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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:02:00 GMT

Amazon Battles Apple By Arm-Twisting Publishers

bizwriter writes 'Apple has upset the e-book pricing cart by agreeing to a so-called agency model, where the publisher sets the price and the seller takes a cut. This goes contrary to the degree of control Amazon likes, so although it apparently gave in
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:02:00 GMT

The Early Stats on IE9

In the first series of comprehensive performance tests comparing Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer 9 technical preview, released last week, to stable Web browsers in current use today, Betanews confirmed superb speed gains by the IE9 chassis
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:31:00 GMT

Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release

Trailrunner7 writes 'A month after an advisory was published detailing a new vulnerability in Firefox, Mozilla said it has received exploit code for the flaw and is planning to patch the weakness on March 30 in the next release of Firefox. Mozilla
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:15:00 GMT

IRS Security Faults Leave Taxpayer Data At Risk

coondoggie writes 'In this tax season, when billions of dollars and tons of personal information is relayed to and from the government, it's more than disconcerting to hear that the Internal Revenue Service is still struggling to keep private information
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:54:00 GMT

Would You Pay $20 for Access to a Breast Cancer Cure?

It seems safe to describe Andrew Hessel as an unbridled optimist. After all, he’s selling $20 shares in a journey towards a personalized cure for breast cancer, which he says could be feasible in the next few years. Mr. Hessel serves as the managing
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:40:00 GMT

Madoff's Programmers Indicted

jason8 writes with news that two programmers who worked at Bernie Madoff's investment firm have now been indicted on charges of 'conspiracy, falsifying records of a broker-dealer and falsifying records of an investment adviser,' for their role in hiding
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:49:00 GMT

Naming and Shaming 'Bad' ISPs

An anonymous reader writes 'Brian Krebs takes a provocative look at ISP reputations, collecting data from 10 different sources that track 'badness' from a multitude of angles, from phishing to malware to botnet command and control centers. Some of the
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:03:00 GMT

Business-Suitable Document Authentication System?

ram.loss writes 'The company I work for has decided to go paperless for all memos and internal correspondence. In addition to the central administration, the company has three more or less autonomous, physically separated divisions; that means we do not
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:45:00 GMT

Internet Explorer 9 Will Not Support Windows XP

MojoKid writes 'As it turns out, news this week is that the same features that made IE9's hardware-acceleration possible probably aren't compatible with Windows XP. Microsoft initially dodged giving a straight answer to the question of XP support but has
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:54:00 GMT

Google Launches 3D Driver Project For Chrome

CWmike writes 'Google has launched a without downloading additional drivers. The open-source project, called ANGLE (Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine), seeks to let Chromium run WebGL content on Windows computers, wrote product manager Henry Bridge on
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:53:00 GMT

Windows Phone 7: Microsoft's exercise in self restraint

Mix10 The key difference between Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile is not Silverlight, the Windows Marketplace lock-in, nor the disallowing of native-code applications. Rather, Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft's best effort at creating a user-centric
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:16:00 GMT

"Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan Platform

Hugh Pickens writes 'Nick Bilton has an interesting interview with Christopher Poole, known online as 'Moot,' founder 4chan, a jumble of content, hosting anything from pictures of cute kittens to wildly disturbing images and language. Poole, now 22,
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:47:00 GMT

Letter: Web of democracy

Congratulations on your initiative to get people involved in the election ( Welcome to the first e-election , G2, 17 March). For democracy to be real, people need to know how the system works and how to have an effective voice. Democracy Matters is a new
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:46:00 GMT

ISC Releases the First Look At BIND 10

Ethanol writes 'Internet Systems Consortium, producers of BIND 9 (the most popular DNS implementation on the internet), have spent the past year working on a successor, BIND 10. It's entirely new code, redesigned and rewritten from the ground up, and now
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:45:00 GMT

Aluminum giant Alcoa develops new solar technology

In The New York Times on Thursday, I wrote about how aluminum giant Alcoa has become the latest industrial behemoth to jump into the solar business: Alcoa, the aluminum giant, is testing a new type of solar technology that the company said it believed
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:38:00 GMT

