Google's e-mail gets social in Facebook face-off
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Micron to buy Numonyx in $1.3 billion stock deal
Micron Technology says it plans to buy fellow memory chip maker Numonyx in an all-stock transaction the companies value at $1.27 billion.
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Google's e-mail gets social in Facebook face-off
Google Inc. opened a new social hub in its e-mail service on Tuesday, leaving little doubt that the Internet search leader is girding for a face-off with Facebook.
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RealNetworks, MTV to spin off Rhapsody
RealNetworks Inc. and MTV Networks said Tuesday that they plan to spin off Rhapsody America LLC, their digital music service joint venture, into an independent company.
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AOL integrates Facebook chat with AIM
As part of an ongoing effort to improve its user experience, Internet company AOL Inc. is letting users of its AIM instant-messaging service chat with friends on Facebook.
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PayPal's India transaction block could last months
Online payments service PayPal says its suspension of certain transactions in India could last months.
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Warner CEO sees e-book `fracas' as helping music
The head of Warner Music Group expressed hope on Tuesday that the recent "fracas" over the price of e-books would help give content creators such as his company more pricing power over device makers.
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Online ad improvement seen in IAC's 4Q loss
Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest indication that the online advertising market is improving.
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Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook
A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump.
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Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked
Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.
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MySpace Music experiments with audio ads
Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.
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With Buzz, Google Plunges Into Social Networking
The new service, called Google Buzz, allows Gmail users to share updates, photos and videos as on Facebook and other social networking sites.
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Advertising: Stress Relief Online, Aromatherapy by Mail
The online program, called Upliv, offers stress analysis, weekly sessions that teach relaxation strategies and toiletries with scents.
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Square Feet: North Jersey Finds Popularity as Home for Data Centers
Commercial real estate is experiencing a boom in data center construction, especially in New Jersey, because of proximity to New York’s financial companies.
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An Annual Report on One Man's Life
Nicholas Felton started collecting data about himself in 2005 to create an annual report about his life. Five years later, the project continues and now includes a service to help others quantify ther lives, too.
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Canon Improves Entry-Level Rebel D.S.L.R.
Canon improves the features of its starter D.S.L.R. cameras with the new EOS Rebel T2i, and adds four new PowerShot point-and-shoot models to its lineup.
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Google Tries to Get Some Good Buzz
A new social-network aggregator, Google Buzz, begins its rollout this week.
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Square Feet: New Jersey, Home of the Servers
Commercial real estate is experiencing a boom in data center construction, especially in New Jersey, thanks to its proximity to New York’s financial companies.
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Google Offers Phone Help for Nexus One Owners
After mounting complaints about the lack of customer support for the Nexus One, Google is offering a phone hotline.
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Google Gets More Social With Buzz
Google's Buzz service, which ties into Gmail, is another way for people to tell others what they're doing, thinking and feeling.
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Samsung Gets the Amoled Out
Reports are that the Korean brand will bring devices with AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) displays to market in the next year.
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Micron to buy Numonyx for $1.27 billion
One of the world's largest flash memory makers agrees to be acquired by Micron Technology in a deal worth approximately $1.27 billion.
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Rafe and Josh debate Google's Buzz
Is Google Buzz effective competition to Twitter? Or is it just FriendFeed light? Webware writers Rafe Needleman and Josh Lowensohn debate.
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YouTube's traffic data for music questioned
The number of visitors to Warner Music Group's YouTube videos doubled in January and outpaced the much larger Vevo. Those numbers are now being questioned.
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YouTube's traffic data for music clips questioned
The number of visitors to Warner Music Group's YouTube videos doubled in January and outpaced the much larger Vevo. Those numbers are now being questioned.
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CNET first look at Google Buzz
CNET's Josh Lowensohn takes you through some of the main features of Google's new social publishing tool Buzz, which is being made available to all Gmail users this week.
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Intel taps student's robot for processor demo
University of Arizona engineering student creates a six-legged Atom-powered bot that can "learn" to walk on its own, and Intel brings it along on the company road show.
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Microsoft looks at health potential of Xbox, apps
Software giant is researching how gadgets like the Xbox and technologies like accelerometers in cell phones could improve personal health, and health care in general.
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Log in with your face
KeyLemon adds an extra layer of security to your computer login process by making your webcam do all the heavy lifting.
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See what's under McAfee's new interface
McAfee spent three years researching and developing a new vertical interface, and the company has made their consumer security suites far better in the process. Watch a tour of what's new in this Firt Look video.
