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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page China National News.com http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/10/id/d805653303cbbba8/ en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 01:06:29 -0400 Fri, 16 May 2008 01:06:29 -0400 30 London, May 15 : Leakage of credit card and bank account details on the internet has been a regular scenario, but the latest entrant in this virtual world of identity frauds involves hackers tapping into voice-over IP telephony accounts. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359706/cs/1/ Thu, 15 May 2008 09:00:42 -0400 China National News.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359706/cs/1/ London, May 15 : It was like a merger of high technology and high art when a robot conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359569/cs/1/ Thu, 15 May 2008 04:00:51 -0400 China National News.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359569/cs/1/ Washington, May 15 : By using computer models, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a new compound that can inhibit HIV protease, which is an established target for AIDS treatment and can further lead to a new class of AIDS drugs. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359528/cs/1/ Thu, 15 May 2008 03:00:41 -0400 China National News.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/359528/cs/1/ LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861227/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:52:22 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861227/ NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS Corp. is acquiring a big online reach with its acquisition of CNet Networks Inc. but also a company that's faced heavy criticism from investors. Those concerns as well as the heft... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861228/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:52:21 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861228/ (05-15) 15:53 PDT Harrisonburg, Va. (AP) -- A Harrisonburg court has dismissed a case against a baby boy summoned to appear in court for an unpaid bill. Richard White said he was shocked when he got ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861475/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:31:53 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861475/ Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google and other much larger rivals. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861337/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:01:28 -0400 USA Today http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861337/ The international police (Interpol) on Thursday delivered the results of the analysis they made to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia's (FARC) computers, Colombian Foreign Minister Fernando Ar... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860144/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:32:16 -0400 People's Daily http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860144/ NEW YORK — Cox Communications appears to be interfering with file-sharing by its Internet subscribers in the same manner that has landed Comcast Corp. in hot water with regulators, according to r... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861336/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:01:27 -0400 USA Today http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861336/ -- A 17-year-old boy was shot and wounded today in Berkeley and police are searching for the assailant. The shooting happened shortly after 3 p.m. at the corner of Dwight and Martin Luther King Jr. ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861476/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:31:52 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861476/ Research ) reached an agreement to make available its Windows operating system software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop, the company said on Thursday. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861386/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:54:06 -0400 Reuters http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861386/ SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 47 percent from a year earlier, as Take-Two Interactive Software Inc's "Grand Theft Auto 4" and Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii cons... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861385/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:54:04 -0400 Reuters http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861385/ Meanwhile, fewer students overall are seeking information technology careers, partly because of a perception that there are few jobs in that field. Since 2000, the number of students pursuing computin... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861335/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:01:29 -0400 USA Today http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861335/ O.K., first of all, what's up with the name Chumby?It seems deliberately calculated to make this $180 appliance sound endearing, as though it's the spiritual descendant of the Gumby and the Furby.The ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860607/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:20:32 -0400 CNBC http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860607/ Is the end of the Intel-AMD duopoly nigh? Via Technologies is hoping this may be the case when it announces the "Isaiah" processor later this month. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861927/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:44:02 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861927/ SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Mark Cuban has one qualification that stands out starkly from the rest of Carl Icahn's proposed slate of directors for Yahoo Corp.: The man knows how to get a ridiculous... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860146/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:10:12 -0400 Market Watch http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860146/ -- A takeover bid by Microsoft Corp. recently averted, Yahoo Inc. finds itself back in the cross-hairs Thursday after billionaire investor Carl Icahn took aim at replacing the Web portal's board with... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860204/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:31:55 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860204/ Google Translate just got more useful for a Prague citizen visiting India. The online translation function now can understand 10 more languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861925/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:44:01 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861925/ A major Yahoo investor weighed in late Wednesday with support for Carl Icahn's initiative to unseat Yahoo's board, signaling yet another salvo to be fired in the coming weeks as the proxy fight betwee... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861926/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:44:00 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861926/ Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 21:00 CDT UpSellit, an ecommerce and emarketing solution utilizing proprietary virtual-chat technology to engage proactively and personally with customers, has been ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860147/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:23:42 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860147/ It turns out that isn't the only task that eludes computers. They're also not much good at taking an image and telling you if it's a cat or a dog, or describing if a song is happy or sad. So von Ahn i... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860145/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:35:53 -0400 The Register http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14860145/ SYDNEY -- Asian shares are seen rising on Friday, after softer oil prices soothed concerns about inflation, while hopes that a battle to take control of Yahoo Inc. may force it back into talks with Mi... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859985/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:17:06 -0400 Inquirer http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859985/ Florida's attorney general said on Thursday the state was seeking to fine Verizon Communications for violating service standards, but the No. 2 U.S. telephone company said its service was fine. Flo... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861922/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:55 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861922/ that RIM's BlackBerry Thunder will arrive later this year exclusively on Vodafone and Verizon's networks. The device is seen as an answer to Apple's iPhone, which http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861921/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:53 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861921/ way back in October 2007. The surprising thing is that she may get one. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis wrote Thursday that he was "contemplating granting a new trial." That's because, Davis s... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861920/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:50 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861920/ Charter Communications is planning to monitor its customers' Web surfing and then, anonymously, display relevant advertisements. What the third-largest U.S. cable operator, headquartered in St. L... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861928/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:49 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14861928/ Paul Foy May 15, 2008 - 7:00 p.m. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter told a Senate hearing on Thursday that commercial development on federal lands rich with oil-shale reserves would... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856674/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:58:45 -0400 Canadian Business http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856674/ Jameson - who works for robotics firm Sarcos Inc. in Salt Lake City, which is under contract with the U.S. Army - is helping assess the 150-pound suit's viability for the soldiers of tomorrow. The sui... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858218/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:05:45 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858218/ LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Shares of BMC Software Inc. leaped in late trading Thursday after the company issued a strong outlook for 2009 and posted better-than-expected quarterly results, but a lig... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856672/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:24:51 -0400 Market Watch http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856672/ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revi... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858219/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:05:46 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858219/ NEW YORK (AP) - It looks like Comcast may not be alone. The company's interference with Internet traffic has prompted a federal investigation and calls for "Net Neutrality" laws covering Internet ser... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856656/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:52:12 -0400 WISH TV8 http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856656/ U.S. broadcaster CBS announced Thursday to buy online media company CNET for 1.8 billion dollars in a deal that would give the traditional television network a major presence in the rapidly growing In... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856654/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:54:24 -0400 People's Daily http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856654/ NEW DELHI: Tech Mahindra, the sixth largest IT exporter, has bagged a $700-million contract from British Telecom (BT) for transforming and improving BT's IT estate or infrastructure. This is one of... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856676/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:10:00 -0400 Times of India http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856676/ A look at Yahoo Inc.'s current board of directors and the opposing slate of candidates nominated by investor Carl Icahn in hopes of forcing Yahoo to renew sales negotiations with Microsoft Corp.: http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858221/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:05:43 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858221/ Last spring, LG unveiled the 'world's first high-definition TV refrigerator,' with a 15-inch LCD screen built into the refrigerator door, as well as an FM radio and weather station. The unit costs $4,... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856675/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:39:12 -0400 MSNBC http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856675/ -- Four state Supreme Court justices may have made history, but they overreached and invited a voter backlash that will quickly undo their decision to allow same-sex marriages, opponents of the rulin... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858566/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:43:44 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858566/ Johnson Space Center has called in extermination experts to keep the pests out of their sensitive and critical systems. The ants have been causing all kinds of trouble in five Texas counties in and ar... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856673/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:04:48 -0400 Computerworld http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856673/ By RYAN NAKASHIMAAP BUSINESS WRITER LOS ANGELES -- Federal authorities said Thursday that former Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. chairman Henry Yuen is a fugitive after he was indicted on a fel... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859815/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:18:12 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859815/ -- San Francisco - The gay couples started flocking to the San Francisco Clerk's Office at 10:20 a.m. - just 20 minutes after the decision was released. City officials say they'll likely be unable t... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858565/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:43:45 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858565/ -- The parents of a 17-year-old San Jose boy who was fatally mauled by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo filed a claim today against the city in the latest legal salvo over the Christmas Day attack. ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14857109/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:43:43 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14857109/ -- Roberta Pursley's body was found about 150 yards off the Richmond shoreline April 28. Her injuries, medical examiners said, were consistent with a plunge from a great height into water. And there ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858567/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:43:42 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858567/ -- The National Weather Service said it was very, very hot today, confirming what everyone else in the Bay Area already figured out. It wasn't just very, very hot, the weather service said, it was "... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858569/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:43:41 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858569/ -- A Daly City man whose two young sons took the stand against him in his trial was convicted today of murdering his wife. Quincy Norton, 33, showed no reaction as a clerk read the verdict in San Ma... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858568/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:43:39 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14858568/ wecando.biz Just 3 days after Google seemed to have Web 2.0 enabled the whole WWW, it seems its plans for data portability have taken a knock-back. Facebook has written a blog post revealing they hav... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856770/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:04:13 -0400 ZDNet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856770/ ), the leading on demand, social media platform, today announced that Alex Blum, CEO of KickApps, has been invited to present at the Goldman Sachs Ninth Annual Global Internet Conference in Las ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856655/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:01:53 -0400 PR Web http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856655/ and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales deconstructed Wikipedia and discussed peer production models at an event here Thursday. Benkler, who is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneuri... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859423/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:41 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859423/ Eighty-two surveillance cameras will be watching the perimeter of one of the busiest shipping ports in Northern California. