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Thu, 31 Jan 08
Garmin's Ready to Rumble With New 'iPhone Killer'
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61473.html
If you think the Apple iPhone is cool, wait till you see the Nuvifone that Garmin announced Wednesday in New York. It combines GPS, mobile phone, still and video camera, and MP3 and video player functionality with Internet access capability. Or it will, anyway, if Garmin can stick to its announced launch schedule and deliver Nuvifone to the market by the third quarter of this year.

Thu, 31 Jan 08
Crippling Mideast Internet Blackout Could Last Two Weeks
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61471.html
Severe Internet and phone service outages hit Egypt and India Wednesday after two submarine cable communication lines were severed. Submarine cable lines are the main connection lines for Internet service providers and telephony companies. The two lines that connect Egypt sit just off the coast of Alexandria.

Thu, 31 Jan 08
Malware Purveyors Had Banner Year in '07
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61462.html
2007 turned out to be "one of the most remarkable years in the history of malware," according to the recently released "ESET Global Threat Report 2007." The movement of new digital devices, social networking channels, operating systems and platforms into the mainstream is providing malware creators with a broader canvas on which to work.

Thu, 31 Jan 08
MySpace to Give App Writers New Dev Platform
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61453.html
On Feb. 5, the MySpace Developer Platform will go live, the social networking site announced Wednesday. Software developers interested in bringing their applications to the social networking site can preregister on MySpace. "The MySpace Developer Platform will be the world's sandbox, allowing developers large and small to come together and easily build creative, user-enriching applications for MySpace," the company said.

Thu, 31 Jan 08
Apple, IT and the Specter of Sweatshop Labor
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61454.html
In 2006, iPod users -- not to mention Apple shareholders -- were stunned to hear news accounts that workers at a Chinese factory that manufactured the devices were being subjected to abusive living and working conditions. In reality, Apple customers -- or the shareholders at least -- had little to worry about.

Thu, 31 Jan 08
WSO2 Mashup Server: Unleashing the Power of Content
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61451.html
WSO2, an open source SOA provider, has combined JavaScript programming and Web services with the launch of its Mashup Server 1.0. This open source offering, which can be downloaded without subscription fees, will allow enterprises to consume, aggregate and publish information in a variety of forms and from a variety of sources.

Thu, 31 Jan 08
TSA Invites PO'd Travelers to Put In Some Blog Time
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61464.html
Frustrated by long airport security lines? Certain those screeners aren't paying attention? Wondering why your grandma always gets frisked? The federal government wants to hear -- or at least read -- your gripes at the "Evolution of Security" blog the Transportation Security Administration introduced Wednesday. It promises those complaints and suggestions won't vanish into thin air.

Thu, 31 Jan 08
NASA's Messenger Reveals Shrinking, Wrinkly Mercury
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61455.html
The first pictures from the unseen side of Mercury reveal the wrinkles of a shrinking, aging planet with scars from volcanic eruptions and a birthmark shaped like a spider. Some of the 1,213 photos taken by NASA's Messenger probe and unveiled Wednesday help support the case that ancient volcanoes dot Mercury and that it is shrinking as it gets older, forming wrinkle-like ridges.

Thu, 31 Jan 08
IBM's Open Source Jazz Club Gets a Little Less Exclusive
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61458.html
IBM earlier this month opened its Jazz.net community to anyone who wants to provide feedback on the technology, which is intended to improve collaboration among software development teams. Carey Schwaber, an analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass., said the move marks the first time IBM has committed to release any part of Jazz as open source.

Thu, 31 Jan 08
Confusion Reigns Over Next Year's Digital TV Switch
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61459.html
Much of what consumers are learning about the looming shift to digital broadcasting is just plain wrong and could end up costing them money, according to a survey. Some people think they need to buy new equipment when they don't, according to a Consumers Union survey, and others say they don't plan on taking any steps to deal with the change when they should.

Thu, 31 Jan 08
Wal-Mart Rolls Out New RFID Effort in Texas
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61463.html
Wal-Mart Stores is looking to accelerate its RFID rollout, and once again the Dallas area is at the heart of the effort. The company required all suppliers shipping products to its Sam's Club distribution center in DeSoto, Texas, to start applying the radio tags to their pallets starting Jan. 30. If they don't, Wal-Mart will charge the suppliers $2 per pallet to do it for them.

Thu, 31 Jan 08
Gateway Plugs Phenom Into Two New Media-Friendly Desktops
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61450.html
Quad-core processors from AMD and a hybrid-format optical drive are among the highlights of two new desktop PCs released by Gateway on Wednesday. The Gateway GM5664 and GT5662 both feature an AMD Phenom Processor and DirectX 10 Technology, thereby enhancing the entertainment and performance capabilities of each line.

Mon, 28 Jan 08
Seeing (Red): Saving Lives Creatively, Protecting Against Political Lies, Product of the Week
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61390.html
Typically I pick two or three things that I think were interesting, chat about them briefly and then make my product of the week selection. I'll still do my product of the week thing but, on doing the background work on Dell and Microsoft joining the (Product) Red campaign, I started to get really upset, not once but twice, and thought I would share why this week.

Mon, 28 Jan 08
Black Duck Offers Developers a New Tool to Manage Code
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61396.html
Black Duck Software announced today the availability of Black Duck Code Center software to help manufacturers accelerate software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Code Center manages software component selection, project approval and license tracking designed to maximize benefits to organizations from their reuse of open source and other third-party software components.

Mon, 28 Jan 08
Can Healthy Web Site Traffic Save Newspapers?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61392.html
Fewer people are thumbing through newspapers, but more than ever are clicking on them, according to the latest industry findings -- and that trend appears to be on an upward spiral, with no end in sight. What it means to newspapers' profitability, however, remains a mystery.

Mon, 28 Jan 08
Apple TV: Trying to Make Itself Comfortable in the Living Room
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61384.html
As even Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs admits, the "digital living room" has been a tough nut to crack. "All of us have tried: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, TiVo, Vudu, Netflix, Blockbuster," Jobs said at the Macworld conference Jan. 15. "We've all missed. No one's succeeded yet." The notion is intriguing: finding a way to move video from the Web and from the PCs in consumers' home offices to the big-screen TVs.

Mon, 28 Jan 08
A Well-Designed Practice Management System: Just What the Doctor Ordered
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61393.html
Sooner or later, medical groups that still rely on aging practice management systems that run on older technology platforms have to face up to the necessity of investing in a new system based on current technology. Systems that may have provided adequate performance when first installed years ago are just not up to the intensifying data management demands of a modern group practice today.

Mon, 28 Jan 08
Bill and Steve's Dueling Keynotes End With a Whimper
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61386.html
Because the Consumer Electronics Show and Macworld run back to back, it's easy to make comparisons between the two men who headline the big tech trade shows. As a journalist, I had barely unpacked my bags, mentally speaking, before I had to move on from listening to Bill Gates to hearing Steve Jobs.

Mon, 28 Jan 08
BMC Software's William Hurley: A Penguin Among Sharks
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61375.html
William Hurley has been involved in IT for more than half his life, starting after a car accident that left him badly injured. While recovering, he began hacking XObjects for MacroMind and later Macromedia Director in the open source multimedia community. He then went to work at Apple and IBM before joining a string of startups. Last February, Hurley joined BMC Software.

Sun, 27 Jan 08
Africa's Blogging Revolutionaries
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61330.html
The man was nervous. He was afraid, he said, of the secret police. So he advised me to hire a random taxi. I was to park at a certain church. And there, I was to wait. A few minutes later he called again, this time on a different cell phone. He gave me directions to a nondescript house with an iron gate. Dagem, as he chose to be called, was a new type of African revolutionary: a blogger.

Sat, 26 Jan 08
Web 2.0's Generation Gap
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61343.html
Scott Seigal was awakened one recent early morning by a cell phone text message. It was from his girlfriend's mother. His friends' parents have posted greetings on his MySpace page for all the world to see. His 72-year-old grandmother sends him online instant messages every day so they can better stay in touch while he's at college.

Sat, 26 Jan 08
Putting iWork to Work in a Small Biz
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61387.html
In terms of software, it's often difficult to find a lot of diversity in the workplace. Microsoft holds so much sway over the business world that a lot of new companies outfit themselves with Office simply because it's what everyone else uses. Intezyne, a biotech firm that started in 2004 and now counts 11 employees, has chosen a different route.

Sat, 26 Jan 08
The Global Entrepreneurial Spirit and the Web
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61376.html
Although he is just 19 years old, Muhammad Hassaan Khan is serious about entrepreneurship. He started his bachelor's in business administration a year ago, and shortly thereafter founded his own company. It now employs 10 people, offering services from business software consulting to branding and graphics design. His business philosophy reflects his enthusiasm, ambition and drive.

Sat, 26 Jan 08
Firefox and the Enterprise: An Uneasy Fit
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61369.html
With a new CEO on board and a major update of its Firefox Web browser expected this year, Mozilla hopes to reinvigorate its campaign to pull users away from Microsoft's still-dominant Internet Explorer software. However, the Mountain View, Calif.-based open source vendor continues to expend little energy on wooing IT managers to formally adopt Firefox for deployment within their organizations.

