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Microsoft faces legal action over Silverlight
News Gotuit Media is suing the software giant over use of video metadata with the Flash rival, which has a featured role in next month's Olympics coverage.
Tags: Lawsuits, Business applications, Software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Video, software company, San Francisco, online video, Internet video
US tech worker arrested in city network hijack
News A disgruntled San Francisco IT worker is in jail on US$5 million bail after allegedly locking administrators out of the city's wireless area network.
Tags: Security, Mobile/Wireless, Next-generation technology/networks, City, Administrator, WAN, Worker, performance, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco
Google Maps adds user-created photos, videos, maps
News New feature enables users to explore areas around the world by bringing up video, photos and interactive maps of a particular location.
Tags: Search, Web 2.0, Digital media, Map, Google Inc., Google Earth, Video, YouTube Inc., movie, San Francisco
Salesforce to offer social networking for companies
News Cloud computing specialist announces Salesforce Chatter service to build social networking services into customers' business operations starting in 2010.
Tags: Web 2.0, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, Facebook, Social Networking, Salesforce Chatter, Marc Benioff, CEO, network, Web 2.0
It's official: Apple event set for 09/09/09
News Apple sends invitations to a music-focused event in San Francisco next week, with few other details.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Apple Inc., Event, Video Game, Conference, Apple iTunes, Apple iPod, San Francisco, Apple iPod Touch, Moscone Center
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
Microsoft hopes charity push will spur IE downloads
News The software maker will donate meals to a food bank for each person that downloads its new browser through a special Web site.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Microsoft Windows 7, Europe, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, San Francisco, food, Microsoft Windows, bank
Google giving U.S. small businesses local search data
News Small merchants wondering how Web searches impact their business are getting additional data from Google related to their local search results.
Tags: Market research, Search, Internet, Google AdSense, Google Inc., Small Business, local search, phone, San Francisco, Google AdWords
US engineer to stand trial in hijacked network
News A network administrator will stand trial for allegedly hijacking the network he designed and maintained for the city of San Francisco.
Tags: Hacking, Authentication and encryption, Child, Fiber, attorney, Superior Court Judge, Network Administrator, Terry Childs, WAN, San Francisco Chronicle
Jobs to skip Macworld keynote as Apple backs out
News CEO Steve Jobs planning to skip his annual January keynote address, and the Mac maker is ending its relationship with IDG's Macworld Expo.
Tags: Digital media, Apple Inc., Event, International Data Group, Framingham, Massachusetts, Boston, San Francisco, job, marketing
Highest IT salaries: San Francisco, London
News Figures from PayScale suggest, however, that pay levels may decline this year. Also in decline: bonuses.
Tags: Benefits, HR policies and procedures, help desk, IT Salary, PayScale, Valley, Salary, Worker, London, software
To catch a (cyber) thief
News Head of an FBI undercover sting operation explains how law enforcement cracked an ID theft ring and detailed the increasing influence of Russian organized crime.
Tags: PC security, Phishing, Security, Cybercrime, FBI, San Francisco, agent, financial, network, bank
Microsoft chops price of its hosted software
News Redmond says it's cutting by a third the monthly subscription fee for those using a hosted version of Exchange, SharePoint, and Office Communications Server.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Autodesk Inc., Aon Corp., Chile, Microsoft Corp., software, Blockbuster Inc.
eBay ex-CEO to make Calif. gubernatorial bid official
News Former CEO of eBay is expected to officially declare her candidacy for governor of California on Tuesday.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, eBay Inc., Republican, Governor, Internet, Sen.
Smartphone users, keep complaining
News Want great software for your mobile phone? Keep up the complaints. That was the message at a session aimed at developers at the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Tags: Smart phones, Stephen King, RIM BlackBerry, software, mobile, Smart Phone, mobile software, Developer, Customer Satisfaction, Smartphone
