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On Thursday, entertainment trade publication Variety reported that an executive from film studio Lionsgate said the Wii could be equipped to stream movies as early as this year. Are movies next?(Credit: GameSpot)"The thing that is clearly a force in digital are the game devices," Curt Marvis, president of digital media for Lionsgate, told Variety. "I think when we see the Wii come into the market

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SAN FRANCISCO--Memristors are arguably the most important thing HP Labs is working on--it could fundamentally change the memory chip industry--but its director has no problem talking about it openly. 3 day potty trainingWhile most hardcore research on future products is kept under heavy guard until it can be patented, HP Labs is insisting that forward-thinking technology research has to be done

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Muziik is a new free music service--started by a 15-year-old and his dad--that uses music from YouTube clips. CNET News intern Erik Palm talks to reporter Greg Sandoval about how it works and what some of the obstacles could be. Plus, the mother of another 15-year-old boy has sued Apple because her son's 16GB iPod Touch allegedly blew up in his pants pocket, dana carvey leaving him burned.

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This is a story about Jerry Jalava, a Finnish software developer who lost part of his finger in a motorcycle accident last July. According to his friend, Henri Bergius, when the surgeon assigned to work on Jalava's prosthetic finger discovered his hacking history, he made a clever suggestion: incorporate a USB key into the new digit.The prosthetic finger contains a 2GB USB key, and Jalava also

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The authors of the latest variant of the Conficker worm are upping the ante against security vendors who are working to stop the spread and threat of the persistent program. Conficker.C shuts down security services, a new way forward blocks computers from connecting to security Web sites, and downloads a Trojan. It also is programmed to begin connecting to 50,000 different domains on April 1 to

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There is now a lot more about Mars to view in Google Earth than there was just a month ago.Google announced Friday a major update to show more details of Mars both in its history and the present day. Originally the 3D maps of Mars were available with the release of Google Earth 5.0, just a little more than a month ago. The update shows how our knowledge of Mars, wkyt and our study of astronomy,

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Killzone 2 is being celebrated by video game journalists as one of the greatest first-person shooters ever released, but the game--which takes place on Planet Helghan as war erupts all over the world--is catching some fire of its own here on Earth, around Toronto.According to a report in The Star, indicted a Toronto newspaper, Pauline Johnson Junior Public School officials e-mailed Sony Canada

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The Symbian Foundation committed itself to an aggressive operating release schedule Friday, promising a new version of the open-source OS every six months for the next several years. Symbian is the world's most widely used smartphone operating system, but it has been losing ground to rivals like Apple, vince shlomi Research in Motion, and Microsoft in recent months. Last year Nokia, formerly

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Facebook users just don't seem to be as young as they used to be. And they're going to the social-networking site a lot more often.A new report from traffic tracker Hitwise shows that U.S. visits to Facebook grew 149 percent in February compared with the same month a year earlier. That pushed Facebook's market share among folks in the United States visiting social-networking Web sites to 36

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Apple got people talking this week on topics ranging from the merits (and demerits) of the tiny new buttonless iPod Shuffle to predictions about what it has in store for an upcoming iPhone 3.0 event. Technology watchers--particularly those focused on trends in gadgetry--put on a collective smile Tuesday morning when Apple announced its latest version of the iPod Shuffle. The grin wasn't

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Not everyone is as lucky as we are to work adjacent to a hotel with a fresh supply of taxicabs pulling up to its curb. When you're stuck without a ride, cab-calling applications can make ordering a taxi through local companies a surer, safer thing than throwing yourself in the middle of a darkened street and flailing your arms wildly.A recent application we've looked at, RideCharge for BlackBerry

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Not everyone is as lucky as we are to work adjacent to a hotel with a fresh supply of taxicabs pulling up to its curb. When you're stuck without a ride, cab-calling applications can make ordering a taxi through local companies a surer, job listing safer thing than throwing yourself in the middle of a darkened street and flailing your arms wildly.A recent application we've looked at, RideCharge

