Friday, February 27, 2009

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 27/02/2009


Shoe phone talks the talk, walks the walk
An Australian post-doctoral fellow in bioinformatics has developed a wearable shoe that can place and receive calls wirelessly. Maxwell Smart would be proud.
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Yahoo's Bartz has eye on new CFO, Microsoft isn't worried
Yahoo's new CEO issues pink slip to its chief financial officer, but Microsoft isn't worried this will slow down any efforts to engage Yahoo in a search deal, according to sources.
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How Juniper hopes to manage the recession
After a killer 2008, the company is now managing through troubled economic waters like everyone else. What's Juniper's strategy?
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Arrington: I'll go to Demo 'if we're invited'
The TechCrunch editor said that TechCrunch 50 conference will not be held at the same time as DemoFall this year.
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Analyst: OLPC won't draw global PC makers
The One Laptop Per Child's endeavor to have others copy its design may attract Asian whitebox vendors rather than the likes of HP and Dell, according to IDC.
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Webware Radar: Allvoices brings credibility to citizen journalism
Also: TripAdvisor has launched a search engine showing the real cost of travel; O'Reilly has suspended the Web 2.0 Expo in Europe; and Sears has launched a home improvement auction site.
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Are Demo, similar conferences still relevant?
As Demo '09 gets ready to kick off, the state of the economy begs the question of whether it and other such confabs are really necessary any more.
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Eager hordes flock to Google's Twitter account
Mainstream folks often still gaze blankly at the Twitter phenomenon, but the tech crowd shows it's willing to hang on Google's every tweet.
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Three-in-one Web browsing with Lunascape
Lunascape's triple-rendering engine solves a whole host of browser compatibility issues for the ordinary user. Will this approach win over users?
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Microsoft gives OneNote a bird's-eye view
A free download from Office Labs, dubbed Canvas for OneNote, provides a high-level canvas-view of all your content.
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BlackBerry Bold sales suspended in Japan
NTT DoCoMo stops selling the smartphone after a handful of consumers complain about it overheating.
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ID theft up, and 20somethings suffer most
Identity theft was by far the biggest complaint to the Federal Trade Commission in 2008, according to a new report.
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Sony's Stringer consolidates power
The struggling electronics company appoints Howard Stringer, already chairman and CEO, as company president amid a reorganization of its business units.
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Building an open-source business? Some tips
Open-source businesses are not rocket science, but here are a few tips to make them work for you. Zack Urlocker of MySQL fame offers some key principles.
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Bleak week for memory chipmakers
Companies that make memory chips faced bankruptcy, layoffs, and rough prospects. Included in the mix: Micron, Spansion, Qimonda, and Intel.
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Podcast: Watchdog on Facebook's democratic foray
Larry Magid speaks with Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, about Facebook's questionable experiment in user democracy.
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Novell puts Linux on sale as earnings disappoint
The company's first quarter disappoints investors, as well as CEO Ron Hovsepian, but its dependence on Microsoft to sell Suse Linux is the real disappointment.
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Obama's budget blueprint enhances cybersecurity
President Obama's 2010 budget proposal continues to fund Homeland Security's heavily criticized cybersecurity division, but it also boosts such funding for intelligence.
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Novell chief rues first-quarter Linux performance
CEO Ron Hovsepian says "Linux performance did not meet our expectations" as a weak economy knocked the stuffing out of the company's invoicing.
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Photos: The Bartz gang--a breakdown of Yahoo's reorg
Who holds the power in Carol Bartz's revamped Yahoo management structure? Here's who reports to her after Wednesday's reorganization.
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