The establishment of an OpenSocial Foundation and Yahoo's support should lend significant weight to Google's social networking initiative. LinkedIn, Salesforce.com, and Plaxo are already on board.
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OpenSocial Foundation launches with Google, Yahoo, MySpace
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 10:15pm
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Sony BMG's planned music service looks like a yawner
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 7:45pm
Sony BMG CEO Rolf Schmidt-Holtz has let the cat out of the bag regarding the label's plans to launch a music subscription service. His ideas were just that, though—ideas. Without any specific details or even a timeline, it's clear that Sony BMG has a lot of planning to do if it wants to succeed.
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Chat app Digsby goes public with with A/V, Twitter support
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 7:10pm
Digsby goes public with the latest beta release. The "communication dashboard" app is maturing well, adding some major new features that private beta testers requested most.
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Innocent man pinched by RIAA asks SCOTUS for attorney's fees
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 6:39pm
With US appeals courts giving different answers, a Texas man is taking his case to the Supreme Court to ask why he has a stack of legal bills after the RIAA bailed out.
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SlySoft on Blu-ray BD+ crack: next time it will be easier
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 5:55pm
Blu-ray's BD+ was supposed to take "10 years" to crack, but it didn't take 10 months. Yet, even though the scheme can be dynamically updated, SlySoft is extremely confident that they'll crack whatever the BDA sends our way. (Updated.)
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Fox to FCC: your analysts' sexual fantasies not our problem
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 4:23pm
Fox TV charges that someone at the FCC may be reading just a little too much into a 2003 episode of Married by America, and is refusing to pay a FCC-imposed $91,000 fine.
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Paying for secrets: national security versus tech innovation
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 2:27pm
For a few years now I've been covering the decline in US federal funding for basic science and engineering research, but until recently I had no idea of the impact that 9/11 had on university-based computer science funding, and, by extension, the industry's ability to make the leap to multi-core.
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Clear Channel to FCC: wash XM-Sirius' mouth out with soap
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 1:46pm
Clear Channel has become an advocate of decency regulation and public interest reforms, at least for the competition.
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TiVo takes a break while cable giants do the heavy lifting
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 12:34pm
Comcast and Cox have begun rolling out TiVo software upgrades to their generic Motorola DVRs. The landscape is changing for TiVo, which may end up looking more and more like a software company as time goes on.
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Safari 3.1 on Windows: a true competitor arrives (seriously)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 6:55am
We put the Windows beta of Safari 3 through the wringer last summer, we weren't impressed. With 3.1 out of beta, we wanted to know, have things improved? Wow, have they.
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Network Solutions in crosshairs over web site takedown
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 4:53am
Network Solutions has pulled the plug on a web site that promoted an anti-Islamic movie called "Fitna." The company says that it's performing an investigation after a number of customers complained about the site's contents.
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WiMAX body slam met with pile driver from its many backers
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 4:15am
An Australian WiMAX provider has trashed the technology, saying that it has "failed miserably." Does one provider's bad experiences spell trouble for the emerging wireless broadband technology? We don't think so, as the problems faced by the company down under are arguably unique to its situation.
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US Department of Energy called out for poor IT security
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 3:10am
Web security is always a moving target, but a recent report from the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Energy suggests that the DoE isn't doing all it should do when it comes to securing its public web servers.