The New York Times has started rolling out TimesPeople, a sharing-and-recommending tool that the publication first announced earlier this year. It’s essentially an extension of the free user accounts that are already required to read the Times’ Web site: You can now build up a friends list, recommend stories to people you know, and see [...]

At the moment, Intel is simply expressing concern about the deal, per the Patent Cross License Agreement between the two companies. (The two chipmakers have cross-licensing agreements that go back to 1976.)
Advanced Micro Device’s new manufacturing venture may come with some old baggage.
The Agreement, which was signed in 2001 and expires in 2010, [...]

WebXchange is suing Microsoft–or, rather, three of its customers–for allegedly infringing its patents in Microsoft Visual Studio, as CNET reports. Just desserts? Nah. Microsoft rarely sues anyone, preferring instead to threaten to sue.
Regardless, WebXchange’s suit against Dell, FedEx, and Allstate for using Visual Studio is nuclear waste: by suing customers, WebXchange just made software licensing [...]

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Also included is a wash of data for each attraction. To find out more about any part of the park, there’s a little purple Mickey Mouse head you can click on that will give you a written description of the ride, along with photos and, in some cases, even videos. Some descriptions are a [...]

Reports surfaced overnight on Monday that advertisements were appearing sporadically in some of the micro-messaging service’s Web-based streams, suggesting that perhaps Twitter may be close to losing its punchline status as the Silicon Valley darling that hasn’t earned a dime yet. A handful of blogs wrote about it, but it seems like most Twitter users [...]

Former MSN executive Joanne Bradford has landed at Yahoo, following a brief stint at Los Angeles-based ad agency SpotRunner.

Joanne Bradford

Bradford, who left Microsoft in March, will occupy the newly created role of senior vice president for U.S. revenue and market development. In this newly crafted position, Bradford will oversee sales, market development, small business, [...]

“We have some bad news,” a message on the Los Angeles-based company’s home page read. “The crisis in the economy has claimed Uber as its latest victim. Our investors have decided to stop supporting Uber and we have closed the doors.”
Uber had been co-founded by former Friendster CEO and NBC Entertainment president Scott Sassa, and [...]

With more extreme precipitation, New York is enlisting trees to try to capture run-off and pollutants. The city is trying to add more green spaces to its streets and change the tree pit specifications so that they are big enough to retain more water, Maron said.
Green retrofits

Top on the list of these cities’ [...]

The state of the market for tools in parallel computing is abysmal. (Marc Snir, University of Illinois)
The
iPhone hype (or, indeed, the babel that surrounds Apple in general) can be wearing. However, one thing that the iPhone has really accomplished is to crystallize the notion that the browser is a viable interface for mobile phones–at least [...]

An easy way of unlocking your iPhone 3G could hit the Internet relatively soon.
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An unlocked
iPhone 3G is a little closer to becoming reality, according to the iPhone Dev Team.
There hasn’t been as much demand for unlocked iPhone 3Gs, given the much greater distribution of that phone around the world. However, there are still some [...]