Facebook Reported Ready To Let Users Share Locations
Facebook may join other Web companies in offering location-based services. The social-networking site plans to let its users to share their location and see the locations of friends, according to published reports.
Facebook could use the service to supply advertisers with targeted data such as the nearest ATM. The feature is expected to be similar…
As Ballmer Praises Apple, EFF Cites Stiff App Store Rules
With the stakes high in Microsoft’s bid to add its search engine to the iPhone, a few words of praise by the software giant’s CEO have drawn a considerable amount of attention.
“Apple’s done a very nice job that allows public to monetize and commercialize their intellectual property” in the App Store, Microsoft CEO St…
Remote-cipher Vulnerability Being Exploited in IE 6 and 7
Older versions of World Wide Web Explorer are under attack. Microsoft warned Tuesday afternoon that cybercriminals are actively exploiting a defense vulnerability that lets attackers execute malicious cipher from remote locations.
Microsoft’s internal observation reveals that the latest version of the browser, Net Explorer 8, is not affected…
Cisco Unveils Much Faster CRS-3 Router for Net Growth
The wait is by. Cisco Systems on Tuesday finally took the lid off its hype machine to reveal … a new router. Cisco is positioning its CRS-3 Carrier Routing System as the foundation of the next-generation Web that will pave the way for rapid growth of video transmissions, mobile devices, and new online services.
The CRS-3 offers three times t…
Sony, Samsung Join Campaign To Push 3-D TV Sets
On the heels of the big 3-D television presence at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Sony and Samsung are joining Panasonic, LG Electronics, and others in promoting the new technology. On Tuesday, Sony said it is aiming for 10 percent of its TV sales within the next year to be 3-D models, and Samsung announced a range of HDTV sets and Blu-r…
Google Dangles Ultrafast Broadband and Cities Leap
Wearing just a T-shirt and shorts, Mayor Don Ness strolled to the end of a dock jutting into frigid Lake Superior. He grinned, waved his arms to a cheering crowd, and jumped in.
“I’ve laid down the gauntlet!” Ness cried, shivering and dripping as he emerged from the lake in a video posted on YouTube. “All right, you other m…
Move by, Amazon: Manufacturers Try E-Tailing
Alex Garcia loves his Levi’s. He hankered for a plaid trucker jacket from the clothing maker but couldn’t find it at any of the stores near his home in Los Banos, Calif., in the state’s Central Valley. So Garcia logged on to the Levi Strauss & Co. Web site and bought one straight from the source. “I wear nothing but Levi…
