PC Magazine - The incentive program—the first of its kind—will return $700 to $1,000 per server to customers if they use more energy-efficient machines.
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Steve Lovelady, managing editor of CJRDaily.org, a Web site for The Columbia Journalism Review, quit Thursday after Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, informed him he was cutting the site’s budget nearly in half.
Reuters - China's censors are targeting on-line spoofs of films, celebrities and Communist icons, a Chinese newspaper reported on Tuesday, in the government's latest campaign to regulate Internet content.
Reuters - Norway's Trolltech AS has demonstrated the first fully reprogrammable mobile handset to help phone designers innovate as fast as their counterparts in the personal computer industry have done.
AFP - US computer maker Dell announced that it was recalling an estimated 4.1 million laptop batteries due to concerns they could burst into flames when overheated.
Reuters - Google Inc. will offer printable discount coupons to local shoppers, in a promotional bid that aims to drive U.S. online shoppers using its Google Maps service to visit stores, the company said on Monday.
Reuters - Three quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Snow White's seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two Supreme Court Justices, according to a poll on pop culture released on Monday.
AFP - Management software firm CA Inc. announced that its profits plummeted 64 percent in its latest fiscal quarter and that it would layoff 1,700 workers worldwide to increase efficiency.
Reuters - Dell, the world's largest personal computer maker, said on Monday it would recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries after determining they could overheat and posed a fire hazard.
AP - Dell Inc. said Monday it will recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they can overheat and catch fire. Dell negotiated conditions of the recall with the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, which called it the largest electronics-related recall ever conducted by the agency.
NewsFactor - Garage bands and Keifer Sutherland will soon be rubbing shoulders on one of the Internet's hottest Web sites. Fox Interactive Media will now be supplying a limited selection of downloadable content to MySpace.com users. Shows available for purchase will include hits such as "24" and "Prison Break." Movies will include "Thank You For Smoking" and "X-Men: The Last Stand." According to analysts, MySpace and parent company Fox, intend to penetrate the fairly undeveloped video direct download market with well-known shows in order to reach a new, younger audience. ...
Reuters - All too familiar with hackers looking to exploit security flaws in its software, Microsoft Corp. warned video game developers on Monday that their PC games are now a target for criminals.
Reuters - Business software maker CA said on Monday that it would cut 1,700 jobs, or 10.5 percent of its workforce. The company also reported that its first quarter net income fell 64 percent as expenses rose.
AP - Dell Inc. said Monday it will recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they can overheat and catch fire. A Dell spokesman said the batteries were made by Sony Corp. and placed in notebooks that were shipped between April 1, 2004, and July 18 of this year.
AP - Hoping to trigger a federal investigation, a civil liberties group accused AOL of breaking a promise to protect its subscribers' privacy when the Time Warner Inc. subsidiary recently released millions of Internet search requests — data that touched upon everything from Social Security numbers to murder plots.
Investor's Business Daily - Reviving an old feud with Microsoft's Windows, IBM is launching Linux and Macintosh versions of its most popular software -- and vowing to help other software makers do the same.
Investor's Business Daily - Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices doesn't want to get lost in all the brouhaha over a bunch of new Intel products released this summer.
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The race into the blogosphere has reached a feverish pace. Statistics house Technorati estimates that some 75,000 blogs are created every day, nearly one per second, joining the more than 40 million blogs already populating cyberspace. That's twice as many blogs as there were just six months ago. And newspapers of all sizes clearly have no intention of being left behind, as E&P has documented over the past two years. At McClatchy Co.'s News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. ...
NewsFactor - Think you've got what it takes to create the next "Halo" adventure, or to add a few tricks to Tony Hawk's skateboarding arsenal, for the Xbox game catalog? If so, Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express development toolkit will give you the chance to prove it.
AP - CA Inc.'s fiscal first-quarter profit fell 64 percent on increased expenses, and the business software maker said it will trim its work force by about 10 percent, or 1,700 positions.
AP - Google Inc., the search engine whose clean, minimalist home page was a stark contrast to the link-laden Web portals of the late 1990s, made a tiny tweak to its site last week that may have much bigger repercussions.
AP - Makers of slim TVs are struggling with higher inventories, but the extent of the problem depends on each company's position in the market: Smaller names are facing a glut of flat-panel screens while most of the top players say they're playing catch-up to avoid shortages.
PC Magazine - The Asus WL-700gE, quietly launched a month or two ago, is an 802.11b/g router with three USB 2.0 ports for external storage. The selling point of this router, however, is twofold: first, the router contains an internal 160-Gbyte hard drive, and second, it includes a small internal server that can process FTP or BitTorrent downloads without the need for a PC.
AFP - Google invited computer software wizards worldwide to compete for top honors in the Internet search engine's annual Code Jam.
