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1. EU ombudsman slams Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... decision required consultation with Intel, Dell and AMD to ensure that publication would not harm the interests of the complainant or of a third party. Intel subsequently took its complaint to the European ...

2. Be a Martian, says NASA

   (Space/Space Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   And make some coffee while you're at it NASA and Microsoft are roping in the public to 'be a Martian', helping improve Martian maps and take part in research tasks. "We're at a point in history where ...

3. McAfee indulges in bout of cyber scare mongering

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   Evidence, dear boy, evidence Self-interested anti-virus corporation McAfee has thrust a press release into the public domain suggesting we should all get into a spin because of "cyber warfare". It has ...

4. High Court rules out website libel

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... 'substantial publication'. Mr Justice Tugendhat said that in allegations of online libel, the claimant 'must prove publication within England and Wales and that previous cases had established that publication ...

5. Open Book Alliance slams Google Book Settlement

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... impact public interest. "By performing surgical nip and tuck, Google, the AAP, and the AG are attempting to distract people from their continued efforts to establish a monopoly over digital content access ...

6. CoD:MW2 Will Not End Recession

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ...  It was left to sober heads at sober publications, like Ben Kuchera at Ars Technica: "Am I glad I played the game? Yes. Can I see myself replaying it? Maybe not." Sure, he was playing the Luddite version ...

7. Intel maintains innocence despite $1.25 billion cash payoff

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ... in, any AMD promotional activity, product launch, trade show exhibit, advertising or public relation campaign. - Shall not withhold or threaten to withhold any Benefit, nor impose or threaten to impose ...

8. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ... channel partners and multinational vendors to have freedom of choice. He said the agreement will be made totally public as quickly as both companies can achieve that. He said the key points are that ...

9. Comedians fail to see the funny side of the web

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   ... which features jokes sent in by members of the public. Example - "I had rough, aggressive sex with my girlfriend last night. It's not what I'm into, but she initiated it. Yeah, she started it by not wanting ...

10. Puritanical Apple bans Bobble Rep caricature app

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    
Ludicrous and sanctimonious Apple has banned an iPhone database application for allegedly "ridiculing" public figures. Bobble Rep - which caricatures members of Congress - would have allowed users to ...

11. Ashmolean in Oxford re-opens this weekend

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    Oldest public museum in world It's taken quite a while for the refurb of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford - that's going to be good news for the flocking tourists in this city. The galleries include some ...

12. Global Foundries will bash up Intel's process lead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... said in a public forum in Austin earlier this week that while it was important for AMD to use the very latest process technology, he was confident that Global Foundries would close the gap with Intel. ...

13. Adult Friend Finder: paedophiles are just one click away

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... owns AFF and other significant brands, is going public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO) that expected by the end of this year.  As part of that exercise, the company has declared their financial performance ...

14. Carly Fiorina to run for Senate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... Boxer of California. Fiorina's entry into the race could present the liberal Boxer with her toughest re-election challenge, but Fiorina has to win a Republican primary against state Assemblyman Chuck ...

15. Verizon Wireless gets writ from AT&T

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    A public spat has blown up after AT&T sued Verizon Wireless over an advertisement alleging it has gaps in its coverage. A public spat has blown up after AT&T sued Verizon Wireless over an advertisement ...

16. Apple drops Atom bomb on Hackintosh netbook rebels

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... processor," reported OS X Daily. "This is especially important for Hackintosh users who have hacked various Atom based netbooks to run Snow Leopard." The publication also hypothesized that Apple was attempting ...

17. Twitter tilts at lists on feeds

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... organize the folk they follow by classifying them into lists. You can make the lists private but the default attribute is they're public - over half of Twitter users have already had the beta version ...

18. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... higher for the Republican ticket who started the mudslinging suggesting folks not use weapons that they very vulnerable to. For Sun, and tech, the effort did do Microsoft a substantial amount of damage ...

19. Google updates Search and Voice

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... social circle consists of Gmail contacts and those they're publicly connected to on social networking sites - although not, it seems, Facebook, which is rather a notable omission. Google is also expanding ...

20. Family Guy escapes curse of Redmond

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... double act ads is that the prodigiously-untalented performer hasn't been seen in public since. Bill Gates appears to have vanished as well. "We initially chose to participate in the Seth and Alex ...

21. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    ... small packet throughput.  A high-performance true random number generator (RNG) and public key accelerator enable up to 50,000 RSA handshakes per second. Packet processing accelerator: mPIPE (multicore ...

22. Toshiba hunts for rare metals in Kazakhstan

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    Japanese firm Toshiba said it has signed a letter of intent with Kazatomprom, a firm owned by the Republic of Kazakhstan, to create a joint venture in rare metals.Japanese firm Toshiba said it has signed ...

23. NASA launches space exploration app for the iPhone

    (Space/Space Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ...  "The NASA App provides an easy and interesting way for the public to experience space exploration." According to Martin, the app also tracks the current positions of the International Space Station ...

24. Chrome for Mac finally arrives in beta, sort of

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... in response to a question from the audience. "I am using Chrome for Mac [and] a Mac version is available for the public, but it's only an early developer version, not in a real beta testing for the public." ...

