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It's not a bailout, but the U.S. Department of Energy is providing $15 million in technical assistance to 21 organizations as part of its Net-Zero Energy Commercial Building Initiative. Greene... More >
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a tiny monitor that will look for bugs in microprocessors . The researchers call the technology "semantic guardian," reports InfoWorl... More >
Former chief of staff to onetime U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales, Ted Ullyot, has been hired as Facebook's general counsel , according to CNET News . Ullyot, a Harvard grad, comes with an imp... More >
A new study conducted by IDC found that nearly half of European companies have implemented greener IT practices in their data centers and operations, reports GreenerComputing . Dell sponsore... More >
British telecom BT is looking for thousands of broadband subscribers willing to take part in its third test of Phorm, which tracks a person's Internet use to deliver targeted ads, reports BBC News... More >
UK professionals in the national security and resilience space now have a platform to share information thanks to IT trade association Intellect . Intellect has launched an online wiki , call... More >
This Associated Press story calls software company Citrix Systems the first major company to allow employees to choose their own computer. According to the piece on Newsvine.com, workers get ... More >
Agami, the Silicon Valley startup that called employees together for a 11 a.m. meeting in late July only to tell them the company would be shuttered at 1 p.m. , continues to rile those employees. &n... More >
Those attending next month's Professional Developers Conference will get a preview version of Windows 7 , Microsoft has confirmed. The code will be handed out Oct. 28, when Steven Sinofsky, w... More >
Going head-to-head with Microsoft, IBM and Oracle, this week Cisco rolled out its latest communications and collaboration products. The San Francisco Chronicle interprets the message as "let ... More >
Hate listening to your voicemail messages? Now you don't have to. VoxSciences has a service that converts voicemails into text messages or e-mails . The service uses Virtual Engine for Recogn... More >
Pop-up warnings are not effective , according to a study by the Department of Psychology at North Carolina State University. vnunet.com reports that over half of the participants clicked "OK"... More >
Microsoft is touting the "greeness" of the massive new data center just opened near San Antonio, Texas. It's about the size of 10 football fields, with one trip around the building a 1.3-mile wa... More >
Texting has become the preferred mode of communication rather than cell phone calls for most Americans, according to Nielsen Media. Its statistics for the second quarter found U.S. mobile su... More >
Tech companies Google, Apple, Amazon and Nintendo are among the fastest-rising global brands ranked in the 2008 survey by market-research company Interbrand. It named Coca-Cola the most valu... More >
Brocade is rolling out new security and management solutions to help companies encrypt critical corporate data and centrally manage the flow of data, reports vnunet.com . The Brocade Encrypt... More >
IBM plans a hosted version of Lotus Notes targeted toward companies of between 1,000 and 10,000 employees, reports Network World . It will cost between $8 and $18 per user, per month. It al... More >
In essense saying, "garbage in, garbage out," The New York Times' Saul Hansell more or less found that to be the answer to his questions about why quantitative analysts' predictions didn't stem the... More >
According to vnunet.com , Nvidia plans to cut its workforce by 6.5 percent, which translates to about 360 people. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says the layoffs are due to "current business realities,... More >
Americans and Western Europeans are increasingly turning to their mobile handsets when it comes to search. New research from comScore reveals that 20.8 million U.S. wireless customers and 4.5 milli... More >
Considering the reaction to Microsoft's first ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld, it probably comes as no surprise that Microsoft is dropping the ad campaign featuring the comedian . Computerworld ... More >
Mozilla's next Firefox update will not contain an end-user licensing agreement (EULA), reports Computerworld . The open source developer has admitted it made a mistake adding a EULA to the Li... More >
The federal government's problems with cyber security usually make news for their cost , their failure or how much we're not told about them or their remedies . Now a panel is suggesting t... More >
Nokia has climbed back to the top of Greenpeace's Greener Electronics Guide . Nokia scored a 7 out of 10 to take the top spot after having been saddled with a penalty point the last nine mont... More >