Sat, 26 Jan 08
HP's New SSD Desktop: High Efficiency, Dinky Drive
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61371.html
Computer manufacturer HP has unveiled a new ultra-slim business desktop, the Compaq dc7800 desktop PC. The energy-efficient desktop features a 16 GB solid-state hard drive and also meets the requirements of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool Gold registry, HP said.

Sat, 26 Jan 08
Apple Minus AT&T Equals Lots of iPhones Somewhere Else
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61389.html
The latest iPhone controversy comes courtesy of a grade-school math problem: If Apple reports that 4 million iPhones have been sold, and AT&T reports that 2 million iPhones have been activated with AT&T accounts, and current estimates peg iPhone sales in the UK, Germany, and France in the neighborhood of 350,000 to 400,000, and if 20 percent of all iPhones sold are hacked and unlocked, how many iPhones are left unaccounted for?

Sat, 26 Jan 08
Cell Phone Sales: Party in '07, Hangover in '08?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61391.html
The global mobile handset market ended 2007 with a bang, recording shipments of more than 300 million devices in the fourth quarter, according to a report released by IDC Friday. While year-over-year growth for 2007 slowed, the 334 million handsets shipped during the holiday season set a new industry record and was an increase of some 15 percent over the previous quarter.

Sat, 26 Jan 08
Life: A Tech-Centric View
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61350.html
At this week's Digital Life Design conference in Germany, renowned scientists Craig Venter, Ph.D., and Richard Dawkins wowed the audience with a conversation about genes and information technology. They discussed how evolution is becoming man-made, which brings up a number of interesting issues. "Genetics has become a branch of information technology," Dawkins opined.

Sat, 26 Jan 08
Apple's Handy Touch-Up Highlights Touch Shortcomings
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61374.html
In a review of Apple's iPhone, I wrote glowingly about a few features that had nothing to do with making a call. I loved the simple Notes program used to jot reminders you could then e-mail to a friend or your office inbox. Another plus was the ease of e-mailing a photo, the best such application on any device I have used.

Sat, 26 Jan 08
MPAA Admits 'Math Error,' Viewers Flock to Online Video
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61383.html
Now, we all know that college students aren't necessarily the best-behaved people on the planet, but to hear the movie studios tell it, college students are the enemy that must be destroyed. Much of that belief might have been based on a study the Motion Picture Association of America commissioned in 2006, which found that college students were responsible for more than 40 percent of all illegal movie downloads.

Sat, 26 Jan 08
Using Corporate Social Networking to Rev Up Revenue
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61372.html
Today's top companies know that the most effective way to grow revenue is by developing and maintaining strong relationships with current and potential clients. A company's own employees are building these relationships every day, and helping each other with introductions whenever possible. Unfortunately, finding the right introduction is difficult.

Sat, 26 Jan 08
Apple Bloggers Talk Performance, Portable, Pro and Pink
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61379.html
This week, the Apple- and Mac-focused blogosphere is all over the map. Macworld is far from gone, of course, and while the MacBook Air is still hot enough to float, there's Apple's quarterly financial report, OS X 10.5.2, pent-up demand for a MacBook Pro refresh, and even some talk about the cute little pink iPod nano.

Thu, 24 Jan 08
Drive-By Pharmers Harvest Personal Data
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61347.html
One year after a proof-of-concept hack for pharming wireless routers hit the Internet, network security company Symantec issued a warning that more attacks are on the way. The new attack -- which targets wireless routers -- is similar to other pharming hacks in that it reroutes the domain name system server used by any device that connects to the Internet

Thu, 24 Jan 08
Dell, Microsoft Team on (Product) Red PCs
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61352.html
Not to be bested by the likes of Apple and Motorola, Dell and Microsoft are joining forces to create (Product) Red PCs that will help African women and children with HIV/AIDS. The PCs will be crimson versions of Dell's XPS One line running Microsoft Windows Vista, and as much as $80 of the purchase price will be donated to The Global Fund via (Product) Red, Microsoft said.

Thu, 24 Jan 08
EMC Offers Enterprise Storage in the Cloud
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61346.html
Information infrastructure solution provider EMC introduced the enterprise version of its Mozy online backup product Tuesday: MozyEnterprise, powered by EMC Fortress. "Our strategy is focused on bringing new Software as a Service offerings to market, powered by EMC," said Tom Heiser, senior vice president and general manager of EMC's new Software-as-a-Service Business Unit.

Thu, 24 Jan 08
Future-Proofing Vendor Management in the IT Shop
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61306.html
"Do you remember where you were on Y2k?" Ask that of most IT professionals and you're almost sure to get a conversation started. While the non-IT crowd was off partying like it's 1999, many of us spent the new year in the office, on call or tied to our pager. Even those of us who weren't directly involved in the actual change-over probably still remember grueling months of effort.

Thu, 24 Jan 08
Flagging Cell Phone Sales Darken Motorola's Q4 Report
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61345.html
In telephone parlance, any tangible progress Motorola was hoping to make in the fiercely competitive cellular phone business is on hold, as its newest products have failed to connect with consumers. Shares of Motorola fell nearly 23 percent in midday trading to a five-year low after it reported a profit plunge of 84 percent and an operating loss of $388 million in the fourth quarter.

Thu, 24 Jan 08
iPhone Backs Into Enterprise With Business Plan Rollout
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61334.html
AT&T has quietly begun offering the iPhone -- currently popular primarily in the consumer market -- to its business and enterprise customers. Some customers have been clamoring for business account service plans that would work with the iPhone ever since it was released last summer, but for reasons not particularly clear, AT&T hasn't done so until now.

Thu, 24 Jan 08
IBM's Road Map to the Heart of Microsoft Turf
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61327.html
IBM continues to emphasize software as part of its future road map. In laying out a plan to use its Lotus franchise to expand the number of small- and medium-sized businesses using its applications, Big Blue is taking aim at a key part of rival Microsoft's core market. IBM will create a software portfolio specifically aimed at companies with between five and 500 workers.

Thu, 24 Jan 08
Can Android Stand Up to Developers' Grand Plans?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61324.html
Nikita Ivanov and his 14 employees are working on an application that would harness the processing power within millions of cell phones to create one big supercomputer. The idea is to enable companies and government agencies to exploit all the idle computing power in their employees' mobile phones and perhaps even handsets belonging to non-employees who have agreed to lease that spare capacity.

Thu, 24 Jan 08
Suicides Prompt UK Police to Investigate Social Network Links
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61337.html
Seven young people have died in an area of southern Wales in the last 12 months in what officials fear is a spate of suicides. Police said Wednesday they were examining the computer of a teenager who was found hanged last week. Natasha Randall, 17, was found dead in her bedroom in Bridgend, south Wales. In the past year, six men have been found dead in apparent suicides in the 40,000-population town and surrounding area.

Thu, 24 Jan 08
AnyTrack GPS Tracker: At This Price, Close Isn't Good Enough
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61339.html
Though I try to keep close tabs on my family, it's sometimes hard to know exactly where they are when. For example, when my daughter is on a play date or school trip, or my husband is traveling for work. For those who find moments like these unsettling, there are a growing number of services and devices that use satellite GPS signals and wireless networks to track the exact locations of your loved ones more closely.

Thu, 24 Jan 08
AT&T Mulls Peer-to-Peer Monitoring
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61335.html
AT&T is still evaluating whether to examine traffic on its Internet lines to stop illegal sharing of copyright material, its chief executive said Wednesday. CEO Randall Stephenson told a conference at the World Economic Forum that the company is looking at monitoring peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, one of the largest drivers of online traffic but also a common way to illegally exchange copyright files.

