Sunday, December 30, 2007

The Apple TV Internet video delivery device is market leader in a small field--though that may change.
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Video: The Apple Year in Review
Apple's banner year of the iPhone, eco-friendly iMac, Leopard, and more was not without controversy.

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Apple to announce deal with Twentieth Century Fox allowing movie rentals through, according to reports.

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Microsoft and Adobe will wrangle for market and mind share in the burgeoning rich Internet application space, according to close observers of the companies. 30-Dec-2007

The entrance of two new operating systems from well-known brands shakes up the plans of some mobile operators and indicates some fundamental changes in the mobile industry. 30-Dec-2007

Company is mum on plans for releasing an Xbox 360 motion controller. 28-Dec-2007

Once the dominant Web browser, AOL has discontinued development and active support for the Netscape browser. 28-Dec-2007

In 2007 hackers found a new target, Mac OS X. 28-Dec-2007

2007 figures to be go down as one of the banner years in Apple's three-decade history. Here is a look back at a year in Apple news. 28-Dec-2007

Wal-Mart exits the movie download business. 28-Dec-2007

A Saudi blogger whose writings were critical of religious extremism has reportedly been detained by Saudi Arabian officials, according to advocacy groups. 28-Dec-2007

Tables are turning for IT buyers with new tech trends that have given shoppers the upper hand. 28-Dec-2007

When it comes to Internet usage, cell phones, and creating Web content Americans are leading the wired pack. 28-Dec-2007

Starry-eyed companies and CEOs made big promises to rollout new gadgets and told consumers to prepare for big trends in 2007. Who was right? And who was wrong? 28-Dec-2007

Top YouTube videos of 2007 run the gamut from an homage to Britney Spears, to stampeding buffaloes, to hilarious political satires. 28-Dec-2007

Friday, December 28, 2007

These sleek point-and-shoots reach resolutions up to 12 megapixels and have fancy features such as image stabilization and face detection, plus snazzy colors. Better yet, some capable models cost as little as $200.

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The first Penryn CPU-based system we've tested tops our Top 5 Power Desktops chart.


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All-in-One Security Suites: Tried and Tested
These eight products claim to protect you from online threats with antivirus, antispyware, and firewall components. Our tests show which ones work best.

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Napster's music-subscription service has a great playlist function; Amazon's MP3 store is easy to navigate and very affordable.


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Tracking AMD's Road to Recovery
In 2007, AMD was plagued by rising debt, shrinking market share and mounting financial losses. What's in store for 2008? 27-Dec-2007

Company expands its offerings by providing DRM-free music from Warner Music Group. 27-Dec-2007

Storage company EMC will acquire enterprise content management software developer Document Sciences. 27-Dec-2007

Center for Democracy and Technology notes that some Web sites claim to offer legal music, but don't have the necessary licensing agreements. 27-Dec-2007

Subscribers to Dave Johnson's Digital Focus took these shots; read Dave's January 1, 2008 column for the Hot Pic of the Month winner. 27-Dec-2007

Amazon.com has inked a deal with Warner Music Group to offer WMG music downloads on the online retailer's music download service. 27-Dec-2007

The Golf Channel says it will use radar technology to provide exact measurements of golfers' swings and ball movements during next year's PGA Tour. 27-Dec-2007

Google's browser toolbar faces patent infringement charges in court, after an appeals overturned part of a lower court decision. 27-Dec-2007

Samsung says it has developed a 31-inch ultra-thin organic screen, raising the stakes in an accelerating worldwide race for organic displays. 27-Dec-2007

Apple to announce deal with Twentieth Century Fox allowing movie rentals through, according to reports. 27-Dec-2007

We predict good times for Linux, Windows XP, and green vendors ; challenges for social nets and mobile technologies; and some surprises in the new year. 27-Dec-2007

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

It's been a tough year for municipal Wi-Fi projects and emerging wireless technologies, but with the bruises comes new muscle. 26-Dec-2007

Some business software vendors are determined to steer their own ships in a sea of acquisitions. 26-Dec-2007

