7th March 2009 Archive

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Barnes & Noble muscles Kindle with e-book buy

Gets Fictionwise

Barnes & Noble is stumping $15.7m to buy the indie e-book seller Fictionwise.com as part of the mega-chain's second attempt to sell digital books online. The cash acquisition comes just days after Amazon extended its Kindle e-book store to support the iPhone and iPod Touch for US customers. Amazon may be making small …

Music and Media 7 Mar 01:28
Microsoft protest organizer returns to code

The revolution was not computerized

The engineering contractor protesting against Microsoft's 10 per cent pay cut has accepted terms to return to work. Phil Palios has blogged he's accepted the amended contract with his employer Volt following meetings with the company. In a lengthy post, Palios said that he'd realized he can continue working at Microsoft as a …

Financial News 7 Mar 01:30
Conficker gets upgraded with defenses

Anti-cabal resistance

Researchers at Symantec have discovered what could be a significant development in the ongoing Conficker worm saga: a new module that is being pushed out to some infected systems. In a couple of ways, the new component is designed to harden infected machines against an industry consortium that is actively trying to contain the …

Security 7 Mar 01:34
Facebook nemesis sues Google (and wins)

Milks Mountain View for $761

After claiming he invented Facebook, Aaron Greenspan now says he has successfully sued Google. At a Northern California court earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg's ex-Harvard classmate won $761 from the world's largest ad broker. Greenspan made headlines back in the fall of 2007 and the spring of 2008 after claiming that he …

Music and Media 7 Mar 01:41
Pillar embraces Intel SSDs

Chipzilla's June debut

Marking Intel's first appearance in the enterprise storage array solid state disk (SSD) market, Pillar Data is launching SSD enclosures for its Axiom arrays in June. Axiom is Pillar's array line with different levels of storage service available from a application-aware quality of service (QoS) system. The arrays use storage …

Storage 7 Mar 05:07
Pininfarina, Bolloré bullish about Bluecar

'Leccy Tech B0 renamed, leasing scheme announced

It seems it's not all quite doom and gloom on the Pininfarina B0 front. Pininfarina/Bolloré's Bluebar: no longer the B0 While not having a working prototype to show at the Geneva Motor Show this week, Vincent Bolloré – whose company, Bolloré SA, is partner with Pinifarina in Véhicules Électriques Pininfarina Bolloré - was …

Reg Hardware 7 Mar 08:02