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• RealDVD sales suspended, case moves north

  A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against Real, suspending sales of RealDVD, NewTeeVee.com reported over the weekend. Hollywood studios had sought the injunction as part of a suit ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Sales, Home Entertainment, Sales Strategy, DVD, Richard Koman, Movie, Sales Force Management

  Oct 06, 2008 8:01 AM PDT

• No company-wide hiring freeze (yet) at Microsoft

  Is Microsoft slowing its seemingly never-ending hiring or actually putting a halt on it? It sounds like certain groups inside the company have been told to stop hiring, at least ...

  Tags: Hiring, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley, Recruitment & Selection

  Oct 06, 2008 7:59 AM PDT

• Copyright Board's ringtone decision shows failure of the system

  The Copyright Royalty Board's decision last week to keep composer royalties for downloads at 9.1 cents per song keeps Apple's iTunes store online (OK, the idea that Apple would shut ...

  Tags: Ring Tone, Copyright Royalty Board, Vertical Industries, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Government, Richard Koman, Software, Enterprise Software, Rate

  Oct 06, 2008 7:45 AM PDT

• The viral theory of cancer

  It was hard for public health officials to get their arms around the idea that a virus could cause a cancer. Some still don't. But this is the message in ...

  Tags: Cancer, Theory, Dana Blankenhorn

  Oct 06, 2008 7:42 AM PDT

• Improve your failed IT culture

  The underpinnings of IT failure lie in culture, the unspoken rules governing an organization's style and general priorities. Since most organizations pay little attention to project culture, it's not surprising ...

  Tags: Management, Risk Management, Information Technology, Culture, Team, Strategy, Michael Krigsman, Enterprise Risk Management, Business Security, Business Operations

  Oct 06, 2008 7:42 AM PDT

• October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu

  October is promising to be a big month for open source releases. As the page on the calendar turned, Acquia launched of its commercially supported version of the popular Drupal ...

  Tags: .Net, OpenOffice, October, Software Development, Development Tools, Mono, Linux, Drupal, Ubuntu, Operating Systems

  Oct 06, 2008 6:56 AM PDT

• IBM and social networking

  Once you commit to using Bluehouse, and you can be committed through a business partner, you're in with IBM Lotus Foundations and working in its cloud. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Network, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn, Marketing, Social Networking, IBM Corp., Bluehouse

  Oct 06, 2008 6:47 AM PDT

• Linux laptops see 4x returns compared to Windows

  Do people who pay $299 to $399 for a Linux notebook suffer greater levels of buyer's remorse compared to those buying Windows machines? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Linux, Operating System, Laptop Computer, Operating Systems, Open Source, Linux Laptop, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, UNIX, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 06, 2008 6:43 AM PDT

• Sony AW series: The best laptop display?

  With expansive 16:9 displays and Blu-ray drives, the new crop of desktop replacements with 18.4-inch displays are geared toward mobile entertainment. Though its design is nothing special, the Sony VAIO ...

  Tags: Sony Vaio, Laptop Computer, Display, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing, Sony Corp., Desktop Replacement, Entertainment, John Morris

  Oct 06, 2008 6:35 AM PDT

• Welcome to the Data Cloud ?

  ?The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model ...

  Tags: Channel Management, Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Internet, Semantic Web, Data, UKOLN, Paul Miller

  Oct 06, 2008 6:28 AM PDT

• Why The Big Fuss Over Microblogs?

  I microblog.Why? The truth is, I learn by doing and by speaking with others who do. So I dabble with Twitter, Plurk, Pownce, Spoink, Rakawa, Tumblr, Utterli, Yammer, FriendFeed, 12seconds, ...

  Tags: Gil Yehuda, Web 2.0, Advertising & Promotion, Tool, Marketing, Internet, Fuss, Productivity, Mobile

  Oct 06, 2008 6:23 AM PDT

• Netflix: Outage, economy ding subscriber growth

  Netflix on Monday detailed its outlook for the third and fourth quarters, projected fewer subscribers than before and said its August outage cost it $6.5 million. The company said in ...

  Tags: Outage, NetFlix Inc., Larry Dignan, Manufacturing

  Oct 06, 2008 6:17 AM PDT

• Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched

  The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday. One of the world's largest computing ...

  Tags: Nick Heath, Scientist, Grid, Large Hadron Collider, CERN, silicon.com, particle accelerator, physics

  Oct 06, 2008 5:58 AM PDT

• Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks

  The indictments are part of the FBI's Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US's first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack Two Europeans, one of whom is ...

  Tags: Federal Government, Attack, Government, Operation Cyberslam, DOS, FBI, ZDNet.co.uk, attacks, botnet, cybercrime

  Oct 06, 2008 5:50 AM PDT

• FSF issues WorldLabel challenge for regular hack-a-thons

  Bring in developers for a weekend to MIT or the FSF offices, get together for a weekend, work together. That strengthens the community, it forms a bond, they can crack ...

  Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Internet, Free Software Foundation

  Oct 06, 2008 5:03 AM PDT

• A Consumer Electronics Carol

  I recently received a promotional email from a large Internet-based retailer that shall for the moment remain nameless (cough! Amaz-ahem!)  As I was considered to be a high-volume "Prime" customer, ...

  Tags: Retail Company, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow, Retail, Consumer Electronics, E-books

  Oct 06, 2008 5:00 AM PDT

• eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000

  EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark ...

  Tags: Payment, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan, Amazon.com Inc., Internet, eBay Inc., Bill, E-business/E-Commerce

  Oct 06, 2008 4:57 AM PDT

• Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?

  Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google, which is expected to increase the company's ability to monetize its Web pages, has been delayed to give the Department of Justice more time ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Inc.

  Oct 06, 2008 4:36 AM PDT

• The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed

  On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT -- because volume licensing agreements will allow IT ...

  Tags: Jason Hiner, IT Department, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 06, 2008 4:21 AM PDT

• The cloud finally comes to education

  Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea ...

  Tags: PC, Cloud Computing, SIMtone Corp., Christopher Dawson, Hardware, Education, Thin Client, Productivity, Cloud, Desktops

  Oct 06, 2008 4:00 AM PDT

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