Microsoft Outlook makes friends with MySpace
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:50:00 PST
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The software maker said it is ready with a version of its Outlook Social Connector that links the e-mail program with the youth-oriented social network.
Firm: Toyota, industry need more rigorous testing
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:20:24 PST
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Latest problems linked to Toyota show the auto industry needs to fix the way it tests software, says company that specializes in software integrity.
Apple tops Consumer Reports' tech support survey
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:15:00 PST
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Apple hit a home run in Consumer Reports' recent tech support survey, taking the top spot in laptops and desktops.
Twitter to block malicious links
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:07:00 PST
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Links in direct messages on Twitter and e-mail notifications about direct messages will be filtered in an attempt to stop phishing attacks.
Europeans rally behind the 'NoMix-tech' toilet
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:04:57 PST
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New, eco-friendly toilet could substantially reduce pollution and conserve water and nutrients--and it's getting rave reviews so far, scientists in Switzerland say.
In geolocation wars, SXSWi is mere skirmish
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:39:00 PST
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The rivalry between Gowalla and Foursquare might seem to define the nascent geolocation market. Hold your horses: Let's see what Facebook is cooking up.
Green tech can't shake the bubble question
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:36:00 PST
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Investors say we've already experienced "mini bubbles" driven by hype or subsidies. But there remains a societal push for cleaner and domestic sources of energy.
Mozilla to overhaul its open-source license
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:13:00 PST
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The Firefox backer wants to modernize and simplify the Mozilla Public License and sets an ambitious November deadline.
Dell tablet said to be named 'Streak'
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:30:00 PST
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According to leaked company documents, the Mini 5 touch-screen tablet will come in a multitude of colors and have Amazon Kindle and Video On Demand access.
Potential console killer OnLive to go live June 17
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:20:00 PST
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The company said it will launch with partners like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and THQ, and will begin unveiling its games lineup before E3. But will it work?
Microsoft looks to 'Elevate' California
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:10:00 PST
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The software maker is bringing its free technology job training program to the Golden State, the company and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are announcing on Wednesday.
IBM hopes to make mobile devices more accessible
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:50:25 PST
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Big Blue is teaming up with two universities to explore ways to make smartphones and mobile devices more accessible to people who have disabilities or lack literacy.
Google-China resolution coming 'soon,' says CEO
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:30:00 PST
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Talks between Google and Chinese government are ongoing, Google's Eric Schmidt says Wednesday, and he expects the matter to be resolved sooner rather than later.
Green plastic breakthrough from Big Blue, Stanford
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:04:00 PST
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Material sciences achievement in organocatalysts research could lead to more sustainable plastics, better recycling methods.
WhitePages.com halts ad networks over malware
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:01:00 PST
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Site investigates malware delivered via ads on its site in a fake antivirus attack similar to that on the Drudge Report site.
Panasonic, Best Buy double down on 3D TV
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:48:00 PST
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Panasonic announces availability of an exclusive 3D TV bundle at Best Buy stores, featuring a plasma TV and 3D-compatible Blu-ray player.
What Apple's and Microsoft's patent threats mean for start-ups
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:34:46 PST
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Given the likelihood that everyone violates the patents of everyone else, patent collectives like OIN may be critical to protecting the interests of start-ups against larger players.
Windows Live support via e-mail ends
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:24:00 PST
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Starting Wednesday, users with problems will have to go to online forums to get answers to issues with Microsoft's consumer Web services.
Lady Gaga on Rock Band
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:09:16 PST
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Google may soon be searching your set-top box, the PlayStation Network gets new high-def movies, and Lady Gaga may grace Rock Band.
Stanford undergrads: iPhones are addictive
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:02:00 PST
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Almost half of the 200 students with iPhones polled at Stanford University say they're addicted to the device, with 75 percent admitting they take it to bed.
Google Launches Web Store for Cloud-Based Apps
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:30:00 GMT
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App stores aren't just for mobile phones anymore. Google has launched a store that lets Google Apps customers add third-party browser-based apps to their existing stack of Google's productivity tools.