At its VMworld 2008 conference this week, VMware introduced a wealth of partners as it pushes its cloud computing strategy. CRN quotes President and CEO Paul Maritz as saying: This is a platf... More >
3PAR announced it has been awarded the 2008 Frost & Sullivan North American Technology Innovation Award in the field of storage architecture for its 3PAR Thin Provisioning technology. Accordin... More >
According to a survey by ChangeWave, consumer spending habits have been slowed by the economy, which likely comes as no surprise. However, despite these downward trends in spending, Apple is ... More >
Federal officials investigating a commuter rail collision that killed 25 people are looking into claims by teenagers that they were texting with the engineer just moments before the crash, reports ... More >
Corel plans to cut its global work force by about 8 percent , or 90 employees, reports The Associated Press in a story in The Boston Globe . The Toronto-based company, which is in talks to b... More >
Just Wednesday, Microsoft's e-mail deal with Nokia made news. Now it's partnering with Research in Motion to provide Microsoft Live Search as an option on the BlackBerry browser. CNET's Ina... More >
Nokia announced Wedneday it is expanding Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync corporate e-mail service to all its phones using S60 Symbian software, reports Reuters . That's 43 models and about... More >
In yet another signal that it's a cellular world , the University of Kentucky has announced that its dormitories no longer will offer landline phones for students, reports nky.com . The st... More >
Sure, your every gaffe could appear on YouTube or "America's Funniest Home Videos," but police in New York City have kind words about citizens with camera phones. As in, "Bring them on!" The c... More >
Illustrating one of the dangers of the Internet, the link to an old Bloomberg story on UAL Corp.'s 2002 bankruptcy filing triggered a massive sell-off Tuesday. In the process, the stock price for t... More >
Rumors that Samsung was working on a buyout of SanDisk gave SanDisk stock a 31 percent boost Friday, but the price has been falling since , reports Barrons . SanDisk CEO Eli Harari, in a s... More >
The London Stock Exchange suspended trading before 9 a.m. Monday morning after its overloaded system caused widespread connection problems for users, according to The Telegraph . The Johan... More >
Microsoft set out a week before the VMware 2008 user conference to tout its virtualization products that aren't on the market yet with its "Get Virtual Now" campaign, notes Mary-Jo Foley at ZDNe... More >
In an effort to resolve the confusion and lack of uniformity in measuring IT security , the Center for Information Security (CIS) is set to release guidelines so organizations can compare their perf... More >
The Association of National Advertisers sent a letter the U.S. Justice Department expressing its opposition to the proposed online advertising deal between Google and Yahoo . The association ... More >
The stock market was down in a big way Thursday, but Yahoo's stock dropped to its lowest price in nearly five years , closing at $17.75, according to an Associated Press story on Newsvine.com. &nb... More >
A new global user group for customers of Business Objects is being formed out of the Americas' SAP Users' Group, reports CIO.com . SAP acquired the business intelligence vendor earlier th... More >
According to research from Forrester , IT security spending has seen an 8 percent increase over last year, with 10 percent of IT operating budgets being devoted to security in 2008. What's more, 21 ... More >
Gasp! Someone's getting paid to promote stories on Digg and if they land on the Digg home page, that person gets paid more, reports WebProNews . Invesp even paid this person for an interv... More >
Red Hat has announced it will pay $107 million for Israeli software company Qumranet , which developed the open source KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) project, reports PCWorld.com . Thoug... More >
If you haven't established a bottom line for your operations, then you should get to it, according to new advice from Forrester Research . According to the research firm, an organization with... More >
Houston-based hosting company The Planet has begun a new initiative that the firm believes will save it $140,000 a year. The Planet is initiating a company-wide "lights out" program that wil... More >
Microsoft in mid-August was granted a patent for Page Up and Page Down keystrokes. Linking to a photo of an 1981 IBM keyboard with those buttons, ZDNet calls the patent another example of Mi... More >
Oracle announced Tuesday its acquisition of ClearApp for an undisclosed sum, reports CNET . ClearApp's software allows customers to manage applications based on service-oriented architect... More >
Google is moving into the world of Web browsers with Google Chrome , an offering that the search giant claims will provide a faster, more reliable and cleaner alternative to other browsers. A... More >
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