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Burma's emergency telecoms delay
Foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms are prevented from going into Burma.
Facebook agrees child safety plan
Facebook agrees a deal to protect children on the site from sexual predators and cyber bullies.
Microsoft contests $1.4bn EU fine
Microsoft appeals against a $1.4bn fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.
MySpace lets users share data
MySpace says its "data availability" project will put users in the driving seat with web information sharing.
Google keen on better Yahoo ties
Google expresses interest in extending an advertising partnership with fellow search engine Yahoo.
Fake media file snares PC users
A booby-trapped media file is catching out tens of thousands of file-sharers, says a security firm.
Nasa set to join petaflop elite
Nasa has unveiled a plan to boost its supercomputer power to help plan and model future missions.
Google denies staff 'brain drain'
Google executive Elliot Schrage leaves for Facebook, prompting concern of a talent exodus.
Serious playtime
Virtual worlds for children are booming. Will they all survive?
Child web-safety guide launched
New teaching resources aimed at helping primary school children surf the web safely are launched.
PlayStation 'will reclaim lead'
PlayStation 3 will help Sony reclaim its spot as the leading console maker, says the head of the firm's games division.
Mother's porn law campaign ends
A mother whose daughter was murdered by a man addicted to violent web porn wins her bid to have it outlawed.
TorrentSpy ordered to pay $110m
File-sharing site TorrentSpy is ordered to pay damages to the US film industry for copyright theft.
Bournemouth homes get fast fibre
A company which offers super-fast broadband via the sewers announces its first 'fibre city'.
New spectrum to improve health
Ofcom considers how the airwaves will help improve health and transport in the future.
EU's sat-nav pioneer calls home
A demonstrator satellite for the European Galileo system begins transmitting navigation signals back to Earth.
Luminaries look to the future web
Luminaries predict the shape of tomorrow's world wide web
Xerox plans the future of today
The famed Xerox Parc labs invites the BBC to view the best of its latest crop of research projects
Games straddle worlds
Two of the biggest games of the year - GTA IV and Wii Fit - have finally arrived and they could not be more different.
The power of play on the internet
Game design and social networking are merging into one of the most persuasive forces on the net.
Free game hopes to save gorillas
Campaigners hoping to save mountain gorillas are making a game simulating the lives of the animals free to mobile phone users.
Stark warning for internet's future
A leading internet academic warns the future of the internet is at risk from closed and proprietorial systems.
Web 2.0 debates internet's future
Rounding up the week that was Web 2.0 by looking at the main themes and assessing what comes next
Making something from nothing
Bill Thompson on the implications of lax programming of Flash
Falling out of love with robots
Humans may never be intimate with machines thinks Bill Thompson
Who will write tomorrow's code?
We need to recruit more programmers, says Bill Thompson
The offline cost of an online life
Bill Thompson wonders if his virtual presences are having a significant real world impact.
How Twitter makes it real
Bill Thompson on how Twitter is beginning to be taken seriously.
New Wii craze is opening up
Bill Thompson on how the Wii is controlling more than the games market these days.
Why the future is in your hands
The humble mobile phone looks set to become a multimedia, multi-function monster as more features are crammed inside it.
Walking with the web
How mobile phones are set to become the gateway to the web
Google bets on Android future
Google's director of mobile platforms explains his vision for Android, a new operating system for mobiles.
Pupils reveal mobile snapshot
Students at a school in Tynemouth carry out a survey of mobile phone use as apart of the BBC's School Report project.
Nokia morphs itself from within
Future computing technologies
The computing technologies to go beyond Moore's Law
Getting more from Moore's Law
A look at some of the technologies that could allow the silicon industry to deliver faster, cheaper chips.
A journey into 'fab world'
The silicon factories where a speck of dust is a big problem
Meeting computing's prophet
BBC News interviews Gordon Moore, the man whose "law" has driven the computer revolution.
Beating gridlock
Will a plane-car hybrid be the future of transport?
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Losses and Static For Radio One
Urban broadcaster Radio One yesterday said it lost $18.3 million in the first three months of the year, as a slump in national advertising sales overshadowed company efforts to revamp operations and hire on-air talent.
Security Fix Live
Security Fix blogger Brian Krebs was online to answer your questions about the latest computer security threats and offers ways to protect your personal information.
Google Still Unchallenged
The Microsoft-Yahoo soap opera seems to have reached its last episode: After months of squabbling and snippiness, last weekend Microsoft yanked back its purchase offer, ending its bid to buy Yahoo.
FCC to Test Transition to Digital TV in N.C.
