Ask to allow anonymous Web search
Blog: By using the new AskEraser tool, users will be able to set their privacy preferences so the search engine does not retain their Web search history.
Update: TripAdvisor denies Facebook Platform app acquisition
Blog: The company releases a brief statement that suggests the Facebook Platform application Where I've Been was not actually acquired.
Monster puts kibosh on rogue server
Blog: Job site pulls the plug on a rogue server that was stealing information about job candidates from its database.
Motorola: We're not looking to replace Zander
Blog: A board member says a BusinessWeek story claiming that the mobile-phone maker's board is looking to replace its chief executive is wrong.
Anatomy of an Ikea product
What does it take to get a chair from the design table into your living room? News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman takes a look.
Woz, meet Jack Tramiel
After all these years, Apple co-founder and Commodore founder finally meet--at a celebration of the Commodore 64.
Pink Floyd sues EMI over iTunes payments
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
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 their odds of implementation.
Cyberbullying hits LGBT youth especially hard
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
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
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
Apple-owned company on Tuesday releases next major version of its database product, FileMaker Pro 11.
ScatterTunes sells digital albums with a visual twist
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
Democratic and Republican 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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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.
Rackspace hires to align with MySQL offshoot
number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.
Sun's open source chief leaves following Oracle merger
Sun's chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog Tuesday. "Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean)," Phipps wrote. "I am a few months short of my 10th anniversary there (I joined at JavaOne in 2000) and my 5th anniversary as ...
Sentilla's energy management tool gets chargeback feature
Sentilla has released an update to its data center energy management tool, which lets IT and facilities staff track the energy usage of servers and other equipment. The latest version is a software-only product that adds a chargeback capability, allowing companies to bill individual business units for the energy they use.
VMware unveils experimental projects on new Web site
This just in from VMware: "Fling is defined as 'a brief casual relationship.'" That text actually appears on a site VMware created to share internal engineering projects -- software code that is interesting but not yet ready for VMware's flagship virtualization products.
Modular data centers: A fast, secretive option that's spreading
When Australian firm WesTrac needed to expand its data center capacity quickly, the company bought the equivalent of a Band-Aid for its server needs: A containerized data center. The company, which supplies Caterpillar brand heavy-machinery to Australian customers and others, found itself with too little data center to meet the needs of its latest IT project. Because of space issues, WesTrac co...
Android native development kit updated
Developers of the Google-backed Android mobile application platform have released revision 3 of Android NDK (Native Development Kit), which complements Android SDK by enabling developers to build performance-critical portions of an application in native code. Release of NDK r3 was noted in a posting on the Android Developer Blog on Monday.
Cisco unveils next Internet core router
Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. "The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate," Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers said during a webcast Tuesday morning announcing the product. [ Stay ahead of the key tech business news with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Firs...
Schneier: Fight for online privacy or kiss it good-bye
If the public wants online privacy it had better fight now for laws to protect it because businesses won't and individuals don't have the clout, security expert Bruce Schneier told RSA Conference. Facebook's New Privacy Settings: 5 Things You Should Know
EMC offers deduplication, thin provisioning for VWware on Celerra
EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.
EMC offers deduplication, thin provisioning for VMware on Celerra
EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.
Intel sees 2012 deployment for mobile WiMax Release 2
Chip giant Intel, a major backer of the movement to provide mobile WiMax wireless broadband to Internet users around the world, expects the next major release of the technology to be deployed starting in 2012, an executive said Tuesday. "Standards work will be completed by the end of this year," said Rama Shukla, a vice president and director of the WiMax program office at Intel, during a new...
Opera Software to patch browser vulnerability soon
Opera Software will soon patch a vulnerability in its Web browser that could allow an attacker to run malicious software on a Windows computer. The problem affects Opera browser version 10.50 running on Windows and possibly others, according to an advisory from Danish security company Secunia said.
IT adds 25,000-plus jobs so far in 2010
IT employment grew by 0.37 percent, or 14,000 jobs, in February, one of the strongest month-to-month gains since 2008, according to the TechServe Alliance, an IT services industry group that analyzes U.S. Labor Department unemployment data. In January, IT employment increased by 12,900 jobs , TechServe Alliance reported.
