Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web
CNET News.com - 2 hours ago
Google is expected to join the social network data portability crowd with "Friend Connect" on Monday. TechCrunch speculates that Friend Connect will be a set of "APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into ...
Facebook 'Connect' To Let Users Share Profiles InformationWeek
Can Facebook Build a Better Passport? New York Times
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Virus Drama In San Francisco
eFluxMedia - 6 hours ago
By Michael Todd This week, the Moscone Center in San Francisco was the scene of a virus outbreak which affected close to 70 people.
Did you get infected? Virus runs amok amid JavaOne CNET News.com
Tech Notebook: If you had a case of JavaOne blahs, here's why San Jose Mercury News
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FBI probe nets counterfeit Chinese networking parts
CNET News.com - 2 hours ago
The FBI announced Friday that an investigation into counterfeit network components made in China and sold to the US government has recovered about 3500 fake devices with a value of $3.5 million.
FBI probes counterfeit China computer parts Reuters
Concerns raised about bogus computer parts United Press International
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Windows XP SP3 Is Not Bug-Free
eFluxMedia - 7 hours ago
By Michael Todd With just a few days from its official release, the Windows XP Service Pack 3 is already receiving a large numer of post-instalation complaints.
Office 2007 update available June 16 United Press International
No Hurry For Windows Vista And XP Service Packs InformationWeek
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'Grand Theft Auto Success' Taxes IGN's Google-Powered Map
InformationWeek - May 9, 2008
Microsoft's retailer survey also found more than 60% of all GTA games sold in the first week were for its Xbox 360 videogame console.
Grand Theft Auto IV Review GameSHOUT
EA Lands $1 Billion Loan For Take-Two Acquisition PSX Extreme
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Stolen Laptop Helps Turn Tables on Suspects
New York Times - 8 hours ago
By LISA W. FODERARO WHITE PLAINS - The thieves were voracious, filching flat-screen televisions and computer games, purloining iPods and DVDs, even making off with a box of liquor and a set of car rims in a burglary two weeks ago at an apartment three ...
Stolen Laptop Recovered, Victim Catches Thieves With Web Camera dBTechno
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Platypus Gene Research Reveals More Clues To Evolutionary Processes
AHN - 1 hour ago
Australia, (AHN) -- Researchers studying platypus genes have found new insights to evolutionary transitions, and maybe even a new source for pain medication.
Scientists map the genetic makeup of the platypus The Associated Press
Platypus Looks Strange on the Inside Too New York Times
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Shuttered BitTorrent tracker sued back to the stone age
DailyTech - May 9, 2008
A federal judge court inflicted $110 million in penalties on shuttered BitTorrent tracker TorrentSpy.com, after the site defaulted on a court request to produce logs of its users’ activity.
Studios win $110 million in TorrentSpy suit Reuters
TorrentSpy Ordered To Pay $110 Million In Piracy Case InformationWeek
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Seaweed confirms Monte Verde village in Chile is among oldest in ...
Los Angeles Times - 14 hours ago
The inland settlement, about 14000 years old, predates the Southwestern Clovis sites by about a millennium and coincides with findings at Paisley Cave in Oregon, researchers say.
Seaweed's age points to ancient habitation Seattle Times
Earliest Known American Settlers Harvested Seaweed National Geographic
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How AT&T spilled the Starbucks beans
CNNMoney.com - 7 hours ago
If there’s one thing the folks at Apple could teach their friends at AT&T, it’s how to parcel out the good news. Case in point: the Starbucks-iPhone-Wi-Fi deal that’s been on and off all week and generating all the wrong kind of headlines (see for ...
Free AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots for iPhone still unofficial BetaNews
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Google gains on Microsoft with hosted security offering
CNET News.com - 20 hours ago
Sure, Google owns the search market. And, as a result, the company is the online advertising leader. But Microsoft has all those Windows desktops out there, and owns the corporate market, right?
Google turns Postini into Google Web Security for Enterprise Ars Technica
Google Cuts Price, Rebrands Postini Security Service InformationWeek
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Why AMD Went the Multi-Chip ...
InternetNews.com - May 9, 2008
AMD insists going pure quad core will pay off down the road. Plus, it's using multi-chip design to solve its problems as well.
AMD Must Rebuild Momentum, Despite Customer Loyalty PC World
AMD Promises 12 Cores By 2010 CRN
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Lawmakers Eye Net Neutrality As Anti-Trust Issue
InformationWeek - 23 hours ago
The Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act would require carriers to promote competition and allow users to use any device they want on the carriers' networks.
Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere ZDNet
Dueling approaches to net neutrality clash in US House BetaNews
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FBI Withdraws Probe Of Wayback Machine Users
InformationWeek - May 8, 2008
The settlement stems from a lawsuit claiming the FBI's request for information about the Internet Archive's Web library violated the First Amendment.
FBI rescinds secret order for Internet Archive records CNET News.com
Revoked NSL aimed at Internet Archive shows need for reform Ars Technica
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Shift From Savannah to Sahara Was Gradual, Research Suggests
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Scientists drilled a column of sediment from the bottom of Lake Yoa, in northeastern Chad, to study the history of the Sahara. By KENNETH CHANG Six thousand years ago, northern Africa was a place of trees, grasslands, lakes and people.
Sands of Sahara moved slowly United Press International
Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia, Study Says National Geographic
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Apple agrees to settle iPod battery class-action lawsuit in Canada
The Canadian Press - 21 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. has agreed to settle a pair of class-action lawsuits in Canada alleging it misled customers about the staying power of their iPods, the latest courtroom truce over the dwindling battery life of early generations of the device ...
Apple compensates Canadians for poor iPod battery life DaniWeb
Apple Reportedly Offers $44 Credit To Canadian iPod Owners InformationWeek
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New Kid on the Blox
Washington Post - May 8, 2008
By Mike Musgrove If you heard, say, that director Steven Spielberg was coming out with a video game, chances are you wouldn't have pictured Boom Blox, the Wii game released this week with his name on it.
Spielberg's Boom Blox provides fun but not innovation TG Daily
Spielberg's 'Boom Blox' offers charm, challenge on Wii USA Today
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House bill would enforce ESRB game rating system
BetaNews - May 9, 2008
By Michael Hatamoto, BetaNews A bipartisan bill was introduced in the US House of Representatives Wednesday aimed at forcing stores to card minors attempting to purchase video games rated "Adults Only" or "Mature.
New bill: No ID, no 'mature' video games for you CNET News.com
Some Games Do Need An ID Check eFluxMedia
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Astronaut Garrett Reisman Chats With Stephen Colbert From Outer Space
Wired News - 17 hours ago
By Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides May 09, 2008 | 10:04:43 PMCategories: Space Last night on the Colbert Report, Astronaut Garrett Reisman was patched through Mission Control in Houston through to New York for a live interview with Stephen Colbert.
Astronaut laughs it up for ‘Colbert Report’ MSNBC
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Let's See Microsoft Innovate Its Way Out of This
Wired News - May 9, 2008
By Kevin Maney, Portfolio.com 05.09.08 | 12:00 PM From way over in Indonesia, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates let it be known that Microsoft never needed to buy Yahoo to make headway in search and advertising.
Microsoft To Move On Without Yahoo, Gates Says InformationWeek
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