Saturday, January 17, 2009

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 17/01/2009


IT venture investing posts worst Q4 in a decade
IT venture investments in the fourth quarter fell a staggering 40 percent to $2.18 billion over year ago figures, marking the worst performance in a decade, according to a VentureSource survey.
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MySpace CEO talks Sundance, celebrity
reporter's notebookOver coffee at the Sundance Film Festival, Chris DeWolfe touts new celebrity initiatives and also talks economy, MySpace Music, and more.
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Dell first: 256GB solid-state drive on laptops
Dell is offering one of the largest-capacity solid-state drives to date in its XPS laptop line.
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US Airways pilot big on Facebook
The pilot who successfully landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River earlier this week is garnering a cult-like following on the social network.
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Scion PR offers a glimpse into social marketing
Why bother with the press release when you have Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr at hand and your target market is tech-savvy?
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Developer considers charges after iPhone app is pirated
A second iPhone developer this week complains about app getting pirated, but this one is considering criminal charges.
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Ballmer and Bostock break bread
The New York Times confirms a Valleywag report that the Microsoft CEO and Yahoo chairman met earlier this week in New York+.
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Health now Apple's job No. 1
Apple regroups as CEO Steve Jobs takes a six-month medical leave of absence. Here's our roundup of the latest stories about the announcement and its aftermath.
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Report: Jobs weighing liver transplant
Another day, another Steve Jobs rumor. This time, Bloomberg says that Apple's co-founder is weighing the move as a result of complications from earlier surgery.
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(Some) YouTube videos get download option
A new download option is showing up on some YouTube videos, letting users grab full quality copies of videos that have been uploaded to the popular sharing site.
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5 television shows I want added to Hulu
Hulu is a fine video streaming service, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. Don Reisinger picks five shows that he'd like added to Hulu.
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Opera executive praises EU move
In an interview, Christen Krogh, the top developer of the browser, says the European Union is right to protect consumer choice in its latest move against Microsoft.
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Van Halen meets Songsmith
Somebody ran David Lee Roth's vocals from "Running With the Devil" through Microsoft's new reverse-karaoke application.
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Helio readies the Ocean 2 smartphone
Helio is expected to launch the Ocean 2 next month, but will the phone really be an iPhone killer?
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Facebook restructures developer platform management
Most notably, communications czar Elliot Schrage will no longer be in charge of marketing the company's developer initiatives.
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EU notice to Microsoft re browser
Regulators confirm that they have sent a statement of objections to Microsoft, on the grounds that the IE-Windows connection harms competition.
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Federated Media announces layoffs, shift away from display ads
The ad network firm founded by former journalist John Battelle lays off off seven of its 90 employees but plans to make more hires in its more lucrative marketing division.
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EU regulating Microsoft like it's 1999
The notion of bundling a browser into an operating system isn't new. But that hasn't stopped European regulators from delivering fresh objections.
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Yahoo 31 ESPN 0
Anyone noticed just how similar ESPN's redesigned home page is to Yahoo Sports's?
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Get your Obama pix published in inaugural book
The publisher of The Official Barack Obama Inaugural Book will include images from amateurs alongside those from professionals in new photographic compilation.
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