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Apple developers have been having a tough time renewing their iPhone development licenses, according to reports. For them, tom izzo the company had some good news Friday: the licensing for all developers has been extended to July 11--one year after the opening of the iTunes App Store. Additionally, Apple announced that licensing renewals will begin in May, a full 60 days prior to the developer

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If you like Google Reader, but would prefer to keep it from taking up an oh-so-important tab in your browser, you'll definitely like GReader Popup. This experimental Firefox extension pulls up a version of Google Reader that sits atop any page you have open. You can plow through feeds using all the usual keyboard shortcuts you would in Google Reader. william rast Then, when done, you simply click

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I arrived at the Austin Convention Center 45 minutes before the start of a talk on Friday afternoon that I was hoping to catch, "The Ecosystem of News" led by Outside.in founder Steven Johnson. Unfortunately, willie aames that wasn't enough time: the line-waiting time was clocking in at around an hour.By the time I made it over to the room where Johnson's talk was being held, the room was full

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AUSTIN, Texas--The future of news is not breadlines for journalists, a lack of reporting on politicians' scandals, and a dearth of coverage of what's really going on behind the lines of wars around the world. In fact, a surprisingly optimistic author Steven Johnson said Friday during his talk, "The Ecosystem of News," at the South by Southwest Interactive festival (SXSWi), there's actually a

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On Tuesday, Microsoft released a patch for a hole in Windows 2000 and Server 2003 and 2008 that could allow an attacker to redirect network traffic to a malicious site that has been set to serve as a proxy. The vulnerability, rated important by Microsoft, allows IT managers to set a Windows Proxy Auto-Discovery, or WPAD, entry in the DNS. breville citrus press If IE or Firefox are configured to "

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When President Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law 11 years ago, he predicted it will "protect from digital piracy the copyright industries that comprise the leading export of the United States." The DMCA turned out to be much broader than that. ralph wilson This week, an e-book Web site said Amazon.com invoked the 1998 law to prevent books from some non-Amazon sources

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I've always been a little suspicious of the Scout movement.The uniforms. The slightly too correct and frightfully ancient hairstyles of some of the senior members. The Scout Promise that gets boys to promise: "To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, irving r levine and morally straight." And gets every girl to declare she will: "respect myself and others, respect authority, use

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The Linux Foundation's "We're Linux" ad campaign has entered its final hours, with submissions due at midnight Sunday Pacific time.The Linux Foundation has received more than 40 user-generated video submissions that I and the other judges will begin reviewing next week. foxy knoxy The winner will be announced April 8.To learn a bit more about the Linux Foundation's motivations in starting the

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Baseball season is almost under way. So it's time we all get online and start forming our fantasy leagues. Perennial favorite sites from ESPN, Yahoo, and MLB.com will probably top the list for most people when they decide which service to use, but more goes into fantasy baseball than simply signing up for leagues. whitestone bridge What about stats? Did you forget about the news? Did you happen

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Sometimes our best intentions give way to our worst, for a wide variety of reasons. This is as true of corporate amalgamations of individuals as it is of those individuals on their own, and it's as true for open-source companies as it is for proprietary companies.bo burnhamCommunity is the tonic that keeps corporate aspirations in line, just as community helps to keep individuals walking the

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"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart ran a clip of stock commentator Jim Cramer, in which Cramer explained how to manipulate the markets, true mom confessions including Apple's shares. Stewart showed the clip on Thursday during the now-infamous interview of Cramer. Here is the full clip for your enjoyment/depression/entertainment.

