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Singapore firm offers street-level maps, too
News Local mapping startup Gothere.sg, provides street-level images covering 70 percent of country; intends to integrate these with Google's Street View service.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Web services, Singapore, photograph, API, search engine company, camera, Pittsburgh, team
Researchers seek funds to study cell phone safety
News Scientists have long debated whether cell phones pose health risk and are now looking for money to fund research to help resolve issue.
Tags: Cellular phones, Children, public health, Wireless, radio frequency, researcher, health care, agency, radio, Cellular phones
Sony expected to outline Net plans
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Seagate lays off 1,100 employees
News Hard-drive maker lays off 1,100 employees, or 2.5 percent of its global workforce in an effort to save US$120 million annually.
Tags: Layoffs, Western Digital Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, layoff, organizational structure, product development, cost reduction, Pittsburgh, Layoffs, termination
Google: No such thing as complete privacy
News The company takes issue with a Pittsburgh couple's lawsuit that alleges Google's Street View service invaded their privacy.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Web 2.0, Satellite, Google Inc., Privacy, phone, photograph, News.com, Internet
Dell acquires Allin's Microsoft IT consulting business
News Deal, valued at US$12 million, aims to bolster Dell's consulting, such as in designing and implementing scalable networks and application architectures.
Tags: Services, Acquisitions, Allin Corp., Microsoft Corp., Business Process, business application, Consulting, News.com, Dell Computer Corp., collaboration
Researchers tout 'wimpy nodes' for Net computing
News Carnegie Mellon researchers believe flash memory and feeble processors can do what conventional servers can't: power Internet sites at low power and low cost.
Tags: Components, Processors, Intel Corp., Computing, FAWN, David Andersen, Storage, Server, Intel Atom, Carnegie-Mellon University
Researchers still uncertain whether cellular phones are safe
News Leading scientists gathering in Washington, D.C., this week say more research is needed to once-and-for-all determine whether cell phones pose major health risks.
Tags: Cellular phones, DNA, Conference, Wireless, researcher, scientist, health care, American Cancer Society, Cellular phones
Privacy group targets Google Street View UK
News The driver's-eye view of British roadways and sidewalks causes "clear embarrassment and damage" to residents, Privacy International tells the U.K. government.
Tags: Privacy, Google Inc., Privacy, Britain, CEO, Privacy International, British Broadcasting Corp., Eric Schmidt, U.K., Microsoft Office
Compaq supercomputer debuts Monday
News The computer maker will unveil "Terascale," which uses 3,000 of Compaq's Alpha EV68 processors housed in 750 servers.
Microsoft demonstrates supercomputing Windows
News A forthcoming version of Windows Server is designed for building supercomputers from clusters of PCs.
Tags: Supercomputing, Business applications
Sony expected to outline Net plans
News Consumer electronics giant Sony is expected to unveil its new corporate strategy tomorrow in the hopes of breathing new life into the company's once red-hot shares.
Researchers cave in to SDMI legal threat
News Bowing to the threat of legal action from the recording industry, a Princeton computer scientist decided against presenting a paper Thursday on how the research team he led broke security on digital music.
Defend against patch-based exploits, warns Sans
News Automatically generated exploit code from reverse-engineered patches can be countered with centralized configuration management, says the Sans Institute.
Tags: Security, Authentication and encryption, Security applications/tools, Microsoft Corp., software company, Patch, Environment, Carnegie-Mellon University, software, patch management
Internet speed record set
News Researchers are pushing the envelope in data transmission speeds as they look toward building supercomputing grids.
Tags: Supercomputing, IPv6
