AT&T announced a new U-verse Mobile application for the Android and BlackBerry platforms that allows smartphone users to watch home DVR content from their mobile device.
Facebook and eBay shared some tips this week for improving efficiency and cutting energy bills in data centers. Some of their tricks will be applicable only for very large data centers -- Facebook persuaded a server vendor to provide it with custom firmware to control fan speeds, for example -- but others are relevant for mere mortals who don't buy servers by the ton.
Facebook officially threw down the banhammer against game developer Lolapps on Friday--all 14 million monthly active users and all.
Voline writes "Last Summer, after WikiLeaks released 90,000 leaked internal US military documents in their Afghan War Log, Pentagon officials went on a media offensive against WikiLeaks, accusing it of having the 'blood on Its hands' of American soldiers and Afghan collaborators who are named in the documents. The charge has echoed through the mainstream media (and Internet comment threads) ever since. Now, CNN is reporting that after a thorough Pentagon review, 'WikiLeaks did not disclose any sensitive intelligence sources or methods, the Department of Defense concluded.' And, according to an unnamed NATO official, 'there has been no indication' that any Afghans who have collaborated with the NATO occupation have been harmed as a result of the leaks. Will the Pentagon's contradiction of the charges against WikiLeaks get as much play in the media as those original accusations did?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Standards for making consumer gear more accessible, measuring wireless power and sending stereo 3-D information over Bluetooth will be among the many issues discussed at an annual CEA event.