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Bill Gates Criticizes China for Not Guarding Intellectual Property
Microsoft chairman and founder Bill Gates on Wednesday criticized China for doing too little to protect intellectual property. Microsoft has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in China because of lax protections for copyrights and patents, straining its relationship with the emerging economic superpower. “They have work to do in terms of obeying copyright laws," Gates ...
Climate Hackers Want to Write Their Own Rules
This week, 200 scientists will gather in an attempt to determine how research into the possibilities of geoengineering the planet to combat climate change should proceed. They say it's necessary because of the riskiness and scale of the experiments that could be undertaken -- and the moral implications of their work to intentionally alter the Earth's ...
African Footprint Fossils Are Oldest Evidence of Keeping Time
Despite a penchant for hanging out in trees, human ancestors living 3.6 million years ago in what's now Tanzania extended their legs to stride much like people today do, a new study finds. If so, walking may have evolved in leaps and bounds, rather than gradually, among ancient hominids. The discovery comes from the famed trackway ...
China Firm Dumps Google
An Internet company run by one of Asia's richest men said Tuesday it has ended its affiliation with Google Inc. as the American search giant stopped censoring the Internet in violation of Chinese regulations. Making good on threats made more than two months ago, Google began shifting its Chinese-based search functions to Hong Kong, a Chinese ...
Adobe Launches Flash Builder 4
Adobe Systems on Monday announced the general availability of three development tools and a new service that helps Flash coders link to social networks. The new products include Flash Builder 4, ColdFusion Builder, Flex 4 Framework, and the Social Flash Platform Service. “Companies are under extraordinary pressure to keep their competitive edge," said David Wadhwani, general ...
WaTunes Gets out of Digital Distribution
WaTunes is getting out of the flat fee digital distribution business. This will allow the company to put more emphasis on its music discover and social platform and its download store, WaTunes Marketplace. ON WaTunes' social platform artists can create a profile, embed widgets, and share music with fans. Certain artist services will be retained ...
Twitter and the Power of Keeping Things Simple
Sunday was Twitters fourth anniversary, according to a tweet from co-founder Jack Dorsey. Just four short years, and already Twitter has become a significant part of our lives. To the point where people increasingly learn about news events first via the social network, and if a celebrity doesn't have a Twitter account it seems unusual. The ...
13 Of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound off on the Rise of the Tablet
Neil Young CEO and cofounder, ngmoco Cool and Connected Is the tablet a new mobile computing device? Well, yes, it is, by default. But what is most interesting to me as a gamemaker is the impact that it can have in the least-mobile entertainment venue the home. Aren't home games played on ...
How the Tablet Will Change the World
Everyone who jammed into the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on January 27, 2010, knew what they were there for: Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduction of a thin, always-on tablet device that would let people browse the Web, read books, send email, watch movies, and play games. It was also no surprise ...
Amazon Unveils Kindle Ipad App
Amazon on Monday unveiled its Kindle app for the tablet computers, including the iPad. “Tablet computers, including the iPad, are coming and with our free app, you'll be able to read more than 450,000 Kindle books," Amazon said on its Web site. The app will use Amazon's Whispersync technology to access the Kindle store, as well ...
