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Beginning today, Google will begin rolling out a feature that will enable Gmail users to automatically have the messages in their inbox arranged with the most important ones at the top. Called Prior... More >
Clearwire unveiled a pay-as-you-go mobile broadband service yesterday that uses its 4G wireless network. The service, called Rover , is launching in all 49 Clearwire markets and is targeting young a... More >
Skype has officially launched Skype Connect 1.0 to the public. The service, formerly known as Skype for SIP , has been in beta since last year. The VoIP service allows a businesses' employees to m... More >
AMD plans to begin culling the ATI brand on its graphics line at the start of the fourth quarter of this year and end by September 2011. Existing products won't see a name change, but new products wi... More >
While Facebook is busy claiming trademarks to the words "face" and "book" and continues to irk privacy advodates, Diaspora , a "privacy-aware, personally-controlled" social network is planning a... More >
Google has launched a real-time search engine that features up-to-the-minute news along with postings from Facebook and Twitter. The site features tools that let users narrow their searches to find... More >
Google appears to have struck a chord with its latest Gmail calling feature . The new Gmail voice service chalked up more than 1 million calls on its first day of operation, PCMag.com reports. &... More >
Red Hat announced that its Deltacloud project has been submitted to the Distributed Management Task Force as a potential standard for cloud interoperability . The lack of interoperability has been a... More >
Companies waiting too long to migrate to Windows 7 from Windows XP could face a shortage of skilled professionals to manage the migration, says Gartner. According to the analyst firm, demand for prop... More >
Google has tweaked its Orkut social-network site in a manner that suggests further change is brewing. On the orkut Blog , product manager Victor Ribero wrote: [W]e all maintain different groups of f... More >
Mozilla has released a fourth beta of its Firefox 4 web browser. The beta comes with new tab manager and sync features. The latest beta also has a graphics hardware accelerator option for Windows... More >
Google is reportedly looking to take on Skype by integrating desktop VoIP directly into Gmail . The company is testing a Web-based service within Gmail that will allow users to place calls from thei... More >
Businesses across North America where hit with a more than two-hour service outage for various Microsoft hosted software products Monday between 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m., reports an IDG story in ... More >
AMD officials said that laptops based on its upcoming Fusion hybrid chips will hit store shelves early next year, Computerworld reports. The company's "Ontario" chips, which are based on AMD's ne... More >
IT Business Edge blogger Carl Weinschenk says the move to femtocells seems well under way. The way in which carriers use them to benefit network coverage for their customers is very different, howe... More >
Google is working on a new feature that would stream results automatically based on what you're typing without having to click on search. Search engine optimization consultant Rob Ousbey discovered... More >
Google is now allowing developers to submit applications to its not-yet-open Chrome Web Store. According to a post by Google software engineer Michael Noth on The Chromium Blog : Developers can now ... More >
Brocade Communications is readying a 100-Gigabit Ethernet module for use in its NetIron MLX switch family . The news was broken by Brocade CTO Dave Stevens during a media and analyst tour of the com... More >
Toshiba has announced a breakthrough in extending disk drive capacity. The company achieved 2.5 terabits of density per square inch , five times the density of today's hard disks, says EE Times . &... More >
BNY Mellon, a global financial services firm, announced that its Northpointe Data Center , located just north of Pittsburgh, was awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star label,... More >
Bing will begin powering Internet searches at Yahoo Web pages in North America this week. This marks the beginning of a 10-year Web search and marketing pact between Microsoft and Yahoo. Under the ... More >
Intel has launched two new Atom processors that target storage appliances for small businesses and homes. The single-core D425 and dual-core D525 offer faster storage processing than Intel's D410 an... More >
Dell and Aruba Networks reached a multi-year agreement in which Dell will deliver Aruba's wireless solutions under its PowerConnect W-Series networking portfolio , reports NetworkWorld . Dell will ... More >
Touch-centric tablets are garnering headlines of late, but Linux netbooks will soon be touch-friendly as well, says CNET News . Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the company Canonical that develops and ... More >
