•Google to broker print ads in newspapers [Reuters] •Internet Explorer’s Market Share Drops Slightly [TechWeb] •Palm hit by patent suit [Reuters] •PayPal Offering $20 in Holiday Rebates [Digital Trends] •Comcast announces, then withdraws user-generated video sharing site [Ars Technica]
•Vista licensing also limits benchmarking [InfoWorld] •Google snaps up JotSpot [Ars Technica] •Wired Digital Acquires Reddit [Wired] •MySpace Acts To Halt Music Piracy [Broadband Reports] •Sony woes deepen with PS3 launch numbers cut by 20 percent in Japan [Krunker]
• Dell to offer AMD-powered laptops for less than $500 [Mobile Mag] • HP loses VP of services [The Inquirer] • Intel to close Cambridge research centre [The Register] • AOL Patches Critical Browser Bug [TechWeb] • Apple suspected of forcing Greenpeace out of MacExpo [AppleInsider]
•$3B Spent Over Next 4 Years on Public Wi-Fi [Broadband Reports] •Canadian Music Industry Says Downloading Declining [Slashdot] •And now, the fate of the ATI brand: it lives! [Ars Technica] •Creator of Comic ‘Dilbert’ hacks his brain to restore his speech [Boing Boing] •Yahoo serves up new bookmarking tools [Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/yahoo-serves-up-new-bookmarking-tools-209970
•Opera browser comes to BlackBerry and Treo [Lifehacker] •IP Theft Up In First Half Of Year: Report [Information Week] •Blind web surfers sue Target for accessibility [TG Daily] •BenQ posts huge Q3 loss [InfoWorld] •Google offers personal searches [BBC] https://lifehacker.com/opera-browser-comes-to-blackberry-and-treo-209702
•Adobe picks up video software maker [CNet] •Sony issues earnings warning due to battery recall and games loss [Krunker] •eBay: Holding Firm on Earnings Report [Business Week] •Study: More than 90 minutes of loud music harmful [iLounge] •Time Warner Cable Will Play Solo [Business Week]
•Microsoft hopes 7 is lucky number for IE [CNet] •Apple 4Q profit rises 27 per cent, exceeds expectations, with iPod and Mac sales strong [Moreover] •Music Industry Realizes P2P is Useful [Broadband Reports] •McAfee Releases Free iPod Malware Removal Tool [Moreover] •More than 16.5 square miles of flat panels produced in 2006 [Pheedo]
•Intel hires in Israel [The Inquirer] •Disney eliminating sugars and transfats from licensed food [Boing Boing] •IBM claims Power 6 will double chip performance [The Inquirer] •Scientists create new element [CNN Science] •EA Closes Another Development Studio [Firing Squad]
•Microsoft Vista stumbles at top digital show [The Inquirer] •Yahoo’s Pyramid Plan Crumbles [LA Times] •Libya buys laptops for schoolchildren [CNN] •Transmeta sues Intel claiming patent breach [Reuters] •Apple MacBook owners organizing class action lawsuit [Apple Insider]
•AMD CPU shortage looms [The Inquirer] •Cnet Ceo Steps Down Amid Options Probe [International Business Times] •Earth wobbles linked to extinctions [CNN Science] •Apple’s missing “Home on iPod” feature resurfaces in filing [Apple Insider] •Former Novell CEO Ray Norda is dead [The Inquirer]
•$10M prize for mapping human genomes [CNN-Science] •Billions of Planets In Milky Way? [Slashdot] •Fred Anderson resigns from Apple Board [TUAW] •MS builds tougher piracy protection into Vista [The Register] •RealNetworks Launches Rhapsody 4.0 [Moreover]
• HP to open second India plant [InfoWorld] • Plant Hybrids to Drive Biofuels [Wired] • Foxconn to snaffle up Quanta [The Inquirer] • Cisco, partner to tackle Wi-Fi interference [Inforworld[ • PS3 overheating claim rattles investors [The Register]
•The EFF Is Angry, Wants TiVoToGo On S3 [ZATZ] •Big bang theorists scoop Nobel prize for physics [New Scientist] •HP’s extensive outsourcing plans unveiled [The Inquirer] •Siemens sets up $44M fund to retrain BenQ Mobile workers [InfoWorld] •Swedish file sharing conviction overturned [Toronto Star]
•HP’s top lawyer falls on her sword [The Inquirer] •Comcast video download store to be in WMV HD [HD Beat] •Intel ships 40 million 65 nm processors [TG Daily} •New York City may ban ‘hazardous’ trans fats [New Scientist] •Retailers stocking limited amounts of HD DVD and Blu-ray titles [HD Beat]
• Microsoft files lawsuit against DRM hackers [InfoWorld] • Startup Claims 10-Layer, Multiformat Next-Gen DVD [Extremetech] • Comcast blocks Google and YouTube on the East Coast [The Inquirer] • First Zero-Gravity Surgery a Success [Slashdot] • Intel proposes new power efficiency focused CPU benchmark [TG Daily]
•The First (But Not Last!) AOL Search Records Lawsuit [Consumerist] •AMD to counter Intel QX6700 with three new Athlon 64 FX CPUs [TG Daily] •National Geographic committed to high-def [HD Beat] •Ice the size of Texas melts in one year [New Scientist] •Cisco jumps into enterprise video publishing [InfoWorld]
•NASDAQ informs Dell of potential delisting [TG Daily] •Yahoo ‘to buy Facebook for $1bn’ [BBC News] •Apple forcing the MiniStore with iTunes 7 [The Unofficial Apple Weblog] •‘Grand Theft Auto’ Fan Arrested For… Guess What? [Extremetech] •Samsung exec pleads guilty in DRAM price fixing case [InfoWorld]
• RealNetworks Launches Rhapsody DNA Platform [eHome Upgrade] • Former Intel boss slams HP reshuffle [The Inquirer] • RedOctane Sues Wireless Guitar Controller Manufacturer [Kotaku] • Zune won’t play MS DRM infected files [The Inquirer] • iTunes nets $1M for Disney in a week [Info World] http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/guitar-hero/redoctane-sues-wireless-guitar-controller-manufacturer-201854.php
•Motorola to buy Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billioin [Reuters Technology] •Canon recalls 800,000 desktop copiers in U.S. over fire hazard [Japan Today] •Missed Call Marketing [Textually.org] •Xerox develops MicroText – the font you can’t see [Tech Digest] •Zune won’t play MS DRM infected files [The Inquirer]
•Bionic arm provides hope for amputees; Another step closer to the Million Dollar Man [CNN Technology] •Microsoft Brings the Works Online[BusinessWeek] •Astronomers find distant, fluffy world [CNN Science] •New iTunes is a lemon [The Inquirer] •Zune phone en route [Engadget]