They’re back: rumors of an impending Zune phone announcement from Microsoft, this time probably at CES.
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Red Hat has invested in open-source business-intelligence vendor JasperSoft as part of a $12.5 million round of funding.
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Microsoft today said it’s investigating reports of a new vulnerability in IE that did not get patched in yesterday’s massive update.
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One of the most critical things that the space shuttle Endeavour delivered to the International Space Station last week was a system that would allow the astronauts on board to recycle their own urine into drinkable water. Gross, yes, but vital if the station’s crew complement is to be expanded from 3 to 6 […]
A subsidiary of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has started the hostile takeover bid for security vendor Certicom that it disclosed plans for last week.
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The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) has filed eight new lawsuits against sellers of allegedly pirated software, for the first time targeting sellers on Amazon.com and iOffer.com.
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A New York-based startup has launched an ad-supported Linux-based unified communications offering for the SMB market.
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Cisco Systems will shift resources into new product areas next year, including making a major push into homes, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday.
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The Internet has changed the entertainment scenario and opened a world of information and knowledge. The latest developments in the Internet field have made life rather easy and smooth. With the Internet facility reaching a milestone, one can reap its maximum benefits and have the world falling in their laps.
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Dell Tuesday denied that it has boosted the price of what it charges customers for “downgrading” to Windows XP from Vista when they purchase new desktops and laptops in the company’s popular Inspiron consumer line.
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Building on 25 years of open system innovation and leadership, Sun announced its first open storage product line - ‘Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems’ radically simplifying the way enterprises manage their storage with breakthrough cost savings, speed and scale.
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Microsoft Corp. today patched 28 vulnerabilities, nearly all of them marked “critical,” in the biggest update since it switched to a regular monthly update schedule more than five years ago.
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Cisco will add real-time translation to its TelePresence high-definition conference technology next year, enabling people in several different countries to meet virtually and each hear the other participants’ comments in their own languages.
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When Microsoft completed its acquisition of San Francisco-based startup Powerset in July, it acquired more than just search-engine technology. In the HBase component of Powerset’s product, Microsoft also acquired open-source code that is actively being redistributed back into the Apache Software Foundation’s Hadoop project.
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Dell and EMC have agreed to extend their worldwide storage partnership, even though the existing deal — which has generated billions in sales for the two companies — doesn’t end until 2011.
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FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has abused his power and suppressed public information during his tenure at the agency, according to a new report from a House of Representatives committee.
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Sun Microsystems has agreed to let its largest shareholder name two new independent directors to Sun’s board.
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Computer users are their own worst enemies, a security company warned Monday as it released data that showed software bugs were the source of just 5% of the year’s infections.
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The U.S. government should overhaul its approach to cybersecurity, with sweeping new regulations on private businesses and a new, centralized cybersecurity office in the White House, an all-star group of experts recommended Monday.
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Remember when it was hard to find a Wii? You know, like just yesterday? Walmart feels your pain, and they’ve got the cure: “Tens of thousands” of Nintendo Wii consoles on sale through the retailer’s official website, starting today.
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Black market criminals are offering to sell details on 21 million German bank accounts for €12 million (US$15.3 million), according to an investigative report published Saturday.
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AMD renegotiated its deal with its Abu Dhabi partners, giving AMD a smaller stake in its new foundry and less money to give up shares of the new AMD.
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The holidays are almost here, and Google’s got some freebies for you — if you sign up soon.
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Samsung on Monday said it is upgrading its memory and manufacturing technology that could drop solid-state drive prices.
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Online retail sales in the U.S. have picked up speed in December, after a sluggish start to the holiday shopping season.
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A senior Sun executive on Monday downplayed the controversy over recent public criticisms by a MySQL co-founder.
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With the introduction of communication websites, people have come to realise the potential of these sites. They are not just unleashed with features for communication, but they can also be effectively used for entertainment purposes.
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Linux distributor Good OS and BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies are launching quick-start programs to speed the operation of netbooks.
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The introduction of PC2Phone calls has paved the way for people to ‘terminate’ calls from their PC to others gadgets. It has eased the way we used to make calls. Now calling is no longer confined to forwarding calls from one mobile to another. User can easily make use of PC to terminate calls to […]
Microsoft’s Windows OS last month took its biggest market share dive in the last two years, an Internet measurement company reported Monday, erasing gains made in two of the last three months and sending the operating system’s share under 90% for the first time.
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Sears, Saks Fifth Avenue, Costco, Dell, Victoria’s Secret, Bloomingdale’s and Williams-Sonoma all saw their sites malfunction at some point between Friday and Monday, according to companies that monitor Web performance.
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A federal appeals court agreed that Qualcomm violated a standards body’s rules but said its punishment should be reduced.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that competitors did not infringe chip-packaging patents owned by Tessera Technologies, sending the semiconductor vendor’s stock down nearly 10 percent at the end of trading on Monday.
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Server shipments grew in the third quarter of 2008 though revenue declined as companies tried to lower spending, according to Gartner.
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Microsoft is offering a new instant Cashback feature to Live Search after the service had problems on Friday.
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A researcher says that users could save as much as 10 watts of power by turning off flashy Web animation on their PCs.
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The European Union’s antitrust investigation of Intel is “discriminatory and partial,” the chip maker complained in an action that’s detailed in a recent edition of the EU’s official journal, saying it’s not being permitted to properly defend itself against the charges.
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European telecommunications ministers gave their backing on Thursday to a plan to cap retail prices for sending SMS (Short Message Service) text messages and browsing the Internet using mobile phones while abroad.
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It’s always educational to see who is making money when everybody else is not. In the retail business for example, dollar stores and discounters are raking it in. Bill collectors are going great guns in the down economy, and purveyors of get-rich-quick schemes are probably doing a little more business than usual these days.
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Nokia is developing a new way to control home automation systems using mobile phones.
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