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Mobile phone allows boss to snoop
By Michael Fitzpatrick, Tokyo KDDI is one of Japan's largest phone companies Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff. Japanese phone giant KDDI Corporation has
China Mobile Investing $5.8B in Chinese Bank
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Microsoft boffin scoops Turing Award
A Microsoft researcher was received the Turing Award in recognition for his pioneering work in personal computing hardware and networking technology development. Chuck Thacker, 67, received the computing industry's equivalent of a Nobel prize on Tuesday
Google Maps Adds Directions for Cyclists
Cycling enthusiasts tend to be a passionate bunch. So it is not surprising that there are lots of on Google Maps forums. One group called googlemapsbikethere.org has collected asking Google to add biking directions to its maps. On Wednesday, the company
Rock Band 3 Officially Announced For Holiday 2010
An anonymous reader writes 'Philippe Dauman, Viacom CEO and President, announced today that Harmonix is currently working on the next Rock Band game, Rock Band 3, due for release Holiday 2010. 'The company is pursuing the game in spite of an
Tech and media moguls share vision in Abu Dhabi
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is pushing officials in Abu Dhabi to open up, encourage creativity, and allow outside media companies to gain more of a foothold. Photo: Jon Fortt ABU DHABI – News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch told government officials
Linux Takes Over E-Voting In Australian State
daria42 writes 'The Electoral Commission in the Australian state of Victoria has made plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux in the next state election in November of this year. But it appears to be a little confused: the
Facebook groups are the new lynch mobs | Hadley Freeman
These reactionary campaigners confuse the concept of 'justice' with 'vigilante vengeance' Twenty years ago, I, very uncharacteristically, asked my parents if I could go to an American summer camp. I say "uncharacteristically" because, even then, I hated
Sun fended off Apple, Microsoft IP lawsuit threats
Revealing a bit of previously hush-hush history that's relevant today, Sun Microsystems' former chief executive said Tuesday that Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened to sue Sun for infringing on its intellectual property (IP) in 2003 for a user interface
Cisco 'forever changes internet' with... a router
322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here How will Cisco 'forever change the internet'? With a new router. Which raises the question: What the hell is wrong with technology companies? When networking giant and server wannabe Cisco Systems sent word that
Puzzle In xkcd Book Finally Cracked
An anonymous reader writes 'After a little over five months of pondering, xkcd fans have cracked a puzzle hidden inside Randall Munroe's recent book xkcd: volume 0. Here is the start of the thread on the xkcd forums; and here is the post revealing the
How big is the Facebook economy?
Photograph: Dougal Waters/ An email came through to me last night that, in many respects, is the stock-and-trade of the startup world: a team of entrepreneurs company has received some funding. In this case, the site in question is the Paris-based
Twitter now screening links to protect users
• After a spate of phishing scams and attacks, Twitter is cranking up safety for users by blocking all dubious links . Essentially it routes all links through Twitter's filter and eliminates the bad ones before potential victims reach the destination.
Final Fantasy XIII UK launch event bigger then WoW
Did you go? Only the biggest gaming brands get their own retail launch event and Final Fantasy XIII was one of them. The UK launch event was held in London yesterday with, apparently, thousands turning up to meet producer Yoshinori Kitase and art
The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language
Mirk writes 'Computer-science legend Edsger W. Dijkstra famously wrote: 'It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
Cisco Unveils Faster Internet Router to Lure Carriers
(Adds FCCs comment in ninth paragraph.) March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Cisco Systems Inc., seeking to boost sales to phone carriers, introduced an Internet router that will let Web users download movies, songs and data faster to computers and mobile devices. The
Google Maps Adds Directions for Cylists
Cycling enthusiasts tend to be a passionate bunch. So it is not surprising that there are lots of on Google Maps forums. One group called googlemapsbikethere.org has collected asking Google to add biking directions to its maps. On Wednesday, the company
Google Opens App Store For Business Software
Google on Tuesday unveiled an online store for business applications in an effort to further push its own suite of productivity software into companies and compete with Microsoft. The store, whose unveiling has been expected for several weeks, is called
Google Adds Bike Lane With Latest Mapping Feature
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US Considers Some Free Wireless Broadband Service
gollum123 writes 'US regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. The FCC provided few details about how
Summary Box: Google Expands Sales of Business Apps
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MySpace Outlines Makeover After Exec Shakeup
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US Gamers Spend $3.8 Billion On MMOs Yearly
eldavojohn writes 'A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5 billion USD. In America, the report
Winner of 'Nobel of Computing' at a Glance
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What Were Reading: Barbie, Steve Jobs and Carly Fiorina
Tuesdays roundup of interesting tidbits from around the Web, selected by the technology reporters and editors of The New York Times: — Mashable — Jonathan Schwartzs Blog — politico.com — Publishers Weekly — flickr.com — F-Secure Blog
The World's First Commercially Available Jetpack
ElectricSteve writes 'It's been a long time coming. While Arthur C. Clarke's geosync satellites have taken to space, and James Bond's futuristic mobile technology has become commonplace, still the dream of sustained personal flight has eluded us until
Cisco Touts Faster Web Router
Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday unveiled a piece of equipment for the core of the Internet it says can transmit three times as much data as its current hardware, though its introduction won't directly translate into faster connections for consumers. The new
Just How Fast Is Cisco's New Router? Really Freaking Fast
Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.
H.P. Barks, Then Bites Apple on the iPad
Such is the hype around tablet computers that Hewlett-Packard and Apple have taken to beatingeach other up over products that no one can even buy yet. H.P. this week put out some marketing materials about its upcoming slate computer, saying the product
Just How Fast Is Cisco’s New Router? Really Freaking Fast
Cisco Tuesday announced a new router, the CRS-3 , that it says is capable of delivering 322 terabits per second. Now, we don’t usually cover routers and similar enterprise hardware here in Gadget Lab, but this one’s worth a brief mention. Let’s
