Microsoft Ditches Live Spaces For WordPress.com
SEATTLE (AP) – Microsoft Corp. is giving up on its own blog network and, in a new partnership, will start sending new Windows Live users to a competing platform instead. Microsoft said Monday that people who sign up for a Windows Live account – necessary to use the free Hotmail e-mail system, the Xbox Live … Read more
US Would Make Internet Wiretaps Easier
WASHINGTON (AP) – Broad new regulations being drafted by the Obama administration would make it easier for law enforcement and national security officials to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking Web sites and BlackBerries, The New York Times reported Monday. The newspaper said the White House plans to submit a bill next … Read more
Outfoxed
After watching the documentary Outfoxed, please leave a comment below. – Julian.
Saving American Journalism
Click on the link below and watch the documentary. Saving American Journalism. Here’s the book’s Google preview: The Death and Life of American Journalism Remember to leave a comment. – Julian.
A Week Without Social Networking
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A central Pennsylvania technological college with fewer students than many Facebook users have friends is blacking out social media for a week. The bold experiment at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology – which has drawn praise, criticism and even a jab on late-night TV – means students and staff can’t … Read more
IE9
SEATTLE (AP) – Microsoft Corp. unveiled the “beta” test version of Internet Explorer 9 on Wednesday, the first of a new generation of Web browser programs that tap into the powerful processors on board newer computers to make websites load and run faster. IE9, which is free, also arrives with a more minimalist look and … Read more
Apple Eases App Restrictions, Adobe Shares Jump
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc is easing restrictions for building iPhone and iPad applications, a move that should allow for the use of third-party tools such as Adobe Systems’ Flash software and ease tension between the two companies. Shares of Adobe surged more than 12 percent on Nasdaq on Thursday, after Apple announced the … Read more
Americans put off 3DTV Viewing by Glasses.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – American consumers like the immersive feeling of watch 3-D television, but are put off by having to wear special glasses because they restrict multi-tasking at home, according to a U.S. report on attitudes to the next big thing in television. High costs and lack of 3D content are also among factors … Read more
Google’s Android to be world No. 2 in 2010: report
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc’s Android software will become the world’s second most popular operating system for cell phones this year, leapfrogging rival offerings from Microsoft Corp, Research in Motion and Apple Inc, according to a new report. By 2014 Android will account for nearly 30 percent of all cell phone operating system sales, … Read more
FCC to Open Vacant TV Airwaves for Broadband.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A new flavor of Wi-Fi, with longer range and wall-piercing power, could show up in wireless gadgets a year from now if the Federal Communications Commission works out the last details of new spectrum rules that have been long in the making. Nearly two years ago, the FCC voted to open up … Read more