Athena's Free Firewall Browser

athenasec writes 'Firewall Browser is a free configuration analyzer (download here), released by Athena Security, which works on Cisco, Check Point, and Netscreen firewalls for searching rulebases based on address or service ranges the way change
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:01:00 GMT

On the road: Suzuki Swift 1.3 SZ3 DDiS

In years gone by, cars were not guaranteed to start. The sound of recalcitrant engines and stuttering chokes frequently filled the air, or that part of the air that hadn't already been filled by the sound of exasperated expletives. Back then, it wasn't
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:36:00 GMT

Scientists Use Sex-Crazed Bugs As Pesticide

ByronScott writes 'In today's 'gross news' category, some female insects just might be getting lucky. As an alternative to toxic pesticides, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created 'super-sexed' sterilized male leafhoppers to knock
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:54:00 GMT

Apple puts out call for iPad apps - but developers can't say a word

It might be a while before Britain gets to see the iPad, but it's just weeks away from launch in the United States - and Apple is beginning to crank up the gears. The latest move? The company is now accepting submissions for iPad applications to be
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:35:00 GMT

Federal Judge Bars Instant Publishing of Analysists' Stock Tips

An anonymous reader writes 'Big Banking Firms Barclay's Capital, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch successfully obtained an injunction against theflyonthewall.com, Inc., preventing them from immediately publishing the firms' stock upgrades and downgrades.
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:35:00 GMT

MS testing 'Twittter for business'

Microsoft is continuing to look into ways to make social computing services part of business users lives with Microsoft mentioned OfficeTalk in a March 19 posting on the Office Labs blog, calling it a vehicle that applies the base capabilities of
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:31:00 GMT

Palm: Pondering the future

Palms third quarter was a disaster, the fourth quarter outlook was worse, and the company is stuck with an inventory glut as Verizon Wireless customers went with the BlackBerry Tour and Motorola Droid over the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus. The big question:
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:31:00 GMT

YouTube Was Evil, and Google Knew It

pcause writes 'Silicon Alley Insider has the most damning evidence released in the Viacom/YouTube suit. It seems clear from these snippets that YouTube knew it was pirating content, and did it to grow fast and sell for a lot of money. It also seems clear
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:49:00 GMT

Oracle Shuttering OpenSSO

mdm42 writes 'OpenSSO is one of the best open source web Single Sign On projects out there. Sun Microsystems made OpenSSO open source in 2008, so it's sad to see how, after absorbing Sun, Oracle is shutting down this amazing project, labelling it 'not
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:01:00 GMT

Intel Labs unveils PC power plans

Engineers at Intel Labs are toiling away at a "holistic approach" to energy savings that could result in lower-power processors, shrunken power bricks and batteries, and worldwide power bills shrinking by billions of dollars. At a gathering of reporters
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:45:00 GMT

Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech

bdcrazy writes 'A man was recently awarded $1.5M in a jury trial after his hand was injured by a Ryobi table saw. The saw did not include the patented 'Saw Stop' technology that the plaintiff argued would have prevented all the problems.' 60 similar
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:34:00 GMT

Free Software To Save Us From Social Networks

Glyn Moody writes 'Here's a problem for free software: most social networks are built using it, yet through their constant monitoring of users they do little to promote freedom. Eben Moglen, General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation for 13 years,
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:30:00 GMT

One on One: Christopher Poole, Founder of 4chan

In 2003, while still in high school, Christopher Poole, known online as ?Moot,? launched a message board called 4chan. The site includes� content that many people find offensive. Nevertheless, or maybe because of it, the site has millions of users and
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:23:00 GMT

Windows 7's XP mode now works on more PCs

Microsoft has removed the requirement for hardware-assisted virtualization to take advantage of Windows 7 XP mode The barrier for using XP mode virtualization in Windows 7 just got lower. Unfortunately, for millions of Windows 7 users, the barrier is
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:46:00 GMT

Microsoft pulls Bing iPhone app outside U.S.

Three months after releasing its Bing application for the iPhone, Microsoft this week said the application was only meant for the United States and that it is pulling the app from non-U.S. versions of the iTunes Store. "When we released the iPhone
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:40:00 GMT