Tuesday, January 26, 2010

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 26/01/2010



Better Place raises $350 million, first projects on track
Start-up Better Place gets a giant round of funding to build its networks of electric car charging and battery-swapping stations with Europe and Asia its preferred locations.
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Chinese human rights Web sites suffer attacks
The attack brought down the Chinese Human Rights Defenders' site and targeted four others during a time when China's Web censorship is a hot issue.
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Apple earnings expected to shine
Earnings report due out Monday afternoon is likely to be stellar, though the focus will quickly shift to Wednesday's expected tablet launch.
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Bill Gates investing in Vinod Khosla green-tech fund
Microsoft's chairman is getting "exposure" to clean energy technology start-ups through the $1 billion Khosla Fund.
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Factery Labs launches a Web start page for facts
Factery Labs has a new tool that helps users keep an eye on trending news topics throughout the day.
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AOL: A new buy, a new hire, a CTO hunt
Company announces the purchase of video tech company StudioNow, the opening of a new development center in New York, and its hunt for a new chief technology officer.
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Social media is finally about the media
Many developments ahead, from Apple's tablet to Facebook's payment platform, add up to the fact that the big focus in social media now is not on how we communicate, but rather what's getting broadcast.
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Survey: Data breaches from malicious attacks doubled last year
Ponemon survey of U.S. companies discloses its first ever reports that data-stealing malware caused breaches.
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The Bill Gates interview in video
Microsoft chairman tells CNET's Ina Fried what he's learned in the past year. We've broken the half-hour interview up into five video segments.
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Gates' new full-time job (images)
2009 marked Bill Gates' first year working full time as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Microsoft co-founder shares his insights and the highlights of that work.
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Gates, the philanthropist, on lessons learned (Q&A)
Microsoft's chairman discusses his philanthropic work over the past year, travels to Africa and India, and his entry into the Twitterverse.
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Bill Gates on the lessons of his travels
In an interview, Gates tells CNET that his travels to India and Africa have both reignited his passions and challenged some of his assumptions about things like vaccination and adult circumcision.
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Bill Gates on why he's 'fired up'
In the first part of a wide-ranging interview with CNET's Ina Fried, the philanthropist and Microsoft chairman talks about innovation and how the future is bleak without it.
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Bill Gates on taking online classes
No, Gates isn't working on his bachelor's degree, but, he tells CNET's Ina Fried, he is an avid viewer of online classes from MIT and elsewhere. Such classes have the potential to transform higher education, he says.
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Bill Gates tries his hand at tweeting, blogging
Microsoft's chairman tells CNET's Ina Fried he is excited to once again have a public online presence and plans to post new items to his Web site several times a week.
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Gates on the need for carbon-neutral energy source
In an interview, Bill Gates tells CNET's Ina Fried that the poor need a carbon-neutral energy source even more than the rich, as they are feeling the brunt of high energy prices and the effects of climate change.
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School Web filters force Beaver into hibernation
The Beaver, a magazine about Canadian history, is forced to change its name because of its somewhat more modern, rather irreverent connotations.
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HP partners on music download service in Europe
PC maker will distribute U.K. music provider Omnifone's MusicStation service on computers sold in 10 European countries.
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China denies involvement in Google cyberattacks
China's government issues statements denying any state involvement in the cyberattacks on the search giant and defending its online censorship.
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