Tuesday, February 24, 2009

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 24/02/2009



Report: Ballmer continues to declare interest in Yahoo search
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer reportedly reiterates his interest in Yahoo's search during an investment conference, according to a CNBC report.
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Google apologizes for Gmail outage
Gmail stopped working early Tuesday morning. The company promises paying customers 99.9 percent uptime for the Webmail service.
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Google clears up Atlantis debris
Responding to overwhelming speculation that its Google Earth ocean floor mapping software had discovered the mythical lost city of Atlantis, Google called in some scientists to explain it all.
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Borg-like cybots may patrol government networks
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory creates mobile, autonomous cyberrobot software called Untame to protect the United States' computer network infrastructure.
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Apple announces Safari 4 public beta
Safari 4 is said to be much faster than the previous version and comes with new navigation features such as Cover Flow and Apple's take on FireFox's "awesome bar."
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Motorola dishes off Good Technology to Visto
Good was supposed to help Motorola extend its mobile computing capabilities, but these days the cell phone maker is focused on cleaning house.
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Reunion.com and Wink tie the knot as MyLife
The revamped site focuses on social-network aggregation and people search.
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Designing the Kindle 2
In an interview, Kindle unit head Ian Freed talks about the trade-offs Amazon considered in deciding what would go in the new Kindle, which started shipping on Monday.
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AOL's social strategy: Merge Bebo, AIM, all else
AOL People Networks chief Joanna Shields lays out the ambitious and still-forming strategy to make the $850 million acquisition of Bebo worth it.
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Report: Yahoo plans new marketing tools
The online display ad giant is expected to unveil tools Tuesday that target graphical ad to users, as well as searches based on gender and age.
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Facebook users targeted by rogue application
"Error Check System" malware falsely warns users that friends have had problems viewing their profiles, posing a potential threat to users' personal information.
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Microsoft hits TechFest high notes
A day ahead of this year's internal science fair, Microsoft shows off some projects that made it into product form, including the music program Songsmith.
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Widgetbox introduces integration with Confluence
Company is making widgets, which make application and Web site components portable across other sites, compatible with the business wiki product from Atlassian.
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HD movie purchases coming to Vudu
Vudu becomes the first video-on-demand set-top box to allow the purchase of high-def movies--but only a handful of independent films will be available.
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Dr. Brilliant to leave Google.org's helm
The executive director of Google's philanthropic unit is stepping down to become Google's chief philanthropy evangelist.
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Your little texting runt may not be illiterate
Researchers at Coventry University in the United Kingdom conclude that textisms, the abbreviated versions of words, may have a positive affect on child literacy.
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The world's first hydrogen-powered tractor
New Holland Agriculture has developed the impressive NH2, the world's first hydrogen-powered tractor.
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'Line Rider' iPhone game sleds on
If you can't get to the ski slopes this winter, you can still go sledding in this iPhone take on a modern-gaming classic.
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Microsoft to publishers: Help us avoid ad screw-ups
Company announces consortium of Web publishers to guide its design the next incarnation of Microsoft's online publishing platform
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Wealth-flaunting app arrives on Android phones
For $200, you can show you spent $200 on an otherwise feature-free Android program. Let's see if Google treats this differently than Apple did.
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Images: NASA satellite to sleuth out 'missing' CO2
About half of the carbon absorbed out of the atmosphere can't be located precisely, and that's where the Orbiting Carbon Observatory--which launches tonight--comes in.
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