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Facebook and Skype are reportedly discussing an integration partnership that would allow users of the popular social network to use Skype's PC-to-PC calling capabilities with their Facebook account... More >
As The Register tells it, the OpenOffice project and product has served divorce papers to Oracle and no longer wants to be affiliated with a single company. OpenOffice was part of Oracle's acquis... More >
Jet Blue, an American budget airline, has announced that it is collaborating with ViaSat to launch high-speed in-flight wireless across its entire fleet of 160 aircraft by mid-2012. The Economist s... More >
After experiencing its worst service outage in four years, Facebook apologized to its subscribers in a posting on its site. The company says the outage was triggered by a software flaw that cripp... More >
Mark Zuckerberg's worth is up, but Facebook is down. After experiencing service outages yesterday related to issues with a third-party network provider, the social-networking site is undergoing add... More >
Google has published a stable version of its Chrome Frame plug-in . Google software engineer Tomas Gunnarsson wrote on The Chromium Blog : After months of polishing, Google Chrome Frame now starts ... More >
Speaking at the company's JavaOne event, Oracle's vice president of product development discussed new efforts to enhance Java's graphics, performance and programming capabilities. Thomas Kurian prese... More >
Today Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed that the company will bring its CUDA programming language to "any computer, or any server in the world," with the help of the Portland Group. Nvidia's dip int... More >
Since making its Internet Explorer 9 beta available, the browser has been downloaded more than 2 million times, according to Microsoft. The company's Beauty of the Web site has also recorded more t... More >
MetroPCS became the first 4G LTE carrier in the United States yesterday with the commercial launch of its 4G network in Las Vegas, MobileBurn reports. Regarding the new network, MetroPCS CEO and ... More >
HP launched 10 new printers that allow users to print from the Web and mobile devices and has partnered with Apple and Yahoo to bolster functionality for its printers. The company is also working w... More >
At OracleWorld in San Francisco, Larry Ellison confirmed that Oracle's Fusion Apps suite will be made available during the first quarter of 2011. The suite will include more than 100 modules and th... More >
Oracle has tossed its hat into the cloud ring. Yesterday the company entered the fray with the unveiling of a high-performance server with hardware and middleware specifically geared for running publ... More >
Following yesterday's news that Verizion will launch its 4G LTE network in 30 cities by year's end , Fierce Wireless is reporting that AT&T will launch its commercial LTE service by mid-2011 ... More >
Speaking in Bethesda, MD, on Wednesday, Bernie McMonagle, a Verizon senior federal sales executive, told a group of enterprise IT managers that the carrier will launch its 4G LTE network in 30 Natio... More >
Microsoft has unveiled Internet Explore 9 beta. The browser, designed to make websites load and run faster, is a stripped-down version of its former self in appearance and features fewer buttons, ico... More >
Open source Facebook competitor Diaspora released its source code to developers yesterday. The team behind the project posted screen shots on its blog and said: This is now a community project and ... More >
Microsoft and Facebook are in discussions to expand the parameters of their search partnership , reports Kara Swisher at All Things Digital . The pair are in talks to about how to mine Facebook use... More >
Microblogging site Twitter, has rolled out a major site redesign that makes it easier for its users to navigate the service, discover new information and share multimedia content, V3.co.uk report... More >
Speaking at the Zeitgeist conference in Arizona, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company will begin adding "layers" of social components later this year. Plans for a social network to rival Facebo... More >
Intel's AppUp application store for MeeGo and Windows operating systems has been taken out of beta, according to Intel executives. Since its introduction in January, the AppUp store has amassed 450... More >
Bing has overtaken Yahoo to become the No. 2 search engine in the United States, according to Nielsen data. Kara Swisher at All Things Digital reports that Bing snared 13.9 percent of search volu... More >
Intel used its Developer Conference to unveil its newest CPU architecture. Code named Sandy Bridge, the microprocessor is scheduled to ship in 2011. The blended GPU/CPU solution will potentially be... More >
Electric Power Board, a city-owned electrical utility in Chattanooga, Tenn., will offer an 1Gbps Internet service that is among the fastest in the world. EPB's new service, which will be available ... More >
Less than a week after unveiling Google Instant , an implementation of the instant search feature has been built into Chrome's Dev channel and Canary builds. Users of those builds can enable the ma... More >
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote at its Sept. 23 meeting on the expansion of unlicensed airwaves that would pave the way for white space technology . The new spectrum ... More >
In an effort to poach business from its rivals, IBM is leveraging its balance sheet and credit rating to extend interest-free financing and no money down until 2011 to HP and Oracle corporate custome... More >
ARM has unveiled a new mobile processor called the Cortex-A15. The processor will target smartphones and high-end consumer electronics. SlipperyBrick.com reports that the Cortex-A15 provides up t... More >
Google today introduced a major overhaul to its homepage that promises to save users time by allowing them to search results as they type . Search engine optimization consultant Rob Ousbey uncovered... More >
Samsung has introduced a dual-core Cortex A9-based applications processor for tablets, netbooks and smartphones dubbed Orion , DailyTech reports. Designed using Samsung's 45-nm low-power processor... More >
Cisco Systems has reportedly made a $5 billion bid for Skype that, if sucessful, would derail the Internet telephony company's planned initial public offering . According to Zacks.com , Google was ... More >
Google Chrome celebrated its second birthday yesterday. To celebrate, the company released the sixth version of the increasingly popular Web browser to the stable channel. The new release incl... More >
As Hurricane Earl makes its way to the East Coast, Verizon, the nation's largest wireless carrier, is beefing up its operations so that loved ones can stay in contact and that residents in the affect... More >
Toshiba has recalled as many as 41,000 laptops in the United States and Canada after widespread reports of overheating and melting, reports The Register . The company has received 129 reports of o... More >
As Hurricane Earl, followed closely behind tropical storms Fiona and Gaston, approaches the East Coast, major problems could be in store for IT operations and their staff. A spokeswoman from the Nati... More >
Intel has released Parallel Studio 2011, an update to its development tool set suite for Windows application developers building parallel C++ or C applications for multicore or multiprocessing system... More >
IBM announced details of the world's fastest computer chip. The z196 processor will be used in the new IBM zEnterprise 196 mainframe system that will begin shiping to customers September 10. T... More >
Sprint, which just launched the Epic 4G yesterday, is facing a 4G dilemma, according to The Wall Street Journal . Sprint's 4G WiMax wireless service currently includes 21 states and more than 50 c... More >
HP is partnering with Hynix, a South Korean chipmaker, to commercialize its memristor technology , Channel Register reports. Under the agreement, the two companies will jointly develop memristor ... More >
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