The switch to digital broadcasting, the biggest change for the television industry since color TV, will get a trial run in September in Wilmington, N.C.
Clearwire, Sprint Nextel Set Course for WiMax
If the $12 billion venture formed by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire yesterday works out, your cellphone may turn into a far more powerful, versatile and perhaps costlier mobile device.
Best Buy Announces Joint Venture in Britain
Best Buy, the largest U.S. consumer electronics chain, has moved into Europe with a $2.1 billion investment in the continent's largest cellphone retailer, the companies announced yesterday.
The Technologist
Newsweek senior editor Steven Levy, whose column now appears bi-weekly in The Washington Post, was online to discuss the latest buzz in the tech industry.
A Scholarship Hunt With Strings Attached
Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is "I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by." The second: "I can't believe how much it costs." As one of those parents, I did my best to get past the disturbing first thought and tried to calm my...
FBI Backs Off From Secret Order for Data After Lawsuit
The FBI has withdrawn a secret administrative order seeking the name, address and online activity of a patron of the Internet Archive after the San Francisco-based digital library filed suit to block the action.
Platypus Genome Found Fittingly Strange
When the British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799 -- one with a mole's fur, a duck's bill and serpentlike spurs on its rear legs -- he did what any skeptical scientist would do: He looked for the stitching and glue that would reveal it to be a hoax.
WORKING
If your job doesn't require much face-to-face interaction, it could be targeted for a move offshore.
Manassas Signs Up Cable Competitors
Cable TV competition is coming to Manassas. The Manassas City Council unanimously approved agreements Monday with Comcast and Verizon. "Anyone who wanted to could have put in a bid," Manassas City Manager Lawrence D. Hughes said. "As of now we just have two, which is 100 percent more than we had...
Sprint To Revive WiMax Venture
Sprint Nextel plans to announce as early as today a joint venture with Clearwire to build a nationwide wireless network to provide high-speed Internet connections for laptops and cellphones, according to several sources familiar with the talks.
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Atari gets de-listed by Nasdaq
The company that in many ways created the modern video games industry has seen its fortunes fall about as far as possible.
Colleges fret RIAA push for state anti-P2P laws
Capitol Hill politicos aren't alone in considering new antipiracy mandates for schools. Tennessee just passed the first such law, and universities are bracing for other states to follow.
Podcast: Shining the light on solar hurdles
The potential for U.S. solar energy looks bright, but what hurdles are standing in the way of its broad adoption?
Philly's Wi-Fi network in jeopardy
EarthLink is supposedly threatening to shut down Philadelphia's citywide Wi-Fi network as it negotiates a way out of its 10-year contract to build and run the network.
Facebook reported ready to lift 5,000-friends cap
The social network seems ready to let users go past its traditional limit on friends, even though few have come close to that level.
Images: Satellites follow killer cyclone
Satellite images from NASA track a cyclone and the flooding it caused--which may end up killing more than 100,000 residents of Myanmar.
Facebook to open the gates with 'Facebook Connect'
Hot off the heels of rival MySpace's announcement that it would be connecting its profile content with other social-networking sites, Facebook revealed its own plan for exporting data to other Web sites.
Why Uncle Sam must stop subsidizing inefficient companies
Nearly every recent FCC decision seems to promote incumbents instead of consumers. That contradicts the regulator's raison d'etre, says guest columnist Greg Rosston.
Wind power company Noble files for public offering
Noble Environmental Power files to raise as much as $375 million in an initial public offering. Can wind power whip up a storm on Wall Street?
Virgin Mobile USA and Helio in merger talks?
A possible merger between virtual cell phone operators Virgin Mobile USA and Helio could be good news for the companies as they struggle to deal with a weak economy and compete against big wireless providers.
Microsoft to appeal EC's $1.39 billion fine
Microsoft announces it plans to appeal the European Commission's historic fine, which dinged the Redmond giant for failing to comply with hits previous antitrust orders.
Weblin can make any Web site social
New service lets people have an avatar that they can use to communicate with others visiting the same sites.
Facebook crowd blamed for trashing English garden
A water fight invitation on social-networking site Facebook is being blamed for destroying an award-winning public garden in England.
Photos of Watchkeeper UAV released
Successful maiden flight for new U.K. UAV.
Slouching toward telecommuting: IT's newest challenge
The latest data suggests that energy prices are likely going higher. Now the big question is whether IT will be ready to handle the new demands put on it by more telecommuters.
Report: Rumored Google, News Corp. bids make Blinkx shares soar
Following rumors that the video search engine is looking for a buyer and Google and News Corp. may want it, Blinkx stock rose 50 percent.
