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Google Adsense equals embedded in-game commercials

TJ Kirchner — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:09:56 +0000

Google is trying out the game commercial business again with its “AdSense for Games” product. Right now it’s testing an in-game technology that would allow them to insert ads while a person is [...]

HP, Intel, Yahoo, and other organizations research cloud computing

TJ Kirchner — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:27:38 +0000

Major technical business companies like HP, Intel, and Yahoo, along with several educational and research organizations are coming together to create a global research test bed for cloud computing. They’ve [...]

Yahoo’s music DRM servers going down

TJ Kirchner — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:20:51 +0000

Another one bites the dust, as Yahoo announces it will be shutting down its DRM servers as of September 30^th, 2008. Those customers that relied on these servers to authenticate their music when [...]

FCC votes to bring Comcast to justice

TJ Kirchner — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:15:55 +0000

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is one step closer to convicting Comcast of violating federal policy. Three of five commissioners, Copps, Andelstein, and Martin, have voted in favor of finding the cable [...]

Google acquisition of Digg fails

TJ Kirchner — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:30:32 +0000

Once again, Digg was unable to be bought out by another company. Negotiations between it and Google ended, when the search giant backed out of the deal. Reasons for Google’s decision are still up [...]

Microsoft Sponsors Apache at OSCON

TJ Kirchner — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:57:06 +0000

The software giant shocked everyone at the Open Source Convention (OSCON) today when it decided to sponsor $100,000 toward the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Justin Erenkratz, ASF president, believes that this is a step in the right direction toward [...]

Amazon S3 is down yet again

TJ Kirchner — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:06:56 +0000

Amazon S3 was down once again today (Sunday, July 20 at around 12pm EST). “Elevated error rates” began pouring in from the S3 service for the United States and Europe. Several sites reported problems, down sites, and missing images from stored [...]

Courts say hackers can publish findings on Oyster Card vulnerability

TJ Kirchner — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:09:57 +0000

Researchers at Radbound University Niumegen got their day in court and will now be allowed to publish their Oyster card system vulnerability findings.

Despite the complaints of NXP, manufacturer of the Mifare Classic Chip used on the Oyster [...]

Wikiwatcher takes a closer look into anonymous Wikipedia edits

TJ Kirchner — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:23:05 +0000

Last August, Virgil Griffith pulled back the curtain on anonymous user edits on Wikipedia entries with Wikiscanner and revealed some serious corporate meddling. Now, he’s unveiling his newest upgrade to the program called “Wikiwatcher,” a Wikipedia-mining tool [...]

Twitter faces the gallows by limiting unauthenticated API requests

TJ Kirchner — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:42:46 +0000

Twitter has been trying to stay afloat in the mist of overwhelming traffic for quite some time now. They’ve disabled features, like reply tabs and instant messages, and even tried to reduce authenticated API requests, from unlimited [...]