AP - Talk about fantastic finishes. Just when Hollywood figured James Cameron would win the directing and motion picture awards for his super moneymaker "Avatar," it didn't happen that way.
PC World - A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.
PC World - Long popular with bloggers, the open-source WordPress blogging software is also starting to find a niche as a low-cost corporate CMS (content management system), at least for managing relatively simple Web sites.
U.S. News & World Report - The era of new American frugality ushered in by the recession has an added benefit. Many measures that families take to cut costs in tough times--turning down the heat or shopping secondhand, for example--are also good for the planet. "Our carbon footprint is directly tied to our consumption, whether that's consumption of energy or a consumer product," says Josh Dorfman, host of the Sundance Channel show The Lazy Environmentalist and author of the book and blog of the same name. Whether people realize it or not, cutting back has made them accidental environmentalists.
AP - Talk about fantastic finishes. Just when Hollywood figured James Cameron would win the directing and motion picture awards for his super moneymaker "Avatar," it didn't happen that way.
PC World - Apple's campaign to get tough on iPhone applications is reportedly continuing with a new target: template-based iPhone applications. You can find services that build these so-called cookie cutter applications all over the Web, and they have been used by a variety of prominent celebrities, bloggers, and brands including Ashton Kutcher, blogger Seth Godin, and the U.S.
AFP - An Egyptian blogger facing a military trial for writing about alleged favouritism in the military academy is to be released, his lawyer told AFP on Sunday.
AP - An Egyptian blogger on trial before a military tribunal for slandering the nation's premier army academy will be released and proceedings suspended after he agreed to apologize, his lawyer said Sunday.
Reuters - A blogger, who had faced a military trial for an article critical of Egypt's armed forces, has been released without bail after apologizing and on condition he removes the posting, his lawyer said Sunday.
AP - Enough with the tweets, the blogs, the Internet searches.
PC World - Microsoft will discontinue development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) as of June 30, the company announced via a blog.
NewsFactor - Makers of some applications that seek out Wi-Fi access are now seeking a new home after Apple purged a select group from its App Store. In a blog post this week, 3Jacks Software said it is the latest developer to get the boot from the increasingly choosy App Store.
PC World - The not-much-ballyhooed smartphones from Microsoft, named The Turtle and Pure, have had a few leaks lately, perhaps as a method of drumming up interest in products that seem behind the times. Yesterday, marketing materials of The Turtle were disseminated into the blogosphere and today, the first-ever photographs of Pure, and some specs for both phones, made it onto Gizmodo.
NewsFactor - Evidence from the recent Aurora hack attacks on major American corporations suggest that many may have tightly locked virtual front doors, but no cybersecurity inside their systems, a McAfee expert warned on Wednesday. In a Security Insights blog post, Paul Kurtz, McAfee's chief technology officer, discussed his study of the December-through-February attacks on Google, Intel, Adobe Systems, and other large firms.
AP - A right-wing New Jersey blogger charged with threatening federal judges told a jury Thursday that his racist Internet rants were an FBI-sanctioned ruse to "flush out" dangerous neo-Nazi and white supremacist members of his audience.
AFP - A Haitian radio host who used Twitter to inform the world about the earthquake which ravaged his country was among the users of the micro-blogging service honored at a ceremony.
AP - A freshman congressman from New York who cited health reasons in announcing his retirement Wednesday is facing allegations of misconduct, a top House Democrat confirmed.
PC World - Hoping to catch a few episodes of The Daily Show with John Stewart or The Colbert Report? Better update your bookmarks, because as of Tuesday, March 9 at 11:59 PM, the shows will no longer be available on Hulu as, the video streaming site announced in a recent blog post.
PC World - Google added two new features to the Windows version of Google Chrome beta including integrated translation and enhanced privacy features that allow for better browser cookie managment. The new additions were fed to the Chrome beta channel as a preview of Google Chrome version 5, according to the Google Chrome Releases blog.
AFP - A verdict could come as early as Tuesday in a trial that has been sharply criticised by rights groups of an Egyptian student who blogged about alleged favouritism in a military academy, a lawyer said.
AFP - An Egyptian blogger detained for writing a post critical of the armed forces faced a military court on Monday accused of "publishing false information about a military institution."