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It might just be another weekend for you, but it is another 48 hours toward the quickstep of his life for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Those who have become intimately entwined (and there's not enough of you--more on that in a short while) with the Woz's quixotic quest for glory on "Dancing with the Stars" will know that he has experienced a week sent by Satan. billy donovanThe judges on the

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I just read that in-game advertising company IGA Worldwide is struggling. Obviously the economic downturn isn't helping anyone. josh blue But video games have stayed strong and as more games use Internet connections for new content, one would expect such a company to be doing well. It appears that if IGA falters it may be its own fault, having made some bad deals for upfront payments. But that's

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AUSTIN, Texas--By now, the story of how Twitter exploded onto the scene at the 2007 South by Southwest festival is legend in technology circles. But here at SXSW 2009, the notion of the perfect match among community, service, and event seems flipped on its head.willie aames Many people are discovering that a monumental oversaturation of tweets is reversing the value that Twitter offered at SXSW

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Kayak has a new iPhone application that gives mobile users the same travel search tools found on its Web site. The company is pitching it as a way for passengers who have been stranded at an airport to quickly find and book another flight. I look at it as a better way to navigate travel sites that do not play well with the iPhone's sometimes finicky browser, apple ipod 30gb video which is nice

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St. Patrick's Day is a popular day for "celebrations" and realizing that, Boost Mobile has those who want to party covered. According to the company, it will offer the #TAXI feature on all Boost Mobile phones free of charge on St. Patrick's Day. Upon dialing #-8-2-9-4, Boost Mobile users will be connected automatically to the first available cab company in their area.vvs laxman The feature will

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Google has begun showing ads on search results at its Picasa site for sharing photos, part of its gradual expansion of advertising across its numerous Web properties. Pages for photos and galleries doesn't show ads, but search results do for some people. The ads are located in a yellow-tinted "sponsored links" section above the photo results for some in the United States. (See screenshot below.)

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Security experts warned on Monday of a new insidious e-mail scam that features false information about a bomb explosion in the recipient's hometown and leads to a malicious Web site. The subject lines include "Take Care!" and "Are you and your friends in good health?" The e-mail includes a link to what looks like a news article on a Reuters page about the bombing. But the Web page and the news

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SpiralFrog, a pioneer in offering ad-supported music downloads, is at a crossroads as management is in danger of losing control of the company. According to multiple sources, including current and former employees, the company's founder and chairman, easter Joe Mohen, has told associates and friends that he may be forced to hand the company over to investors. The sources also said that Mohen has

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Piper Jaffray has analyzed a month's worth of NPD Group data on Apple's Mac sales during February, and is projecting that Apple will sell between 2 million and 2.2 million Macs during the first calendar quarter of the year, which ends in a couple of weeks.robert stewart That's the same number it was working with based on January's NPD figures, and the estimates would range from a 13 percent

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With about $30 billion in cash to spend, John Chambers is not in any mood to walk on eggshells. And so it is that with Monday's bold announcement to offer its own server hardware, Cisco's CEO is taking on Hewlett-Packard and IBM,alameda fire among others. Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Jon Oltsik puts the news in perspective

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In an ironic twist, Kevin Mitnick, a social engineering master who went to jail for impersonating others to get information to access computer networks without authorization, couldn't access his own Facebook account for weeks because administrators at the social networking site didn't believe he was who he said he was."It has frustrated me to no end. heiman I used to be very influential at

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AUSTIN, Texas--Given that you can't walk more than a couple feet at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) festival here without stumbling into someone tapping away on one iPhone application or another,nicole steinwedell it's easy to forget that just a year ago, there was no such thing as an official iPhone "app." But now, of course, iPhone apps are one of the hottest technology segments of

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Mozilla had planned to release its new "Shiretoko" version of Firefox in early 2009, but with the scale of changes made to the open-source browser,kensington stone a date halfway through the year now looks more realistic. After releasing Firefox 3.1 beta 3 last week, the organization behind the browser said a fourth beta is planned--and with the new version number 3.5. "There are no plans for a

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Updated at 5:20 a.m. PDT with Phil Schiller keynote info.When it was first announced that Steve Jobs was taking a leave of absence I was interviewed for an ABC affiliate about the prospects of Apple without Jobs. What would happen? Would he be missed? Was Apple vulnerable? Sadly, I can't say that I came up with any earth-shattering sound bites. sherri coale I said Apple would be fine in the short

