[Software News] Bloomberg mistakenly publishes Steve Jobs obituary
[Software News] D.Telekom to expand broadband into rural areas
BERLIN (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG aims to offer DSL broadband connection to almost all of Germany's households by the end of the year with a particular focus on rural and remote areas. "Thanks to investments totaling 600 million euros ($887 million) in 2007 and 2008 ... at the end of 2008, we will be supplying 96 percent of all households with DSL," board member Timot...
[Software News] Google Outlines Plans for Android Apps Market
Google will house its Android marketplace on an open content distribution system similar in style to YouTube, and the first Android phone will include access to a beta version of Android Market, the search engine giant said Thursday. "Developers can expect the first handsets to be enabled with a beta version of Android Market," Google's Eric Chu wrote in a blog post. "Some decis...
[Software News] Reborn retail site fires salvo in shipping war
NEW YORK - With gas prices high and consumers stretching shopping dollars, competition is heating up online for deals — and a discount retail site hopes to fan the flames by shipping orders for $1.95. Chicago-based Enable Holdings Inc. plans to launch RedTag.com on Friday and sell retailers' excess inventory at a fixed price. Its shipping charge will undercut a similar site, Overstock.com Inc.,...
[Software News] Target.com Will Become More Accessible to Blind
Target has settled a class-action dispute with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) whereby the retail giant will pay $6 million and make its Web site more accessible to the visually impaired by next year, the company announced Wednesday. Under the deal, Target has until February 2009 to implement technical changes to Target.com that will make it easier for those with vision problems to acc...
[Software News] YouTube Cheers Dismissal of Veoh Copyright Suit
In a ruling that could have implications for Viacom's $1.65 billion lawsuit against YouTube, a California federal court on Wednesday dismissed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against online video-sharing site Veoh Networks. IO Group, an adult entertainment company, had sued Veoh, alleging the site was displaying its content in violation of copyright laws. Veoh had uploaded IO Group's c...
[Software News] Court dismisses video copyright case against Veoh
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has thrown out a copyright infringement case against Veoh Networks Inc, an Internet video start-up with high-profile Hollywood backers, ruling that video-sharing companies are not solely responsible for policing piracy that may take place on their sites. The California court dismissed a copyright infringement suit by adult entertainment company Io Group...
[Software News] Sector Snap: Chinese online gaming stocks
NEW YORK - Chinese online gaming stocks traded lower Thursday after Giant Interactive Group Inc. reported second-quarter profit that met Wall Street views but was downgraded by one analyst after failing to issue third-quarter guidance. American Depositary Shares of the Shanghai-based company fell 41 cents, or 4.3 percent, to $9.24. The stock has traded between $20.46 and $8.46 since Giant began trad...
[Software News] New Beta of Internet Explorer 8 Ready for Download
The second beta release of Internet Explorer 8 is now available for download by developers and consumers alike on Windows-based PCs running Vista, XP, Server 2003 and Server 2008. Microsoft's next-generation browser for 32-bit and 64-bit computing platforms is currently available in English, Japanese, Chinese and German, with additional languages coming soon, said Dean Hachamovitch, genera...
[Software News] Google CEO: Internet spurred Obama's nomination
DENVER--Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said on Thursday that the Internet gave presidential candidate Barack Obama the ability to bypass traditional media and claim the Democratic nomination. Schmidt showed up at the Democratic convention here on Thursday to field questions about politics, how Google is influencing online journalism, and the company's policies on privacy. D...
[Software News] Lindsay Lohan lashes out at father on blog
LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan had words for her father on her blog. The 22-year-old actress lashed out at father Michael by calling him a "public embarrassment" and a "bully" in a MySpace blog entry posted Thursday. Earlier in the week, Michael said in an interview with E! that Lohan gal pal Samantha Ronson was "using" his daughter. Lohan's publicist, Leslie Sloane-Zelnik, confirmed the post by Lohan ...
[Software News] Comcast to make monthly Internet use cap official
NEW YORK - Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, Thursday said it would set an official limit on the amount of data subscribers can download and upload each month. On Oct. 1, the cable company will update its user agreement to say that users will be allowed 250 gigabytes of traffic per month, the company announced on its Web site. Comcast has already reserved the righ...
[Software News] MySpace overtakes Yahoo in display ad views: report
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has lost its lead of the U.S. market for online display advertising to MySpace and its parent company News Corp's Fox Interactive Media and MySpace, new industry data shows. Fox Interactive's collection of sites, led by MySpace, drew 56.8 billion advertising views in June, compared with Yahoo's group of sites which had 53.1 billion, according t...
[Software News] Comcast to limit customers' broadband usage
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable operator, said on Thursday it will cap customers' Internet usage starting October 1, in a bid to ensure the best service for the vast majority of its subscribers. Comcast said it was setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigabytes per account for all residential high-speed Internet customers, or the equivalent of 50 m...
[Software News] Warner Makes Pitch for Tech Investment at DNC
Broadband policy made its way to the floor of the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night when former Virginia governor Mark Warner made a plea for increased investment in science and technology. During Warner's tenure as governor, "we delivered broadband to the most remote areas of our state, because if you can send a job to Bangalore, India, you sure as heck can send one to Danvil...
[Software News] Can JavaFX make a play for rich Internet apps?
San Francisco - With its new JavaFX technology for rich Internet applications, Sun Microsystems hopes to leverage the strength of the Java development base and Java's ubiquitous presence on devices to make a strong run in a race it has entered very late -- and where Adobe Systems and Microsoft have a huge head start. If this competition were a race between Olympic runners, it might be broadcast ...
[Software News] Panda Releases 2009 Security Line
Panda Security on Wednesday released the 2009 editions of its line of security products: Panda Global Protection 2009, Panda Internet Security 2009, and Panda AntiVirus Pro 2009. All three products feature Panda's proprietary "Collective Intelligence" technology to protect users against malicious software with minimal effect on the PC's bandwidth. "Panda Security is the firs...
[Software News] Dead Sea Scrolls to go digital on Internet
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet. Israel Antiquities Authority, the custodian of the scrolls that shed light on the life of Jews and early Christians at the time of Jesus, said on Wednesday it would take more than two ye...
[Software News] Mystery 'iPhone Girl' generates Internet intrigue
HONG KONG - Who is the "iPhone Girl"? Pictures of an Asian factory worker found on a new iPhone sold to a British customer have generated keen discussion on the Internet about her identity — and her fate. The three pictures, posted on the Apple discussion Web site MacRumors.com, show a young Asian woman working on what appears to be an assembly line for iPhones. Dressed in a pink striped outfit...
[Software News] Enterprises Likely To Turn Off IE8 'Porn Mode'
Anyone perusing porn sites at home will appreciate Microsoft's latest efforts at browser privacy, but it's not clear it will do much for the enterprise. Internet Explorer product manager Andrew Ziegler discussed the new privacy features of IE8, currently in its second beta, in an extensive blog post Monday. Users of the new software will be able to turn on Microsoft's InPrivate Browsing and Blocking features. ...