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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2101 technology RSS & Blogging en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:56:48 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2101 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091121/wl_nm/us_cuba_blogger nm/20091121/us_cuba_blogger Reuters world Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:56:48 GMT Reuters - The husband of Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez said he was attacked by government supporters as he waited on Friday to confront state security agents accused of detaining and beating his wife two weeks ago. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_blogger_detained ap/20091121/cb_cuba_blogger_detained AP world Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:38:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_blogger_detained"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091121/capt.ef6cd17222ac4040b90a710efb1db60a.cuba_blogger_detained_hav102.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=Q5j10_l03qcA0Xs8qXP_ZA--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Reinaldo Escobar, the husband of dissident Cuban blogger Yoanis Sanchez, center, is taking away by unidentified men in Havana, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Escobar was punched, slapped and shouted down by government supporters in downtown Havana. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)" border="0" /></a>AP - The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_blogger_detained"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091121/capt.ef6cd17222ac4040b90a710efb1db60a.cuba_blogger_detained_hav102.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=Q5j10_l03qcA0Xs8qXP_ZA--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="Reinaldo Escobar, the husband of dissident Cuban blogger Yoanis Sanchez, center, is taking away by unidentified men in Havana, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Escobar was punched, slapped and shouted down by government supporters in downtown Havana. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20091120/tc_zd/246272 zd/20091120/246272 PC Magazine technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:53:56 GMT PC Magazine - The micro-blogging platform's new prompt, "What's happening?", is also a redefinition. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_hi_te/cb_cuba_dissident_blogger ap/20091120/cb_cuba_dissident_blogger AP technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:35:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_hi_te/cb_cuba_dissident_blogger"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.c9e29534970d4df5a93687a16abc74b1.correction_cuba_dissident_blogger_ny126.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=Spt1I2.z3e0K9NsdZb14hw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="FILE - In this April 11, 2008 file photo, Yoani Sanchez, who writes the 'Generation Y' blog, walks inside her home in Havana. President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by the celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in 'talking for the sake of talking' with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_hi_te/cb_cuba_dissident_blogger"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.c9e29534970d4df5a93687a16abc74b1.correction_cuba_dissident_blogger_ny126.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=Spt1I2.z3e0K9NsdZb14hw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this April 11, 2008 file photo, Yoani Sanchez, who writes the 'Generation Y' blog, walks inside her home in Havana. President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by the celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in 'talking for the sake of talking' with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/tc_afp/usitcompanyinternettwitter afp/20091119/usitcompanyinternettwitter AFP technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:40:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/tc_afp/usitcompanyinternettwitter"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258670368454-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=80YlZ2DNijOKZvz0xEjRYw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The frontpage of Twitter, a leading Internet microblogging site. Twitter used to ask "What are you doing?" No longer. The micro-blogging service now wants to know "What's happening?"(AFP/File/Loic Venance)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Twitter used to ask "What are you doing?" No longer. The micro-blogging service now wants to know "What's happening?"</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/tc_afp/usitcompanyinternettwitter"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258670368454-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=80YlZ2DNijOKZvz0xEjRYw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="The frontpage of Twitter, a leading Internet microblogging site. Twitter used to ask "What are you doing?" No longer. The micro-blogging service now wants to know "What's happening?"(AFP/File/Loic Venance)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/pl_nm/us_cuba_blogger_obama nm/20091119/us_cuba_blogger_obama Reuters politics Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:28:37 GMT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama praised dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez and said in a posting on her website on Thursday that he looks forward to the day "all Cubans can freely express themselves." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_bi_ge/us_people_brian_williams ap/20091119/us_people_brian_williams AP business Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:54:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_bi_ge/us_people_brian_williams"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091118/capt.542735977afe41a0898d9715ac5a5d1f.people_brian_williams_cronkite_azpn101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=zMJzrHuR4A.Ev0Q00iFiGw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="In this picture provided by the Cronkite School, 'NBC Nightly News' anchor Brian Williams speaks Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, in Phoenix after receiving the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. (AP Photo/Cronkite School)" border="0" /></a>AP - NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Twitter.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_bi_ge/us_people_brian_williams"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091118/capt.542735977afe41a0898d9715ac5a5d1f.people_brian_williams_cronkite_azpn101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=zMJzrHuR4A.Ev0Q00iFiGw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this picture provided by the Cronkite School, 'NBC Nightly News' anchor Brian Williams speaks Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, in Phoenix after receiving the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. (AP Photo/Cronkite School)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091119/tc_pcworld/usps3salesleap70inoctober pcworld/20091119/usps3salesleap70inoctober PC World technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:42:00 GMT PC World - After years of third-stringing it, Sony's beleaguered PS3 may finally be rallying, according to sales data cited on Sony's US PlayStation blog. The company's American division reports year-over-year October hardware sales lifted nearly 70 percent, and says its online PlayStation storefront clinched record revenues, with downloads up 60 percent over the same period last year. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20091119/tc_zd/246217 zd/20091119/246217 PC Magazine technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:51:34 GMT PC Magazine - News editor Mark Hachman is on-site at the Google Chrome OS technical preview, and will be live-blogging the event for PCMag's Gearlog blog. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_en_mu/cn_canada_perez_hilton_punched ap/20091118/cn_canada_perez_hilton_punched AP entertainment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:31:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_en_mu/cn_canada_perez_hilton_punched"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091118/capt.55ced512839c48fb9753e3b7ebc1f777.canada_perez_hilton_punched_nyet454.