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi toured the Richmond facility and reports on the ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859417/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:35 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859417/ Sun just lost the CTO of its desktop division, Hans Muller. Not to worry, though, the open-source world gets to keep him as he's heading down the road to increasingly open-source friendly Adobe to wor... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859444/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:21 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859444/ , then embed those playlists in any Web page. The process is brain-dead simple: first you run a search of song titles or album titles against Amazon's database, then select from the results. Second, c... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859409/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:25 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859409/ titled "Safari Carpet Bomb," Nitesh Dhanjani describes how a rogue Web site can easily download resources to the Windows desktop or downloads directory on the Mac. "Apple does not feel this is an i... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859421/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:39 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859421/ THURSDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Weight-loss supplements widely available for purchase online often include ingredients that are potentially hazardous to your heart, and a new study shows the labe... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852181/ Thu, 15 May 2008 18:59:05 -0400 Health Day http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852181/ The technology and retail sectors have underpinned solid gains late in the session on American equity markets. Agreement in the US Senate on a housing rescue plan has also been mentioned as a positiv... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852209/ Thu, 15 May 2008 18:28:35 -0400 ABC News http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852209/ , according to the results of the survey. Cox has acknowledged a practice called "protocol filtering," but says that's not the equivalent of creating different standards for handling content traveling... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859431/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:49 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859431/ Following the February 5 presidential primary, several county clerks in New Jersey asked an independent researcher to study the vote results on the state's electronic voting machines. The vendor, Sequ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859410/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:26 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859410/ project and Microsoft announced on Thursday that, indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. The companies plan to sell a Windows-powered XO in five or six countries s... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859435/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:53 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859435/ Today, Garmin announced a new plan that will give BlackBerry users unlimited, lifetime access to its Garmin Mobile for BlackBerry navigation application. Designed for those who don't want to be bother... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859438/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:22 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859438/ (there's one at each seat in the section) or listen to your playlist on its noise-cancellation headphones, which will break in to tell you when you have to shut it off, presumably. Other airlines h... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859408/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:23 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859408/ , but can they actually take action, if they choose, against the company or any other broadband provider on Net neutrality grounds? The answer may not be simple. And if the FCC and other regulato... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859432/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:51 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859432/ , Col. Charles W. Williamson III wrote that "America needs a network that can project power by building an af.mil robot network (botnet) that can direct such massive amounts of traffic to target compu... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859411/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:27 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859411/ In a March 26 report, BusinessWeek showcased the best young entrepreneurs in tech, all aged 30 and under and considered the "most likely to shape the world's digital future." Of the 45 entre... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852210/ Thu, 15 May 2008 18:21:09 -0400 eWeek http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852210/ On the morning of May 25, Mars will receive a new alien contraption from Earth, the Phoenix Mars Lander. Its three month mission is to sample buried soil and ice--and maybe find signs of life--in the ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859440/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:12 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859440/ Google passed Yahoo in its share of monthly visitors in the United States for the first time this April, buoyed by growth in search and YouTube videos, according to ComScore statistics released Thursd... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859420/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:37 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859420/ , the hedge fund that raked in billions of dollars over the last year in betting on the subprime credit meltdown, has built up a stake of about 50 million shares in http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14853245/ Thu, 15 May 2008 18:36:37 -0400 CNBC http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14853245/ free Wi-Fi access to San Francisco , one neighborhood at a time, as I discovered when I passed by the company's folksy demo table at my local farmers' market last month (see http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859433/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:52 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859433/ Google confirmed today it's gathering 3D data along with the photographs it takes for its online Street View service, a potential boon for those of us who fantasize about flying like Superman through ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859419/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:37 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859419/ By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Timeline of events in the Megan Meier Internet suicide case: September 2006: 13-year-old Megan Meier of Dardenne Prairie, Mo., begins communicating online on the MySpace so... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856296/ Thu, 15 May 2008 18:19:22 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14856296/ has become the first next-generation video game console to hit 10 million units sold in the United States. Further, said Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859412/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:28 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859412/ it has spent a lot of money without making any headway against Google or even Yahoo. Officially, the company declines to comment on Icahn's move, while continuing to send out the signal that it has... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859414/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:30 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859414/ and JetBlue Airways--along with International Aero Engines, Honeywell Aerospace, and a second Honeywell company called UOP. The group plans to study ways to make commercial aviation fuels out of so-ca... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859441/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:17 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859441/ TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A Japanese man who developed the world's smallest helicopter will take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the Renaissance genius' original idea. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854959/ Thu, 15 May 2008 18:12:22 -0400 CNN http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854959/ [Jive's] strategy for competing with giants: work alongside them. Oracle and SAP bundle Jive's discussion forum software into their portal applications. The version of Clearspace released in April let... