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Yahoo! News: Technology News
Technology News
 AP - Viacom Inc. and Google Inc.'s YouTube site began airing each other's dirty laundry Thursday, providing a tantalizing peek at the wheeling and dealing that triggered a bitter battle over the copyright laws governing the Internet.
 AP - Palm Inc. reported sales figures Thursday that showed it's having a difficult time getting consumers to pay attention to its phones in a market dominated by iPhones and BlackBerrys. The company's shares plunged in after-hours trading.
 AP - Jerome York, an Apple Inc. board member and a financial wizard credited with turning around Chrysler and IBM, died Thursday of a brain aneurysm. He was 71.
AP - The suitors for Sex.com have been put off for now.
 AP - A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday.
AP - Hewlett Packard Co. said Thursday that it has reached a settlement with three companies that have been accused of infringing on the printer company's patents for ink cartridges.
Reuters - Google Inc could win a widely expected victory next week in Europe's top court and still face many more battles over keyword advertising, the backbone of its Internet business model.
PC World - A knock-off MacBook Air running Windows, a tablet computer shaped like a big iPhone and another tablet meant to rival Apple's iPad were all among the devices shown off by a small Chinese gadget maker on Thursday.
 Reuters - Palm Inc warned that revenue for the current quarter would be far below Wall Street's expectations, after tepid demand for its smartphones left wireless carriers with piles of excess inventory.
 AP - A songwriter and music producer who claims he helped launch pop star Lady Gaga says she squeezed him out of her lucrative career after he co-wrote some of her songs, came up with her stage name and helped get her record deal.
AP - GameStop's fourth-quarter results and 2010 forecast topped Wall Street expectations Thursday and company shares jumped more than 6 percent on its outlook for the year.
Macworld.com - With the release of Logic Pro 9.1 back in January, Apple's pro audio software made the historic jump to becoming a 64-bit application on Snow Leopard. Thursday's 9.1.1 update smooths over a few things.
AP - Palm Inc. reported disappointing sales of its smart phones, which it revamped with a brand new operating system last year.
NewsFactor - In a possible sign of the sea change that social networking has brought to the Internet, new industry data show that U.S. visits to Facebook last week exceeded, for the first time, those to the former top site, Google. While the difference was relatively small for the week ending March 13 -- 7.07 percent of all visits for Facebook, compared to 7.03 percent for Google -- the trend could point to the growing strength of the social Internet.
PC World - Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee.
CNN.com - Technology
CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more.
"David After Dentist," the viral video of a woozy boy after dental surgery, has been viewed almost 54 million times on YouTube. It's also been an unexpected bonanza for the boy's Orlando, Florida-area family.
    
Although the dream of the "paperless office" has been around for decades, businesses continue to print, copy and fax more than a trillion pages of office paper each year. Can new technology change that?
 
The good news about the 3D TVs coming out this spring and summer is that they'll come packed with two pairs of 3D lenses. The bad news? Those plastic glasses work only with the brand of TV with which they're shipped.
 
When some people find out that Lauren Leto quit law school at Wayne State University after her first year to focus on her Web site, they lecture her about responsibility and planning for her future.
 
Google's business partners in China are asking the company to clarify whether it will stay or go.
 
It was billed as the "location wars" -- two mobile networking services battling for the affections of the smartphone-wielding techie elite at the South by Southwest Interactive festival. So who won?
 
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission released a national "broadband plan" Tuesday that aims to give 90 percent of Americans access to affordable, high-speed Internet by 2020.
 
Social voting site Digg this week unveiled plans to become a hub for sharing links on the Web. If your friends are sharing media on Facebook, Twitter and other sites, Digg wants to provide a personalized home page that filters the Web based on your friends' activities. These new features will be previewed in the coming weeks.
 
For techies, the South by Southwest Interactive festival produces a firehose of information.
 
In rural Oklahoma, Kelli Fields struggles with a dial-up Internet connection so slow she does chores to pass the time while Web sites load. Today, the FCC unveils a plan to get 9 out of 10 Americans on broadband by 2020.
 
TIME.com Gadget of the Week
Reviews of the latest electronic devices
The first-class way to travel across Google's globe
No-Mistake Tech Buying for the Holidays and Beyond
Some last minute advice about the hot tech toys
The newest digital SLR camera might teach you a thing or two
Ups and downs with a music and messaging phone
Can the latest high-powered consoles offer more than videogames? You bet.
Rather than being something truly special, the anti-Apple initiative is just another non-iPod
Enough with the smartphones, here comes an easy phone for older folks
Are smart phones ready for the masses?
Place shifting in the age of high-definition television
Latest SciTech Headlines - CBS News
Read the latest SciTech headlines on CBS News, covering news stories, videos and pictures of world and US news, as well as news in politics, health, sports and business.
Solar panels have been targeted by thieves in California, where there are more than 52,000 solar installations. Each panel can cost a thousand dollars or more. John Blackstone reports.
     
