Talk about awesome irony: Verizon accidentally included the private e-mail addresses of 1,200 IT professionals in a mass-mailed invitation for a seminar about protecting personal data.
The communications company sent more than a dozen e-mails containing the addresses, according to technology professionals who contacted Network World. The messages touted a series of upcoming events, including [...]

Wal-Mart has changed course and decided to keep its DRM servers up and running, according to an e-mail posted at Engadget.
The company had announced late last month that it would shut the servers down, meaning anyone who downloaded tracks from its Web site before February — when it switched to DRM-free files — would no [...]

It’s an Apple-filled kind of day — news of an $800 laptop, new Brick images, and new iPhone rumors — and now, Apple’s announcing a series of free worldwide “tech talks” about the iPhone.
The iPhone Tech Talk World Tour will let developers get up-close and personal with Apple engineers to go over app development and [...]

Amidst this morning’s news of an $800 Apple laptop, reported first here at The Inquisitr, come a couple more bits of Apple-related gossip.
First, the new images: An Apple.pro blog has posted three new shots of what may be the new MacBook case utilizing the “Brick” manufacturing process. They’re not quite the same as the [...]

MapQuest is fighting to gain ground in its market with the launch of some new information integration features.
Through a partnership with Yelp, a four-year-old startup in Silicon Valley, the company will start putting local business reviews within its mapping results today, as CNET points out. MapQuest will also begin offering sports information [...]

Mozilla is revealing new details about features in the works and targeted release dates for the upcoming Firefox 3.1. Beta 1, the company says, is on track to launch next week. It’ll include new options such as the long-discussed HTML video tag support as well as some notable changes to the tab bar. [...]

The Lingerie Football League, born out of the Super Bowl halftime show, is holding tryouts for its new Seattle team. Someone videotaped it. Enough said.
(Note: The reporter’s audio track seems to be missing from this clip. It doesn’t really matter, though.)

Photo slideshow here. Gotta love the local media and their [...]

Is it just me, or does today seem like “Launch Services Our Competitors Created Two Years Ago” day for Yahoo?
First came news of Yahoo’s new Web 2.0-enabled online calendar. The company’s first major update to its calendar tool in a decade offers similar functionality to Google’s alternative — which, incidentally, was launched in 2006 [...]

Some new numbers are in about the Obama-McCain matchup — and we’re not talking last night’s debate.
Research from Secure Computing shows spammers are using Barack Obama’s name seven times more than John McCain’s in the subject lines of their junk mail. The data analyzed spam sent during the month of September. [...]

A major record label has struck a new social networking deal — with a teen-targeting twist. Universal Music Group (UMG) is partnering with teen-friendly site Kiwibox to create a new streaming service, the two companies will announce this morning.
The deal will make thousands of UMG artist videos available for free on Kiwibox.com. The [...]

Mozilla’s mobile browser, long-under-development with the codename Fennec, should be available in alpha release within a matter of weeks. Engineers released Milestone 8 of the tool at the end of September and have previously said the utility will be finished and ready for use by early 2009.
Mozilla chief executive John Lilly now indicates things [...]

Here’s a scary thought: What would happen if Sarah Palin and Joe Biden decided to spend debate night together — like, really together? Web-based creative app developers Aviary set out to see what the unlikely couple’s love child would look like. Ready for this?

Here’s hoping we never see that kind of bipartisan cooperation.

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