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Ziff Davis
Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks. by Elinor Mills CNET News...
OnLive, a streaming video game service that, if properly implemented, could threaten traditional console makers. by Daniel Terdiman CNET News...
For the second time in less than six months, visitors to the Drudge Report say they got malware in addition to the Web site's usual sensational headlines. by Elinor Mills CNET News...
Ex-baseballer Curt Schilling's developer 38 Studios has struck a deal with EA to publish an upcoming single-player role-playing game. by Tor Thorsen GameSpot...
Hewlett-Packard has filed a suit against four companies based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, accusing the defendants of patent infringement, according to various reports. by Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia...
Wired
Angry users sue Classmates.com after it decides to make previously private data public, just as Facebook did in December. Will its defense be, "I learned it from watching you, Zuck?" ...
App stores aren't just for mobile phones anymore. Google has launched a store that lets Google Apps customers add third-party browser-based apps to their existing stack of Google's productivity tools....
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 no...
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. ...
A few adventurous hackers have posted source code for NCSA Mosaic 2.7 on the web. If you're running a modern Linux distro, you can download the web's first proper browser and go back to the days befor...
IT Pro
NY Times Technology
Smartphone and laptop batteries may seem like cruel masters when they threaten to lose power, but you have more control than you may think. ...
With a petition to the F.C.C. and a letter to Congressional leaders, cable and satellite providers said the current rules were “broken and in need of repair.” ...
Our daily roundup of technology tidbits features Google's new service to show you what the Web is reading, the employment boom for hackers and a couple of trips down memory lane. ...
This week's podcast includes the changing fortunes of Pandora, the Internet radio site and an exploration of geek style. ...
Some Web site founders have been surprised that their products are better suited to cellphones. ...
O'Reilly
If you like this video, pick up a copy of Nilofer Merchant's book The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy. ...
Folks in the web world are accustomed to granular information, yet brick-and-mortar businesses are still largely in the dark on the data front. But what if business owners could gather hard data? Wh...
Google Apps Enterprise Marketplace -- this is sweet. It looks like the play is to become the home page for authenticated apps rather than to make commissions from selling the apps themselves. This ...
I'm kicking myself. I have spent a non-trivial number of hours talking to government departments and scientists about open data, talking up an "open source approach" to data, pushing hard to get the...
Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition for only $9.99. Use discount code DDNUT to get your savings!... ...
Apple Hot News
Apple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPa...
For the third year in a row Apple has been named the World?s Most Admired Company by Fortune Magazine ? this year by the widest margin ever. What makes Apple so admired? Fortune explains: ?Product, pr...
The New York Times caught up with 10 billion song download winner Louie Sulcer and asked him about his prize, a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Says the 71-year-old Sulcer,?I don?t think I?ll have to worry ...
Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 10 billion songs from the iTunes Store, the world?s most popular online music, TV, and movie store....
Apple today introduced Aperture 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software. Aperture 3 offers more than 200 new features including Faces, Places, and Brushes. A 30...