There Are Thousands of Solar Panels in California, and in Napa Valley They're Being Stolen in Big Numbers
  
Palm Sales Slump In Third Quarter As Its New Phones Struggle For Attention; Stock Hammered
  
A nonprofit group called Reboot has declared a National Day of Unplugging beginning tomorrow, March 19th, 2010, at sunset. Katie Couric comments on putting down that BlackBerry, turning off the computer and getting outside.
  
Parents Come Out Against Class-action Status On Webcam Spying Suit Against Philly-area School District
  
German Researchers Successfully Prevent Detection of Lump of Gold
  
Creditors Say Internet Domain's Too Hot to be Sold, Owner Forced into Bankruptcy
  
When Vervet Monkeys Play Follow the Leader, They Prefer to Follow Females
  
As Court Case Gets Underway, Docs Show Viacom Claim YouTube Founders Always Intended to Build Video Version of Napster
  
Apple Director, Auto Industry Reformer And Kerkorian Adviser Dies At Age 71
  
Dispute Had Centered Around the Printer Company's Patents for Ink Cartridges
  
Company Says Its Web Browser Downloads Double After Microsoft Forced To Offer Choice To Users
  
Google partners with Sony and Intel to develop Google TV, Amazon releases a Kindle app for the Mac, and some of you have really pathetic intimate lives, according to a study that shows that you'd rather be on Facebook than have sex or even eat.
  
A recent advance in stem cell research has allowed scientists to use human skin cells to create stem cells. Are human embryonic stem cells still needed? Dr. Jon LaPook talks with neurologist Dr. John Kessler.
  
Dr. John Kessler is a leader in the field of stem cell research at Northwestern University. His motivation is to see his daughter, who is paralyzed, walk again. Dr. Jon LaPook reports.
  
ABC News: Technology
NASA space telescope shoots rosebud-like cluster of new stars.
NASA - Space - Space observatory - Technology - James Webb Space Telescope
Privacy experts use film to raise legal issues in high-tech spying.
Big Brother - Privacy - Television - Programs - Reality-Based
Two space station crewmen land in snow; shuttles' retirement means get used to it.
NASA - Soyuz TMA-16 - Space Shuttle - International Space Station - Space
iPhone app transfers money by bumping two cell phones together.
IPhone OS - iPhone - Handhelds - Smartphones - App Store
Get the inside scoop on the companies marketers are most excited about.
Multimedia - Buzz - Music and Audio - Media - Business
Questions are being raised about the authenticity of a letter of complaint, purportedly from 27 of Google's partners in China, which was sent to the company on Monday night.
Google - Searching - Search Engines - China - Companies
The car company will incorporate new features to assist drivers.
GeneralMotors - Recreation - AugmentedReality - Device Drivers - Business
Start-ups use location data to help users socialize, date, game and more.
Science fiction - Watch - Business - Geocentric model - Technology
Hans Smith, 23, has been wheelchair bound his whole life and unable to play his favorite sport, baseball. He wrote a thank you note to PlayStation to show his appreciation for the game 'MLB: The Show,' which he says lets him experience baseball in the best way possible.
Sport - Major League Baseball - Baseball - Video game - PlayStation Portable
Man fired from auto dealership accused of sabotaging 100 cars via Internet.
Car dealership - United States - Autos - Business - Recreation
Surfer teaches pet alpaca to ride the nose of his board.
Alpaca - Pets - Recreation - Shopping - Llama
Scientists find a shrimplike creature living far below an Antarctica ice sheet.
Antarctica - Ice sheet - NASA - Technology - Polar region
People who have blindness or deafness can still 'see' or 'hear' -- scientists have long known that the brain is plastic, meaning that other senses can compensate if you lose one of them. A visually-impaired person, for instance, learns to navigate by hearing. Now Lawrence Rosenblum, a psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside, has found that the compensation happens with remarkable speed. Blindfolded test subjects, wearing sound-deadening headphones, learned to navigate by smell in just a few minutes.
Brain - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Education - Eye Disorders
Web service matches animations, pictures to messages on Twitter.
Twitter - Online Communities - Social Networking - Trending and Popularity - Browser Plugins
Web site helps socially responsible local businesses and consumers find each other.
Twitter - Social responsibility - Online Communities - Social Networking - Trending and Popularity
Reuters: Technology News
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Viacom Inc accused Google Inc of turning a blind eye to illegal video clips on its YouTube site in a bid to attract viewers, according to court documents released on Thursday.
  
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc may make an announcement next Monday about whether it will pull out from China, the China Business News reported on Friday, quoting an unnamed Google employee.
 
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it released an application to allow its Kindle e-books to be read on Apple Inc Mac computers.
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday barred the financial news service Theflyonthewall.com from issuing immediate news about Wall Street analyst research, often before recommendations are shared with clients.
 
SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc could win a widely expected victory next week in Europe's top court and still face many more battles over keyword advertising, the backbone of its Internet business model.
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission plans to announce in coming weeks an agenda of proceedings stemming from the recommendations in the national broadband plan, an agency official said.
 