Cast Iron rolls out OmniConnect data integration kit
Data integration specialist Cast Iron Systems is about to release a new offering aimed at both on-premises and cloud-based scenarios. Cast Iron OmniConnect, to be available Tuesday, represents an evolution of the vendor's existing IaaS (integration as a service) and on-premises offerings. It is available in on-demand form, as an on-premises or hosted virtual appliance, or as a hardware appl...
Microsoft reportedly moves up Windows 7 SP1 release date
Even though Microsoft has dropped a plan to wait nearly two years after Windows 7's launch to issue a first service pack, it won't deliver the update before the fourth quarter of this year, a site that has accurately predicted past Windows timetables said today. Microsoft would be smart to reconsider and delay a service pack as long as possible, one analyst countered.
New Capgemini unit to offer cloud help
The technical services group of Capgemini has traditionally helped companies with system integration, but cloud computing is changing that. The company is increasingly assembling lots of different software-as-a-service applications, a phenomenon that has led Capgemini to create a new business unit.
Eclipse restructures Mylyn task-focused interface project
The Eclipse Foundation on Monday is announcing a restructuring of its Mylyn task-focused interface project, adding sub-projects for several functions.
Energizer Bunny's software infects PCs
The Energizer Bunny infects PCs with backdoor malware , the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT said Friday. According to researchers at US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team), software that accompanies the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a Trojan horse that gives hackers total access to a Windows PC.
Intel investigating sale of fake Core i7 chip
Intel acknowledged Monday that at least one counterfeit version of its Core i7-920 processor made its may into the U.S. market, and said it's trying to determine how many more are out there.
IBM looks to pair security technologies for software development
Honing in on the need for more security in application development, IBM Rational is planning an enterprise-level product that features two separately acquired technologies for security testing and code scanning.
International Space Station`s New Room with a View
The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from the Kennedy Center Feb. 8 on one of NASA's most anticipated missions to the International Space: The delivery of the Tranquility node, the final module of the U.S. portion of the space station. Tranquility will provide additional room for crew members and many of the space station's life support and environmental control systems. Attached to the node...
Johnny Cash Fan Wins Apple's 10 Billionth Song Contest
The Apple iTunes Store received its 10 billionth song download, and a lucky Johnny Cash fan in Georgia winner of the Apple iTunes Countdown to 10 Billion Songs contest has a $10,000 iTunes gift card headed his way. - One lucky Apple iTunes customer and Johnny Cash fan has $10,000 worth of songs in his future.
Apple announced Feb. 25 that Louie Sulcer, of Woodstock, Ga., was the ...
Google Feels Noose Tighten in Italy, Brussels, China, U.S.
From its executives being charged for privacy violations in Italy, to formal complaints from Microsoft-supported entities in Brussels and Google's joust with China over a hack, Google is facing adversity from many fronts in the first two months of 2010. Moreover, many adversaries want to paint Google as the next Microsoft. This is probably not the start to the year the company envisioned, but G...
Database Security Tips for Enterprises
With the cost of data breaches continuing to go up, the need to properly secure your database has never been clearer. Locking down the database layer, however, is no simply task. There are a number of different aspects that must be considered and steps database administrators should take. In discussions with eWEEK, experts from database security firms Guardium -- now part of IBM -- and Applicat...
SAP Unveils Business Intelligence Toolset for Casual Users, Small Business
SAP is announcing its SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand software, offering analytics and reporting tools to casual business users who otherwise might not have the experience or skills necessary to leverage business intelligence in their daily workflow. SAP has increasingly focused on the SMB segment as a way to increase its revenue stream, a move mirrored by its competitors such as Oracle. The a...
Microsoft, Panasonic Announce Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement
Microsoft and Panasonic announced an agreement that would give the electronics maker access to Microsofts Extended File Allocation Table technology, which allows consumer electronic devices to manage larger files. In addition, Panasonic also obtained a patent license for FAT32 long file name technology. Microsoft originally launched its exFAT licensing program in December 2009. A more generaliz...