Your receipt is in the e-mail
AllEtronic will give tree-saving shoppers the choice to opt for digital receipts.
Appeals court issues split ruling in Alcatel-Lucent patent case
Appeals court says lower court erred in definition of "terminal device" but sides with Alcatel-Lucent in dispute against Microsoft and Dell over digital speech compression tech.
Sprint releases BlackBerry Curve 8330 into wild
Sprint announces the immediate availability of the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone.
U.K. turns CCTV, terrorism laws on pooping dogs
The U.K. has the most surveillance cameras per capita in the world. How can local town councils justify the massive surveillance program? By going after pooping dogs.
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Sennheiser MX75 Sport
The MX75 Sport gives fitness enthusiasts what they've always wanted: low-cost stereo earbuds that stay put during hard exercise.
Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray Disc Player
The picture and audio quality the Sony BDP-S300 produces is pleasing, but this player may try your patience.
HP ProCurve 1700-24
With the HP ProCurve 1700-24, small and medium-size businesses seeking a low-end network switch can get the basic features they need—though not much else—at a terrific price.
iBuyPower Gamer Mage 855
Despite its name, the iBuyPower Gamer Mage 855 is no hard-core gaming rig.
ATP Photo Finder
The ATP Photo Finder automatically geotags your photos, but the device's poor screen makes it somewhat difficult to use.
Pharos Trips and Pics with GPS Receiver
Pharos Trips and Pics logs your journeys and provides geographical information for your photos in popular mapping programs like Google Earth.
Apple Leopard Server
Apple's new Leopard Server operating system will not only make Tiger Server users happy, it will finally give the Apple market a viable alternative to Windows Small Business Server.
AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0
The free (for noncommercial home use) AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0 keeps your system safe from spyware and from Web sites that host malicious exploits.
ViewSonic DPX702 7-inch Digital Photo Frame
This 7-inch digital photo frame's rechargeable battery makes it handily portable, but poor contrast levels mean drab images.
Adobe Photoshop Express (Beta)
Adobe's Photoshop Express site has good editing tools, basic photo-sharing capabilities, and a lot of potential.
PC Magazine: New Product Reviews
First looks at new products from PC Magazine: lab-based test, ratings, editor and user reviews.
A Faster Way to Detect Heart Attacks
A diagnostic chip tests saliva to determine if someone is having a heart attack.
Social Networking Meets Personal Finance
Web-based startups offer social features that help people make better financial decisions.
Archiving E-mail Effectively
The White House's recent problems archiving e-mail could be solved by emerging technologies.
Building the Zero-Emissions City
A city being built in Abu Dhabi will serve as a large-scale test for renewable energy.
Tiny Blood Pumps for Failing Hearts
A new heart aid could be implanted without invasive surgery.
Biologists Enlist Online Gamers
Players of a new game will design HIV vaccines and other proteins.
Focusing on Solar's Cost
Sunrgi claims that its concentrated photovoltaic system outshines the competition.
Stopping Ship-Whale Collisions
A detection system picks up the calls of right whales and warns ships.
Flocking Together on the Web
A new Web browser unifies access to multiple social networks.
Nanowires for Displays
Copper nanowires could be used in ultra-thin field-emission displays that are brighter and sharper than flat-panel displays.
The Candidates on Technology
Find out where Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain stand on key technology issues, such as privacy, net neutrality, and biofuels.
Better Reading on the Small Screen
A research project could help people transfer paper documents to their phones and read them more easily.
HP Rewires Electronics
A new electronic device could lead to denser, faster kinds of memory, and processing chips that act more like the brain.
Whole-Body Gaming
New software makes it easier to build games controlled by a user's body position.
$100 Laptop Program's New President
Charles Kane thinks industry partnerships will boost the laptop's marketability.
Breath Analyzer Monitors Drug Compliance
A new device could lead to better clinical trials.
Biology's Next Breakthroughs
Biotech pioneer Leroy Hood explains how systems biology will impact medicine.
Blind Mice See the Light
Researchers adapt an algal protein to reengineer sight into a broken visual circuit.
Open-Source, Multitouch Display
Engineers are building inexpensive, tabletop, touch-screen displays and sharing the instructions online.
A Price Drop for Solar Panels
The silicon shortage that has kept solar electricity expensive is ending.
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Lawmakers Want to Regulate Violent Games
Retailers could be fined for selling violent games; gamers look to Constitution.
Disk Drives Survived Columbia Disaster
Data-recovery specialist salvages info from disk in shuttle accident.
Real Estate's Loss Is Conservationists' Gain
Slumping real estate market has helped conservationists buy and preserve land.
