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Firefox surpassed one billion dowloads today. The impressive number includes downloads of all versions of Firefox since 2004. The number does not include automatic updates, notes ZDNet . Th... More >
The University of Southampton is giving its researchers a serious boost with a new IBM iDataPlex supercomputer. The university, which has research centers for medicine and oceanography, will look to ... More >
A couple of weeks ago, a new undersea cable brought East Africa online . Now, problems with an undersea cable have take parts of West Africa offline. Damage to the SAT-3 cable that runs from Portuga... More >
According to the Taiwan rumor mill, Intel is set to suspend orders for its Atom Z processors from netbook vendors before Christmas. If true, the move would clear the way for Intel's next-generation ... More >
In an attempt to make Gmail more appealing to business users, Google is giving them the option to remove the "On the behalf of" indicator. By switching to the new method, Gmail users can send mail fr... More >
Apple released a new version of its Time Capsule storage device today with little fanfare. The 2TB Time Capsule includes three Gigabit Ethernet ports, 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless networking and a USB por... More >
Intel has rejected recent claims that it is delaying the launch of its next-generation Pine Trail chips. Mooly Eden, general manager of Intel's mobile platform, says Pine Trail is on schedule and tha... More >
IBM is adding native replication to its ProtecTier data deduplication products. Replication will be available beginning Sept. 4 as separately priced option. It is an option that gives users the abili... More >
Barnes & Noble has been offering paid Wi-Fi service at its retail stores since 2005. Now the book seller is providing free Wi-Fi access to its customers as part of a strategic agreement with AT&a... More >
Researchers at Arizona State University and Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands have created the world's thinnest semiconductor laser . Their discovery has opened up the possibility... More >
Toshiba has decided to get into the external storage market with a pair of 3.5-inch external hard disk drives that boast 640GB and 1TB, respectively. Both versions will offer USB 2.0 and eSATA connec... More >
Samsung Electronics has announced a new line of high-density hard drives for high-end computing environments. The Spinpoint F3 operates at 7,200RPM with offerings up to 1TB data storage capacity, acc... More >
Online video viewing is on the rise according to two new research studies, FierceOnlineVideo reports. An April Princeton Survey Research International survey found that 90 percent of 18-29 year old... More >
Verizon plans to package its FiOS Internet, telephone and TV service with its wireless cell phone service. It's a move that would clearly differentiate the company in that competing cable companies c... More >
Verizon and Qualcomm have formed a joint venture to offer machine to machine (M2M) wireless communications and smart services across a number of market segments, such as consumer electronics, healt... More >
Denny Strigl, Verizon chief operating officer confirmed that the company would begin carrying the Palm Pre in the beginning of 2010 during a conference call with analysts and investors. Strigl also... More >
Barcodes have been going strong for a number of years, but a new challenger could emerge thanks to the work of scientists at MIT. The technology, called bokode, will be demonstrated at next month's ... More >
Acer and Asus are reportedly grounding the launch of netbooks they were considering releasing before the end of this year. The two companies plan to wait until 2010 when Intel launches its Pine Trail... More >
The European Union has freed up a new radio spectrum for faster mobile services such as mobile Internet, after telecoms ministers approved a European Commission proposal. The proposal called for mode... More >
Microsoft Bing's expanding market share has landed it into Alexa's top 20 Web sites list . While Bing still trails way behind Google, Yahoo and YouTube, the search engine cracked the top 20 in jus... More >
Samsung has partnered with Intrinsity to offer Hummingbird, the codename for a 1GHz unit based on 45nm manufacturing techniques. The companies are touting Hummingbird as the world's fastest ARM Cor... More >
Western Digital has announced the world's first 1 TB 2.5-inch drive. The WD Scorpio Blue SATA 2.5-inch hard disk drive can be had for $250. The company also makes a $190 750GB version of the drive, a... More >
HP is not the only client hardaware vendor to release a business-class netbook of late. The HP Mini 5101 netbook will likely receive some competition from Acer's Aspire One Pro 10.1-inch netbook, w... More >
Sony is reportedly planning a $1.1 billion LCD venture with Sharp. The company, which shut down its last television factory in the U.S . last December, is expected to take a 34 percent stake in a $4... More >
The broadband revolution has finally come to East Africa. A 10,625-mile undersea cable links up South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique with London, Marseille and Mumbai. The project too... More >
