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InfoWorld - Standardization efforts for the next version of JavaScript have taken a sharp turn this month, with some key changes in the Web scripting technology's direction. JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, has helped forge a consensus on how to proceed with the direction for JavaScript's improvements. "JavaScript was sitting still. ...
CNET - Netflix has traced the causes of a lengthy system outage this month that prevented the online-movie rental service from shipping for several days to a hardware glitch.
CNET - Google is joining forces with foreign phone companies to help lay new undersea fiber optic cables to bring faster Internet speeds to the far corners of the world.
CNET - PALO ALTO, Calif.--Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday as well as a countersuit of its own, alleging that Apple engages in anticompetitive business practices.
AP - Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli has apologized for lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission during its probe of stock options backdating at the chip maker.
CNET - Google is once again joining forces with foreign phone companies to help lay new undersea fiber-optic cables to bring faster Internet speeds to the far corners of the world.
PC Magazine - Courtesy of power protection maker Tripp Lite, PowerAlert is a free new energy management software designed to help both individual end users and enterprise-level IT managers maximize their system efficiency.
NewsFactor - Adobe Systems has announced major updates to its Photoshop Elements suite of video- and photo-editing software, including online sharing and mobile-phone options. In beta now, the software is expected to be on retail shelves in early October.
NewsFactor - The Mozilla Foundation is on the verge of adopting a new software-programming technique that promises to dramatically improve the speeds at which browsers interact with the Web. The first step, the nonprofit organization said, will be to optimize the way that JavaScript runs in Firefox 3.1 -- the next incremental update to Mozilla's ...
Reuters - Immersion Corp , which develops and
licenses touch feedback technology, said it will pay $20.75
million to software maker Microsoft Corp as part of
the settlement of a litigation.
AP - Did a computer intrusion at a Best Western hotel in Germany open the door for a hacker to steal the records of 8 million customers and pull off "the greatest cyber-heist in world history," as a Scottish newspaper put it?
NewsFactor - In a move to set itself apart from the flood of Bluetooth headsets on the market, BlueAnt Wireless on Tuesday introduced the BlueAnt V1 headset.
Reuters - U.S. heating oil dealers are using new
software to weed out clients who may not pay their bills as
Americans gear up for another winter of high fuel costs in the
world's top consumer.