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Google has launched a beta version of video identification technology designed to flag unauthorized content on YouTube. The move follows its implementation of audio fingerprinting software from Audible Magic earlier this year. By filtering out pirated videos, Google aims to further cement YouTube's ...
Microsoft has added a new feature to its Windows Live platform that lets users take advantage of the Web to send invitations to parties, business meetings or other happenings. Similar to Evite, Windows Live Events provides an array of graphical templates and other tools, such as maps and calendars, ...
Half a year after its first rollout of a passenger imaging security scanner in the Phoenix airport, the Transportation Security Administration is testing another form of this technology there. Its latest security machine is based on millimeter-wave technology, which is similar in function to the X-r...
A compromised Marin County, Calif., Web site apparently prompted U.S. officials to temporarily shut down all of the state government's Internet sites this week. Last month, the Marin County transportation authority Web site was reportedly hacked to redirect traffic to a porn site. Following several ...
Less than a year after its much-ballyhooed rollout of Vista, Microsoft is giving in to the demands of manufacturers and business users who want to switch back to the XP operating system. Some manufacturers, such as Dell, are already offering customers a choice of OSes in response to a groundswell of...
Transit Wireless, a joint venture that includes Nab Construction, Q-Wireless, Dianet Communications and Transit Technologies, won the right to wire for cell phone use New York City Transit's 277 subway stations in a 10-year contract valued at $46.8 million, according to news accounts of the closely ...
Google has added the third leg to its online suite of office applications. The new addition, dubbed "Presentations," is analogous to Microsoft PowerPoint. Now that Google has a full-fledged productivity suite, it has shortened its name from "Google Docs and Spreadsheet" to simply "Google Docs." Afte...
A software tool is released with a performance guarantee and the promise of periodic updates. Another commercial application for the market? Not quite. Rather, this is emblematic of how malware writers are doing business these days. "We definitely see much of the illegal online activity becoming mor...
Google -- the company that championed the concept that no piece of information was too small not to be indexed for public consumption -- is calling for the development of a global privacy standard. The Internet has been leveraged in countries that have no such policies, said Google Global Privacy Co...
MySpaceTV will relaunch "Quarterlife," a network television pilot about a group of recent college graduates that aired briefly on ABC in 2005. Accompanying the show's Nov. 11 resurrection will be a social networking site for fans, complete with the usual Web-related content, such as character profil...
Microsoft has provided "important" updates for vulnerabilities in MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Services for Unix 3.0 in its monthly Patch Tuesday release. Its most important fix -- a critical vulnerability -- is in its Windows Agent animation services. This is the agent that dis...
News that there may be a link between implanted RFID chips and cancer in mice and rats sent VeriChip shares plunging by as much as 14 percent on Tuesday. The company's troubles began over the weekend when results of three studies in the United States and Europe detailing the increased risk -- which ...
Just in time for the start of the holiday shopping season, HP has introduced a slew of new products, including a PC specially designed for gaming. Called the HP Blackbird 002, it is the first HP personal computer bearing VoodooPC's distinctive stamp after HP purchased the high-end gaming PC maker la...
Palm has decided to cancel the current iteration of its Foleo product, an ultralight Linux-based "mobile companion" device that had analysts scratching their heads when it was first announced. In a post on the Palm blog, CEO Ed Colligan told readers that he has decided to cancel Foleo mobile "in its...
Hackers associated with the Chinese government broke into the Pentagon's computer systems earlier this summer, according to a report in the Financial Times. The London-based paper, which cited anonymous sources in the current and previous administrations in its article, said officials believe the Pe...
EarthLink has bowed out of its agreement to build a network that would provide free WiFi in San Francisco. The news follows the company's announcement this week that it is eliminating 900 jobs -- half its workforce -- and closing offices in four cities, including San Francisco. The beleaguered WiFi ...
A group of New York City taxi drivers say they are going to strike for at least two days in September to protest a regulation calling for all city cabs to be equipped with GPS tracking technology. Starting on Oct. 1, all 13,000 taxis must have touch-screens and GPS when they come up for inspection....
MTV and MySpace are partnering to give voters greater access to the politicians running for U.S. president in 2008. They plan to hold a total of 11 hour-long dialogues from September through December, held on college campuses nationwide. People will be able to e-mail, instant message or text message...
Employers are denying a growing number of workers access to Facebook, the now ubiquitous social networking site, a Sophos survey shows. The poll queried 600 visitors to the security firm's Web site over a period of weeks earlier this summer. Some 43 percent said they had been denied access to Facebo...
Skype said that a Microsoft patch downloaded on Patch Tuesday triggered a bug in its software that eventually resulted in the IP-based service going dark for nearly two days. The disruption in the free, peer-to-peer network began unexpectedly on Thursday. Service was completely restored by late Frid...
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