At Nokia's annual meeting yesterday, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo vowed to change the business model of the world's leading mobile phone maker, to make it, in his words, "more like an Internet company."
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Should the FCC be the final authority deciding just what constitutes "net neutrality," and how ISPs should be punished if they fail to provide it? Or would you rather the courts decide?
Fixed alternative for 'white space' networking gains a unique ally
May 9 - 7:12 PM ET
While Google and Microsoft are pressing the FCC to give further consideration to "white space" networking devices that transmit in unused portions of the TV spectrum, a microphone company -- no less -- is trying to tip the balance.
Google's Picasa sends its last 'Hello' on May 15
May 9 - 6:24 PM ET
Obsolescence comes in many forms, one being the natural kind, the other planned. Then there's the suddenly, unexpectedly enforced kind, which is rarer but which reared its ugly head today with one of Google's more innovative, but old, ideas.
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Google: Microsoft remains a strong competitor, even without Yahoo
May 9 - 6:19 PM ET
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said yesterday that he still sees Microsoft as a potent competitor, even though its concerted and often acrimonious campaign to buy Yahoo now looks like it will pass into history.
Yahoo beta tests new search results concepts in India
May 9 - 6:15 PM ET
When a query is entered on Yahoo's Glue Pages, search results -- whether text, image, or video -- all turn up on an organized single page. It's an idea that's turning heads, and it's showing up first on Yahoo's Indian domain.
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Apple has Wii-like Apple TV controller under development
May 9 - 5:38 PM ET
A patent filed in 2006 and published this week indicates that Apple is developing a game controller that would allow for control much like Nintendo's popular console.
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Circuit City to open its books to Blockbuster, Icahn
May 9 - 5:23 PM ET
Retailer Circuit City has secured Goldman Sachs to advise it on its future moves and confirmed it had received information on how a buyout by Blockbuster would be financed.
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.MOBI registrar rescues mobile Web technology firm Mowser
May 9 - 5:06 PM ET
The company responsible for the .mobi mobile phone Internet domain, dotMobi, has bought out a mobile browsing company that was on the verge of death just one month ago. DotMobi will immediately integrate Mowser's directory, search, and listings into the find.mobi service.
House bill would enforce ESRB game rating system
May 9 - 4:15 PM ET
A bipartisan bill was introduced in the US House of Representatives Wednesday aimed at forcing stores to card minors attempting to purchase video games rated "Adults Only" or "Mature." It's not the first time such legislation has been tried.
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Free AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots for iPhone still unofficial
May 9 - 1:48 PM ET
AT&T "officially" posted information about free Wi-Fi hotspot access for its iPhone customers on Thursday, and summarily removed it.
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Now part of CBS, Last.fm will get exclusive video
May 9 - 12:50 PM ET
It's been almost one year since social music network Last.fm was acquired by CBS, and the site has opened "Last.fm/presents," offering original video content from prominent artists.
Microsoft: Don't expect a Yahoo deal, at least for now
May 9 - 12:48 PM ET
A Microsoft executive has thrown cold water on hopes that the company would try again with Yahoo, and sources indicate the company has released its proxy slate of would-be Yahoo directors.
Microsoft to release Office 2007 SP1 via Automatic Update in June
May 9 - 12:38 PM ET
Five months after the first service pack for Office 2007 was made generally available to customers, the company has determined it will be safe to provide it over its automatic update service.
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Dueling approaches to net neutrality clash in US House
May 9 - 12:13 PM ET
Should the FCC be the final authority deciding just what constitutes "net neutrality," and how ISPs should be punished if they fail to provide it? Or would you rather the matter be resolved in the federal court system?
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65 nm GPU for Xbox 360 'Jasper' due in August
May 9 - 12:06 PM ET
The latest update to Microsoft's Xbox 360 not only gives the console a 65 nm CPU, but a similarly-profiled GPU, enabling the whole unit to consume less power, and therefore run cooler and more quietly.
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Canadian iPod settlement resolves battery life claims
May 9 - 11:55 AM ET
Canadian owners of first, second and third generation iPods will be eligible for a $45 credit as part of a settlement over battery life claims.
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Hollywood helps Pioneer launch 2008 Kuro HDTVs
May 8 - 10:10 PM ET
Pioneer's 2008 line of plasma HDTVs, monitors, Blu-ray drives, and projectors are billed as offering five times the level of black as the first generation of Project Kuro, which wowed audiences at CES 2008 just last January.