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If you're a Flickr user who delights in the simplicity of using TwitPic to take pictures in various mobile Twitter applications, you'll dig TwitPickr. This simple tool lets you republish any shots you've sent to TwitPic over to your Flickr account.To begin, you simply drop in your Twitter username and it pulls up all the shots you've posted to TwitPic. final four Then you just check off the ones

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Amid the recession and layoffs, there are some glimpses of employment hope and opportunities to help you make informed decisions on what technology to spend money.Sony Electronics and Comcast announced Sunday that they have partnered to open a unique retail experience in Philadelphia.the mumps The store is named Sony Style Comcast Labs and will serve as a place where consumers can learn about

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Amid the recession and layoffs, there are some glimpses of employment hope and opportunities to help you make informed decisions on what technology to spend money.Sony Electronics and Comcast announced Sunday that they have partnered to open a unique retail experience in Philadelphia.eastbound and down episode 7 The store is named Sony Style Comcast Labs and will serve as a place where consumers

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You can reduce the conclusions from the sixth annual report on the state of the U.S. news media to a couple of words: Infinitely bleak.And that's taking the optimistic view. The 180,000-word report by he Project for Excellence in Journalism comes against a backdrop of newspaper closings and staff reductions around the country. michael czysz It just so happens that this week also marks the Seattle

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You can reduce the conclusions from the sixth annual report on the state of the U.S. news media to a couple of words: Infinitely bleak.And that's taking the optimistic view. The 180,000-word report by he Project for Excellence in Journalism comes against a backdrop of newspaper closings and staff reductions around the country. It just so happens that this week also marks the Seattle

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Microsoft became a true cloud provider this past weekend as it experienced nearly 22 hours of downtime on its fledgling Azure Services Platform. The cause of the outage has not yet been disclosed to the general public or the Azure user community. In contrast to on-premise systems, cal poly map in which the user is responsible for dealing with infrastructure problems, a big part of the appeal of

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Microsoft became a true cloud provider this past weekend as it experienced nearly 22 hours of downtime on its fledgling Azure Services Platform.business ethics The cause of the outage has not yet been disclosed to the general public or the Azure user community. In contrast to on-premise systems, in which the user is responsible for dealing with infrastructure problems, a big part of the appeal of

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AUSTIN, Texas--IMDb founder Col Needham said the massively popular movie database has set as its major goal for the future to add one-button streaming for all of the 1.3 million titles it indexes. family guy season 7 episode 11 Obviously, the vision is a long-term one, Needham acknowledged, and it faces hurdles from the slew of content owners who control the vast library of titles the Internet

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NEW YORK--At first glance Cisco Systems' latest announcement that it's entering the server market seems like another boring corporate IT announcement, but take a closer look. The company's long-term vision of a "virtualized" data center could eventually revolutionize how consumers will one day access new services via the Net.First, let's look at what Cisco actually announced. will wheaton On

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LiveJournal warned its users on Monday that lapsed Hotmail accounts are to blame for bloggers having their LiveJournal accounts hijacked."Recently some journals and communities have been broken into,bully beat down episode 2 their contents deleted, and their owners locked out," LiveJournal said in an e-mail to its users. "The problem appears to stem from Hotmail's policy of recycling inactive

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GoodGuide, the service that tells you how environmentally friendly your bottle of shampoo or other household product is, now tracks food items. And not just nutritional content either. The site puts food items up against the same microscope it does for all the other products in its database, showing you how a food item stacks up against others in the same category,who s nailin palin and what kind

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One can hardly find a better symbol of the music industry's crossover from physical CDs to digital downloads than the intersection of San Francisco's Stockton and Market streets. On one corner sits a Virgin Megastore, guitar hero metallica commercial once an icon of hipness and high-end music tastes. Now it looks more like a schlock discounter. Signs blare from the facade: "Store Closing" and "Up

