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Obama, McCain give dueling holiday addresses (AP)

AP - In dueling holiday addresses, President Barack Obama appealed for public support of his domestic programs and Sen. John McCain said Americans should side with Iranian election protesters.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 4 Jul 2009 | 11:08 am

Omg! Positive tone boosts Yahoo celeb site to top (AP) AP - Think of the most popular brands in celebrity news, and you'll probably come up with a small list that includes Entertainment Tonight, US Weekly and People.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 4 Jul 2009 | 9:59 am

BT offers staff time off in exchange for pay cut (AP) AP - Telecoms company BT Group PLC is offering staff a year off work in return for a 75 percent cut in that year's pay.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 4 Jul 2009 | 9:42 am

US Court Rejects IBM Appeal in Executive's Move to Dell (PC World) PC World - A U.S. court has rejected an IBM appeal to bar David Johnson, the company's former chief of mergers and acquisitions, from working at rival Dell over concerns regarding trade secrets.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2009 | 4:40 pm

Michael Jackson sales surge expected to last months (Reuters) Reuters - In the days following Michael Jackson's June 25 death, fans flocked to record stores and digital music outlets to purchase one last memory. And merchants say they expect the Jackson sales surge to last for weeks -- maybe even months.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2009 | 4:25 pm

Ericsson announces broadband contracts in China (AFP)

AFP - Swedish mobile phone network supplier Ericsson won contracts to supply broadband Internet to millions of users in China by a deal with three operators there, it said Friday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2009 | 3:08 pm

Bluetooth "Big Brother" tracks festival-goers (Reuters) Reuters - Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2009 | 1:59 pm

IPhone 3GS Heats Up, DOJ Takes Aim at Google (PC World) PC World - The iPhone scored quite a few headlines related to overheating problems with the 3GS this week. Depending on whom you believe, those issues are either real, exaggerated, the fault of users or some combination of the three. Otherwise, as warm weather takes hold above the equator and Bostonians contemplate whether it's time to brush up on our ark-building skills (rain, rain go away), we find this week's IT news offerings cover a broad range.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2009 | 1:40 pm

Final Draft AV 2.5 For years, documentary-style film and video makers have struggled to use jury-rigged tables within word processing programs to create the unique two-column scripts needed for planning documentaries, commercials, and corporate videos. Final Draft AV 2.5.2 aims to put a smile on those creative faces by taking over such time-consuming formatting duties so that filmmakers can focus their time where it matters--on content.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 3 Jul 2009 | 9:52 am

Bing Dips Toe Into Real-Time Search With Twitter Tie-In

Microsoft's recently released Bing search engine has begun adding real-time Twitter updates from celebrities to its results. So far, it has indexed the Twitter accounts of a few thousand people, Bing director Whitney Burk told TechNewsWorld. Search results are tied directly to online ads. While adding real-time tweets may get more people to use Bing, it's not yet clear whether that will help Microsoft get more ads. That will depend on Bing's growth, notes analyst Greg Sterling.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 2 Jul 2009 | 3:16 pm

Bluelounge CableDrop Whew! If you've been paying attention to the Mac Gems Weblog for the past six weeks, you know that it's been home to GemFest 2009, a Gem-a-day marathon of over 50 Gem reviews. We ended GemFest 2009 on Tuesday with a quick rundown of some of our all-time-favorite Gems, and today marks our return to the regular two-Gems-each-week schedule. I'll get back to reviewing great, inexpensive Mac software next week, but today I'm going to tell you about an accessory Gem that I've been wanting to cover since I saw a prototype at Macworld Expo back in January.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 2 Jul 2009 | 2:00 pm

Wallflower or Extrovert? Facebook Lets Users Choose by Post

With 200 million members who double as very vocal quality assurance officers, Facebook knows that any tinkering with its privacy policy is going to receive a lot of attention. So, its Wednesday announcement of an upcoming series of tests regarding its new privacy settings was carefully marketed as a matter of "control, simplicity and connection" by chief privacy officer Chris Kelly. "The power to share is the cornerstone of Facebook," Kelly wrote in the Facebook Blog.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 2 Jul 2009 | 1:21 pm

Palm Pre hardware glitches hard to evaluate, analysts say Customer forum complaints about shoddy hardware in the Palm Pre are hard to put in perspective, analysts said, since the Pre is a first-generation device and it is the WebOS operating system, not the hardware, that is more likely to hold the keys to Palm's future success.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 2 Jul 2009 | 12:58 pm

Researchers design wind turbine kites to fly at 30,000 feet Stanford University researchers are designing wind turbine kites that would fly to heights of 30,000 feet to reach powerful winds that could be used as alternative energy sources.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 2 Jul 2009 | 11:47 am

Tea Parties, Pirate Ships and a Kayak: A Summer at Sea

For seven months, a New York Times reporter named David Rohde was held prisoner by Taliban kidnappers. However, you wouldn't learn that from reading The New York Times -- or even Wikipedia, for that matter. In addition to other news organizations, the Times reportedly asked Wikipedia not to publish information on the abduction. For Wikipedia, that meant monitoring Rohde's entry and quickly deleting information regarding the kidnapping as soon as anyone put it up. Everyone involved seemed to have good intentions.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 2 Jul 2009 | 11:06 am

Final Draft 8 Hollywood may love remakes, but ticket buyers beware: it's often tough to tell whether you're about to see a modern reinvention of a tried-and true tale, or a timeless classic ruined. Thankfully, Final Draft 8 is a solid sequel to what has become the industry-standard screenwriting application, offering an updated interface, a handful of feature enhancements, and a new file format.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 2 Jul 2009 | 8:50 am

Is Software Installation on Linux 'Broken'?

You know a controversy is a big one when none other than RMS weighs in with his opinion, and sure enough, that's what happened in the Mono debate late last week. "Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction," RMS wrote on the Free Software Foundation's site. Of course, rather than settling the debate, Stallman's proclamation only fanned the flames higher, resulting in a raging inferno.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 2 Jul 2009 | 6:00 am

China will still require Green Dam Web filter program China has not lifted its requirement that an Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country, even though the plan was postponed this week, state media said Thursday.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 2 Jul 2009 | 3:18 am

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