Asked for comment, Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said: “We are very aggressive in fostering and enforcing our real name culture and sometimes we make mistakes. But it’s rare, and it’s been fixed.”

Facebook’s response? They don’t accept e-mail from an account other than the one that was used to register at Facebook, which they had already rejected as authentication when they disabled his account. Since then, they had refused to respond to his pleas until Monday.

VMware’s financial results from the second quarter of 2009 are out. They beat revenue and income estimates but those estimates were far less euphoric than during VMware’s spectacular growth days of a few years back. Second-quarter revenue was $456 million, flat from the second quarter of 2008. Operating income on a GAAP basis was down 38 percent from the year-ago quarter and down 14 percent non-GAAP.

One notable facet of the earnings release is that the shift to servi

Unless there’s more to the story–a tie-up with another player like Sony’s X Series Walkman or Microsoft’s
Zune, for instance–how can anybody possibly think this will succeed?

Unfortunately, Apple’s not playing ball, but is rather working on its own competing format, code-named Cocktail.

Apparently, some folks in the music business still haven’t learned the lesson about Apple and iPod support, as demonstrated by recent reports that the major labels are planning t

Suddenly, rumors began to swirl that Levy might be trying to transfer Bent’s skills to a club other than Sunderland.

This was more than the player’s head could take. So his fingers did some talking for him.

Levy has also still not expedited his transfer to Sunderland.

I do think British Prime Minister Gordon Brown should get involved in this one.

Spurs' full name is Tottenham Hotspur. The club is not in a pretty part of London.

“We’re going to take our time and build up a case for water in the ejecta, if it’s there, or a case against it if it’s not there,” he said. “And then understand if we’re seeing variations, what do these variations mean? We’ve got to understand that before we say anything.”

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NASA)

Three successively zoomed-in views showing the impact of a Centaur rocket stage in a dark crater on the moon as viewed by NASA’s LCROSS probe minutes before its own destruction.

STMicroelectronics supplies the accelerometer for the iPhone 3GS

Last week, Globalfoundries broke ground on a $4.2 billion facility in Malta, N.Y., that is expected to put it among the elite chipmakers of the world. Currently, Globalfoundries manufactures chips for AMD at facilities in Dresden, Germany.

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Apple)

STMicroelectronics will commission Globalfoundries to make low-power chips using a 40-nanometer process, which “is ideal for the next genera

One commenter on the Trim blog post suggested that perhaps the service could live on in the form of an open-source project. But for now, its fate remains up in the air.

What the company hasn’t said: what will happen to existing Trim URLs? It’s likely that Nambu Networks hasn’t yet decided. If Trim is completely closed, that would mean that those shortened URLs would turn into broken links. It’d be possible to close it to new entries but keep existing ones, except that wouldn’t solve

College tools

BuddySchool lists several tutors for you to consider.

That’s why I’ve compiled a list of resources for students to use when they head back to college. Whether it’s finding textbooks or getting help with tough subjects, every student should use at least some of these sites.

NoteMesh NoteMesh is a great way to collaborate with other classmates on notes.

When you get to the site, you’ll need to find the class topic you’re having troub

In December, an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 is scheduled to papoose the X-51A to 50,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean before cutting it loose. At that point, a solid rocket booster from an ATACMS missile will fire up, accelerating the X-51 to about Mach 4.5. That’s when the supersonic combustion ramjet kicks in, pushing the WaveRider to more than Mach 6 for up to five minutes, longer than all of its predecessors combined. NASA tests have reached Mach 9.6, or nearly 7,000 mph, according t

Tab-to-search also works with Amazon, Google, Google News, and Yahoo, The New York Times, but not Bing yet. I search a lot, and this saves me one step and waiting for a page to load just so I can click in its search bar.

Performance still is an issue with the Mac version, though. I was pleased to see some work on new-tab creation speed, with programmer Mark Mentovai using various changes to work the time from 1-3 seconds down to a fifth of a second.