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1. Google finds partners for PowerMeter monitoring

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... power usage. Google announced the technology back in March - without any partners.  But from next month, customers of First Utility - a small British provider of gas and electricity to 25,000 households ...

2. Geeks Are Losers

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... died and were maimed as the US marched relentlessly toward defeat. Less awful, though equally wrong-headed, was Bill Gates' tenure as CEO of Microsoft. He saw nothing in the least bit wrong about bullying ...

3. Australian atheists targeted by hackers

   (Security/Security Features)

   ... Australia’s history. This may have been not just an attack on atheism, but an attack on freedom of speech." The event is to be held in Melbourne next March, with speakers including Richard Dawkins, author ...

4. Keep on blogging in the free world

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... the top item among the "latest entries" is from "Ryan", dated August 12, presumably this year. Glance over at the Most Commented Entries section and you'll see that a blog post about milk from March tops ...

5. How Google buys companies

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   ... agreed to do the sale." The system was launched as Google Voice in March this year.His other tips are to "keep a maniacal focus on your end user, and all else will follow" - and "have fun in everything ...

6. UK music videos return to YouTube

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... today, after a deal with the UK's Performing Right Society (PRS). In March, YouTube withdrew the videos after licensing negotiations broke down with the PRS, which receives and distributes royalties ...

7. Microsoft ditches 'classic' Zune models

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... contrast, Club Cupertino - which dominates a respectable 73 percent of the MP3 market - sold 10.2 million iPods between March and June of 2009. Matt Rosoff, analyst with Directions on Microsoft, told ...

8. EA preps Bad Company 2 for winter deployment

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Electronic Arts (EA) confirmed that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will be deployed on March 2, 2010. EA studio DICE boasted that the title will deliver a level of destruction, vehicular warfare, squad play ...

9. Apple slams Psystar for destroying crucial evidence

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... on non-Apple computers. "In November 2008, Apple served discovery seeking the source and executable software code that Psystar uses to cause Mac OS X to run on Apple computers. In March 2009, Apple ...

10. Lenovo appears to recall Thinkpad batteries again

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... packs.  However it does have information about a battery recall in March 2007.  Curiously some of the same ThinkPad's mentioned in the 2007 recall are included in this one.  Those included ...

11. US-developed insecticide may damage central nervous system

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... March 23, 2007. "Based on extensive toxicity testing, the Agency believes that the normal use of DEET does not present a health concern to the general population." Neverthless, DEET has been tentatively ...

12. Khronos Group details cross-platform WebGL initiative

    (Software/Software Features)

    The Khronos Group has announced additional details of its WebGL project. The initiative - first introduced at the Game Developers Conference in March 2009 - was launched to facilitate the hardware-based ...

13. Canadian laboratory sues Dell over Rambus technology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... written a book called Clocking Schemes, and in 1999 was named Canada's outstanding engineer by the IEEE organization. The patent in question was applied for on March 30 1989 and granted on November 1 ...

14. Ebay may replace or shut down Skype

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... own the rights to certain critical code of the Skype application. Ebay said that Skype filed a claim for those rights against Joltid in the English High Court in March 2009, which prompted Joltid to threaten ...

15. Broadband over power lines gets first industry standard draft

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Broadband over power lines is marching closer to actual availability. The P1901 Working Group today announced the release of the first draft defining medium access control and physical layer specifications ...

16. Indian peripherals market declines

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... sector slumped over the last year, according to the body representing the country's IT hardware, training and R&D services sectors, MAIT. Total printer sales between April 2008 and March 2009 were ...

17. Study highlights dangers of texting while driving, again

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... a Carnegie Mellon study released in March of 2008 said that just listening to cellphones while driving “significantly” impairs drivers. The researchers used study brain imaging to document that listening ...

18. Intel delays Pine Trail-M - report

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... but we suspect it's more to do with marchitecture than architecture. Acer had hoped it would be able to introduce a Windows XP/Android dual operating system netbook in August - Digitimes suggests that ...

19. Half million credit card details stolen from Network Solutions

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... and credit card number were exposed between March 12 and June 8. Susan Wade, a spokeswoman for Network Solutions, said that code was found on the server in early June on servers hosting e-commerce ...

20. March of the zombie phones

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Hackers might have worked out a way of turning mobile phones into a botnet of zombies, warns security firm. Hackers might have worked out a way of turning mobile phones into a botnet of zombies. Until ...

21. Nintendo Wii surrenders market share in weak game console market

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... that consumers would spend more money on home entertainment rather than going out. That expectation held up until March of this year, but saw a dramatic shift beginning in April, when U.S. game console ...

22. India suffers first ever negative PC sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Trade association MAIT said that PC sales in India fell by seven percent for the year between April 2008 and March 2009, the first decline in hardware sales ever.Trade association MAIT said that PC ...

23. IBM inks UK biometric passport deal

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... travellers and businessmen renewing their passports, with 5.25 million issued in the year to March 2009, compared with 5.9 million in 2008.    ...

24. New York Times wants your money

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of 647,695 in the six months to the end of March and its site is the most visited US news site, says ComScore. Two years ago, the paper ended an experiment to charge for premium content which attracted ...

25. Sony, Panasonic get into 3D content

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the report it will only ship 2,000 screens by March next year. 3D movies have had something of a chequered career. Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, a 3D film, could be said to give you a headache, and not ...

26. China's still got Green Dam on its mind

    (Security/Security Features)

    News of the death of the software filter Red China wants to put on every PC that enters the country is, it seems, greatly exaggerated.News of the death of the software filter Red China wants to put on ...

