January 2008 - Posts

• Meebo announces new features and partners

  The web IM and chat company, Meebo, just rolled out some very interesting new features. First off, they have introduced a developer API for their Meebo Rooms product. This will allow people to integrate a Meebo Room into their own website. Meebo has said that this API will, "...further accelerate ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 09:30 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• Report: Yahoo to acquire Maven Networks

  Yahoo will announce that it has acquired Maven Networks, a video-hosting startup, according to a report in the blog TechCrunch. Citing three unnamed sources, TechCrunch reported that Yahoo has paid about $150 million for the startup and will announce the deal Thursday or Friday. Cambridge, Mass.-based Maven Neworks helps ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 08:34 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• Google still waiting for social ad payoff

  You may be friending and poking your acquaintances on social networks, but that doesn't mean you are paying attention to the ads. Or, maybe Google just made a bad deal with MySpace in which it guaranteed to pay a lot of money even if you don't click on ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 08:33 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• Quality doesn't equal popularity

  If you see a lot of live music in small clubs, you've probably had the experience of being blown away by a band that hardly anybody else knows about. Once in a great while, your instincts are validated by the masses--the band becomes popular and you get to brag ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 08:00 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• Yahoo: Terry Semel off the board

  The Terry Semel era at Yahoo is officially over. The former Yahoo CEO, who left that position last summer but remained as non-executive chairman of the board, is now out of the company altogether. Yahoo announced Thursday afternoon that Semel will immediately relinquish his spot on the board. According to ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 07:59 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• At Google, Nooglers a rarer breed

  Google's voracious appetite for new hires has eased off for the first time since the company went public in August 2004. In the last three months, the search giant added only 6 percent, or 889 people, to its employee roster--bringing Google's worldwide headcount to 16,805, according to ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 06:41 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• Add online ticket sellers to Hannah Montana's fan group

  It's not just screaming little tweens who are buzzing about Disney's Hannah Montana 3D concert film, which open in theaters Friday for a one-week run. Having already sold out during popular show times in certain markets, Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds Concert, is ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 06:28 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• Motorola considers ditching cell phone biz

  Will Motorola's Razr 2 be one of the company's last cell phones? (Credit: Motorola ) Motorola, the third largest cell phone maker in the world, may spin off its handset business as it tries to turn around its business, the company said Thursday. In a statement issued ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 05:09 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• Comfortable Remote-Access without Compromises: SSL-VPN in comparison with traditional VPN technologies

  Online communication and processing of internet transactions - summarized under the term e-commerce - have become standard technologies for companies in the past ten years. However, many of the promised time and cost benefits could not be realized immediately. From the very beginning, the World Wide Web has been an insecure place where professional and semiprofessional data thieves do mischief, discrediting it as a means of safely exchanging confidential information. Naturally, this has been a well-known fact for IT managers who consequently slowed down the adjustment of IT environments which was necessary for economic reasons, but suffered negative side effects. Posted Jan 31 2008, 05:02 PM by Recent White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet

• Minimum bid hit in FCC auction triggering open access

  The reserve price on a valuable sliver of spectrum was reached in the Federal Communications Commission's 700MHz auction on Thursday, triggering rules that would make the spectrum accessible to any device or software application. After the 17th round in the auction, a bidder for eight licenses in the "C" ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 04:57 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• Dell to cut almost 900 jobs

  More changes are afoot at Dell. The Texas PC maker plans to shut down a Canadian call center and layoff almost 900 workers. The Edmonton, Alberta, center in Canada will close during the second quarter to consolidate customer service operations, according to a Reuters report. Most of the nearly 900 ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 04:16 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• Google earnings miss Wall Street estimates

  Google on Thursday said its fourth-quarter revenue rose more than 50 percent and profit rose 17 percent, but the figures were just short of Wall Street expectations. Shares were down more than 8 percent in after-hours trading as a result. Net earnings were $1.21 billion, or $3.79 a ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 03:50 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• Vista and pro audio

  Last fall, Steve Ball, Microsoft's program manager for sound in Vista, posted a blog entry explaining some of the reasons why Windows audio can be glitchy. (That was supposed to be "Part 1" of a series; we're still waiting for Part 2.) (Credit: Microsoft) Today, Guardian writer Tim ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 03:42 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• Appeals court agrees Dish DVR infringed on TiVo patent

  A federal court upheld an earlier ruling Thursday that EchoStar Communications infringed on a digital video recording software patent owned by TiVo. The Washington, D.C. court of appeals also agreed with the lower court's award of $89.6 million in damages to be paid to TiVo by EchoStar, ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 02:41 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog

• AT&T wireless data outage reported

  Some AT&T wireless customers in the Midwest and Southeast are having trouble accessing 3G and EDGE data services on certain handsets, the company confirmed Thursday. Problems were reported as early as 6:30 a.m. EST, according to Mark Siegel, an AT&T spokesman. Siegel was not ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 02:41 PM by CNET News.com | Tech news blog