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Spammers Quick to Embrace Ping, Security Firm Says_

Apple's new music social network is especially vulnerable to spam, a security firm says.

  

YouSendIt raises additional $15M to bypass email attachment limits_

File-transfer startup YouSendIt, which allows users to bypass the limits that most email services put on file transfers, announced it raised an extra $15 million in its fourth round of funding on Friday. New investor Adams Street Partners led the round, along with former investors Emergence Capital, Sigma Partners and Alloy Ventures.YouSendIt allows users to send files sized up to 2 gigabytes thr

  

Online Viewers Watched 1.4B Minutes of Live Video in July_

While on-demand services like YouTube and Hulu get all the press, live streaming services have posted dramatic increases in viewer engagement over the last year. Time spent watching live online video increased nearly 650 percent in that time, to 1.4 billion minutes a month.

  

Facebook Ramping Up the Social in Its Search Engine_

Facebook has started integrating social activity from the network into its search results, by showing how many people "liked" or shared a page. This is the first step in rolling out the network's social-search engine, which could become a competitive threat for Google and other companies.

  

Facebook adds 'liked' news stories to search results_

Facebook has added more functionality to its search results by including all the articles a user's friends have said they "like."

  

Reporters' Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook and Foursquare_

The money people in tech love check-in companies. VCs are funneling funds into Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other apps that let users check-in and then broadcast their locations to friends and businesses. Why? On the Roundtable today we discuss these start-ups, as well as Facebook's entry into this market, with Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times, and Adrianne Jeffries of ReadWriteWeb.

  

SD Card Association: flash card speeds to triple by 2012_

The SD Card Association (truth be told, one of our favorite card-related associations) has a new spec in the works that will almost triple the speed of its SDHC and SDXC cards, according to CNET. The specification, which should be complete Q1 next year, will achieve 300MB per second by adding a second row of electrical contacts on the bottom face of the card, and will be backward compatible with

  

Cambridge scientists develop lower-than-low power WORM memory_

Researchers at Cambridge University have recently published a paper on their new type of WORM (write once read many) memory which is even more low powered than the ones that came before it. The new electron-only design of the memory is solution processed, making it low cost as well as it requires no lithography. The device, using ZnO semiconductor nanoparticles to inject electrons into a polymer

  

LG Optimus One and Optimus Chic eyes-on_

That "leaked" low-end LG Android device from a few days back? Turns out it was nothing more than the Optimus Chic, one of two Google-powered phones that the company announced back in early July. They're still not ready to let us touch the damned things here at IFA -- apparently on account of the fact that they're not commercially available yet -- but we got close enough to conclude that you defin

  

Developers Debate iOS 4.1 Proximity Sensor Fix_

When iOS 4.1 is released by Apple next week, it will have a number of new bells and whistles enhancing the iPhone and iPod Touch experience. Whether or not the highly-anticipated update will finally fix the proximity sensor issue plaguing iPhone 4 users, though, is still uncertain.

  

Duke Nukem Forever coming in 2011_

The long-troubled ? and previously aborted ? development of Duke Nukem Forever is getting a new life, as 2K Games revealed Friday morning at PAX that the game is not only in development but is playable on the show floor.

  

IDC Sees PC Sales Slowing in Second Half of 2010_

IDC analysts say consumer purchases of PCs will slow in the second half of the year, but strong commercial sales will offset some of the weakness. - IDC analysts are predicting what others have also: Consumer sales of PCs will slow in the second half of 2010 after a strong first two quarters. However, IDC pointed out in a report Sept. 2 that the softening in the PC market in the second half wa


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