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=JCrlOPUsSE0AUfuss3K78A--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="FILE - This March 28, 2009 file photo shows Perez Hilton arriving at his 31st Birthday Party in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - Black Eyed Peas manager Liborio Molina apologized to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton as part of an agreement allowing assault charges against him to be dropped, lawyers said Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_en_mu/cn_canada_perez_hilton_punched"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091118/capt.55ced512839c48fb9753e3b7ebc1f777.canada_perez_hilton_punched_nyet454.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=JCrlOPUsSE0AUfuss3K78A--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="FILE - This March 28, 2009 file photo shows Perez Hilton arriving at his 31st Birthday Party in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_en_mu/us_music_john_mayer ap/20091117/us_music_john_mayer AP entertainment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:30:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_en_mu/us_music_john_mayer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091117/capt.0a9c484756f8458b822fd11080c0083a.music_john_mayer_nyet432.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=uu.Qjt74HWk0DJsCONmE0g--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="In this Nov. 14, 2009 photo, musician John Mayer is shown during a rehearsal in New York. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri)" border="0" /></a>AP - If you're engrossed in the tabloid Internet-gossip that has come to define the celebrity world, then John Mayer's latest CD, "Battle Studies," could provide enough fodder to fill at least a dozen Perez Hilton blog posts or at least one story in Us Weekly.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_en_mu/us_music_john_mayer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091117/capt.0a9c484756f8458b822fd11080c0083a.music_john_mayer_nyet432.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=uu.Qjt74HWk0DJsCONmE0g--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Nov. 14, 2009 photo, musician John Mayer is shown during a rehearsal in New York. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091117/ts_alt_afp/usitmicrosoftvulcanallen afp/20091117/usitmicrosoftvulcanallen AFP us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:54:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091117/ts_alt_afp/usitmicrosoftvulcanallen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091117/capt.photo_1258440823135-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=fwt__Fjs_Pcr2MPuvKk5Ww--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Billionaire Paul Allen (pictured), who founded the US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, has been diagnosed with cancer, technology blogs have reported.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Billionaire Paul Allen, who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, has been diagnosed with cancer, technology blogs have reported.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091117/ts_alt_afp/usitmicrosoftvulcanallen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091117/capt.photo_1258440823135-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=fwt__Fjs_Pcr2MPuvKk5Ww--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Billionaire Paul Allen (pictured), who founded the US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, has been diagnosed with cancer, technology blogs have reported.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_re_us/us_gay_marriage_rhetoric ap/20091117/us_gay_marriage_rhetoric AP us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:31:48 GMT AP - A conservative Republican radio host, blogger and self-described citizen journalist is apologizing for calling New Hampshire's Democratic Party chairman derogatory gay names &mdash; comments his party and a leading gay activist are condemning. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091116/tc_afp/uschinainternetobamatwitter afp/20091116/uschinainternetobamatwitter AFP technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:04:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091116/tc_afp/uschinainternetobamatwitter"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091116/capt.photo_1258383886402-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=aOZCnvZ5_3bD4E84HIKncg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="US President Barack Obama (L) speaks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) after his arrival at the Diaoyutai state guest house in Beijing. Obama Monday admitted in China that he had never used Twitter but said sites like the micro-blogging network should be available everywhere, even though his hosts restrict its use.(AFP/POOL/Elizabeth Dalziel)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US President Barack Obama Monday admitted in China that he had never used Twitter but said sites like the micro-blogging network should be available everywhere, even though his hosts restrict its use.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091116/tc_afp/uschinainternetobamatwitter"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091116/capt.photo_1258383886402-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=aOZCnvZ5_3bD4E84HIKncg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="US President Barack Obama (L) speaks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) after his arrival at the Diaoyutai state guest house in Beijing. Obama Monday admitted in China that he had never used Twitter but said sites like the micro-blogging network should be available everywhere, even though his hosts restrict its use.(AFP/POOL/Elizabeth Dalziel)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091116/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_britain_belle_de_jour ap/20091116/eu_britain_belle_de_jour AP business Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:09:00 GMT AP - A British scientist says she is Belle de Jour, the anonymous blogger whose accounts of life as a call girl were turned into books and a TV series. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091115/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_overhaul_mystery_group ap/20091115/us_health_overhaul_mystery_group AP business Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:22:35 GMT AP - One operative tried to enlist trade groups in Maine to oppose government-run health coverage. Another helped a member of a Las Vegas conservative group appear on local talk radio to criticize the proposal. A third persuaded a Louisiana activist to post an opinion piece on a conservative blog. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091113/wr_nm/us_fda_internet nm/20091113/us_fda_internet Reuters technology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:41:25 GMT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Drug makers, Internet companies and nonprofits called for clarity on what is a gray area for U.S. health regulators: how drug promotion on Twitter, Wikipedia, blogs and other social media can be regulated. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20091112/tc_infoworld/100086 infoworld/20091112/100086 InfoWorld technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:22:29 GMT InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems' Zembly project, which provided an environment for building and hosting social applications, will be suspended on November 30, according to a posting on the Zembly blog. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20091111/bs_nf/70019 nf/20091111/70019 NewsFactor business Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:05:50 GMT NewsFactor - Google has added two features -- Google Location History and Google Location Alerts -- to Google Latitude, which is a feature of Google Maps. Software engineer Chris Lambert wrote in a blog post that the additions are the result of requests from users to upgrade Latitude, which launched in February. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091111/ap_on_hi_te/eu_azerbaijan_bloggers_sentenced ap/20091111/eu_azerbaijan_bloggers_sentenced AP technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:42:14 GMT AP - A court in Azerbaijan sentenced two bloggers to prison Wednesday for a fight in a restaurant, but the defendants say the charges were a pretext to punish them for political dissent.