Companies
PhotoShop Express: Who owns the content?
David Morgenstern: New questions are cropping up about the terms of use for Adobe Systems' new free photo-editing software service, Photoshop Express. The company says it owns some of the content.
Communications
Next Palm Treo to hit 320x320 displays
Matthew Miller: It looks like the next Palm Treo (reportedly the 800W) will have its sharpest display and integrated WiFi but it won't include touch-screen technology
- Dashwire opens public beta, threaded SMS and photo sharing included
- The next WinMo Palm Treo may be the first with 320x320 and integrated WiFi
- Yes, you can get internet access in the middle of the Gulf of Alaska
- Motorola splitting into two, Mobile Devices to be its own company
- Is Microsoft looking to bring Office to the iPhone?
Operating Systems
First public test build Windows Search 4.0
Mary Jo Foley: Windows Search 4.0 is an extension, but not the successor, to the Windows Search that is built into Vista, as well as to the "Windows Desktop Search," which is part of Windows XP.
Security
MacBook Air falls in two minutes
Larry Dignan: Charles Miller won $10,000 for two minutes of work, successfully hacking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN.
- Vista falls in Pwn2Own contests final day to a flaw in Adobe Flash
- Black Hat Europe, Day 2: The day that wasn't and Black Hat Europe, Day 3: Begin the presentations
- SEO poisoning attack hits big sites; Can the defenses scale?
- MacBook Air falls in two minutes at PWN 2 OWN
- EMC, Verint team up on physical security
Enterprise Software
Sluggish economy--more but smaller SOA projects
Joe McKendrick: An analyst says that economic sluggishness may temporarily turn off more grandiose visions of enterprise SOA and foster more of the incremental, low-expectation route.
Products
The new, improved AMD Phenom
John Morris: Reviews are just in. The Phenom X4 shows improved performance and faster clock speeds But it can't match Intel's mainstream quad-core chip.
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General News
U.N. agency ousts record number of cybersquatters
Last year's domain name disputes involved a wide range of products, events, and people--including Airbus's A380, the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Harvard Business School, Lance Armstrong's Livestrong foundation, Oprah Winfrey, and The Simpsons.
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A single-photon channel to space
According to the Institute of Physics (IOP), European researchers have successfully identified individual returning photons from space 'after firing and reflecting them off of a space satellite in orbit almost ...
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California killing the electric car...again?
California and the electric car. Is this deja vu all over again? You probably know the story of the first round of electric vehicles made for the California market, and ...
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Google turns the lights out for Earth Hour
The last time Google switched the lights off was for an initiative called "Lights Out San Francisco" in October. It's much easier to get people to listen than to actually ...
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Vista falls in Pwn2Own contests final day to a flaw in Adobe Flash
Update 3/29/2008: Just to clarify in case it wasn't clear, this is a flaw in an Adobe product, Adobe Flash, and not in a Microsoft product or in the Windows ...
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Black Hat Europe, Day 2: The day that wasn't and Black Hat Europe, Day 3: Begin the presentations
If you haven't seen it yet, you can check out Day 1 of my coverage of Black Hat Europe 2008 here. So, for those of you looking forward to a ...
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SEO poisoning attack hits big sites; Can the defenses scale?
Security researcher Dancho Danchev said Friday that SEO poisoning attacks have scaled up and are attacking well known sites. Google has been filtering its results as a defense, but Danchev's ...
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A fresh Firefox install: drastic but cathartic
Following last weekend's mea culpa I thought I'd make amends this weekend with a post about how I nearly ditched Firefox but decided instead to do some housecleaning with a ...
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Delaware court rules in favor of IAC's Diller
Move paves way for IAC chief Barry Diller to go ahead with proposed spinoff of company units. A Delaware court ruled in favor of IAC/InterActiveCorp chief Barry Diller on Friday ...
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Adobe launches free Web app and photo sharing service, Photoshop Express
Every product has its naysayers out there and Adobe's Photoshop Express is no exception, but I think Adobe's entry into photo sharing and Web-based photo editing (public beta launched yesterday) ...
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Week in review: Social media open for business
The formation of a group to promote universal standards for social-network apps stood out amid a slew of headlines this week about companies merging, collaborating, or restructuring.(By CNET News.com's Michelle ...
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Turning over a new leaf at Quark
After having dropped off the radar, Quark is set to revolutionize publishing--again. CEO Ray Schiavone explains how. Criticized heavily in recent times for selling what some believe to be an ...
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Before '73 coup, Chile tried to find the right software for socialism
Cybersyn, a project that included a clunky mainframe computer and a network of telex machines, was in the early 1970s a part of an experiment to help manage Chile's economy.(From ...
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Just how green tech are you? Go on, rate yourself
So, a few weeks ago I mentioned a survey from the University of Maryland that found consumers were ready to spend money on green tech (to the tune of $104 ...
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Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking
The politicking is almost over. At midnight (Central European Time) on Saturday March 29, voting regarding whether Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) document format will get ISO standards approval will ...
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Dashwire opens public beta, threaded SMS and photo sharing included
I wrote about a very early version of Dashwire last fall and at that time you could sign up and hope that you were eventually selected for a beta invitation. ...
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3G iPhone - Go or no go?
Apple may or may not have placed an order for 10 million 3G-capable iPhones. Well, that's informative ... My take on the 3G iPhone goes something like this - if ...
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OOXML standard vote down to the wire
Denmark changed its vote to "yes" taking Microsoft's document format one step closer to becoming an ISO standard. Plus, the U.K. moves closer to changing its vote. Denmark has decided ...
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A microscope that emails medical images
A team of Chinese and U.S. researchers has successfully applied for a patent for a virtual telemicroscope. It is the only one of its kind capable of emailing electronic slides. ...
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The next WinMo Palm Treo may be the first with 320x320 and integrated WiFi
Palm has done a lot to improve the Windows Mobile experience on Treo devices with the Today screen plug-ins, threaded SMS, and other handy utilities and functionality. That said, I ...
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Putting perspective on the "30% of Vista crashes caused by nVIDIA" reports
A story that's echoing around the blogosphere at the moment relates to how information contained in the 158 page pack of emails released as part of the Vista Capable lawsuit ...
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