Thu, 24 Jan 08
With New Software Update, the iPhone Finally Finds Itself
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61340.html
Can the iPhone truly prevent you from getting lost? The free software update Apple announced last week for the iPhone and iPod touch adds location-finding capabilities without the GPS chips common to car navigation systems and other cell phones. I put my own iPhone to the test, in and around New York City. Bottom line: While iPhone doesn't pinpoint your precise whereabouts, it places you close enough.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
Readius Rolls Out a Floppy-Screened First
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61328.html
Polymer Vision, a Philips spin-off, announced Tuesday the upcoming availability of a combination mobile phone and e-reader with a with a five-inch rollable display. Dubbed "Readius," the device provides users with the functionality of an e-reader in a highly mobile cell phone-sized package, the company said. Set for release in mid-2008, the Readius includes a flexible, foldable screen.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
Microsoft Backpedals, Embraces Vista Virtualization
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61326.html
One year after Microsoft's Vista operating system came to market, the company announced a change to its end-user licensing agreement, now allowing users to run the Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions in a virtual environment. The move is good news for consumers, who can run the OS on any machine, but it's even better news for IT administrators.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
Hollywood's Technological Gridlock
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61304.html
As the television-watching world continues to suffer through re-runs and a new crop of hastily concocted reality shows, Hollywood screenwriters and producers continue their standoff. The writers say they deserve additional payments for their work. The producers say they can't afford to make those payments. From the outside, it looks like a typical labor dispute.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
Ground Shakes Beneath Google as EC Debates IP Privacy
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61325.html
European approval of Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick may be in doubt as privacy hearings held by the European Commission get underway. The hearings are focusing on whether Internet protocol, or IP, addresses should be considered personally identifiable information.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
Getting Creepy With Your Data
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61312.html
Customers' privacy and their data are two immutable and opposing forces that a company must always try to balance, usually unsuccessfully. Few for-profit firms have proven themselves able to resist the lure of monetizing their customers' and users' data. Some consumer advocates have put up a good fight in keeping such privacy intrusions to a minimum.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
Whitman's Rumored eBay Exit: A Win-Win Proposition?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61323.html
If Meg Whitman validates media reports that she is exiting the CEO post at eBay, she will depart with the glow of having finished a masterful job of transforming an obscure San Jose, Calif.-based auction site into an archetypal business model with yearly global sales of nearly $6 billion.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
MS Throws Full Weight Into Virtualization Effort
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61310.html
Microsoft on Monday announced several moves it says will help its business customers take advantage of virtualization, and in the process help the software maker catch up with VMware, the frontrunner in that area. Virtualization allows one physical computer to house multiple "virtual machines," each one acting like a separate computer with an operating system and all the software that runs on top of it.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
George: An iPod Sound System With an Ear for Detail
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61302.html
Chestnut Hill Sound makes the George, a high-end digital audio system for iPods with some unique features. Most significant is the unique remote control. TMO spoke with the CEO, Steve Krampf, to find out more about this award winning home audio system. As every audiophile knows, there are audio systems, and there are audio systems.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
TiVo Provides the Interface for Comcast's Services
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61320.html
TiVo aims to make life easy for its digital video recorder customers. However, its journey to this potentially pivotal week was extraordinarily difficult. After three years of painstaking work, Comcast, the nation's largest cable provider, today will begin marketing TiVo's interface as a premium software upgrade for DVR customers in the Boston area.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
Two Degrees of Separation From Reid Hoffman
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61317.html
Few Internet entrepreneurs practice what they preach as devoutly as LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, whose business revolves around his belief that good fortune flows from good relationships. Hoffman, 40, has put that principle to work by mining his own vast network of Silicon Valley connections to rake in one Internet jackpot after another.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
Insiders Implicated in Hack Attacks on City Utilities
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61318.html
Hackers literally turned out the lights in multiple cities after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, a senior CIA analyst told utility engineers at a trade conference. All the break-ins occurred outside the United States, said senior CIA analyst Tom Donahue.

Wed, 23 Jan 08
Carmakers Greener Than Ever at DC Auto Show
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61315.html
Ford's 2009 Escape gas-electric hybrid will show improvements in power and performance, the automaker said Tuesday. Ford was unveiling the 2009 versions of the Escape and its corporate twin, the 2009 Mercury Mariner, at the Washington Auto Show, which opens to the public on Wednesday and lasts through Sunday.

Tue, 22 Jan 08
Dell Takes Swipe at Energy Costs With New Blades
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61300.html
Dell has released a new M-Series blade solution, the M1000e, that boasts a new balance of performance, ease of use, and more efficient energy consumption -- not to mention environmentally friendly lead-free configurations. Dell says it designed the M1000e "from the ground up" using Dell Energy Smart technologies that resulted in 30 patent applications.

Tue, 22 Jan 08
EA Marches Free Game Into Ad-Supported Battlefield
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61307.html
EA will launch a free Web-based online battlefield game, the first barrage of what may become an advertising-supported blitz which could help change the economics of the game-publishing industry. EA's "Battlefield Heroes" will be a free-to-download and free-to-play multi-player personal computer game that will also use back-end technology to match players from around the world based on their skill levels.

Tue, 22 Jan 08
New Video Clip Site Draws on Digg Recommendations
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61309.html
Broadband television provider Revision3 has launched "The Digg Reel," a show dedicated to user-generated content. Digg, a social networking Web site where users share and submit content, will take the top-rated user-submitted videos and produce a weekly show, which will be hosted by Jessica Corbin.

Tue, 22 Jan 08
McAfee Aims to Padlock Confidential Customer Data
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61286.html
McAfee announced Monday a security suite that provides enterprise users with host data loss prevention, device management and endpoint encryption to ensure compliance and limit exposure to fines. McAfee Total Protection for Data, a solution for data loss and data leakage protection, has full visibility and control of confidential data with scalability and centralized management.

Tue, 22 Jan 08
Sanyo Offloads Mobile Phone Unit to Shore Up Core Biz
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61305.html
Sanyo has traded off a little in a crowded mobile technology field to gain a lot in its core business, with the sale of its lagging mobile phone operations to Kyocera. The two electronics firms announced the deal -- potentially worth $472.3 million -- on Monday, with Sanyo transferring its $375 million mobile phone operation to Kyocera.

Tue, 22 Jan 08
Despite US Slowdown, Philips Profits Nearly Double
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61308.html
Royal Philips Electronics strengthened its lighting and energy business while tapping into emerging world markets to offset big losses in the United States, according to its fourth-quarter earnings report released on Monday. Philips' net profits grew quarter-over-quarter from about $982 million to $2.01 billion even as its sales numbers remained relatively constant.

Tue, 22 Jan 08
HBO Dips Toe in Web Channel With Broadband Test
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61299.html
HBO will start to make its high-profile catalog of series, films and specials available online this week for some subscribers, a move that underscores the growing comfort content owners feel toward using the Web as a distribution channel. The service, known as "HBO on Broadband," will go live on Tuesday in two relatively small test markets -- Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wis. -- with more tests to follow soon, HBO confirmed Monday.

Tue, 22 Jan 08
Microsoft Shares Secrets to Help Disabled Access Technology
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61301.html
Microsoft has opened up its usability specifications, the User Interface Automation, to the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance, a group formed to develop standards for making user interfaces more accessible to people with disabilities. The 2,600-page specification document, which was released royalty-free, marks the first significant upgrade to the Microsoft Active Accessibility standards.

Tue, 22 Jan 08
HP's Secret iPhone Killer, Apple Air = HP Sojourn III, the Birth of Flash Drives
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61285.html
I kind of felt sorry for Steve Jobs last week because he got a raw deal. Folks seemed to be expecting an iPhone-like announcement and instead got nice improvements on existing products and a wonderful new laptop. I personally think the impact of the improvements to Apple TV and seemingly Apple-led move to ultra-thin laptops to be, in combination, potentially just as big as the iPhone in terms of impact, if not revenue.

Tue, 22 Jan 08
Time to Panic About Y2K38?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61283.html
Macworld dominated the headlines last week, so it's likely many unsuspecting readers were in too comfortable a state of Mac nirvana to realize what was happening in the rest of the world. Snap out of it, people! Y2K38 is coming, and as of Saturday, the 30-year countdown has already begun!

Tue, 22 Jan 08
MacBook Air: The New Cube
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61274.html
Well, I hate to say it, but this time I believe Apple missed the mark with the MacBook Air. Sure, it's thin -- the thinnest computer I've ever seen. Yes, ignoring optical drives and relying on wireless is bleeding-edge technology reminiscent of the first iMacs that shunned diskette drives and proprietary cables for USB.

Tue, 22 Jan 08
Scientists Attempt to Spark Battery That Never Needs Recharging
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61294.html
Tired of mobile phones that always need recharging at the worst moments, researchers in Germany are developing a revolutionary new battery that never needs recharging. Mobile phones, notebook computers and iPods are all devices dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to deliver power.

Mon, 21 Jan 08
Geotagging Is Where It's At
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61279.html
To plan an upcoming hike in the Alps, John Higham scoured scores of photos plotted along his route on a digital map for clues to the steepness of trails and the availability of accommodations or camp sites. These images were just like all the other vacation photos shared by travelers and amateur photographers, except they'd been tagged with location information in an emerging practice known as "geotagging."

Mon, 21 Jan 08
Is Vendor Stubbornness Stalling Virtualization?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61280.html
Server virtualization feels unstoppable these days, with market research firm IDC predicting that worldwide sales of virtualization software will grow at an average annual rate of 27 percent through 2011. But several factors could stall the technology's advance, according to analysts.

Mon, 21 Jan 08
Phoning From the Edge
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61269.html
The peripheries of the global business world are the spawning grounds of new innovation. In these vital locations edges emerge and consolidate before giving rise to new edges of their own. Executives who stay mindful of these dynamics can make the most of their innovation strategies. The telephone business provides a classic example.

Sun, 20 Jan 08
Online Dating: A Fix for the Farmer's Dilemma
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61284.html
When a new girlfriend showed up to see dairy farmer Joe Engel at work, he took an anxious breath when she walked through the barn door. No doubt about it, she was cute. However, Engel, 26, had been down this country road before. "I glanced up and saw her holding her nose, and that was it," said the farmer, whose family owns Luck-E Holsteins in Hampshire, Ill.