Microsoft Wins Botnet Battle in Court
In response to a lawsuit filed by Microsoft, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against 277 Internet domains associated with the notorious Waledac botnet. - Microsoft is using the law as a weapon to take down the Waledac botnet.
According to the company, a federal judge in
Virginia issued a temporary restraining order Feb. 22 to cut off 277 Internet domains associated w...
10 Web Companies That Microsoft Should Fear Most
When it comes time to discuss Microsoft's intentions on the Web, that discussion always turns to Google. How will Microsoft compete against the search juggernaut? What can it do to stop Google's rise in Web advertising? They are valid questions that, so far, Microsoft hasn't been able to adequately address. But there is more to fear on the Web than just Google.
Microsoft is slowly, but surely,...
iPhone, Android Users Not So Different, Says Report
iPhone and Android smartphone users have been found to be surprisingly similar when it comes to application downloading habits, says a new report from AdMob. Its survey also found that Android users are predominantly male, and iPod touch users wont be running for president any time soon. - Apple users have been said to be a breed apart, but a Feb. 25 report from AdMob reveals that the behav...
Google Gmail Labs Promotes Six, Retires Five Features
Google Feb. 24 said it is advancing six features in its Gmail Labs and retiring five, a sign the company's programmers are dutifully keeping up with user interest or lack thereof in the experimental tools. If nothing else, Google's Gmail team is watching what the 176 million Gmail users are doing in the Webmail app. What will be interesting to see is the interplay of Gmail Labs features with th...
LG Windows Phone 7 Series May Arrive Early, Says Report
An LG smartphone running Microsofts newly introduced Windows Phone 7 Series may arrive as early as September, Engadget is reporting. Reporters at its China sister site are said to have received details from LG executives, at a Lunar New Year celebration in Hong Kong. - The first LG smartphone running Microsofts Windows Phone 7 Series may arrive as early as September, according to a report f...
Bloom Energy Server Pushes Green Power Forward
A car-sized fuel cell-based power plant, known as the Bloom Energy Server, could power up to 100 U.S. homes and fit in the driveway. -
As the green energy movement works to keep momentum in the
U.S., a Silicon Valley-based start-up known as Bloom Energy emerged after nine years of closely-guarded research to unveil the Bloom
Energy Server, a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology, ...
Citrix Offers GoToManage IT Management Solution
Aimed at cost-conscious businesses, Citrix GoToManage is anintegrated web-based platform for controlling unattended IT infrastructure. The company also announced a partnership with Carpathia Hosting. -
Citrix Systems online division announced it was entering
the IT Management sector with the launch of GoToManage, an integrated web-based
platform for monitoring, controlling and suppo...
Passlogix Announces Universal Authentication Solution for Logon to Windows
Passlogix offers cost-conscious businesses the open architecture v-GO Universal Authentication Manager (v-GO UAM), an authentication solution that enables Microsoft Windows to accept any identification device for logging on. -
Provisioning and authentication process specialist
and developer of the v-GO Access Accelerator Suite, Passlogix, announced v-GO
Universal Authentication Mana...
Salesforce.com Reports $1.4 Billion 2010 Revenue Growth
Salesforce.com reported fiscal 2010 revenue of $1.3 billion as it continue to benefit from the rapid expansion of the on-demand enterprise software market. Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff said Salesforce.com portfolio of cloud sales, service, application development products and its new Chatter business collaboration platform should allow his company to enjoy strong growth for years to come. -...
New Intel, AMD Chips Fuel x86 Server Growth: Analysts
Analysts at Gartner and IDC say new Intel and AMD processors are fueling a recovery in shipments of x86 servers from the likes of HP, Dell and IBM. Intels “Nehalem EP” Xeons and AMDs “Istanbul” Opterons in 2009 helped kick-start the momentum that rolled into the fourth quarter, and new processors from both chip makers this quarter will continue the growth into 2010. - A week ago, execut...
10 iPhone Navigation Apps for Your Next Driving Adventure
Sometimes you need a little help getting from Points A to B, something a number of developers realized when they began designing navigation Apps for iPhone. Many of these Apps take advantage of the GPS chipset embedded in the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3G S, which allows for turn-by-turn directions and easy viewing of local points of interest. Other Apps, including Google Earth, focus primarily o...
