McAfee warns of hacker threat to autos Sep 7th 2011, 10:00 Cars made smarter with Internet technology are zooming into perilous hacker territory, according to a report by US computer security giant McAfee. | Regulators raid Google's South Korea office: source Sep 7th 2011, 09:58 WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Antitrust officials in South Korea raided Google Inc's Seoul offices on Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the matter, expanding worldwide regulatory pressure on the Internet giant. | Half of world's PCs 'use pirated software' Sep 7th 2011, 09:46 Almost half of personal computer users around the world get their software illegally, with China's massive market the worst culprit, a report claimed on Wednesday. | Bartz fired as Yahoo! chief executive Sep 7th 2011, 07:54 Yahoo!'s board of directors fired chief executive Carol Bartz, less than three years after she was brought in to help turn around the struggling Internet company. | Netflix restricts account sharing, limits one stream per account Sep 7th 2011, 05:23 Netflix has long had a policy on limiting the number of films streaming at any given time, but never took the steps to enforce it. Likely started with the price increase on September 1, the company took steps to squash the volume of video streamed through the service and customers can only watch a single piece of content on one device at a time. ... | TiVo Premier Elite DVR packs 2TB storage, four tuners Sep 7th 2011, 04:47 Day one of CEDIA 2011 kicks off today and TiVo is marking the occasion by announcing the latest addition to its DVR family, the TiVo Premier Elite. Interestingly, the new unit reads a lot like the Premier Q, a similarly equipped DVR we reported on earlier this year, which is slated to be provided only to cable partners. | Location check-ins still unpopular among smartphone owners Sep 7th 2011, 04:47 According to a study released today from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, only 12 percent of smartphone owners use the device for checking into location services like Foursquare or Gowalla. Within the group of over 2,000 adults, the age group most likely to use the location services were 18 to 29 year old people. Eighteen percent of that age group used check-ins while only 2 percent of people over 50 use the service. Hispanics were more likely to use check-ins at 25% of the test group. ... | Daily deal sites Groupon, LivingSocial lose steam in August Sep 7th 2011, 04:15 According to CouponHQ, Both Groupon and LivingSocial lost a bit of revenue over the month of August. Laying blame at Hurricane Irene for the decrease in purchases and number of deals, Groupon fell by 4.8 percent and LivingSocial by 1.8 percent. However, revenue also declined for the companies in July. While Groupon's average cost of a deal has risen over August, the number of Groupon vouchers sold is down by 14 percent. The average cost of a deal rose from about $40 in March to nearly $60 and the average price per voucher sold rose from about $20 to nearly $30. ... | Yahoo fires Bartz as CEO, names CFO to fill void Sep 7th 2011, 03:44 Yahoo Inc. fired Carol Bartz as CEO Tuesday after more than 2½ years of financial lethargy that had convinced investors that she couldn't steer the Internet company to a long-promised turnaround. | Yahoo fires Bartz as CEO, names CFO to fill void Sep 7th 2011, 03:44 Yahoo Inc. fired Carol Bartz as CEO Tuesday after more than 2½ years of financial lethargy that had convinced investors that she couldn't steer the Internet company to a long-promised turnaround. | Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz fired, CFO Tim Morse named interim CEO Sep 7th 2011, 01:28 Yahoo's board has made the decision fire Carol Bartz as the company's CEO. Tim Morse, Yahoo's CFO, has been named the interim CEO while the company searches for a new permanent CEO. This rumor came from AllThingsD and has since been confirmed by Yahoo and Bartz, but the company did not add any details surrounding the reasons behind the move. | BMW developing laser headlights for your car Sep 7th 2011, 01:07 We've seen some interesting ideas for improving automotive safety, such as Ford's talking cars and touchscreen steering wheels. Most of that improvement has been focused on increasing driver reflexes and attention spans. BMW is taking a different approach, however, by stepping up the … Continue reading → | Carol Bartz fired as CEO of Yahoo Sep 7th 2011, 00:44 Carol Bartz was fired Tuesday as Yahoo Inc.'s CEO nearly three years into a tenure in which the