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• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 07:44

  The Foundation of an OSGi-Based Application: Design and Bundles

  Learn how to lay the necessary groundwork for service-oriented, modular OSGi components in the Eclipse Equinox container.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 07:44

  Implementing OAuth Authorization on Social Networks

  Walk through all the necessary steps for implementing the OAuth token-based authorization system--a perfect security solution for the social networking age--on both the consumer and provider sides.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 07:44

  News Brief: W3C Gets New Leadership

  Former Novell CTO takes the vacant CEO spot at the W3C web standards body.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 07:44

  Open Source CouchDB Heads to the Cloud

  NoSQL database variant gears up with commercial support from cloud vendor and project sponsor Cloudant.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 07:44

  OAuth: Token-Based Authorization for the Social Networking Age

  The OAuth token-based authorization system allows users to grant third-party access to their resources without sharing their usernames and passwords. It's perfect for the age of data scattered across many social networking sites.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 06:46

  The IDE, Reloaded

  Here is a very interesting take on the concept of Integrated Development Environment. As opposed to traditional IDE’s, which work at the same level as the Java language itself (classes and packages), this IDE, called Code Bubbles, allows yo..

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 06:24

  State of the Art: Multitouch Computing Is Here. Will Gorilla Arm Follow?

  Finger gestures used on the iPhone can now be used on laptops and full-size computer screens, but the tactile experience isn’t quite the same.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 06:23

  Yoink if You Want Free Stuff

  Yoink, a new Apple iPhone application and Web site, allows people to post and look for free items in areas near them.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 06:23

  No Noise Is Good Noise

  The Sony NC300D earbuds perform as well as their bigger cousins, the over-the-ear NC500Ds, but at a fraction of the size and weight.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 06:08

  The Mouse That Roared: Turning to the Internet to Catch a Favorite TV Show

  With new devices making it easy to stream Internet content to a television, more people are watching cable shows for free.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 05:50

  A Futures Site Coming to Bet on Movie Ticket Sales

  A virtual futures exchange is being assembled to allow people to bet money on a film’s box office success.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 05:50

  Tricks to Keep Your Device’s Battery Going and Going

  Smartphone and laptop batteries may seem like cruel masters when they threaten to lose power, but you have more control than you may think.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 05:21

  Battery Ventures Raises a Fresh $750 Million

  Battery Ventures' new, $750 million fund is the latest sign of a revival in Silicon Valley.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 05:19

  TV May Be the New Google Reader Play's Best Venue

  Google announced a new feature of its Google Reader Web site on Wednesday called Google Reader Play. The updated application offers a simple, personalized view of Web content.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 05:14

  What We're Reading: What You're Reading

  Our daily roundup of technology tidbits features Google's new service to show you what the Web is reading, the employment boom for hackers and a couple of trips down memory lane.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 05:08

  Tech Talk Podcast

  This week's podcast includes the changing fortunes of Pandora, the Internet radio site and an exploration of geek style.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 05:00

  Daily Dose - Schwartz: Apple and Microsoft Tried to Sue Me Too!

  Johnathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun recently said what he couldn't say about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when he was with the company.  "I feel for Google," said Schwartz, "Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too."  Jobs called Schwartz in..

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 04:44

  Driven to Distraction: Distracted Driving in Ambulances and Police Cruisers

  Despite efforts to get drivers to stop texting, police officers and paramedics use an array of dashboard gadgets.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 04:10

  Motorola to put Bing search on Android phones

  Motorola will start loading Microsoft's search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 03:57

  Sony shows off motion controller

  Sony unveils its new motion controller the PlayStation Move, as a contender to market leader Nintendo Wii.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 03:09

  Advertising: Like Texting, but With Video

  Companies like American Greetings are moving beyond texting by offering services that send video messages to cellphones.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 02:00

  FDI forecast

  A gradual recovery in foreign direct investment in central and eastern Europe is likely by 2013, according to a new study, writes Vanessa Houlder in London . A...

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 01:40

  Court reaffirms i4i's patent win against Microsoft

  The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has once again upheld a jury's verdict that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents awarded to i4i.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 01:22

  Sony's PS3 Motion Controller gets demoed and named at GDC

  Sony spent the bulk of their GDC press conference talking about Playstation Move, their newly named motion control system.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 01:15

  "Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup

  An anonymous reader writes "We all know about the Mythical Man-Month, the argument that adding more programmers to a software project just makes it later and later. A Linux startup out of MIT claims to have busted the myth, using an MIT hol..

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 00:53

  CA To Buy Nimsoft For $350 Million

  Acquisition of the system monitoring firm is a move toward growing CA's customer base in the cloud and managed service provider space.

