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2006 Stories
Location-based apps dominate Android
News Round One of the Google mobile platform developer challenge is over, with a number of location-based applications making the cut.
Tags: Development/design, Location-based services, Linux, PDA phones, Mobile, Round, Google Inc., Location, Microsoft Windows Mobile, phone
Most security products flunk quality tests
News Nearly 80 percent of security tools fail to perform during initial certification tests, requiring two or more cycles of further testing, reports product testing firm.
Tags: Security applications/tools, ICSA Labs, Security Product, Verizon Communications Inc., Security, performance, Security Update, accounting, Security applications/tools
YouTube, Warner Music feud nearing an end
News Two companies have reached terms on most of the major issues and it appears Warner Music's videos will return to YouTube within weeks.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Video, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Sony Pictures, Warner Music Group Corp., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, YouTube Inc., content company
Windows Server 2008 iSCSI multiple connected session modes
Techguide For administrators using Windows Server 2008's iSCSI initiator, selecting the right connection policy is critical. Rick Vanover explains the options for the ease-of-entry storage protocol.
Tags: Storage software, Microsoft Windows, Configuration Policy, Information Technology, network, Windows Server 2008 R2, Path, Policy, Storage, Rick Vanover
Another US$100 million for Twitter?
News Private equity firm T. Rowe Price and VC group Insight Venture Partners are leading the round, which will value the company at around US$1 billion, says report.
Tags: Web 2.0, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Dashboard, analytics, TechCrunch, founder, valuation, Wall Street Journal, mutual fund, Web 2.0
More on mobile payment front: Boku steps it up
News Competing for market share with rival Zong and a few others, start-up says new partnerships give it access to 200 million new user accounts.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Snap, PayPal, Boku, Phone, mobile, Web 2.0, game company, payment
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey invested in Foursquare
News Ex-CEO and current chairman is one of the startup's undisclosed angel investors, sources tell CNET News.
Tags: Web 2.0, Industry Veteran, Bay Area, New York, payment, co-founder, knowledge, SEC filing, Web 2.0
Twitter confirms new round of funding
News What the company isn't commenting on: the exact amount of the round--or whether it actually values Twitter at $1 billion, as reported earlier.
Tags: Web 2.0, Business Strategies & Functions, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., marketing, customer service, Wall Street Journal, blog, team, Web 2.0
Research: Twitter has yet to grow into valuation
News Company is worth significantly less than US$1 billion, one company surmises. That's in part because the effectiveness of its possible business plan is still up in the air.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising, revenue strategy, Twitter Inc., advertisement, revenue, Web 2.0, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., API, research company
Rumors of a Gphone refuse to die
News Yet another report predicting Google is about to release its own phone raises more questions than it answers about Google's mobile strategy.
Tags: Development/design, Google Android, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Phone, network, Google Android, Smart Phone, Wireless
Judge sets February hearing for new Google Books deal
News Schedule is laid out for second round of final approval process as preliminary approval is given to revised deal submitted last Friday.
Tags: Copyright, Google Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, New York, Judge, researcher, U.S. District Court, agreement, Benefit
Al Gore: It's not just about the planet
News In talk promoting his book, Al Gore looks for fixes beyond renewable energy and draws link between environment, energy, and U.S. economy.
Tags: Green IT, Al Gore, Copenhagen, Oil, geothermal energy, plug-in electric car, electric car, wind energy, economic crisis, Middle East
Ceasefire in the China-Taiwan chip war?
News After years of legal feuding between Taiwan's TSMC and China's SMIC, chipmakers' latest round of fighting may be coming to an end.
Tags: Processors, Multiprocessor servers, Global strategic management, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co., Taiwanese chipmaker, California, Chip, Chip Company, Hong Kong, Shanghai
Twitter hits 5 billion tweets
News Twitter hits landmark tweet amid recent explosion of mainstream and celebrity use of the microblogging service.
Tags: Twitter Inc., dot-com, Bay Area, San Francisco, co-founder, valuation
Twitter on the verge of big search deals?
News Microsoft and Google are separately talking to the company about potentially licensing its massive amounts of real-time data to supplement search results, new report says.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data Management, Data mining & analysis, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., revenue
