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AT&T and Verizon announced Thursday they will refrain from targeted advertising unless users opt in, and urged the industry to adopt similar guidelines to protect privacy online, reports Bloom... More >
IBM will build NASA's newest supercomputer cluster, reports vnunet.com . The iDataPlex cluster system will add 1,024 Intel Xeon quad-core chips to NASA's existing Discover computing cluster ... More >
Preliminary results from a Pricewaterhouse Coopers study were released at the Fiber-to-the-Home Council's 2008 Conference & Expo. The study, commissioned by the FTTH Council, indicates that deli... More >
Imports of high-tech gear to the United States grew by 3 percent in 2007 while exports fell, also by 3 percent, according to AeA, the trade group formerly known as the American Electronics Associatio... More >
Mozilla has issued an update to Firefox 3 addressing a dozen vulnerabilities , including two rated "critical," reports ZDNet . The first involves a crash bug that could corrupt memory and ... More >
Google's Chrome Web browser, which quickly gobbled up market share in its first 24 hours of existence, is beginning to lose those gains to Internet Explorer and Firefox. Web metrics firm Net... More >
Sony has officially joined the crowded notebook market with the Vaio TT. CNET News reports Sony's 11-inch ultraportable laptop is available in four different shades of the rainbow, weighs i... More >
Intel has officially begun shipping its dual-core Atom processor. Designed for the growing mini-notebook market, the Atom 330 has a 1.6-GHz processing core and uses a maximum of 8 watts of power, rep... More >
Financial services companies are among the targets for Microsoft's just-released HPC Server 2008 , reports vnunet.com , a sector that seems to need better number-crunching these days. The te... More >
Comcast has submitted the plan for managing its broadband network required by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission , reports The Wall Street Journal . The FCC last month ordered Com... More >
Google made a splash when it filed a patent for a water-based data center that uses wave power. However, International Data Security is doing Google one better, by actually putting a similar... More >
Intel conducted a 10-month pilot study on data center cooling and came away with surprising results. The company set up a New Mexico-based trial data center of 900 blade servers split into t... More >
Google and General Electrics announced yesterday that they would work together to stump for eco-friendly policies and develop geothermal and plug-in technologies. The goal of the two companies is to ... More >
The power outages that followed Hurricane Ike have produced the biggest outage of Internet service since the Northeast blackout of 2003, reports The Associated Press in a story in the San Francis... More >
Data centers were key assets in Barclays' bid for bankrupt Lehman Bros. The Chicago Tribune reports Britain's third-largest bank bought Lehman's North American business for just $250 millio... More >
The recovery DVDs that come with Asus laptops contain software crackers and confidential documents from Asus and Microsoft, reports PC Pro . The magazine verified claims by one of its reade... More >
Microsoft and Cray have developed a supercomputer that can sit on your desk , and as CRN puts it, it doesn't cost more than a Hummer limo. The CX1 supercomputer runs Microsoft's soon-to-be-re... More >
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has set up a foundation to spread Web access to developing nations and to keep it free and open, reports CNET . The World Wide Web Foundation is initially fun... More >
At VMware's user conference, Symantec and McAfee plan to introduce products for virtual environments, reports InfoWorld . McAfee is set to introduce Total Protection for Virtualization. While... More >
Seagate is unveiling its new lineup of FreeAgent external hard drives. The drives, which include both laptop and desktop models, come pre-formatted for either Mac or PC file systems, reports CNET Ne... More >
Japan leads the world in broadband quality, with Sweden and the Netherlands topping Europe, according to a 42-nation study of broadband infrastructure. Its sponsor was Cisco, which, of course, sells ... More >
SanDisk unveiled a 32 GB CompactFlash card yesterday, the company's largest CF storage device. The Extreme III CompactFlash doubles the size of SanDisk's previous CF card and has read and write spe... More >
As airlines begin providing Wi-Fi connections to air travelers, there's been an outcry over the prospect of being held captive to other people's conversations . But flight attendants for Am... More >
The Large Hadron particle collider that began running Wednesday will produce so much information that dozens of computing centers around the world will take part in analyzing the data, according to... More >
On Monday it was revealed that AT&T had chosen Yahoo as its search engine for its Web-enabled mobile phones. The mobile news has only continued for the Internet company as it also unveil... More >
According to a recent survey released by the CTIA , text messages are all the rage among American cell phone users. The survey found that 75 billion SMS text messages were sent during the month of J... More >
Google's love of space is legendary , with the search, mapping and everything-else company recently in a deal for high-resolution satellite photos . Now it's investing in a satellite network ... More >
Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli will go to prison for his role in backdating scandal, according to an Associated Press story in The Sydney Morning Herald . Writing that he could not accep... More >
Spectrum Bridge, a company focused on creating a secondary market for radio spectrum , launched its Web site SpecEx.com on Friday to match buyers and sellers, reports The Wall Street Journal . &n... More >
Emerson Network Power plans to open its new 35,000 square foot data center in St. Louis next summer. The facility, which is being designed by Fox Architects , is aiming to achieve LEED Silve... More >
Comcast is appealing the Federal Communications Commission's order to stop blocking peer-to-peer traffic, reports The Wall Street Journal . Though the company was not fined, the FCC voted ... More >
On the same day that Sony issued a recall for its VaioTZ series of notebooks because of a potential "burn hazard," the company also debuted three new all-in-one PCs at the CEDIA show in Denver. &nb... More >
Amazon will run the Give One, Get One program for the One Laptop Per Child project this year, rather than the small OLPC staff, reports InfoWorld. Under the promotion, when a person buys one of th... More >
Sony is recalling 73,000 Vaio TZ series notebooks following reports of overheating, with one even resulting in minor burns, reports InfoWorld . Sony claims the overheating is caused by "irre... More >
International Internet traffic grew 53 percent from mid-2007 to mid-2008, according to research by TeleGeography Research. That was down from its reported 61 percent growth rate in the previ... More >
UK areas skipped by first-generation broadband technology should leapfrog to next-generation Internet access, advises the Ofcom Consumer Panel. About 35 percent of UK households have no Intern... More >
Hurricane Gustav wreaked havoc on cellular and Internet service in parts of Louisiana , but much less so than Katrina, reports The Associated Press in a story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Po... More >
When the TV program "Mythbusters" wanted to show how hackable RFID tags are , its parent Discovery Channel caved to pressure from Texas Instruments and lawyers to prevent it, according to tech dir... More >
This year's U.S. Open is serving an ace when it comes to green IT. Last year, USOpen.org experienced more than 7.3 million unique visits during the 2007 U.S. Open, and server virtualization played ... More >
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