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Ziff Davis
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...
Microsoft rivals have indicated that they will not be pushing for a similar action in the Asia-Pacific region. by Liau Yun Qing ZDNet Asia...
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...
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
Police and paramedics use an array of dashboard devices, a boon for their jobs that also presents a clear risk. ...
Smartphone and laptop batteries may seem like cruel masters when they threaten to lose power, but you have more control than you may think. ...
Starbucks will give loyal customers a barista badge on Foursquare -- and get information about their behavior. ...
Does Chatroulette, the popular video chat site, lose its appeal if it loses its anonymity? ...
Betaworks, the start-up incubator that helped spawn TweetDeck and Bit.ly, raises another $20 million. ...
O'Reilly
Tech-minded volunteers quickly pitched in with a variety of communication and data services in the days following the Haiti earthquake. One company -- crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower -- repurpose...
January 2010 US Mobile Subscriber Market Share (ComScore) -- Android just overtook Palm, and is growing faster than the other smartphone platforms. And for a reality check, 28% of mobile customers ...
Last Saturday, several hundred folks gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to spend the day discussing Open Government. I attended, and Laurel Ruma (O'Reilly's Gov 2.0 Evangelist) wa...
Designing Social Interfaces for only $9.99. Use discount code DDDST to get your savings!... ...
If you like this video, pick up a copy of Nilofer Merchant's book The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy. ...
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...
