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1. Microsoft Bing grows its market share a bit

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   Google does too The latest report from Comscore shows that Bing is edging its way upward in the search engine market in October. But it's not at Google's expense - it appears to be Yahoo that's suffering. ...

2. Internet achieves middle age: life begins at 40

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   Forty years back, on the 29th of October, Leonard Kleinrock connected the UCLA computer to Stanford Research Institute.Forty years back, on the 29th of October, Leonard Kleinrock connected the UCLA computer ...

3. Daylight Saving is a waste of time

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Sunday, 25 October 2009

   ... fall - Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi advocated the extension from October into November especially to allow children to go trick-or-treating in more daylight. So it was all worthwhile after all.  ...

4. YouTube offers chance to quiz Nobel winners

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Tuesday, 20 October 2009

   ... the echoes of the Big Bang, will be the first to answer a selection of video questions submitted via YouTube. The deadline for questions is 30 October. YouTube viewers worldwide have the unique opportunity ...

5. AT&T launches Windows and tilt phones

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Sunday, 04 October 2009

   ... mobile platform uses advanced data compression from Opera Software, allowing for faster delivery of HTML web pages. On the shelves on October 18 in red and blue, the Pantech Reveal features an open-faced ...

6. Indian probe finds water on the moon

   (Space/Space Features)

   Wednesday, 23 September 2009

   ... probably water on the moon, India's Chandrayaan-1 moon mission has actually found some. Launched last October, the spacecraft experienced a communications failure last month. The mission was aborted ...

7. Google Books opponents claim victory

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 23 September 2009

   ... a statement in response to the postponement of the October 7 fairness hearing. The Open Book Alliance, a coalition of librarians, legal scholars, authors, publishers, and technology companies created to ...

8. Retinal implant could help the blind see

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Tuesday, 22 September 2009

   ...  The implant is described in the October issue of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. See AlsoMonkeys cured of color blindness  ...

9. Google prepared to compromise on digital books deal

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Sunday, 20 September 2009

   ... not through a private judicial settlement." A hearing has been lined up for 7 October. See also:States object to digital books settlement tooWhat's wrong with a Google virtual library?  ...

10. States object to Google Books settlement too

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    ... the Library of Congress added her voice to the settlement, which is subject to a New York district court approving it or nay on 7 October next. Google is proposing a deal that would allow it to carry ...

11. US Copyright Office attacks Google Books deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ...  The settlement, made last year, will have to be approved by a federal judge and that hearing happens on October 7th. The latest intervention by the head of the US Copyright Office adds to pressure on ...

12. Infamous hacker to serve 15 years behind bars

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 August 2009

    ... card data breach in the United States - claims that Gonzales and his co-conspirators began researching various credit and debit card systems in October 2006. The trio then devised a "sophisticated attack" ...

13. Government restricts border laptop checks

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 27 August 2009

    ... any personal data, such as medical records or journalists' contact books. According to DHS figures, since October last year, around 1,000 laptops have been searched, including 46 which were subject to ...

14. Nokia has another shot with Linux

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 27 August 2009

    ... based on open-source technology that has strong ties with desktop platforms," commented Jonathan Arber, Senior Research Analyst in Consumer Mobile at IDC. The N900 will be available in October. The company ...

15. Industry heavyweights gang up against Google

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 20 August 2009

    ... was inked last October and is still subject to court approval, with September 4 set as the deadline for 'comments from interested parties'. Hundreds of writers, the National Writers Union, libraries and ...

16. Nuclear fusion research helps advance computer chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 19 August 2009

    ... are detailed in a research paper scheduled to appear in the October-December 2009 issue of the Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS.  ...

17. Feds indict infamous SQL hacker on conspiracy charges

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... Gonzales and his co-conspirators began researching various credit and debit card systems in October 2006. The trio then devised a "sophisticated attack" to breach the networks and steal credit/debit card ...

18. EU to probe Google

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... exclusivity on online works whose rights holders are unknown. While Google's $125 million putative copyright deal - stuck last October to resolve a class-action lawsuit filed against it by publishers ...

