Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/738 technology Technology News en-us Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:49:00 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/20091107/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_supreme_court_software_patents ap/20091107/us_tec_supreme_court_software_patents AP technology Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:27:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_supreme_court_software_patents"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.70fbcce9c2434b68b8e8adba2894724a.supreme_court_software_patent_paks203.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=U8i._w0KnxgUdodpgbx8Tg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo made on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, WeatherWise CEO Rand Warsaw talks in the conference room of his offices in Pittsburgh about his patent case that is being heard by the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)" border="0" /></a>AP - With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_supreme_court_software_patents"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.70fbcce9c2434b68b8e8adba2894724a.supreme_court_software_patent_paks203.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=U8i._w0KnxgUdodpgbx8Tg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo made on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, WeatherWise CEO Rand Warsaw talks in the conference room of his offices in Pittsburgh about his patent case that is being heard by the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_call_of_duty_holiday ap/20091106/us_tec_call_of_duty_holiday AP technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:55:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_call_of_duty_holiday"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.1b95cda8a6454460a018e41aae9216fc.call_of_duty_holiday_caps301.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=.1ohOoc_y0_DKkLQ8t6KQg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="In this photo made Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2009, a release date is shown on an advertisement for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sign at GameStop in Redwood City, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - This holiday season's biggest entertainment blockbuster likely will be a sequel to a popular franchise, with jarring depictions of war and an intricate story of good versus evil. It could easily rake in more than last year's record $155 million opening weekend for "The Dark Knight."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_call_of_duty_holiday"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.1b95cda8a6454460a018e41aae9216fc.call_of_duty_holiday_caps301.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=.1ohOoc_y0_DKkLQ8t6KQg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo made Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2009, a release date is shown on an advertisement for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sign at GameStop in Redwood City, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_en_mo/us_dvd_price_war ap/20091106/us_dvd_price_war AP entertainment Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:41:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_en_mo/us_dvd_price_war"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.17af46b739264e76ac3c9f2075069064.dvd_price_war_nybz159.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=CVgYUEzgKsk9XYGZuIn4VQ--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="In this screen shot taken from WalMart.com, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, Wal-Mart is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.(AP Photo/WalMart.com)" border="0" /></a>AP - First it was books. Now it's DVDs.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_en_mo/us_dvd_price_war"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.17af46b739264e76ac3c9f2075069064.dvd_price_war_nybz159.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=CVgYUEzgKsk9XYGZuIn4VQ--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="photo" title="In this screen shot taken from WalMart.com, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, Wal-Mart is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.(AP Photo/WalMart.com)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_skype_suit_settlement ap/20091106/us_tec_skype_suit_settlement AP technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:42:38 GMT AP - EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_digital_life_tech_test_motorola_droid ap/20091104/us_tec_digital_life_tech_test_motorola_droid AP technology Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:28:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_digital_life_tech_test_motorola_droid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.94f6ae70408a4a6ca19a8b86bbacf07e.digital_life_tech_test_motorola_droid_fx301.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6gy8CMSYE_EwdO1BsZ.Jkw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The new Motorola Droid smart phone is shown in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)" border="0" /></a>AP - Since its debut in 2007, millions of people have gravitated toward Apple's iPhone, wooed by its sleek hardware, simple user interface and abundance of applications.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_digital_life_tech_test_motorola_droid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.94f6ae70408a4a6ca19a8b86bbacf07e.digital_life_tech_test_motorola_droid_fx301.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6gy8CMSYE_EwdO1BsZ.Jkw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="The new Motorola Droid smart phone is shown in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. (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/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_activision ap/20091106/us_earns_activision AP technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:51:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_activision"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.92b5e1dd1c8e4c408240c7a136366b2f.earns_activision_cams201.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=nLFPQ1QDtT3MAVW_wllofw--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="In this photo made Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, Activision's Guitar Hero video game is displayed at a Micro Center store in Santa Clara, Calif. Activision Blizzard Inc. releases quarterly earnings at the close of the market Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)" border="0" /></a>AP - It's been a rough year for the video game industry, but Activision Blizzard Inc. reported a profit for its third quarter because of lower costs and a good response for games such as "Guitar Hero 5" and "World of Warcraft."