Microsoft buys Teamprise

Microsoft has bought the Teamprise assets from SourceGear LLC for an undisclosed amount, company officials announced on November 9.

Teamprise allows developers using the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) running on operating systems including Unix, Linux and Mac OS X to build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. (Team Foundation Server is Microsoft’s team-collaboration tool for developers.)

Microsoft plans to release a Microsoft-branded and -updated version of Teamprise that will plug into Visual Studio 2010 on or around the same date that it launches Visual Studio 2010, which is March 22, 2010, officials said.
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First known worm for iPhone spreading in Australia

The first known worm for Apple's iPhone is spreading on jail-broken iPhones in Australia. The worm takes advantage of the default password for SSH used by many jail-broken phones, and places an image of 1980s pop singer Rick Astley on the device.

The first known worm for the Apple iPhone is sweeping across Australia , and it is taking advantage of default SSH passwords on jail-broken phones.

The attack vector is the same as the one exploited by a Dutch teenager last week in a brief extortion attempt. This time around, the mind behind the attack isn’t doing anything bad – unless you don’t like having English pop singer Rick Astley as your wallpaper.eComTechnology Credit Card Processing

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No Doubt sues Activision over Guitar Hero

Not every rock star is excited about being included in the Guitar Hero franchise. No Doubt this week filed suit against Activision for unauthorized use of the band's likeness in the new Band Hero edition of the video game.

The game has "transformed No Doubt band members into a virtual karaoke circus act," according to a suit filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Band Hero was released on Tuesday and allows players to create their own virtual bands with any combination of multiple guitarists, bassists, drummers and vocalists. You want a band featuring Gwen Stefani, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, and Adam Levine? Set it up via Band Hero, and then select the song you want your newly formed band to perform.

This type of manipulation is apparently the root of No Doubt's objections.

"They agreed to play three No Doubt songs as a band.... Activision then went and put them in 62 other songs and broke the band up [and] never even asked," the band's manager told the Times.

No Doubt pointed to a feature that would allow leader singer Stefani to sing the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women." The suit said Stefani objected to the Stefani avatar singing "in a male voice boasting about having sex with prostitutes."

Activision said it held extensive negotiations with No Doubt before the release of the game and is within its rights. No Doubt claims that Activision never told them about the character manipulation factor.

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Window 7 64 bit

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Windows 7 has been out for a couple of weeks now, and it's both received largely glowing reviews and sold up a storm compared to its predecessor, Vista. But we've been hearing some rumblings about the 64-bit version of the OS not being compatible with some devices. PCMag.com's editor-in-chief, Lance Ulanoff, reported that it didn't recognize a Sony DCR-TRV140 camcorder he tried to plug in. It's been common knowledge for a while now that 64-bit versions of Windows require digitally signed drivers, so mismatches aren't unheard of, but given the traction 64-bit gained during the Vista years, it's kind of surprising.eComTechnology Credit Card Processing

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WomenVenture

WomenVenture has helped more than 90,000 women since its start in 1989. The organization offers workshops, consulting and small loans with the intent of giving women.
knowledge and capital to start small businesses and succeed in the workplace. This year, it opened a second office in North Minneapolis. On Nov. 13, the organization will hold its 14th annual conference at the Minneapolis Convention Center, honoring women from the community and providing professional development workshops, seminars and networking opportunities.
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Bluebeat shut down on infringement for Beatles

The Internet music site BlueBeat.com, which bills itself as trying to "stop the insanity of overpriced online music," is no longer carrying the entire catalogue of songs from legendary rock band The Beatles.

EMI Group, a British music company which owns the rights to the songs, filed a copyright infringement claim against the site and its parent company.

The site had been selling Beatles songs for $0.25 apiece; staff members at Wired successfully downloaded 17 songs from the album Abbey Road for $4.55 by using a Paypal account.

After receiving the lawsuit, site founder Hank Risan sent an e-mail to the general counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Steve Marks, responding to Marks’ inquiry over “psychoacoustic simulations”, a “synthetic creation of sounds” developed by Risan.


“With regard to the music streamed at BlueBeat, I authored the sound recordings that are being used by psycho-acoustic simulation, independently affixed pursuant to Section 114 (b) of the Act and, as such, are not within the exclusive rights of your members,” the message reads. “In addition, BlueBeat.com has received copyright registration for all its audio visual material and related sounds.”


EMI’s lawyers argued the site was “engaged in digital music piracy of the most blatant kind” and was undercutting and destroying a legitimate digital market. “Perhaps the most stunning aspect of Defendants’ conduct is the willful and overtly defiant manner in which they are acting,” the lawsuit reads.

It makes particular mention of the Beatles tracks, which were recently re-mastered and re-released with great media fanfare. “The enormous and irreparable harm…is obvious and manifest,” the suit argues.


On November 5 Judge John Walter of the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California approved a temporary restraining order (TRO) on BlueBeat, “Although Defendants claim, without any evidence, that an injunction would significantly harm, if not destroy, their business, the hardships suffered by Plaintiffs will be great if Defendants are not enjoined from infringing or misappropriating Plaintiffs’ Recordings,” Judge Walter ruled. “Defendant cannot invalidate the copyright of an independent and preexisting sound recording, simply by incorporating that recording in to an audiovisual work.”


Five albums of Beatles songs remain on the Web site, though when a user clicks on an album’s “Buy” tab it opens up a window to purchase the album on Amazon.com. Though it was widely rumored the legendary rock band’s complete discography would be released digitally this fall—along with the remastered albums—it is still uncertain as to when, or where, Beatles tunes will show up on a service that's given a ticket to ride.


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Google Mobile

Beginning Nov. 9, sales associates for Best Buy Mobile will install Google Mobile App on all BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile, or Nokia S60 smartphones through the Walk Out Working program, a free in-store smartphone setup. The deal makes Best Buy the first retailer in the U.S. to distribute Google Mobile App on smartphones sold in store. However, Best Buy won't install Google Mobile App on the Motorola Droid or HTC Eris because it isn't available on Android. Google Mobile App support is missing in action on the iPhone, too.



Google Nov. 5 partnered with Best Buy to let the retailer install Google Mobile applications on smartphones that it sells to consumers right in the store.

Google Mobile App is a free mobile application users can download to their smartphone to Google Search by voice, use Google Search with My Location and access other Google apps, such as Google Maps. YouTube and Gmail, with one click.

While smartphone users can download Google Mobile App themselves from m.google.com, some people run into problems because they don't have the right handset or data plan.
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More time spent on Microsoft than Google

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ComScore Nov. 6 said some 27 billion hours were spent on the Internet by 1.2 billion worldwide Internet users in September 2009. Microsoft Web sites led the way, but 70 percent of the time spent on its sites was through Windows Live Messenger. Google came in at No. 2, with 9.3 percent of the minutes (2.5 billion hours). Yahoo was third with 6.3 percent of the minutes, or 1.7 billion hours, but dropped by 14 percent from its September 2008 share of almost 2 billion hours. Facebook nabbed the fourth spot, with 5 percent of the minutes, or 1.4 billion hours.


People are spending more time on the Internet, searching more, shopping more, and perhaps even working more online.

ComScore Nov. 6 said some 27 billion hours were spent on the Internet by 1.2 billion worldwide Internet users in September 2009, or 24 percent more than the 21.7 billion hours people spent total in September 2008.

The researcher's figures count Web users aged 15 and older and exclude Web patronage from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

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