[Software News] Saudi Arabia says arrests five Internet Qaeda sympathizers
[Software News] Yahoo Opens Mobile Platform, Launches iPhone oneConnect
Yahoo on Wednesday announced that it would open up its Blueprint mobile platform for Java, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices, as well as mobile Web sites. It also announced the launch of oneConnect, a mobile social service and messaging client, for the iPhone. The announcement was made at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment conference in San Francisco. "Yahoo Blueprint solves the mo...
[Software News] Saudi arrests five web 'jihadis'
RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it has arrested five people who used the Internet to propagate extremism and incite youths to go to troubled areas, a reference to supporters of Al-Qaeda. Each of the three Saudis and two foreign residents used various aliases to promote "misleading propaganda through the Internet and ... incite young generations and facilitate thei...
[Software News] Internet drug trafficking skyrockets, experts warn
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Drug trafficking on the web has soared as Internet use has become commonplace, presenting far more challenges and dangers than traditional trafficking, experts warned at a conference in Stockholm that wrapped up Wednesday. "Buying drugs on the Internet is really easy. You only need an Internet cafe, a credit card, and it's done," said Daniel Altmeyer,...
[Software News] VideoSurf hopes to ride Internet video wave
SAN FRANCISCO - There are plenty of places to watch online video, but still no easy way to find a particular clip without suffering through a lot of trial and error. Now a startup led by a former Yahoo Inc. engineer is promising to simplify Internet video search with a complex technology that enables computers to recognize images, such as actors' faces, and index them scene-by-scene. "We absolutely ...
[Software News] Creator of Web spots a flaw in Internet Explorer
NEW YORK - Tim Berners-Lee, the British-born inventor of the World Wide Web, says he doesn't like to express preferences among Web browsers. But he does have an issue with one of them: Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer. Berners-Lee, director of the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, said in an interview this week that Internet Explorer is falling behind other browsers in the way i...
[Software News] AOL Invites Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail to Home Page
In a move to drive more traffic through its network, AOL on Tuesday opened its home page to other e-mail providers, including Google's Gmail. AOL's mail-aggregation feature lets users access e-mail accounts from Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail, in addition to AOL and AIM Mail. What's more, the mail preview panel gives users the status of their AOL, Gmail and Yahoo accounts, so users can se...
[Software News] Tribune blames Google for UAL bankruptcy story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tribune Co on Wednesday blamed technology owned by search engine company Google Inc for treating an outdated story about UAL Corp's bankruptcy as current, breaking news. Tribune said in a press release it had identified problems with Google's "Googlebot" technology months ago and asked the company to stop using it to "crawl" for stories on its...
[Software News] Amazon.com to sell wine online in U.S.: vintners
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com, the largest global online retailer, plans to start selling U.S.-produced wine on its website within the United States by early October, wine industry insiders said on Wednesday. Napa Valley Vintners, a nonprofit group representing 315 vintners in the famous California wine-producing region, has already begun to set up workshops for wineries interested in...
[Software News] Obama sex video? Hardly. It's spyware spreading via e-mail
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't a terrorist...or a porn star. A malicious spam e-mail is spreading that claims to have a link to a sex video of Obama but is instead spyware that steals sensitive data from the computer, security firm Sophos warned on Wednesday. The subject line says "Obama sex video!!!" and...
[Software News] Bonjour for Windows 1.0.5 patches two DNS vulnerabilities
Apple on Tuesday released Bonjour for Windows 1.0.5., patching the DNS vulnerabilities first reported by Dan Kaminsky of IOActive in July. Bonjour for Windows can be found within iTunes. Earlier on Tuesday, Apple released DNS patches for iPod Touch. Bonjour for Windows 1.0.5 may be obtained downloading iTunes 8.0 or from Apple Software Downloads. mDNSResponder 1 This patch affects users of Windo...
[Software News] NBC shows return to iTunes after yearlong feud
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Apple Inc. and NBC Universal have ended a yearlong disagreement over pricing that had been keeping NBC TV shows off the iTunes Store. Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the occasion of the company's "Let's Rock" event in San Francisco to announce that, beginning immediately, NBC shows including "Heroes" and "The Office" are avai...
[Software News] Yahoo hires former Microsoft exec to boost revenue
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Yahoo Inc. has hired former Microsoft Corp. executive Joanne Bradford to help the Internet company try to accelerate its revenue growth after several years of disappointing results that have battered its stock. The appointment announced Tuesday fills a void created by the latest in a long line of departures in Yahoo's executive ranks. David Karnstedt is stepping down as Yahoo's s...
[Software News] Steve Jobs unveils new iPod line for holiday season
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday unveiled new iPod models and iTunes stores upgrades for the coming holiday season as he brushed aside reports about his health. Jobs kicked off a theatrical press event in downtown San Francisco by poking fun at persistent rumors about his health. He flashed a famous Mark Twain quote, "The reports ...
[Software News] UAL story revived by clicks on paper's Web site
The outdated bankruptcy story that sparked a run on United Airlines shares Monday came back to life because it showed up on a newspaper Web site's "most viewed" section, where it was picked up by Google News and later seen by panicky stockholders, the newspaper's owner said on Tuesday. United had filed for bankruptcy protection in 2002, but its shares dove on Monday when a link to an old story about...
[Software News] AOL adding third-party content to AOL.com
NEW YORK - AOL wants you to check your Gmail and see what your Facebook friends are up to — the company just prefers you do these things from its site. In an effort to increase user loyalty and bring more visitors to AOL.com, AOL is taking a step in a new direction by adding outside content, including e-mail from rival providers like Yahoo and Google and updates from social sites like Facebook ...
[Software News] Facebook unveils new look with a new approach
SAN FRANCISCO - Since he started Facebook in college 4 1/2 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg has learned — sometimes painfully — that he can't make significant changes to the popular online hangout without triggering an uproar among indignant users who preferred the status quo. But Zuckerberg, still only 24, is hoping he has found a way to ease the journey down a different road so he won't have t...
[Software News] The top iPhone apps for techies
San Francisco - Apple's iPhone 2.0 launch sparked an explosion of native apps and games, along with a burst of business application support from Google, Oracle, NetSuite, Salesforce.com, and a host of others who have tuned their Web GUIs for the iPhone's Safari browser. It has taken longer for useful IT tools to come to the iPhone, but many are now here. However, you won't find all of th...
[Software News] Analysis: How Google Has Changed Our Lives
"Google's official birthday is September 7, 1998. If Google were a person, it would have started elementary school late last summer (around August 19), and today it would have just finished the first grade. In other words, we're just getting started." – An expired version of Google's When is Google's birthday? page. Ten years ago, I sat next to a filing cabinet of p...
[Software News] Yahoo search arrives on AT&T mobile phones
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - AT&T Inc is set to begin featuring Yahoo Inc search services on the Internet menu of mobile handsets used by its base of up to 70 million U.S. customers, the companies said on Monday. AT&T plans to offer, through its mobile Internet portal, a collection of Yahoo's oneSearch mobile Web services including links to news, financial information, weather, Flickr photo...