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Yahoo joins OpenSocial bandwagon

Ken Mitchell — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:45:57 +0000

Yahoo! will be among the major players in the community governed OpenSocial headed up by competitor Google. With this news, more than 500 million people will be able to connect using the open social standards that will be offered by the foundation.

“Yahoo! believes in supporting community-driven [...]

Microsoft aquires security software firm Komoku

Ken Mitchell — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:37:31 +0000

Anti-Rootkit vendor Komoku Inc. is the next to be gobbled up by the latest software giant’s buying binge. Microsoft plans on adding the rootkit detection functionality to it’s Forefront enterprise security products, and to the Windows Live OneCare suite.

Komoku is noted for doing [...]

HTC’s Google phone has a name, meet the HTC Dream

Ken Mitchell — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:06:32 +0000

High Tech Computer (HTC) has been hell bent on becoming the first to release a Google phone. That phone now has a name, the Dream.

HTC has been tinkering with Google’s mobile operating system Android, and was the first to [...]

Qwest offers voluntary buyouts to landline employees

Ken Mitchell — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:42:59 +0000

Denver based Qwest Communications International Inc. announced Tuesday that it will offer a voluntary buyout to employees responsible for traditional land lines. The offer is to less than 2 percent of Qwest’s almost 40,000 employees.

Thousands of customers are abandoning legacy land line phones [...]

US Supreme Court allows Novell to continue Microsoft antitrust suit

Ken Mitchell — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:49:29 +0000

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that Novell can continue its antitrust suit against Microsoft. Following todays popular fashion of redundancy and wastefullness, this case was about whether or not to have a [...]

YouTube videos coming to TiVo DVRs

Ken Mitchell — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:39:46 +0000

Bringing the YouTube-y goodness to a TiVo near you, the TiVo Series3 DVR will soon be capable of beaming YouTube videos through that massive plasma on your wall.

In an announcement on Tuesday, TiVo Inc. said that the service will be available this year to subscribers [...]

GoDaddy.com says RateMyCop.com exceeded bandwidth

Ken Mitchell — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:15:22 +0000

GoDaddy.com has denied censoring RateMyCop.com, after the site was directed to an “Ooops” page. A GoDaddy.com representative has told TECH.BLORGE.com that “censorship had nothing to do with it.”

TECH.BLORGE.com reported the censorship allgeations earlier today. You can read that story here.

“Basically, he was paying for compact car, when he really needed [...]

GoDaddy.com drops the hammer on RateMyCop.com

Ken Mitchell — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:16:21 +0000

GoDaddy.com has redirected RateMyCop.com to their own “OOPS” page providing a number for the site owner to contact. RateMyCop.com is a website where users rate more than 140,000cops on certain aspects of performance and behavior. The site displays public information from more than 400 precincts.

Cops have [...]

Google closes acquisition deal with DoubleClick

Ken Mitchell — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:18:02 +0000

Google Inc. has successfully closed the $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc., a global leader in digital marketing. Google has been waiting on government approval, and has been limited in the extent to which planning could take place.

The acquisition has been in the works since [...]

ROM update enables GPS and Rev. A for Sprint Mogul

Ken Mitchell — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:37:27 +0000

Sprint and HTC have finally rolled out a ROM update for the Taiwan made HTC Mogul that enables the built in GPS and Rev. A hardware, previously crippled by software.

The Mogul came hardware ready for both GPS and Rev. A, but was cripple [...]