Internet World

May 9, 2008

Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect

Friday, May 09, 2008 1:14 PM

Facebook has announced Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday. It is essentially a new version of their API for third party websites, which was first launched in August 2006. It will allow users to “connect” their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any website. Third party websites will be [...]
Source: TechCrunch
Categories: Web 2.0

Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Friday, May 09, 2008 12:55 PM

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit  —  Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week.  —  There are stories around why the limitation exists at all.  The official reason is that Facebook wants …

Source: Techmeme
Categories: Web 2.0

Internet Users Help Nab Accused Child Predator

Friday, May 09, 2008 12:41 PM

Interpol credits Internet users with helping to identify and locate a suspected child predator, who was arrested in New Jersey.
Source: Information Week

'Grand Theft Auto Success' Taxes IGN's Google-Powered Map

Friday, May 09, 2008 12:40 PM

Microsoft's retailer survey also found more than 60% of all GTA games sold in the first week were for its Xbox 360 videogame console.
Source: Information Week

Mowser.mobi ! - Mowser has a new home! - It took a few weeks ... (Russell Beattie/Russell Beattie's Weblog)

Friday, May 09, 2008 12:20 PM

Russell Beattie / Russell Beattie's Weblog:
Mowser.mobi !  —  Mowser has a new home!  —  It took a few weeks to work out the details, but pretty much on the day that I announced Mowser was shutting, the guys at dotMobi got in touch with us interested in the service.  Today is the official announcement that they've acquired the site and technology …

Source: Techmeme
Categories: Web 2.0

Microsoft Plans Four Security Fixes For Upcoming Patch Tuesday

Friday, May 09, 2008 12:15 PM

The critical flaws affect Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Windows respectively.
Source: Information Week

Researcher Discusses iPod Supercomputer

Friday, May 09, 2008 12:01 PM

schliz writes to mention that in a recent interview with ITNews researcher John Shalf explained the purpose and some of the technical details of the newly-announced "iPod supercomputer". "Microprocessors from portable electronics like iPods could yield low-cost, low-power supercomputers for specialized scientific applications, according to computer scientist John Shalf. Along with a research team from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Shalf is designing a supercomputer based on low-power embedded microprocessors, which has the sole purpose of improving global climate change predictions."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot

Three Telecom Services Slated For New York City Region

Friday, May 09, 2008 11:53 AM

Cablevision joins T-Mobile and Verizon in announcing plans to upgrade the area with advanced wireless networks.
Source: Information Week

EPiServer Expands Euro Opps with Finish Bureau

Friday, May 09, 2008 11:50 AM

Continuing it’s expansion into the Nordic Market, EPiServer has announced it’s newest office now opened in Finland. They are a provider of web content management based on the Microsoft.Net platform.

Although it’s their first Finnish office, they are not new to the market, having a number of existing customers and several partners located there for the last two years.

“Finland is a natural next step for us and we see great possibilities for a quick expansion. We stand by our established sales process via our partner network, which allows us to keep our focus as a product company,” says Peter Larsson, CEO at EPiServer.

The work EPiServer has done has proven that Finland is very similar in needs to the rest of the Nordic market. Areas including accessibility and the need to provide e-services that integrate with back-end systems are key to business-based websites.

In addition, EPiServer has recognized a trend towards more up-to-date content by a wider range of editors — something that speaks volumes to the needs for a CMS.

This is EPiServer second office opening announcement in the last couple of weeks. At the end of April, they announced a new hosting office in Sweden. Early in April they also announced the acquisition of Netstar, a community platform provider.

It would appear they are driving forward, strengthening existing markets and offering new integrated services that should help push their Web CMS further into European organizations.

Source: CMS Wire
Categories: Content Management Systems

FCC Plans Digital Television Transition Test In September

Friday, May 09, 2008 11:36 AM

Broadcasters in Wilmington, N.C., will shut off their analog signals on Sept. 8 to see what -- if any -- problems are created by the shift to digital.
Source: Information Week