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Id Software announces the coming of Doom 4
May 8 - 7:30 PM ET
Game maker id Software quietly confirmed it is working on Doom 4, almost four years after the release of the third installment of the series that made the first-person shooter a permanent fixture in the public conscience.
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NVidia considers an across-the-board overhaul of its marketing strategy
May 8 - 7:19 PM ET
To help casual consumers who may not be able to track every code name and official product launch, GPU maker NVidia now says it's considering plans to simplify its product range.
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Much ado over yet another change to Facebook's profile page
May 8 - 7:09 PM ET
Facebook today released more details about a major user profile overhaul that was supposed to take place early last month but is now back on track.
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State Dept. loses, then recovers, anti-terrorism computers worth $30 M
May 8 - 6:58 PM ET
For several months, according to an Inspector General's report discovered by a group of former State Department employees, the Dept. did not know the whereabouts of some 400 laptops. And now, somehow, they've all been found.
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Highlight 2.6.10
May 9 - 4:27 PM ET
Highlight is a universal source code converter which transforms code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, LaTeX, TEX, XSL-FO and XML files with syntax highlighting. (X)HTML output is formatted by CSS. It supports customizable color theme and language descriptions with regular expressions.
Unix, Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP
License: Freeware
User Rating: 4.0
License: Freeware
User Rating: 4.0
MediaMonkey 3.0.3.1170 RC6
May 9 - 3:56 PM ET
MediaMonkey is an easy-to-use music manager and media jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. It catalogs your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3 audio files. It looks up missing Album Art and track information via Freedb and the web, and includes an intelligent tag editor and an automated file and directory renamer to organize your music library. It includes a CD ripper, CD Burner, and audio converter for saving music, and manual or automated playlist editors for creating music mixes. Its player automatically adjusts volume levels so that you don't have continually fiddle with the volume control and supports hundreds of Winamp plug-ins and visualizations; or if you prefer, it can use Winamp as the default player. It also includes portable audio device synchronization that allows you to quickly synch tracks and playlists with iPods and other portable audio devices.
Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP
License: Freeware
User Rating: 4.3
License: Freeware
User Rating: 4.3
Cloudmark Desktop for Windows Mail 1.0 Beta 2
May 9 - 3:35 PM ET
Cloudmark Desktop (formerly SafetyBar) consists of over a million email users, all sending feedback to Cloudmark about which messages are spam or phishing and which ones are legitimate. This information helps everyone in the network. When a user clicks the Block Spam or Block Phish buttons, Cloudmark compares this feedback with feedback from other users. If other users in the network also consider the message to be spam or fraud, then similar messages are automatically blocked in the future, for all users in the network.
Cloudmark Desktop has the following other editions available: Cloudmark Desktop for Outlook, Cloudmark Desktop for Outlook Express and Cloudmark Desktop for Thunderbird.
Windows Vista
License: Shareware
Not Yet Rated
License: Shareware
Not Yet Rated
Wine 1.0 RC1
May 9 - 3:14 PM ET
Wine is a project to allow a PC running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to run x86 programs for Microsoft Windows. Alternately, those wishing to port a Windows application to a Unix-like system can compile it against the Wine libraries.
Unix
License: Open Source
User Rating: 4.7
License: Open Source
User Rating: 4.7
ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7.3.013.000 Beta
May 9 - 2:53 PM ET
ZoneAlarm Security Suite, an easy-to-use, comprehensive solution that provides all-in-one PC protection, integrating Zone Labs' award-winning firewall with antivirus, Web site filtering, privacy protection and instant messaging security.
Windows 2000/Vista/XP
License: Shareware
User Rating: 3.5
License: Shareware
User Rating: 3.5
My Money 2.0.26 Beta
May 9 - 2:32 PM ET
My Money is a high quality personal financial software written from ground up to work with online bank statements. Simply download your transactions from bank web site and they are automatically entered into electronic register. By bringing all of your important financial information together in one place, this helps you more efficiently organize your financial data, simplify taxes and grow your net worth.
Windows 2000/Vista/XP
License: Shareware
User Rating: 3.2
License: Shareware
User Rating: 3.2
TagScanner 5.0 Build 521
May 9 - 1:57 PM ET
TagScanner is a multifunction program to organize large music collections. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames. Also you may get album info via internet music database freedb.org. Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WindowsMedia and MP4(iTunes) tags. Powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features. Playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML or Excel. Easy-to-use interface. Built-in player.
