Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/738 technology Technology News en-us Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:36 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/738 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_hewlett_packard ap/20091124/us_earns_hewlett_packard AP technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:03:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_hewlett_packard"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091123/capt.04544d4370d84da4b8ba7fe4f864ae9a.earns_hewlett_packard__nybz190.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=3SRVj3Aa2qFhe.fYUzCiHw--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="FILE - In this March 8, 2009 file photo, the Hewlett-Packard Co. facility in Palo Alto, Calif., is shown. Hewlett-Packard Co. releases quarterly earnings after the market close Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cost-cutting and push into new markets is helping soften the blow from weakness in the company's mainstay businesses.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_hewlett_packard"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091123/capt.04544d4370d84da4b8ba7fe4f864ae9a.earns_hewlett_packard__nybz190.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=3SRVj3Aa2qFhe.fYUzCiHw--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this March 8, 2009 file photo, the Hewlett-Packard Co. facility in Palo Alto, Calif., is shown. Hewlett-Packard Co. releases quarterly earnings after the market close Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091123/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_social_interaction_startup ap/20091123/us_tec_social_interaction_startup AP technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:12:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091123/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_social_interaction_startup"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091123/capt.82068ed498034295b789f2e71eae7be9.social_interaction_startup_fx101.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=zMlGrf7kjPGhrIICaLQbhw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="In this photo taken Friday Nov. 20, 2009, the Foursquare application is shown on an iPhone in front of a Starbucks in San Francisco. Foursquare lets you share your whereabouts with friends, no matter if you're at a hot new bar or a neighborhood pet store. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)" border="0" /></a>AP - Laura Fitton's ascent has been staggering: In less than a year, she's become mayor of nine different places in several different states, all without giving any speeches or kissing any babies.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091123/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_social_interaction_startup"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091123/capt.82068ed498034295b789f2e71eae7be9.social_interaction_startup_fx101.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=zMlGrf7kjPGhrIICaLQbhw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Friday Nov. 20, 2009, the Foursquare application is shown on an iPhone in front of a Starbucks in San Francisco. Foursquare lets you share your whereabouts with friends, no matter if you're at a hot new bar or a neighborhood pet store. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091123/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_display_ads_acquisition ap/20091123/us_tec_google_display_ads_acquisition AP technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:33:26 GMT AP - Google Inc. has snapped up another startup in its quest to sell more visual advertising on the Web. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091123/ap_on_hi_te/cn_canada_facebook_insurance ap/20091123/cn_canada_facebook_insurance AP health Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:29:33 GMT AP - A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company's decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091123/ap_on_hi_te/us_holiday_shopping_cyber_monday ap/20091123/us_holiday_shopping_cyber_monday AP technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:35:16 GMT AP - Retailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday &mdash; a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving &mdash; and trying to spin their discounts into into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber Weeks. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_hi_te/as_tec_skorea_iphone ap/20091122/as_tec_skorea_iphone AP technology Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:49:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_hi_te/as_tec_skorea_iphone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091122/capt.ca87b9b7b171493c824a1bb2650f0fb2.china_iphone_nyol529.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=J3kVlvV_kFmWdSgR9qeCjA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Apple's Vice President of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak speaks during an event to officially launch the Apple iPhone for the first time on Mainland China in Beijing, China, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. The mobile device which has been available for years through unofficial channels in China will finally be accessible to millions of user in one of the world's largest mobile phone market. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Apple Inc's iPhone is coming to South Korea this week, a local carrier announced Sunday, bringing the iconic communications device to one of the world's most sophisticated mobile phone markets.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_hi_te/as_tec_skorea_iphone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091122/capt.ca87b9b7b171493c824a1bb2650f0fb2.china_iphone_nyol529.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=J3kVlvV_kFmWdSgR9qeCjA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="Apple's Vice President of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak speaks during an event to officially launch the Apple iPhone for the first time on Mainland China in Beijing, China, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. The mobile device which has been available for years through unofficial channels in China will finally be accessible to millions of user in one of the world's largest mobile phone market. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091124/wr_nm/us_microsoft_newscorp nm/20091124/us_microsoft_newscorp Reuters technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:07:15 GMT Reuters - Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091124/tc_pcworld/buffaloshipsusb30harddrive pcworld/20091124/buffaloshipsusb30harddrive PC World technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:20:00 GMT PC World - In spite of rumors that the first USB 3.0 products wouldn't surface until the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Buffalo Technology has beaten all comers to the punch by announcing today it was shipping its new DriveStation HD-HXU3 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 drive. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/bs_afp/finlandjapantelecomequipranddcompanycutsnokia afp/20091124/finlandjapantelecomequipranddcompanycutsnokia AFP business Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/bs_afp/finlandjapantelecomequipranddcompanycutsnokia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259055498829-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=iyc_FDtNl3lNkkx650joKQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The headquarters of Nokia in Espoo, Finland. Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, has said it would cut around 220 jobs in Japan as part of its plans to streamline its vast research and development operations.(AFP/Lehtikuva/File/Martti Kainulainen)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said on Tuesday it would cut around 220 jobs in Japan as part of its plans to streamline its vast research and development operations.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/bs_afp/finlandjapantelecomequipranddcompanycutsnokia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259055498829-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=iyc_FDtNl3lNkkx650joKQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="The headquarters of Nokia in Espoo, Finland. Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, has said it would cut around 220 jobs in Japan as part of its plans to streamline its vast research and development operations.(AFP/Lehtikuva/File/Martti Kainulainen)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091123/tc_pcworld/thejustinbieberexampleusetwitterorinciteariotandgetarrested pcworld/20091123/thejustinbieberexampleusetwitterorinciteariotandgetarrested PC World technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:25:00 GMT PC World - Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber owes his entire career to the Internet. When he was the ripe old age of 13, Bieber and his family began posting videos of his performances on YouTube. Someone in a suit liked the tunes and boom -- Bieber was signed with Usher's label. Now his infamy shall be cast in the iron of the Web, as one of Bieber's team was arrested for not using Twitter. One more time: arrested for not using Twitter. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091123/tc_pcworld/supermariokartbittripvoidhitwii pcworld/20091123/supermariokartbittripvoidhitwii PC World technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:28:00 GMT PC World - Of all the Mario Kart games, the best was probably the first, and now you can see why for 800 Wii Points, or about eight US dollars. We're talking the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) original here, born 17 years ago in 1992. It supported 1 to 2 players, packed eight playable Mario-verse characters, and offered three championship cups divvied into three distinct 'kart' classes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091123/tc_pcworld/appleentersattvsverizonadwar pcworld/20091123/appleentersattvsverizonadwar PC World business Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:13:00 GMT PC World - In a battle between AT&T and Verizon Wireless that never seems to end, AT&T's partner Apple now appears to be getting into the mix with two retaliatory iPhone TV ad that air Monday night. The ads comes hot on the heels of AT&T's TV ad campaign that aimed to "set the record straight" around Verizon's "there's a map for that" campaign. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_bi_ge/us_corel_buyout ap/20091124/us_corel_buyout AP business Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:37:53 GMT AP - Corel Corp., the maker of WordPerfect and other software, on Monday justified an offer to take the company private, saying that complete ownership is necessary to inject capital quickly and avert a default on its loans. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_bi_ge/climate_hacked_e_mails ap/20091124/climate_hacked_e_mails AP science Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:52:21 GMT AP - A leading climate change scientist said hackers breaking into a university's computer server and then posting documents online show the nasty politics of global warming. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_bi_ge/us_spam_scam ap/20091124/us_spam_scam AP business Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:01:29 GMT AP - A federal judge has sentenced a suburban Detroit man described as one of the world's most prolific senders of spam e-mail to more than four years in prison for his role in a 2005 stock fraud scheme that netted him $2.7 million. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091123/tc_pcworld/bugsfixesfirefoxsquashesabuggymicrosoftplugin pcworld/20091123/bugsfixesfirefoxsquashesabuggymicrosoftplugin PC World technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:00:00 GMT PC World - Redmond turned red-faced upon learning that an automatically installed Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation plug-in for Firefox opened a major security hole. Following Microsoft's disclosure of the bug, Mozilla blocked the plug-in. According to Mozilla, Microsoft agreed with the move, even though it had released a patch to close the underlying flaw. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091123/tc_nm/us_iphone_security nm/20091123/us_iphone_security Reuters technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:09:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091123/tc_nm/us_iphone_security"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091123/i/r1625279754.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=Zo3wkU4tcXJNufvQi1zwGg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="An advertisement for the Apple iPhone is shown at a retail store of an Orange mobile phone network provider in Bordeaux, southwestern France, October 23, 2009. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091123/tc_nm/us_iphone_security"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091123/i/r1625279754.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=Zo3wkU4tcXJNufvQi1zwGg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="An advertisement for the Apple iPhone is shown at a retail store of an Orange mobile phone network provider in Bordeaux, southwestern France, October 23, 2009. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)