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Saturday, 8 November '08 - 1:30:48 PM -0400
A Washington hospital has asked a judge for permission stop treating a brain-dead 12-year-old cancer patient, even though his ultra-religious New York parents want to keep him on life support.
Wednesday, 12 November '08 - 1:41:37 AM -0400
Google is rolling out video and voice capabilities for the chat function that is embedded in the Gmail interface. It's a bare-bones voice and video-conferencing service, but it's simple to install and use and is a very good addition to Gmail.
Wednesday, 12 November '08 - 1:49:18 AM -0400
O2 is a well known company that offers a wide range of telecom gadgets, mobile broadband, computer and notebook peripherals. As O2 was been founded in the United Kingdom, its household is its primary targeted market and O2 is mostly known there, so those who find O2 new for themselves and others, let's get in touch with their new product. Today is the day when guys from O2 announced O2 Xda Zest - a new PDA made in cooperation with Asus.
Wednesday, 12 November '08 - 10:32:34 PM -0400
Microsoft is cleaning house once again by banning from Xbox Live those users who have modified their 360 consoles to play pirated games. According to Major Nelson the banning has been carried out to "keep game play safe and secure" for the 14 million community members, noting that any modification to an Xbox 360 is also a violation of the Xbox Live terms of use.
Wednesday, 12 November '08 - 10:45:25 PM -0400
The Yes Men printed over one million fake copies of the New York Times with a headline proclaiming that the Iraq War was over.
Thursday, 13 November '08 - 5:40:42 AM -0400
Here's another reason for ailing newspaper and magazine publishers to wince: On average, the audience perusing unauthorized online copies of their articles is nearly 2.5 times larger than the readership on their own Web sites, according to a study being released Thursday.
Tuesday, 18 November '08 - 11:46:35 AM -0400
Earlier today Facebook released details on its new Verified App Program for third party developers. Basically, application developers (there are 48,000 applications on Facebook today) can apply to become a Verified App. If they pass they get a badge and special placement in the Application directory, plus increased communication limits with users, increased visibility in the news feed and some free advertising credits. The cost of this title is $375 per year.
Monday, 3 November '08 - 10:17:18 PM -0400
Yahoo on Monday confirmed that Scott Moore, a senior vice president at the company, is leaving "to pursue other opportunities." Yahoo confirmed Moore's departure in a statement. Last week, Moore was at PaidContent.org's Future of Business Media conference talking up Yahoo Finance-not that he said much-and the role of financial portals. A week later, he's officially gone. BoomTown's Kara Swisher reported earlier that Moore was leaving.
Tuesday, 18 November '08 - 8:50:58 PM -0400
Claiming that he has been unfairly branded a "douchebag" in the book "Hot Chicks with Douchebags," a Las Vegas man has filed a libel lawsuit against the volume's author and publisher.
Friday, 21 November '08 - 10:58:53 AM -0400
A lot of the stories about President-elect Barack Obama possibly having to relinquish his BlackBerry when he takes office Jan. 20 are, for a variety of reasons, just plain dumb.
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The Neuros Link system integrates with the free Neuros.TV Service for access to programming on Hulu and other sites.
An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami said on Wednesday.
Overreaching corporate claims are nothing new, certainly when it comes to copyright. Toyota vastly over-reached recently, requesting all images containing their products be removed from a wallpaper site, citing copyright issues. Finally, Toyota responds.
Questions are being asked in Orange Country, Florida after a Sheriff's Deputy apparently confiscated a man's Xbox 360 in lieu of a speeding fine.
Employees who use Vista at work are suing for overtime after their employers linked their hourly pay to the login and logout procedures of their computer. With Vista taking up to 15 minutes to boot, and 15 minutes to shut down, employees are getting shorted up to 30 minutes per day.
The (for-now) non-profit Mozilla Foundation released its financial statements for 2007 (embedded below). Revenues for the organization behind the open-source Firefox browser were up 12 percent to $75 million, with search-related royalties from Google accounting for 88 percent of the total, or $66 million. (Another $2 million or so came from other search engines).
The Federation Against Software Theft is miffed at the UK Intellectual Property Office for not considering "recommended" changes to the copyright law that would punish online copyright infringers with 10 years of imprisonment in order to "bring parity with commercial dealing in pirated works."
Federal prosecutors say they won't identify a New England teenager who has pleaded guilty to an extensive computer hacking spree.
Via 2 sources. 11.20.08 @3:06 AM -0400
A 14-foot crocodile bit off President Bush's left arm at the shoulder Monday, a White House memo reported.