25. Global warming scepticism rising faster than temperatures

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... of the US public by the Pew Research Center reports that only 57 percent - down from 77 percent three years ago - believe there is strong scientific evidence that the Earth has become warmer over recent ...

26. Microsoft upgrades Bing with live Twitter feed

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... such as Twitter provide unique access to public opinion and thoughts - which  US Bing users can now easily search through.    "If you want to keep an eye on [a specific] topic, you can ...

27. AUO unveils flexible e-paper

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... 20-inch e-paper module - the world's largest, it says - and has launched its six-inch and nine-inch flexible e-paper displays. The 20-inch EPD (Electrophoretic Display) module is aimed at public information ...

28. YouTube offers chance to quiz Nobel winners

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... students, educators, researchers and the general public to take this opportunity to communicate with John Mather." If you are in Stockholm, you can ask questions at a special YouTube pod stationed at ...

29. Office 2010 enters public beta next month

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    The next version of Microsoft’s flagship application suite, Office 2010 is to be available as a public beta program from November, CEO Steve Ballmer announced today. The next version of Microsoft’s ...

30. The Delusions of IT Startups

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... to revolutionize the IT industry. Hard-bitten VCs like their startup leaders to be delusional, at least in public, and especially to the press. They want their wet-behind-the-ears CEOs boasting of their ...

31. Insecurity leads to fascism

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... blames the fact that the internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the US military as the source of the problem. When it was introduced to the public and it was wrong ...

32. Judge protects Verizon ringtones from greedy publishers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    A US District Court judge has ruled that Verizon Wireless does not require a public-performance license for selling ringtones. According to Judge Denise Cote, when a ringtone plays on a cellular telephone ...

33. Barnes and Noble leaks e-reader details

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... "The hardware maker has allegedly contacted publications such as The New York Times and publishers like McGraw Hill and Oberlin Press about making their content available in an upcoming device. And a group ...

34. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... when the existing tools are "good enough". I expect the new OS will have a very slow adoption curve. That will cause Microsoft bashers to crow with glee at the "failure" of Windows 7. That negative publicity ...

35. Microsoft kills Works

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 09 October 2009

    ... Office 2010 – due for public beta before the end of the year – which can be unlocked by using a key card to be sold at major electronic outlets. Depending on how much they pay, the key cards will enable ...

36. Congress demands FCC probe of Google Voice

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    ... include Republican Steve Buyer and Democrat Charlie Melancon, also demanded that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski examine the "nature and function of Google Inc's voice service."As TG Daily previously reported, ...

37. Free Software Foundation goes mad

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    ... non-profit organisations that choose proprietary software are undertaking bad public policy through misinformation or a failure to see their technology choices as connected to their social missions,” frothed ...

38. Government anti-leak document leaked

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... up on Wikileaks. The three-volume, 560,000-word guide is marked 'Restricted'. The MoD insisted the publication did not pose 'significant security concerns' because it was written in 2001 and many of ...

39. Acting fast could cut climate change risk, says MIT

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Sunday, 04 October 2009

    ... change increase drastically with higher temperature, in a very non-linear way. Mort Webster, assistant professor of engineering systems, warned that public discussion over climate change policies ...

40. Twitter Lists lets users pigeonhole their friends

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 02 October 2009

    ... blog. Lists are public by default - although they can be made private - marking one difference from the TweetDeck service. They are linked from the user's profile, allowing other users to subscribe. ...

41. Win7 XP mode released to manufacturing

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    Microsoft has released Windows XP Mode to manufacturing and will make it available as a public download when Windows 7 launches on October 22. MS says the minimum system requirement for running XP Mode ...

42. Ig Nobel winners beat each other with beer bottles

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... Bodnar, Raphael C Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago scooped the Public Health prize for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks, one for the brassiere ...

43. How to save journalism

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... don't cover it. They don't call sources, dig into public records, get interviews with people in power, attend public meetings, race off to natural disasters, or do half the things necessary to report ...

44. AMD talks up graphics as Nvidia kicks off GPU conference

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    It’s an unwritten rule of marketing that when your competition is holding a mega event, you should try to get some publicity off the back of it. Hence we saw AMD dragging Intel Developer Forum delegates ...

45. Tyrannosaurs 'killed by throat infection'

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    ... incredibly difficult. You have to have a viable pharynx. Without that, you won't make it for very long, no matter how powerful you are." Details are in Public Library of Science One.  ...

46. End of O2 iPhone monopoly is good news for UK users

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... Orange will relish this point of better reception and bring it to the public’s attention when promoting the iPhone on their network, but whether it is enough of a determining factor for customers to choose ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... because Oracle did not have a TPC result at the time of publication," the TPC explained in an official statement. "The TPC requires that claims based on TPC benchmarks must be demonstrable using publicly ...

48. AT&T to fight texting while driving

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    AT&T has leapt into the texting-while-driving debate, launching a campaign to educate the public about the danger. AT&T has leapt into the texting-while-driving debate, launching a campaign ...

49. ICANN is broken: they think they have fixed it

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... governments,  creating oversight panels that will review ICANN's performance in competition amongst generic domains, data protection, security, transparency, accountability and the public interest. ...