BUSINESS

08/27/2008

Best Western rebuts claims of massive data breach
Did a computer intrusion at a Best Western hotel in Germany open the door for a hacker to steal the records of 8 million customers and pull off "the greatest cyber-heist in world history," as a Scottish newspaper put it? Or was the incident a significantly more minor affair, affecting only 10 customers at the one facility, as claimed by Best Western?

08/25/2008

Research aims to put tongues in control of devices
Georgia Tech researchers believe a magnetic, tongue-powered system could transform a disabled person's mouth into a virtual computer, teeth into a keyboard — and tongue into the key that manipulates it all.

More Internet service providers cap usage -- and threaten Net's growth

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Limitations could have consequences not just for consumers — who would have to learn to watch how much data their Internet use entails — but also for companies that hope to make the Internet a conduit for movies and other content that comes in huge files.

Facebook cuts off Scrabulous after legal complaint
A highly popular Scrabble clone already pulled from Facebook in the United States and Canada continued its tumble over the weekend as the online hangout extended its block of the game throughout most of the world.

08/21/2008

GameStop 2Q earnings blow away analysts' estimates
The video game retailer said revenue hit $1.8 billion in the quarter, up from $1.34 billion in the same time a year ago. Profit jumped to $57.2 million, or 34 cents per share, compared to $21.8 million, or 13 cents per share, last year.

08/22/2008

Tech review: Never mind the PC's keyboard, here's Dragon NaturallySpeaking
According to Nuance, NaturallySpeaking 10 is about 20 percent more accurate than its predecessor. Better still, it's about 50 percent faster, so there's very little delay between the sound of my voice and the appearance of text.

08/19/2008

American Airlines launches in-flight broadband service

SUZANNE MARTA/DMN

American Airlines launched its GoGo in-flight broadband service on Wednesday. For $12.95 per flight, passengers can get online from the air.

For $12.95 per flight, passengers on AA flights using its Boeing 767-200 will be able to surf the Net, check e-mail, instant message and access corporate VPN accounts using the system by Aircell LLC.
Blog: Aviation Biz

Analysts: U.S. consumers buying fewer cellphones, paying more
The NPD Group said in a report Tuesday that 28 million cell phones were sold in the United States in the second quarter, a decline of 13 percent from the same period a year ago.

Cellphone firms adding to the wait
Wireless companies seem not to have gotten the memo. According to a recent J.D. Power and Associates study, the average time customers waited to speak to a representative at their wireless phone company in early 2008 was 4.4 minutes, up 34 percent from the none-too-brief 3.3 minutes in 2003.

Japan reports 2 iPods overheating, suspects defect
Japan is investigating a possible battery defect in the popular iPod Nano music player after reports that two overheated in Tokyo, scorching nearby paper and a woven straw mat, a government official said Tuesday.

08/18/2008

U.S. is lagging on free cell TV
Picture whipping out your cellphone and catching up with Lost or Jeopardy , or watching the local 11 o'clock news, all for free. You can do this with an imported Chinese phone, but you can't with any phone sold in the U.S. – at least not without monthly charges.

Saysme.tv streamlines process for getting homemade ads on TV
Saysme.tv didn't invent the loudmouth, but, as the company's logo indicates, it sure hopes to sell him a megaphone.

08/15/2008

New BlackBerry expected within month in N. America
The first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year, the Bold is a high-end BlackBerry that has twice the screen resolution of current models made by RIM.

Tech review: Three kinds of external batteries keep iPhones ringing and singing
If there's one gripe about the iPhone 3G, it's the battery life. Apple chose not to make the iPhone battery user-replaceable, so keeping the single internal battery running is your first priority.

Court says copyrights apply even for free software
People are free to use that material in their own products, but they must credit the original authors of the programming code and release their modifications into the wild as well, a cycle that's critical for free software to continue improving.

08/14/2008

Is a manufacturing glitch slowing down iPhone 3g?
The report said the most likely cause of the 3G problems is defective adjustments between the antenna and an amplifier that captures very weak signals from the antenna. This could lead to poor 3G connectivity and slower data speeds.

New Yahoo service helps users share their location
So far, Yahoo has spotted about 50 applications using Fire Eagle, including one that a user built to track himself and another meant to add locations to blog posts.

New chips to let computers wake up to take a phone call
Current computers have to be fully on to receive a call, making them impractical and energy-wasters as replacements for the telephone.

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