Sun, 20 Jan 08
New iPhone Apps: A Tantalizing Taste of What's Ahead
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61277.html
At Macworld last week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs made the icons on his touch-screen iPhone jiggle. That's right, jiggle. "They all get a little restless," he said. The jiggling comes courtesy of Apple's January 2008 iPhone Software Update, and it's a feature that indicates a new mode of customization that lets you change the position of application icons on the iPhone's home screen.

Sun, 20 Jan 08
Iran's Supercomputer Envy Doesn't Make All Iranian IT Pros Evil
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61278.html
In order to make the point that Iran's illicit acquisition of AMD processors to build a supercomputer should not be allowed to fuel a blanket indictment of the Iranian IT community, I asserted in a column I wrote last month that the vast majority of Iranian technologists are no different from their U.S. counterparts. Was that a stretch? Some readers thought so.

Sun, 20 Jan 08
New Regulations for China's YouTube Wannabes
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61268.html
With the number of Chinese Internet users soaring past 160 million, many venture capitalists from the U.S. are rushing to fund Web startups providing new services for China's net surfers. Nowhere is this more evident than in video, one of the hottest sectors around. IDG Technology Venture Investment, for example, has invested in a video-sharing site, an online movie site, and a mobile-phone video site.

Sat, 19 Jan 08
YouTube Sucking In More Viewers
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61287.html
Step aside, boob tube. Online videos are becoming the primary form of media entertainment for many people. Web surfers spent about an hour more per month watching videos in November compared with January, according to the latest comScore Video Metrix. Specifically, they watched an average of 3.25 hours, or 195 minutes, of online video during the month.

Sat, 19 Jan 08
The New Battery Tech That Could Let You Talk for Days
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61254.html
A new technology using silicon nanowires boosts the ability of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to store a charge by as much as a factor of 10, according to research conducted at Stanford University. The findings are published in the December 2007 issue of Nature Nanotechnology.

Sat, 19 Jan 08
White House Admits Recycling Tapes, Hedges on Missing E-Mail
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61276.html
There are conflicting reports coming out of Washington surrounding missing White House e-mails as well as conflicting statements coming from the White House press room. A hearing has been scheduled by Democratic Calif. Rep. Henry Waxman to investigate comments from White House spokesperson Tony Fratto asserting that he had no reason to believe any e-mails are missing.

Sat, 19 Jan 08
Jobs Wows Apple Faithful, Oracle Seals the Deal, Exploding Batteries
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61267.html
I guess not every Macworld can have an iPhone of its own. Crowds of Apple fans packed the Moscone center in San Francisco Tuesday to hear CEO Steve Jobs detail new products and offerings for 2008. There was indeed plenty to talk about -- the MacBook Air, new iPhone and iPod touch applications, a major software update for Apple TV, iTunes movie rentals, and a wireless access point/storage device called "Time Capsule."

Sat, 19 Jan 08
Something's in the Blogs: MacBook Air
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61260.html
The Apple- and Mac-focused blogosphere has been dominated by Macworld and the Steve Jobs MacBook Air announcement. For those who've been hiding out in a snow cave all week, the MacBook Air is a new super-thin, super-light notebook. Even though the elegant new Mac is far from Earth-shaking, it seems like everybody has something to say about it.

Sat, 19 Jan 08
Five Steps to Compliance: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Software Licensing
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61252.html
Software maintenance will reach $137 billion by 2010, a compound annual growth rate of nearly 10 percent, according to IDC. Today, many vendors including Adobe, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM, among others, are stepping up their efforts to identify noncompliance, making an audit a real possibility.

Sat, 19 Jan 08
How Strong Are Wii's Legs?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61282.html
New stats confirm what many holiday shoppers already knew: Nintendo's Wii was the most popular game console of the season, with 1.35 million flying off shelves. Its popularity provided a huge boost to the industry, said the NPD Group, which issued the report. In 2007, the video game industry hauled in a record $17.9 billion in sales, 43 percent higher than the $12.5 billion record set in 2006.

Sat, 19 Jan 08
FCC to Give White Space Net Access Device Another Go-Round
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61262.html
Federal regulators said they will try again to test prototypes on Jan. 24 for transmitting high-speed Internet service over unused television airwaves. Late Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission said the devices -- developed by Adaptrum, Microsoft, Motorola and Philips Electronics North America -- will be tested in laboratory and real-world conditions.

Sat, 19 Jan 08
UK Security Chief Cracks Down on Extremist Muslim Web Sites
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61265.html
Web sites that promote violent Muslim extremism will be closed down under a new crackdown on terrorism announced by the UK government Thursday. Illegal material on the Internet aimed at recruiting susceptible people into terrorism is to be tracked down and removed through the campaign, which will follow the same tactics already used to combat online pedophiles.

Sat, 19 Jan 08
Feds Set Standards for Protecting Power Cos. From Cyber-Attacks
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61271.html
Federal regulators on Thursday approved the first cyber-security standards for the nation's electric industry, following growing concerns about the power grid's vulnerabilities. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved mandatory reliability standards for protecting physical and electronic access to control systems and training personnel on security matters.

Sat, 19 Jan 08
Tape With Info on 650,000 J.C. Penney Customers Goes Missing
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61263.html
Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer tape went missing. GE Money, which handles credit card operations for Penney and many other retailers, said Thursday night that the missing information includes Social Security numbers for about 150,000 people. The information was on a backup computer tape that was discovered missing last October.

Fri, 18 Jan 08
Exploding Batteries Bedevil AT&T's U-verse Service
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61253.html
In the wake of several incidents in which batteries in AT&T U-verse network cabinets exploded or caught fire, AT&T is replacing 17,000 of the batteries in its streetside devices, the company confirmed Thursday. The batteries were manufactured by Avestor, a Canadian company based in Quebec that closed its doors in late 2006.

Fri, 18 Jan 08
Live From Macworld: Hot Products Still Turn Heads as Crowd Thins
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61255.html
If you want to judge the intensity of a given conference or trade show -- in this case, Macworld -- there are several barometers you can look at. Are the main vendors' booths madhouses? Are there still lines in front of the free video games? Do you have to fight for a seat in the press lounge? Are national news crews still clogging up floor space for their video cameras and lights?

Fri, 18 Jan 08
Yahoo Adds Its Muscle to OpenID Single Sign-On Standard
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61258.html
Yahoo, with its 248 million active registered users worldwide, has announced that all of them will be able to use their Yahoo IDs as an OpenID to let them eliminate separate IDs and logins at Web sites that support the open, decentralized digital identity framework. "What Yahoo has announced today is the ability for people with accounts on Yahoo and Flickr to use those accounts via OpenID to login to nearly 10,000 different services around the Web," said David Recordon, open platforms tech lead of Six Apart and vice-chair of the OpenID Foundation.

Fri, 18 Jan 08
Apple's New Movie Rentals: Mostly Awesome
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61244.html
At Macworld Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced a new movie rental model, iTunes Movie Rentals, that's designed to work with iTunes, Apple TV, iPhones and iPods. While it's not yet fully operational, the basics are available now. So I took it for a spin last night, and let me tell you, Apple is onto something.

Fri, 18 Jan 08
Virtual World Workforce Part 2: Real-Life Pitfalls
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61243.html
Virtual worlds such as Second Life are making an impact on how companies conduct employee recruiting and workforce management activities. According to an ever-growing group of experts and companies in the employment business, that impact has the potential to be profound and far-reaching.

Fri, 18 Jan 08
Salesforce.com Releases New Dev Tools, Cloud Computing Support
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61249.html
Salesforce.com has introduced a set of new tools with a pricing model designed to encourage adoption of its Force.com Platform as a Service product introduced last year. One of the new entries is Force.com Cloud Computing architecture, which can be purchased on a per-login basis.

Fri, 18 Jan 08
Legal Threats May Spell Doom for Scrabulous
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61247.html
The companies that make Scrabble are trying to shut down Scrabulous, an online version of the game that is one of the most popular applications on the social networking site Facebook. Hasbro, which owns the rights to the crossword game in the U.S. and Canada, and El Segundo, Calif.-based Mattel, which owns the rights elsewhere, believe the Facebook game infringes their copyrights and trademarks.

Thu, 17 Jan 08
Cities of the Future, Part 2: If We Build Them, Will We Stay?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61241.html
In the beginning, man adapted to the environment; shortly thereafter, the environment adapted to man. Al Gore's "inconvenient truth" is fast becoming an uncomfortable reality and the race is on to find new ways to cope before nature hands us the ultimate eviction notice. However, are the super-cities and hyperstructures under consideration today really "new and improved" ways for man to exist?

Thu, 17 Jan 08
Vulnerability Turns MS Excel Into Open Door for Hackers
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61242.html
Hackers are targeting users of some older versions of Microsoft Excel with a zero-day exploit that could compromise their data, according to a security advisory Microsoft issued Tuesday. The vulnerability is in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2, along with Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2002, Microsoft Office Excel 2000 and Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac, Microsoft said.

