 | dot.Rory | Source: BBC - Feb 08 2010 | | | Who else will use BT's broadband network? | |
| | NetEase suspends new user registration for hit game | Source: Reuters - Feb 08 2010 | | | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's third-largest online game operator NetEase.com said it has suspended new user registration for World of Warcraft (WoW) in China and will reapply for a license to operate the expansion pack of Activision Blizzard's hit gam... | |
| | NetEase suspends new user registration for hit game (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | Reuters - China's third-largest online game operator NetEase.com said it has suspended new user registration for World of Warcraft (WoW) in China and will reapply for a license to operate the expansion pack of Activision Blizzard's hit game. | |
| | Endeavour lifts off on two-week mission | Source: CNN - Feb 08 2010 | | | Mission managers loaded the crew into the space shuttle Endeavour early Monday for a second attempt in as many days at getting into orbit. | |
| | Shuttle makes final night flight | Source: BBC - Feb 08 2010 | | | The US space agency (Nasa) has launched its shuttle Endeavour on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). | |
| | Robo-soldiers | Source: BBC - Feb 08 2010 | | | Can 'well-behaved' robots make the battlefield safer? | |
| | Endeavour prepares for second go | Source: BBC - Feb 08 2010 | | | After poor weather thwarted Sunday's lift-off, the space shuttle Endeavour is fuelled for another launch attempt. | |
| | Computing Ace | Source: BBC - Feb 08 2010 | | | The computer that laid the foundations of the internet | |
| | Amazon reshelves Macmillan titles but not e-books | Source: Reuters - Feb 08 2010 | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc resumed selling hardcover and paperback books from Macmillan Publishers late on Friday in a sign the two companies are getting closer to resolving a pricing dispute over Macmillan's electronic books,... | |
| | Amazon reshelves Macmillan titles but not e-books (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | Reuters - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc resumed selling hardcover and paperback books from Macmillan Publishers late on Friday in a sign the two companies are getting closer to resolving a pricing dispute over Macmillan's electronic books, which... | |
| | IT glitch causes more tax errors | Source: BBC - Feb 08 2010 | | | Revenue staff tip off Radio 4's Money Box that there are more tax code problems than their bosses are admitting to. | |
| | Google Runs First Super Bowl Commercial | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | With millions watching, Google ran their first Super Bowl Commercial entitled "Parisian Love". If it looks familiar, that's because it's one of their "Search Stories" ads which was uploaded to YouTube back in November. Y... | |
| | View Twitter Reaction Of Super Bowl Ads | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | Mullen and Radian6 have partnered to launch BrandBowl2010, a Twitter/Super Bowl event that combines tweeting, ad reviews and a number of rankings that will allow users to see near real-time ratings of the TV commercials airing during the game. Users... | |
| | China shuts down hacking website | Source: BBC - Feb 08 2010 | | | Three people are arrested as China's largest training website for hackers is shut down, state media reports. | |
| | eBay Launches Series of Seller Events | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | eBay is starting a new series of events to help small businesses and part-time eBay sellers "accelerate their businesses" on eBay, which has 90 million active users. The series is called eBay: On Location, and has dates set for Atlanta, Dal... | |
| | Google Sets Target For Real-Time Translator Phones | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | If you think about it, it'd be slightly inaccurate to say that phones let people all over the world communicate with each other; current tech just transmits sounds, not their significance. But Google's looking to knock down language barriers wi... | |
| | Internet prompts the publishing itch in over-60s | Source: Reuters - Feb 08 2010 | | | LONDON (Reuters) - The Internet is helping older British readers rekindle a love of books and writing, and an overwhelming majority of senior citizens see the medium as a positive development, according to a survey. | |
| | Disney, Google eye stake in China bus media firm | Source: Reuters - Feb 08 2010 | | | HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A consortium led by Walt Disney Co. is in advanced talks to buy into China's largest in-bus digital media and advertising company, a deal that could offer the U.S. entertainment giant a new platform to promote Mickey Mo... | |
| | NY Governor is not resigning: spokeswoman (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | Reuters - New York Governor David Paterson is not planning to resign, his spokeswoman Marissa Shorenstein said on Monday, calling blog reports to that effect "entirely fabricated." | |
| | Man Pleads Guilty to 'Pump-and-Dump' Hack | Source: TechWeb - Feb 08 2010 | | | pump and dump scheme.An Indian man has pleaded guilty to charges he conspired to hack into online brokerage accounts and manipulate stock prices in a "pump and dump" scheme.]]> | |
| | [WATCH] Super Bowl 2010 Commercials | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | Super Bowl XLIV had numerous memorable moments: the onside kick, the missed field goal, the Garçon drop, and the truly horrendous half-time show to name a few. But, for many viewers Super Bowl commercials leave the same lasting impact as the g... | |
| | Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader to hit stores | Source: Reuters - Feb 08 2010 | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc said on Monday that its Nook electronic reader would be available in most of its physical stores as of Wednesday, ahead of Valentine's Day, ending weeks of delays. | |
| | Nokia Targeted in US Class Action Suit | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | A class action complaint against Nokia alleges the company committed securities fraud when describing its operations in 2008. | |
| | 'Off grid' brings power to the people | Source: CNN - Feb 08 2010 | | | The price of power has always been a political issue -- but now campaigners argue it could be the key to starting a green energy revolution. | |
| | NASA administrator concerned about potential job losses | Source: CNN - Feb 08 2010 | | | On the eve of Sunday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said he supports President Obama's goal of making the space industry a commercial venture, but is concerned about potential job losses at the agency. | |
| | 'MAG' brings worldwide war to PS3 | Source: CNN - Feb 08 2010 | | | If you subscribe to the adages "the more, the merrier" or "bigger is better," then you should be plenty happy with Sony's MAG -- a PlayStation 3 exclusive that lets you battle with up to 256 players over the Internet in a number of near-future skirmi... | |
| | Internet prompts the publishing itch in over-60s (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | Reuters - The Internet is helping older British readers rekindle a love of books and writing, and an overwhelming majority of senior citizens see the medium as a positive development, according to a survey. | |
| | Google Ads Level the Playing Field | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | Super Bowl ads have a massive audience and draw a lot of attention, but Web-based ads are more targeted and cost-effective, and level the marketing playing field for smaller businesses. | |
| | Looking Back at 20 Years of Adobe Photoshop | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | Adobe Photoshop is so intrinsic to our daily digital lives these days, you might find it hard to believe that the program is just two decades old. In the 20... | |
| | Apple and the Importance of Macworld Expo | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | This week, Macworld Expo opens in San Francisco. And, as everyone likely knows, it's a particularly significant episode of Expo because Apple will not be counted... | |
| | Twitpics in Space | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | A space station astronaut shares his stunning view of Earth sights via Twitter. | |
| | 2010: The Year of the Display Ad for Google? | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | This could be the year of the display ad. That's not to say that display ads aren't prevalent every year, but Google has only been involved with that for a little while, and if analysts' projections are accurate, this will be the year that Google's d... | |
| | Google May Invest In Chinese Media/Ad Firm | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | A little less than a month ago, Google announced that it might shut down Google.cn and its offices in China. The search giant may not be giving up on the country entirely, however, as a new report has indicated that it's part of a group attempt... | |
| | China: Hacker training site shut down | Source: CNN - Feb 08 2010 | | | Police in China have shut down what is believed to be the largest Web site for training computer hackers, according to local media reports. | |
| | Google-France book partnership stirs fears | Source: CNN - Feb 08 2010 | | | A proposed partnership between the French government and Google is stoking fears in France that the country's literary treasures will fall under commercial control of a U.S. technology company. | |
| | Online TV Shows May Get More Ad-Heavy | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | For the most part, online video has been much less ad-heavy than television programming. It is this very fact that has likely been a large part of the medium's popularity. Things may be changing, however. According to Advertising Age, Nielsen is ... | |
| | High-tech kept the Super Bowl on track | Source: CNN - Feb 08 2010 | | | As the players, coaches and halftime performers -- not to mention the Lombardi Trophy -- made their way to Miami's Sun Life Stadium for the Super Bowl on Sunday, Jerry Hunter and company were keeping a close eye on them. | |
| | Barnes & Noble Nook Now In Stock Online | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | Barnes & Noble said today its nook e-reader is now in stock online and will be rolling out in the majority of its stores by mid-week. Barnes & Noble sold out of nook stock online over the holidays due to high demand, which exceeded the boo... | |
| | Google's Next Venture: Universal Translator (PC World) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | PC World - Google wants to pioneer the first smartphone technology to translate foreign languages almost instantly, the search giant told British daily The Times. The technology will be able to convert spoken words into a different language in real t... | |
| | Top 5 Super Bowl Ads | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | Everybody's got their favorites; here are our nominees for this year's standouts. | |
| | World War II navigation system dies | Source: CNN - Feb 08 2010 | | | The U.S. Coast Guard is shutting down a mapping service called Loran-C, which has been in use since World War II. Some advocates say killing Loran will make the U.S. too reliant on its replacement: GPS. | |
