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1. Google: Better ethics than the Vatican?

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   ... as a result. Google did the best it could with the tools it had for society at large. It asked nothing in return. Better still, no one even asked the company to respond. It did so of its own volition. ...

2. Audi gives up designing cars

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   Asks Interweb users to do it for themAudi, the car manufacturer that unexpectedly gave BMW new street cred by poaching all the crap and inconsiderate drivers who used to give Beemers a bad name, has asked ...

3. Cellphones affect the brain

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ... Örebro researcher Fredrik Söderqvist. Söderqvist examined the use of wireless telephones among children and adolescents, and asked adolescents themselves whether they thought it was giving them health ...

4. Apple update fixes critical Snow Leopard bugs

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... that "enhance the stability, compatibility and security" of SL. The company also asked users to back up their systems before loading the hefty update and cautioned against interrupting or interfering ...

5. Murdoch plans to block Google News

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... International execs are accusing Google of 'kleptomania' and 'acting as a parasite'. In his Sky interview, which can be seen here, Murdoch was asked why he didn't simply pull his papers' stories from Google ...

6. Apple plans iPhone lockdown

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   Jailbreakers beware Apple has apparently stepped up its efforts to thwart the ubiquitous practice of iPhone jailbreaking. Indeed, Club Cupertino is currently seeking a security expert who would be tasked ...

7. Gamers ditch Xbox 360 for PS3 sequels

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... significant' given Microsoft and Sony's disparate console install bases (Microsoft leads Sony roughly two-to-one in the US)?" asked Peckham. "Does the study refer only to gamers who already own both an ...

8. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... it had made of customers at a local Best Buy store just a few days earlier. They were asked if they had heard of SysMark, BAPCO and the like and it’s obvious that although these were intelligent users ...

9. Bioware unshackles Dragon Age: Origins

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 03 November 2009

   ... all life, the Warden is tasked with uniting various factions and slaying an evil dragon known as the Archdemon.

 Players can also download several content packs, including: Warden's Keep - Offers ...

10. Intel sues news service over Intel name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... trade name and Latin Intel and Latin Intel Trade Center trademarks, leaving Intel no choice but to file this complaint." After listing its grievances in its filing, Intel asked the court to enjoin and ...

11. Ubuntu is still rubbish

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... using the idiot-proof ISO burn feature available on a right click in Win7. A quick reboot from CD asked me if I wanted to just try the thing or install. As I have no intention of ever using the RC version ...

12. Booksellers accuse Amazon of illegal price war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    The American Booksellers Association has accused Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target of illegal predatory pricing, and has asked the Department of Justice to investigate. The American Booksellers Association ...

13. Gartner veep outlines Windows 7 migration costs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    We asked last week why migrating to Windows 7 from Windows XP was reckoned to cost $1,930 a seat. Over the weekend, Gartner VP of research Michael Silver took the time to send us an email filling in ...

14. Oracle, Linux, Sun to blame for Sidekick Danger data loss

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ...  When we asked Microsoft to comment on the report from Tommy T that the problems were rooted in Sun Microsystems, Linux and Oracle systems rather than being a failing of the Redmond outfit’s own products, ...

15. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... $1,181 is being spent remains a mystery. Perhaps all employees are being given a free holiday in Hawaii to recover from the stress of being asked to use Windows 7. Of course, merely buying a volume ...

16. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... 216,000 Sparc-based servers [currently] on the market and we have sold 7 million processors this decade," said McNealy. "So, we asked Oracle and Larry Ellison, what are your plans for SPARC? Well, Oracle ...

17. Steve Jobs is more popular than Oprah

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... organizers Junior Achievement USA. Junior Achievement surveyed US kids aged 12-17 and asked them to choose the entrepreneur they most admired from a list provided. Surprisingly, teens chose a business ...

18. Sun: Oracle is "committed" to SPARC architecture

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 11 October 2009

    ... servers [currently] on the market and we have sold 7 million processors this decade," said McNealy. "So, we asked Oracle and Larry Ellison, what are your plans for SPARC? Well, Oracle is committed to SPARC ...

19. FCC scrutinizes Google Voice restrictions

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 09 October 2009

    ... "enhance," rather than replace, existing phone lines. "Some have pointed out that AT&T's complaints are hypocritical given that in the past they have asked the FCC for permission to block calls to ...

20. Giorgio Armani unveils $1,000 luxury mobile phone

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 09 October 2009

    ...  "Today more than ever, elegant dressing is part of daily business life. When Samsung asked me to design the new business and lifestyle smartphone I decided to use my fashion aesthetic to create it," said ...

21. Congress demands FCC probe of Google Voice

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    A bipartisan Congressional group has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate Google's alleged policy of blocking high-cost calls to rural areas. According to Reuters, the legislators ...

22. Mincemeat the Money in the Etre Dragon's Den

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... end of that, the interrogators are asked to say whether they'd invest in the man and his company, that'd be a yes or a no. This is a ruthless affair and today here at the Etre conference the first idea ...

23. Feds crack down on greedy bloggers and celebrities

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... should be noted that the above-mentioned Guides are simply administrative interpretations of the law. As such, the Commission would ultimately be tasked with proving that any alleged deceptive use of testimonials ...

24. Apple threatens Woolworths over new logo

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... organisation tasked with regulating intellectual property, bans Woolworths' trademark on the grounds that ‘consumers may not be able to differentiate between the two brands’ and claims the grocery chain ...

25. Bank forces suspension of Gmail user's account

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    ... it wrote and asked the account owner to delete the email and attachment, but when it received no reply it asked Google to provide more information about the customer. When Google refused, the bank filed ...