Today's workers are constantly dealing with trying to maintain a healthy work-life balance by separating their professional and personal lives. While it will not may not be the missing x factor in th... More >
PayPal is giving its mechanism for online payments a refresh. The company announced a new developer API called the Adaptive Payment Platform that allows more flexibility and gives more control to dev... More >
The HP Mini 5101 netbook is now available for purchase with prices starting at $399.99. HP is marketing the device as a durable, business-class netbook, and it is equipped with the accoutremen... More >
Sony is planning to launch touch-screen VAIO laptops to coincide with the release of Windows 7 this fall. In addition, the company intends to bring content from its PlayStation Network to its VAIO li... More >
Microsoft has made the release candidate of Windows 7 official and will begin battling for market share on corporate desktops when it's released to the public October 22. Currently, Microsoft's Win... More >
Following Clear's official Las Vegas launch , Sprint announced that Atlanta, Las Vegas and Portland, Ore. will be the first markets to benefit from the carrier's Sprint 4G WiMax service next month. ... More >
Microsoft's Windows 7 has taken another step towards its October 22 release. The company has officially signed off on its new operating system and released the code to manufacturing. On August 6, ind... More >
Startup Baryonyx has won bids for three land leases from the state of Texas to build data centers primarily powered by wind farms, reports CNET News . The leases include two offshore sites in the Gu... More >
According to the SOI Consortium, semiconductor chips manufactured on a silicon-on-insulator process instead of traditional bulk silicon can realize a savings of 30 percent or more when designed with ... More >
Analysts are speculating that Intel, which gave a sneak preview of its Pineview CPU in May, is going to delay the release of its Atom 2.0 platform until early 2010. The Intel Atom N450 processor us... More >
It appears as if 802.11n Wi-Fi will finally become officially standardized this September. The 802.11 working group voted to send Draft 2.0 of the 11n standard to the IEEE for final review and public... More >
IBM is looking to ease data center management with its new virtualization tool. The Systems Director VMControl enables management of hypervisors from Microsoft and VMware, along with the virtualizati... More >
Web applications specialist Zoho is looking to take on all comers, specifically Salesforce.com in the customer relationship management market. The company is looking to lure customers away from Sales... More >
Intel has unveiled its 34nm NAND flash-based solid-state drives. According to the company, its X25-M SSDs for both desktops and laptops, deliver nearly double the write performance of their predecess... More >
After a sales trial period in Atlanta and Philadelphia , AT&T has officially announced pending nationwide availability of its lineup of subsidized netbooks across its retail footprint. The compa... More >
Clearwire has officially launched its Clear WiMax 4G mobile Internet service in the Las Vegas market. Unofficially launched in Vegas in June , the network will utilize an area-wide WiMax radio syst... More >
HP has made its ProBook 4310 available today. The ultraportable notebook targets business users. The HP ProBook 4310 contains an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, up to 80GB RAM and up to 500GB of hard dri... More >
DSL hasn't completely yielded itself to cable modem services just yet. DSL provider Qwest revealed plans to roll out 40Mbps services over the next several months in 23 markets, including Denver, Minn... More >
Google Wave made its debut back in May. Currently, Google's e-mail/IM/wiki hybrid is available to about 6,000 developers. The company is planning to send out 20,000 invites over the next month and r... More >
IBM will begin shipping new UNIX servers using next-generation Power7 processors in the first half of 2010. The move is aimed at winning away customers from the likes of Sun Microsystems and HP. IBM ... More >
In what could be considered a shock move, Microsoft contributed 20,000 lines of Windows kernel code to the Linux kernel. Before you fall all over yourself, Ina Fried, writing for CNET News , says th... More >
NEC and Rohm are both developing integrated circuits that do not consume power when they are in standby mode and turn themselves on when power is needed. According to Engadget , the companies are re... More >
Microsoft today announced the release of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2. The update will be made available at 1p.m., reports MacNN . According to the company, the free update is design... More >
Corsair added a new line of solid-state drives with the announcement of its Extreme Series collection of 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacity models. The SSDs are designed with notebooks and desktop system... More >
BT will offer Microsoft online software to UK businesses under a newly announced deal. The deal makes BT the first teleco to resell Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite to enterprise custom... More >
