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Amazon's Kindle Fire just nuked the tablet market: Winners and losers

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - By Larry Dignan - Sep. 28 (News Report) - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage Wednesday to unveil an arsenal of devices that are going to disrupt rivals like Barnes & Noble as well as Android tablet makers.

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Can a cyber-attack really be considered an 'act of war'?

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - By Zack Whittaker - Jun. 02 (Not sure) - The limelight as firmly shone on the Pentagon’s decision to classify severe cyber-attacks as an act of war . Considering the recent social engineering attacks which led to compromised government Gmail accounts , the two are now seemingly connected. One h

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The real Google-Verizon Net neutrality story

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - By Christopher Dawson - Aug. 10 (News Report) - There has been an incredible amount of mud-slinging and hand-wringing over a perceived back office deal by Google and Verizon, both of whom, if you listen to most reports, are hell-bent on destroying the Internet for their own gains. Thanks for that, New York Times. Google and Verizon, however, are finally speaking out on the issue with more than adamant denials of the Times’ piece and the related media frenzy.

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HD2 tips & tricks: Watch your movies using the HTC media player - ZDNet (blog)

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - Mar. 30 (Other) - ZDNet (blog)HD2 tips & tricks: Watch your movies using the HTC media playerZDNet (blog)Windows Mobile devices have had Windows Media Player Mobile loaded as the default media player for years and it has not changed much since I started using ...and more??

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Yesterday, Slashdot asked 'What if TinyURL goes down?' Today, it's down (and it hurts)

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - By David Berlind - Apr. 23 (Opinion) - Yesterday, in Slashdot’s huge-gigantic-massive-insignificant-concerns dept, Indus Khaitan posed this hypothetical question: Thanks to twitter, SMS, and mobile web, a lot of people are using the url minimizers like tinyurl.com, urltea.com……this could be a big problem if billions of different links are unreachable at a given time. Well, in a strange makes-you-want-to-hum-the-Twightlight-Zone-music-way, it’s hypothetical no more. TinyURL is apparently down for the count right now. Whether you’re trying to compress a URL into a tiny one (via TinyURL.com) or attempting to visit a TinyURL-based URL that was created and distributed to you by someone else (for example, one of the TinyURLs that appears in my Twitter feed on the right of this page), visits to TinyURL.com are returning “500 - Internal Server Error.”

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9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net | ZDNet Government | ZDNet.com

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - By Richard Koman - Oct. 13 (News Report) - Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That’s what a military judge ruled last week. . .

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Resurrecting E-voting

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - By Paul Murphy - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - As I noted yesterday, an expert dragged into court to testify and asked point blank whether it is theoretically possible that a voting process built around voting machines running local applications could be corrupted has to say Yes - and that reality, no matter what caveats you put on it, dooms the current client-server architecture for e-voting.

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Meet the king of coal

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

ZDNet - By Michael Kanellos - Feb. 25 (Interview) - The U.S. derives 49 percent of its electricity from coal. China has been erecting 2 gigawatts worth of power plants a week, according to an oft-heard stat, and most of them run on coal. In 2007, Peabody garnered $4.6 billion in revenue and $421.3 million in net income. And prices for coal are rising. Boyce, CEO of Peabody, also clearly wants you to know that his company and the coal industry understand the implications of carbon dioxide emissions. Peabody even invested in clean coal expert GreatPoint Energy.

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U.S. healthcare industry: Google wants to protect you from Michael Moore's Sicko

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:05:57 -0700

ZDNet - By Dan Farber - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - Google can help protect them from the negative impact of Michael Moore's just released film "Sicko," which does to the U.S healthcare system what Fahrenheit 9/11 did to the Bush administration.

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Is Google the black hole at the center of the net?

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:49:51 -0700

ZDNet - By Marc Orchant - Jun. 05 (Opinion) - Another day, another announcement about Google pulling the net into its gravity well. Salesforce.com and Google have announced an integration that tightly couple AdWords campaign management into the popular CRM/SFA tool. It's a natural fit and I'm trying not to feel all creepy about this but...

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The webification of advertising

Fri, 18 May 2007 09:44:26 -0700

ZDNet - By Phil Wainewright - May. 18 (Opinion) - Yes it's a bubble. If, like me, you thought Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of Doubleclick was over-the-top, then what else can we make of Microsoft splurging $6 billion on aQuantive? (Techmeme discussion here). Sometimes being smart is a handicap, because it means you can always figure out some kind of justification to rationalize irrational behavior. That's what sustains bubbles into the stratosphere, and Google and Microsoft each employ some of the smartest people on the planet, so there's no shortage of brainpower available to post-justify these crazy deals.

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E-mail monitoring may contravene European laws

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:46:51 -0700

ZDNet - By Tom Espiner - Apr. 12 (News Report) - Monitoring employees' Internet and telephone use at work may contravene human rights laws, after a landmark case in the European Court of Human Rights last week. The case involved a public-sector employee, who won €3,000 Euros in damages and €6,000 Euros in court costs and expenses, after her communications were intercepted by her employer,

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FCC to study need for more Net neutrality regulation

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:06:04 -0700

ZDNet - By Marguerite Reardon - Mar. 22 (News Report) - "Simply because telephone and cable companies are on their best behavior today, while the commission and Congress examine the issue, is no reason to delay action to protect consumers and content providers in the future from the actions of network operators which have said they will split the Internet into a privileged fast lane, and a dirt road for everyone else," Gigi Sohn, president and co-founder of the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, said in a statement.

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More organizations shift to Web 2.0 while IT departments remain wary - Enterprise Web 2.0 - ZDNet.com

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:22:40 -0800

ZDNet - By Dion Hinchcliffe - Mar. 08 (News Report) - A couple of recent announcements from two large, very well-known organizations provides an interesting data point on how Web 2.0 is affecting the product designs and business processes of otherwise very traditional institutions. Both USA Today and the U.S. Patent and Trademark office have recently unveiled strategies for letting their users use two-way Web capabilities to contribute directly to the products and services they offer. And many other mainstream companies, such as Pepsi as well as GM and XM Radio have been exploring externally-facing Web 2.0 concepts in their products for a while now.

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Google's achilles heel

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:06:47 -0800

ZDNet - By Phil Wainewright - Dec. 13 (Opinion) - There's a paradox at the heart of Google's success that highlights the location of its Achilles' heel. It makes money because users of its search engine find what they want by clicking on ads. That's right, the ads are better targeted than the search results. It's not so much a search engine company, more an ad engine company. The search engine is almost a smokescreen (indeed, I've argued in the past that Google should spin off its search engine and just concentrate on ads, but the company is making too much money from its vertically integrated play to split up horizontally like that).

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Novell ditches top execs

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:56:54 -0700

ZDNet - Jun. 22 (News Report) - The board of Novell has dismissed two top executives, including chief executive Jack Messman,as part of a management shake-up at the software and networking firm. Novell announced on Thursday that Messman and chief finance officer Joseph Tibbetts had both had their employment terminated with immediate effect

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