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Comcast-NBC deal shows future is in content

AP – 2 hrs 37 mins ago

PHILADELPHIA – Comcast Corp. is buying control of NBC Universal from GE largely because Comcast wants to own more movies and TV shows. The point is to give it a position of strength if fewer people sign up for its cable TV services and watch more video online. Full Story »

  • FTC: Children still marketed violent content

    AP – Thu Dec 3, 1:50 pm ET  

    NEW YORK - The video game industry is doing a better job at keeping young kids away from violent and other inappropriate content than the music and movie businesses, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission. Full Story »

  • Cisco to proceed with $3.4 billion Tandberg deal

    AP – Thu Dec 3, 9:02 pm ET  

    SAN JOSE, Calif. - Cisco Systems Inc. says it is waiving its condition that 90 percent of shareholders of Norwegian videoconferencing equipment firm Tandberg ASA back its $3.4 billion takeover offer and will close the deal as soon as possible. Full Story »

  • Search warrants served in ESPN reporter video case

    AP – Thu Dec 3, 8:03 pm ET  
    FILE - This is an Oct. 3, 2009, file photo showing ESPN's Erin... AP

    LOS ANGELES - FBI agents want Yahoo Inc. to turn over a video of a second naked woman they suspect was taken by an Illinois man already accused of secretly recording a nude ESPN reporter twice last year, authorities said Thursday. Full Story »

  • Teen Internet addicts more likely to self harm: study

    Reuters – 11 mins ago  
    A customer looks at a web page of Qzone, a Chinese social networking... Reuters

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Teenagers who are addicted to the Internet are more likely to engage in self-harm behavior, according to an Australian-Chinese study. Full Story »

  • Review: 'Hawk' offers wireless skateboard control

    AP – Thu Dec 3, 6:33 pm ET  
    In this video game image released by Activision, a wireless skateboard... AP

    ATLANTA - "Tony Hawk: Ride" ($120; Xbox360, Wii, PS3) is a groundbreaking video game that fits right in with the namesake skating legend's no-rough-edges appeal. It's a silky smooth experience with an inventive wireless skate deck controller and a friendly learning curve. Full Story »

  • Yahoo sees exponential growth in mobile ads

    Reuters – Thu Dec 3, 4:15 pm ET  

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc expects "exponential" growth in mobile advertising even as the overall market is only starting to emerge from its deep downturn, a top executive of the Internet media company said on Thursday. Full Story »

  • Google sees growth in online video ads

    Reuters – Thu Dec 3, 4:42 pm ET  
    Chairman and CEO of Google Eric Schmidt speaks to the media after... Reuters

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc is banking on significant growth in online video ads as marketers become more sophisticated at targeting consumers interactively, a senior executive at the Web search giant said on Thursday. Full Story »

  • GM sees the driving future: it's a video game

    Reuters – 18 mins ago  

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - General Motors Co, battling for survival for much of the past year, has cut loose designers to sketch out a vision of the ultimate youth car of the future -- a virtual one-wheeled wonder that would match wits with its driver. Full Story »

  • iPhone App Growth Set To Skyrocket

    NewsFactor – Thu Dec 3, 5:06 pm ET  

    It looks like we may soon need an iPhone application that keeps track of all the new iPhone applications. Full Story »

  • Novell posts wider 4Q loss on charges

    AP – Thu Dec 3, 6:47 pm ET  

    WALTHAM, Mass. - Novell Inc., which sells computer-networking software and technology services, posted a larger quarterly loss Thursday, hurt by lower revenue and hefty charges to write down the value of certain assets. Full Story »

  • Friendster to be sold by month's end: source

    Reuters – Thu Dec 3, 10:50 pm ET  

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Friendster, one of the world's earliest social networking sites, will be sold to an Asian buyer by the end of December for at least $100 million, a source familiar with the matter said. Full Story »

  • Thanksgiving Webcam Promo Leads to Malware

    PC World – Thu Dec 3, 8:20 pm ET  

    The US$10 webcam that Anna Giesman bought her daughter at Office Depot over the Thanksgiving weekend sounds like one of those deals that's too good to be true. And for her, it was. Full Story »

  • Diet Chromium Offers Slimmed Down Chrome OS

    PC World – Thu Dec 3, 1:41 pm ET  

    Want to give Chromium OS a try, but don't have a spare 4GB USB stick lying around? Fear not as a new 'diet' build of Chromium OS (the open-source project upon which Google Chrome OS is based), which only requires a 1GB drive, is now available for download, courtesy of a UK-based student. Full Story »

  • Apple issues Java update for 10.5, 10.6

    Macworld.com – Thu Dec 3, 5:00 pm ET  

    If you thought you just heard a disturbance in the Force—as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced—then take a deep breath and relax: it’s just a pair of Java software updates for Mac OS X. Full Story »

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Global warming may require higher dams, stilts

AP – Thu Dec 3, 9:37 pm ET

With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example: Adapt or die. Full Story »

The shopping list includes wind farms, seawalls and even real estate — new homelands for flooded-out islanders. And poor countries want to present the bill to the rich at next week's climate talks in Copenhagen. Full Story »

Asian stock markets dropped Friday as investors tread carefully ahead of a U.S. jobs report that could help determine the durability of the U.S. economic recovery. Full Story »