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RealNetworks, Viacom to spin off Rhapsody
Real and Viacom say the subscription music service will be more nimble as a standalone company. The move means that Real is satisfied to give up control.
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Feb. 10, 1961: Moses Parts the Waters at Niagara
A famous and powerful planner butts heads with an Indian tribe over land rights near Niagara Falls. Guess who wins.
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TED 2010 Conference Makes for Strange Bedfellows
Bedfellows were never more strange than those assembling this week in Long Beach, California, for the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference: Director James Cameron, Microsoft funder Bill Gates and former covert CIA analyst Valerie Plame are among the eclectic mix of speakers.
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How a Legendary Werewolf Artist Changes With the Times
To turn Benicio Del Toro into a werewolf for the remake of The Wolfman, Rick Baker integrated his handcrafted artistry with the latest digital effects.
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Feel at Home in Foreign Lands With Location-Aware Smartphones
Equipped with sensitive receivers and powerful nav apps, location-aware smartphones are now leading the way over standalone GPS units. Wired editors have picked the Motorola Droid, with its simple, ituitive app, as their fave.
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Feds Bust Cookie-Stuffing Code Seller
Federal authorities bust a Las Vegas man accused of running a so-called "cookie-stuffing" operation. The scam included hawking website code to trick eBay into paying website owners tens of thousands f dollars in bogus advertising referral fees.
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Haiti Photo Workshops Face Online Backlash
Photographers are offering to teach amateurs the art of documentary photography in Haiti ... for a price. Is this profiting off the misery of others, or a valuable service?
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Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret
A federal appeals court reverses a judge's order that the government disclose government e-mail connected to legislation that shut down lawsuits against the nation's telcos. The suits accused telcos f forwarding Americans' electronic communications to the NSA without warrants.
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What Do We Want? Our Data. When Do We Want It? Now.
Online services for photos, videos, e-mail, books and music too often skimp on a key feature that frustrates consumers and stifles cloud-based computing. The ability to grab all your data and split i not as easy or possible as it should be.
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Google Takes On Facebook, Twitter With 'Buzz'
Google launches a way to wrangle Twitter, MySpace and Facebook to tame information overload by leveraging Gmail, where so many people already go daily.
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10 Literary Classics That Should Be Videogames
Libraries brim with epic tales of war, madness and whitewashing. With the new Dante's Inferno lighting the way, Wired.com takes a stroll through the stacks in search of the next big literature-based ideogame franchise.
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feature: iPhone VoiceServices: Looking under the hood
VoiceControl allows you to make calls and play music using spoken commands. It provides a base recognition layer that interfaces with the address book and the contents of the iTunes library to transfrm your speech into call and music requests.
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Remarkable third trial coming for RIAA's first P2P defendant
When Jammie Thomas (now Thomas-Rasset) became the first alleged P2P file-swapper to take her case all the way to trial and verdict, no one suspected that she would actually have three trials and verdicts, but that's the case today, as the RIAA rejected a federal judge's decision to slash Thomas-Ras...
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Microsoft wins Windows XP WGA lawsuit
A lawsuit that accused Microsoft of misleading consumers to download and install an update for Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) under the guise that it was critical security update has been tossed out. Last month, a federal judge refused to certify the lawsuit as a class action, which would have mea...
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Two billion-transistor beasts: POWER7 and Niagara 3
In years past, an ISSCC presentation on a new processor would consist of detailed discussion of the chip's microarchitecture (pipeline, instruction fetch and decode, execution units, etc.), along with at least one shot of a floorplan that marked out the location of major functional blocks (the deco...
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Google launches Buzz to rein in social media overload
Today Google announced its latest social application, designed to bring the fire hose of social media and status updates down to a useful trickle of the most "interesting" bits. Dubbed Google Buzz, the service is designed to offer easier ways to share links, photos, and other information, corral al...
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Google launches Buzz to reign in social media overload
Today Google announced its latest social application, designed to bring the fire hose of social media and status updates down to a useful trickle of the most "interesting" bits. Dubbed Google Buzz, the service is designed to offer easier ways to share links, photos, and other information, corral al...
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Liveblog: Activision Blizzard Q4 and 2009 Earnings Results
otick, at any point, cackle maniacally? There is only one way to find out!...
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Battle of the Immortals closed beta (update: keys are gone!)
Perfect World Entertainment describes Battle of the Immortals as a 2.5D MMORPG that mixes Eastern and Western culture. There are five classes, an auto-navigation system for quests that means you won' be stuck wondering where to go next, and both Player vs.
