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China slams US bias in cyberspying row
News Chinese officials hit back at report by U.S.-China body that claimed the Asian giant has stepped up espionage activities directed at the United States.
Tags: International governments, Defense/military, Commission, USCC, USCC Web Site, U.S., Republican, Nancy Pelosi, America, China
Former Joost CEO ousted as chairman
News Mike Volpi has been removed from the board by a shareholder vote and Joost is investigating his actions during his time as chairman and CEO, according to the company.
Tags: Leadership, Video, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., intellectual property, chairman, board of directors, Video, board, Leadership
Adobe offers CinemaDNG format for raw video
News Company releases a beta version of a file format for higher-end video. Also out is a beta of Adobe Story for writing scripts.
Tags: Business applications, Digital media, Adobe Systems Inc., Foundry Networks Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Video, SLR, Digital media, Adobe Premiere, digital-rights management
User stories: The starting point in agile development
Techguide Rick Freedman explains how user stories can help agile developers understand users' expectations. He also discusses the three Cs, user role modeling and epic stories.
Tags: IT project management, Software engineering/development, User Story, NEC Corp., Story, Detail, Development Effort, C, Information Technology, Human Resources Inc.
Facebook changes stock structure: IPO on the way?
News The social network has converted all existing shareholders' stock to the more powerful Class B; it'll go back to Class A if they sell it during an IPO. But the company says it still doesn't have IPO plans set.
Tags: Business plans, Business Strategies & Functions, Facebook, Business Strategies & Functions, IPO, Stock, Mark Zuckerberg, shareholder, Wall Street Journal, Business plans
OneRiot aims to make money from Twitter search
News Content publishers who need traffic may find OneRiot's new ad platform useful.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Data mining & analysis, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., CBS Interactive Inc., Web 2.0, OneRiot, advertisement, CBS Corp.
Digg tweaks search, dupe detection
News Social site now better at collecting Diggs under canonical URLs, and tracking them too.
Tags: Market research, Web sites, RSS, Google Inc., Search Engine, Digg, job, monitor, Web Site, window
Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search
News Newsy searches won't just produce links to stories now on Yahoo. Searchers will be able to see photos, videos, and tweets from main search results page.
Tags: Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Yahoo Launch, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Video, photograph, API, Search Result
Mozilla: Firefox 3.6 won't be late
News The first beta of Firefox 3.6 may have crossed the finish line weeks late, but Mozilla says the final version should still be done this year.
Tags: Web browsers, Open Source, Wiki, Web Browser, motivation, Mozilla Corp., Beta, release candidate, Mozilla Firefox, proprietary software
News Corp.'s challenge to Google
News Rupert Murdoch may make a deal with Microsoft to make Bing the only search engine to deliver News Corp. content--unless antitrust cops object.
Tags: Antitrust, Search, Google Inc., search engine, Rupert Murdoch, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Wall Street Journal, vice president
Kindle patents lay out plan for ads
News Patents, both approved and pending, show that Amazon may bundle free, ad-supported digital books with sales of physical books.
Tags: Patents, Regulations, Sales/revenue, Internet advertising, Patent, E-book, Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., revenue, Internet advertising
Yahoo's mobile home page cutting back on reloads
News Yahoo reveals an enhanced mobile home page that offers more stories that require you to reload the Web page fewer times.
Tags: Browser, Mobile/Wireless, Yahoo! Inc., partnership, mobile, Video, CTIA, movie, Apple iPhone, strategy
Sony to ship Google Chrome browsers on Vaios
News Google deal with Sony will see all the hardware vendor's American Vaio-brand PCs equipped with Chrome browser in tandem with Internet Explorer.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet User, Sony Vaio, Apple Safari, Web browsers, Sony Corp.
In death do we digitally depart
Blogs My parents never really sat me down for that dreaded discussion about death, but I knew at an early age that life was in...
US govt Web site makes open source move
News White House Web site now employing open source software. Given the U.S. federal government's widespread adoption of open source, the amazing thing is that it took so long.
Tags: Open source, Government, Drupal, Open Source, software, Acquia, Open-source Software, Associated Press, White House, proprietary software