DETROIT (Reuters) - Jerry York, a long-time adviser to billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian and executive whose career spanned the auto and technology industries, has died, Apple Inc said on Thursday.
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cellphone developer HTC Corp said it is confident it can fight off a recent technology patent infringement lawsuit from iPhone maker Apple Inc and promised to issue a formal response in the next few weeks.
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Creditors of the owner of the Sex.com website have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company, stalling a lender foreclosure auction for the valuable website that was scheduled to begin on Thursday.
 
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday announced that Russia would build a high-tech hub near Moscow to spur modernization of the economy and reduce its dependence on oil and gas.
 
msnbc.com: Technology & Science
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 Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Scientists have designed a more stylish cloak of invisibility that can hide a bumpy feature from view, even if you're looking right at it from a range of perspectives. But don't expect boy wizard Harry Potter to be modeling this cloak anytime soon.
 As the wireless trade industry prepares to meet in Las Vegas March 22-25, smartphones with even more smarts are in the pipeline, aided by improved processing power, screen technology and better software.
 Wireless charging has been around ? even for the iPhone?for years, but it wasn't until the last 12 months that it's been refined to be as good as standard wired charging.
 In the year 2033 the last remaining humans live underground, scratching out a desperate existence. Msnbc.com?s Todd Kenreck give the game an 8 out of 10. (msnbc.com)
 A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying a U.S. astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan.
 The rings of Saturn are the most intricate planetary decorations in our solar system, but are also cosmic gems festooned with unknown red material and some tricky dynamic forces that shape them.
 Hundreds of early human fossils, artifacts and forensically recreated faces of our prehistoric relatives go on display at the National Museum of Natural History.
 The puzzling migration of matter in deep space ? dubbed "dark flow" ? has been observed at farther distances than ever before, scientists have announced.
 Ancient trees pack a record of ancient events. And now scientists have used 52 of the world's oldest trees ? giant sequoia redwoods in California's western Sierra Nevada ? to show that the region was plagued by drought and fire from the year 800 through the year 1300.
 The release of hundreds of documents in the Viacom-YouTube court battle gives new insight into the workings of YouTube and shows embarrassing behavior on both sides. Cnbc's Jim Goldman reports. (CNBC)
 Space.com: The nearly 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has taken many iconic images of the cosmos and is even the star of a new 3D IMAX movie that gives viewers a chance to fly through those snapshots. But does Hubble show us what the universe really looks like?
 The mountain-dwelling pika, which many predicted might be one of climate change's first casualties, is thriving in the Sierra Nevada.
NATO must do more to coordinate the international community's response to the threat of cyber attacks, members of Britain's House of Lords said Thursday.
 In a laboratory buried underground and measuring several football fields in length, scientists are conducting experiments that could change the future of medicine.
A burglar who spent about five hours on a store's computer after breaking into the business gave police all the clues they needed to track him down.
CNET Reviews - Top Rated Computer Systems
CNET Computer Systems Reviews are the most comprehensive resource for unbiased personal technology advice.
Apple's new 27-inch iMac will charm plenty of you with its screen size alone. Fortunately, that won't lead you astray. Behind its expansive display, Apple has packed one of the fastest all-in-ones available, and added a few useful extras to sweeten the deal. This iMac isn't perfect, but its positives far outweigh its negatives. We can think of few users to whom we wouldn't recommend this system.
For a reasonable price, the HP MediaSmart Server EX495 is a great network storage, content managing, and backup device for home and small business environments. It offers stellar performance, a great backup solution, and remote access options that are easy to use.
Previously known as the MacBook, Apple's basic 13-inch aluminum unibody laptop has been promoted to the "Pro" series, all while adding features and cutting the base price.
The Lexmark Impact S305's low price tag, simple setup, and straightforward features are sure to draw in budget customers with intermittent printing needs. With extra features like wireless printing and a media card reader, the Impact earns a solid recommendation.
Asus hits nearly all the marks in the 1005HA, the latest version of its iconic Eee PC, highlighted by a 6-hour-plus battery life.
Sony's top-of-the-line 13-inch Vaio VPCZ116GX/S has a speedy Core i5 CPU, discrete graphics, a huge 256GB SSD, and a sky-high price to match.
Previously known as the MacBook, Apple's basic 13-inch aluminum unibody laptop has been promoted to the "Pro" series, all while adding features and cutting the base price.
The HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One printer makes it easy to increase productivity thanks to its streamlined user interface. The fax, copy, print, and scanning features boast helpful extras like double-sided printing, wireless connectivity, separate photo trays, and quick-access control panel buttons, all while maintaining lab-quality photos and a low cost to print. We highly recommend this printer to anyone who can benefit from its multifunctionality.
The HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless makes a convincing inkjet argument for offices with a high volume of prints. With a function touch screen, multiple networking options, and an astoundingly fast print speed, it makes perfect sense to give this workhorse an Editors' Choice award.
Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro makes only minor tweaks to the previous version, but cutting prices and swapping the ExpressCard slot for an SD card slot are enough to make it a solid improvement over its predecessor.
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