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Asustek to Offer Eee PC With Built-in 3G Wireless (PC World) PC World - Asustek will offer an Eee PC later this year with built-in 3G connectivity.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2008 | 10:40 pm

Judge orders Google to give YouTube user data to Viacom (AFP)

AFP - Google expressed disappointment and privacy groups voiced outrage Thursday after a judge ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2008 | 7:48 pm

Lenovo Seeks Prestige in Price-sensitive Market (PC World) PC World - The perception of Lenovo as a laptop innovator has paid dividends in the enterprise space, but the reputation may not...

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2008 | 7:00 pm

Chipmaker Connects A Wireless World And Makes It Run Faster (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - Now televisions, digital cameras and game consoles commonly link to the world without those physical ties.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2008 | 5:24 pm

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses (AP) AP - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2008 | 4:57 pm

Daily Debrief: Celebrating America's independence, questioning our own online (CNET) CNET - A day before the United States celebrates its independence, we continue to question our individual freedoms online. In Thursday's Daily Debrief, CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and I discuss a federal judge's recent ruling in the ongoing Google-Viacom lawsuit that orders Google to turn over YouTube user activity. This will include videos watched, IP addresses, and usernames as part of an ongoing copyright infringement case.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2008 | 4:44 pm

Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs (AP)

AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2008 | 3:57 pm

Openmoko's Neo FreeRunner Smartphone Really Is Open (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Openmoko has taken the wraps off its Neo FreeRunner, a Linux-based smartphone based on the company's open mobile-computing platform. Before you yawn about reading yet another product-introduction story -- especially about a handset that lacks 3G capability -- what sets the Neo FreeRunner apart is that it really is open, literally and figuratively.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Jul 2008 | 3:26 pm

Court Gives Viacom Window on YouTube User Activities

A new ruling in Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against Google has privacy advocates fretting that the case may further erode privacy online, even if it's eventually settled. Judge Louis Stanton of the U.S. District Court for Southern New York ruled that Google must provide Viacom with information from its database, including users' YouTube login IDs, the videos they watched, and the time they watched them. Viacom wants the data in order to rebut Google's claim that user traffic to copyrighted content on YouTube is just a small part of the site's overall traffic.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 3 Jul 2008 | 2:30 pm

Sony Pulls Update Following PS3 Firmware Fiasco

Sony's 2.40 firmware update for the PlayStation 3 video game console ran into problems less than an hour after the company made it available for download Wednesday. Owners began reporting problems as a result of the download on the PS3 Forum, leading Sony to pull the update from availability. "A limited number of PS3 users have reported that the XMB is not displayed after updating to the PS3 system software ver. 2.40. We have temporarily taken the 2.40 update offline and are currently conducting tests to determine the cause of this problem," said Al de Leon, a Sony spokesperson.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 3 Jul 2008 | 2:29 pm

Pew Study Shows Sizable Chunk of US Still Not Online

A new study shows the majority of Americans still on dial-up Internet access are keeping the slow connection by choice. The Pew Internet and American Life Project's "Home Broadband Adoption 2008" report finds only 55 percent of Americans are now using high-speed broadband connections -- up 8 percent from this time last year. Those with dial-up connections -- about 10 percent of the total polled -- largely say they're content and have no desire to upgrade. A whopping 62 percent of dial-up users reported no interest in switching over to broadband.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 3 Jul 2008 | 1:59 pm

UK Entrepreneurs Eye iPod Users With New miShake Player

Two Birmingham, UK, businessmen are taking on the might of the iPod with a new audio and video player they hope will take the world by storm. The "miShake" was launched by 24-year-old Birmingham entrepreneurs Steve Beckford and Alex Sylvester who, after running their own online gadget shop Electro Box, saw a market opportunity. Their company has exclusive rights to the miShake in the UK and is aiming to work with other overseas distributors. Beckford launched Electro Box just over a year ago after spending time traveling.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 3 Jul 2008 | 12:39 pm

NASA Probe: Our Solar System Is Smooshed

When viewed from the rest of the galaxy, the edge of our solar system appears slightly dented as if a giant hand is pushing one edge of it inward, far-traveling NASA probes reveal. Information from Earth's first space probes to hit the thick edge of the solar system -- called the "heliosheath" where the solar wind slows abruptly -- paint a picture that is not the simple circle that astronomers long thought, according to several studies published Thursday in the journal Nature.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 3 Jul 2008 | 11:47 am

OLPC tries to bridge gap with developer community There's a big ideological gap between developers, who espouse the XO laptop as a watershed open-source project, and One Laptop Per Child, which wants to sell more cheap PCs, one observer says, and now OLPC is trying to mend fences.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 3 Jul 2008 | 9:00 am

Nvidia reports problem with laptop chips Nvidia said it will take a one-time charge to cover costs related to repair of defective GPUs used in notebooks.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 3 Jul 2008 | 9:00 am

How much is too much? Upgrade your notebook without going over the line Does your laptop have enough RAM? Does a hard disk or flash drive provide more bang for the buck? These questions are expensive imponderables for most laptop buyers, but our tests reveal the optimal configuration for your laptop.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 3 Jul 2008 | 9:00 am

Review: WiLife offers video surveillance for anyone with a PC Logitech's WiLife provides a working video surveillance system at a relatively low price, although it does have limitations compared to professional setups.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 3 Jul 2008 | 9:00 am

Mac Bloggers Gnash Teeth Over iPhone Pricing Numbers

For Mac-focused bloggers this week, the biggest news by far has been the upcoming 3G iPhone, the old iPhone and AT&T's iPhone pricing plans. Bloggers and readers have been poring over the details -- AT&T launched a mini site complete with FAQs -- and most everyone seems to think the $199 entry point will generate millions in new sales around the world. AT&T will start selling the new 3G iPhone bright and early July 11, and the company is recommending that brand new prospective iPhone customers come prepared with a photo ID and Social Security number for a credit check.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 3 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am

Eclipse Release Is Great but Doesn't Reach the Cloud

Not all trains run on time, but the Eclipse Foundation has kept to its schedule with its annual release train, this year named "Ganymede." For the third year in a row, the Eclipse community has delivered, on the same day as in previous years, numerous software updates across a wide range of projects. This year's iteration includes software that spans 23 projects and represents over 18 million lines of code. Highlights of the release include the new p2 provisioning platform, new Equinox security features, new Ecore modeling tools, and support for SOA.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 3 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am

Network Simulation and Emulation: Try It Before You Deploy It

Best-in-Class organizations are three times more likely to leverage solutions for network simulation and emulation than Laggards, according to data from Aberdeen Group's February benchmark report, "The Roadmap to the Next-Generation Branch Office Networks." Deployment of these solutions resulted in Best-in-Class companies being twice as likely to report improvements in their ability to accurately estimate the impact of new technology rollouts on network performance.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 3 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am

IBM mainframe acquisition raises antitrust concerns A trade group is raising questions about IBM's acquisition of a competing mainframe vendor, Platform Solutions.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 2 Jul 2008 | 9:00 am

Former HP VP charged with stealing IBM trade secrets A former Hewlett-Packard vice president has been changed in federal court with stealing confidential information from a previous employer, IBM.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 2 Jul 2008 | 9:00 am

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