Wednesday, December 30, 2009

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 30/12/2009



The secret behind the Kindle's best-selling e-books: They're not for sale
Kindle users are leaning toward downloads priced at $0.00. Still, with Amazon playing close to the vest, it's hard to tell what the sales patterns really look like.
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2010 the year of cloud-computing...M&A
Cloud computing is becoming less about science projects and more about real-world deployments, which should lead to big vendors buying start-ups to round out their offerings.
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E-tail Scrooges and how one woman defeated them
This is no "It's a Wonderful Life," but the thousands stung by Web marketing practices now under government scrutiny may find it a feel-good story anyway.
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Verizon sees rise of 'slate' computers in 2010
The wireless communications giant is looking closely at tablet and Netbook computers and whether it could market them.
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Android and iPhone users not so different after all
Android and iPhone usage patterns look very much alike. Can RIM and others keep up with the way users want to user their mobile devices.
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10 music-tech trends that will shape the next decade
By 2020, we'll be streaming songs from the cloud instead of buying albums and storing them on our hard drives, and suggestion services like Pandora will become essential.
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AT&T resumes online iPhone sales in NY
It's once again safe to order an iPhone through AT&T's Web site if you live in New York, after an unexplained halt was enforced in the area over the weekend.
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Quark Promote lets novices make promo materials
The new, easily approachable tools allow non-designers to create their own promotional materials.
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Consumer groups urge block of Google-AdMob deal
Google's proposed acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob would make it too easy to bring the Web giant's dominant search ad business to the mobile world, according to two consumer groups.
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App store downloads shine on Christmas
Mobile app downloads for Apple's iPod Touch jump 1,000 percent on Christmas Day following 51 percent leap in overall downloads for December, says research firm Flurry.
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GSM crypto code cracked, engineer says
German computer engineer says he cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls, reports The New York Times.
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'Don't-be-evil' Google spurns no-evil software
One open-source software programmer's joke--'The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil'--is a serious matter at Google.
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Report: Apple chooses supplier of tablet displays
Site known for reporting Apple rumors says company has chosen a vendor for displays on its tablet, speculated to be unveiled officially at a late January event.
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Chinese author plans lawsuit over Google Books
Google scanned a book of a prominent Chinese author into the Google Books library without explicit permission, according to a report, and will face a lawsuit in China.
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Another holiday blowout for Apple?
Remarking on Apple's December quarter in a note to investors, a Thomas Weisel Partners analyst says iPhone and iMac sales for the period have been quite strong.
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Smart-grid spending to hit $200 billion by 2015
Technologies to automate and upgrade the grid will capture most of the $200 billion invested in modernizing electrical power systems, says Pike Research.
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