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- Facebook
- A social networking site founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. It initially targeted Harvard students, but was later opened to other universities and then high schools. In 2006,...
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- News to know: iPhone software update; FCC and open wireless; Facedown
- Notable headlines:Jason O'Grady: iPhone software update 1.0.1 released. Gallery below.Ryan Naraine: Apple monster update fixes iPhone, Safari, Mac OS X flaws.FCC approves some open wireless requirements. Google public policy blog: Signs of real progress at the FCC.Dan Farber: Facebook becomes Facedown. Techmeme. Facebook, Tagged and Bebo outpacing MySpace growth rate.Mary...
- Tags: News to know, Google, General, Facebook, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- News to know: Mozilla patches Firefox; Vista hot fixes; Microsoft Works as a service
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Google hires browser hacking guru.Mozilla fixes its end of URL protocol handling saga. Ed Burnette: 10 days from report to patch for new Firefox exploit.David Berlind: Technology Shakedown: McAfee's A/V software runs amok on Windows Vista's tray.Mary Jo Foley: Leaked Vista hot fix list provides SP1 clues....
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- News to know: U.S. turns back hacker; Realtek data corruption; Facebook; Leveraging Linux
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: German hacker denied entry into U.S. for Black Hat training. Halvar Flake: I've been denied entry to the US essentially for carrying my trainings material.George Ou: Realtek network driver silently corrupts data.Paul Murphy: Leveraging Linux to sell yourself.Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week right.Jason O'Grady: No...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- News to know: Facebook; Google miss; Microsoft; Bugs galore
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Google isn't perfect: Earnings fall short of expectations. Relax folks, Google isn't Yahoo.Techmeme: Facebook acquires Parakey. Reuters: Facebook acquires Net start-up Parakay. Ryan Stewart: Is Facebook going to compete with Adobe AIR?Denise Howell: I'm in ur Facebook app, slurpin' up ur feeds.New hires, datacenter investments evident in...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- News to know: Next-gen Windows; Oracle patches; Facebook feeding frenzy
- Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Next-gen Windows: Most wanted features emerge. Larry Dignan: Next-gen Windows features and the fallout.Ed Bott: Hardware notebook: What I look for in a Vista PC.Web leaders: Search is just the beginning.Ryan Naraine: Oracle readying 46 security patches for DB, server products.Review: Logitech MX Air. Photos: A...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- News to know: Facebook; Apple and Cisco patches
- Notable headlines:Facebook's new platform:Dan Farber: Facebook: The social Web utility company. Facebook's Zuckerberg uncorks the social graph. Facebook: We just want to share information more efficientlyFacebook welcomes outside services. Video.Steve O'Hear: More thoughts on Facebook's new platform.Donna Bogatin: Who needs Facebook? Students fight back.Techmeme roundup.George Ou: Is the Drobo 'storage...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Podcast: News to know midday: OLPC; Facebook; Offshore outsourcing
- On today's podcast: Is Intel trying to torpedo the OLPC? Facebook is the prince of social media, says Dan Farber. Steve O'Hear weighs in on Facebook's move to open up its pages. Will the private equity boom mean more offshore outsourcing?Also as a programming note, this podcast is now available on iTunes. All...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
Additional Resources
- Just Bought An HDTV? Are You Now Ready To Buy a 3DTV?
- This is a compilation of scenes from "House of Wax," a 1953 horror film about a monster played by Vincent Price who uses live human beings as the base for the displays in his museum. The climactic scene is about three-and-a-half minutes into this YouTube clip....
- Tags: 3D, HDTV, Philips Electronics N.V., 3DTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Drexel students hijack online poll, get underwear
- A few weeks ago I saw that students at my alma mater organized a small botnet to push Drexel to the front of the queue for Victoria's Secret's line of university branded underwear. It took a brief remark from a blog I frequent to make me realize that there...
- Tags: Poll, Security, Viruses And Worms, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Honda Insight Hybrid vs. Insight Concept
- How has Honda's hybrid changed for production? by CNET News.com
- Tags: Honda Motor Co., CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-12-03
- Photos: Capturing a Cy Young winner's 'freaky' motion
- San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum lets loose during a motion-capturing session for the new Major League Baseball 2K9 video game. by CNET News.com
- Tags: MLB, Photograph, Games, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-12-03
- Yahoo headlines: What's fact and what's rumor?
- If you're tired of rampant speculation about Yahoo's future, including headlines from legitimate news sources that are fueling the blogosphere with rumor and unconfirmed theories, raise your hand. Just as I suspected. I know it's been a while since I...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Source, CEO, Blogging, Corporate Governance, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Rumor mill about Yahoo's future goes into overdrive
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Editor in Chief Larry Dignan about the many variables at play in the Yahoo saga. Dignan also sifts through some of the theories about the search giant, sorting the probable from the impossible.
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo, search, rumor, Microsoft, Jerry Yang, Sumi Das
- Videos 2008-12-03
- ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains
- Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new...
- Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, EstDomains, Directi, Security Community, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Slicing up Sun
- Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls -- one of which is from a disclosure perspective, I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for, because it could influence the...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Live TV coming to the iPhone
- Last100 reports that Livestation is negotiating with Apple to bring a version of its Internet TV application to the iPhone and iPod Touch. A working prototype already exists see video below that delivers Livestation's channel lineup of live television news stations on Apple's device, although this is likely to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Apple removes anti-virus recommendation
- On November 21 the blogosphere was abuzz when Apple updated a technical note on its Support Web site that says Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult....
- Tags: Software, Antivirus, Apple Inc., Virus, Viruses And Worms, Cyberthreats, Security, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
- I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...
- Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Information Age landmark: One billionth mouse produced
- Logitech, maker of many mice, has hailed as a major landmark the production of their one billionth computer mouse, which rolled off production lines late last month. The first mouse was created on December 9, 1968 when Douglas C. Engelbart and his group of researchers at Stanford University put...
- Tags: Mouse, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Amazon launches iPhone app
- Amazon on Wednesday said it launched an application on Apple's App Store to target the iPhone and iPod touch. The news comes as Apple's App Store is generating a good amount of buzz this holiday season Techmeme. Amazon said in a statement that it...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon.com Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
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