Daily News Alert | Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:01 AM PDT |
China backs down from requirement for Web filter
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:33 pm PDT
 AP - In a rare reversal, China's government gave in to domestic and international pressure and backed down Tuesday from a rule that would have required personal computers sold in the country to have Internet-filtering software. Full Story | Top |
High court won't block remote storage DVR system
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:12 pm PDT
AP - Cable TV operators won a key legal battle against Hollywood studios and television networks on Monday as the Supreme Court declined to block a new digital video recording system that could make it even easier for viewers to bypass commercials. Full Story | Top |
Jackson's death unleashes barrage of online scams
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:45 pm PDT
AP - Minutes after any big celebrity dies, Internet swindlers get to work. They pump out specially created spam e-mails and throw up malicious Web sites to infect victims' computers, hoping to capitalize on the sudden high demand for information. Full Story | Top |
Business groups hail China web software delay
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:45 pm PDT
 AFP - The American and European chambers of commerce in China have welcomed a decision by Beijing to delay an order that new computers sold in the country be equipped with an Internet filtering programme. Full Story | Top |
Happy 30th birthday, Walkman
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:44 pm PDT
 AFP - Thirty years ago Sony launched the Walkman, a gadget which revolutionised the way people around the world listened to music but has since been overtaken by an icon of the digital age -- the iPod. Full Story | Top |
Analysts Doubt Future of Comcast's WiMAX Offering
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:09 pm PDT
NewsFactor - Comcast launched a high-speed wireless data service in Portland on Tuesday as the first step in what the cable-TV network operator expects to eventually become a nationwide rollout -- with Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia expected to go online later this year. Full Story | Top |
YouTube Readies Redesign Amid Chorus of Complaints
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:30 pm PDT
PC World - YouTube plans to soon switch all of its members to a redesign of its channel pages that it has been testing for several months, although many people want the Google video-sharing site to give them the option to keep the old layout. Full Story | Top |
Blizzard Kills StarCraft II LAN Support
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:17 pm PDT
PC World - Upcoming real-time strategy Windows game StarCraft II will ship without Local Area Network multiplayer support in an effort to combat piracy, says Blizzard, in an official statement sure to annoy if not outright confound series fans the world round. Full Story | Top |
Cooliris even cooler
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:04 pm PDT
Macworld.com - Cooliris, the visually-enthralling free browser plug-in that allows you to navigate through online photos and video via a 3-D image wall, has been updated to version 1.1.1. New to this version is support for displaying Cooliris within tabbed windows, sharable URLs, and greater support for Flickr information and MySpace content. Full Story | Top |
All-day party celebrates China web filter delay
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:37 pm PDT
Reuters - Chinese web users flooded to a trendy art zone cafe Wednesday to celebrate a last-minute halt to a rollout of government-sponsored filtering software, and make a stand for freedom of expression in the Communist-run state. Full Story | Top |
Chambers Unfazed at Disrupted Speech
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:50 pm PDT
PC World - Cisco Systems believes networking among doctors as well as among sensors in the field can help prevent pandemics, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said in a keynote address at the company's annual Cisco Live customer conference that was briefly disrupted by a protest and a technical glitch. Full Story | Top |
Blind Phone Hacker Gets 11-year Sentence
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:40 pm PDT
PC World - A blind Boston-area teenager was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him. Full Story | Top |
Beyond Firefox 3.5: A Sneak Peek at Mozilla's Next Browser
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:33 pm PDT
PC World - Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 is off to a running start. The new browser, boasting significant speed increases and a host of added features, was officially released Tuesday morning. By mid-afternoon, the program had surpassed 1.6 million downloads worldwide and was steadily climbing, according to Mozilla's real-time tracking utility. Full Story | Top |
Mac News Briefs: wineCellar 2.0 adds cloud support for mobile access
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:42 pm PDT
Macworld.com - Users who turn to Cadent Computing's wineCellar to log and organize their wine collection will now be able sync entries via a new synchronization service added in the latest update. wineCellar 2.0 introduces Cadent Cloud, a service that lets the app sync up to 500 wines to a cloud where they can be viewed through either a standard Web site or a site for mobile devices. Full Story | Top |
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