Today’s Tech News - Feb. 14, 2007
Belgian newspapers win Google lawsuit - Toronto Star
A court on Tuesday ruled in favour of Belgian newspapers that sued Google Inc., claiming that the Internet search leader infringed copyright laws and demanding it remove their stories.
BlackBerry 8800 debuts - CNET News.com
Research In Motion’s new handset includes trackball screen navigation, GPS, a media player and other multimedia features.
Microsoft Fixes Critical Flaw in Security Products - PC World
Software patches include critical fixes for bugs in Microsoft Office and the scanning engine used by the company’s security products.
Intel introduces experimental Teraflop Chip - People’s Daily Online
Intel will demonstrate Monday at the International Solid States Circuits Conference its experimental Teraflop Chip with 80 separate processing engines that company executives say is a model for commercial chips to be used in desktop, laptop and server …
JB Hi-Fi backs Blu-ray at official Australian launch - iTWire
More than twenty Australian companies, including retail giant JB Hi-Fi, have thrown their support behind Blu-ray at the high definition format’s official launch in Sydney.
AMD releases new Imageon media processors for cellphones - TG Daily
AMD introduced three new media processors that promise to enhance the graphics and video capability of cellphones.
Fixing YouTube - Red Herring
A year ago, Audible Magic, a Los Gatos, California-based filtering technology company received approximately one call a month from Internet companies seeking help blocking illegal content from being uploaded to their sites.
Samsung Ultra Edition U700 dishes out 3G capabilities - infoSync World
The sleek slider is a bit thicker than its little brother, the Ultra Edition U600, but boasts HSDPA networking, twin cameras and mobile e-mail.
Vista follow-up Vienna in 2009 or whenever - iTWire
A report from the IDG News Service that Microsoft plans to release a follow up operating system to Vista code-named Vienna appears to be long on rhetoric but short on substance.
Yahoo! Mail Brings E-Mail And Instant Messaging Together - Playfuls.com
Beginning today, users of Yahoo! Mail, will be able to chat in real-time using a new instant messaging (IM) feature which is seamlessly integrated into the Yahoo!
Ericsson And Telstra Achieve 200km Cellrange In Nationwide Network - Playfuls.com
Ericsson and Australian operator Telstra have achieved a significant milestone: the launch of the world’s first 200km cell range in a commercial mobile broadband network.
IBM plans open source software for business desktops - Xinhua
IBM unveiled on Monday its plan to reduce costs of managing Apple or Linux desktops and wipe out Microsoft’s software by offering a new open source software system for business desktops, media reported.
New Microsoft strategist spruiks open standards - PC World Magazine
Microsoft may be at the centre of a dubious intellectual property agreement with Novell involving open source software, but that hasn’t stopped the company trumpeting its work on open standards, which may even lead to native OpenDocument format support …
Police catch top computer virus maker in C China - Xinhua
Police in central China’s Hubei Province say they have arrested six people in connection with the spread of the notorious computer virus known as “Xiongmao Shaoxiang”, or “Panda burning joss stick”.
Virgin to deliver digital games service “A World of My Own” - iTWire
Virgin Games together with Game Domain International (GDI) plan the service for later this year. Titled ‘A World of My Own’ (AWOMO) the service is being described as a 3D ‘virtual world’ platform.
HTC Making the Slow March Toward Progress With HTC Vox and Love - Gizmodo.com
Two other phones from HTC were unveiled at 3GSM this week. Neither of them are nearly as big as the portly HTC Advantage though, with the HTC Vox being smartphone-sized and the HTC Love being Artemis-sized.