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Microsoft warns of TLS/SSL flaw in Windows
Microsoft has issued Security Advisory (977377) to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. The TLS and SSL protocolsare implemented in several Microsoft products, both client and server.
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Variable download pricing correlated with slower music sales
It has been about a year since the music labels got what they had been asking for from the major online music stores: tiered music pricing. Problem is, that system may not be working out as well as the labels had hoped—Warner Music Group has reported slowed digital music growth since the pricing ch...
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Canon Says It Will Stick to Oce Offer, Defying Hermes, Orbis
Canon Inc. said it will stick to its $1 billion offer to buy Dutch printer maker Oce NV, rejecting calls by shareholders including Hermes Fund Managers Ltd. and Orbis Funds to raise the bid.
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Semiconductor Manufacturing Loss Widens on TSMC Costs (Update1)
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China’s biggest chipmaker, posted its 11th straight quarterly loss after charging $299.7 million to cover a litigation settlement with competitor Taiwn Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
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Autonomy Corp. Offers 500 Million Pounds of Convertible Bonds
Autonomy Corp. Plc is selling about 500 million pounds of convertible bonds due 2015 with a call option after three years, it said in a statement.
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iPad Component Costs Leave Room for Price Cuts
Apple may pay as little as $219.35 for the tablet's parts, says iSuppli. That leaves room to cut the price of a device that analysts say may be too expensive
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Electronic Arts: Lost in an Alien Landscape
The leading maker of computer games is struggling as people turn to cheaper, online alternatives
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Google Buzz Won't Weaken Facebook
To compete in social media, Google will draw on strengths like Web e-mail and advertising know-how. But stealing users from Facebook and Twitter is unlikely
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Micron to Acquire Numonyx for $1.27 Billion, Taking on Samsung
Micron Technology Inc., the biggest U.S. producer of computer memory, agreed to buy flash-chip maker Numonyx Holdings BV for about $1.27 billion to help it compete better with Samsung Electronics Co.
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SMIC Shares Fall After Fourth-Quarter Loss Widens (Update1)
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. fell by the most in almost a week in Hong Kong trading after reporting its quarterly loss widened.
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Micron to Acquire Chipmaker Numonyx for $1.27 Billion (Update2)
Micron Technology Inc., the biggest U.S. producer of computer memory, agreed to buy Numonyx Holdings BV for about $1.27 billion, bolstering its flash-chip business.
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Micron to Acquire Chipmaker Numonyx for $1.27 Billion (Update1)
Micron Technology Inc., the biggest U.S. producer of computer memory, agreed to buy chipmaker Numonyx Holdings BV for about $1.27 billion.
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Buzz Reveals Google's Split Personality
Google's new Buzz is the latest example of a company that still treats consumers and business users as different people, even when they are one and the same.
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Broadcom Adds Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi Direct to Android
Broadcom has added support for Bluetooth 3.0 and for the Wi-Fi Direct specification to its software stacks for Android devices.
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New Russian Botnet Tries to Kill Rival
A new Trojan program steals information from a rival and then deletes it from the computer.
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10 Free BlackBerry Apps You Must Have
Here are the details--and download links--for ten of the best, free BlackBerry smartphone applications available today.
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Panasonic Introduces Low-Light-Optimized 1080p Camcorders
The hard-drive-based HDC-HS700 (240GB) and flash-storage-based HDC-TM700 (32GB) shoot 1080p video at 60 fps, and offer a three-sensor system that Panasonic says excels in low light.
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Papershow for Mac Makes Interactive Presentations Possible
Papershow, a tool for interactive presentations from Canson, will soon be available for the Mac. The kit, which is making its debut at Macworld Expo this week...
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iPhone and Android Market Share on the Rise
Recent results from comScore show Apple and Google gaining smartphone market share, while RIM, Microsoft, and Palm all declined.
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Oracle Launches Worldwide Cloud-computing Tour
Oracle has officially put both legs on the cloud-computing bandwagon, recently launching a roughly 50-date global road show on the topic.
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Company Offers Video-chat Technology to App Makers
Some hurdles remain to using your iPhone for holding iChat-like video confabs--not the least of which is that the phone's camera is on the opposite side of the...
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Baidu Sees Confidence Boost After Google's China Threat
After Google's threat last month to exit China, advertisers have become more confident in the search engine's main local rival Baidu.com, Baidu said.
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