Thu, 17 Jan 08
Live From Macworld: Fresh Air, Sharper iPod Video, User-Friendly Storage
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61240.html
At first glance, the MacBook Air reminded me of the photos Palm released of the Folio before sending that product to an early grave -- but the Folio was something you couldn't quite call a real computer. It was, according to Palm, a companion unit to a smartphone, or some such marketing jargon. The Air, on the other hand, stands on its own skinny legs.

Thu, 17 Jan 08
Sun Blazes Path to Hybrid Software Stack With MySQL Buy
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61237.html
Sun Microsystems has announced plans to acquire MySQL, maker of the popular MySQL database system, for $1 billion. Sun -- long a proponent and developer of open source systems -- agreed to pay $800 million in cash and assume liability for $200 million in stock options. The deal likely won't be completed until the end of the fiscal year.

Thu, 17 Jan 08
Live From Macworld: What You Might Have Missed If You'd Been Here
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61234.html
My mistake was thinking that those who wake up early in the name of work have anything on those who skip sleep altogether in the name of fanatical love and corporate adoration. Despite my best-laid plans, I was not able to get into Steve Jobs' keynote presentation at Macworld Tuesday.

Thu, 17 Jan 08
A La Mobile First to Demo Apps for Android Platform
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61233.html
A California software developer said it will introduce a suite of applications for Android, a new Google-endorsed operating system. A La Mobile, a San Ramon, Calif., startup committed to Linux-based open systems for mobile devices, said the demo proves Android can make it easier for consumers to access all sorts of software applications.

Thu, 17 Jan 08
White House Admits Erasing Backed-Up E-Mail
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61232.html
The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages have been taped over and are gone forever. The disclosure came minutes before midnight Tuesday under a court-ordered deadline that forced the White House to reveal information it has previously refused to provide.

Wed, 16 Jan 08
Cities of the Future, Part 1: The Hyperstructure Concept
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61226.html
For decades, sci-fi writers have painted a picture of utopia as a crystal-domed city appointed with shiny-steel accents, ultra-modern furniture and gadgets ranging from food replicators to floor-hugging maintenance drones. Tranquility and efficiency extend from work to sex, and the human aging process is "curable," as is every other form of disease.

Wed, 16 Jan 08
Virtual World Workforce, Part 1: Promising the World
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61228.html
It's a dream scenario: A candidate aspiring to a pivotal job in the culinary arts field enters the virtual world Second Life, having never been an online gamer before. He attends an online job fair held by recruiting company TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, and is interviewed by major food and operations services company Sodexho. As a result, he lands a job as an executive chef with the firm.

Wed, 16 Jan 08
Social Networking's Limits
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61227.html
I am still trying to figure out what the primaries are telling us about social networking. I think some of this will be important for CRM and as I have noodled on what it all means, I have been surprised myself. Before I go on, this is not a discussion of who won or my candidate preferences, just musings on how it went down.

Wed, 16 Jan 08
Are IBM and Apple Ganging Up Against Microsoft?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61229.html
E-mail software from IBM will be available on Apple iPhones and iPod touch devices under a new partnership that brings together two big rivals of Microsoft. IBM plans a formal announcement of the Lotus Notes e-mail package for Apple's portable devices at its Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., next week.

Wed, 16 Jan 08
Craftier Trojan Invades 10,000 Web Sites, Stumps Security Pros
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61222.html
A little more than two weeks into 2008, cyber-criminals are up to their same old tricks -- stealing users' private data -- but they have concocted a far more advanced and sophisticated method. They are now embedding their malicious code into legitimate Web sites using Web-hosting servers, according to a report released Monday by Finjan Software.

Wed, 16 Jan 08
Webroot Targets SMBs With E-Mail Security Offering
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61224.html
Security provider Webroot on Tuesday released its namesake e-mail security Software as a Service solution. Targeted at small to medium-sized businesses, Webroot's new offering delivers better protection, lower total cost of ownership and better value than perimeter security appliances or software, the company said.

Wed, 16 Jan 08
Live From Macworld: Slick Podcasting, Tricked-Out Tablet, Awesome Display
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61220.html
Apple CEO Steve Jobs made big news Tuesday, taking advantage of the Macworld keynote spotlight to announce of his company's latest hardware offerings, including a wireless hard drive backup system and an incredibly skinny laptop computer. However, Macworld is much more than Jobs' 90-minute speech.

Wed, 16 Jan 08
MySpace, 49 State AGs Mount Massive Predator Blockade
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61218.html
MySpace has introduced aggressive new measures to protect users -- particularly children and adolescents -- against sexual predators. Up until now, the social networking site has made incremental changes to its policies, usually in response to parental or congressional outcry. This latest set of steps, however, are arguably the most aggressive the popular site has taken thus far.

Wed, 16 Jan 08
Jobs Airs Apple's Plans in Macworld Keynote
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61208.html
As throngs of Apple devotees crowded the Moscone Center in San Francisco and even more remained waiting in line outside, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage to tell a packed room about the computer maker's plans for following up what was a tremendous year for the company. 2008 will usher in an ultra-portable MacBook, which the company has dubbed the "MacBook Air."

Wed, 16 Jan 08
Are Toshiba's Price Cuts HD DVD's Swan Song?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61206.html
When Warner Bros. Entertainment moved all its high-definition eggs into the Blu-ray basket a week and a half ago, tremors could be felt throughout the digital entertainment world. HD DVD champion Toshiba canceled a press event in response, and all eyes fell on Paramount and Universal, the last major movie studios still committed to HD DVD.

Wed, 16 Jan 08
PBS Lets Kids Play in Virtual Educational 'Neighborhood'
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61215.html
PBS has created an online neighborhood for preschoolers, the latest of a growing number of subscription-based educational sites. The service, PBS Kids Play, opened Tuesday for a free beta trial period. It's designed to let children 3 to 6 play and learn with the help of characters such as Curious George and The Berenstain Bears.

Wed, 16 Jan 08
The Rise of Home Networking in Europe
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61195.html
At the end of 2004, it appeared the home networking phenomenon was bypassing Europe. Penetration rates were far behind North America and Asia, and only a few households were interested in a home network. Broadband adoption was likewise lackluster. In many of Europe's leading markets, just one-fifth of all households had high-speed access, and without broadband, home networks are of limited utility.

Thu, 10 Jan 08
Dell, EMC Offer Twin SANs for SMBs
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61128.html
Dell and storage manufacturing partner EMC launched new entry-level storage area network solutions aimed at small and medium-sized businesses Tuesday branded for each hardware maker. EMC's CLARiiON AX4 and Dell's AX4-5 are intended to meet the growing demand for storage capacity driven by both SMBs and satellite offices of larger enterprises.

Thu, 10 Jan 08
Logic Bomb Dud Sends Medco Sysadmin to Jail
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61126.html
A federal judge has sentenced a former systems administrator for Medco Health Solutions to 30 months in prison Tuesday for planting a "logic bomb" in Medco's computer systems that was designed to wipe out critical data on more than 70 servers, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. A programming error prevented the bomb from detonating, but Yung-Hsun Lin was also ordered to pay $81,200 in restitution to Medco.

Thu, 10 Jan 08
FCC's Comcast Probe Could Spur Net Neutrality Regs
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61138.html
The Federal Communications Commission will investigate claims made late last year that Comcast blocked customers from using file-sharing services, specifically BitTorrent. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin made the announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show currently underway in Las Vegas.

Thu, 10 Jan 08
Intel Feels Fury of OLPC Scorned
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61127.html
The strained relationship between the One Laptop Per Child organization and Intel has come to an inglorious end with Intel resigning and OLPC claiming the chipmaker "contributed nothing of value." Intel and OLPC announced in July they would work together "to bring the benefits of technology to the developing world through synergy of their respective programs."

Thu, 10 Jan 08
The DIY Internet: Parallel Universes?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61112.html
On the second day of CES, Intel CEO Paul Otellini described his vision of the future Internet: a more personalized medium that lets users build their own experiences, reading and watching only the content that interests them the most. In short, it will become strictly what people want it to be.

Thu, 10 Jan 08
Making Money With Open Source, Part 2: Only One Chasm
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61088.html
Bernard Golden is convinced there are two chasms to cross for a commercial open source company and I believe there is only one. As I wrote in my recent blog post, "There is no such thing as commercial open source," the attempt to ride the title wave of open source into a magical business domain called "commercial open source" adds more confusion and dilutes the core value proposition of open source.

Thu, 10 Jan 08
New System Brings Big Storage to Xserve Environments
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61114.html
Nexsan Technologies is moving into the high-end storage market for Mac-using organizations by offering a new high-density disk storage solution that will ramp up to a whopping 42 terabytes. Its SATABeast Xi is based on the company's SATABeast, but the Xi has been modified to work with the Apple Xserve and integrate into Mac Pro markets.

Thu, 10 Jan 08
I'll Show You My Mobile Linux Platform if You Show Me Yours
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61113.html
A couple of developments in the mobile applications space have my head spinning. First, the LiMo Foundation announced it has increased its membership by adding six new members. Then, Yahoo introduced its mobile developer platform at CES, taking pains to point out that its apps will be compatible with pretty much any mobile platform -- including Android.

