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From TechRepublic: As Republican politicians return this week to Washington for the waning days of their rule of Capitol Hill, technology lobbyists are frantically pressing for last-minute legislation before Democrats take over next year. At issue are proposals including renewing a popular tax credit for research and development expenses and expanding the number of H1-B …
From CNN: If Cisco Systems Inc. has its way, the Oakland Athletics’ new ballpark in Fremont will be the stadium of the future. Fans will swipe electronic tickets stored on cell phones. Bleacher bums will view instant replays at their seats with laptop computers. And digital advertising displays will be able to switch images based …
From BBC: Shoppers are likely to abandon a website if it takes longer than four seconds to load, a survey suggests. The research by Akamai revealed users’ dwindling patience with websites that take time to show up. It found 75% of the 1,058 people asked would not return to websites that took longer than four …
From TechRepublic: Google CEO Eric Schmidt denied a widely circulated rumor that his company had set aside $500 million to settle copyright claims by media companies as part of its deal to acquire video-sharing site YouTube. Speaking to more than 500 Internet industry insiders at the Web 2.0 Summit, Schmidt said Tuesday that an anonymous …
From TechRepublic: The last stop for Vista is a windowless conference room in Building 26, on Microsoft’s sprawling campus in the Seattle suburbs. Each day, members of the Windows team gather inside this “shiproom” to go over the bugs that remain, and to debate which of these can still be fixed in the days left …
From TechRepublic: Reversing a licensing change announced two weeks ago, Microsoft said on Thursday that it will not limit the number of times that retail customers can transfer their Windows Vista license to a different computer. On Oct. 16, Microsoft issued the new user license for Vista, including terms that would have limited the ability …
From Time Magazine: It’s been an interesting year in technology. Nintendo invented a video game you control with a magic wand. A new kind of car traveled 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas. A robot learned to ride a bike. Somebody came up with a nanofabric umbrella that doesn’t stay wet. But only …
From CNN: Are your Web surfing fingers getting tired? There may be a reason. Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October. “There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them,” said Netcraft’s Rich Miller. …
From ComputerWeekly: Green issues are climbing the IT agenda as power costs escalate and legislation such as the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive begins to bite. IT professionals were this week in unanimous agreement that green IT is important, both commercially and environmentally. A report by technology analyst firm BroadGroup highlighted power costs as …
From BusinessWeek: Those predictions that Google’s stock would hit $600 aren’t looking quite so outlandish any more. Not after a blockbuster third quarter and optimism that buying video downloading site YouTube will help Google conquer a whole new area of Internet search. The stock price has surged 11% in the past five days alone, closing …