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year and a half after I first blogged about ticket brokers and the free market, the rest of the world is finally catching on to the fact that scalping isn't going away. A lot has happened in the intervening time--Live Nation emerged as a competitor to Ticketmaster, then agreed to merge with Ticketmaster,business ethics and The Wall Street Journal has published a couple of articles exposing the

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Y Combinator on Monday announced that it has raised a $2 million venture fund with the aid of Sequoia Capital and angel investors. In making the announcement, mtv true life Y Combinator noted that it plans to increase the number of start-ups it funds to 60 a year, up from 40. For Web services and software start-ups, that may bode well. Y Combinator focuses its investments on those two sectors and

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Updated March 17 9:45 a.m. PST with Comcast saying there were 700 customer names on the list.A list of 700 usernames and passwords for Comcast customers was removed from document-sharing Web site Scribd on Monday,will wheaton two months after it was posted there.Scribd removed the list of what initially looked like thousands of passwords and usernames after being contacted by Brad Stone at The

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The Roku Digital Video Player may be getting as many as 10 new Internet video-on-demand channels by the end of 2009.who s nailin palin So says Roku vice president Tim Twerdahl in an interview with U.S. News & World Report. The Roku Player was originally a Netflix-only device, but it recently added Amazon Video On Demand. The U.S. News story reports Roku has "quietly distributed a development kit

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There has been something of an outpouring of bile directed at NBC for its decision to change the name of the Sci-Fi channel to Syfy.I will attempt to forget, for at least a moment, configure worm that "Syf" is the Polish word for "total bloody mess." (It seems to have its roots in the lesions of syphilis.) And "Syfy" would be, well, the plural.Then I'll feel free to admit that the name change

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Bitstream launched the public beta of its Bolt mobile browser about a month ago at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Since then, the browser for Java-enabled phones, like BlackBerry and Nokia handsets, has attracted almost 300,000 beta users and rendered over 15 million pages.the waiting roomBolt's browser doesn't look like a game-changer, at least not compared with Skyfire when it

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AUSTIN, Texas--"I couldn't be any more psyched for how it's taken off," FourSquare founder Dennis Crowley said of his brand-new mobile social-networking application, which made its public debut here at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. "It's been, like, equis 5,000 times better than I expected."We were wearing bathing suits. A fellow hardcore FourSquare user, media consultant Rex

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Just over two months after Dell first showed off Adamo at the Consumer Electronics Show, the company says the notebook will be available for order starting Tuesday. Adamo is Latin for "to fall in love with" or "covet." jon glaser And of course that's what Dell hopes consumers will do when they see the sleek lines and extra attention to design details it's showered on this notebook. It also adds

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The Adamo is clean. Unlike almost every other Windows laptop you can buy, it has no "Designed for Windows" or "Intel Inside" stickers glued to the palm rest. Turn it over, and instead of a jigsaw puzzle of FCC approval stickers, serial number tags, and Microsoft certifications, loews hotel there's a metal builder's plate with Dell, Intel, and Microsoft logos subtly printed on it. There's even a

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It is very hard to imagine Steve Wozniak with his tails between his legs.But I feared that it would happen several times during a quickstep that was more of a frenetic step on his second performance for "Dancing with the Stars." Dancing on a fractured left foot, he threw himself into his Buddy Holly-inspired "Oh, Boy" routine with all the gusto of a drunken chef who had stumbled into trials for

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Twitter's OAuth interface is now open to all developers, enabling more secure access to the service via its application programming interface from third-party Web sites. Alex Payne, Twitter's API leader, made the announcement in--what else--a tweet Monday. OAuth is an open standard for online authentication. It enables a user who stores information such as a password on a particular Web site to

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Twitter's OAuth interface is now open to all developers, enabling more secure access to the service via its application programming interface from third-party Web sites. Alex Payne, Twitter's API leader, made the announcement in--what else--a tweet Monday. OAuth is an open standard for online authentication. It enables a user who stores information such as a password on a particular Web site to

