Google Maps to add bike maps, directions
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:00 PST
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Cyclists will be able to use Google Maps to plot directions around 150 U.S. cities when bike directions go live on Google later on Tuesday.
Lindsay Lohan sues E-Trade over Super Bowl spot
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:21:00 PST
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The troubled actress is suing E-Trade, claiming that it mocked her in one of its cute baby ads. She is asking for $100 million.
How Epic fit the Unreal Engine into the iPhone
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:26:11 PST
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The Unreal Engine 3 is on its way to the iPhone, though creators Epic Games have had to make some compromises to get there.
Google announces business app store for Google Apps
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:15:00 PST
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Software developers can cater to Google Apps customers through a new application store announced at Google's Campfire One event in Mountain View.
Rock Band 3 confirmed for holidays
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:52:00 PST
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Harmonix and MTV Games are getting the band back together, with Electronic Arts handling distribution once more.
Online dating finally recognized by restaurant guide
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:27:00 PST
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A new restaurant guide has a section specifically dedicated to the difficult area of online dating. Its author believes only certain very specific places are suitable for an online date.
Pink Floyd sues EMI over iTunes payments
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:59:00 PST
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One of the most imposing (and wealthiest) bands of all time sues EMI over online royalties. EMI is reportedly arguing that an album-unbundling ban applies only to physical products.
iPhone 4G: 25 most-wanted features
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:42:00 PST
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Apple's fourth-generation iPhone will most likely arrive in June. Here's a look at some of the feature and design upgrades we'd most like to see, including the odds of their implementation.
Cyberbullying hits LGBT youth especially hard
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:40:42 PST
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One in two lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender youth report being cyberbullied about their sexual identities, according to a new Iowa State survey of 444 youths.
McAfee: A million 'scareware' victims a day
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:36:36 PST
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Security firm McAfee is warning consumers to beware of 'scareware' programs that appear to be antivirus software but are actually scams that can steal data and infect your computer.
Analyst: PlayStation 3 to win console war in the end
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:30:00 PST
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Sony's PlayStation 3 has suffered from poor sales over the past few years. But the console is making a resurgence and at least one analyst firm believes it will triumph.
FileMaker 11 delivers charting, 'on-the-fly' reporting
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:13:37 PST
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Apple-owned company on Tuesday releases next major version of its database product, FileMaker Pro 11.
ScatterTunes sells digital albums with a visual twist
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:32:42 PST
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But will consumers be willing to download and install yet another media player to play ScatterTunes' V-Albums?
Google-China flap spurs federal plan to bypass censors
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:15:00 PST
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Members of Congress announce the Global Internet Freedom Caucus and a bill to spend federal dollars on research to "defeat Internet suppression and censorship."
Eliminate's 3G multiplayer: How'd they do that?
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:04:00 PST
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Ngmoco's Eliminate was one of the first games to offer 3G multiplayer on the iPhone. But how did they do it?
Is the Kindle finally ready for the Web?
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 PST
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If you own a Kindle, you also own a mobile Web browser. But chances are you never use it. That may be about to change.
Putting TiVo Premiere in context
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:49:00 PST
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After all the hype, the TiVo Premiere was greeted by disappointment by many gadget fans. But is there more to the story?
Malware found on HTC Android phone from Vodafone
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:40:00 PST
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HTC mobile device running Android was distributed by Vodafone with a botnet program on it, as well as Conficker and a password-stealing Trojan, Panda Labs says.
CNET News Daily Podcast: Tuesday's top headlines
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:09:00 PST
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Cisco finally makes its big announcement--and it's a router. Plus, Sony 3DTVs are on the way, and is the Drudge Report spreading malware?
Microsoft tweaks browser ballot code
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:53:44 PST
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After complaints the original algorithm was not doing the job, Redmond fixes the code shuffling the order of the browsers in its ballot screen for European users.
Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:01:00 GMT
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With a click of a mouse, cyclists can get the quickest, and flattest, route between Point A and Point B.
March 10, 2000: Pop Goes the Nasdaq!
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
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The Nasdaq begins its spectacular collapse, signaling the end of the dot-com boom.
Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control Universe
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe.
Texters Should Park the Car, Take the Bus
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.
Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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Huge projects that would store wind energy by compressing air in abandoned mines and porous sandstone are gaining steam in the Midwest.
10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust
Posted: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here?s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.
Review: Science Trips Out on Music in 'The Heart Is a Drum Machine'
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:00 GMT
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Through interviews with a brainy crop of musicians and scientists, a new documentary probes the connection between body, mind and music.
Broadcast Video From Your Mobile
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:00 GMT
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You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.
Oldest Known Flying 'Car' Up for Auction
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:15:00 GMT
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It's from 1934, and it doesn't look like a car, and it doesn't look like it would fly.
Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:00 GMT
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It?s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can?t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn?t about real estate — it?s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.
Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:46:00 GMT
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From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.
Your Computer Really Is a Part of You
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:40:00 GMT
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Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.
Just How Fast Is Cisco's New Router? Really Freaking Fast
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:39:00 GMT
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Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.
Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:34:00 GMT
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The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.
Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:15:00 GMT
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Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.
Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT
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Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT
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Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.
Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:10:00 GMT
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For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we?ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:25:00 GMT
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Browsing the web on one of Amazon?s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It?s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on the company?s website.
Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 GMT
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Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.
Supreme Court Takes 'Informational Privacy' Case
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
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The Supreme Court agrees to decide a case concerning "informational privacy." The Obama administration claims the case could undermine how much background data it may collect on the 14-million-person federal bureaucracy.
March 9, 1454: This Man Is a Continent ... or Two
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT
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Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.