Verizon demonstrated in a field trial that its fiber-optic FiOS network can deliver speeds topping out at 1 gigabit per second (Gbps). The purpose of the field trial was to show that Verizon's curr... More >
Oracle appears to have shut the door on OpenSolaris. According to an internal memo : All of Oracle’s efforts on binary distributions of Solaris technology will be focused on Solaris 11. We will not ... More >
Google has beefed up the latest beta of its Chrome Web browser. Chrome Beta 6 boasts a "15 percent speed improvement on the V8 benchmark, and a 15 percent improvement on the SunSpider benchmark," s... More >
Microsoft announced it will make the beta code for Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) on Sept. 15. According to The Register , IE9 will be the most standards-compatible version of the Web browser in Micros... More >
Twitter users now have a new link-sharing option. On Thursday, Twitter introduced a feature dubbed the Tweet Button that allows users to link to content on an external site with the click of the mo... More >
Today at its press event in San Francisco, Google released Chrome-to-Phone , a Chrome extension that allows users to take whatever page they are currently viewing on their Web browser and send it to... More >
Mozilla has released the third beta for Firefox 4 , the first version of the open source web browser to support multi-touch, The Register reports. Multi-touch only works on the Windows 7 version o... More >
Google has tweaked its Gmail contacts feature to make it easier to manage and navigate. An interface update also displays contacts in a more prominent fashion, says übergizmo . According to... More >
Six months after completing its deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, Oracle officials have announced that Solaris 11 will launch in 2011 and Sparc performance will be doubled every other year through 20... More >
Apple has signed an exclusive deal with Liquidmetal Technologies, a company that makes a special metallic glass called Vitreloy, which combines the strength of steel with a low weight and die-cast co... More >
Polycom has signed a mult-year global agreement with Microsoft designed to enhance the reach of both companies in the unified communications (UC) market , InformationWeek reports. Microsoft and Po... More >
Online auctioneer eBay has issued a public request for proposals on designs for a rooftop container installation that can accommodate up to 12 server-filled containers or an 8,000-square-foot data ce... More >
According to an Accenture survey, nearly 70 percent of global organizations anticipate increasing their investment in open source software this year . Over a third of respondents expect to migrate m... More >
Google and Verizon are reportedly closing in on a deal that could bring an end to net neutrality , allowing the telecommunication company to prioritize the order and speed in which it delivers conte... More >
Clearwire has left the door wide open for a potential switch from WiMax to LTE . That makes the company's announcement that it'll be conducting LTE trials this fall not all that surprising. T... More >
Google has called an end to its Wave project, a real-time communication platform it launched a little over a year ago, InformationWeek reports. Google senior vice president of operations Urs Hö... More >
Vonage has released a mobile application for Android and iPhone users that allows Facebook friends to phone one another for free . The mobile app provides free VoIP calls over a 3G wireless network ... More >
Google added a new feature that allows users to have multiple accounts with open sessions active at once. Through multiple sign-in , Google account owners can define their various e-mails and passwo... More >
Clearwire has unveiled a new hot spot that targets Apple's customers , ZDNet reports. The new device, called the Clear iSpot, was made exclusively for Apple products like the iPhone, iPad and iPod... More >
New York City's subway platforms and tunnels are set to be outfitted for both cellular and Wi-Fi service . A contract between the Metropolitan Transit Authority and Transit Wireless was struck nearl... More >
Microsoft announced that it will start selling Office for Mac 2011 at the end of October. Consumers will have their choice of two editions of the productivity suite -- Office for Mac Home and Stude... More >
The lure of the cloud is strong, but a recent report issued by Forrester Research says only 5 percent of companies are presently equipped for cloud deployments. The research firm cites the ... More >
For the third month in row, Firefox has lost market share against Google's Chrome, according to NetMarketShare. Firefox lost 0.9 percent to dip just below 23 percent in July. Meanwhile, Microsoft's ... More >
Data released by Web analyst firm Statcounter shows that Windows 7 has overtaken its much maligned predecessor, Windows Vista, as the second most popular operating system in the world. Nine months in... More >
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