Thu, 10 Jan 08
Federal Judge Orders White House to Report on Missing E-Mails
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61120.html
A federal magistrate ordered the White House on Tuesday to reveal whether copies of possibly millions of missing e-mails are stored on computer backup tapes. The order comes amid an effort by the White House to scuttle two lawsuits that could force the Executive Office of the President to recover any e-mail that has disappeared.

Thu, 10 Jan 08
Sprint Edges Toward WiMax Launch With New Devices
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61119.html
With just a few months to go before the launch of its next-generation wireless network, Sprint Nextel has a distinctly modest lineup of compatible devices. At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Sprint showed only two computer modems that will definitely be available in April, when its WiMax network becomes available outside current trials in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington.

Thu, 10 Jan 08
Avatars Roam Through Ancient Roman City
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61117.html
All roads lead to Rome, even virtual ones. A museum on Tuesday unveiled a virtual reconstruction of one of the bustling arteries that led into ancient Rome, allowing visitors to wander through rebuilt monuments and interact with the city's political elite. Using a concept similar to that of online virtual worlds, the project creates characters that roam the ancient Via Flaminia.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
Warner Opens Blu-ray Door - Will Paramount Step Through?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61110.html
The latest salvo in the war between the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps over which high definition format will replace the ubiquitous DVD may be little more than pop and flash -- but effective nonetheless. Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD DVD formats have various technology industry supporters behind them, but the biggest backers come in the form of the Hollywood studios.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
Two Formats to Duke It Out in Mobile TV Tests
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61111.html
The battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD may be settling down at last, but in the mobile TV arena another competition is just getting under way. Two different mobile digital television technologies will enter testing this year, each backed by a different set of vendors.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
Yahoo Pumps Up Mobile Effort in Bid to Get a Jump on Google
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61103.html
Having unwillingly ceded Web search leadership to Google, Yahoo is not about to also let the growing world of mobile services slip through its fingers. The Internet veteran chose the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show to announce a number of mobile initiatives, including a decision to open its mobile platform for developers and publishers.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
The Day the Music Lived Again
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61086.html
There have been many indications in recent months that the music industry is on the cusp of a sea change, and two announcements on Monday suggested that the change is nigh. First, as anticipated in reports last week, Sony BMG Music Entertainment officially announced the launch of its Platinum MusicPass, a series of digital album cards that enable consumers to download full-length albums.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
Apple Gets Down to Business With Mac Pro, Xserve Updates
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61108.html
Amid the hubbub generated by this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Apple announced the latest versions of its two professional-class machines, the Mac Pro Workstation and Xserve Server. The introduction of the new Mac Pro, sporting eight processor cores, and the Xserve server, featuring the latest Intel processor, comes just a week before the company's annual product showcase.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
Comcast Enters Video On-Demand Sweepstakes With Fancast
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61109.html
Comcast is launching an online video hub that will connect users with content in a variety of formats, joining a crush of companies aiming to leverage the Web to provide the ultimate on-demand experience. Comcast's Fancast site will be the first such destination meant to connect users with content whether it's online, on television, in movie theaters or on DVD.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
Microsoft Vaults to Enterprise Search Top Rung With Fast Buy
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61102.html
Microsoft is moving to buy Norway-based enterprise search specialist Fast Search and Transfer for $1.2 billion, a purchase that would instantly grow the software giant's business search footprint. Redmond is offering Fast shareholders about $3.50 per share, a 42 percent premium to the company's trading price last week.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
Comcast, Panasonic Kick TV Time-Shifting Into High Gear
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61095.html
Comcast and Panasonic are upping their strike capabilities in the consumer entertainment tech wars with the introduction of the AnyPlay portable digital video recorder. With a standard-definition, 60-gigabyte hard drive and DVD/CD player, AnyPlay lets consumers watch their stored TV programming on a laptop while on the road, or they can take it to a friend's house and view it on any compatible TV.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
Making Money With Open Source, Part 1: Turning Users Into Buyers
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61083.html
2007 was an eventful year for the commercial open source industry. We have seen many new entrants, and now there are hundreds of viable companies that are based on open source, filling nearly every segment of the software market. We have seen significant exit events from companies such as XenSource and Zimbra that further validate the viability of open source-based businesses.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
The 'Connected Lifestyle' Disconnect
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61091.html
The word "connected" appears no less than 13 times in the press release Microsoft issued to broadcast its DVR Anywhere launch at CES. The software system allows people to view recorded TV content all over the house. What I find astonishing is that this fracturing of the entertainment experience is masquerading successfully as a move toward a more "connected" lifestyle.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
Divining the Future of Leopard, iPhone, Vista and More
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61089.html
What to expect from computer technology this year? The words of Heraclitus of Ephesus come to mind: "Nothing endures but change." In other words, things will be different this year, but how much so? Some predictions, which I may wish to forget 12 months hence: It seems the greatest change is likely to come in terms of handheld devices -- smartphones and the like.

Wed, 9 Jan 08
Looking Under the Hood: Understanding How Your Apps Run Your Business
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61087.html
Understanding the business and technical reality of your software assets is imperative in order to align them with corporate priorities. The ability to predict a body's responses to environmental triggers can have significant therapeutic benefits. A researcher could analyze the "compliance" of your genes with standards to identify medical conditions that you are more likely to develop.

Tue, 8 Jan 08
Gates Predicts End of the Keyboard in Final CES Keynote
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61077.html
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gave his 11th and final keynote address at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday, a speech laden with predictions that technology will grow ever more personal and interconnected in coming years. Gates noted that his speech will likely be his last since he will complete a long-planned transition from day-to-day operations to a more low-key role at Microsoft this July.

Tue, 8 Jan 08
Intel Shakes Out 16 New 45nm Chips
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61081.html
Intel unveiled 16 new Penryn processors at the International 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Monday. Coming in a variety of form factors, all of the new chips are based on Intel's 45-nanometer manufacturing process, and five of them represent the first Penryn-based processors built for laptops. Four are for servers, and the remaining seven are for desktops.

Tue, 8 Jan 08
Wikia's Search Philosophy: It Takes a Village to Challenge a Giant
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61080.html
Amid warnings by its creators that users shouldn't expect much yet, an alpha version of open source-based Wikia Search launched Monday with the goal of eventually becoming a user-regulated challenger to Google and other search engines. Created by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, Wikia Search is a for-profit venture that will be funded, in part, by advertising.

Tue, 8 Jan 08
The Wii Failure, How Apple Beats CES, HD DVD Winner, Product of the Week
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61065.html
There are two mistakes a vendor can make that it may not be able to recover from. One is to build too many products, which stay in inventory and prevent future sales; and the other is to have too few products and lose out of sales as a result. Nintendo did the latter, and that will be a problem for the company in 2008.

Tue, 8 Jan 08
Linux Blog Safari: Waxing Philosophic on a New Linux Year
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61066.html
It's 2008, and that means the year of Linux on the desktop is finally here! According to some, that is. As 2007 drew to a close and the new year dawned, the mood has waxed somewhat more philosophical and contemplative than usual on the Linux blogs. Discussion was understandably more subdued over the holidays, generally creating less controversy and focusing on a more limited set of topics.

Tue, 8 Jan 08
Is Google the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61041.html
If you lived under a rock throughout 2007 and recently surfaced to catch up on technology news, you likely will not recognize Google. Sure, the company still dominates the search market, its logo looks the same, and it continues to offer Gmail and other Web-based products. However, the "don't-be-evil" empire has vastly evolved and expanded over the past 12 months, prompting many onlookers to question its motives.

Tue, 8 Jan 08
The Pitfalls of Behavioral Targeting
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61019.html
Behavioral targeting has been around since the first dot-com days, but it got really hot again in late 2007, thanks to a few big promoters like Facebook. So, What exactly is it, and does it really work the way it sounds? BT tracks a Web visitor's browser clickstreams to predict what the visitor may want in the future, and to target ads, content or products based on those "personalized" past behaviors.

Tue, 8 Jan 08
Peggle Game Puts Pachinko on Your iPod
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61016.html
Soooo ... got a new iPod nano or classic for Christmas, did ya? Did you check your stocking? I refer to the one hung by the chimney with care, of course. There may be a iTunes Gift Card in there. Ah-hah! I knew it! There you are with a brand new iPod and an unused gift card. What ever shall you do with them? Hey wait! I've got an idea: Why not redeem the gift card and buy ... a game!

Tue, 8 Jan 08
Toshiba Regroups After Warner Reneges on HD DVD
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61073.html
Toshiba executives had a tough moment Sunday, when they had to face reporters just two days after its HD DVD movie disc format was dealt a potentially fatal blow by the defection of Warner Bros. Entertainment to a rival technology. "It's difficult for me to read the comments of the pundits that HD is dead," said Jodi Sally, vice president of marketing for digital audio and video at Toshiba America Consumer Products.