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AUSTIN, Texas--A couple of days ago I wrote a story suggesting that the Twitter saturation level here at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) festival was so high that the service's value was being affected. Now, after four full days here, kent kresa I think that conclusion is worth a reality check: Twitter is out-and-out dominating SXSWi. To be sure, the massive numbers of tweets that are

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BOSTON--Despite the growing enthusiasm for home wind turbines, an analysis of microwind turbines in Massachusetts found that they fell short of performance expectations. The Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust commissioned a study last year to review electricity output from 21 small wind turbines in the state and the results were surprising: the data showed that the estimated production was

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A lot is happening on Facebook. Not only are your friends telling the world what's going on in their lives, but the social network itself is changing. It's more open now than before, thanks to the Facebook Connect program, and there are several good products that let you see Facebook data in new ways. You don't have to use Facebook.com to use Facebook anymore. paul ridley Here are some of the

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Police Blotter is a regular CNET report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Facebook photograph shows part-time teaching aide at Ohio high school with three cheerleaders holding Smirnoff bottles. When: The Court of Appeals of Ohio,60 minutes lebron james Twelfth District, rules on February 9. Outcome: Conviction for allowing minors to possess alcohol upheld. What happened,

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PBwiki on Tuesday announced the mobile optimization of its hosted wiki service for its Professional and Professional Plus Edition subscription clients. PBwiki, which hosts, among other wiki services, Twitter's API docs, FedEx's marketing extranet, and the BarCamp wiki, has now made its wiki interface more readable, when surfed to from the browser of an Apple iPhone or Research In Motion

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This story has been corrected. See below for details. SUNNYVALE, Calif.--After getting an earful from disgruntled testers of its revamped home page, Yahoo is working on a new incarnation that will dramatically speed up access to e-mail. The new home page, kerby revelus code-named Metro and due to launch later this year, will let users customize what they see and install a range of applications.

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I noted last month that embedding the code for server virtualization directly into the hardware, something called an embedded hypervisor, hasn't taken off to any significant degree. Rather, most IT shops continue to purchase virtualization as a third-party add-on (typically from VMware or Citrix), I noted last month that embedding the code for server virtualization directly into the hardware, I

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Cisco Systems doesn't seem to know how to color inside the lines. The networking-equipment giant has been foraging in a diverse set of new markets lately, taking on Microsoft in the collaboration and unified-communications markets, but now sticking a finger in the eye of longtime server partners Hewlett-Packard and IBM by jumping into the server market,nokia e71x as The New York Times reports.Is

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With the economy taking a toll on even social-networking sites, eMarketer reduced its global forecast for advertising in the sector this year to $2.3 billion, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Social networks, on a worldwide basis, are expected to post advertising growth of 17 percent this year, compared with eMarketer's earlier projections of a 32 percent growth rate, the Journal

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Are you getting ready for the most exciting season in NCAA Basketball? So are we. And that's why we've created a public bracket for Webware writers and readers to create their own brackets and see who stands above the rest as the best March Madness performer in our community.If you want to sign up and compete, sign up for a free CBS Sports ID, and once complete, follow this link to get to the

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If you've ever used the open-source application Handbrake to rip a DVD to your hard drive, the chances are good that you've used FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia project that makes it possible to convert video to different formats, among other things.I therefore found this interview with FFmpeg's founding development team fascinating. FFmpeg is as raw as an open-source project gets: the

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Nokia, the world's largest maker of cell phones, said Tuesday it will cut 1,700 jobs as demand for its products continues to wane.to catch a predatorThe job cuts will affect workers who work in its Devices and Markets units as well as in its Corporate Development Office and global support functions. The company said in a statement that it plans to scale its sales, marketing and technology

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The list price for Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate is a whopping $679.95. The upgrade price? An equally whopping $539.99. the rocketeer For that kind of money, it better come with Megan Fox's phone number.Believe it or not, you can score a legal and totally legitimate copy of Office 2007 Ultimate for just $59.95. What's the catch? You need to shanghai a college student (or, you know, be one).