Legal tussles, format wars, and (of course) the iPhone dominated technology news in 2007. Here are the biggest tech headlines of the year--including some we'd like to forget. 25-Dec-2007

Using a piece of software he originally created to access computers remotely, Brad Willman went on the offensive against child pornographers. 25-Dec-2007

Company offers its second annual pitch of five predictions for what we'll see in the next five years. 25-Dec-2007

Trio establishes far-reaching partnership to further future development and production of flat-panel displays. 25-Dec-2007

Among the hot stories this year: Apple launched the iPhone, Google announced Android, and social networking hit prime time. 25-Dec-2007

Ben Adams used the Internet and took some big risks to recover his 1949 Chevy truck. 24-Dec-2007

Musings about what might Apple announce at Macworld in January. 24-Dec-2007

Cisco Systems wants to turn the enterprise data network into an electricity meter. 24-Dec-2007
A look at the uneven course of WiMax, municipal Wi-Fi, and other wireless stories of the year. 24-Dec-2007

Online sales grew 25 percent in the last shopping week before Christmas. 24-Dec-2007

Company updates Mac OS X Security Update it released early last week. 24-Dec-2007

New year will see launch of open-source Wikipedia search project the company hopes will challenge Google, others. 24-Dec-2007

The Storm botnet delivers unwanted Christmas presents. 24-Dec-2007

Social networking sites drew security concerns along with new audiences and investments from major tech players. 24-Dec-2007

Microsoft claims Red Register is illegally profiting from Microsoft's trademarks. 24-Dec-2007

Google defends its privacy practices to Congressman. 24-Dec-2007

Researchers report Web shoppers are busier and happier than last year, as the holiday arrives and online sales finally slow. 24-Dec-2007

Former chief of A&T Wireless Dan Hesse must stop the bleeding and rebuild the mobile telecom giant, analysts say. 24-Dec-2007

The digital rights management system seeks the same control as Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage. 24-Dec-2007

An Alabama man works frustration with an attack on his employer's Web site into a full-time career of catching phishers and online fraudsters. 23-Dec-2007

In these nostalgic 1980s ads, home computers, floppy disks, and even robots bring the whole family together. 23-Dec-2007

Patent reform, security, Internet access and other topics are expected to gain a higher profile next session. 23-Dec-2007

Pro and amateur videos, social networking and even streaming TV shows are luring audiences to the Web, study shows 23-Dec-2007

Sunday, December 23, 2007

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Mac users not only download, they buy CDs, watch videos, and listen to digital tunes on MP3 players, research finds. 22-Dec-2007

The International Trade Commission will investigate whether Qualcomm is following a court order in a patent suit. 22-Dec-2007

Aspyr Media has posted an incremental update that squashes bugs, smooths play. 22-Dec-2007

IBM OmniFind Personal Email Search is a semantic search engine for users of Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook. 22-Dec-2007

Trend Micro has convinced the trade commission to look into whether competitors are infringing on its patents. 22-Dec-2007

A poll shows most parents considering cell phone gifts for kids are doing so in case of emergency. 22-Dec-2007

Europe's top data protection official criticized plans for air passenger records like those gathered by U.S. authorities. 22-Dec-2007

As part of a European antitrust settlement, Microsoft will supply protocol documentation to developers of the open-source software. 22-Dec-2007

To settle a lawsuit over backdating, McAfee has restated its finances reports for 10 years and taken a $137.4 million charge. 22-Dec-2007

Saturday, December 22, 2007

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Google deal prompts Federal Trade Commission to recently propose a set of privacy principles for online behavioral advertising. 21-Dec-2007

Reports say store is selling Wiis on Ebay for a premium over the retail selling price. 21-Dec-2007

Alcatel-Lucent will pay fines in response to charges it provided incentives to Chinese government officials. 21-Dec-2007

Sharp and Toshiba, two proponents of LCD TV technology, to collaborate, the companies announced on Friday. 21-Dec-2007

Performance of both Blu-ray and HD DVD during this second holiday season is crucial in establishing the new generation of optical discs. 21-Dec-2007