Windows 2000/2003/Vista/XP
License: Freeware
User Rating: 4.5
License: Freeware
User Rating: 4.5
REAPER 2.206
May 9 - 12:31 PM ET
REAPER is a powerful but sensible Windows application that lets you record, arrange, edit, and render multi-track waveform audio. It provides an extensive set of features, but is a very small and lightweight application (the installer is less than 1 megabyte, and includes many effects and a sample project).
REAPER supports ASIO, Kernel Streaming, WaveOut, and DirectSound for playback and recording. It reads WAV, OGG, and MP3 files, and records WAV files. You can arrange any number of items in any number of tracks and use audio processing plug-ins (DirectX and Jesusonic). REAPER also supports volume, pan controls and envelopes per track, multi-layer undo/redo, and user creatable color themes.
Windows 2000/2003/Vista/XP
License: Shareware
User Rating: 4.2
License: Shareware
User Rating: 4.2
Opera for Windows 9.50 Build 9981 Beta
May 9 - 11:18 AM ET
Opera lets you surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way. One of the most full-featured Internet power tools on the market, it includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. You can customize the look and content of your browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
Opera has the following other editions available: Opera for FreeBSD, Opera for Linux and Opera for Mac OS X.
Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP
License: Freeware
User Rating: 4.3
License: Freeware
User Rating: 4.3
Avant Browser 11.6 Build 13
May 9 - 10:57 AM ET
Avant Browser is a custom Web browser application based on Internet Explorer with versatile multi-window support. It allows users to browse multiple Web sites simultaneously and block all unwanted pop-up pages. All opened pages can be easily stopped, refreshed, closed or arranged with one click. The integrated cleaner helps users to clear all traces and keep privacy. The built-in Google search engine enables users to easily search for Web pages and images.
Windows (All)
License: Freeware
User Rating: 3.3
License: Freeware
User Rating: 3.3
phpDesigner 2008 6.1 Beta
May 9 - 10:36 AM ET
phpDesigner 2008 is a powerful PHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for both beginners and professional developers that enhances the process of editing, analyzing and publishing applications and websites powered by PHP and other web languages. Boost your productivity and simplify complex coding projects through an intelligent set of editing tools that includes full support for PHP 5.2, syntax highlighters, intelligent nested code completion, code tips that are displayed as you type, a project manager, code snippets, large built-in code-libraries, bracket/tag highlighting (matched and unmatched), and numerous tools and wizards to speed up your development.
phpDesigner 2008 has the following other editions available: phpDesigner 2008 Personal.
Windows Vista/XP
License: Shareware
User Rating: 4.4
License: Shareware
User Rating: 4.4
SABnzbd 0.4.0 Beta 4
May 8 - 4:40 PM ET
SABnzbd is a binary newsgrabber written in Python, server-oriented using a web-interface. The active successor of the abandoned SABnzbd project. It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically, thanks to its friendly web-based user interface and advanced built-in post-processing options that automatically verify, repair, extract and clean up posts downloaded from Usenet. It also has a fully customizable user interface, and offers a complete API for third-party applications to hook into.
Windows (All)
License: Open Source
User Rating: 2.7
License: Open Source
User Rating: 2.7
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 8.1.278.2 SP1 Update Rollup 2
May 8 - 4:19 PM ET
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 provides built-in protection technologies to help keep the e-mail system up and running and better protected from outside threats while allowing employees to work from wherever they are using a variety of clients including Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Web Access, and mobile devices. It makes it easier for IT to deliver these new capabilities to their organizations by making the messaging environment easier to manage and more cost efficient.
Windows 2003
License: Freeware
User Rating: 4.3
License: Freeware
User Rating: 4.3
Fresh Diagnose 7.82
May 8 - 3:58 PM ET
Fresh Diagnose is an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard information, and many more.
Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP
License: Freeware
User Rating: 3.6
License: Freeware
User Rating: 3.6
SLAX 6.0.7
May 8 - 3:37 PM ET
SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. It runs Linux directly from the CD (or USB) without installing. The Live CD is based on the Slackware Linux distribution and uses Unification File System, allowing read-only filesystem to behave as a writable one, saving all changes to memory.
Linux
License: Open Source
User Rating: 4.5
License: Open Source
User Rating: 4.5
