Month: September 2010

Following changes to the iTunes Store terms and conditions yesterday that referred to a “Ping Sidebar” for Apple’s music-focused social networking platform, Apple has now released iTunes 10.0.1 to enable the new feature and distribute a numbe… Read the original post by Seattle Post-Intelligencer

U.S. Halloween spending is projected to bounce back from last year?s grim sales as Americans spend considerably more this time, according to the National Retail Federation. – (AHN) Read the original post by KTXL-TV Sacramento

Take a gander at some of the most gorgeous tech of the year from the 2010 Industrial Design Excellence Awards. Read the original post by PC World

The U.S. stock market is likely to notch its best September in more than half a century in the days ahead, provided its recent surge is not derailed by lingering doubts about the recovery. Read the original post by MarketWatch

Dell Inc. said Friday it had reached a tentative confidential settlement with a North Carolina Web services company that sued it three years ago after many of its Dell servers failed. Read the original post by Austin American Statesman

A man uses his BlackBerry on Thursday in Ahmadabad, India. In August, India withdrew a threat to ban BlackBerry service for at least two months while it reviewed RIM’s proposals to give security agencies greater access to corporate email and instant messaging. Read the original post by CBC

Kids blessed with natural Schumacher driving zeal can hone up their skills on Chevrolet Camaro kidsa TM car. Read the original post by The Automobile Blog

Stone Temple Pilots have rescheduled a dozen tour dates so the recently reunited band can “take a short break” before resuming their fall trek in mid-October. No reason was given for the changes, which started with the postponement of last night’s gig in El Paso, Texas. Read the original post by CNN

An unnamed investigator interviewed by the New York Daily News says that the 34-year old Nicaraguan acting consul, Cesar Mercado, found dead in his Bronx apartment Thursday morning may have killed himself after discovering that he was HIV positive. – (AHN) Read the original post by KSWB-TV San Diego

The most important member of Rhonda Vincent’s touring troupe on Thursday night turned out not to be her fiddle player or her bassist but her bus driver. Read the original post by New York Times

We’ve been on the fence about 3D televisions. On the one hand, it’s hard to justify spending a huge amount of money for home access to one or two content-poor channels and the handful of quality 3D films ever made. Read the original post by SF Gate

The U.S. government has granted $434 million to the Philippines for investments in roads, community development projects and improvements in the country?s tax collection efforts under a five-year economic compact that aims to fight poverty. – (AHN) Read the original post by KSWB-TV San Diego

The Justice Department has reached an agreement with six major Silicon Valley companies to settle allegations that they colluded to stifle competition for employees by restricting the way they could poach workers from each other. Read the original post by KWQC-TV Davenport

‘They want to kill people with software that doesn’t work’ The CIA is implicated in a court case in which it’s claimed it used an illegal, inaccurate software “hack” to direct secret assassination drones in central Asia. Read the original post by The Register

One of my favorite online streaming services, Grooveshark , has begun notifying registered users that it’s going to raise the price of its VIP subscription service beginning December 1. But if you sign up for VIP service before then, you’ll never pay more than $3 a month or $30 a year. Read the original post…