Date: 09/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

There's a proposal being put forth to stop the earth from over-heating. It comes from James Lovelock and Chris Rapley, two British scientists. It's just appeared as a letter to Nature. And I'm not the first blogger to take note. The proposal...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=315

Date: 09/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

Amazon launched its DRM-free music store and all you need is a lightweight downloader application. This application is a small trade-off, but is an annoyance nonetheless. ZDNet user Tripell sums it up in a Talkback: A separate downloader does sound stupid, any...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6406

Date: 09/25/07     Keywords: web

The age of cyberlynching is upon us. The FBI is looking at a white supremacist Web site that lists the addresses of the Jena 6 -- or at least five of the six black youths accused by a Louisiana district attorney of beating a white classmate. The site "essentially called...

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3415

Date: 09/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

On the heels of action by the Connecticut attorney general, the New York attorney general has subpoenaed Facebook for failure to respond to "many" complaints, the AP reports. State investigators, who set up profiles as 12- to 14-year olds, said they were quickly contacted by other Facebook users with...

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3414

Date: 09/20/07     Keywords: no keywords

During the launch of Business ByDesign, SAP said that it expects to achieve a run rate of adding 10,000 BBD customers a year by 2010. This raised questions about whether SAP will reach its previously stated target of 100,000 customers by 2010. I was concerned because it was always my...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=175

Date: 09/19/07     Keywords: web

Plan calls for making 2.7 million iPhones next quarter, up from the 1.54 million originally targeted. Apple has prepared plans to nearly double its iPhone production in the fourth quarter, financial news Web site TheStreet.com reported, citing people familiar with the company. The plan calls for making...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2110-9584_22-6208948.html

Date: 09/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

Online resources for travelers looking for free accommodations attract steady traffic and a global audience. Squeezing 150 people into Vince Peiro's flat in the foothills of the Swiss Alps would be a very tight fit--hence the tent city sprouting outside in the July evening sunshine. Peiro was...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6208920.html

Date: 09/19/07     Keywords: software, web, microsoft

The chief executive of Microsoft's Greater China business reportedly hired to run NBA subsidiary in China. The chief executive of Microsoft's Greater China business, Chen Yongzheng, has resigned, the world's largest software maker said on Wednesday. In a statement on its China Web site, Microsoft said its...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2110-9595_22-6208825.html

Date: 09/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

CEO Parsons notes, however, that strategy for the U.S. is complicated by fact that dial-up business generates traffic to AOL.com. Time Warner, the world's largest media company, will "look hard" in the next 12 to 18 months at possibly selling off its AOL dial-up Internet access business, similar...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6208749.html

Date: 08/03/07     Keywords: web

The concept of a page full of links is nothing new, but the Web is increasingly taking note of news aggregators as a way to make some sense of a chaotic media landscape.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6200499.html

Date: 08/03/07     Keywords: web

Jeff Barr, Amazon's Web Services evangelist and Phil Burns are both people I'm friends with on Twitter, so I was interested to follow an exchange with them a couple of nights ago when Jeff kept promising Phil that "the announcement" was almost ready. What announcement?Yesterday in a long blog...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5853

Date: 08/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

Defendants include three physicians, two pharmacists, a pharmacy operator, a credit card processor and eight affiliate site operators.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6200657.html

Date: 08/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

Participation in program currently is by invitation only, and limited to residents of a small area; no word yet on expansion plans.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6200585.html

Date: 08/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

This week on the Dan & David Show I am on the Stanford University campus at the AlwaysOn Summit and David is in his headquarters outside of Boston. I give David some of the highlights from the conference, including the state of virtual worlds, social networking, green data centers and...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5851

Date: 08/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

In response to yesterday's Tech Shakedown of McAfee's personal firewall product for issuing a useless dialog -- one that asks me to allow or block some behavior but that doesn't give me any idea, clues, or hints as to which of those two options to pick -- one ZDNet reader...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=697

Date: 08/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

Will the Internet still be here in 20 years? Of course it will, but that was the question asked of Nick McKeown, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford; Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun; and Phil McKinney, vice president and CTO of the Personal Systems Group at...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5844

Date: 08/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

Time Warner reported earnings on Wednesday and gave some color on its AOL unit. Advertising growth for AOL was 16 percent in the second quarter. That growth isn't bad, but compared to the 40 percent growth in the prior quarter it looks a bit worrisome. On the earnings conference call,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5843

Date: 08/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

Online payment service lets online merchants offer credit accounts and options such as no payments for 90 days.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6200312.html

Date: 08/02/07     Keywords: google

Google's wireless plans are coming into focus, but it will face a big hurdle: Convincing wireless carriers that it is a partner and not a foe.The Wall Street Journal reports today that Google is approaching numerous wireless carriers like T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless with prototype handsets embedded with its search...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5836

Date: 08/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

Movement is afoot to stifle "scraper sites," which scrape content off blogs and repost it on other sites to profit from ad impressions.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6200283.html