Wednesday, January 30, 2008

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Two eBay laptop sellers--one of whom ended up without either his laptop or the buyer's money for it--share their experiences. 30-Jan-2008

Online auction giant says it will cut the fees it charges to list items by 25% to 50% and increase the fees for sold items. 29-Jan-2008

The problem caused Windows Mobile phone users to receive blank Gmail messages. 29-Jan-2008

Xbox makers appear to be counting on dissatisfaction with the Wii's lack of technology and lasting gameplay. 29-Jan-2008

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark says his site has been successful because it has built a culture of trust working with people. 29-Jan-2008

Downsize Windows Vista's famously large installation footprint with a free software tool. 29-Jan-2008

Some customers who pre-ordered the MacBook Air receive notification that the notebook has shipped. 29-Jan-2008

December's Patch Tuesday finds Vista in bad guys' sights. Plus: Get Office 2007 SP1, get your fix for Flash, and avoid an HP laptop disaster. 29-Jan-2008

Hands on with Via's new Artigo DIY PC kit, based on the credit-card-size Pico-ITX motherboard form factor. 29-Jan-2008

Dr. Howard Stark has moved most of his Washington-based practice onto the Web--here's how. 29-Jan-2008

A show-off posted a YouTube clip showing a motorcyclist speeding in Sussex; now it's being investigated. 29-Jan-2008

Skyfire unveiled a free mobile browser that does everything a full-fledged browser can. 29-Jan-2008

Upcoming laptops will likely have LED backlights and Blu-ray drives, but not WiMax and solid-state disks, MSI says. 29-Jan-2008

Akamai and Coradiant have announced products that help businesses eliminate Internet-related application performance bottlenecks. 29-Jan-2008

Ribbit's new Amphibian service makes phone-like voice features accessible via PC or online. 29-Jan-2008

Consumer electronics makers JVC and Funai Electric are joining forces on LCD TV production and marketing. 29-Jan-2008

Woolworths stores in the UK will no longer be stocking HD DVD titles, but they will be available online. 29-Jan-2008

Rock manager Paul McGuinness called on ISPs to crack down on illegal music downloads, share revenues with artists. 29-Jan-2008

At ISSCC next week, Intel will reveal details on a new CPU that sounds like Silverthorne--but execs won't confirm. 29-Jan-2008

Sony will neither confirm nor deny rumors that it's phasing out 80GB PS3 and ditching backward compatibility. 29-Jan-2008

The Apple iPhone can reduce the total number of devices used by employees and thus increase productivity. 29-Jan-2008

Nielsen will use its HeyNielsen site to track consumer preferences in real time for this year's Super Bowl ads. 29-Jan-2008

Microsoft announced that it would add Office 2003 SP3 to its Microsoft Update listings beginning February 27. 29-Jan-2008

EBay changes are designed to boost sales by making the shopping experience easier and safer. 29-Jan-2008

Cisco CEO John Chambers says that service providers will continue Internet build-out over the next decade. 29-Jan-2008

Apple is taking orders for an optical drive and an Ethernet adapter that plug into the MacBook Air's USB port. 29-Jan-2008

Kyocera plans to dissolve its joint venture with a Chinese parts maker, withdraw from China's handset market. 29-Jan-2008

Internet stocks have fallen in the last quarter, despite strong year-end results. 29-Jan-2008

President Bush asked Congress to extend Protect America Act, broaden protection for telecoms that cooperate with the government. 29-Jan-2008

The EU's top court ruled that telecoms do not have to reveal file-sharers' names when subpoenaed in civil cases. 29-Jan-2008

Analyst agrees that a high number of unlocked phones would affect Apple profits, but isn't sure that's the point. 29-Jan-2008

With so much traffic in cyberspace, it's about time someone blazed a direct trail to the internet. 29-Jan-2008

In which our columnist declares his loyalty to the Blu-ray camp, and readers tell us what they think. 29-Jan-2008

Your online community can help fine-tune your products. 29-Jan-2008

A Web-based information broker has been ordered to stop selling telephone records without owners' consent and to turn over nearly $200,000 in profits. 28-Jan-2008

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Latest News
AT&T has unveiled business plans for the iPhone--more costly than consumer rates but the first push for corporate customers of the smart phone. 21-Jan-2008