Turn an FM Transmitter Into a Micro Pirate Radio
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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Seize the airwaves to fight corporate radio's preprogrammed junk. It all starts with a soldering iron and a cheapo FM transmitter.
Most Dangerous Object in the Office: Shocknife SK-2
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT
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There's no sharp point or edge, but the electrodes in the polycarbonate Shocknife deliver a stabbing 7,500 volts. Ouch. Kilo-ouch.
A Closer Look at Sony's New Skin for Android Phones
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:45:00 GMT
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Sony's new user interface is designed as a skin that will go on top of the Android operating system and aggregate social networking feeds. Take a closer look at it how it compares to Motorola's MotoBlur and the HTC Sense.
Meet the Winners of Webmonkey's Google I/O Giveaway
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
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We're sending two talented monkeys to the Google I/O developer conference in May. We asked our readers to submit their web creations, and we picked the winners from the best of the submissions.
Digital-Ad Spending May Eclipse Print This Year
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:40:00 GMT
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Spending on digital advertising is poised to surpass print for the first time in 2010, according to a new study prepared even before the announcement of Apple?s iPad, with all of that hardware's game-changing potential. But another view is: So what? It?s bound to happen soon if not this year.
Get Jazzed for Monster Miles Davis Giveaway
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:37:00 GMT
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Tell us why the trumpet player and bandleader was one of music's most innovative forces, and you'll be entered to win a copy of the 70-CD box set Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a Miles-branded iPod and Monster Miles Davis Tribute high-performance headphones.
Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:34:00 GMT
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The Justice Department is moving to break up an alleged electronic voting-machine monopoly. The authorities say Election Systems & Software has a 70 percent market share of voting equipment in the United States.
Low Tolerance for Pain May Be Genetic
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:00:00 GMT
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In a study of patients with osteoarthritis, people who reported feeling more pain shared a genetic variant.
Google Maps to add bike maps, directions
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:00 PST
Filed under: tech | Full Story
Cyclists will be able to use Google Maps to plot directions around 150 U.S. cities when bike directions go live on Google later on Tuesday.
Lindsay Lohan sues E-Trade over Super Bowl spot
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:21:00 PST
Filed under: tech | Full Story
The troubled actress is suing E-Trade, claiming that it mocked her in one of its cute baby ads. She is asking for $100 million.
Google announces business app store for Google Apps
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:15:00 PST
Filed under: tech | Full Story
Software developers can cater to Google Apps customers through a new application store announced at Google's Campfire One event in Mountain View.
Online dating finally recognized by restaurant guide
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:27:00 PST
Filed under: tech | Full Story
A new restaurant guide has a section specifically dedicated to the difficult area of online dating. Its author believes only certain very specific places are suitable for an online date.
Pink Floyd sues EMI over iTunes payments
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:59:00 PST
Filed under: tech | Full Story
One of the most imposing (and wealthiest) bands of all time sues EMI over online royalties. EMI is reportedly arguing that an album-unbundling ban applies only to physical products.
Is the Kindle finally ready for the Web?
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 PST
Filed under: tech | Full Story
If you own a Kindle, you also own a mobile Web browser. But chances are you never use it. That may be about to change.
Putting TiVo Premiere in context
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:49:00 PST
Filed under: tech | Full Story
After all the hype, the TiVo Premiere was greeted by disappointment by many gadget fans. But is there more to the story?
Microsoft tweaks browser ballot code
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:53:44 PST
Filed under: tech | Full Story
After complaints the original algorithm was not doing the job, Redmond fixes the code shuffling the order of the browsers in its ballot screen for European users.
Foursquare unveils its SXSWi arsenal
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:37:00 PST
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In heated war with rival Gowalla for the geek seal of approval at the annual digital culture festival, Foursquare unveils new badges, new partners, and new promotions.
Is ad blocking the problem?
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:32:00 PST
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Ad blocking is an easy scapegoat for the online media industry, but blocking ad-blocking will only stymie the evolution of the online media business.
Documents in Viacom vs. Google unsealed soon
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:15:00 PST
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Google wanted to wait until June to give the public a peek at information collected in the company's copyright conflict with Viacom. Judge says speed things up.
Report: Google testing TV search
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:19:00 PST
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Company is reportedly teaming with Dish Network to test a new service that would let people search their Internet-connected TVs for shows and online video.
For SXSWi, Chevy plugs into social media
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:19:00 PST
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An ambitious load of marketing initiatives from the GM division, which is preparing to launch its Volt electric car, emphasizes that brands increasingly see the digital-culture fest as a place to test campaigns.
Why is eBay logo in Whitman ad?
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:03:21 PST
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In Meg Whitman's campaign ad for governor of California, the eBay logo appears on screen. Is eBay OK with this? And if so, why?
Google reluctant to release info in Viacom case
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:42:00 PST
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Viacom wants court documents to be released in two weeks and Google wants to wait three months. Does the public have a right to "immediately" see the information?
Google launches tool for searching public data
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:40:00 PST
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Curious about unemployment trends in your state cross-referenced against salaries? Google Public Data Explorer could make it easier to create a visual representation.
Gowalla debuts Travel Channel deal, Android app
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:30:00 PST
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The location-based mobile networking app has launched its first non-iPhone app, and is making it clear that it's gunning for the same media partnerships that rival Foursquare is going for.
Citysearch's new service to better target local ads
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:43:42 PST
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The local-business directory is combining its extensive ad network with SEO services from OrangeSoda.
BBC survey: Net access is basic right
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:04:29 PST
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A big swath of Internet users worldwide say access to the Internet is a fundamental right. And many of them don't think much of Net regulation.
Online retailers poised for further growth
Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:53:00 PST
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The e-commerce market can expect double-digit gains over the new few years, both in the U.S. and Western Europe, according to reports from Forrester Research.
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