Data Domain, a provider of deduplication systems, unveiled its Data Domain DD880, which it claims is the industry's highest performance inline deduplication storage system for enterprise backup and a... More >
IBM announced a new "office in a box" product called Lotus Foundations Reach that targets small and midsized businesses. The product combines the usual unified communications suspects like calendar, ... More >
Huawei Technologies announced it has launched the first long-term evolution (LTE) eNodeB ready for large-scale deployment. The eNodeB base station is designed to help spur the deployment of LTE netwo... More >
The flat-panel display industry is getting a boost from the large-format commercial display industry. According to DisplaySearch , the market for public signs using flat-panel displays is forecast t... More >
Cisco and IBM announced they are partnering on Amsterdam's Smart City project. The initiative is designed to help the city's residents make efficient energy use decisions at home. The pilot will in... More >
Google's newly operational data center in Belgium relies entirely on free air cooling. The temperature in Belgium will support free cooling almost year round with maximum temperatures in Brussels rea... More >
On-demand ERP vendor NetSuite is offering a 50 percent discount for one year to customers that can prove they belong to a "green" organization. The offer is good through December 31 and qualifying cu... More >
Texas Instruments cut its energy use by 5 percent in 2008. According to its corporate citizenship report , through 159 projects designed to save energy, water and other resources, the company saved ... More >
A few weeks ago the Top 500 ranking of the world's supercomputers was released. IBM dominated the top of the list with five of the 10 fastest supercomputers while HP had the most systems among the ... More >
Microsoft took the wraps off of Office 2010 yesterday, most notably the inclusion of online versions of the productivity suite. Today, the company announced that its business customers will also ha... More >
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has developed a 2TB 3.5-inch SATA drive. The drive ups the company's ante in the competitive consumer storage market featuring the likes of Western ... More >
Rumors that Apple is developing a netbook device continue to persist. Citing a report from the China Times , The Register speculates that the Mac Tablet will be launched in October for $800. Fox... More >
Netbooks accounted for nearly 20 percent of PC sales in the first quarter of the year. According to analyst firm DisplaySearch, netbooks will grow to 20 percent of the market by the end of 2009 whi... More >
Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), the Philippines largest distributor of electrical power, plans to use its power lines to deliver broadband Internet services, says Yahoo Tech . Currently, only ... More >
Microsoft unveiled Office 2010 to developers at its Worldwide Partner Conference today. The company plans to offer desktop and online versions of the productivity suite. The kicker is that Microsoft ... More >
In an effort to see off Microsoft Bing , Google made several enhancements to its search engine, reports Cheap Laptops . Google Search now presents images next to links and maps when searches... More >
AMD is launching five new six-core Istanbul Opteron processors today. The company released five six-core Istanbul Opteron chips on June 1 , all rated at the 75-watt standard. The chips launched toda... More >
V3.co.uk reports businesses that have purchased volume licenses with Software Assurance contracts will have access to Windows 7 before the end of the month. In addition, Microsoft is extending its W... More >
Microsoft Bing has achieved tremendous growth since its inception last month although questions remain as to whether it will be able to maintain its early success . Microsoft certainly hopes so a... More >
Microsoft officially rolled out Silverlight 3 yesterday, a day earlier than its planned July 10 release . The media player is available as a free download from Microsoft's servers and serves as a ch... More >
Alcatel-Lucent claims to have launched the world's first green DSL. According to Alcatel-Lucent, its new DSL platform uses 25 percent less power than traditional DSL solutions. The company say... More >
Late last month, Microsoft detailed pricing for Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows Ultimate editions. Earlier today, retailer ExperCom listed Windows 7 Family Pack Home Premium Upgrade at $136.... More >
Telecommunications firm BT has published a list of 69 further UK locations where it will offer faster broadband next summer as the result of quickening the pace of its goal of making high-speed broad... More >
At the end of last year, Gartner issued a report stating that 90 percent of companies were planning to either maintain or increase their investment in SaaS . A new report from the analyst firm could... More >
Whether or not Google Chrome OS ultimately is a success or failure remains to be seen, but in the meantime, the recently announced operating system has already garnered the support of netbook man... More >
Microsoft Bing has been up and running for a little over a month and has already seen some success . Bing is now the 13th most visited site on the Internet, reports Mashable . According to Web ana... More >