Tue, 8 Jan 08
Pioneer Touts Plasma TV With Knack for True Black
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61075.html
Pioneer, which is sticking to making plasma flat-panel TVs as other manufacturers are switching to LCD TVs, announced Sunday it will be demonstrating a prototype set that emits no light in black areas of the picture, improving contrast and image quality. Neither plasma nor LCD sets on the market today can display a perfect black unless they're off.

Tue, 8 Jan 08
GM Aims to Put Driverless Cars on the Road by 2018
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61074.html
Cars that drive themselves -- even parking at their destination -- could be ready for sale within a decade, General Motors executives say. GM, parts suppliers, university engineers and other automakers all are working on vehicles that could revolutionize short- and long-distance travel.

Tue, 8 Jan 08
New Polaroid Pix Printer Does Away With Ink Cartridges
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61070.html
Once celebrated for cameras that made their own prints, Polaroid plans to update the concept this year by selling a portable printer for images on cell phones and digital cameras. Like those old Polaroid instant-film cameras, the new printers should have a wow factor: They require no ink, because they employ a thermal printing technology from startup Zink Imaging.

Mon, 7 Jan 08
Gates at CES: A Look Back at Billnotes Past
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61059.html
For the 10th time, Bill Gates will inaugurate the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by touting new Microsoft products and describing his view of the future of computing. Before you rush to the edge of your seat Sunday, consider this: Gates is a mediocre prognosticator. In fairness, as the old joke goes, predictions are very hard, especially ones about the future.

Mon, 7 Jan 08
Centenarian GM Taps Tech Crowd for Street Cred
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61058.html
General Motors will celebrate the buildup to its September centennial celebration with open source blogging, online chats and global rock festivals. Doesn't sound like the GM you know? That's probably because you're thinking of the old GM, founded on Sept. 16, 1908.

Mon, 7 Jan 08
Reading Intel's Tea Leaves for Apple's Next Move
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61057.html
With Macworld Expo just days away, the pre-"Stevenote" buzz is building fast. The rumors about what Apple chief executive Steve Jobs might unveil in his keynote speech run the gamut from a new movie-rental service for iTunes and Apple TV to a new tablet PC. However, when guessing what Apple will do in the coming year, it's particularly helpful to look at the road map of Intel.

Mon, 7 Jan 08
Mobile Advertising: Still in Wild, Wild West Phase
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61020.html
In the weeks leading to Christmas, an online wine retailer gave 15 percent discounts to anyone who sent in a photo of its newspaper ad snapped with a camera phone. SnapTell, the company helping Wine Enthusiast and other merchants offer such services, uses image-recognition software to determine what offer, video clip or other content to return to the phone.

Sun, 6 Jan 08
Mobile Devices: Sitting Ducks for Hackers
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61039.html
Smartphones are poised to become the next major security challenge for businesses. For now, a good rule of thumb for on-the-go workers is: "If you don't need to do it, don't do it," said Aaron Cohen, chief executive of The Hacker Academy, a Chicago-based firm that provides security training for companies and government agencies.

Sun, 6 Jan 08
A Finger on the Pulse of the Mobile Dev Community
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61053.html
MyEclipse IDE vendor Genuitec is stepping up to the general developer downloads plate to take a swing at the task of automated and managed updates, plug-ins and patches to such widespread tools as Eclipse, Android and ColdFusion. The free Pulse service helps bring a "single throat to choke" benefit to downloads.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
Sony Gives a Little, Gets a Little
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61068.html
Sony's had a huge Friday. It's made a smart move by growing out of DRM in its music division -- at least a little, at least reportedly -- and it's scored a decent victory on the Blu-ray side in getting Warner Bros. to commit to its hi-definition DVD format. All on the Friday before CES. Nicely done. It's easy enough to be hard on Sony. It slips on a lot of banana peels, and when it does, it tends to make a lot of noise.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
Startup to Take Another Stab at SF Citywide WiFi
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61063.html
Meraki, a wireless mesh network startup with dreams of bringing Internet access to developing countries, announced Friday that it will expand its "Free the Net" program, currently available in a few San Francisco neighborhoods, to cover the entire city and create a free municipal WiFi network.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
Keeping Tabs on Employees When Disaster Strikes
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61040.html
Change may no longer be the only constant; danger is proving omnipresent and therefore a constant variable in enterprise IT planning. "In today's world where a shooter can walk in the front door of a church and open fire, there is really no place that is safe," Henry Dewing, analyst at Forrester Research told TechNewsWorld.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
Upgrade to MS Office 2003 Locks Older File Types
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61047.html
Microsoft has found itself between a rock and a hard place with its latest Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3. The Redmond, Wash., software giant released SP3 in September, and in doing so blocked the ability of MS Office 2003 users to easily access older, less secure file formats.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
Intel Washes Hands of OLPC Project
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61061.html
Intel has reportedly pulled out of its position on the board of directors for the One Laptop Per Child project due to disagreements over philosophical issues. OLPC is a nonprofit educational organization working to put low-cost laptops into the hands of children in economically-challenged countries around the world.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
Feds Snag 'Spam King' in Stock Scheme Sweep
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61056.html
A Michigan grand jury has indicted the man widely know as the "Spam King" and 10 others in connection with an alleged stock fraud scheme that used bulk e-mails to pump up the prices of stocks. The biggest name among those indicted is that of 52-year-old Alan Ralsky, who earned the nickname of Spam King by being considered one of the world's most prolific bulk e-mailers.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
CRM Lessons Learned From the Iowa Caucuses
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61049.html
There is a huge CRM lesson embedded in the results of the Iowa caucuses, and it has almost nothing to do with which on-demand CRM application a candidate used to track everything. The story of Iowa is one of new-fangled technologies, such as blogging and social networks.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
Open Source Census: An Enterprise Head Count
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61037.html
OpenLogic, a provider of open source packages, has begun the task of quantifying the extent of open source code used on enterprise computers. The company will roll out its global Open Source Census in several phases over the next six months. In early December, OpenLogic announced the first phase with the release of OSS Discovery under an open source license.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
iPods in the Workplace: Diligence or Distraction?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61014.html
On a typical day at Page Design Group in Sacramento, Calif., Mark Aplet is cozy in his office chair, ear buds firmly in place, tapping his feet to his favorite tunes as he works on Web sites. Aplet, 32 and a former rock musician, rarely separates himself from his iPod, and that includes while he's at work.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
Gridlock on the Text Message Roadways
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61054.html
Geeta Citygirl just figured something was wrong with her phone when she realized the greetings she was sending as the ball dropped New Year's Eve weren't getting through. In Los Angeles, a half-dozen New Year's text messages bounced back to Reggie Cameron on Wednesday, more than 24 hours after he thought he sent them out.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
Technical Glitches Wreak Havoc on Shuttle Launch Schedule
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61050.html
NASA on Thursday delayed the flight of space shuttle Atlantis until late January or, more likely, February to replace a suspect connector in the fuel tank. The connector is believed to be responsible for back-to-back launch postponements last month. Deputy shuttle program manager John Shannon said the mission to the international space station is off until at least Jan. 24.

Sat, 5 Jan 08
Marketers Cooking Up Plans for Mobile Ad Blitz
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61046.html
Your cell phone is a potential gold mine for marketers: It can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like. Considering the phone is usually no more than a few feet away, these are powerful clues for figuring out just the right moment to deliver the right coupon for the store just around the corner.

Fri, 4 Jan 08
Hitachi, Asus Team on Terabyte Notebook
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61035.html
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has created what it calls an "industry milestone:" a 2.5-inch computer hard drive capable of storing a whopping 500 GB of data. It also has struck a deal with computer vendor Asus, which will sell a notebook PC equipped with two of the drives. The new Travelstar 5K500 drive, which Hitachi believes is the world's first 500 GB, 2.5-inch drive, will be available next month.

Fri, 4 Jan 08
Study: Cell Phone Yakkers Worsen Commutes for Everyone
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61042.html
Drivers chatting on cell phones move about two miles per hour slower than those who give their full attention to the road, according to the University of Utah's Traffic Lab. Furthermore, they don't react as quickly to the need to change lanes; in short, they clog up traffic.

Fri, 4 Jan 08
Lenovo Leaps Into Consumer Market Melee With New Laptops
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61029.html
Lenovo, maker of ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops for businesses, on Thursday announced its first globally available line of notebook PCs aimed at consumers, the IdeaPad Y510, Y710 and U110. The new IdeaPad notebooks will make their formal debut at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas this month.

Fri, 4 Jan 08
Netflix in a Box: No More Red Envelopes?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61032.html
Movie rental giant Netflix will partner with LG Electronics to offer set-top boxes that will enable consumers to stream movies from the Internet to their network-enabled TV sets. The service will eliminate the need to use a personal computer to download films and will enable high-definition versions of full-length movies and other programming to be sent directly to TVs.

Fri, 4 Jan 08
A Recycled Laptop's Journey, Part 1: Exporting Toxic Waste
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61023.html
While they are instrumental in disseminating information and raising environmental consciousness, our dependence on digital electronics is also putting ever greater strains on us and our environment. Establishing viable electronics recycling programs worldwide is slow going.

