Google-China resolution coming 'soon,' says CEO
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:30:00 PST
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Talks between Google and Chinese government are ongoing, Google's Eric Schmidt says Wednesday, and he expects the matter to be resolved sooner rather than later.
Green plastic breakthrough from Big Blue, Stanford
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:04:44 PST
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Material sciences achievement in organocatalysts research could lead to more sustainable plastics, better recycling methods.
WhitePages.com halts ad networks over malware
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:01:00 PST
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Site investigates malware delivered via ads on its site in a fake antivirus attack similar to that on the Drudge Report site.
Panasonic, Best Buy double down on 3D TV
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:48:00 PST
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Panasonic announces availability of an exclusive 3D TV bundle at Best Buy stores, featuring a plasma TV and 3D-compatible Blu-ray player.
What Apple's and Microsoft's patent threats mean for start-ups
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:34:46 PST
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Given the likelihood that everyone violates the patents of everyone else, patent collectives like OIN may be critical to protecting the interests of start-ups against larger players.
Windows Live support via e-mail ends
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:24:00 PST
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Starting Wednesday, users with problems will have to go to online forums to get answers to issues with Microsoft's consumer Web services.
Lady Gaga on Rock Band
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:09:16 PST
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Google may soon be searching your set-top box, the PlayStation Network gets new high-def movies, and Lady Gaga may grace Rock Band.
Stanford undergrads: iPhones are addictive
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:02:00 PST
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Almost half of the 200 students with iPhones polled at Stanford University say they're addicted to the device, with 75 percent admitting they take it to bed.
LifeLock to pay $12 million to settle deceptive-practices claim
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:02:00 PST
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FTC complaint alleged that LifeLock made false claims for adequately protecting customers from identity fraud and data theft.
Sims creator: Wii belongs in the 'toy market'
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:31:24 PST
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Will Wright, best known for his creation of The Sims franchise, calls the Wii console a "toy" during this week's Game Developers Conference.
GDC 2010: Scaling the summits of game play
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:31:00 PST
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roundup This week's Game Developers Conference brings together designers, programmers, publishers, and others for the latest from the world of video play.
Acer's PC market numbers add up
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:12:42 PST
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Across all of 2009, Dell managed to stay ahead of Acer by a hair's-breadth, but the year-end trend wasn't going Dell's way.
Back to the future at MySpace?
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:52:40 PST
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The site's new co-presidents are overseeing revival plans to keep MySpace from sinking further.
Waterpebble gets water-wasters out of the shower
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PST
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Water-saving device uses the length of your first shower as a benchmark, indicating via a series of gently flashing "traffic lights" when you need to get out of the shower already!
1366 Tech leaping from pure silicon to solar wafer
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:15:00 PST
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Solar start-up 1366 Technologies is working on a technology that promises to dramatically cut the cost of solar cell manufacturing.
Nasdaq 5,000: Ten years after the dot-com peak
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST
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Exactly 10 years ago, during the height of the dot-com mania, the Nasdaq reached its all-time high of 5,408.62 on March 10, 2000. It has never recovered.
Turning smartphones into air quality monitors
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST
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Intel Labs is showing off technology that would allow consumers to collect and analyze environmental data and then share it over the Internet.
Why the explosion of social games excites veteran developers
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST
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When simple games like Farmville snag 83 million users, designers who are used to working for years on a project have little choice but to embrace the era of Facebook titles.
SXSWi: Let the geolocation games begin
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST
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The competition will be particularly fierce at the annual digital-culture bash between Foursquare and Gowalla, rival social-media services that want to own the location-based networking market.
Sun fended off Apple, Microsoft IP lawsuit threats
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:25:00 PST
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Steve Jobs personally threatened to sue Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz says. Sun warded off that and a Microsoft threat with its own patent portfolio.
Mach 6 Cruise Missile, Ready for Prime Time?
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:42:00 GMT
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This spring, the Air Force was preparing for a groundbreaking test of the X-51 WaveRider, a hypersonic cruise missile that would reach speeds of up to Mach 6. But it looks like the WaveRider?s debut flight will have to wait while some technical issues are addressed.
10 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Converted to 3D
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:39:00 GMT
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Why, really, did the 3D movie trend start? Does anybody remember, before the trend began, thinking 'You know the problem with movies? They?re too two-dimensional?' Anyway, some work, and some don't and some would be bad ideas. Here are 10 that should never be attempted.
Call Me Google. (And Call Me, Google)
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:23:00 GMT
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Google's announcement that it intends to build and test super fast fiber-optic broadband networks in a few communities around the US has a few communities in the US pulling out all the stops to be selected with some attention-getting stunts that scream to the search giant "Pick me! Pick ME!"
Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:01:00 GMT
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With a click of a mouse, cyclists can get the quickest, and flattest, route between Point A and Point B.
March 10, 2000: Pop Goes the Nasdaq!
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
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The Nasdaq begins its spectacular collapse, signaling the end of the dot-com boom.
Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control Universe
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe.
Texters Should Park the Car, Take the Bus
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.
Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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Huge projects that would store wind energy by compressing air in abandoned mines and porous sandstone are gaining steam in the Midwest.
10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here?s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.
Review: Science Trips Out on Music in 'The Heart Is a Drum Machine'
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:00 GMT
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Through interviews with a brainy crop of musicians and scientists, a new documentary probes the connection between body, mind and music.
Broadcast Video From Your Mobile
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:00 GMT
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You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.
Oldest Known Flying 'Car' Up for Auction
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:15:00 GMT
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It's from 1934, and it doesn't look like a car, and it doesn't look like it would fly.
Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:00 GMT
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It?s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can?t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn?t about real estate — it?s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.
Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:46:00 GMT
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From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.
Your Computer Really Is a Part of You
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:40:00 GMT
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Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.
