Two spacewalking astronauts wired up the international space station’s newest room Tuesday and, to NASA’s delight, kept the next shuttle visit on track for early December.
Commander Peggy Whitson and Daniel Tani spent hours hooking up power and heater cables and fluid lines between the space station and the Harmony compartment that was delivered by the shuttle last month. (Read content ‘Astronauts Wire Up New Space Station Room’…)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Target Corp said on Tuesday that is testing sales of used electronics on its Web site. Target said on its Web site customers can purchase "pre-owned" Apple Inc iPods, video games consoles and televisions. While results have been positive, it has not made a decision on whether or not it will continue the business. (Read content ‘Target testing online sales of used electronics (Reuters)’…)
A German court has ordered T-Mobile to change its marketing campaign for Apple's iPhone and has issued a restraining order prohibiting the company from selling the Mac-maker's handset. ADVERTISEMENT
Vodafone's German unit is behind the action. (Read content ‘Vodafone Balks at T-Mobile iPhone Deal (NewsFactor)’…)
NEW YORK - Each holiday season, a couple hard-to-find toys send parents hunting from store to store. And, each season, they’re soon forgotten: Has your Elmo gotten any tickles lately? ADVERTISEMENT
But this year, it looks like the gift everybody is looking for is the same as last year: the Nintendo Wii. (Read content ‘Wii is most-wanted widget in wintertime (AP)’…)
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European trade chief Peter Mandelson said the United States should let foreign companies into its multibillion-dollar online gaming market instead of trying to compensate European firms for shutting them out. ADVERTISEMENT
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A new phone from AT&T and Samsung will be offering Napster Mobile this holiday season. Called the SLM, the exclusive-to-AT&T phone will let users search the music service's catalog of more than five million songs, preview song samples, and buy songs to download to the handset. ADVERTISEMENT
The brushed-metal, clamshell-shaped device is the first of AT&T's phones to offer the music service. (Read content ‘Napster Mobile on New Samsung Phone from AT&T (NewsFactor)’…)
San Francisco - The Free Software Foundation has published a new open-source software license aimed at developers whose code is used for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. ADVERTISEMENT
The new license allows them to guarantee that modifications to software used to power publicly available services will be contributed to the free software community. (Read content ‘FSF finalizes GPL-based license for Web services (InfoWorld)’…)
San Francisco - Microsoft has tapped a former Sun Microsystems and IBM executive to lead its North American sales and marketing. ADVERTISEMENT
Robert YoungJohns, who most recently was president and CEO of performance management software vendor Callidus, is now president of North America sales and marketing as well as a corporate vice president at Microsoft. (Read content ‘Microsoft hires former Sun, IBM executive to lead sales (InfoWorld)’…)
PARIS (Reuters) - Ubisoft (), Europe's largest video games publisher, said on Tuesday it swung back to profit in the first half of 2007-08, driven by higher sales, and it kept its financial goals for the full year. (Read content ‘Higher sales drives Ubisoft to first-half profit (Reuters)’…)
In its latest online advertising play, AOL launched video ticker ads, following BrightCove and YouTube with an interactive advertising system that serves as an alternative to preroll ads. ADVERTISEMENT
Developed in conjunction with PointRoll, AOL's video ticker is essentially a graphic banner ad that is integrated within a streaming video but does not obstruct viewing. (Read content ‘AOL Introduces Video Ticker Ads (NewsFactor)’…)