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April 30, 2008

Xerox Developing 'Erasable Paper'

Xerox is developing a reusable paper that can be used several hundred times. The paper uses a molecular compound that changes the color of the paper when exposed to UV light. The print fades over 1... More >

April 29, 2008

VoIP Moves by Yahoo, AOL

Yahoo has announced it will outsource to Jajah its premium voice service on Yahoo Messenger, reports TechCrunch .   Yahoo's instant messaging feature has 97 million users , though it's not c... More >

April 28, 2008

A Challenge for 'Shutdown Day'

We here at IT Business Edge know we certainly couldn't do it on a work day, but a Canadian group has declared Saturday, May 3 as "Shutdown Day," challenging people to go a whole day without their c... More >

Popular Saudi Blogger Freed

A popular Saudi blogger who spent four months in prison without ever being charged has been freed, reports The Washington Post .   Fouad al-Farhan, 33, said he was "fairly treated" since bein... More >

Firefox Gains Popularity in Europe

Firefox reached almost 29 percent market share in Europe in March and is still gaining popularity, according to Web metrics company Xiti.   Xiti says Internet Explorer has lost 2.5 points duri... More >

Three Great Lakes Developers Propose Offshore Wind Farms

Three separate developers have proposed plans to build wind farms on Lake Michigan . The projects are very much in the preliminary stages. Interest in offshore wind turbines has picked up because of... More >

April 24, 2008

Dell Introduces Its Bamboo Box

Dell CEO Michael Dell unveiled a bamboo-encased PC at the Fortune Green Conference this week. According to Dell, the yet-to-be-named eco-friendly computer uses 70 percent less power than a standard... More >

April 23, 2008

Dynamics CRM Online Goes Live

Microsoft this week took the wraps off its Dynamics CRM Online , undercutting Salesforce.com's prices and offering more storage capacity, reports eWEEK .   The suite of on-demand sales, market... More >

April 22, 2008

Green Data Center Unveiled for Earth Day

Hitachi Data Systems is honoring Earth Day by unveiling its new green data center . The Yokohama, Japan, facility is expected to dramatically cut carbon emissions while lowering its impact on the co... More >

April 21, 2008

Federal Court OKs Laptop Search

A federal court has ruled that inspection of a person's laptop at U.S. entry points -- even without suspicion that it's being used in some nefarious way -- does not constitute unreasonable search a... More >

Wind Turbines Would Help Power Proposed Data Center

A Massachusetts developer's plan to build  a data center in an old smokestack factory includes use of two 300-foot wind turbines expected to produce 25 percent of the needed energy, reports Comput... More >

Cisco, AT&T Team up on Conferencing

Cisco and AT&T have teamed up to sell Cisco's high-end video conferencing system in hopes of making it attractive to multinational corporations, reports Reuters .   Cisco launched the Tel... More >

Skype Offers Unlimited International Calling

VoIP provider Skype announced Monday it is offering unlimited calls from the United States to 34 other countries for $9.95 a month, though in most countries the calls must be to landline phones, re... More >

April 18, 2008

FCC Says It Will Scrutinize ISP Practices

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said Thursday the agency would investigate whether broadband Internet providers disclose their network-management practices to consumers and ... More >

Green IT Practices Becoming more Common

Green technology, while difficult to define, is becoming more pervasive in the enterprise. TMCnet reports that green IT is receiving more attention from the executive suite.  The piece notes a Data... More >

April 17, 2008

Broadband Adoption Growing in U.S., but Still Lagging Other Nations

Broadband penetration in the United States has reached 49 percent, up more than 300 percent over the 2002 rate of 12 percent, reports vnunet.com .   In a report, analyst company Scarborough Re... More >

Comcast to Skip FCC Hearing at Stanford?

Though invited to discuss its plans for a peer-to-peer "Bill of Rights" at a Federal Communications Commission hearing Thursday at Stanford University, Comcast has decided to sit this one out , re... More >

April 16, 2008

Greening the Data Center

The term green technology has been given some liberal definition in the technology industry as companies clamor to be with one of the latest trends. The data center has been a central area for compan... More >

Comcast Promotes P2P 'Bill of Rights'

Still backpedaling after charges that it interferes with peer-to-peer traffic, Comcast is advocating a "Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" for file sharing , according to an Associated Press sto... More >

April 11, 2008

Gartner: Windows Collapsing Under Its Own Weight

Windows is going a whole lot of nowhere , according to a recent report by Gartner analysts Neil MacDonald and Michael Silver.   This seems to be in sharp contrast to a recent post by ITBusiness... More >

Google Tosses HuddleChat into the Campfire

Google launched a preview release of its App Engine earlier this week. While most of the tech chatter has been positive, it hasn't been without its detractors.   Google's HuddleChat was used t... More >

April 7, 2008

Jive Releases Clearspace 2.0; Acquires Jotlet

Back in February 2007, ITBusinessEdge blogger Ann All interviewed Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive Software , as the company was preparing to launch its Clearspace collaboration software. Clearspace integrat... More >

April 3, 2008

Comcast Revs Up Internet Speed

Comcast on Thursday will launch a higher-speed Internet option in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region that The New York Times calls "a bandwidth hog's dream."   Showing off the technology recentl... More >

April 2, 2008

What Next for OOXML?

It's all over, including the shouting, which Microsoft did Tuesday. The approval of Open Office XML as an international standard is just the beginning of lengthy adoption and implementation process ... More >

April 1, 2008

Bejing Warned It Must Allow Open Internet Access During Olympics

The International Olympic Committee has warned Beijing that its contract to host the Olympics also requires it to provide open access to the Internet , reports Reuters .   The contract require... More >

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