26. Oracle fined over "Sun + Oracle is Faster" equation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... as a member of the TPC, is obligated to follow TPC policies. The company has already responded by removing all web links that were in violation. In addition, Oracle has been asked to report back to TPC ...

27. Be afraid... the message of subliminal advertising

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... - for example, cheerful, flower and peace - negative, such as agony, despair and murder; or neutral, such as box, ear or kettle. After each word, participants were asked to choose whether the word was ...

28. Google sued after security breach

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... and turned out a strange case against the search outfit Google. It all started in August a customer of the Rocky Mountain Bank asked a bank employee to send certain loan statements to a representative ...

29. Will the real rights holder please stand up?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... available through a 'purported' license with Universal - despite the fact that, it claims a deal was never struck. "Indeed, Universal has, on any number of occasions, asked Eight Mile and Martin to execute ...

30. Is Intel's Atom really the future?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... this, and mentioning it to him obviously has started him thinking.The machine I use is a high end notebook but it's slim and light. Returning to  the UK from Italy, a security guy asked me to ...

31. Intel's Otellini categorically denies EU antitrust allegations

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    At a Q&A shortly after the his IDF keynote in San Francisco this morning, Intel CEO Paul Otellini was in bullish mood when asked whether Intel had ever engaged in special deals with third parties ...

32. EU says Google AdWords are fair game

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... versions of the products covered by the trade mark or identical or similar products of competitors. "The Cour de cassation, called upon to settle the issue at last instance, has asked the Court of Justice ...

33. Playstation ad offends Nigeria

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... for Sony's new "slim" PlayStation 3, shows a salesman being asked about the price of the console. The salesman says that you can't believe everything you read on the Internet "Otherwise I'd be a Nigerian ...

34. Techies working up to 75 hours a week

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... work in excess of 75 hours, compared with 2.4 percent in 2008 - an increase of more than 58 percent. When asked the reasons for this, 32 percent of respondents in 2009 cited the high volumes of work, ...

35. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... 2006 to the end of 2006. For example, in a June 2006 e-mail, a Lenovo executive reported that: "[two Lenovo executives] had a dinner with [an Intel executive] tonight (…). […] When we asked Intel what ...

36. Cleaning is dangerous - official

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... your house, should you be more scared of your washing machine or your vacuum cleaner? That's one of the pressing questions posed - and answered - by Insure.com. The insurance firm asked actuary Fred ...

37. Apple totally rejected Google Voice app over duplication fears

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    ... application. Apple had previously refuted the allegations and insisted that it was "studying" the voice-based app. "When we submitted our letter on August 21, we asked the FCC to redact certain portions ...

38. Handwriting gives liars away

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    ... lying causes cognitive changes. The idea is based on the assumption that lying requires special resources and causes cognitive stress, which in turn affects performance. The participants were asked to ...

39. To lose one Gelsinger is careless. To lose three is an Intel catastrophe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... at the gulch in case they asked awkward questions about Gelsinger? Truly, IDF won't be the same without him and it's hard to think of anyone charismatic enough to replace him, unless another Boy Wonder ...

40. Boxing champion threatens legal fight with Facebook

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... over a week and a half ago, and they haven't taken it down," he said. "They asked for the link and we provided that, but they still haven't done it." In any case, he says, Facebook should be vetting ...

41. AMD aims at simplicity for the tech generation

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    ... that it has in some respects undermined the market for notebooks. We asked her whether the Globalfoundries spin-off had affected the way AMD does business. She’s agnostic about who makes the chips for ...

42. Microsoft crashes Windows 7 launch parties

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    Microsoft has asked its adoring masses in the United States to host a week of Windows 7 launch parties. The Redmond-based behemoth also promised to send party hosts a "special" signature edition of Windows ...

43. Mac clone war sparks fierce debate over Apple tax

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    ... control how you use a product that you have purchased from them?" asked Bob M. "Oh, that's right they have a nice little racket going and if such a thing became widespread it would hurt their business ...

44. Apple announces press conference, world faints with excitement

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    ... is in meltdown?" asked news editors around the world. "As long as Apple is about to launch a new shiny thing, we'll be speculating about it until our eyes bleed. Give me 2,000 words on Apple's history ...

45. Antitrust cops probe Google Italy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 August 2009

    ... in reaping online advertising. A Google Italy spokeswoman, Simona Panseri, said that if a newspaper asked to be excluded from Google News, it didn't mean they were banned from the Google search engine. ...

46. FCC kicks off mobile wireless Inquisition

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 27 August 2009

    ... have opened new worlds to millions of consumers. How exactly does the 'openness' of wireless networks and devices affect the pace of innovation?" asked Copps. "Aren't open platforms and open access the ...

47. Web trackers know more about you than you think

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... of somebody, it is of you." Wills says the researchers do not know what, if anything, tracking sites do with the unique identifiers once they've got them. He says they've asked, but haven't heard back ...

48. Nvidia touts rapid GPU performance boost

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... the keynote speech, including a query submitted by Professor David Patterson of UC Berkley. Patterson asked if the CEO would still partition the CPU and GPU into separate chips if he had to "do it all ...

49. Most Americans believe healthcare reform myths

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... - admittedly not huge - was asked 19 questions about their personal beliefs concerning health insurance reform assertions. Most - especially Republicans - believed them all to be true. Two thirds believed ...

50. Apple, AT&T deny Google Voice discrimination

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Sunday, 23 August 2009

    ... hadn't asked it about the Google Voice app and AT&T hadn't taken a view one way or another about the application. But it was looking at authorizing voice over IP on AT&T's 3G network. ...