Microsoft has published a new beta of its Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. 21-Dec-2007

Philips will buy U.S. medical products company Respironics $5.2 billion, its biggest ever acquisition, as it expands in the fast-growing healthcare sector. 21-Dec-2007

IBM will help people find information in their email databases by identifying the most relevant information in a search query and extrapolating what the user is trying to find. 21-Dec-2007

The second shareholder complaint adds four additional instances of alleged backdating by the Apple executive team and directors. 21-Dec-2007

IBM is buying Solid Information Technology, a maker of high-performance databases and a close partner of IBM rival MySQL. 21-Dec-2007

IBM is building a virtual world to help its employees collaborate. 21-Dec-2007

Thousands of versions of Pinch, which comes in Russian and English language versions, are still circulating on the Internet. 21-Dec-2007

Sharp and Toshiba discuss a flat-panel display alliance that could lead to a big shake-up in the industry, a Japanese newspaper reports. 21-Dec-2007

Hitachi is considering a shake-up of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-disk drive maker that it acquired from IBM in 2003. 21-Dec-2007

Friday, December 21, 2007

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Charles Giancarlo, who was seen as a likely candidate to head Cisco Systems, has resigned from the networking giant after 14 years to "pursue new professional opportunities," Cisco announced Thursday. 20-Dec-2007

Longtime Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik is being replaced, the company announced on the same day it posted a quarterly revenue gain of 28 percent. 20-Dec-2007

Cisco Systems Chief Development Officer and Executive Vice President Charles Giancarlo has resigned, the company announced today. 20-Dec-2007

Small businesses have joined huge players like Google and AT&T in submitting applications to bid in the FCC's wireless spectrum auction. 20-Dec-2007

Apple's iPod Touch uses advanced components that put it technologically beyond the iPhone. 20-Dec-2007

The nonprofit One Laptop Per Child Project struggles with slow orders and competition from commercial vendors. 20-Dec-2007

NetSuite set the initial price of its stock at $26, exceeding its original estimate of $13 to $16 per share. 20-Dec-2007

Analysts predict a new and improved Apple iPhone as soon as mid-next year. 20-Dec-2007

UPDATE: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission voted 4-1 to approve the Google acquisition of online ad vendor DoubleClick. 20-Dec-2007

Sony will sell a special edition of its PlayStation 3 in Japan to mark the launch of the Devil May Cry 4 game. 20-Dec-2007

Yahoo and America Movil have formed a partnership to provide mobile Web services to 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. 20-Dec-2007

Microsoft has a technical work-around for users who found IE crashing after recent security update. 20-Dec-2007

British motorists caught using a hand-held mobile phone while driving face stiff fines, jail time. 20-Dec-2007

Rumor site Think Secret is ceasing publication as part of a settlement reached in Apple lawsuit. 20-Dec-2007

Gartner forecasts chip equipment spending of $40.3 billion in 2008, down by almost 10 percent from an estimated $44.8 billion this year. 20-Dec-2007

Intel's venture-capital arm has invested in Nirvanix, which offers a scalable online storage service. 20-Dec-2007

One-Laptop-Per-Child's XO has inspired a new class of low-cost laptop and highlighted the need for computing resources in developing nations. 20-Dec-2007

Millions of Muslims in Mecca for the Hajj can stay connected thanks to free Wi-Fi covering much of the city. 20-Dec-2007

A software update for MacBook and MacBook Pros addresses an issue that caused the keyboard to freeze. 20-Dec-2007

Strong Q2 software sales pushed Oracle's total revenue up 28 percent to $5.3 billion. 20-Dec-2007

A new Trojan horse modifies infected PC's hosts file to replace Google text ads with ads from another source. 20-Dec-2007

Thursday, December 20, 2007

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The first beta of the next version of the Internet Explorer browser will be released in the first half of 2008, Microsoft says. 19-Dec-2007

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have agreed to pay a total of $31.5 million to resolve claims that they promoted illegal gambling, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. 19-Dec-2007

Human-powered computing team supplies a supercomputer with enough juice to model a nuclear fusion reaction. 19-Dec-2007