Google's Schmidt: China Negotiations Should End 'Soon'
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:07:00 GMT
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Google is actively negotiating with China over web censorship according to CEO Eric Schmidt.
Playlist: Gorillaz, Freelance Whales and a Tribute to Mark Linkous
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:28:00 GMT
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Hear a track from Dark Night of the Soul, a collaboration between the late Sparklehorse leader, David Lynch and Danger Mouse. Also on the podcast: more music from The Ferocious Few, Flying Lotus and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings.
Big Designers Find Satisfaction in Small Games
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:26:00 GMT
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Moving away from high-budget blockbusters to scaled-down treasures built by small teams proves enticing to veteran videogame developers. Part of the appeal: A nostalgic remembrance of the early days of game development.
Brain Scans Depict Damage From Gulf War Syndrome
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:17:00 GMT
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A massive effort to understand Gulf War Syndrome finds physiological differences in the brains of healthy veterans and those suffering from Gulf War Syndrome.
Multitasking Earbuds Stress Great Design, Not Sound
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:50:00 GMT
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Cool looking and inexpensive, the Remix earbud from VMODA doesn't quite deliver solid sound quality.
MotoCzysz Puts the Sizzle in Electric Motorcycles
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:07:00 GMT
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Strange name. Sexy bike. And it's headed for the racetrack.
Mach 6 Cruise Missile, Ready for Prime Time?
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:42:00 GMT
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This spring, the Air Force was preparing for a groundbreaking test of the X-51 WaveRider, a hypersonic cruise missile that would reach speeds of up to Mach 6. But it looks like the WaveRider?s debut flight will have to wait while some technical issues are addressed.
10 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Converted to 3D
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:39:00 GMT
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Why, really, did the 3D movie trend start? Does anybody remember, before the trend began, thinking 'You know the problem with movies? They?re too two-dimensional?' Anyway, some work, and some don't and some would be bad ideas. Here are 10 that should never be attempted.
Call Me Google. (And Call Me, Google)
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:23:00 GMT
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Google's announcement that it intends to build and test super fast fiber-optic broadband networks in a few communities around the US has a few communities in the US pulling out all the stops to be selected with some attention-getting stunts that scream to the search giant "Pick me! Pick ME!"
Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:01:00 GMT
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With a click of a mouse, cyclists can get the quickest, and flattest, route between Point A and Point B.
March 10, 2000: Pop Goes the Nasdaq!
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
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The Nasdaq begins its spectacular collapse, signaling the end of the dot-com boom.
Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control Universe
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe.
Texters Should Park the Car, Take the Bus
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.
Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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Huge projects that would store wind energy by compressing air in abandoned mines and porous sandstone are gaining steam in the Midwest.
10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here?s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.
Review: Science Trips Out on Music in 'The Heart Is a Drum Machine'
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:00 GMT
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Through interviews with a brainy crop of musicians and scientists, a new documentary probes the connection between body, mind and music.
Broadcast Video From Your Mobile
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:00 GMT
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You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.
Oldest Known Flying 'Car' Up for Auction
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:15:00 GMT
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It's from 1934, and it doesn't look like a car, and it doesn't look like it would fly.
Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:00 GMT
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It?s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can?t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn?t about real estate — it?s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.
Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:46:00 GMT
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From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.
Your Computer Really Is a Part of You
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:40:00 GMT
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Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.
Just How Fast Is Cisco's New Router? Really Freaking Fast
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:39:00 GMT
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Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.
Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:34:00 GMT
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The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.
Better Than Apollo: The Space Program We Almost Had
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:20:00 GMT
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A new book lovingly collects and presents the unexpectedly gorgeous advertisements of early, pre-Apollo space companies. The author of "Another Science Fiction" explains this fascinating, forgotten world of unbounded possibility, countercultural space exploration, and what it all means for human spaceflight today in this exclusive interview with Wired.com.
Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:15:00 GMT
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Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.
Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT
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Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
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Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.
Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:10:00 GMT
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For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we?ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:25:00 GMT
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Browsing the web on one of Amazon?s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It?s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on the company?s website.
In geolocation wars, SXSWi is mere skirmish
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:39:00 PST
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The rivalry between Gowalla and Foursquare might seem to define the nascent geolocation market. Hold your horses: Let's see what Facebook is cooking up.
Google-China resolution coming 'soon,' says CEO
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:30:00 PST
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Talks between Google and Chinese government are ongoing, Google's Eric Schmidt says Wednesday, and he expects the matter to be resolved sooner rather than later.
Back to the future at MySpace?
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:52:40 PST
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The site's new co-presidents are overseeing revival plans to keep MySpace from sinking further.
SXSWi: Let the geolocation games begin
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST
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The competition will be particularly fierce at the annual digital-culture bash between Foursquare and Gowalla, rival social-media services that want to own the location-based networking market.
Google Maps to add bike maps, directions
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:00 PST
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Cyclists will be able to use Google Maps to plot directions around 150 U.S. cities when bike directions go live on Google later on Tuesday.
Lindsay Lohan sues E-Trade over Super Bowl spot
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:21:00 PST
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The troubled actress is suing E-Trade, claiming that it mocked her in one of its cute baby ads. She is asking for $100 million.
Google announces business app store for Google Apps
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:15:00 PST
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Software developers can cater to Google Apps customers through a new application store announced at Google's Campfire One event in Mountain View.
Online dating finally recognized by restaurant guide
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:27:00 PST
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A new restaurant guide has a section specifically dedicated to the difficult area of online dating. Its author believes only certain very specific places are suitable for an online date.
Pink Floyd sues EMI over iTunes payments
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:59:00 PST
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One of the most imposing (and wealthiest) bands of all time sues EMI over online royalties. EMI is reportedly arguing that an album-unbundling ban applies only to physical products.
Is the Kindle finally ready for the Web?
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 PST
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If you own a Kindle, you also own a mobile Web browser. But chances are you never use it. That may be about to change.
Putting TiVo Premiere in context
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:49:00 PST
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After all the hype, the TiVo Premiere was greeted by disappointment by many gadget fans. But is there more to the story?
Microsoft tweaks browser ballot code
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:53:44 PST
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After complaints the original algorithm was not doing the job, Redmond fixes the code shuffling the order of the browsers in its ballot screen for European users.
Foursquare unveils its SXSWi arsenal
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:37:00 PST
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In heated war with rival Gowalla for the geek seal of approval at the annual digital culture festival, Foursquare unveils new badges, new partners, and new promotions.
Is ad blocking the problem?
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:32:00 PST
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Ad blocking is an easy scapegoat for the online media industry, but blocking ad-blocking will only stymie the evolution of the online media business.
Documents in Viacom vs. Google unsealed soon
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:15:00 PST
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Google wanted to wait until June to give the public a peek at information collected in the company's copyright conflict with Viacom. Judge says speed things up.
Report: Google testing TV search
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:19:00 PST
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Company is reportedly teaming with Dish Network to test a new service that would let people search their Internet-connected TVs for shows and online video.
For SXSWi, Chevy plugs into social media
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:19:00 PST
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An ambitious load of marketing initiatives from the GM division, which is preparing to launch its Volt electric car, emphasizes that brands increasingly see the digital-culture fest as a place to test campaigns.
Why is eBay logo in Whitman ad?
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:03:21 PST
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In Meg Whitman's campaign ad for governor of California, the eBay logo appears on screen. Is eBay OK with this? And if so, why?
Google reluctant to release info in Viacom case
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:42:00 PST
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Viacom wants court documents to be released in two weeks and Google wants to wait three months. Does the public have a right to "immediately" see the information?
Google launches tool for searching public data
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:40:00 PST
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Curious about unemployment trends in your state cross-referenced against salaries? Google Public Data Explorer could make it easier to create a visual representation.
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