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Users are being urged to patch a pair of critical flaws in OpenOffice , reports vnunet.com . The flaws affect versions of OpenOffice prior to the 2.4.2 release, which means the newly unveiled Open... More >
Sony's laptop batteries are once again at the center of a product recall. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled 35,000 Sony batteries found in 24 Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba lap... More >
Social-networking site LinkedIn has opened its OpenSocial-based application platform for developers and added a bunch of apps designed for business , reports eWEEK . They include apps from p... More >
Not to be outdone by Dell, which released its Inspiron 12 this week, HP is set to introduce its Mini 1000 series of netbooks today. The HP Mini 1000 comes is available in three versions rang... More >
In announcing it would restate its earnings for a 5 1/2-year period, online retailer Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne blamed the errors on problems in implementing an Oracle ERP system , reports Co... More >
According to a report by the U.S. Army's 304th Military Intelligence Battalion, Twitter could be used to coordinate terrorists' movements, activities and attacks . The military says "Twitter ... More >
IBM is making computing power and software services free to all students in North Carolina and calling it the industry's latest buzzword, "a cloud," reports InformationWeek . It's actually ... More >
Google has launched Gmail for Mobile 2.0 for BlackBerry and J2ME-supported devices. The new application, according to CNET News , boasts quicker performance, smoother scrolling and no freez... More >
Millions of "pro-Americans" will take to the polls in 11 days. A record turnout of voters is being predicted and 13 percent of registered voters will be checking a box for president for th... More >
Small businesses that sign up for the Orange Solo mobile plan will also receive free broadband for business as part of the package. The plan, which costs around $48 dollars per month, is d... More >
SanDisk has teamed up with McAfee to embed an anti-malware scanner in its Cruzer Enterprise USB drives , reports vnunet.com . Combined with hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption, the new saf... More >
NetSuite is hoping to win customers away from rival Salesforce.com by offering a 50 percent discount over current fees, reports Reuters . While NetSuite sells several types of software, the ... More >
One of the major disappointments of the G1 , the first Android-powered mobile phone, was that it was without Microsoft Exchange support. Third-party developers Wrike and Intermedia have d... More >
Banking giant Morgan Stanley is investing in a data center in northern Scotland that will cost close to $500 million and be powered by the tides, reports The New York Times , citing a story in The... More >
Neowin.net reports, citing a tipster, that Microsoft will release a beta for the second Vista service pack and a beta for the Server 2008 second service pack within a month. The Vista updat... More >
Mozilla has released an alpha version of its Firefox browser for mobile devices , specifically Nokia's N810 and N880 Internet tablets, reports vnunet.com . The company said it wants to make ... More >
What a difference a year makes. After comfortably sitting atop Gartner's list of technologies for 2008 , green IT slipped to number 10 in the analyst firm's technologies for 2009 . Ac... More >
Cisco Systems has partnered with Tata Communications to offer the first publicly available telepresence videoconferencing rooms. Until now, Cisco only offered its high-definition service to business ... More >
Opera Software has built a search engine that indexes structural information about Web pages , reports Computerworld . The company plans to release the Metadata Analysis and Mining Applicat... More >
Unveiled yesterday, Apple's new MacBooks and MacBook Pros are milled from aluminum, use arsenic-free display glass, and have no PVC internal cables. They are rated EPEAT Gold . The laptops co... More >
Earlier this month, we reported on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's use of Google Maps to identify domestic areas prime for renewable energy development . TreeHugger reports that t... More >
It's a tough time to be a startup. U.S. venture capitalists raised about $476 million less in the third quarter than in the same period a year ago, according to Thomson Reuters and the National Ventu... More >
The CEO and CFO of Entellium are in the hoosegow and investigators can't account for $9.6 million invested in the software maker, reports the Puget Sound Business Journal . Paul Thomas John... More >
T-Mobile is sure to be ticked off by a report by the Federal Communications Commission downplaying concerns about interference from a free, national wireless Internet service, reports The Wall Str... More >
As worry spreads about the "clickjacking" vulnerabilities that affect all major Web browsers, Mozilla points out that a Firefox add-on has been updated to protect users, reports Computerworld . ... More >
Xerox debuted its self-erasing paper at WIRED NextFest in Chicago, reports EarthFirst . The paper self-erases within 24 hours and can then be re-used again and again. A special type of ink,... More >
Toshiba announced this week that it would be releasing its first fuel-cell-powered device between now and the end of March 2009. Toshiba plans to utilize DFMCs (direct-methanol fuel-cells), which p... More >
The U.S. Army is cracking down on unauthorized desktop software , reports Network World . Software has been installed on 11,000 desktops of Pentagon staffers to detect an unapproved applicat... More >
President Bush has yet to sign the bill requiring the government to collect better data on broadband . Congress passed the bill late last month . GigaOM reports some tinkering with it, tho... More >
Microsoft could receive a boost in the online search market with the announcement that Facebook will now offer Web search from within its site using Microsoft's Live Search service. The new ... More >
The price of wholesale Internet access , the bandwidth sold to Internet service providers and content companies such as Yahoo and Google, keeps falling and is dropping faster in the United States t... More >
A federal panel of policy makers and scientific experts has concluded in a report released Tuesday that using data mining to identify terrorists really doesn't work, reports CNET News' Declan McC... More >
Last April, Dell introduced a bamboo-encased PC that consumes 70 percent less power than a standard desktop. Other companies followed with similar efforts, including Fujitsu and ASUS . Th... More >
Britain's aging nuclear power stations are causing some to fret that the UK could run short of electricity this winter, according to a story in The Independent . It has 10 nuclear power sta... More >
As Delta Air Lines joins the race to add Wi-Fi service to passengers, it has announced it will block inappropriate content , reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . It previously said fli... More >
A laptop containing "strategic information" was stolen from a McCain field office in Missouri, reports Computerworld . Thieves threw a brick through a glass front to gain access to the office in Ind... More >
This week, at the CEATEC exhibition in Chiba, Japan, Toshiba has been showing off a prototype of a SCiB (Super Charge ion Battery) laptop battery designed to recharge to 90 percent capacity in 10 mi... More >
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created a Google Earth-based interactive Web site to map out and identify places with potential for renewable energy development. The site pulls in... More >
Congress has passed a bill addressing the questions of who has broadband access and what services are available in a specific area, reports The Associated Press in a story in The Washington Post.... More >
While America's citizens are monitoring the country's economic crisis and eyeing tomorrow's vice presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Verizon Business is busy at work preparin... More >
The U.S. House of Representatives, beseiged by public outcry over the proposed $700 billion bailout for financial institutions, is limiting traffic to its Web site , reports The Detroit Free Press ... More >
Earlier this week we reported that Facebook hired Ted Ullyot as its first general counsel . According to this Law.com article, we were incorrect. Prior to Ullyot's appointment, Rudy Gadre h... More >
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