Sunday, May 9, 2010

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 09/05/2010



HP Labs trades glass for plastic displays (photos)
HP is testing ways to use plastic displays for solar panels, e-readers, and possibly future flexible displays.
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HP Labs sees a great future in plastics
The PC manufacturer's Information Displays Lab is working on a kind of plastic display designed to replace glass displays in the next 10 years.
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FCC lets movie industry selectively break your TV
The FCC grants the MPAA permission to selectively disable certain outputs on your TV so that it can deliver you movies at home earlier. Thanks, but I think I'd rather go to Redbox.
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Analyst: AT&T's iPad deal to delay Verizon iPhone
The rumor goes that Verizon won't see the iPhone until next year because of a newer deal AT&T cut with Apple over its tablet device.
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Reports: Zynga may launch social-games network
The social gaming giant is apparently at odds with Facebook over the percentage it would have to pay to use Facebook's currency platform.
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Toyota's viral hit makes the minivan (almost) cool
A music video spot for the Toyota Sienna might just get families grooving to the idea of a minivan a "swagger wagon."
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Computer pioneer Palevsky was wary of Google, games, PCs
Intel founding investor Max Palevsky, who died Wednesday at age 85, had doubts later in life about the impact of personal computers on society.
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Reporters' Roundtable: Ethics in online journalism (podcast)
In the Roundtable today, CNET editor-in-chief Scott Ard and the Poynter Institute's Kelly McBride discuss how new forms of media are changing what we expect from our news sources.
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Google scraps plug-in, refashions 3D Web plan
Google's O3D plug-in is officially over. Instead, the company is rebuilding it as a higher-level add-on to the WebGL effort for 3D Web graphics.
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Hair, fur, pantyhose deployed to fight oil spill
Environmental groups and people along the Gulf of Mexico are making booms and mats out of hair and fur to clean up the recent oil spill.
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Warner Bros. expands DVD-to-Blu-ray program
Studio expanding a program that lets people swap their DVD films for Blu-ray versions, for a fee starting at $4.95 per title.
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AOL hires Microsoft's Alex Gounares as CTO
Sources say Gounare's departure was announced internally Friday at Microsoft, where he was CTO for the Online Services division.
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Conan performs at Google and people laugh
The deposed "Tonight Show" host suggests that he visits tech companies to "get free stuff." He also marvels at Google's bidet-like toilets.
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Comcast: FCC opening Net neutrality door 'scary'
Comcast VP Joe Waz takes aim at FCC plan, saying it could apply "heavy burden of regulation" designed for analog telephone network to Internet.
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Force your browser to always start in private mode
Google goes "Incognito," Microsoft's is "InPrivate," the other browsers call it "Private Mode," and colloquially it's known as "porn mode." Whatever you call the tracks-free way to browse, watch this trick to force your favorite browser to always start with its privacy protocols activated.
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Clearwire CEO sees bright 4G future
Clearwire's CEO Bill Morrow is confident about his company's prospects as the wireless world moves to 4G.
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Dual-core Intel Netbook chip due by June
Netbooks will move away from single-core Atom processors, which provide good battery life but lack the performance of multicore chips.
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New version of Yahoo IM worm hits Skype too
Worm targets Windows users on Skype and Yahoo IM, injects malicious links in e-mail, Word, and Excel files, and automatically copies itself to USB drives, Bkis says.
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Zynga pulls pit bulls from Mafia Wars after complaint
It's a victory for PETA, which took issue with the fact that Zynga supports animal rights efforts and yet was using virtual pit bulls as attack dogs in the Mafia Wars game.
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