Just How Fast Is Cisco's New Router? Really Freaking Fast
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:39:00 GMT
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Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.
Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:34:00 GMT
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The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.
Better Than Apollo: The Space Program We Almost Had
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:20:00 GMT
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A new book lovingly collects and presents the unexpectedly gorgeous advertisements of early, pre-Apollo space companies. The author of "Another Science Fiction" explains this fascinating, forgotten world of unbounded possibility, countercultural space exploration, and what it all means for human spaceflight today in this exclusive interview with Wired.com.
Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:15:00 GMT
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Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.
Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT
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Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
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Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.
Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:10:00 GMT
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For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we?ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:25:00 GMT
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Browsing the web on one of Amazon?s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It?s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on the company?s website.
Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 GMT
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Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.
Supreme Court Takes 'Informational Privacy' Case
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
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The Supreme Court agrees to decide a case concerning "informational privacy." The Obama administration claims the case could undermine how much background data it may collect on the 14-million-person federal bureaucracy.
March 9, 1454: This Man Is a Continent ... or Two
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
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Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.
Turn an FM Transmitter Into a Micro Pirate Radio
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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Seize the airwaves to fight corporate radio's preprogrammed junk. It all starts with a soldering iron and a cheapo FM transmitter.
Most Dangerous Object in the Office: Shocknife SK-2
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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There's no sharp point or edge, but the electrodes in the polycarbonate Shocknife deliver a stabbing 7,500 volts. Ouch. Kilo-ouch.
Meet the Winners of Webmonkey's Google I/O Giveaway
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
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We're sending two talented monkeys to the Google I/O developer conference in May. We asked our readers to submit their web creations, and we picked the winners from the best of the submissions.
Get Jazzed for Monster Miles Davis Giveaway
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:37:00 GMT
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Tell us why the trumpet player and bandleader was one of music's most innovative forces, and you'll be entered to win a copy of the 70-CD box set Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a Miles-branded iPod and Monster Miles Davis Tribute high-performance headphones.
Google-China resolution coming 'soon,' says CEO
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:30:00 PST
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Talks between Google and Chinese government are ongoing, Google's Eric Schmidt says Wednesday, and he expects the matter to be resolved sooner rather than later.
Back to the future at MySpace?
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:52:40 PST
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The site's new co-presidents are overseeing revival plans to keep MySpace from sinking further.
SXSWi: Let the geolocation games begin
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST
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The competition will be particularly fierce at the annual digital-culture bash between Foursquare and Gowalla, rival social-media services that want to own the location-based networking market.
Google Maps to add bike maps, directions
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:00 PST
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Cyclists will be able to use Google Maps to plot directions around 150 U.S. cities when bike directions go live on Google later on Tuesday.
Lindsay Lohan sues E-Trade over Super Bowl spot
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:21:00 PST
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The troubled actress is suing E-Trade, claiming that it mocked her in one of its cute baby ads. She is asking for $100 million.
Google announces business app store for Google Apps
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:15:00 PST
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Software developers can cater to Google Apps customers through a new application store announced at Google's Campfire One event in Mountain View.
Online dating finally recognized by restaurant guide
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:27:00 PST
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A new restaurant guide has a section specifically dedicated to the difficult area of online dating. Its author believes only certain very specific places are suitable for an online date.
Pink Floyd sues EMI over iTunes payments
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:59:00 PST
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One of the most imposing (and wealthiest) bands of all time sues EMI over online royalties. EMI is reportedly arguing that an album-unbundling ban applies only to physical products.
Is the Kindle finally ready for the Web?
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 PST
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If you own a Kindle, you also own a mobile Web browser. But chances are you never use it. That may be about to change.
Putting TiVo Premiere in context
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:49:00 PST
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After all the hype, the TiVo Premiere was greeted by disappointment by many gadget fans. But is there more to the story?
Microsoft tweaks browser ballot code
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:53:44 PST
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After complaints the original algorithm was not doing the job, Redmond fixes the code shuffling the order of the browsers in its ballot screen for European users.
Foursquare unveils its SXSWi arsenal
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:37:00 PST
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In heated war with rival Gowalla for the geek seal of approval at the annual digital culture festival, Foursquare unveils new badges, new partners, and new promotions.
Is ad blocking the problem?
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:32:00 PST
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Ad blocking is an easy scapegoat for the online media industry, but blocking ad-blocking will only stymie the evolution of the online media business.
Documents in Viacom vs. Google unsealed soon
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:15:00 PST
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Google wanted to wait until June to give the public a peek at information collected in the company's copyright conflict with Viacom. Judge says speed things up.
Report: Google testing TV search
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:19:00 PST
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Company is reportedly teaming with Dish Network to test a new service that would let people search their Internet-connected TVs for shows and online video.
For SXSWi, Chevy plugs into social media
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:19:00 PST
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An ambitious load of marketing initiatives from the GM division, which is preparing to launch its Volt electric car, emphasizes that brands increasingly see the digital-culture fest as a place to test campaigns.
Why is eBay logo in Whitman ad?
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:03:21 PST
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In Meg Whitman's campaign ad for governor of California, the eBay logo appears on screen. Is eBay OK with this? And if so, why?
Google reluctant to release info in Viacom case
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:42:00 PST
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Viacom wants court documents to be released in two weeks and Google wants to wait three months. Does the public have a right to "immediately" see the information?
Google launches tool for searching public data
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:40:00 PST
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Curious about unemployment trends in your state cross-referenced against salaries? Google Public Data Explorer could make it easier to create a visual representation.
Gowalla debuts Travel Channel deal, Android app
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:30:00 PST
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The location-based mobile networking app has launched its first non-iPhone app, and is making it clear that it's gunning for the same media partnerships that rival Foursquare is going for.
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