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New top-of-the-line BlackBerry doubles screen resolution
(AP)
AP - Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday is introducing its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further demonstrates the company's desire to make tools for both work and play.
Next generation of business software could get more fun
(AP)
AP - Once upon a time, people bonded with their co-workers on office softball teams and traded gossip at the watercooler.
EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire
(AP)
AP - EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.
Facebook to let users carry profiles with them
(AP)
AP - Facebook Inc. is loosening its grip on millions of personal profiles to allow inhabitants of its popular Internet hangout to transplant the information and applications to other Web sites.
Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
(AP)
AP - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.
Hacker splashes data from six million Chileans on Internet: report
(AFP)
AFP - A hacker broke into Chile's government sites mining data from six million people which he then posted on the Internet on two popular servers for several hours, the El Mercurio daily have said.
Music biz hopes device upgrades boost mobile sector
(Reuters)
Reuters - Perhaps no single device has had more
impact on mobile music than Apple's iPhone.
Virgin Mobile USA and Korea's SK in talks: source
(Reuters)
Reuters - Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile USA
Inc and South Korea's SK Telecom Co, which controls U.S. mobile
service Helio, are in early talks on a deal, a person familiar
with the discussions said on Friday.
Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Murdock at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week to talk about open source and how Sun, with its OpenSolaris version of the Solaris Unix platform, will fare in the open-source arena versus Linux.
SAP Is The Latest Convert To Software-Plus-Services Vision
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - It envisions selling "component" services to its big ERP customers beginning next year.
Google, IBM Join Forces To Offer Cloud Computing Services
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - "The cloud has higher value in business," says Google CEO Schmidt.
Trends & Innovations - Friday
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - U.S. retailers are getting better at blocking underage teens from buying M-rated video games, says an FTC survey using undercover 13- to 16-year-old shoppers. Just 20% of the undercover teens were able to buy M-rated games, vs. 42% in '06. Retailer GameStop was the best at blocking underage sales of video games, stopping 94% of them. Less-diligent retailers included Hollywood Video, which blocked 60%. ...
