let you dodge the question. No gadget can improve your cast, but tech can surely enhance life on the water.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| July 4, 1776: Preserving the Declaration | Thu, Jul 2 09:00 PM |
| It's one thing to declare independence, but quite another to preserve the aging document from the ravages of time.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Tour de Tweet: Follow Lance and the Boys Online | Thu, Jul 2 02:30 PM |
| The Tour de France begins Saturday, July 4, in Monaco. Here's how to follow the three-week bike race using streaming audio and video, Twitter, Google Earth and other online tools.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Penguin Parents Won't Chip In to Help Handicapped Spouse | Thu, Jul 2 01:30 PM |
| Penguins, famous for the lengths they go to to protect their eggs and rear their young, may not be the most supportive couples around. When one member of a penguin couple is handicapped, the other doesn't step in to pick up the slack.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Solar Racing Champs Roll Out New Car | Thu, Jul 2 12:14 PM |
| Delft University is back, ready to take a fifth consecutive title with Nuna 5.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Judge Overrules Jury, Acquits Lori Drew in MySpace Cyberbullying Case | Thu, Jul 2 12:00 PM |
| Federal judge throws out Lori Drew's three misdemeanor convictions.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Lunar Probe Sends First High-Res Images | Thu, Jul 2 11:30 AM |
| NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has begun producing high-resolution and wide-angle images of the moon's surface.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| We Drive BMW's Electric Mini E | Thu, Jul 2 11:28 AM |
| Sticking a battery and a motor in the Mini makes it a sweet little EV we could live with if it weren't for the stratospheric price tag.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Why You Can't Keep Your Foot Out of Your Mouth | Thu, Jul 2 11:00 AM |
| When your brain is overloaded, it will often get stuck on exactly the thing you are trying to avoid thinking about, leading you to blurt out things you never meant to share.
 | Wired Top Stories |
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