Holiday Sales Push Gadgets for Mom
For bargains this Mother's Day check the gadget aisle.
Gates: Microsoft Will Go Its Own Way
Microsoft says it will develop an advertising and Internet search business.
Teen Potheads at Risk of Suicide
Depression, adolescence and marijuana may be a deadly combination, report finds.
New Tool Can Trace Source of Bad Meat
Meat retailers can track meat from ranch to market using DNA analysis.
'Iron Man' vs. 'GTA IV' -- No Contest
"Grand Theft Auto IV" trounced "Iron Man" by $300 million in first-week sales.
Review: 'Iron Man' Game Is Junk
Video game version of the hit movie is just another mediocre tie-in.
Dissolving Bodies: The Future of Funerals?
Melting remains with lye may one day rival burial and cremation.
Will We Ever Pay for an Album Again?
The latest trend to hit the music industry: artists giving away their songs.
Cyclone Relief Efforts Get High-Tech Help
In rural areas, satellites play a key role getting aid to those who need it.
Geek Love: Last-Minute Gadgets for Moms
Still searching? Have a high-tech Mother's Day.
TomTom 920 GPS Finds Cheapest Gas
GPS makes for a smart parents' day gift.
Device Won't Forget to Back Up Your Data
Apple's Time Capsule could be lifesaver for Mac-owning parents.
Hawking: Manned Mars Probe by 2025
Famous astrophysicist says a rededication to space exploration must be priority.
'Grand Theft Auto' Tops $500M in Sales
Exceeding expectations, the shoot-'em-up video game broke sales records.
Critics Take Swipe at 'GTA IV'
MADD criticizes "GTA IV" for drunken driving sequence. Fans shrug.
Celebs Lend Their Talents to Video Game
"Tuttles Madcap Misadventures" is not only fun, but helps ill children.
Is the Earth Any Shakier Than Usual?
Even "micro" quakes around U.S. set nerves on edge.
Rough Ice: Bad for Sledders, Fun for Dogs
From sled dogs to dreams of home, Arctic sledder talks about life on the ice.
Life on the Ice: A Breathtaking Break
Sam Branson talks polar bears and the simplicity of traveling in the Arctic.
Green Your Lights and Save Some $$$
Go green by using energy efficent, long-lasting L.E.D. lights.
Excerpt: Ultimate Green Man's Guide
Ed Begley Jr. shares tips for living an all-green existence in his new book.
'Brain in a Box' Helps Woman Walk Again
A device the size of an iPod acts as a "brain," sending messages to foot.
'Google Man' Recalls Nearly Everything
University of California at Irvine doctors are studying Brad Williams' memory.
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Nintendo don and ex-Mariners owner Wiicher than ever
Soaring Wii sales boosted the net worth of Nintendo founder Hiroshi Yamauchi by $3 billion last year, according to a new Forbes list of the richest people in Japan.
The 80-year-old gaming magnate rose to first place, up from third, on the list with an estimated fortune of $7.8 billion, according to this Reuters report.
Yamauchi became a principal owner of the Mariners in 1992 but sold his stake in 2004 to Redmond-based Nintendo of America.
He still owns 10 percent of Nintendo, the shares of which have tripled since the Wii's launch.
(No wonder Steve Jobs is looking into a Wii-like remote that could make the Apple TV into a game console....)
Ohmigod! Celeb crazy Coolspotters launches, with Seattle funding
The latest Starwave spawn is Coolspotters, an outrageously materialistic online shopping/celebrity/social networking venture that could make a bundle for its Seattle investors.
Coolspotters is a site where fans can learn about and buy the stuff their favorite celebrities are purportedly using. Users can build profiles listing their favorite fans, and share and discuss fans and stuff with others obsessed about the same celebrities. It's like iLike for brand name stuff.
A cut from its home page:
Here's how CEO and co-foudner Aaron LaBerge described it in the launch release today:
MySpace letting users' info roam
Finally, MySpace has announced the data portability project that its CTO, Aber Whitcomb, was talking up in March, when he was in Seattle for a developer conference hosted by the company's Pioneer Square engineering office.
The initial effort lets users share info like photos and friends with other networked sites like Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and MySpace corporate cousin Photobucket.
No wonder the Los Angeles-based News Corp. venture is hiring so many engineers up here, to build not only site features but cool tools for developers.
Free video game from UW: Wiggling and shaking for science
A group at the University of Washington developed a clever new way to get the public's help with the massive computing challenge of researching cures for conditions such as HIV and Alzheimer's.
They created a free, downloadable video game called FoldIt! that "turns protein folding into a competitive sport."