The company's Carbon to Collaboration effort includes green buildings and a push for its teleconferencing service. 19-Dec-2007

The pair announce their five-year pact to share content and partner on advertising ventures. 19-Dec-2007

After weighing royalty requests of satellite and Web radio, Congress considers changing broadcast fees. 19-Dec-2007

The intruder appears relatively harmless--and now halted--but raises security concerns. 19-Dec-2007

The personal finance software will be offered as a service for $3 monthly. 19-Dec-2007

The Microsoft co-founder is another new applicant to FCC, joining Google and current wireless firms. 19-Dec-2007

The maker of 'CSI' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean' promises a different approach to video games. 19-Dec-2007

Oil comany Chevron and leading carriers AT&T, Verizon want to join the bidders, which include Google. 19-Dec-2007

High Fidelity Music Store supports the SLS format to lure digital audiophiles. 19-Dec-2007

Online rights groups continue to press the FTC to require privacy protections as conditions of Google's acquisition of DoubleClick. 19-Dec-2007

The judge ruled in the industry group's favor because the Web site operators tampered with evidence. 19-Dec-2007

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Microsoft says it is investigating reports that a security update for the Internet Explorer browser issued last week has crippled some users' ability to get on the Web.

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Symantec is just weeks away from shipping a test version of the next major update to its Norton 360 desktop security-and-backup software.

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Our cell phone columnist counts down the year's best handsets, Bluetooth headset, and solar-powered charger. 17-Dec-2007

Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD? Regardless of your choice, you have lots of high-definition player options this holiday season. 17-Dec-2007

Microsoft says it is investigating reports that a security update for the Internet Explorer browser issued last week has crippled some users' ability to get on the Web. 17-Dec-2007

Apple issued a flurry of fixes for its Mac OS X operating system and the test version of its Safari browser. 17-Dec-2007

Symantec is just weeks away from shipping a test version of the next major update to its Norton 360 desktop security-and-backup software. 17-Dec-2007

Digital sales of Latin music took a jump this year, though it's still a small percentage of the total. 17-Dec-2007

Corporations are interested in open source, but barriers to adoption remain, Forrester analysts say. 17-Dec-2007

'Drunknbass' demos unauthorized app, which can reportedly capture 2-megapixel video at 10 fps. 17-Dec-2007

An 'export to iTunes' feature is included in GarageBand 4.1.1, released last week. 17-Dec-2007

The new S32 specification prepares the way for faster speeds using existing cables and connnectors. 17-Dec-2007

Driving stunts are a popular topic--and past time--of young Saudi men who share their exploits online (to the government's frustration). 17-Dec-2007

Generation Y puts iPhones top among mobile electronics choices, researchers report. 17-Dec-2007

The partners will develop new services including a hosted payments system. 17-Dec-2007

A Qosmio multimedia notebook with a re-writable HD DVD and two HDTV tuners will go on sale in Japan this week. 17-Dec-2007

The social network claims a bot from the Canadian porn site tried to gather its members' data. 17-Dec-2007

Companies that must retain e-mail for compliance reasons will be able to keep tabs on BlackBerry mail with Gwava's new program. 17-Dec-2007

Ribbit developers design programs to record, track, or make calls, integrated with sites or other apps. 17-Dec-2007

These much-ballyhooed products, sites, and services, it turned out, left much to be desired. 16-Dec-2007

Analysis: For adherents to The Compact, online swap sites and and links to reusable goods make their anti consumerism easier. 16-Dec-2007

The chip maker will post twice the growth of the market average, which will hit $270 billion this year, analysts say. 16-Dec-2007

The American Geophysical Union got a peek at techniques and tools from Microsoft Research's e-Science group. 16-Dec-2007

Music, ringtones, cameras, browsers and other 'extras' have become the norm among mobile devices. 16-Dec-2007

Open-source software developers who work at companies must get more assertive to protect their rights, say open-source software gurus. 16-Dec-2007

New demographic data reveals Wii owners as core gamers, not focused on Wii sports, and buying lots of games. 16-Dec-2007

Digital Rights technology built onto some My Book drives restricts users from sharing certain files. 16-Dec-2007

Thursday, December 13, 2007

We scoured the earth (and the Web) and shook down all the top vendors to find the hottest high-definition televisions on the market this holiday season.