• Thursday, 11-March-2010 | 00:10

  After takedown, botnet-linked ISP Troyak resurfaces

  Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller called the fight against hackers "the cyber equivalent of cat-and-mouse." On Wednesday security experts trying to take down the Zeus botnet got a taste of what he meant.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 23:59

  Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out

  itwbennett writes "Niney of the 249 Zeus command-and-control servers were knocked offline overnight when two ISPs, named Troyak and Group 3, were taken offline. Whoever was behind the takedown 'just decided to knock out a large area of cybe..

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 23:37

  Google Cuts Ribbon on Apps Marketplace

  You've got apps for your phone. You'll soon have apps for your digital video recorder. Now, you can have apps for your Apps, as in Google Apps. Google has launched its new Apps Marketplace for its Google Apps line of cloud-based productivit..

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 23:00

  Three Challenges For CIOs

  How you can move into the next phase of IT.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 22:27

  Google Opens Apps Marketplace

  snydeq writes "Google has launched the Google Apps Marketplace, providing a venue for third-party, cloud-based applications to supplement Google's own online applications. The program enables integrations with such applications as Google Gm..

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 22:26

  Magical porn-sniffing USB stick goes on sale

  Do you ever wonder if your computer is rife with dirty images but don't want to poke around to find out? Help is here!

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 22:19

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• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 22:19

  GDC: iPhone Developers Face Hidden Risks

  Most iPhone developers don't fully understand the regulatory compliance challenges that accompany app distribution.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 22:10

  CA to buy Nimsoft

  CA said Wednesday it has signed a deal to buy IT performance monitoring vendor Nimsoft for US$350 million.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 21:58

  FCC Plan May Seek Free Broadband

  Given that Congress shot down an earlier proposal for free spectrum, what will it do with a new proposal?

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 21:58

  Acer Challenging Dell As No. 2 PC Maker

  Dell's decision not to lower prices to capture market share may have hurt, as only 0.2 of a percentage point separated it from the No. 3 spot in 2009 PC shipments.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 21:40

  Former TSA analyst charged with computer tampering

  A U.S. Transport Security Administration analyst has been indicted with tampering with databases used by the TSA to identify possible terrorists who may be trying to fly in the U.S.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 21:35

  Kaiser Permanente Finishes EMR Rollout

  The health insurer will continue to tweak its electronic medical records system to comply with the federal government's upcoming meaningful use criteria.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 21:10

  Zeus botnet dealt a blow as ISP Troyak knocked out

  Internet service providers linked to the notorious Zeus botnet have been taken down, knocking out a third of the command-and-control servers that run the network of hacked machines.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 21:03

  E-books are largest category in App Store

  Steve Jobs once dismissed the Kindle by declaring that "people don't read anymore." That may or may not be true, but either way, people definitely still sell books. As The Guardian reports, e-books are now more plentiful on the App Sto..

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 20:53

  RIM silent on data outages in North America, UK

  Some BlackBerry users in North America and the United Kingdom said they experienced data outages earlier this week on Wi-Fi-equipped BlackBerries when not connected to Wi-Fi.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 20:51

  Q&A: Controlling the PC by Phone

  The iPhone App Store has apps that allow you to remotely tap into your PC.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 20:47

  OnLive's 'cloud' gaming to rival console groups

  OnLive a 'cloud' video game service that challenges the dominance of traditional games consoles, said it would launch in the US in June.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 20:40

  OpenSSH 5.4 Released

  HipToday writes "As posted on the OpenBSD Journal, OpenSSH 5.4 has been released: 'Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new "netcat mode," many changes on the sftp front (..

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 20:34

  Global CIO Quick Take: 100 Questions Your Boss Asks

  Column about list of 100 questions that general managers always think about, from management consultant Patty Azzarello.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 20:20

  Samsung Launches 3D TVs

  The company's 3-D products -- including LED, LCD, and plasma televisions and a 3-D Blu-ray player -- will begin shipping this month.

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 19:17

  Man Threatened Spam Attack In $200,000 Extortion Plot

  52-year-old Anthony Digati was arrested for trying to extort $200,000 from an insurance firm by threatening to spam them with six million emails unless they paid up. Digati said he would use a spam service and his amazing talents as a "huge..

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 19:00

  JIRA Studio Now Integrated with Google Apps

  Atlassian currently is in the process of migrating their employees from Zimbra to Google Apps to reflect their recent move to integrate JIRA Studio, their hosed SDL package, with the Google Apps suite.  With the relaunch of the Google Apps ..

• Wednesday, 10-March-2010 | 18:58

  GDC: OnLive Takes Gaming To The Cloud

  A cloud-based online gaming service founded by a veteran of Apple and WebTV highlights the Game Developers Conference.

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