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Last updated: Aug 21, 2008 5:09 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.
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- BlackBerry Bold debuts in North America
- For YouTube videos, a 'fair use' boost
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)
Psychological profiling on the Web
Security researchers are devising a way to monitor people's online moods in real time, bringing privacy concerns with social networks to a whole new level.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills)
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)
Plasma TV on the rebound?
Overall TV shipments are better than a year ago. But plasma increased more than 50 percent thanks to the introduction of 32-inch sets.
(Posted in Business Tech by Erica Ogg)
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)
Microsoft taps Seinfeld for ad campaign
According to The Wall Street Journal, comedian Jerry Seinfeld will appear with Bill Gates in part of a $300 million marketing project stressing connections and ideas.
(Posted in Microsoft by Margaret Kane)
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)
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