Google adds collaboration tools to Apps platform
The search giant resurrected Jotspot on Thursday, relaunching the company's technology in a new Google Apps application called 'Sites.'
Sites would allow users to create collaboration areas quickly and easily. Within them, users can include videos, calendars, presentations, and attachments. The information is then presented in a wiki-like interface.
Sharp, Hitachi investigated for fixing price of Nintendo DS screens
Sharp and Hitachi said Thursday that their LCD display businesses were probed to look for evidence of price fixing in portable game console displays.
Under Japanese law, if a company is found guilty of the scheme, up to 10 percent of its profit gains obtained under those policies could be forfeited in fines. What is not yet known is how the investigation started.
After FCC hearing turns into circus act, NY subpoenas Comcast records
At an FCC hearing on Monday, cable broadcasting giant Comcast meant to offer a serious defense to intimations by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other critics that it is blocking P2P file transfers by end users.
But the remarks made by David L. Cohen, Comcast's executive VP, came across as ludicrous in light of later rumors that Comcast paid employees -- and even homeless people or other non-employees -- to hold seats for the cable company, thereby keeping foes out of the hearing venue in Cambridge, MA.
Digital Music Forum: How to offer digital tunes without going broke
At the Digital Music Forum in New York City today, speakers talked up a couple of alternative approaches for offering freely downloadable digital tunes without going broke.
As Microsoft's Zunes, Apple's iTunes, and other online music distributors are quickly finding out, a lot of people just don't want to pay for song downloads to their PCs.
Encyclopedia of Life launched, prepare to wait in line
Like a tourist attraction on opening day, the Encyclopedia of Life today opened its site to the public, and was promptly swamped with visitiors.
The project was announced in May of 2007, and undertook the massive initial task of cataloguing every single of the 1.8 million living animal species upon the Earth today. The first 30,000 pages of data were unveiled this morning, and by midday, the site was inaccessible due to the heavy traffic it was seeing. As of press time, the site was still unreachable.
EFF, ACLU say Wikileaks shutdown harms First Amendment rights
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed motions in a federal court in San Francisco to overturn a decision that disabled Wikileaks' primary domain name.
A permanent injunction was imposed which disabled wikileaks.org, and prevented its transfer to any other registrar. This followed a lawsuit by Swiss bank Julius Baer which accused the site of posting the personal transactions of its customers.
Spammers bypass Google's Gmail signup security
An Internet research firm discovered spam bots are now able to register on Google's Gmail for spamming purposes. This latest attempt by spammers has been the most sophisticated recorded attempt to get around CAPTCHA, using both humans and bots.
The Completely Automoated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) test is designed to stop bots from being able to register on Web sites and Internet e-mail services to spam users. CAPTCHA technology is the jumbled letters in a small box that you must enter before being able to finish registration on most popular Web sites.
Microsoft struggles to fix data corruption bug in Windows Home Server
Microsoft still has not issued a fix for a problem within Windows Home Server that will leave some files corrupted if edited on a networked PC and saved to the home server.
The problem was initially discovered on December 21, and can occur when users edit a file, document or image already stored on Windows Home Server. The company updated its list of affected applications last week.
Apple looks set to introduce iPhone SDK next week
Invitations have been sent out for an event next week that superficially appears to be the launch of third-party application support for the iPhone.
The invitation shows a folded map with the text "iPhone Software Roadmap." On the map are three different road signs, the first with the text "Enterprise," the next saying "SDK," and the last "Software Update."
German high court conditionally approves government data spying
Germany's Constitutional Court has determined that any data stored or exchanged on PCs is private and protected by the country's constitution -- just not if you're a suspect.
The court determined that data collection directly encroaches on citizens' rights, but that authorities will be allowed to spy on suspicious individuals with high court approval.
Has software development spawned the sprawl of PC servers?
The software development process played a key role early on in spawning the sprawl of distributed Windows and Linux servers. But software developers and the organizations they work for can now start to curtail these costs through the centralization of all or most computing tasks, according to speakers at ths week's rollout event for IBM's new System z10 mainframe.
"It's easy to see how we got here," said Steve Mills, senior VP and group executive of the IBM Software Group, talking about the underutilized computing capacity on many many distributed PC servers in large enterprises today.
Windows CE Trojan out in the wild, say researchers
US-CERT is warning of a Trojan that puts the users of Microsoft's mobile operating system at risk for data disclosure.
Known as the WinCE/InfoJack Trojan, it will hijack the device serial number, disable the operating system's security functions, then install programs and upload user data to the attacker's Web site.
Australian Net censorship moves ahead with testing
The proposed tightening of Internet censorship in Australia is now in its first phase.
Australia's Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will soon be conducting tests of ISP-based filters in Tasmania before a nationwide field test deployment takes place.
Qwest discussing wireless options with Verizon
Apparently dissatisfied with its as-of-yet unprofitable agreement with Sprint, Qwest is reportedly looking elsewhere.
Qwest signed an exclusivity agreement with Sprint, where it bought wholesale buckets of minutes and then resold them to customers. However, the terms also prevented it from offering the latest handsets, which in turn crippled its ability to attact new customers.
Microsoft extends its openness policy to Windows Live developers
The message all this week from Microsoft has been one of openness, sharing with clients, and even global responsibility -- even in the wake of a new round of EC fines. This morning, the message continued into the online services space.
The communications ability of Microsoft's MSN messaging networks has been open for other IM tools to use for some time, but today, the company is making available the methodology for a concept it has been demonstrating to developers -- albeit in the prototype stage -- for over two years: integrating the ability to invoke Windows Live communications through Web applications.
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