By Jeremy Kirk, Jul. 8, 2009
PayPal will soon open up its platform to third-party developers, allowing them to build applications with a range of money transfer options. PayPal, which is owned by eBay, is developing what it calls the Adaptive Payments Service, which consists of a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) that let different programs exchange information. In PayPal's case, the APIs will allow applications that can support transactions such as "chain payments," where a buyer sends a payment to a primary seller, which then can pass on portions of that money to others with an interest in the transaction. The APIs will be previewed at PayPal's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California, on July 23, wrote Damon Hougland, senior director of product development. "We believe that providing a global payments platform will open up countless opportunities for developers to innovate and create new revenue streams," Hougland wrote.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
News Corp won't buy Twitter, won't sell MySpace
By Reuters Jul 8, 2009
News Corp is not interested in buying popular microblogging site Twitter and will not sell its struggling social network MySpace, chief executive Rupert Murdoch said on Wednesday. Murdoch, attending Sun Valley media and technology conference, said Twitter would be a tough investment to justify because it has not yet come up with a sustainable way to make money. "Be careful of investing here," he said of Twitter. Speculation is running rampant at the 27th Sun Valley conference over which company might want to buy Twitter. The service, which lets people post to Web what they are thinking or doing in 140 characters or less, is growing in popularity. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams is widely considered one of the darlings of this year's conference. Sun Valley often features hot Internet start-ups that older media conglomerates would like to buy to enhance their own businesses. Asked if he was considering buying Twitter, Murdoch said, "No." Asked about selling MySpace, he said, "Hell no."
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News Corp is not interested in buying popular microblogging site Twitter and will not sell its struggling social network MySpace, chief executive Rupert Murdoch said on Wednesday. Murdoch, attending Sun Valley media and technology conference, said Twitter would be a tough investment to justify because it has not yet come up with a sustainable way to make money. "Be careful of investing here," he said of Twitter. Speculation is running rampant at the 27th Sun Valley conference over which company might want to buy Twitter. The service, which lets people post to Web what they are thinking or doing in 140 characters or less, is growing in popularity. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams is widely considered one of the darlings of this year's conference. Sun Valley often features hot Internet start-ups that older media conglomerates would like to buy to enhance their own businesses. Asked if he was considering buying Twitter, Murdoch said, "No." Asked about selling MySpace, he said, "Hell no."
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Chrome OS may push Google CEO off of Apple's board
By Aidan Malley July 8, 2009
Apple and Google have had a warm relationship for years, but the unveiling of Chrome OS on Wednesday may leave Apple with no choice but to oust Google chief Eric Schmidt from its board due to a conflict of interest. Veteran journalist Tom Krazit warns that the two Silicon Valley companies will face an inevitable collision once the new web-based operating system is released and it has to compete against Mac OS X, rendering it more and more unreasonable for Schmidt to help oversee Apple's broader strategy. The CEO is already in hot water with regulators as he frequently has to recuse himself from board meetings that involve iPhone plans, many of which would clash with Google's own attempts to promote its Android mobile operating system. Even though he makes this exception and has been adamant that the two companies don't occupy the same markets, the FTC has been investigating the Apple-Google link for a possible violation of antitrust laws through unfair collaboration. The companies are already known to be finding common ground as they both offer web browsers and, more recently, video services that involve commercially-produced, downloadable content.
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Apple and Google have had a warm relationship for years, but the unveiling of Chrome OS on Wednesday may leave Apple with no choice but to oust Google chief Eric Schmidt from its board due to a conflict of interest. Veteran journalist Tom Krazit warns that the two Silicon Valley companies will face an inevitable collision once the new web-based operating system is released and it has to compete against Mac OS X, rendering it more and more unreasonable for Schmidt to help oversee Apple's broader strategy. The CEO is already in hot water with regulators as he frequently has to recuse himself from board meetings that involve iPhone plans, many of which would clash with Google's own attempts to promote its Android mobile operating system. Even though he makes this exception and has been adamant that the two companies don't occupy the same markets, the FTC has been investigating the Apple-Google link for a possible violation of antitrust laws through unfair collaboration. The companies are already known to be finding common ground as they both offer web browsers and, more recently, video services that involve commercially-produced, downloadable content.
