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Microsoft is partnering with LG Uplus to offer cloud computing services to South Korean businesses and consumers, V3.co.uk reports. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stated: We envision a partne... More >
Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy announced that it plans to offer Clearwire's 4G wireless broadband service next year, BusinessWeek reports. Best Buy already resells Sprint's 3G network und... More >
Oracle has announced that Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their respective x86 platforms, reports Computerworld . Oracle Co-president Cha... More >
Microsoft posted the first in a series of videos detailing some of the new features in Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 on its Mac Mojo blog. The four primary new features include: a new Template ... More >
Intel unveiled a prototype high-speed fiber optics cable that uses silicon photonics to reach speeds of 50 gigabits per second. Intel says the technology could replace the use of copper wires and e... More >
In addition to rolling out new Mac Pro netbooks and iMacs yesterday, Apple also released updates for Mac OS X 10.6.4, which resolve compatibility and graphics-performance issues, improve large-fo... More >
The information technology industry has cut carbon dioxide emissions by 32 million metric tons since 2007, according to a recent study. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), made up of th... More >
In a surprise move, Yahoo Japan has elected to choose Google, rather than Microsoft to provide its search engine results and advertising. The move parts company with the alliance between the domesti... More >
Apple refreshed its iMac and Mac Pro notebook lines today. The company also introduced a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display. The new iMacs, available in 21.5-inch and 27-inch models, support Int... More >
Despite a missed implementation deadline with Los Angeles , Google has launched Google Apps for Government , a U.S. government-certified version of Google Apps. Google Apps for Government meets t... More >
Verizon equipment that connects calls on the East side of Manhattan between 20th and 40th Streets was at fault for knocking out its own landlines and AT&T wireless service today. The problems onl... More >
Beginning Aug. 27, IBM will stop selling Solaris 10 subscriptions on x64-based machines. According to Technology Digital , Oracle has decided that companies that have their own Unix iron can no lon... More >
Twitter will partner with C7 Data Centers on its new custom-built data center in the Salt Lake City area. C7, a regional data provider, specializes in the Utah market , reports Data Center Kno... More >
Google has decided to speed up the development of its Chrome browser. Google stated: Since we are going to continue to increment our major versions with every new release (i.e. 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0) th... More >
Last month it was reported that Verizon would follow in the footsteps of AT&T and end its unlimited data plans . The telco is keeping its cards close to its vest, but last week, the carrier re... More >
IBM has unveiled a new hybrid mainframe design that aims to cut data center sprawl and be a bridge to other systems. The zEnterprise system can have as many as 96 processors and support up to 114 b... More >
Google has addded a User Management Policy feature to Google Apps. The newly instituted feature has been one of the most highly- equested tools for the productivity suite. Administrators can benefit ... More >
LightSquared , a new, coast-to-coast LTE wireless broadband operation, announced plans to use a LTE/satellite hybrid to cover 92 percent of the United States population with 4G by 2015. LightSquared'... More >
To meet the growing demand from SMBs for call center applications, Avaya has released the Aura Contact Center . The next-generation solution is aimed at mid-sized contact centers and connects custom... More >
Facebook is set to reach the 500 million user mark , but it's suffering from some relationship issues with its current crop of friends. The social-networking site, included in this year's American ... More >
NASA and Rackspace have paired up to open source a cloud platform called OpenStack . Both NASA and Rackspace plan to ditch their current cloud platforms when OpenStack is completed later this year. ... More >
Within the next several days, Facebook is expected to announce it has reached 500 million users . The site plans to celebrate the milestone with Facebook Stories, a collection of user blurbs on how ... More >
Google remains the dominant force in the search engine market and has probably reached the point of saturation. Both Yahoo and Microsoft have capitalized on this with gains for their respective flags... More >
Wales is set to join the ranks of the supercomputer club with the creation of a £40 million ($61 million) supercomputer highway for use by business, industry and the Welsh economy, The Engineer rep... More >
Microsoft is taking an appliance approach to cloud computing with the help of a few strategic hardware partners. Microsoft's turnkey Windows Azure Platform appliance will enable businesses to deplo... More >
Microsoft is ending its support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) today. However, user loyalty to Windows XP has led Microsoft to extend downgrade rights to Windows XP until 20... More >
Sprint has extended its 4G network rollout to Rochester and Syracuse, N.Y., Merced and Visalia, Calif., Eugene, Ore., the Tri-Cities area and Yakima, Wash. Besides adding to the growing 4G-enabled ma... More >
Nearly half of the PCs running Windows 7 are running 64-bit editions of the operating system. According to information from the Windows Team Blog : As of June 2010, we see that 46% of all PCs worl... More >
At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced that Twitter is now seeing 800 million search queries a day. That adds up to 24 billion queries a month for the social network/mi... More >
AT&T is partnering with Apriva to enable its customers to turn their smartphones into point-of-sale devices that can accept credit and debit card transactions, FierceMobileContent reports. AT... More >
Mozilla has released the first beta of Firefox 4 . The latest iteration of Mozilla's Web browser represents a major upgrade, which features an overhauled user interface, support for a wide range of ... More >
Microsoft is severing its ties to Windows XP SP2 and all versions of Windows 2000 next week. Customers utilizing those operating systems are being advised to upgrade to Windows 7 or Windows XP SP3 as... More >
Google made its Google Voice service available to everyone a couple of weeks ago, but it's already not enough for some. A grassroots campaign in the form of an online petition has gotten under wa... More >
Mozilla's Firefox has seen its global market share drop in successive months to the benefit of Internet Explorer , but the browser gained a major corporate pal in IBM. AfterDawn reports that IBM ha... More >
Internet Explorer has reversed a years-long slide in market share, at least for the month of June, growing at the expense of Firefox. According to data released by analyst firm Net Applications, use ... More >
Finland is the first country in the world to have made access to a high-speed Internet connection a legal right . As of today, every citizen of Finland has the right to have access to 1 Mbps broadba... More >
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