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Last updated: Aug 21, 2008 12:51 PM PT
For YouTube videos,
a 'fair use' boost
A judge's ruling requires media companies to take a good look at videos before alleging a copyright foul. Will this make it tougher to send the dreaded takedown notices?
• Judge: Copyright owners must consider 'fair use'
A longer-lasting
laptop battery?
video CNET News' Charles Cooper speaks with ZPower CEO Ross Dueber, who says upcoming silver zinc tech will give a big boost to battery life.
Just in
- Will court ruling on take-down notices hamper anti-piracy efforts?
- Venture money finds India, China tech
- CNET News Daily Podcast: Why security experts still fret about DNS
- Security expert: DNS attacks are happening
- Plasma TV on the rebound?
- Bebo appoints exec to handle original content
- Beijing 2008: Tech gets in on the Games
Woz urges engineers to follow their hearts
Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder, recalls his early days fulfilling his engineering dream by working for Hewlett-Packard while designing Apple computers.
(Posted in Business Tech by Stephen Shankland)
Security expert: DNS attacks are happening
IOActive researcher Dan Kaminsky says people are looking for unpatched DNS systems and some attacks are due to a fatal vulnerability with the DNS Web address lookup system.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills)
Bad economy kills this year's DigitalLife Expo
The annual tech trade show, typically held each fall at New York's Jacob Javits Convention Center, has been "postponed" until 2009, according to organizer Ziff Davis Media.
(Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)
A much deeper mobile Facebook coming soon
The next mobile version of Facebook, presumably available in late September, is packing a punch with some useful updates that make it almost as capable as the Web version.
(Posted in Webware by Josh Lowensohn)
• Facebook developers to factor in age, location
• Facebook's 'Engagement Ads' tests the waters
Iowa chosen for next Microsoft data center
Software maker will build its fourth U.S. data center in West Des Moines, which is also the hometown of Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)
Bebo appoints exec to handle original content
Kelly Brett, a London-based television producer, has already been working on Bebo-commissioned video content for the past year.
(Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)
Journalists, residents getting same Net in Beijing
Tests at the main Olympic press center and on other connections around the Chinese city show that both reporters and city dwellers are getting less restricted Internet access than usual.
(Posted in Sinobyte: China and technology by Graham Webster)
• Full Olympics coverage
Venture money finds India, China tech
Venture capital firms in Q2 stepped up their investments in India-based companies by about 120 percent, according to new report. China's on fire with venture firms, too.
(Posted in Business Tech by Stephanie Olsen)
Satellites track Mexico kidnap victims with chips
Mexicans terrified of soaring kidnapping rates are spending thousands to implant transmitters under their skin so they can be tracked if abducted.
(From Reuters)
Amazon launches hard disk in the sky
New Elastic Block Storage for Amazon Web Services gives developers low-level access to cloud-based data stores.
(Posted in Webware by Rafe Needleman)
Will Wright on the origins of 'Spore'
q&a The legendary game designer talks about the evolution of his new evolution game.
(Posted in Gaming and Culture by Daniel Terdiman)
Q&A: Red Hat's JBoss business hits overdrive
Red Hat's JBoss spent two years in the doldrums but recently began growing at twice the rate of Red Hat's operating system business.
(Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay)
Facebook's 'Engagement Ads' tests the waters
In order to combat disappointing click-through rates, Facebook is encouraging its members to interact with advertisements more and even share them with their friends.
(Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)
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