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From antipiracy measures to built-in nagging, today's software often comes with features that drive you nuts. Here are the irritations we'd really like to zap.

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Federal Trade Commission Chair Deborah Platt Majoras is being asked to recuse herself from a review of Google's planned DoubleClick acquisition. 13-Dec-2007

Malware researchers have uncovered 'massive growth' in the number of PCs harboring silent rootkit infections. 13-Dec-2007

An International Trade Commission judge made an initial ruling in Nokia's favor in an patent dispute with Qualcomm; final ruling expected in April. 13-Dec-2007

Free network management software Spiceworks gets new features for small and medium businesses. 13-Dec-2007

Sony announced an impressive lineup of games for its PlayStation consoles in the first quarter of 2008. 13-Dec-2007

An AMD study has revealed changes in global data center energy use. 13-Dec-2007

A Russian Web site is offering a tool that simulates chatroom conversation and solicits personal information from victims. 13-Dec-2007

A networking industry exec has challenged Juniper to post its OS source code on the Internet. 13-Dec-2007

Amazon cannot offer free delivery on books in France, the high court ruled after the French Booksellers' Union complained. 13-Dec-2007

In advance of an analyst meeting, AMD announced it will take a material charge for impaired goodwill from its ATI acquisition. 13-Dec-2007

The company will license its tags and APIs to other social networking sites, so they can run apps designed for Facebook. 13-Dec-2007

A department in the Australian government is holding back a RIM BlackBerry rollout due to concerns about the impact on staff work/life balance. 13-Dec-2007

Security researchers warn that Apple's iPhone may inspire a new hacker crime wave, becoming a major target in 2008. 13-Dec-2007

Opera Software has filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft in the EU, accusing it of stifling competition by tying IE to Windows. 13-Dec-2007

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Latest News
Mozilla Corp. said it will ship the next preview of the open-source browser before the end of the year. 11-Dec-2007

Microsoft today released the first major update to Office 2007, focusing on collecting existing fixes. 11-Dec-2007

Ask.com today announced a new feature called AskEraser that deletes a user's search activity data from the company's servers. 11-Dec-2007

Astaro is extending its secure VPN support to the Apple iPhone. 11-Dec-2007

French designer Philippe Starck has proclaimed Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader "almost modern" but "a bit sad." 11-Dec-2007

Cutting costs is a top priority at Hewlett-Packard, with business processes, products, and shared services targeted, says CEO and President Mark Hurd. 11-Dec-2007

Two people have been sentenced for their part in a massive phishing operation busted up by Italian police in July. 11-Dec-2007

Is zero-percent financing really a good deal? What should you look out for? Read our report before signing up for any special HDTV promotions. 11-Dec-2007

Freeverse has released Commander-Europe at War, a new turn-based strategy game set in World War II. 11-Dec-2007

Inexpensive URAM (user-RAM) is now being used in mobile TV chip sets. 11-Dec-2007

Denver International Airport switched its public Wi-Fi offering from paid to free advertising-supported. 11-Dec-2007

Sandisk will sell the Sansa digital music player, mobile phone cards, and USB flash drives in Vietnam. 11-Dec-2007

Controversal site lets security researchers submit vulnerabilities for auction, but says it sells to benign buyers only. 11-Dec-2007

A free-speech group is calling for a complaint to the World Trade Organization, arguing that Chinese censorship hampers U.S. Internet companies. 11-Dec-2007

South Korean officials have launched a corruption probe targeting the Samsung Group, the country's largest conglomerate. 11-Dec-2007

Many partners in Facebook's Beacon are unwilling to address the privacy controversy surrounding the ad program, preferring to wait it out. 11-Dec-2007

Researchers uncovered an attack targeting 'open-recursive' DNS servers that controls where phishing victims go on the Internet. 11-Dec-2007