The Obama
Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an
electric sedan and the battery packs needed to propel it. It's one
of three loans totaling almost $8 billion that the Department of
Energy awarded Tuesday to spur the development of fuel-efficient
vehicles.
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News
10 hours, 16 minutes ago
Auto-feed tweet distributed by Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account sends
people to a link that installs a Trojan.
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Security by Elinor Mills)
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News
11 hours, 19 minutes ago
A
Twitter campaign to overturn Microsoft's choice to use Word to render
HTML in Outlook has caught the software giant's attention, but don't
expect changes.
(Posted in
Microsoft by Stephen Shankland)
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News
12 hours, 49 minutes ago
Adobe gains an important mobile-phone beachhead for its Flash
technology: HTC's upcoming Android-powered Hero phone due to start
shipping next month.
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Wireless by Stephen Shankland)
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News
13 hours, 24 minutes ago
Google's ad distribution network is coming to the iPhone and Android
phones, giving developers--and Google--another way to cash in on
mobile growth.
(Posted in
Webware by Tom Krazit)
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CNET
News
12 hours, 47 minutes ago
Site
adds new bells and whistles into the "stream"--extra privacy controls
and embeddable streaming status-update widgets for developers and site
owners.
(Posted in
The Social by Caroline McCarthy)
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CNET
News
15 hours, 20 minutes ago
Warren Buffett says in a TV interview that a liver transplant is
"material fact" that should be communicated to Apple investors.
(Posted in
Apple by Erica Ogg)
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CNET
News
15 hours, 8 minutes ago
IBM
and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology are working on a
water-cooled supercomputer whose surplus heat will be re-used to heat
the university's buildings.
(Posted in
Cutting Edge by Manek Dubash)
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CNET
News
17 hours, 6 minutes ago
For
$5 more a month, MetroPCS customers can call over 100 countries from
their mobile phone for free.
(Posted in
Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)
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CNET
News
16 hours, 19 minutes ago
Marissa Mayer, Google's guru of user experience, has found that
focusing on speed in Web development can really pay off.
(Posted in
Webware by Tom Krazit)
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CNET
News
23 hours, 15 minutes ago
q&a Dubbed the "homeless hacker" by
the media, Adrian Lamo's unauthorized penetration testing led to his
arrest, but some his acts were more performance art than crime.
• Q&A: Kevin Mitnick
• Q&A: Mark Abene
(Posted in
Security by Elinor Mills)
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CNET
News
17 hours, 54 minutes ago
Companies will start testing a new authentication technology to allow
cable subscribers to get access to premium cable TV content online.
(Posted in
Digital Media by Marguerite Reardon)
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CNET
News
18 hours, 14 minutes ago
A
day after its launch, Microsoft Security Essentials is no longer
available from the company's site. The beta had been limited to 75,000
participants.
(Posted in
Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)
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CNET
News
18 hours, 25 minutes ago
The
automatic stay of proceedings has been lifted, giving Apple the
go-ahead to continue its copyright infringement case against the Mac
clone maker.
(Posted in
Apple by Jim Dalrymple)
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The
New York Times
A book by Ben Mezrich purports to tell the
founding story of Facebook, with some embellishments.
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Leader
of Authors Guild Defends Google Book Settlement
The
New York Times
Roy Blount,
president of the Authors Guild, said that the concerns about granting
Google a monopoly over "orphan books" are overblown.
Well, the proverbial ink hadn't even dried on our recent
column about smartbooks and ARM when Nvidia came around and doused the
excitement with a bucket of ice water. The prospect of Linux in
general or Android in particular running on an ARM smartbook has had
many in the blogosphere salivating, but Nvidia's Mike Rayfield
recently said his company prefers Microsoft's Windows CE over Android.
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The Department of Defense will proceed with the
creation of a new command to coordinate the day-to-day
defense of military, federal government and critical
civilian networks from attack. The cyberdefense command will
be part of the U.S. Strategic Command, a multiservice
military operation that is responsible for, among other
things, cyberwarfare policies.
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In today's world, it seems that more of the
people I run across do not feel they need -- or, more
accurately, don't understand why they need -- a protocol
analyzer for their network. A few years ago, it seemed that
more people understood just how important the analyzer was.
For some reason, as networks have become smarter and much
more complex, this understanding seems to have dissipated.
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Wednesday - June 24, 2009
Taiwan-based HTC, a fast-rising star in the
smartphone manufacturing industry, has unveiled its latest
model, the Hero, its third offering based on the Android
operating system. The Hero comes with a new user interface
called "Sense" that makes use the device almost intuitive.
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The government launches a new strategy to combat cyber-attacks by
terrorists, criminals and hostile states.
Analysis: Modern threats
US launches cyber security plan
Anger over 'cyber security leaks'
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As users shift from PCs to
handheld devices, software giant Microsoft is trying to
adapt by moving to Web-based subscription services
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Want to watch that hit TV show online? You
may have to prove you're a cable-TV subscriber first
Apple doesn't say much about Steve Jobs'
condition in part because regulators don't require it to. It's time
for the government to issue stricter, clearer guidelines, says BW's
Arik Hesseldahl
The former Yahoo executive is appointed CEO
six months after joining LinkedIn as interim president. Reid Hoffman
becomes executive chairman
The telecom equipment maker's liquidation of
assets threatens its partnership with Microsoft on unified
communications, Network World reports
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Coca-Cola, Cisco, Intuit, and
others use ever more sophisticated tools to measure
their environmental impact and meet emissions goals
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Telecom
businessweek news
 Apple's iPhone 3GS: What It Costs to Make
Washington Weighs Wireless Regulation
Apple-AT&T: Hints of Strain
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Thursday - June 25, 2009
I was buying a fully loaded Mac to replace the
4-year-old Mac I had at home. Along with Microsoft Office for the
Mac, I also wanted to buy a standard security AV and firewall
application. The salesperson's response? Not necessary. I was
sufficiently chastened by the $2,000-plus tab I had racked up that
afternoon to let it go. But years of writing about online security
had made me paranoid.
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wood was opened in Austria on Wednesday, paving the way
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Bangladesh is trialling a text
message service to warn people of natural disasters,
including floods and cyclones, a government official said
Wednesday.
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Fujitsu Laboratories
today announced the development of a new
structure for gallium-nitride high
electron-mobility transistors (GaN)(HEMT) that
can minimize power loss in power supplies, thus
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IBM today announced that
a new service, Virtual Collaboration for Lotus
Sametime, is now available. The service allows
Lotus Sametime users to set up and use virtual
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