According to research from Futuresource Consulting , worldwide broadband penetration will eclipse the 500 million barrier by next year. DSL remains the most popular form of broadband connection with... More >
Google's Tuesday announcement that its enterprise Web applications would be shedding their beta labels were largely ceremonial; today's launch of Chrome OS is anything but. Needless to say, exper... More >
Symantec announced the next phase of its de-duplication strategy today. The company aims to help organizations reduce data, management complexity and infrastructure by adding data de-duplication to i... More >
Nortel updated its unified communications line with the issuing of its Communication Server (CS) 1000 Release 6.0 . The newest version of the company's Communications Server provides greater simplic... More >
Late yesterday, Internet search giant Google said it would begin offering its own operating system, called Chrome, in the second half of 2010. While Google already offers several products that compet... More >
Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Talk and Google Video are just a handful of Google's services that will no longer carry the beta label. The move is largely a way for the company to lure l... More >
Apple announced it would build a data center in the state of North Carolina as part of a $1 billion investment last month. Legislature rewriting corporate tax law provided incentive for the company... More >
Huawei aims to increase acceptance of femtocell services with its latest device. The company used the occasion of the Femtocell World Summit in London to launch Femtocell 2.0, a portable wireless dev... More >
Sprint Nextel is teaming with Best Buy to offer consumers a Compaq 1040DX netbook for 99 cents along with a two-year mobile data contract, which typically costs $60 per month. AT&T and Verizon of... More >
Microsoft's newly revamped Bing search engine continues to gain in popularity and the company will expand the full version of Bing to Australia, Canada, China, Japan and the UK in the coming weeks,... More >
Yahoo is set to launch a new productivity tool that will allow users to save the Web sites they visit and take notes as they search. Yahoo Search Pad has been available as a limited beta since Febr... More >
Sony unveiled its Vaio W-Series of netbooks today. The $500 netbooks, which will be available next month, weigh in at 2.6 pounds and measure 10.5-inches high by 1.28-inches wide by 7.1-inches deep, r... More >
Microsoft will reportedly release Windows 7 to manufacturing next Monday, says bit-tech.net . The date coincides with Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. Should the repor... More >
Sprint says it will be the first wireless carrier to offer 3G femtocell service in the U.S. AT&T recently announced its 3G Microcell service was on track for an end of year launch, but Sprint V... More >
Red Hat released a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 late last week. The version is the first to incorporate virtualization based on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine). In addition to... More >
The Archos 9 PCtablet will be a touch-screen (no keyboard at all), two-pound netbook running Windows 7, says Gearlog, and will be available with either a 60GB or 120GB hard drive and a 9-inch scree... More >
Yahoo will no longer purchase carbon offsets, and will focus on reducing energy in its data centers. The company unveiled what it calls its greenest data center plans to date, reports GreenBiz.com .... More >
Cisco has unveiled a new line of products geared to help companies manage costs stemming from building management and infrastructure. Network Building Mediator enables building managers to track th... More >
HP has unveiled a line of enterprise workstations powered by AMD's six-core Opeteron processors. The new xw9400 workstations target high-performance computing markets such as engineering, research an... More >
Intel has launched the official beta release of Moblin 2.0, the open source operating system for netbooks. Changes to the OS include a new user interface called MyZone, a new Web browser based on Moz... More >
Mozilla officially released its Firefox 3.5 Web browser Tuesday. According to Computerworld , the popular browser was being downloaded between 30 and 63 times per second and had surpassed 2 millio... More >
If you're still running the Windows 7 beta , you'd best get yourself a Release Candidate build before your system begins shutting down every other hour. Today, Microsoft's Windows 7 Beta bu... More >
The new PC power-efficiency standards being implemented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency go into effect today. The EPA is trying to raise the energy-efficiency bar in PCs with the Energy S... More >
Netbooks aren't just for consumers, at least that's the hope of AT&T. The company is teaming with CDW, which targets the business, education and government markets, to offer 3G netbooks. W... More >
Tech-On! reports that the first USB 3.0 PCs will ship before the end of the year and that Taiwanese manufacturers will lead the charge. The standard for SuperSpeed Universal Bus, also known as USB ... More >
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