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_activision"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.92b5e1dd1c8e4c408240c7a136366b2f.earns_activision_cams201.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=nLFPQ1QDtT3MAVW_wllofw--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo made Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, Activision's Guitar Hero video game is displayed at a Micro Center store in Santa Clara, Calif. Activision Blizzard Inc. releases quarterly earnings at the close of the market Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091107/tc_pcworld/bluebeatvsbeatles3thingswevelearned pcworld/20091107/bluebeatvsbeatles3thingswevelearned PC World technology Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:48:00 GMT PC World - It appears that audacious online retailer BlueBeat won't be selling Beatles tunes anytime soon. The little-known website had been hawking Fab Four tracks for 25 cents apiece until a federal court in Los Angeles slapped the site with a temporary restraining order this week. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091107/tc_pcworld/applereadiesworldmodeiphonereportsays pcworld/20091107/applereadiesworldmodeiphonereportsays PC World technology Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:22:00 GMT PC World - A new report from OTR Global says Apple plans to release a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone in the third quarter of 2010. If true, the new iPhone will play nice with Verizon's network and spell an end to AT&T's exclusivity contract in the U.S. -- which is already slated to end sometime next year. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_cardionet ap/20091106/us_earns_cardionet AP business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:53:25 GMT AP - Wireless heart-monitoring device maker CardioNet Inc. fell to a loss in the third quarter, as it had ramped up marketing spending after Medicare lowered reimbursement rates on the company's products. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/bs_afp/usbritainitinternetmusicbluebeatemibeatles afp/20091107/usbritainitinternetmusicbluebeatemibeatles AFP business Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:06:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/bs_afp/usbritainitinternetmusicbluebeatemibeatles"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257566678296-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ASmLd9evIRKBtqidUCEz.Q--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="The Beatles perform in 1964 at the Olympia in Paris. US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/bs_afp/usbritainitinternetmusicbluebeatemibeatles"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257566678296-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ASmLd9evIRKBtqidUCEz.Q--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="The Beatles perform in 1964 at the Olympia in Paris. US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091106/tc_pcworld/salesboycottovermodernwarfare2withsteamtrojanhorse pcworld/20091106/salesboycottovermodernwarfare2withsteamtrojanhorse PC World technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:06:00 GMT PC World - Steam, it seems, may finally have tromped across the proverbial bridge too far. The online PC games storefront with the sales leverage of a lion but the transparency of a two-way mirror reportedly signed a deal with Activision to load its Steamworks technology into retail and digitally distributed PC copies of Modern Warfare 2, and online sales competitors are bristling. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20091108/tc_macworld/appletv301updateaddressesdisappearingcontentissue macworld/20091108/appletv301updateaddressesdisappearingcontentissue Macworld.com technology Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:49:00 GMT Macworld.com - Apple TV users running the recently released Apple TV 3.0 update need to update again, according to Apple. The new Apple TV 3.0.1 update prevents content from temporarily disappearing from the set-top box until it’s resynced. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091106/tc_pcworld/windows7puttingearlysalesfiguresinperspective pcworld/20091106/windows7puttingearlysalesfiguresinperspective PC World technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:07:00 GMT PC World - Initial sales numbers for Windows 7 are in and it seems that the operating system is delivering the redemption for Windows Vista that Microsoft was hoping for. Lower revenue and lower PC hardware sales figures related to Windows 7 hint at issues, but those figures have to be put in perspective. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20091106/bs_ibd_ibd/20091106tech01 ibd/20091106/20091106tech01 Investor's Business Daily business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:30:47 GMT Investor's Business Daily - IBM is betting big on analytics, and Fred Balboni is leading the charge. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091106/tc_pcworld/gumblarmalwareshomedomainisactiveagain pcworld/20091106/gumblarmalwareshomedomainisactiveagain PC World technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:15 GMT PC World - ScanSafe researchers are seeing renewed activity regarding Gumblar, a multifunctional piece of malware that spreads by attacking PCs visiting hacked Web pages. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091107/tc_pcworld/openofficeintroducemultibuttonconfusionwithnewmouse pcworld/20091107/openofficeintroducemultibuttonconfusionwithnewmouse PC World technology Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:21:00 GMT PC World - WarMouse, in collaboration with the OpenOffice.org community, revealed on Friday a new open-source mouse developed specifically for users of the OpenOffice suite. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091107/tc_pcworld/nodroidformeiphoneisthepcofsmartphones pcworld/20091107/nodroidformeiphoneisthepcofsmartphones PC World technology Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:44:00 GMT PC World - There is no piece of technological wizardry that I want so much as a Droid. Yet, I have decided to hold onto my iPhone. Why? Because the iPhone is the PC of smartphones.