EBay: Amazon-ification Takes Hold - The online auction giant, hoping to boost inventory and revive growth, will imitate Amazon and court users who sell at fixed prices
Unilever: Behind the IT Curve - Employees at the consumer products company object to its antediluvian attitudes about Web access, e-mail, and other mainstays of modern life
Sony Ericsson's Answer to the iPhone? - Sony Ericsson's Xperia mobile phone won't be released for a couple of months, but it's getting a lot of buzz in the blogosphere
Can Microsoft Catch Up With Google? - No, but the software giant has been trying some interesting new
things in search. And it has the money and time to spend on startups and new search features
Ex-Apple Exec Settles Charges - Nancy Heinen, former general counsel, will pay $2.2 million to end SEC's options-backdating case
AMD vs. Intel: The Challenger's New Plan - Struggling AMD may look to unload its chipmaking facilities to a partner to concentrate on battling the industry's giant
Standing Out in a Sea of Storage Startups - It isn't easy for online storage companies to break through and cash in. Winners will learn to layer storage with more valuable services
One Laptop per Child Lands in India - The Indian government wasn't interested, so OLPC partners with Reliance ADA Group to bring computers to India's primary school kids
Is Apple Revamping Its Laptop Line? - It's time to take a new look at MacBooks. A step-up to multitouch screens starting at a nifty price would thrill consumers
Where Customers Go to Praise (or Bash) You - There are a dozen or so Web sites that review local businesses across the country. Take a look, and read what people say behind your back
Online Sharing with Creative Commons - The Japanese Net entrepreneur Joichi Ito makes a case for free-content distribution on the Internet. Nine Inch Nails is an early adopter
Congress to Push Web Privacy - Support is building for a measure that would make companies get consumers' approval before collecting info about their Web surfing
EBay Steps Up Asian Expansion - To boost its presence in Asia and fuel growth, the auction site plans to acquire a 36.4% stake in Korean e-commerce giant Gmarket
Facebook: No. 1 Globally - The social network has vaulted over MySpace in worldwide audience growth, thanks to tools that translate content into many languages
Crying Foul over Online Junk Food Marketing - A new report focuses on advertising methods, such as through social networks, and urges lawmakers to restrict junk food advertising to kids online
Workday: The Next Software Power? - PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield is building another software upstart that is attracting a lot of attention
IBM's Speech Recognition - Demand for the technology is expected to rise dramatically over the next few years, and IBM's speech research group is focusing on forming partnerships to take it to market
Will Cisco Take on Google and Microsoft? - Cisco needs to redefine itself as a software company. But Google and Microsoft are way ahead in the "collaboration" game
Televisions - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog (New York Times) - Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. Yes, consumer-tech prices generally go down over time, and you could wait forever for the best price, but nothing?s more galling than shelling out for a new flat-panel TV, only to discover that a big, official price drop happened the very next day.
Latest Technology Headlines (New York Times) - Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. Intel and Yahoo said Wednesday that they are teaming up to bring Web-style interactive applications to television sets.
Latest Technology Headlines (New York Times) - Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. Investors looking to handicap whether video game publishing rivals Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive might yet merge ? despite signs Monday that a deal is less likely ? are pointing to a new tea leaf: Electronic Arts has retained Joele Frank, a public relations and investor relations specialist with expertise in merger activity.
Notebook News: HP Introduces Three Ultra-light Notebooks (PDA Buyer's Guide) - HP today introduced three ultra-portable notebook computers, including a three-pound EliteBook, the smallest and lightest HP notebook with a built-in optical drive. Here is more info on these new HP notebooks:Inspired by aircraft construction and designed for style-conscious mobile ...
Bug - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog (New York Times) - Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. The brand-new radio chip in the Apple iPhone 3G has been causing the company a bit of indigestion in recent weeks as customers complain about dropped phone calls and intermittent connections to the highly touted 3G network.
Congress Launches The First National Research Program Focused On Technology And Learning (Medical News Today) - Congress has authorized a major new research center, the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies, that will bring the same focused, sustained research funding to technology and learning that the federal government has funded for years in technology for health care at the National Institutes of Health and technology for energy at the Department of Energy.
Intel new chip design saves power, boosts graphics (CIOL) - SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Intel Corp's latest chip design will conserve more power than its current processors and deliver vastly faster graphics images as the No. 1 chipmaker seeks to push its technology beyond just personal computers as that market slows.
Intel Developer Forum Day 1 News Disclosures (Scoop.co.nz) - Intel Corporation is holding its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco from August 19-21. Below are brief summaries of each executive?s keynote speech and news highlights for Day 1.
