Guns N’ Roses album to debut on MySpace
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Members of the social-networking site will be able to listen to the band's new album for free online before it goes on sale next week.
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Members of the social-networking site will be able to listen to the band's new album for free online before it goes on sale next week.
iTunes customers angry over copy protection moves at Apple
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Apple forum heats up with Mac users upset that they are having problems watching iTunes content on their external displays.
Mathematica 7 arrives with built-in human genome
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008The newest version of the software gets new data sets, image processing abilities, and built-in support for quad-core chips.
Mint adds SMS access
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Financial site Mint clones a Quicken feature: It will text you your bank balances.
Monty Python launches YouTube Channel, tells users to stop stealing
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Monty Python has officially arrived at YouTube and the show wants something in return.
Minn. Senate race could hinge on scanning machine mistakes
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008The state's hand recount starting Wednesday may show that thousands of ballots were mistakenly rejected by optical scanning machines.
Zinc fuel cell maker readies portable power pack
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Start-up Power Air has developed a zinc-powered power supply for gadgets. Longer term, zinc-air technology hopes to compete in transportation and backup power.
Husband blames iPhone for smutty pictures that upset his wife
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Apple's Support site is inundated with suggestions as to why a woman's husband might have inadvertently e-mailed filthy pictures from his iPhone.
Avoid the tech-support time sink
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008A botched mail-server upgrade reminds me to always have a workaround, and don't expect tech support to work miracles.
Outlook plug-in Xobni gets deeper social hooks
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008The service now links in to Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, and Hoover's.
Dell brings up the 80-core chip
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008During his keynote at a supercomputing conference, Michael Dell keeps 80-core processor in sight.
Citysearch pulls a total overhaul
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008The IAC-owned business reviews site has revamped its product to make social-networking features easier to use, as well as to focus on the "hyperlocal" rather than a few metro areas.
‘Moonlight’ heads to beta
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008As Microsoft hits the second anniversary of its deal with Novell, the software makers announce they are nearly ready with a beta version of the Linux-based Silverlight player.
‘WSJ’ calls Microsoft antivirus tool ’spyware’
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008In what appears to be just a bad headline, the business publication says that Microsoft plans to introduce spyware. (It's actually planning free antivirus software)
Yahoo to make BrowserPlus open-source
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Trying to be more open and to encourage innovation, the company will release source code behind its project to make Web browsers more powerful computing foundations.