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Update at 10:51 a.m. PDT, with analyst comment. Energy Conversion Devices' shares plummeted 30.3 percent in morning trading on Tuesday, after the solar-equipment maker warned investors that its third-quarter earnings would fall short of earlier projections amid a weakening economic environment. colonoscopyThe company, which issued its warning after the markets closed on Monday, announced that it

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Web site HDGuru.com has published a report describing three separate visits to Best Buy locations where salespeople refused to comply with the store's own price-matching policy. The report goes on to provide advice to customers interested in obtaining a price match themselves. phelan ca Here's the meat of the HDGuru's exchange: When asked to match the price, salesmen at all three stores said, "no

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GSMA 2009 was clearly a snoozer, in terms of Google Android news, but with the CTIA Spring 2009 just a couple of weeks away, there's hope for some announcements at the show. While we can't say for sure, rivermark shooting here's something that might interest you. According to HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou, the smartphone manufacturer plans to release at least three Android devices in 2009. Keep

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In a move to tie their collaboration tighter, Microsoft and Lexmark on Tuesday announced that they have entered into a broad patent cross-licensing agreement. Under the arrangement, Lexmark will license its patents for its printers and multifunction devices, as well as its other products, to Microsoft.rita hayworth And the Redmond, Wash., based company, in return, will offer access to a wide

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RSS repository Alltop announced that it has launched a new feature called MyAlltop that allows users to create a custom page to which they can add the feeds they care about. The widgets can be viewed on that single page and shared with others. In order to create a MyAlltop page, michael westbrook visitors will be required to register for the site. Once they do, they can click an icon next to the

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Sega's The House of the Dead: Overkill for the Nintendo Wii console has broken into the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition for the most swearing in a video game, with a whopping 189 uses of the f-word. "It is a dubious honor to receive such an accolade working in an industry where so often, the fruits of your labors are derided and dismissed for being puerile or irresponsible," said Jonathan

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Correction, 10:50 a.m. PDT: This story gave an incorrect date for the filing of the patent. It was filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1999.Update: 2:10 p.m. To include Discovery's reasons for owning e-book patent. Discovery Communications, what women want parent company of the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, has filed a complaint against Amazon.com alleging that some security

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PlayStation 3 pricing is in the news again, thanks to a report from Bloomberg that cites developer complaints over the price of the console. According to the story, developers are calling on Sony to drop the price of the PlayStation 3, so more people will buy the console,motoczysz motorcycles and thus their games. "Sony obviously still has a ways to go with their pricing," Peter Moore, sports

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At Tuesday's iPhone OS 3.0 preview event, Apple unveiled several new features of the iPhone operating system, including the capability to create applications specifically for interfacing with third-party hardware. Examples given included a five-band EQ interface for speaker docks,amazing race 14 episode 7 or an FM transmitter control that allows you to select broadcast frequencies based on

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Google released a new beta version of Chrome Tuesday, offering a better balance between software that's stable but out of date on the one hand and cutting-edge but crash-prone on the other. The new version offers a number of new features, dennis rodman including zooming that increases or decreases the graphics as well as text; autofill to ease the chore of re-entering information in Web site

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This is the spot for live coverage of Apple's iPhone 3.0 event later today from Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., which kicked off at 10 a.m. PDT.This is a play-by-play account of the presentation. For a summary of what got announced, including the long-awaited cut-and-paste and MMS, adriana bachan click here. 9:53 a.m. PDT: Welcome to Cupertino and Apple's Town Hall auditorium for the

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Apple on Tuesday unveiled the next version of the operating system that powers the iPhone, dubbed version 3.0, at an invite-only event at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. It will be available for developers beginning today, seth curry and to everyone else "this summer." It's a free upgrade for iPhone users; those who own the iPod Touch will again have to pay for the upgrade (Apple is

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Everyone says Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is a nice man. He's Polish, of course.However, in an e-mail to his Facebook Support Group, posted at 6 a.m. PST Tuesday, the Woz appears to be getting very, breaking bad season 2 episode 4 very ratty. And the rodent that he's smelling is the ABC production team of "Dancing with the Stars."He is suspicious that the true voting numbers, both from