Apple May Allow Controversial Apps In App Store, Suggest Developers
Apple could introduce an Explicit category to its App Store, as suggested by developers who saw a tab for adult-themed apps appear briefly as a primary category in the iTunes Connect system. Whether Apple was testing code or yanked the category after news leaked remains to be seen. Apples head of worldwide product marketing Philip Schiller indicated in an interview with The New York Times tha...
Parallels Ships New 'Bare Metal' Server for Apple Xserve
Parallels Server for Mac/Bare Metal Edition runs virtual machines on an Xserve machine so businesses can standardize on the Apple platform and still run Windows and Linux-based applications if they desire. - Virtualization software maker Parallels said Feb. 24 that it is expanding its product line by adding a new hypervisor specifically designed for Apple's Mac OS X and Xserve server.
Para...
Oracle Explains Unclear Message About OpenSolaris
A posting on company Web site implied that OpenSolaris may soon be end-of-lifed. However, there's no need for operating system developers and IT managers to worry: Oracle is not killing off the freely down-loadable community version of Sun's Unix-based Solaris enterprise operating system anytime soon. - Was a posting on the Oracle Web site published Feb. 24 entitled quot;End of Service L...
White House Plans Innovation Prize Platform
The government plans to release a Web-based platform for federal agencies to use prizes and challenges to crowdsource innovative approaches to government problems.
Down To Business: Electronic Healthcare Won't Be Denied
Obstacles abound, no doubt. But three huge constituents will demand it: government, large providers -- and the customers who will benefit.
Sony Sets Aggressive 3D TV Target
If the company hits its sales goals -- 2.5 million 3-D televisions and 67% more TVs overall -- its TV business will be profitable for the first time in seven years.
VA Halts Access To EHR System
The administration is addressing a bug that caused its VistAWeb e-health records system to return incomplete data.
Microsoft Fixes Eight Bugs, Warns Of IE Zero-Day
A light Patch Tuesday brings word of a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
Cisco Unveils Next Gen Carrier Router
The $90,000 CSR-3 switch is positioned as a flagship enterprise product capable of handling high demand for video on 100G networks.
Union Bank to Manage Op Risk Using OpenPages
Bank plans to use OpenPages platform to build program to measure and manage operational risk and calculate capital requirements.
Global CIO: BMC CEO On Rogue Clouds, Oracle, Etc.
CEO Bob Beauchamp talks trends in data centers and IT management.
Global CIO: BMC CEO On Rogue Clouds, Oracle
CEO Bob Beauchamp talks trends in data centers and IT management.
Microsoft Unveils MSN Redesign
Revamped home page features a more prominent Bing search engine and direct integration with Facebook.
Newegg Axes IPEX Over Fake Intel Chips
Some Core i7 processors received from the supplier were counterfeit, online retailer says.
Newegg Axes Supplier Over Fake Intel Chips
Some Core i7 processors received from the supplier were counterfeit, online retailer says.
Mariposa Botnet Malware Found On Vodaphone HTC Magic
The phone was bought by an employee of Panda Security, who spotted the malware.
Cast Iron Launches Cloud Integration Platform
Combining data synchronization with process-support and mashup capabilities, OmniConnect addresses on-premise-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud integration.
StoneRiver's New P&C Core Processing System Addresses Need for Easier Business Process Automation and Integration
Component-based StoneRiver Stream focuses on helping carriers becoming leaner, faster and smarter as they operate.
OneShield Launches Customer/Employee Wiki
The vendor describes OneShield Wiki as a comprehensive source of training materials, shared documents and resources, contact information and complete documentation on its Dragon policy admin system's components, functionality and architecture.
Air Force Taking Bids For Network Services
Vendors can submit proposals for up to $460 million in awards from the $24 billion follow-up to the Air Force's Network Centric Solutions procurement program.
Sun's Open Source Chief Quits
Ten-year veteran Simon Phipps leaves the company on the heels of Oracle merger.
