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Current headlines from NYT > Technology:
- Novelties: Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot
Robots already cut the grass and vacuum rugs. Now they are helping with a more artistic job: creating vast photographic panoramas with ordinary cameras.
- Ping: Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?
A relatively small number of places — all in wealthy countries or in China and India — create nearly every important technological advance. But some people in Nairobi, Kenya, are hoping to change that.
- Bits: Venture Financing Drops for Youngest Companies
In an ominous sign, venture capital firms are cutting back on their investments in companies at their earliest stage of development to provide extra financing for later-stage companies.
- Bits: A Book With 90,000 Authors
A single-volume print encyclopedia produced by a German publisher using material from the 25,000 most popular articles on German Wikipedia will have an author page with about 90,000 names.
- Bits: A Wikipedian Challenge: Convincing Arabic Speakers to Write in Arabic
A nagging undercurrent to the Wikimania conference in Alexandria, Egypt, has been the chagrin among Arabic-speaking participants that their version of Wikipedia should be so elementary.
- To Save Gas, Shoppers Stay Home and Click
A number of retailers are experiencing double-digit sales growth on their shopping Web sites at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a spending spree.
- Large Yahoo Shareholder Backs Board
Yahoo got a show of support on Friday from one of its biggest shareholders for its efforts to defend itself against a proxy fight by the activist investor Carl C. Icahn.
- In Surprise, 2 Tech Titans Disappoint
Google and Microsoft issued quarterly results on Thursday that disappointed investors.
- Bits: Economy Down, but PC Sales Are Up
The worldwide economy may be faltering, but PC sales are in growth mode, according to numbers released Tuesday Apple’s growth was particularly strong.
- Bits: Wii Remote, Take Two
The new Wii MotionPlus is essentially an upgrade to the motion control mechanism of the Nintendo Wii, and will work with a new generation of games.
- Bits: There’s Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones
A new service says it will pay for your new iPhone if you hand over your old one. But there are better deals to be had elsewhere, thanks to unusually strong demand for the used phones.
- Bits: Google Deliberately Sells Fewer Ads - and May Have Gone Too Far
Even though its second-quarter results disappointed Wall Street, Google insisted it is doing well.
- MTN and Reliance Fail to Strike Telecom Deal
South African mobile phone group MTN and India’s Reliance Communications called off talks aimed at creating a top-10 global telecoms group, saying they could not reach a deal.
- Another Loss at A.M.D. Leads to Chief’s Ouster
Advanced Micro Devices said Thursday that its chief executive, Hector Ruiz, was stepping down, to be replaced immediately by Dirk Meyer, the president and chief operating officer.
- Europe Expands Intel Antitrust Case
The European Commission said that it had added three new charges against Intel, and warned that it might order Intel to change its behavior under threat of large fines that could total 10 percent of its global revenue.
- DealBook: Big Yahoo Shareholder to Support Current Board
Bill Miller, the portfolio manager at Legg Mason whose funds hold a large stake in Yahoo, said that he would vote its shares in favor of electing Yahoo’s current board of directors.
- Bits: The Mobile Web: It's Not Just for Smartphones
What’s the most popular phone to surf the Internet with? Hint: It’s not the iPhone or the BlackBerry.
- Pentagon’s IT Unit Seeks to Adopt Cloud Computing
The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency has been reaching out to a wide range of companies to learn about their IT approaches, including the use of cloud computing.
- Earnings Up 29% at TD Ameritrade
Quarterly net income soared 29 percent at the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade Holding because of growth in the number of trades handled and in asset-based revenue.
- Nokia Sales Increased 4% in Quarter
The cellphone maker said that profit fell 61 percent in the second quarter from the period a year ago, when it booked a large gain from its network joint venture with Siemens.
- Bits: Wikipedia Tries Approval System
The change to its editing philosophy would add a layer of checkers to approve changes, eliminating some of the spontaneity that has made the site, at times, an informal source of news.
- Little Interest in Buying AOL as the Unit Is Shopped Again
Amid all the maneuvering over the fate of Yahoo, Time Warner is again exploring whether it can persuade either Microsoft or Yahoo to buy its AOL unit.
- Amazon Plans an Online Store for Movies and TV Shows
The move is a significant step toward vanquishing the local video store and keeping couch potatoes planted firmly in front of their televisions and computers.
- Entrepreneurial Edge: Bartering Expands in the Internet Age
One of the largest “little” industries of small companies in America, the trade exchange business has developed broadly over the past 25 years.
- Nintendo and Sony Unveil Games
The Japanese video game titans announced wide-ranging new games and services at the E3 convention on Tuesday but did not alter their overall strategies in the fast-growing game market.
- South Korean Court Convicts Former Samsung Chief
Lee Kun-hee was convicted of tax evasion charges on Wednesday but was spared prison after the court suspended his three-year sentence.
- Profit Climbs for eBay, but Auction Growth Is Slowing
The company said revenue climbed 20 percent, to $2.20 billion, from the same period a year ago, fueled primarily by growth in advertising and the payment service PayPal.
- Cyberfamilias: A More Flattering Shade of Green
CarbonRally.com offers a few dozen ways that individuals — or teams — can save energy.
- Bits: Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web
In a series of blog posts, Google has been explaining how its search engine works. It has a lot of technology that is meant to understand what users and Web pages actually mean.
- Profit Rises 25% at Intel on Strong Global Demand
Intel reported a sharp rise in profit and said strong demand worldwide for computer chips would continue in the current quarter.
- Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm at E3
The Japanese video game titans do not appear to have significantly altered their strategies in the game market.
- Advertising: Google and Yahoo Defend Ad Alliance at a Hearing
At a Congressional hearing, Google and Yahoo lawyers argued that their advertising partnership did not violate antitrust laws and would help to keep Yahoo competitive.
- Bits: Apple Sues Psystar to Block Macintosh Clone Sales
Apple has sued Psystar, a Florida-based maker of Macintosh clones, claiming that the company makes poor-quality machines that infringe on Apple’s trademarks.
- Sprint Said to Talk About Partnership
Sprint Nextel is in early talks to form a partnership with SK Telecom of South Korea to share information about new mobile phones and other technology.
- Video Games: Microsoft Goes Mainstream, and Other News of the Gamer World
In a significant shift, Microsoft introduced a new strategy on Monday to help its Xbox 360 console appeal to the broad mainstream.
- Critic’s Notebook: Where to Eat? Ask Your iPhone
Using the iPhone 3G’s G.P.S. technology, Urbanspoon, a software program, can identify the 200 or so restaurants nearest to where you are.
- Bits: Will Profit Motive Undermine Truste?
Truste, a nonprofit trade association that certifies Web sites that meet basic privacy standards, is converting to a for-profit company and taking an investment from Accel Partners.
Headlines last updated at Jul 20, 2008 08:15:28am.
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