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Ziff Davis
Matt Drudge and Michael Arrington found themselves in an unpleasant position last week when visitors to their sites were targeted by malware that appeared to have come from ads. by Elinor Mills CNET N...
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was a young technology fan who appeared to be an establishment outsider. But he now appears to have lined up on the side of copyright owners. by Greg Sandoval...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin adores the company's social network called Google Buzz. We know this because an engineer working five feet from Brin used Google Buzz to say so. by Declan McCullagh CNET ...
A US Court of Appeals panel has upheld a judgement that Microsoft infringed on another company's patent with its custom XML tags in Word 2003 and Word 2007. by David Meyer ZDNet UK...
Mobile coupons are coming to mega-retailer Target, which will allow shoppers all over the U.S. to use their mobile handset to get discounts on all kinds of products. by Marguerite Reardon CNET News...
Wired
To settle a privacy lawsuit, Netflix is canceling a second round of its innovative contest to improve its movie recommendations. The lawsuit claims the anonymized user data given to outside researcher...
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. ...
IT Pro
NY Times Technology
Giving people more choices in revealing their locations with their cellphones is being popularized by the Foursquare service. ...
A swirl of new media at the South by Southwest conference. ...
Authorities warned that Google’s partners must comply with censorship laws even if the search giant does not, an industry expert said. ...
Final Fantasy XIII is a milestone of artistic conception and technical execution that has been egregiously undermined by obstinately prosaic overall design. ...
German publishers are worrying that Apple’s desire to limit offensive material on its iPhone applications is spilling over into censorship. ...
O'Reilly
HTML5 vs. Flash debates are engaging. No doubt about that. But if you strip away the bombast, you'll find that HTML5 also offers an interesting feature set that's worth investigating. In this Q&A, H...
There's a Rootkit in the Closet -- lovely explanation of finding and isolating a rootkit, reconstructing how it got there and deconstructing the rootkit to figure out what it did. It's a detective ...
The first reports of BigTable, CloudDB, and the other innovations that have come along now to be casually categorized as NoSQL, emphasized their architecture. I assumed that these experiments would ...
Recently, I became interested in maximizing lookup performance in R. Many problems require looking up values in tables. I decided to perform some tests to show how different lookup mechanisms perfor...
"CouchDB: The Definitive Guide" for only $9.99. Use discount code DDCDB to get your savings!... ...
Apple Hot News
Starting today, you can pre-order your iPad from the Apple Online Store and have it delivered free to your door. Or buy it at your favorite Apple Retail Store starting April 3....
FileMaker, Inc. announced this week the immediate availability of FileMaker Pro 11. Packed with new and innovative features led by charting, ?on the fly? reporting, a new Quick Find capability, and a ...
CNET News reports that 9 out of 10 of this year?s nominees in the Documentary Feature and Documentary Short categories used Final Cut Studio to make their films, including category winners ?The Cove? ...
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...
