 AP lays off 90 to reach payroll reduction target The Associated Press said Thursday that 90 news department staffers were laid off this week in a move that helped the US news agency reach its cost-cutting target. AP president and chief executive... November 19, 2009 10:27 PM Internet "What's happening?" Twitter wants to know Twitter used to ask "What are you doing?" No longer. The micro-blogging service now wants to know "What's happening?" Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced the change in Twitter's tag line in a... November 19, 2009 09:40 PM Internet Google-powered netbooks to debut next year Google on Thursday provided a peek beneath the hood of its new Chrome operating system, making the software public and promising it will run netbooks by the end of next year. [...] November 19, 2009 08:11 PM Internet Google adds automatic captions to YouTube Google, in a significant development for the deaf, announced on Thursday it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube. Google said machine-generated captions would initially be... November 19, 2009 07:49 PM Internet US senator urges TVs that use less power Televisions, which account for 10 percent and rising of US household energy use, must be made more efficient through a national standard, Senator Dianne Feinstein said in a letter released... November 19, 2009 05:13 PM Internet Semi-conductor giant Infineon upgrades outlook German semi-conductor maker Infineon on Thursday upgraded its turnover and profits forecast over the next 12 months because of higher demand from the auto industry and cost cuts. [...] November 19, 2009 04:26 PM Internet China ramps up espionage against US: study China is sharply stepping up espionage against the United States as the rising Asian power grows more sophisticated in cyber warfare and spy recruitment, a report to Congress warned Thursday. [...] November 19, 2009 04:13 PM Internet US computer glitch causes major flight delays A major computer glitch triggered huge flight delays and cancellations across the United States Thursday as airlines were forced to input flight plans manually, officials said. [...] November 19, 2009 04:05 PM Internet China tightens supervision of online games China has vowed to tighten supervision of its fast-growing online games market, saying some games contained content that was "harmful" to players. Some online games used "bloody, violent and... November 19, 2009 04:04 PM Internet French publishers slam new Google book proposals French book publishers gave a hostile reception Thursday to new proposals by the Internet giant Google to clear the way for millions of books to be sold online. [...] November 19, 2009 03:56 PM Internet California sets new energy standards on TV sets California on Wednesday became the first US state to set energy-efficiency standards for television sets, a move designed to save billion of dollars in energy costs. [...] November 18, 2009 11:16 PM Internet Webby Awards name top 10 Internet moments of the decade The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade. [...] November 18, 2009 11:09 PM Internet eBay founder launching online Hawaii news service EBay founder Pierre Omidyar announced on Wednesday that he was launching an online news service about his adopted home Hawaii. "We're still very early in the process of building this new... November 18, 2009 06:54 PM Internet Internet still under US grip: forum delegates The Internet is still under the control of the United States, participants at a governance forum said, despite a move by America to loosen its grip over the private corporation that administers... November 18, 2009 06:48 PM Internet China says scrap UN Internet governance forum China on Wednesday called for the abolition of the UN's Internet Governance Forum, blasting it as a powerless gathering where IT heavyweight countries dominate. [...] November 18, 2009 06:28 PM Internet Lead US disaster agency reaches out electronically The lead US federal disaster agency is hoping to both inform and gather information through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, its top official said Wednesday. [...] November 18, 2009 05:27 PM Internet State pressure affecting Internet social networks: forum Government pressure on companies linked to social media networks is threatening to infringe civil liberties, an Internet forum in Egypt heard on Wednesday. [...] November 18, 2009 05:03 PM Internet Hackers hit Latvian president's site on independence day Hackers broke into the website of Latvia's President Valdis Zatlers on Wednesday, leaving a message urging the head of state to save the recession-afflicted Baltic state, his office said. Instead... November 18, 2009 05:00 PM Internet 'Modern Warfare 2' sets entertainment industry records "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," the new videogame from Activision Blizzard, keeps blowing away sales records. [...] November 18, 2009 04:40 PM Internet Probe launched into British T-Mobile data breach Britain's information watchdog is investigating claims that thousands of personal details from British users of German mobile telephone giant T-Mobile have been sold to competitors. [...] November 18, 2009 04:32 PM Internet |