FBI Says Military Had Counterfeit Cisco Routers

Friday, May 09, 2008 11:06 AM

There are new developments in the case of the counterfeit Cisco routers, which we have been discussing for some time. The NYTimes updates the story after an FBI PowerPoint presentation made its way onto the Web. It seems that experts at Cisco have examined some of the counterfeit routers in detail and proclaimed that they contain no back doors. Others don't believe we can be so sure. "Last month, [DARPA] began distributing chips with hidden Trojan horse circuitry to military contractors who are participating in the agency's Trusted Integrated Circuits program. The goal is to test forensic techniques for finding hidden electronic trap doors, which can be maddeningly elusive... The threat was demonstrated in April when a team of computer scientists from the University of Illinois presented a paper at a technical conference in San Francisco detailing how they had modified a Sun Microsystems SPARC microprocessor... The researchers were able to create a stealth system that would allow them to automatically log in to a computer and steal passwords."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot

Apple to provide refunds for power adapters (Bloomberg)

Friday, May 09, 2008 11:00 AM

Bloomberg:
Apple to provide refunds for power adapters  —  Apple Inc. agreed to pay refunds of $25 to $79 to as many as 2.3 million Macintosh computer owners to resolve claims that some of its power adapters were prone to spark.  —  Customers who bought certain replacement adapters for PowerBook …

Source: Techmeme
Categories: Web 2.0

dotMobi Buys Mowser For Mobile Web Integration (Ewan Spence/All About Symbian)

Friday, May 09, 2008 10:45 AM

Ewan Spence / All About Symbian:
dotMobi Buys Mowser For Mobile Web Integration  —  Congrats to Russ Beattie and Mike Rowehl, the guys behind Mowser.  It may well have looked dead and buried a few weeks ago, but the service has been bought by the dotMobi consortium.  Reporting on Dev.Mobi, James Pearce charts out the use of their new toy …

Source: Techmeme
Categories: Web 2.0

Microsoft Set To Launch WorldWide Telescope, Gates Says

Friday, May 09, 2008 10:39 AM

With the launch of WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft will extend its battle for Internet dominance with Google to the cosmos.
Source: Information Week

iPhone graphic: Apple's new map of the world (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Apple 2.0)

Friday, May 09, 2008 10:35 AM

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone graphic: Apple's new map of the world  —  Like many Apple (AAPL) watchers, the investors at IMO's Apple Finance Forum have been closely following this week's flurry of announcements of iPhone deals with carriers around the world.  One of the contributors to the forum …

Source: Techmeme
Categories: Web 2.0

Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit

Friday, May 09, 2008 10:31 AM

Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week. There are stories around why the limitation exists at all. The official reason is that Facebook wants to make sure that people only add “real” friends to their account, and the [...]
Source: TechCrunch
Categories: Web 2.0

Processing Visualization Language Ported To Javascript

Friday, May 09, 2008 10:24 AM

Manfre writes "On his birthday, John Resig (creator of jQuery) has given a present to developers by releasing Processing.js. This is a Javascript port of the Processing Visualization Language and a first step towards Javascript being a rival to Flash for online graphics content. His blog post contains an excellent writeup with many demos."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot

Icahn Enters Blockbuster-Circuit City Merger Negotiations

Friday, May 09, 2008 10:20 AM

The consumer electronics retailer said it will allow billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn to review its books.
Source: Information Week

Google's Shareholders Vote Against Human Rights

Friday, May 09, 2008 9:41 AM

yo_cruyff notes a Computerworld article on Google's recent annual shareholder meeting, which was dominated by argument over the company's human rights policies. Google's shareholders, on advice from their board, have voted down two proposals on Thursday that would have compelled Google to change its policies. "Google [has been] coming under fire for operating a version of its search engine that complies with China's censorship rules. Google argues that it's better for it to have a presence in the country and to offer people some information, rather than for it not to be active in China at all... [S]hareholders and rights groups including Amnesty International... continue to push Google to improve its policies in countries known for human rights abuses and limits on freedom of speech... Sergey Brin, cofounder and president of technology for Google, abstained from voting on either of the proposals. 'I agreed with the spirit of these proposals,' Brin said. But he said he didn't fully support them as they were written, and so did not want to vote for them."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot

Does your AMD-based computer boot after installing XP SP3? (Jesper/Jesper's Blog)

Friday, May 09, 2008 9:25 AM

Jesper / Jesper's Blog:
Does your AMD-based computer boot after installing XP SP3?  —  Updated May 8 to add information on a second issue.  —  Updated May 9 to add information on possible additional issues as well as instructions for using the recovery console.  —  Last night WSUS deployed XP Service Pack 3 …

Source: Techmeme
Categories: Web 2.0