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• Mozilla CEO blasts Apple for distributing Safari 3.1 for Window on its iTunes update site

  Mozilla's CEO blasted Apple for distributing its Safari browser via the Apple Software Update service on Windows that is used by millions of iTunes users. In a blog posted today, ...

  Tags: Software, Digital Music, Personal Technology, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, CEO, Web Browser

  Mar 21, 2008 5:09 PM PDT

• Alternative energy? BIG investment, as we've been predicting. Teensy compared to Big Oil

  Four major components of the alternative energy industry are expanding rapidly. They continue to garner ever more investment. A new market study shows major year-to-year investment growth for biofuels, wind ...

  Tags: Asset, Investment, Operational Planning, Oil Company, Alternative Energy, Oil, Business Operations, Asset Management, Harry Fuller, Exxon Mobil Corp.

  Mar 21, 2008 3:42 PM PDT

• Week in review: Reading Apple's crystal ball

  Tech community looks at Apple projects, while telephone companies measure outcome of FCC spectrum auction. Also: Redmond's rocky roads.(By CNET News.com's Steven Musil) It seems lately that everyone can predict ...

  Tags: Week in Review,

  Mar 21, 2008 3:20 PM PDT

• Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates

  Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 ...

  Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Management, Data Management, Business Intelligence, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Groupware, Dennis Howlett

  Mar 21, 2008 2:30 PM PDT

• Make your own Wi-Fi access point, for free

  Looking for something to do this weekend? If you've got an old wireless router that you have outgrown, why not turn it into an access point and use it to ...

  Tags: Access Point, Rik Fairlie, Wi-Fi Access Point, Wi-Fi, Wireless

  Mar 21, 2008 2:28 PM PDT

• Sony drops its $49 "no crapware" fee

  The blogosphere is buzzing today with contempt for Sony, which just outlined its Fresh Start program and immediately ran into a buzzsaw of criticism for its plan to charge $49.99 for ...

  Tags: Sony Vaio, Ed Bott, Sony Corp., Desktops, Hardware

  Mar 21, 2008 1:51 PM PDT

• Discussing talkback formats

  Just this morning a discussion erupted among zdnet bloggers concerned about talkback formats. Three issues seem to dominate the conversation: The wall - the complexities or otherwise of getting a ...

  Tags: Blogging, Blogger, Paul Murphy, Internet

  Mar 21, 2008 1:34 PM PDT

• Microsoft and HP to set up Taiwan technology center

  Companies aim to "help advance the technology" of business parters and corporate clients in the world's computer-manufacturing hub.(From Reuters) Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, the world's top software and PC firms, on ...

  Tags: Corporate & legal,

  Mar 21, 2008 12:41 PM PDT

• 74% of Californians noticed a weaker economy in February 2008

  74% of California workers in February 2008 believed the economy was getting weaker, an increase of 3% from January 2008. 52% of workers remain confident in their ability to find ...

  Tags: Worker, AM

  Mar 21, 2008 12:37 PM PDT

• U.S. trade body to probe Sony on Blu-ray

  Patent complaint over LEDs and laser diodes leads trade commission to investigate electronics such as handhelds and high-def DVD players. (From Reuters) The U.S. International Trade Commission will launch an ...

  Tags: Corporate & legal,

  Mar 21, 2008 12:16 PM PDT

• Demographic bidding now in AdWords for everyone

  Google just announced that they are allowing advertisers to target both gender and age in AdWords starting today. This is an important feature that I'm sure advertisers will be very ...

  Tags: Garett Rogers, Gender, Advertisement, Google AdWords, Advertiser

  Mar 21, 2008 11:55 AM PDT

• The world's biggest subsea robot

  According to a newspaper of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, companies installing subsea cables for telecommunications companies and pipelines for the oil industry have now a new tool, the UT-1 Ultra ...

  Tags: U.K., Emerging Technologies, Meter, Robots, UT-1 Ultra Trencher, Roland Piquepaille

  Mar 21, 2008 11:54 AM PDT

• How open will Verizon make its new spectrum?

  So now that Verizon has officially won the precious C-block 700MHz spectrum, the question is, what happens now? Will they deliver a reasonably open network with this incredible new spectrum? ...

  Tags: Richard Koman, Business Structures, Spectrum, Network, Finance, Networking, Verizon Communications Inc.

  Mar 21, 2008 11:53 AM PDT

• Rumor Mill: What you'll be buying from Apple next

  Hey there, this is Jason's twin brother Jake. Jason asked me to pen a quick column on Apple rumors, so here goes... Released products are fine, but what about what's ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, 3G, Consumer Electronics, Cellular Phones, Jason D. O\'Grady, Home Entertainment, DVR, Alioscopy, Apple Inc.

  Mar 21, 2008 11:50 AM PDT

• 66% of US employees write down passwords in unsafe places

  US workers, managers, and IT staffs alike are increasingly confronted with difficulties arising from computer passwords, eMedia found. Over half of all respondents said the average employee in their firms ...

  Tags: AM, Password

  Mar 21, 2008 10:46 AM PDT

• Globalization's roots in the boom 90s

  I've always wanted to read Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat," a book that describes the globalization forces that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century, and in ...

  Tags: Fiber, Outsourcing, John Carroll, Worker, Management, Telecommunications, Business Operations, Outsource, Thomas L. Friedman, Computer

  Mar 21, 2008 10:18 AM PDT

• The REDFLY gives me back the utility of a Handheld PC, but with the latest OS

  So I was using the REDFLY Windows Mobile Smartphone Companion a bit more with the HTC Advantage and a thought came to me that the REDFLY solves the problem I ...

  Tags: Roi/Tco, Software, Bluetooth, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Keyboards, Peripherals, Handheld Computer, Device, Hardware

  Mar 21, 2008 10:12 AM PDT

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