The huge European tech show will follow the standards of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. 21-Jan-2008

Coders can get free access to a database of translations of 22 EU languages, to help improve software. 21-Jan-2008

Strata8 is launching a service that lets enterprise cell-phone users make low-cost calls inside their offices. 21-Jan-2008

Adoption of Outlook, Exchange Server, and Sharepoint Server took a big jump in 2007, Microsoft says. 21-Jan-2008

New products and services include the 'one-stop-shop' Lotus Foundations and a partnership with SAP. 21-Jan-2008

Customers attending the MicroStrategy conference said they're pleased that the company is independent, even though its competitors have been bought by giants. 21-Jan-2008

GNUCitizen is describing an apparent vulnerability that could use VoIP to trick people into revealing personal data. 21-Jan-2008

An acquisition and an alliance give Microsoft new tools to target market leader VMware. 21-Jan-2008

Analysis: The DataPortability Workgroup ponders online about retaining rights but easing evolution. 21-Jan-2008

IT optimization vendor Integrien is set to ship 6.0 version of its Alive product. 21-Jan-2008

Big TV sales help push shipments of LCD panels to 38 percent growth, but the outlook for 2008 remains uncertain. 21-Jan-2008

Targeted spyware, network break-ins, and other digital crime pushes cyber espionage to a new level of concern. 21-Jan-2008

A technology agency is offering a $100,000 prize in a competition to develop multimedia search technologies. 21-Jan-2008

Vendors in the WiMax forum are developing a variation that broadens the spectrum of the wireless technology. 21-Jan-2008

About half of businesses surveyed are in some phase of updating to Windows Vista, a CDW study finds. 21-Jan-2008

Kyocera can use the Sanyo brand on cell phones sold in Japan and North America, in a deal a year in the making. 21-Jan-2008

The new Xeon M600 and Opteron M605 run Windows Server 2003 and Linux, and bundle OpenManage plus energy management tools. 21-Jan-2008

Sunday, January 20, 2008

The MacBook Air is a stunner, but has tough competition in ultralight PC notebooks. Check out our slide show.

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It hasn't happened in the U.S., but sevreal international cities have sustained attacks on utility systems--along with extortion demands.

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The wired instrument isn't digital, but it can stream Internet radio--for a price. 20-Jan-2008

HTC reports it sold last year 2 million of the Microsoft-based smartphones developed to compete with iPhone. 20-Jan-2008

IGG Software's iBank 3 update supports transactions via iPhone as well as the newest Mac OS. 20-Jan-2008

In electronic form, the popular hymnal Mission Praise can be searched, downloaded, and shared. 20-Jan-2008

Tango X2 provides a dock and speaker system for the Apple iPod, among other XtremeMac add-ons. 20-Jan-2008

The chipmaker is upbeat about growth prospects in Asia, but is also watching the economic developments in the U.S. 20-Jan-2008

Each vendor spins the year-end results to its advantage, but Sony had to scramble hardest. 20-Jan-2008

The new audio and video player has a smaller screen, function list, and price tag than Apple's entry. 20-Jan-2008

Pizza Hut's cell and Web orders aren't unique but they're widespread--and the firm expects mobile orders are the future. 19-Jan-2008

Wii games from third parties aren't selling, despite the console's popularity, developer says. 19-Jan-2008

Analysis: Sun broadens its open source stake, while MySQL enjoys Sun's standing and budget. 19-Jan-2008

When the bookseller reclaims its site's management, new features, deals, and designs are in the offing. 19-Jan-2008

The SenseCam is no tourist's point-and-shoot, but may help give Alzheimer's patients a photographic assist. 19-Jan-2008

Spammers may have found a way to thwart the CAPTCHA image-recognition system commonly used to combat spam. 19-Jan-2008

Report describes broadband rollout trends, maps availability, and recommends deployment strategy. 19-Jan-2008

Thieves have stolen two laptops containing unencrypted Social Security numbers of 337,000 Tennessee residents. 19-Jan-2008

Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands. 19-Jan-2008

Scientists identify dogs' emotions and say technology could help them better communicate with humans. 19-Jan-2008

The laptop with personal information on about 600,000 people was stolen from an officer in the Royal Navy. 19-Jan-2008