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Motorola Staffing Up To Cash In on Android Buzz
September 29, 2008 1:42PM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Motorola is reportedly looking to hire hundreds of Android developers to cash in on the buzz around Google’s Linux-based mobile operating system. Motorola’s ...
Samsung May Buy SanDisk, Consolidate Flash Market
September 5, 2008 1:52PM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Memory maker Samsung is considering an offer for SanDisk to save #350 million a year in flash-memory licensing fees and consolidate the market. ...
Study: Online Games More Captivating
Joshua Smyth, a Syracuse University psychology professor, noted that most of the public debate on video games has centered on their often violent content, while the “enthrallment” potential, which can have both ...
Network Solutions Slammed for New Domain Policy
Many are saying that Network Solutions is “front running” — a scheme used by domain-name scammers to register domain names only to sell them later for higher prices than the initial fees. ...
Ask.com Gives Privacy Control to Users
December 11, 2007 8:58AM Following news that Ask.com has introduced a new tool, called AskEraser, that can prevent Ask.com from storing any search data, EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg said Ask.com’s AskEraser is a ...
California Hacks Its E-Voting Machines
July 31, 2007 8:56AM Following a report from a team of experts indicating that electronic voting systems are vulnerable, vendors fought back at the public hearing in California, with officials from Sequoia ...
MySpace Takes On the ‘Spam King’
Scott Richter, named one of the world’s worst spammers by consumer advocacy site Spamhaus, has been tied to several major illegal spam campaigns. Richter must face the legal guns at MySpace after ...
Could Google Translate Help E-Commerce?
Although Google has stated no plans to throw advertising into the multilanguage mix, Google Translate might draw international shoppers to English-only e-commerce sites, according to analyst Greg Sterling, who said Google Translate ...
Can Nintendo’s Mii Concept Kill MySpace?
March 9, 2007 12:34PM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto says the company plans to move the Mii concept forward with a new Wii channel that will enable Nintendophiles ...
MySpace Age Verification Bill Proposed
March 8, 2007 12:46PM Under the MySpace age-verification bill spearheaded by Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, social-networking sites that fail to verify ages and fail to obtain parental permission to post ...