| | Super Bowl Ad Tweets Determine Brand Effectiveness | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | As WebProNews reported, Mullen and Radian6 partnered to launch BrandBowl2010, a Twitter/Super Bowl event that allowed users to see near real-time ratings of the Super Bowls commercials. The two companies have now released the results. They determi... | |
| | Android's Market Share Growing By Leaps And Bounds | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | In many ways, the last traces of the 2009 holiday season have disappeared - you won't find many decorations up, presents out, or leftovers refrigerated (we hope). comScore's just released a report concerning the mobile market, though, and the s... | |
| | RealPlayer SP Beta Now out for Mac | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | On Monday, RealNetworks released a beta of RealPlayer SP for the Mac, the latest version of the company's free multimedia playback software. | |
| | China 'jails porn website operator for 13 years' (AFP) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | AFP - China has sentenced a man who operated a porn website to 13 years in jail and fined him 100,000 yuan (15,000 dollars), state media said, amid an ongoing campaign to crack down on online sexual content. | |
| | Global Mobile Broadband Traffic Up 72% | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | Worldwide mobile data bandwidth usage increased by 72 percent in the second half of 2009, according to a new report by Allot Communications. Applications such as YouTube and Skype are driving this continued momentum in mobile broadband growth. APA... | |
| | US man indicted for threats to Hispanic groups (AFP) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | AFP - A man who went by the Internet pseudonym "Devilfish579" has been charged with threatening Hispanic groups in the United States in a series of hostile emails, the Justice Department said Monday. | |
| | iPad Interest Evaporates, But Math is Fuzzy | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | Apple's iPad has piqued public interest — but not convinced many folks to buy one, according to a new study. But do the study's numbers really add up? | |
| | Black Hawk Down: China Busted Hacker-Training Site (NewsFactor) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | NewsFactor - The Chinese government has arrested three hackers who were running an online hacker-training business. The trio of hackers operated Black Hawk Safety Net, a company that collected nearly $1 million from more than 120,000 members. | |
| | I Love the 80s: InfoWorld's Golden Age | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | Thanks to Google Books, InfoWorld's entire print run is now available to peruse. Take a trip down memory lane with these standout issues from 1984 – 1985. | |
| | Why e-Books Must Cost More | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | If e-books are to successfully replace paper, it won't happen at Amazon's $9.99 e-book pricing. Thank Steve Jobs for opening the door to higher prices. | |
| | Nook E-Reader Heads to Barnes & Noble Stores (NewsFactor) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | NewsFactor - Barnes & Noble said Monday that its popular nook e-book reader is back in stock online and will be rolling out in the majority of the bookseller's U.S. stores this week. Customers also will be able to enjoy exclusive Valentine... | |
| | Report: Google to Make Gmail More Social (PC World) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | PC World - Google plans to tweak Gmail to make it easier for its users to post and share status updates, in an attempt to inject the Web mail service with social-networking capabilities popularized by Twitter and Facebook, according to The Wall Stree... | |
| | Why PayPal Is Blocking Payments to India | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | In the curious case of PayPal blocking and reversing payments to and from India, bloggers crowdsource some possible explanations. | |
| | FAQ: Amazon vs. Macmillan -- The IPad Wins | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | The uproar between Amazon.com and publishing house Macmillan over the price of e-books may be the precursor to more marketing battles as Apple's iPad enters... | |
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| | IHound Aims to Help You Find Your Missing IPhone | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | If you're outside Moscone Center for this week's Macworld Expo, and someone hands you a "Lost iPhone" sticker, don't toss it away. It could help you track down... | |
| | Keep Clear of Craigslist Scams | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | Learn from these disastrous Craigslist experiences and avoid getting bilked, bamboozled, conned, swindled, and otherwise screwed on the Web's most popular classified site. | |
| | Windows 7 Just Being Honest About Battery Life | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | Microsoft has looked into reported issues with Windows 7 battery life and determined that users are simply caught off guard by Windows 7 more accurate battery life reporting. | |
| | China plans online gambling crackdown (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | Reuters - China plans to crack down on the online gambling industry, including the banks and websites that support it, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement posted on its website. | |