19. Yahoo to get new look

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 20 July 2009

    ... ads in applications adjacent to search results could help the company extract more money from its search operation. In actual fact. Yahoo announced the new front page plan in October 2007. It took a ...

20. Shortages continue on hectares of LCD glass

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 15 July 2009

    ...  Glut 11.3% 0.6% 4.6% 8.4% "The economic crisis that hit in October 2008 impacted Taiwanese ...

21. Is Microsoft set up for failure with Windows 7 and Office 2010?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... PC market that only sees shipments of netbooks growing. Windows 7 has about six months of sales this year (including the current pre-sales; the software will be officially available on October 22.) and ...

22. Google Chrome OS: Is Google finally jumping the shark?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 09 July 2009

    ... a little harder in bringing new solutions to market. Microsoft was already pedal to the metal with final preparations for this October’s Windows 7 debut, and Google’s announcement will only add urgency ...

23. Google faces antitrust action over book scans

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 03 July 2009

    ... CEO Jeff Bezos said last month that the company had 'strong opinions' about the settlement and that it needed to be revisited. US District Court Judge Denny Chin is to review the agreement in October. ...

24. Spacecraft heads for Moon impact

    (Space/Space Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... October ninth, creating debris plumes that will be analyzed for the presence of water ice or water vapor, hydrocarbons and hydrated materials. The spacecraft and Centaur are targeted to impact the ...

25. Rubinstein takes charge at Palm

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 11 June 2009

    ... as Ed Colligan steps down after 16 years with the firm. Former senior Apple exec Rubinstein has been executive chairman, overseeing research development and engineering, since October 2007. He was widely ...

26. Facebook gets $200 million, looks at paid services

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 26 May 2009

    ... million in Facebook in exchange for a 1.6% share back in October of 2007, which valued Facebook at about $15 billion. DST’s investment and 1.96% stake now values Facebook at $10 billion, which suggests ...

27. Space - the final frontier

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 25 May 2009

    Opinion: On the 28th October, 1971, the United Kingdom launched its first - and only - satellite to be carried into orbit by a launch vehicle also designed and built in the UK. The Black Arrow launcher ...

28. Google confirms outage, blames Asian traffic jam

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 14 May 2009

    ... had experienced an outage. It should be noted Gmail users faced a 20 minute outage on May 8 and an extended period of downtime in February. Other outages occured in April, August and October of 2008. ...

29. Imeem launches iPhone social music app

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 14 May 2009

    ... features on imeem.com. Imeem Mobile is currently available free of charge from Apple's App Store. The application was released for the Android platform last October.  ...

30. Android fans eye imminent release of updated OS

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 11 May 2009

    ... Android units since the launch of the G1 smartphone on October 22, 2008. The phone currently accounts for nearly two thirds of all of the 3G devices available on the T-Mobile network. Although the Linux-based ...

31. Rethinking benchmarks for a new consumer

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Sunday, 19 April 2009

    ... board. An article by Anandtrech (October 15th, 2008), “The IGP Chronicles Part 3: Nvidia's GeForce 9300,” lists the idle power consumption of the two IGPs as 68.4 W for the Intel mobo and 69.6 watts for ...

32. Firefox hits 35% market share in Europe, 22% globally

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 05 April 2009

    ... behind Internet Explorer in Europe.   Read on the next page: Market share trends 2009, IE8 market share gains not strong enough, Waiting for October 2014 Market share trends 2009: Firefox, Chrome ...

33. SGI sold to Rackable Systems for $25M, conditionally

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 01 April 2009

    ... in October, 2006. SGI was comprised of 1200 employees as of March 1, and 14 of its subsidiaries are also in bankruptcy. The company currently has $390.5 million in assets and $526.5 million in debt, ...

34. Microsoft kills Encarta: Is society getting dummer?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 31 March 2009

    ... has changed," Microsoft wrote. "People today seek and consume information in considerably different ways than in years past."As a result, online Encarta will shut down globally on October 31, 2009 -- ...