Fri, 4 Jan 08
Dell XPS One: More Than an iClone
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61011.html
Something interesting is going on at Dell. The Texas personal-computer behemoth, long associated with boxy, boring machines, has started emphasizing industrial design. The company, which in recent years seemed to care only about corporate customers, techies and hard-core gamers, appears once again interested in average, mainstream consumers who value simplicity.

Fri, 4 Jan 08
Earning Your Linux Diploma
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60935.html
Certifying Linux technicians is a developing trend. The Linux OS is growing up. This is pushing many computer engineers and IT professionals to prove their skills as programmers and systems administrators. While not quite a common job requirement yet, some employers and high-level software developers are looking for Linux-certified employees.

Fri, 4 Jan 08
China Moves to Limit Online Video Posting
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61028.html
China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos -- including those posted on video-sharing Web sites -- to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government. It wasn't immediately clear how the new rules would affect YouTube and other providers of Internet video that host Web sites available in China but are based in other countries.

Fri, 4 Jan 08
Saudis Jail Blogger Who Criticized Government
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61025.html
Fouad al-Farhan knew they were coming for him. A few days before Saudi security forces swooped on his offices, he sent a letter to friends telling them he was a wanted man. "They will pick me up any time in the next two weeks," he predicted. His crime? Writing one of the most widely read blogs in Saudi Arabia.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
HD DVD vs. Blu-ray: Will the War End With Two Losers?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61003.html
The holiday selling season has come and gone, and the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD war is still on. The HD DVD camp came out strong with a hard jab when Toshiba's HD-A2 DVD players sold for a rock-bottom price of $98.97 at Wal-Mart and other outlets like Best Buy in late October, but since then prices have remained well over $200 for both HD DVD and Blu-ray players -- and many models still cost much more.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
Qualcomm Hustles to Counteract Broadcom Court Victory
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61013.html
Qualcomm began the new year by scrambling to deal with an old problem. The mobile chip maker will appeal a judge's injunction barring it from selling products found to infringe on patents held by rival Broadcom. Qualcomm also said it would push hard to finalize development of work-around alternatives to the disputed technology.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
IBM Snags a Storage Guru With XIV Acquisition
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61015.html
In an effort to get ahead of the curve with "emerging storage opportunities," IBM has purchased XIV, an Israeli storage technology company headed by a big name in the storage industry: Moshe Yanai. Big Blue did not disclose the purchase price, but Israel's financial daily Globes reported IBM spent between $300 million and $350 million.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
The Road to Enterprise Web 2.0: Bumpy and Still Under Construction
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60991.html
"Web 2.0" was one of the computing industry's biggest catch phrases of 2007. Much like a software upgrade, Web 2.0 brings to mind images of bug fixes and new features. In reality, however, Web 2.0 is nothing more than a new round of Internet functionality bolted onto a very tired and old World Wide Web infrastructure.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
What's a Derivative Work? Depends Who You Ask
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60999.html
When it comes to creative works, such as a drawing or a piece of writing or music, the law is pretty clear about what is a derivative work and what isn't. Not so much with software. If the software is open source -- that is, licensed under the GNU General Public License or a similar license -- the waters get even murkier.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
MC Hammer Aims to Break Down YouTube With Dance Site
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61007.html
MC Hammer hasn't topped the music charts since the early 1990s, but the former rap star says he has another hit in him -- only this time around he'll produce it as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Hammer, whose real name is Stanley Burrell, is choreographing a new career as cofounder and chief strategy officer of Menlo Park-based DanceJam.com.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
Apple Patent Filing Hints at DRM for Mac OS
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61012.html
Apple has filed for a patent in the U.S. for a Digital Rights Management system for controlling where software runs. The method described in the application is one that allows for the injection of code into an application's run-time instruction stream that checks to see if the application is being run on a "specific hardware platform," and then repeats that check to see if it is still being run on that authorized platform.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
Technology Holds Sun's Energy in Reserve
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61010.html
United Technologies subsidiary Hamilton Substrand and US Renewables Group said Wednesday they plan to commercialize a new technology that captures energy from the sun, stores it and releases it on demand. The companies did not disclose financial terms of the agreement or specifics about how they plan to commercialize the technology.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
US Border Cards a Privacy Risk, Critics Charge
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61008.html
Passport cards for Americans who travel to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean will be equipped with technology that allows information on the card to be read from a distance. The technology was approved Monday by the State Department and privacy advocates were quick to criticize the department for not doing more to protect information on the card.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
Collaborative Wikia Search Set to Go Public
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61005.html
The founder of Wikipedia says taking the online encyclopedia's collaborative approach into the field of search won't dethrone Google or another major search engine -- at least not soon. After months of talk and a few weeks of invitation-only testing, Wikia Search is to open to the general public next week.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
Apple's One-Year Phone Industry Revolution
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60996.html
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs promised a revolution when he unveiled the iPhone in January -- and he delivered. "Apple reinvents the phone," Jobs boldly declared at the time. While "reimagining" might have been more accurate, it's clear less than a year later that in ways both obvious and not, the iPhone has had a profound impact on the mobile phone business and likely will keep on influencing it for years to come.

Thu, 3 Jan 08
NASA Under Fire for Questionable Management of Airline Safety Data
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61004.html
NASA grudgingly released some results Monday from an $11.3 million federal air safety study it previously withheld from the public over concerns it would upset travelers and hurt airline profits. The data reflects hundreds of cases where pilots flew too close to other planes, plunged from altitude or landed at airports without clearance.

Tue, 1 Jan 08
Microsoft Has a Broken Home
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60986.html
Consumers hoping to safeguard their holiday memories by storing pictures on their Windows Home Servers may instead want to save those files on their PCs' hard drives. A post made on Microsoft's WHS blog warns users that WHS contains a heretofore undiscovered file corruption bug.

Tue, 1 Jan 08
Apple in 2008, Getting Ready for CES, Product of the Year
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60980.html
Tomorrow we start the New Year, and for those of you who aren't still in line to buy a Nintendo Wii, it is looking to be a good one. I'm having my doubts about Apple though, as it would seem success is going to their head as they put Think Secret out of business, and I and a lot of others were tricked into believing they personally threaten the guy who writes the Fake Steve Jobs parody.

Tue, 1 Jan 08
Flame Wars: Why We Can't Resist Hot Blogger-on-Blogger Action
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60974.html
The entrepreneur was not one to pass up a marketing opportunity. However, when Jason Calacanis went on a bit too long about his latest product at a technology conference in August -- at least in some eyes -- pioneering software developer Dave Winer had had enough. Winer, of Berkeley, Calif., jeered Calacanis from the crowd as a shill.

Tue, 1 Jan 08
The iPhone Isn't the Only Thing He Can Hack
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60962.html
The iPhone kid -- young George Hotz of Glen Rock, N.J. -- came back from Rochester Institute of Technology this week with his head full of new ideas. Not surprisingly, the tinkering teen's also been up to a bit of mischief on the upstate New York campus. Next month, the Bergen Academies grad is headed for Sweden to attend the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar and talk about his 3-D imaging invention.

Tue, 1 Jan 08
2007: The Year in Gaming
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61001.html
The over-hyped console wars are so last year. In 2007, a bounty of actual games finally mattered more than nerdy debates over each system's technological merits. For the first time since Pong bounced its way into our living rooms, it seems as if video games are again being relished by all sorts of folks. That retired couple next door? They're probably better than you at Wii Sports.

Tue, 1 Jan 08
Will IPTV Kill the Television Star?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60784.html
Already, YouTube has conquered your PC and mobile. However, what happens if YouTube conquers your living room, too -- and in HDTV quality? With IPTV that is possible, and the race to see who will be best-positioned in the digital living room of the future has already started. IPTV is being called the "fourth TV broadcasting channel," after satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcasting.

Tue, 1 Jan 08
AOL to Pull Plug on Netscape
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60994.html
Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run. Its current caretakers, Time Warner's AOL, decided to kill further development and technical support to focus on growing the company as an advertising business.

Tue, 1 Jan 08
FAA Bans Lithium Batteries in Checked Baggage
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60988.html
To help reduce the risk of fires, air travelers will no longer be able to pack loose lithium batteries in checked luggage beginning Jan. 1, the Transportation Department said Friday. Passengers can still check baggage with lithium batteries if they are installed in electronic devices, such as cameras, cell phones and laptop computers.

Tue, 1 Jan 08
Data Breaches Hit New Heights in '07
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60992.html
The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive information. While companies, government agencies, schools and other institutions are spending more to protect ever-increasing volumes of data with more sophisticated firewalls and encryption, the investment often is too little too late.

Tue, 1 Jan 08
Chip Sales May Not Meet '07 Targets
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60985.html
Global chip sales rose 2.3 percent in November to $23.1 billion, but it will take an outstanding December to meet 2007 forecasts, the Semiconductor Industry Association said Monday. "While total semiconductor sales continue on pace to surpass the record level of 2006, it will take very strong sales in December to meet our forecast of 3.8 percent growth in 2007," said George Scalise, SIA's president.