27. Wikipedia protected reporter by holding page back

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... has attracted a great deal of comment. One reader in the discussion group connected to the main page wrote in March: "Why the hell is removing the bit about him being kidnapped? It's confirmed by several ...

28. Hurry, hurry. Windows 7 offer must end soon

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... for the retail version of the OS, due for launch on October 22, the full-featured RC version won't time out until June 2010. The system will start two-hourly shut downs from next March reminding users ...

29. Dead discs: Blu-ray’s failure to launch signals end of spinning media

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    ... group was dissolved in March 2008. More disturbing for the winning standard is the fact that only 7% of respondents own Blu-ray consoles.I’ll reserve detailed discussion on pricing for another day, but ...

30. LaBeouf criticizes Nintendo gamers, calls Wii an "amateur console"

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the Wall Street Journal that Nintendo may be forced to lower prices if it did not manage to ship 26 million Wii units by March 31, 2010. Pachter proposed a new price tag of $200, which would allow the ...

31. Microsoft eyes major Xbox upgrade as Nintendo Wii sales plummet

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... million Wii units by March 31, 2010. Pachter proposed a new price tag of $200, which would allow the Wii to compete with Microsoft's least expensive Xbox 360 console. It should be noted that Sony has ...

32. NASA delays space shuttle launch over gaseous hydrogen leak

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... in March before the launch of Discovery, which caused a mission delay of more than a month.Cape Canaveral (FL) – NASA said that it has decided to postpone the launch of the launch of Endeavour and mission ...

33. Semi industry sees light at the end of the tunnel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... in April, an increase of 6.4 percent from March when sales were $14.7 billion. April sales were still 25 percent lower than April 2008 when sales were $20.9 billion. "The better-than-expected 6.4 ...

34. Palm stock tumbles over Pre supply concerns

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Palm was $14.14, reached last week, while the low was $1.14 (March 9). There is no clear information how many Pres may have been sold last weekend, with estimates ranging from about 50,000 to close to ...

35. NASA sets June 13 launch date for Endeavour

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... the gaseous hydrogen venting system outside the external fuel tank, which was damaged during the shuttle’s flight. The concerns caused NASA to delay the launch of Discovery from February 12 to March 15, ...

36. Time Warner to spin off AOL

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... has alsready spun off its cable TV arm into a separate company. In March, Tim Armstrong, then an advertising executive with Google, was hired as AOL CEO, a move which Time Warner indicated was a precursor ...

37. Chip sales show signs of stabilizing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... volumes for PCs, car electronics and handsets will show signs of improvement after the truly awful 32 percent drop in March 2009. Diesen said: "In this down cycle, wafer starts are fallinChig much more ...

38. Circuit City is back, sort of

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... - including  transferred to the new Circuit City. The company guarantees to “purge” personal information of customers who opt-out prior to June 9.   Circuit City closed its last store on march ...

39. Nikon gives a negative outlook

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... and part-time workers from its manufacturing workforce of almost 3,000 by next March, it said in a press release. Nikon also plans to cut a further 200 marketing staff in Japan and overseas. It is hoped ...

40. 10 Years After: Intel's Itanic still striking bergs

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    ... would anybody in their right mind want to go with the Itanium. After a little shuffling round, the INTC marchitecture executives cobbled together some sort of answer that didn't make any sense at ...

41. Missing National Archives hard drive lacked any encryption

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... 2.5 pounds. NARA staff began a hunt for the missing device on March 24 and when it couldn’t be found opened a criminal investigation and told everyone and organisation concerned, including former president ...

42. Microsoft forced to cough up $200 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... follows i4i filing a case against Microsoft in a Texas district court in March 2009, alleging that its Word 2000 and Word 2007 customizable extensible markup language (XML) breached its patent. But the ...

43. Obama discusses top NASA job with ex-astronaut today

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... Bolden stepped down from the Gencorp board last March, an executive order from the White House states that appointees cannot take part in matters "directly and substantially related to their former employers ...

44. Google grows its search score

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... with Ask Networks scoring 3.8 percent and AOL 3.4 percent. Google improved its score over March 2009 by 0.5 percent. In all, Americans made 14.8 billion searches of these mainstream engines, meaning ...

45. Craigslist CEO launches scathing attack against SC Attorney General McMaster

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... in an effort to discourage the inappropriate use of the service by sex operators. For example, in March 2008, individuals posting erotic ads were required to provide a phone number that was subsequently ...

46. Game console sales hit hard in April

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the strongest decline in current generation sales. Nintendo’s Wii dropped from 601,000 units in March to 340,000, the Xbox 360 from 330,000 to 175,000 and the Playstation 3 from 218,000 to 127,000. For ...

47. AMD: EU’s Intel decision is not about the money

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... are three cases, one in New York, the FTC case and a civil lawsuit, which will go to trial in March 2010 - AMD thinks the outcome in Europe “will shine a bright light” to the U.S. So, AMD is clearly upbeat ...

48. Updated: Craigslist dumps erotica amidst prostitution claims

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... and posting of graphic pornographic material." McMaster also threatened to initiate a criminal investigation if the site did not comply by March 15, 2009. According to McMaster, Craigslist had "not installed ...

49. Apple, go cheap or go home: Time to dump the elitist strategy

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... We all know it’s obvious, so we’re hardly surprised when we read the headlines. So when Mr. Ballmer made headlines in March when he said computer buyers paid a so-called $500 “Apple Tax” just to get the ...