The dispute over network neutrality currently raging in Washington has drawn attention from all manner of industry groups, advocacy organizations and other stakeholders. Now tag the music industry to that list.
A coalition of the labor’s major trade associations, including the Recording Industry Association of America, has called on Google to consider the safeguards to protect [...]

Christmas Day 2007 was a lingering time ago. But that’s when the first 1.9 progress to maturity release of Ruby appeared.
Now, nearly three years later, Ruby is lacking with version 1.9.2, described as the first “production-expert 1.9 implementation.” The release comes as the related Rails gears up instead of its 3.0 release, and the new [...]

A privy investor has filed a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard’s board, alleging it effectively robbed shareholders by awarding a $40 million severance package to disgraced ex-CEO Mark Hurd.
The action, filed earlier this week by stockholder Louis Levine, names numerous HP board members, including Marc Andreessen, Rajiv Gupta, John Joyce, and Joel Hyatt, viewed like well as [...]

Is Google inclined to take on Apple’s iPad with a new tablet?
If it is, it wouldn’t be the first potential challenger. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) just recently shipped its Streak pocket memorandum-book and other companies have products in the works including Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) with its Android-based Cius and HP (NYSE: HPQ), which is developing the [...]

What’s following Intel’s $7.7 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee? Intel grand Paul Otellini says it’s an opportunity to integrate security forward a chip. But for many of the big names in tech — like Oracle and Google — diversification has been clew to keeping their momentum strong while key markets cool in the downturn, [...]

Verizon Wireless has introduced the Salute from ZTE USA, in its pristine collaboration with China’s largest telecom manufacturer. The Salute is a lightweight, trifling slider handset and is being marketed as a low-budget, quiet-to-use phone.
It has a 2.4-inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) shield and weighs 3.95 ounces. The Salute’s battery life provides 240 minutes [...]

In etc. to launching a developer preview of its forthcoming Chrome Web Store ~ward Thursday, Google moved to make its developer ecosystem more secure.
Hoping to palm a cost on those who create multiple fake developer accounts conducive to the purpose of propagating malicious extensions and manipulating reviews, the society introduced a nominal $5 fee for [...]

“Companies should have ~ing gravely concerned … many employees may not believe that taking company given conditions is equivalent to stealing. It highlights what I call a ‘upright grey area’ around ownership of electronic data.”
Jackie Gilbert, SailPoint’s badness president of marketing and co-founder, on a Harris Interactive supervise that found that almost 50 percent of [...]

Intel shook up the heedlessness landscape Thursday, announcing that it has agreed to acquire antivirus software manufacturer McAfee for $48 per share, or $7.68 billion. The deal, whether it passes regulatory muster, would enable the chipmaker to offer tightly integrated hardware and software surety solutions for PCs, servers, and mobile devices.
Intel said it plans to [...]

If the direst of warnings are to subsist believed, some 40 Windows applications could be in danger thanks to a crack in Apple’s iTunes for Windows.
The flaw, which Apple claims to be favored with patched months ago, leaves the Windows shell and numerous other applications vulnerable to an attack, security researchers are warning. The Slovenian [...]