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After a few years of running a conference and blogging, it always surprises me how limp public relations is for most companies. Good PR is the lifeblood of companies, particularly in an economy in which IT spending has lulled, yet most companies underinvest in PR. jim gaffigan king baby And most others do it poorly.The cardinal rule of good PR is to bring real value to the conference or

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CNET News's Tom Krazit stops by to handicap Apple's big iPhone operating system announcement. fmc corporation

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Ericsson has successfully demonstrated data-transfer speeds of more than 500 megabits per second over copper, fritz henderson the communications company said Monday.The data-transfer rates were achieved using a version of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology called "vectorized" VDSL2, Ericsson said in a statement. The technology, also called "crosstalk cancellation," provides the high

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The Pentagon should thank NASA hacker Gary McKinnon for "exposing the fragility" of U.S. military systems, according to Terry Waite. Waite, who was held hostage in Lebanon for four years after being kidnapped in 1987, said that McKinnon's motives were "harmless," according to an article by Jack Doyle, a Press Association legal affairs correspondent. usc hit and run"Gary is clearly a very clever

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A clarification has been added to this story. See below for details.John McCain has come a long way, technologically, motocysz since his days on the 2008 campaign trail. Less than a year ago, the Republican presidential hopeful admitted that he needed help logging onto the Internet. Now the 72-year-old, four-term senator is practically leading Washington's foray into the Web 2.0 realm as the

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A correction was made to this story. See below for details.The expected release of Internet Explorer 8 is likely to be the biggest headline out of Microsoft's Mix conference this week, though the company is likely to spend at least as much time talking about Silverlight 3, acacia chardonnay the next version of its would-be rival to Adobe's Flash. Microsoft has already released a near-final

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Valve's Steam software has a new feature for game publishers that lets them sell additional downloadable content, or DLC, from within their games. To do this, it uses a new in-game purchasing system built off of the in-software Web browser. The first title to feature this is The Maw, the prince and me which now includes two additional levels that can be purchased for $1.25 each, then played

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Ten years ago, Marc Benioff's new venture, Salesforce.com, was greeted with skepticism by the software cognoscenti--and enthusiasm by people who love a good party.kensington runestoneSalesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)Salesforce was one of the first companies to embrace the notion that software could be delivered as a service over the Internet, rather than as

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It won't grab headlines like the newest version of the iPhone operating system, but a Palo Alto, Calif., nonprofit today announced a suite of open-source applications that aids in communications and collaboration for humanitarian workers dealing with diseases and disasters.InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies, forever wild exotic animal sanctuary Diseases and Disasters) has released three

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Avira AntiVir started making waves a few years ago, scoring high on well-respected third-party antivirus detection and removal tests. Released today exclusively on Download.com, AntiVir 9 doesn't appear to have changed much--but that's only because the interface sports the slightest of what's new. Avira AntiVir 9 introduces one-click infection removal with multiple options for customization.(

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Last year, Apple set itself apart from the mobile computing world with the release of the iPhone OS 2.0. This year, Apple won't make quite such a leap forward, but neither will it lose any ground to increased competition.When it arrives this summer, mcdlt Apple's third generation of the iPhone operating system will correct some of the most glaring omissions to date. These include the lack of

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NEW YORK--Ener1, which manufactures lithium ion batteries for electric cars, is testing energy storage systems for the power grid, furadan the company's CEO said on Tuesday. Ener1's roots are in the automotive industry and its Indianapolis-based EnerDel division already has agreements to supply battery packs to a handful of auto companies, including Think and another automaker in Europe. Ener1

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It's one thing to have a photographic memory. It's quite another to have something called a super-autobiographical memory.If your brain is wired super-autobiographically, forever wild you really are the weird of the weird. As well as the wired of the wired.These are people who remember almost everything. Dates, times, names. Yes, even former lovers. The sort of people who remember that they were

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