Accenture Launches Mobile Payment Platform
Hosted, pay-per-transaction solution can connect to users on mobile operators or web sites for large-scale implementation of mobile financial services and is said to adjust to extremes of network traffic.
NASA Shifts Data Center Strategy
New guidance on cloud computing, energy efficiency, and data center consolidation puts the space agency's $1.5 billion data center plans on hold for now.
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Android to go beyond phones to a range of personal devices
The Android mobile platform is destined to be part of many other devices, and a San Jose provider of embedded Linux products will take that a step further by providing an Android-ready Linux kernel for chips to be used in those devices.
Don't sign away your future: Noncompetes done right
You do have rights when presented with a noncompete agreement. Just know what you're signing, and know what your employer is really trying to protect.
Don't try this at home: AMD overclocks new Phenom II X4 to 7GHz
AMD on Thursday introduced the latest member of its Phenom II X4 family of high-performance quad-core CPUs, which the No. 2 chip maker said it had run as fast as 7GHz in extreme overclocking tests.
Apple doesn't get netbooks? Too bad.
No wonder everyone is pining for Steve Jobs to return to Apple. Other executives at the company don't seem to grasp future product trends.
Hathaway advocates for direct White House role on cybersecurity
President Obama's acting senior director for cyberspace called for a more direct White House role in coordinating national cybersecurity efforts.
Don't try this at home: AMD overclocks new Phenom II X4 to 7 GHz
AMD on Thursday introduced the latest member of its Phenom II X4 family of high-performance quad-core CPUs, which the No. 2 chip maker said it had run as fast as 7 GHz in extreme overclocking tests.
With six-core chips and a roadmap, AMD preps for stimulus money fight
With the federal government moving quickly to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to stimulate the U.S. economy, chip makers AMD and Intel both want a piece of the action. And they're rolling out chips to try and get a competitive advantage.
With six-core chips and a road map, AMD preps for stimulus money fight
With the federal government moving quickly to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to stimulate the U.S. economy, chip makers AMD and Intel both want a piece of the action. And they're rolling out chips to try to get a competitive advantage.
Opinion: Questioning the netbook phenomenon
On Wednesday, Apple COO Tim Cook dissed netbooks and their 'cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware [and] very small screens.' But can any computer maker, including Apple, ignore the trend completely?
Rigged Word docs exploit 2008 bug, say researchers
Attackers who are probably based in China are exploiting a December bug in Microsoft Word to hijack Windows PCs, Vietnamese security researchers warned today.
VMware warns that revenue may fall for the first time in Q2
VMware reported a first-quarter profit on Wednesday but said that sales are being hit by the recession and it might report its first-ever drop in revenue next quarter.
Netbook or ultraportable: Which is best for the job?
The boundaries between the two portable computer types are blurring. Here's how to decide if a laptop or a netbook is right for you.
Are price hikes in store for Sun software support?
Oracle's pending purchase of Sun Microsystems may not have an immediate effect on what customers currently pay to use Sun software, but changes are likely coming, observers said this week.
Nokia puts mobile wallet on SIM card
The new Nokia 6216 classic handset incorporates support for Near Field Communication technology on the SIM card, paving the way for operators to more easily deploy mobile-payment systems.
Apple execs heap scorn on netbooks
Apple executives may be ridiculing netbooks as a computer category not worth their while, but analysts aren't buying the dismissive talk at face value.
Microsoft adds health care to global e-government platform
Microsoft extended a comprehensive e-services framework it is developing for governments around the world, with new modules for helping them build better IT networks for social services.
Will Oracle hike prices for Sun's software support?
Over time, Oracle likely will try to raise the support fees that customers pay on Sun's software, analysts said. But they added that Sun's open-source focus gives users other options.
Mac mini media center: Control everything remotely
In the first three parts of my ongoing venture to make a Mac mini a powerful component of my AV empire we've covered upgrading the Mac, connecting it to a typical AV system, and configuring it to access local and streaming media. We now turn to one of the most important elements of any AV system--controlling it all from the couch.
Windows bugs never really die
Hackers can successfully attack Windows PCs months or even years after Microsoft fixes a flaw, a security expert said today, because there always remains a pool of unpatched systems.