I was skeptical, too, but after I downloaded it and played for awhile, it became addictive. The game draws out any latent obsessive-compulsive disorder you may have, encouraging you to wiggle, shake and pull 3D proteins to "fix" their shapes. A screen grab:
Clearwire 2.0 boss on his big plans for Seattle, privacy and more
The blockbuster merger of Sprint's WiMax business into Clearwire, announced Wednesday, was negotiated in cities across the country.
But they may as well have done the deal in a Kirkland wine bar -- it was like a reunion of local wireless executives, coming back to McCawville.
Long before Dan Hesse started running Sprint, he was running Redmond-based AT&T Wireless, the former McCaw Cellular Communications.
When Hesse and Clearwire Chairman Craig McCaw decided to pursue WiMax together, McCaw called in his former general, John Stanton, to help his current lieutenant, Clearwire Chief Executive Ben Wolff, lead the merged company.
So it's no wonder the biggest beneficiary of the deal could end up being the Puget Sound region.
If Clearwire grows according to the plans these guys hashed out, the company will be huge, on the scale of the other major wireless companies the area has spawned.
Wolff told me that ultimately the company could "get to 20,000 or 30,000 employees" nationally.
"This is a testament to the ongoing connection that Seattle has to the wireless industry and certainly with us growing Clearwire in Seattle, that presence will increase fairly dramatically,’’ he said.
Headquarters will remain here, although it's likely to soon outgrow the Carillon Point offices where McCaw has launched a series of wireless companies.
Clearwire has about 2,000 employees now, including 350 to 400 at its Kirkland headquarters. Sprint has about 700 in its WiMax unit, including a research and development group in Herndon, Va.
Research will continue to grow in Herndon, but the exact distribution of employees hasn't been determine, Wolff said.
"What's really exciting for me is we've got what's going to be a large company that's going to be a major player changing the communications landscape again in the Seattle area,'' he said.
Clearwire partners Intel and Google could also co-locate some engineers at the company to develop their WiMax products, although they already have engineers in the area.
Wolff also clarified Stanton's stake in the new venture. After he agreed to serve on the board at the request of Wolff and McCaw, Stanton chose to invest $10 million.
Although Google gives Clearwire some Silicon Valley pixie dust, plus cash, I wonder if consumers will be concerned about subscribing to a broadband service embedded with Google technology for targeting ads based on their online activity.
Wolff said privacy is a top issue for Clearwire and consumers will have the choice of opting in or out of services.
"I think the privacy issues and how consumers view that is going to be our paramount concern, so you won't find us doing anything that causes customers to be concerned about how their private information is being handled,'' he said.
On the service, you'll find "consumers opting in to different offers and applications but that will be their choice rather than ours,'' he said.
Amazon's new mega campus: second biggest project in the U.S.
I guess Amazon.com still wants to get big, fast.
The company's decision to proceed on a huge new Seattle headquarters campus made the list of "Top Deals" in North America in 2007, compiled by Site Selection magazine ("the official publication of the Industrial Asset Management Council").
Marcelo's April startup ranking: Zillow still leads
This month Marcelo gets to note that his own venture, Sampa, is one of the fastest-gaining Seattle-area Web startups with a 17 point gain, to rank 30th.
From his introduction:
"The biggest drops this month were Likewise (down 87), TagCow (down 43) and Lilipip (down 40). The biggest gains come from EfuRa, Sampa, Inrix, OwnYourPhone and Sawggle, all moving 17 positions in the rank."
The top 10, based on his Seattle Startup Index compilation of traffic stats:
1. Zillow
2. 43 Things
3. iLike
4. Wetpaint
5. CarDomain
6. I Can Has Cheezburger?
7. BuddyTV
8. ActiveRain
9. PayScale
10. Faves (formerly BlueDot)
HTC's sparkly Touch Diamond smartphone
Taiwanese phone maker HTC, which has its U.S. headquarters in Bellevue, is making a splash with its new "Touch Diamond" phone unveiled today in London.
The Touch Diamond has a "3D" touch interface that will be compared to the iPhone.
But I wonder how soon we'll start taking multitouch interfaces for granted on high-end smartphones -- they'll all feel a little bit like the iPhone soon. Then we can start comparing other features and capabilities, like speed and battery life, or just argue about which phone looks cooler.
The Touch Diamond looks nice, if you like that angular look that you see on new Cadillacs:
Ex-Amazon VP launching "Web for seniors"
A Kirkland startup called BigScreenLive is formally launching a complete Web experience aimed at older adults and their families, especially people who have been too intimidated to go online or really dislike using the Web.
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