Friday, October 9, 2009

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 09/10/2009



Facebook's mounting customer service crisis
It's unclear as to how many members still can't access their accounts after Facebook acknowledged a database issue earlier this week, but one thing's for sure: the ones locked out are steaming mad.
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Ceatec 2009: 3D coming soon to the home and office
3D technology is on its way to living rooms, but could also be headed to operating rooms.
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Copyright owners allege Pirate Bay founder owns Reservella
BREIN, a Dutch trade group representing copyright owners, claims to have uncovered documents tying a Pirate Bay founder to Reservella.
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Microsoft creates social computing sandbox
Software maker has set up a new lab under Ray Ozzie, to be headed by longtime Microsoft researcher Lili Cheng.
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Dell closing N.C. manufacturing plant
Company is shuttering its desktop manufacturing plant in North Carolina, eliminating 905 employees, with 600 to be laid off next month and the rest in January.
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Verizon, McAfee team up on security products
Two companies form joint venture to offer cloud-based security products and consulting services to enterprise customers.
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Twitter while you work: Socialcast makes it good for your career
New analytics engine for Socialcast microblogging service shows companies who their most valuable "connectors" are.
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Twitter on the verge of big search deals?
Microsoft and Google are separately talking to the company about potentially licensing its massive amounts of real-time data to supplement search results, AllThingsD reports.
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Intel: Moblin opens the way for Atom
q&a System software exec Doug Fisher discusses Moblin 2.1's features and benefits, and Intel's overall strategy for its open-source OS.
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Intel's Light Peak optical links could arrive in 2010
Intel won't promise when its optical communication technology will arrive. But a fiber-optic company allied with the chipmaker says cables will be done early in 2010.
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The Google Android party has begun
Two years after Google announced Android, phone manufacturers are launching new devices sporting the mobile operating system and mobile operators are lining up to sell them.
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Fourth 'Firefox Mobile' alights on Nokia Tablets
Mozilla releases Fennec 1.0 beta 4 for Maemo this week, bringing us ever closer to a stable version of the Firefox mobile for Nokia Internet Tablets.
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BlackBerry Messenger 5.0: Get friends with bar codes
The BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 app upgrade released Wednesday adds a number of new features, from group messaging to capturing contacts through a bar code.
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Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight
Cisco is using its dominance in network router gear to make a strong play for the heart of Linux-based server computing.
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Music publishers: 'Copyright should be technology neutral'
Songwriters, composers and publishers--the groups that want iTunes to pay performance fees on downloads--tell Congress technology shouldn't strip them of their livelihood.
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Photos: Ceatec Day 3--mascots, bling, and 3D (of course)
It's the third day of the Ceatec trade show in Tokyo and we've got some photos of 3D surgery, some bling for your PC, and some kind of device your skull. Bonus: play find the CNET reporter.
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Ceatec Day 3 -- mascots, bling and 3D (of course)
Scenes from the show floor of Ceatec 2009.
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Qualcomm chips rule Windows Mobile roost
The chip supplier is playing a big role in powering the first crop of phones based on Microsoft's new operating system.
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Slacker Radio tunes into Twitter
A new feature on Slacker Radio.com lets you automatically tweet streaming songs and artists to your Twitter timeline. Think of it as a preview for a weightier version coming later to mobile smartphone apps.
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Podcast: Symantec exec on how to avoid being a phishing victim
Symantec Internet safety adviser Marian Merritt talks with Larry Magid about how to avoid being a phishing victim.
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