| | China plans online gambling crackdown | Source: Reuters - Feb 08 2010 | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to crack down on the online gambling industry, including the banks and websites that support it, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement posted on its website. | |
| | Apple iPad Price Cut: Blunder or Brilliance? | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | Is Apple really planning to cut the price of its iPad tablet? We don't know, but one thing is sure: Apple should take price action before sales begin, not after. | |
| | Smartphone keys get quantum trick | Source: BBC - Feb 08 2010 | | | A quantum physics trick is set to give smartphones and hand-held devices pressure-sensitive switches and touchscreens. | |
| | Iran's resistance keeps up cat-and-mouse web game (Reuters) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | Reuters - With their paths through the Internet increasingly blocked by government filters, Nooshin and her fellow Iranian opposition-supporters say their information on planned protests now comes in emails. | |
| | Iran's resistance keeps up cat-and-mouse web game | Source: Reuters - Feb 08 2010 | | | TEHRAN (Reuters) - With their paths through the Internet increasingly blocked by government filters, Nooshin and her fellow Iranian opposition-supporters say their information on planned protests now comes in emails. | |
| | Spanish Telecom May Seek To Charge Search Engines | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | The CEO of Spanish telecom company Telefonica might soon try to obtain some money from Google and its rivals. Cesar Alierta said today that search engines' popularity creates something of a burden for his organization, and that he'd like Telefo... | |
| | Online Video Views are Not "Lost" on ABC.com | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | Last Tuesday, the season premiere of the hit television show "Lost" aired, and not only was it watched by over 12 million people, but it drove record online viewing at ABC.com the next day, with over 580,000 episode starts on the site. That... | |
| | Reasons to Have a Facebook Page and Ways to Make it Better | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | I don't have to tell you that Facebook can be a tremendous source of web traffic. There's a good chance that most of the people you know are on it, and the ones who aren't may be eventually. The social network is consuming more and more of people's t... | |
| | TuneWiki Lands Investment From Motorola | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | Social media music player TuneWiki has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Motorola Ventures, the strategic investment arm of Motorola. Other new investors of TuneWiki include Intellect Capital Ventures, a venture fund initiative of Tel... | |
| | Canon Adds Fun Features to New PowerShot Cameras | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | A "miniature mode," a fish-eye lens simulator, and a setting that lets you control the camera by winking are among the new tricks offered in Canon's 2010 PowerShot line. | |
| | Google's First Super Bowl Ad Shows its Softer Side (PC World) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | PC World - Google doesn't tend to show itself off. Why would it need to? It's a household name, often synonymous with search, the go-to search engine. Even if Google didn't flood the news on an almost daily basis, at this point, it'... | |
| | Miley Cyrus, other celebs auction items for Haiti (AP) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | AP - Miley Cyrus has organized an online auction to benefit the relief effort in Haiti, and Britney Spears, Hugh Jackman, Ellen DeGeneres, Julianne Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Lovato and others will donate items and experiences. | |
| | SAP Hits Reset Button With CEO Change | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | Major changes for the better are coming at SAP following the departure of CEO Leo Apotheker, co-founder Hasso Plattner said Monday. | |
| | Get Quick Access to Recently Used Items | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | Your Mac is full of files, folders, and applications, and it's always an annoyance to spend time looking for the items you need. OS X offers many tools (for... | |
| | Open Ebook Battle Ends, but the War Continues | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | The Great Amazon Delisting may be coming to an end, according to the New York Times. What no one can quite understand is why it happened at all, or took so long... | |
| | Perplexed by Permissions | Source: PCWorld - Feb 08 2010 | | | Reader Paul Moortgat's Mac appears to be unhappy with a new hard drive. He writes: | |
| | MySpace Music experiments with audio ads (AP) | Source: Yahoo! - Feb 08 2010 | | | AP - Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear before listening to music for free online. | |
| | Is Google Launching a Competitor for Facebook/Twitter? | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | Google is rumored to be working on a Facebook/Twitter-like feature for Gmail. According to the Wall Street Journal, who cites "people familiar with the matter", the feature, which would "make it easier and faster" to share status ... | |
| | Facebook Version Of "Madden" Game In The Works | Source: WebProNews - Feb 08 2010 | | | The most popular video game franchise of all time is heading to Facebook. The end result probably won't boast the lifelike graphics and complicated controls to which longtime fans have become accustomed, but Peter Moore, the president of EA Spo... | |
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