DDoS attack on DNS hits Amazon and others

From InfoWorld: Internet users in Northern California were unable to reach properties including Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services for a time Wednesday evening, as their DNS provider was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack. The attack came as North American consumers...

Wait! Nook arriving for Christmas after all

From CNET News.com: Customers who placed early orders for Barnes & Noble's Nook e-readers will get them in time for Christmas, the company said Wednesday, despite its statements to the contrary a few days ago.

On Friday, the retailer told some customers by e-mail that it aimed to...

Twitter buys developers of GeoAPI

From CNET News.com: Twitter is usually the subject of steamy acquisition rumors, but chose perhaps the deadest afternoon of the business year to announce that it has made an acquisition of its own.

Twitter has bought Mixer Labs, the company that created the GeoAPI location service...

Hulu Adds Warner Music Videos, Concerts

From DailyTech: Warner Music Group has become the second major record label to sign with online video site Hulu, signaling the popular site's continued growth among copyright holders.

Warner currently has Warner Bros. Records, Rhino Records and Atlantic Records as part of its...

Nortel Accepts $282M Bid for VoIP Unit

From PC World: Nortel Networks has entered into an agreement to sell its Carrier VoIP (Voice over IP) and Application Solutions business to Genband for US$282 million, it said on Wednesday.

Just like previous deals for its assets, Nortel has entered into a so-called stalking horse...

Epic Shows off Unreal Engine 3 Running on iPhone

From Tom's Hardware: The Unreal Engine has successfully cracked into the console space in a big way. Now the games engine, once exclusively a PC-based engine, is powering many blockbuster titles on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Now the Unreal Engine 3 has made its way to the iPhone...

Microsoft yanks Custom XML from Word, offers patch to OEMs

From InfoWorld: Microsoft already has a patch available that strips out XML technology the company is barred from using after Jan. 11, in Word 2007 and Office 2007, according to a Microsoft Web site.

The patch targets large computer makers that factory-install Microsoft Office on...

Comcast settles class-action suit on traffic blocking

From CNET News.com: As we close the book on 2009 and ready for 2010, a legal settlement takes us back to 2007 and 2008, when Comcast got into trouble with customers and the feds for throttling peer-to-peer traffic on its network.

Comcast has agreed to pay $16 million to end to a...

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