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Google to Microsoft: It's on
by Ina Fried July 8, 2009
There was already little doubt that Google was aiming at Microsoft's empire, but the announcement of a Chrome OS takes the competition to a new level. For those who missed it, Google said late Tuesday that it plans to enter the operating system game in the second half of next year with a Linux-based OS that can run on both traditional PC chips and the ARM-based chips popular in cell phones. The idea behind Chrome OS is to create an extremely lightweight operating system that boots directly to the browser, in which all applications run. In a blog, Google lists the advantages of such an approach. "People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up," Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, engineering director, wrote in the blog. "They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates."
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There was already little doubt that Google was aiming at Microsoft's empire, but the announcement of a Chrome OS takes the competition to a new level. For those who missed it, Google said late Tuesday that it plans to enter the operating system game in the second half of next year with a Linux-based OS that can run on both traditional PC chips and the ARM-based chips popular in cell phones. The idea behind Chrome OS is to create an extremely lightweight operating system that boots directly to the browser, in which all applications run. In a blog, Google lists the advantages of such an approach. "People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up," Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, engineering director, wrote in the blog. "They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates."
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Nvidia's 40nm OEM desktop graphics cards pixellized
by Slobodan Simic, 08 July 2009
It has been a while since Nvidia announced its first venture into the world of 40nm GPUs with its mobile parts, and today we can finally see the desktop parts made on the same manufacturing process, the Geforce G210 and GT 220. Both of them are OEM products and feature a low profile PCB design. The G210 works at 589MHz for the GPU, 1402MHz for shaders and 500MHz for 512MB of DDR2 memory. It features 16 stream processors, a 64-bit memory interface and supports DirectX 10.1, something that Nvidia marked as irrelevant not so long ago. The GT 220 is a bit more serious and features 48 stream processors, a 128-bit memory interface and 1GB of GDDR3 memory. It works at a higher 615MHz clock for the core, 1335MHz for shaders and 1580MHz for memory. Same as the G210, the G220 has DVI, HDMI and D-Sub outputs and features active cooling. Both of these cards should start popping up in various systems pretty soon, while the consumer oriented parts will have to wait a while.
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It has been a while since Nvidia announced its first venture into the world of 40nm GPUs with its mobile parts, and today we can finally see the desktop parts made on the same manufacturing process, the Geforce G210 and GT 220. Both of them are OEM products and feature a low profile PCB design. The G210 works at 589MHz for the GPU, 1402MHz for shaders and 500MHz for 512MB of DDR2 memory. It features 16 stream processors, a 64-bit memory interface and supports DirectX 10.1, something that Nvidia marked as irrelevant not so long ago. The GT 220 is a bit more serious and features 48 stream processors, a 128-bit memory interface and 1GB of GDDR3 memory. It works at a higher 615MHz clock for the core, 1335MHz for shaders and 1580MHz for memory. Same as the G210, the G220 has DVI, HDMI and D-Sub outputs and features active cooling. Both of these cards should start popping up in various systems pretty soon, while the consumer oriented parts will have to wait a while.
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Cyber Assault Lays Waste to U.S. Gov't Websites, North Korea Suspected
By Jason Mick - July 8, 2009
Experts had warned that the U.S. was poorly defended against and ill-prepared for a major cyber offensive. It turns out they were right. Attacks against U.S. government sites occurring on July 4 are just now being revealed to the public eye. The attacks took down the Treasury Department, the Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission, and the Transportation Department websites over the weekend. This week, outages have continued as the attackers show no signs of relenting. South Korea has also been targeted. The attacks on South Korea's government sites began on Tuesday. The attacks affected South Korea's presidential Blue House and the Defense Ministry, and some banking sites, among others.
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Experts had warned that the U.S. was poorly defended against and ill-prepared for a major cyber offensive. It turns out they were right. Attacks against U.S. government sites occurring on July 4 are just now being revealed to the public eye. The attacks took down the Treasury Department, the Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission, and the Transportation Department websites over the weekend. This week, outages have continued as the attackers show no signs of relenting. South Korea has also been targeted. The attacks on South Korea's government sites began on Tuesday. The attacks affected South Korea's presidential Blue House and the Defense Ministry, and some banking sites, among others.
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