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859443/ Thu, 15 May 2008 19:51:20 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14859443/ -- The Senate passed the $290 billion five-year farm bill by a strong veto-proof margin Thursday, ensuring that the measure becomes law despite President Bush's threatened veto, which would be the fi... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854973/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:20 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854973/ This is the first big investor for Animoto. Previous funding has come from friends and family. Animoto.com, which launched in August, has more than 160,000 registered users, with 7.5 percent of them ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855832/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:54:13 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855832/ (05-15) 13:58 PDT LOS ANGELES, (AP) -- A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-ol... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854970/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:29 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854970/ (05-15) 14:05 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Barack Obama accused President Bush of "a false political attack" Thursday after Bush warned in Israel against appeasing terrorists — early salvos in a gen... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854972/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:23 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854972/ , an aggregation site that summed online news stories and other content up in 100 words or fewer for quick consumption, has shut its doors. The shutdown is ideally temporary, the site's management ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855850/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:50 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855850/ The Google-backed consumer genome service 23andMe staked out a role in the growing medical database industry Wednesday, announcing that it will collaborate with Parkinson's disease researchers to coll... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852320/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:26 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852320/ the post by Facebook employee Charlie Cheever read. "We've found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge, which doesn't respect the privacy st... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855829/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:54:11 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855829/ Dark energy powers the Internet, at least according Jonathan Zittrain. Zittrain is the Jack N. and Lillian Berkman visiting professor for entrepreneurial legal studies at Harvard Law School, the ch... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855849/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:51 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855849/ That has changed this week with the U.S. launch of WiiWare, a service that Nintendo says lets game makers experiment with quirky ideas that can be brought to fruition for a fraction of the cost of a r... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854787/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:05:18 -0400 Reuters http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854787/ . "Facebook has backed out of the CH vs. Facebook beer pong tournament for 'legal and PR' reasons," Mohrer wrote. "Lame!" For those who stepped in late, beer pong, known as "beirut" in some circles, ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855848/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:51 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855848/ -- The Chinese government accelerated its huge rescue-and-recovery operation Wednesday, dispatching hundreds of busloads of civilian rescue teams, paramilitary police and youthful volunteers toward e... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854975/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:16 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854975/ in this demo video , shows the overlap of board members for large tech companies, including Apple, Intel, Yahoo, and Microsoft. You can use the tool to figure out who's worked where, then drill down t... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855853/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:44 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855853/ No price controls The popularity of services like ProgressiveRx reflects a growing market for alternative drug supplies amid a backdrop of soaring health costs. Americans typically pay the highest pri... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852359/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:21 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852359/ to say that Hannes Schwaderer was only referring to the possibility that Apple might use Atom in a future Mobile Internet Device, not the iPhone. An Intel representative in the U.S. used words I'm no... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855839/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:55 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855839/ Despite the slowing economy, marketers continued spending on Internet advertising last year to the tune of $21.2 billion, up 26 percent from the previous year, according to a http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855847/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:52 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855847/ One of the things that we open sourcerors need to figure out - or which the market needs to figure out - is the convenience of purchasing proprietary software. By this I don't mean any particular vend... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855845/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:43 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855845/ There are two main audiences for the SearchMonkey Guide: SearchMonkey developers are front end engineers who build presentation applications, small PHP applications that enhance search results. Most ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855844/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:36 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855844/ -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's unusual proposal to borrow against future state lottery revenue to help erase the state's $17.2 billion budget deficit drew sharp criticism Wednesday from Democratic l... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854974/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:18 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854974/ the denial . Funnily enough, only last week I asked Ashish Patel of Intel Capital whether we'd see the Atom in smartphones, and he said no - not until the second generation of the Atom, which is an... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852343/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:07:41 -0400 ZDNet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14852343/ Many Californians don't understand how businesses are using and selling their personal information, according to a report released today by the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854971/ Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:24 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14854971/ last week. I am happy to say that me and VZW are back to being BFF. All he really knew was that the call center had told him that I had a very negative experience in the store and he called me pers... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855840/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:35 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855840/ Despite providing the largest portion of alternative fuel in the US, corn ethanol gets a lot of flack in the circles Cleantech Blog runs in. The usual culprits go something like this: Corn ethanol is ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855843/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:34 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855843/ Atari 2600 Video Computer System is one of the more fondly remembered video game consoles. For its time, the Atari 2600 was a breakthrough in entertainment technology and foreshadowed what would event... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855857/ Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:30 -0400 Cnet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/14855857/