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If LinkedIn is for professionals and Facebook is for friends, then MySpace is still the social network destination for teens/young adults to sing the praises of the rock bands that they love. To that end, MySpace announced Wednesday that it would build on that relationship by acquiring Seattle-based social music application makers iLike Financial t...
The prospect of a cheaper PlayStation 3 has been churning its way through the gaming world's rumor mill all summer long, and now it's reality. The big question: Is it too little, too late for Sony? The blogosphere buzz ratcheted into high gear Tuesday with reports of promotional materials appearing on Web sites for Kmart and Sears touting a "new lo...
DNA may contain the building blocks of life, but IBM believes it can also provide the foundation for cheaper construction of the next generation of superfast, energy-efficient microprocessors. Scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., have announced they have developed a way to use synthetic DNA as a "skeleton" for the creat...
If you were unable to log on to Twitter or Facebook Thursday morning, you can consider yourself collateral damage in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia Facebook has confirmed that a pro-Georgia blogger was the target of a widespread distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that hit the top social networks and other Web sites. Facebo...
Here's the game plan regarding the National Football League and Twitter: If it's gameday, there will be no tweeting. If it's training camp, it's up to each team (with suggestions from the NFL, of course). When it comes to players' off-time, it would be wise to take the advice of San Diego Chargers outside linebacker Shawne Merriman, who navigates social media as easily as he takes down opposing quarterbacks: Think before you tweet...
The Obama administration appears to be having as much trouble as its predecessors in decrypting the secrets of how to retain its cybersecurity advisers Monday's resignation of Melissa Hathaway, who served as acting senior director for cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, has Washington insiders and tech industry obse...
If Apple and Google executives thought that Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Monday resignation from Apple's board of directors would end any governmental interest in their business practices, they may have to reboot their plans. The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it had already been looking into the board membership situation among the Silicon Valley tech giants and doesn't plan on ending its probe anytime soon...
Only about five miles separate Apple's Cupertino, Calif., campus from the Googleplex in Mountain View in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Yet the distance between the two tech giants grew a little wider in other ways Monday with the news that Google CEO Eric Schmidt would be stepping down from Apple's board of directors Schmidt served three ye...
There's no point in wasting any more time -- or text characters. I'm making it official and declaring this season the Summer of Twitter You can thank me later....
It's easy to get lost in the cacophony of marketing and media hype surrounding Palm Pres, iPhones, app stores and the mobile Web. However, the low-cost, no-hassle prepaid phone market made some noise of its own Tuesday when Sprint announced it was buying Virgin Mobile USA for US$483 million The move brings together two of the better-known brands i...
Once again, the CEO of a major American company has met an untimely -- and fake -- demise on the pages of CNN's iReport Web site -- and once again, the mischief-making Web site 4chan is suspected of being behind it all It's likely that excutive Randall Stephenson was selected as the cybervandalism target because his company, AT&T, reportedly denied...
As a child of the 1960s, I already knew that Walter Cronkite was the man who told us about the assassinations of two Kennedys and a King, the riots in the streets, the landing at Tranquility Base. Seeing the archival footage was deja vu for me; I watched most of all that as it happened, sprawled out kid-style on the floor of my living room, chin cradled in the palms of my hands, all less than three feet away from the TV screen despite my mom's warnings about the damage being done to my eyes.
If you want to splash around in Google Wave right now -- the search giant's new real-time communication/collaboration tool that received plenty of tech press hype during a May unveiling -- then you have to be a developer with access to the API (application programming interface). However, that will change on Sept. 30, when Google will let 100,000 curious users take Wave for a test swim...
Third-party applications and customization features take center stage on Yahoo's new homepage as the company rolled out the beta version of its redesign for U.S. users Tuesday Actually, "center stage" isn't quite accurate; the long list of colorful icons for Facebook, MySpace, eBay and HotJobs, along with Yahoo's homegrown services like Mail and Me...
It is the dream for consumers who are tired of lusting after shiny new smartphones that belong to somebody else's carrier; the ability to buy any feature-rich phone from any device maker and tie it to any wireless provider they choose -- exclusivity be damned Frustrated consumers in some rural areas of the country might be wondering if that day is ...
U.S. science, medicine and technology were under the microscope in the latest survey from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, and one finding that's generating headlines is that only 17 percent of the public participants held the belief that American scientific achievements are the best in the world. However, the people who write...
On June 25th, many Americans learned about the death of Michael Jackson from the Internet. They had already learned how to use social networks to share that information -- and their grief -- with others, far outpacing traditional television media Apparently, the three main broadcast works didn't learn anything from that day. On July 7, they allowed...
Maybe Amazon's dreams of beaches filled with summer readers clicking on Kindles instead of riffling through a James Patterson or Clive Cussler page-turner didn't quite pan out. Or maybe economic stimulus funds haven't trickled down far enough to get recession-weary consumers thinking of e-book readers as must-have purchases In any event, Amazon's d...
U.S. computer security experts didn't have much of an Independence Day holiday this year, thanks to a massive botnet-driven attack launched on July 4 that initially targeted several federal agency Web sites and then went wider to include assaults on private sector Web entities in America and sites for South Korean government departments ...
Large, mid-size and small businesses that were already using Gmail for their communications needs may have forgotten that the email application was still officially a beta app -- that is, a work in progress, with all the tinkering and occasional downtime that goes along with the label On Tuesday, however, Google decided that it was time to declare ...
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