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Psystar Antitrust Claim Against Apple Dismissed

Nov 19th, 2008 · CNet has a report that a federal judge has dismissed Psystar's antitrust suit against Apple. Observers had said that the counter-suit embodied the Mac clone-maker's best chance of prevailing and staying in business. We've been following Psystar and the …
see also: business · antitrust · Apple · Lawsuits · CNet · Mac · federal

Psystar Antitrust Claim Against Apple Dismissed

Nov 19th, 2008 · CNet has a report that a federal judge has dismissed Psystar's antitrust suit against Apple. Observers had said that the counter-suit embodied the Mac clone-maker's best chance of prevailing and staying in business. We've been following Psystar and the …
see also: business · antitrust · Apple · Lawsuits · CNet · Mac · federal

New AMD Processors Aiming Between Laptops and Netbooks

Nov 15th, 2008 · An anonymous reader writes with an article about AMD's Conesus chip, suggesting that it is intended to compete with Intel's Nano for the netbook market. However, CNet reports that AMD is eschewing that form factor in favor of something larger, yet still …
see also: PC · strategy · Portable · expense · Intel · laptop · CNet

A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet

Nov 8th, 2008 · CNet is running a story about research from security expert Joe Stewart into the CoreFlood botnet, which has harvested at least "50 gigabytes of compressed data, searchable in a MySQL database," from a group of over 370,000 bot IDs. Stewart explains how …
see also: pictures · research · IDs · HTML · CNet · Security · MySQL

Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users

Nov 3rd, 2008 · CNet is reporting that Netflix has opened up its "Watch Instantly" feature to Mac users (here is Netflix's blog entry). They accomplished this by using Microsoft's Silverlight technology on both platforms, abandoning the Windows Media Player solution …
see also: DRM · solution · software · blog · Microsoft · Windows · technology

Google Negotiating With Justice Department

Oct 15th, 2008 · Cnet reports that to avoid being sued by the U.S. Justice Department, Google is negotiating with them. The Justice Department and a multistate task force are still reviewing the proposal to decide whether to oppose the partnership. Under the non-exclusive …
see also: Google · proposal · Yahoo · ads · CNet · revenue · Justice Department

CNET UK Credits Claim That Apple Will Release Networked TVs

Oct 11th, 2008 · While the Apple rumours posted yesterday highlight some of the most commonly talked-about opinions, a writer for CNet UK sat down with Mahalo's Jason Calacanis, who told CNet he knew for a fact that Apple is developing fully networked LCD TV sets. As …
see also: TV · network · computer · Apple · UK · company · CNet

CNET UK Credits Claim That Apple Will Release Networked TVs

Oct 11th, 2008 · While the Apple rumours posted yesterday highlight some of the most commonly talked-about opinions, a writer for CNet UK sat down with Mahalo's Jason Calacanis, who told CNet he knew for a fact that Apple is developing fully networked LCD TV sets. As …
see also: TV · network · computer · Apple · UK · company · CNet

Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well

Oct 7th, 2008 · Presto Vivace and others sent us this CNet report on a just-released NRC report coming to the conclusion, which will surprise no one here, that data mining doesn't work very well. It's all those darn false positives. The submitter adds, "Any chance we …
see also: business · Total Information Awareness · laws · technology · CNet · mechanisms · congress

Google Reveals Wireless Vision - Open Networks

Sep 27th, 2008 · Anti-Globalism writes with this excerpt from CNet: "Google's vision of tomorrow's wireless network is in stark contrast to how wireless operators do business today, setting the two sides on a possible collision course. Earlier this week, the search giant …
see also: network · Google · business · world · office · Cell · founder

Intel Unveils 6-Core Xeon 7400

Sep 16th, 2008 · JagsLive recommends CNet coverage that begins "Intel officially unveiled its six-core 'Dunnington' Xeon 7400 processor Monday ... As expected, Intel launched the Dunnington chip for high-end servers ... The Xeon 7400 is also one of the first Intel chips …
see also: servers · Intel · CNet · processors · silicon · Xeons · monolithic

Intel Unveils 6-Core Xeon 7400

Sep 16th, 2008 · JagsLive recommends CNet coverage that begins "Intel officially unveiled its six-core 'Dunnington' Xeon 7400 processor Monday... As expected, Intel launched the Dunnington chip for high-end servers... The Xeon 7400 is also one of the first Intel chips …
see also: servers · Intel · CNet · processors · silicon · Xeons · monolithic

Questioning Google's Privacy Reform

Sep 14th, 2008 · JagsLive makes note of a story questioning whether Google's recent commitment to anonymize IP logs faster is really as good as it sounds. We discussed their announcement a few days ago. CNet's Chris Soghoian takes a closer look: "While the company hasn't …
see also: IP · Google · computer · Internet · company · Public · customers

China Wants UN To Help Trace Sources On Internet

Sep 14th, 2008 · An anonymous reader brings us a CNet story, which begins: "A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially …
see also: protection · proposal · service · laws · Chinese · Internet · Public

Speculation On Large-Scale Phone Location Snooping

Sep 8th, 2008 · An anonymous reader recommends a speculative blog entry by Chris Soghoian up on CNet. Soghoian makes a convincing case that the NSA could be using loopholes in the law to gather real-time location information on the mobile phones of millions of people. …
see also: blog · laws · consumer · mobile · industry · customers · United States

DIY Hybrid Car Kit

Sep 8th, 2008 · Building hybrids uses machinery that pollutes the environment. The solution? Ship the parts of a hybrid individually and get your customers to put the car together themselves. That's exactly what Robert Q Riley Enterprises is doing, according to a story …
see also: solution · customers · environment · CNet · Hybrid · drivers · manufactured

PGP Leads Corporate Efforts To Save Bletchley Park

Sep 8th, 2008 · CNET reports that PGP, together with IBM and other technology firms, is mounting a fundraising effort to benefit the ailing Bletchley Park, home of the Station X codebreaking efforts in World War II. 'We're calling attention (to the fact that) Bletchley …
see also: IBM · world · technology · corporate · CNet · executive · fundraiser

PGP Leads Corporate Efforts To Save Bletchley Park

Sep 8th, 2008 · CNET reports that PGP together with IBM and other technology firms are mounting a fundraising effort to benefit the ailing Bletchley Park, home of the Station X codebreaking efforts in World War II. 'We're calling attention (to the fact that) Bletchley …
see also: IBM · world · technology · corporate · CNet · executive · fundraiser

DIY Hybrid Car Kit

Sep 8th, 2008 · Building hybrids uses machinery that pollutes the environment. The solution? Ship the parts of a hybrid individually and get your customers to put the car together themselves. That's exactly what Robert Q Riley Enterprises is doing, according to a story …
see also: solution · customers · environment · CNet · Hybrid · drivers · manufactured

BBC To Launch Music Download Store

Sep 3rd, 2008 · According to a post on Cnet today, the BBC is working on a paid-for download, and ad-supported streaming, music store, making available its entire archive of music recorded at BBC studios for TV and radio. The venture has major label backing and is rumoured …
see also: TV · service · Music · world · BBC · Commercial · download







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