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Software RSS FeedsDown for the count: Dish to pay TiVo $104 million - The nation's highest court today shut the door on EchoStar's and Dish Network's petitions for a final appeal of their patent infringement case. Now all they can hope is for mercy from TiVo, if they are to continue producing DVRs in the US....Feed Source: www.betanews.com World Golf Tour goes a fair way toward great play - Stock market news got you down? Perhaps smacking small round objects in a beautiful setting would soothe your nerves.... NSA edges into the open source realm with Tokeneer - Components of a National Security Agency case study designed to demonstrate that open source, high security and cost effectiveness can all co-exist have been turned over to the open source community.... Netflix, eBay help trigger a further NASDAQ plunge - Sometimes when investors get the feeling in advance that it's going to be a bad day in the markets, it doesn't take too much bad news to validate their fears. This morning, some relatively minor bad news had a magnified market impact.... Nokia's 'Comes With Music' tracks will be hard to move - Nokia's upcoming mobile music service may be called "Comes With Music," but the question many of its charter subscribers will be asking -- especially those who've already been burned out on DRM -- is, will the music stay put?... IBM's 'Bluehouse' Web collaboration service enters free public beta - IBM is fending off a constellation of competition in "cloud computing" with a set of new services for developers and business customers, including "Bluehouse," a Web-based collaboration service which entered public beta today.... Google, Yahoo agree to delay their partnership deal again - As the US Dept. of Justice appears to be preparing for an extensive investigation into the two search leaders' cooperative deal, Yahoo and Google have decided that another delay in their implementation is unavoidable.... Ask.com v. 11 tries new search technologies - After some re-organization in parent company IAC, perennial runner-up search engine Ask.com today announced it had also re-organized its search technology.... EBay to cut 1,000 jobs, spend $1.3B on acquisitions - Online auctioneer eBay today announced plans to cut 1,000 jobs, while at the same time spending about $1.3 billion on three acquisitions: electronic payments business Bill Me Later and Danish Web sites dba.dk and bilbasen.dk.... Mono, the open source .NET counterpart, releases 2.0 - Microsoft has said from the very beginning that it wanted .NET to potentially be a cross-platform environment, but it's letting the open source community tackle that problem instead. This morning, that community celebrates a major milestone.... Real suspends RealDVD in wake of MPAA lawsuit - The legal battle between RealNetworks and the Motion Picture Association of America has led to Real temporarily setting aside its contentious product RealDVD while the proceedings are under way.... Verizon study: User error the cause of more IT breaches - Security threats to businesses vary according to what sort of businesses are targeted, according to a Verizon study covering over four years and 230 million compromised records.... Bill to investigate video content-blocking passes Senate - The FCC will start to investigate video content-blocking technologies, if a bill just passed by the US Senate clears the House, including not only the V-Chip but other technologies that don't work hand-in-hand with ratings systems.... New Sony Reader includes touch, but no wireless - Yesterday evening, Sony officially announced its third generation Reader e-book, equipping the over two-year-old product design with an upgrade that includes tactile sensitivity.... Was the Yahoo/Google deal a ploy to weaken Yahoo? - With the DOJ expressing skepticism over Yahoo's agreement to sell search ad space to its biggest competitor, a letter from a key US senator urging action could be preaching to the choir. What's interesting is that senator's theory.... Copyright © 2008, Fwenz.Info. All Rights Reserved. |