company fell short of the turnaround she was charged with leading. | Tech company to build science ghost town in NM Sep 7th 2011, 00:43 New Mexico, home to several of the nation's premier scientific, nuclear and military institutions, is planning to take part in an unprecedented science project — a 20-square-mile model of a small U.S. city. | Tech company to build science ghost town in NM Sep 7th 2011, 00:43 New Mexico, home to several of the nation's premier scientific, nuclear and military institutions, is planning to take part in an unprecedented science project — a 20-square-mile model of a small U.S. city. | Bartz fired as CEO of Yahoo Sep 7th 2011, 00:23 Carol Bartz was fired Tuesday as Yahoo Inc.'s CEO nearly three years into a tenure in which the company fell short of the turnaround she was charged with leading. | Report: Bartz out as CEO of Yahoo Sep 7th 2011, 00:01 Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo Inc., according to a report by the Wall Street Journal's All Things D technology blog. | Upgrade Your Life: The 5 worst photos to post online Sep 6th 2011, 23:58 With online networks steering our social lives these days, deciding exactly how to represent ourselves on the web can be tricky. This episode of Upgrade Your Life addresses 5 kinds of photos you should avoid putting online — and why. 1. Don't post pictures showing personal data Even if your Twitter account is private [...] | Mexico "Twitter terrorism" breaches civil rights: lawyer Sep 6th 2011, 23:44 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has breached an international human rights charter by bringing terror charges against two social media users who wrongly reported an armed attack on a local school, a lawyer for the accused said. | Sprint sues to block AT&T's proposed T-Mobile buy Sep 6th 2011, 23:38 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel sued to stop AT&T Inc's $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA, staking out its own private antitrust claims alongside the U.S. government's challenge to the deal. | Michael Arrington is trying to buy back TechCrunch from AOL Sep 6th 2011, 23:32 Last week we reported that TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington was leaving the site to start a venture capital fund named Crunchfund. At that time it was reported that Arrington will most likely remain as an employee of the blog, but no longer retain any editorial power. This was confirmed by Arriana Huffington who is the editor and chief for all of AOL's blogs, when she said that Arrington will no longer report to her. Since Friday there have been a number of posts by TechCrunch writers discussing their feelings about the deal, and how it will be the end of the tech blog as we know it. Mr. ... | Best Buy Reported Planning Sprint iPhone Launch Sep 6th 2011, 23:29 As Sprint Nextel files suit to block AT&T from acquiring T-Mobile, it may have another slap against the nation's No. 2 carrier up its sleeve: adding the No. 1 selling smartphone to its lineup. | VeriFone raises outlook on mobile payment hopes Sep 6th 2011, 23:26 (Reuters) - VeriFone Systems Inc posted better-than-expected quarterly results and raised its full-year outlook as it ropes in more customers for mobile payment technologies. | Why Browsing Is So Important to Content Discovery Sep 6th 2011, 23:14 Laura Larsell is the information ontologist at Trapit, a content discovery, personalization and curation platform currently in beta. Laura holds an M.A. in library sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. | Second firm warns of concern after Dutch hack Sep 6th 2011, 22:50 A company that sells certificates guaranteeing the security of websites, GlobalSign, said Tuesday it is temporarily halting the issuance of new certificates over concerns it may have been targeted by hackers. | Report: Groupon may delay IPO Sep 6th 2011, 21:02 Online coupon seller Groupon Inc. may delay its plans to go public due to concerns about the stock market's stability, according to a report. | Man accused of threatening Google exec via Twitter Sep 6th 2011, 20:53 A federal grand jury in San Francisco has charged a San Antonio man with harassing a high-ranking Google executive with more than 20,000 Twitter posts, some of which were threatening. | Internet archive shows Sept. 11 coverage Sep 6th 2011, 00:25 For many in New York and Washington, Sept. 11, 2001, was a personal experience, an attack on their cities. Most everywhere else in the world, it was a television event. | |
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