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GroupTweet to blame for Twitter security 'compromise'

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
Twitter, the moment-by-moment status update ("What are you doing now?") site that's the buzz among social networking circles, was shaken by a potentially embarrassing foul-up.

Iomega surges ahead with a half-terabyte home theater drive

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
On its way to becoming an EMC division, Iomega today announced its new 500 GB ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive, designed to let users watch entertainment content on their TVs and home theater systems without the need of a PC.

Stellar growth for online CRM spurs a Microsoft / Salesforce duel

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
Microsoft and Salesforce.com are at loggerheads over online CRM. Microsoft just rebranded its service and retooled its software, Salesforce is partnering with Google to parry Microsoft, and verbal attacks from both sides verge on vicious.

Netflix offers tempting details about future hardware

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
On Monday, Netflix discussed its favorable first quarter 2008 and tempted investors and subscribers alike with references to four mystery hardware manufacturers working on Netflix-enabled products.

Vista SP1 goes live on Automatic Updates, but gradually

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
It's apparently safe to try this now: Microsoft stated this afternoon it's going forward with plans to deploy Windows Vista Service Pack 1 via Automatic Updates.

Apple tops streets estimates in record quarter

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
Apple posted its best second quarter in company history, on strong sales of Macs and iPhones. But its iPod sales growth is slowing down measurably, and analysts who used to love the double digits aren't celebrating today.

Rambus victory upends an FTC unfair monopoly practices finding

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
A long-standing claim was that Rambus behaved unfairly by withholding secrets from competitors in standards committees. But an appeals court today erased an FTC decision, on the grounds that those committees may have been useless anyway.

Outlook Express to finally end access to Hotmail

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
Yesterday an e-mail was sent out from the Windows Live Mail Team announcing that Outlook Express would be dropping the legacy DAV protocol on June 30 2008, severing access to the Hotmail Inbox from Outlook Express.

Cross-site scripting vulnerability may affect Earthlink, other ISPs

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
Security research firm IOActive notes that several ISPs, including Earthlink, are using advertising servers to collect revenue on misspelled URLs, but alleges that in so doing, they may have mistakenly exposed users to cross-site scripting.

Microsoft to end support for MSN Music DRM

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
As of August 31 of this year, Microsoft's "Plays for Sure" technology -- once codenamed Janus -- will no longer play for sure -- unless, that is, users play back the tunes on the same computers and OS forever.

Alltel Wireless gets the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
The latest Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone, the Curve 8330, is now on its way to three different US mobile phone networks on May 1, the latest addition being Alltel.

Analyst: Mobile DTV standards problem may never be solved

April 24, 2008, 2:59 pm   [ link da copiare ]
In-Stat has published a report that forecasts the future of the worldwide mobile TV market, anticipating a total of $12 billion dollars in revenue in 2012, but it appears the fragmented nature of standards is here to stay.

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