35. Game console sales show unexpected strength

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 20 March 2009

    ... between July and October 2008 (non-holiday sales months), during which Sony struggled to make the 200,000 mark Microsoft was especially strong and improved its market share to 27.5% in February, while ...

36. The second Android cellphone arrives by Easter

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 19 March 2009

    ... launched last October as the first Android phone (the handset was marketed as T-Mobile's G1 with Android), HTC said in mid-January it will turn to rival Vodafone (a member of the Open Handset Alliance) ...

37. Sony leaned on by game publishers: Lower the price of the PS3!

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 16 March 2009

    ... is concerned with profitability as well as the installed base. In October 2007, when Sony reduced their price down to $399.99 from $499.99, sales doubled in the next month. "Anytime a console manufacturer ...

38. Updated Mac desktops arrive March 24, as does a "pleasant surprise"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    ... the MacWorld is part of a broader strategy that will see Apple transitioning to new annual product update cycles. The holiday season in November, the educational buying season in late summer, the October ...

39. High-temperature superconductors: The mystery is being unravelled

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 24 February 2009

    ... for Red October's Russian submarine). They were also supposed to operate correctly on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. However, a failure in the liquid helium system (cooling the superconductors ...

40. Microsoft preps Vista SP2 and Windows 7 updates

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 23 February 2009

    ... Windows Server 2008. Vista SP2 In late October, the beta version of Vista Service Pack 2 was released to the testing community, and the beta was then released to the public in early December. In ...

41. Consumers dropping LCD TV premium brands in tough economy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 20 February 2009

    ... than at Best Buy, the first time this has occurred in the two years iSuppli has been conducting research in this area.” In September and October 2008, flat panel-television unit sales at Best Buy exceeded ...

42. DRAM vendor revenue down 40%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    ... market research firm said.The survey of DRAMeXchange revealed that prices for a 1 GB DDR2 module dropped from about $13.50 in October 2008 to $8 in mid December, despite the fact that manufacturer reacted ...

43. CERN will not restart LHC collisions before October

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 10 February 2009

    ... until late October. The forecast also shows a shutdown over Christmas, where it will run through until Fall, 2010. Geneva (Switzerland) - Yesterday, CERN announced that it has confirmed an updated restart ...

44. Analysis: Chrome growth slows to a crawl, new features needed

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 29 January 2009

    ... between 0.7% and 0.8% for most of October and November of last year. Although Google tried a few not-so-fair tactics to push Chrome onto more computers, nothing has worked except for one thing: new ...

45. NEC goes Minority Report: Targeted advertising from face recognition

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 28 January 2009

    ... at the Granduo Tachikawa, a commercial facility in Japan. This trial run was conducted for 21 days last October. It measured the number of viewers as well as viewing duration of advertising contents in ...

46. Apple's A-bomb against Palm: A 358 page iPhone patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 27 January 2009

    ... where Rubenstein led the development of both the original iMac and iPod and became the first chief of Apple's iPod division in 2004. He elected to retire in 2005 and joined Palm late October 2007. Apple's ...

47. Fast spreading Windows virus already compromised 9 million computers

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Sunday, 18 January 2009

    ... the bug, named the "Downadup" or "Conflicker" virus, which is the latest version of a similar virus which appeared as far back as October. According to a Microsoft blog, "Over the last couple of weeks, ...

48. Post-Jobs Apple to profit from content and services, not just gadgets

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 07 January 2009

    ... coming soon via special media events that now serve as company's main promotional vehicle (in place of Macworld). For instance, new iPods and unibody Macbooks were introduced in September and October ...

49. Notebooks outsold desktops in Q3 for the first time, iSuppli says

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 23 December 2008

    ... that this is old news, as we reported this back in October. However, iSuppli provides a few more numbers, which indicate that HP remained the largest PC vendor and continued to outgrow Dell. Acer is closing ...

50. SRAM antitrust investigations closed against Hynix, not charged

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 December 2008

    ... regarding static random access memory (SRAM) are now closed. No charges have been filed and Hynix has now been exonerated. The investigations began in October, 2006, and have continued until this ...