 UN to text message food vouchers to Iraqi refugees Iraqi refugees in Syria will receive UN food vouchers through text messages on mobile phones, the World Food Programme said Tuesday. [...] October 27, 2009 02:59 PM Internet Blinkx adds music video search tool Online video search engine blinkx launched a new tool Tuesday to find and watch music videos on the Internet. Freshly launched blinkx Music has indexed more than 33,000 hours of music videos from... October 27, 2009 02:59 PM Internet Cisco to buy ScanSafe for $183 million Cisco announced on Tuesday it has agreed to buy Web security company ScanSafe for some 183 million dollars, the latest in a string of acquisitions by the US networking giant. [...] October 27, 2009 02:58 PM Internet Google eyeing India 3G market: report Internet giant Google is considering entering India's third-generation (3G) telecommunications market, a report said Tuesday. The Business Standard newspaper quoted sources in India's telecom... October 27, 2009 02:58 PM Internet New Japanese glasses bring tears to the eyes The Japanese eyewear company behind Sarah Palin's designer glasses has come up with a high-tech solution for obsessive video-gamers and bookworms whose eyes dry out from lack of blinking. [...] October 27, 2009 06:02 AM Internet Nintendo to launch big-screen DSi console: report Nintendo Co. will soon launch a large-screen version of its DSi hand-held game console in Japan aimed at elderly people, a report said Tuesday. Nintendo may introduce the new model, with a screen... October 27, 2009 03:19 AM Internet Pilots used laptop computers while straying off course Two distracted US pilots were using laptop computers against company rules last week when they overshot their destination by some 150 miles (240 kilometers), federal investigators said. [...] October 27, 2009 12:40 AM Internet Facebook users protest home page changes Legions of Facebook users united in protest, demanding that the world's most popular social-networking service undo recent changes to its home page. [...] October 27, 2009 12:26 AM Internet Lala.com gets in tune with Facebook gift shop Facebook on Monday continued phasing Lala.com music service into its online shop, providing US users a way to buy music at the leading social networking service. "You will now be able to purchase... October 26, 2009 10:49 PM Internet Yahoo! shuts down GeoCities Yahoo! on Monday closed GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that it purchased for over three billion dollars at the height of the dot-com boom. "We have enjoyed hosting websites created by... October 26, 2009 09:12 PM Internet New owners take control of Chicago Sun-Times The sale of the Chicago Sun-Times, the 15th largest newspaper in the United States, and its sister publications to a group of local businessmen was completed on Monday, the newspaper said. The Sun... October 26, 2009 09:07 PM Internet Video firm settles lawsuits clearing way for Google buy Video software firm On2 Technologies Inc. announced on Monday that it had settled five pending lawsuits, potentially clearing the way for its takeover by Internet giant Google. [...] October 26, 2009 07:39 PM Internet US newspaper circulation slide accelerates Daily circulation figures for US newspapers released on Monday provided more bad news for an industry battling the flight of readers to the Web and battered by a steep decline in advertising... October 26, 2009 07:22 PM Internet Swiss foreign ministry hit by computer attack Unidentified hackers have penetrated the Swiss foreign ministry's computer system to seize data, forcing parts of it to be shut down for several days, the ministry revealed Monday. [...] October 26, 2009 05:30 PM Internet Sony says US unit being probed by US authorities Japan's Sony Corp. said Monday that its optical disk drive business in the United States was being investigated by the US Department of Justice in relation to antitrust issues. [...] October 26, 2009 03:22 PM Internet Sony, Netflix in deal to stream movies using PS3 Sony and Netflix announced on Monday that PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to use the game console to stream movies and TV shows to their television sets or computers. Sony Computer... October 26, 2009 03:01 PM Internet Internet addresses to expand into non-Latin scripts The Internet is set for its biggest technical change in decades when a new multilingual address system is approved this week, a global regulatory body said Monday. The Internet Corporation for... October 26, 2009 08:59 AM Internet Internet 'a teenager' at 40 Leonard Kleinrock never imagined Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube that day 40 years ago when his team gave birth to what is now taken for granted as the Internet. [...] October 25, 2009 05:10 PM Internet Young entrepreneurs get tips from Facebook-Twitter Facebook and Twitter stars on Saturday shared lessons learned with young entrepreneurs aspiring to be the next hot technology firm. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter co-founders Evan Williams... October 25, 2009 04:27 PM Internet Young entrepreneurs get tips from Facebook-Twitter Facebook and Twitter stars shared lessons learned with young entrepreneurs aspiring to be the next hot technology firm. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz... October 25, 2009 05:50 AM Internet |
