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The nation's third-largest wireless carrier appears to be on the comeback trail, according to this FierceWireless article. The Wall Street Journal reports that Verizon President Denny Strig... More >
The on again, off again talks between China Mobile and Apple seem to be on again, according to Computerworld . Apple has abandoned its demand for a revenue-sharing policy, getting the company one ... More >
Rumors of talks between Microsoft and Yahoo swirled about the blogosphere last week. Several sources attempted to connect the dots to a possible search-only deal, while some followed leads to a par... More >
Japan's NEC Corp. will pay $300 million for U.S. software company NetCracker Technology , which specializes in streamlining networks and communications services, reports Reuters . Facing slo... More >
Just as Charter Communications puts the brakes on plans to track Internet users' surfing habits to supply targeted advertising, comes word that Google is working on that tactic , as well. N... More >
If you thought the story about IBM's role in mapping the cocoa genome a bit odd, you weren't the only one. According to PCWorld.com , there's more to it than just crunching and analyzing d... More >
Planning to skip Vista? So is chip maker Intel , according to The New York Times. Despite being a longtime partner of the software maker and involved in more ways than one in development o... More >
Lest we be left to suffer a life with inferior chocolate, candy bar maker Mars is partnering with IBM and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a five-year project to sequence and analyze the entire... More >
ZDNet 's Mary Jo Foley expects Microsoft to announce Thursday that its hypervisor technology has been released to manufacturing . Microsoft has said it would ship the final Hyper-V code withi... More >
Progress Software will pay $148.4 million for Iona Technologies , according to an Associated Press story in The Boston Globe. Iona, which makes software-integration technology, has been suf... More >
Dell said Wednesday it had hit an energy-use target with its server line a year early, reports News.com . The company said its servers comply with the 80 Plus benchmark requiring power su... More >
Stopbadware.org has once again put Google in the top five networks responsible for hosting dangerous Web sites , according to InfoWorld . While that may not be terribly surprising, this is: As a s... More >
Count on IBM to find the silver lining in the whole subprime mess: It could win more orders from financial-services companies. Bloomberg quotes Steve Mills , IBM's group executive for software... More >
Could Bill Gates outdo Cher? The Seattle Post-Intelligencer calls Gates' farewell from daily duties at Microsoft "America's longest corporate farewell tour," with a special report on every... More >
There is some debate as to whether the Mac Trojan horse, dubbed "AppleScript.THT," is in the wild. Security researchers at SecureMac claim they have found multiple variants of the trojan , wh... More >
Google and Salesforce have just gotten cozier with release of a toolkit that allows users to integrate Google content with Salesforce database, logic, and work flow capabilities, reports Informati... More >
Google's many work perks put it atop a poll measuring companies' reputations for treating employees well , reports Bloomberg . The annual Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient poll ranked ... More >
Hewlett-Packard announced Monday it is making its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System available under the open-source General Public License, version 2. The license will make it compatible with t... More >
Google's plans to launch handsets based on its Android platform in the second half of 2008 is proving more difficult than planned, reports The Wall Street Journal. Google now says the phone... More >
In May, Google sites were responsible for 61.8 percent of the 10.78 billion searches conducted in the United States, while 20.6 percent were from Yahoo sites and 8.5 percent from Microsoft sites, rep... More >
The pace of the brain drain at Yahoo is picking up with the company's senior people heading for the lifeboats , reports The New York Times . Those leaving in just the past week include Jerem... More >
Dell, under fire for charging $50 to downgrade from Windows Vista to XP, says Microsoft has put limits on which machines it can offer downgrades for, reports InfoWorld . Those machines are ... More >
Hewlett-Packard plans to reorganize its printer business from five units to three as it tries to gain greater efficiency. It will combine its laser-jet and commercial-printer units, appoint ... More >
It's summer, so let's take a break and dive into one of the hottest new uses for the Internet. According to The Daily Mail , one of the latest fads across the pond is to search on Google Ear... More >
It was the stuff of nightmares, at least in the world of hosted services. Google's application-hosting service went down for about 2 1/2 hours Tuesday, then again later in the day, according... More >
Microsoft continues its quest for alternatives to Yahoo with the acquisition of Navic Networks , which specializes in emerging forms of television advertising technology, reports Bloomberg . Terms ... More >
Continuing toward its goal of providing enterprise application security, unified threat management vendor Fortinet has acquired the software sold by IPLocks , a database security software vendor, re... More >
Lenovo is following in the footsteps of companies like Dell and Sony with its Asset Recovery Services. Starting June 30, Lenovo will help U.S. and Canadian businesses manage their end-of-l... More >
Klausner Technology has licensed its visual voice mail technology to Apple, AT&T and eBay's Skype, settling patent lawsuits against them, reports Reuters . Terms of the settlements were not di... More >
Following the lead of both HP and IBM , Intel has entered into the solar power market. The world's leading chipmaker announced it would spin off its photovoltaic division to form SpectraWat... More >
Hewlett-Packard has repackaged its powerful Integrity NonStop blade server to deliver twice the performance in half the space, reports Bloomberg . It also cut the price, starting at $300,000, down... More >
"Can't we all just get along?" asks Yahoo investor Eric Jackson in urging a Yahoo board with five directors from the company slate and four nominees by billionaire investor Carl Icahn. Accordi... More >
Enterprise administrators using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to update systems running System Management Server 2003 client software have been unable to install Microsoft's latest securi... More >
IBM is not resting on its "green" laurels. After announcing the second phase of its Project Big Green initiative last week, the company is expected to announce a joint venture to develop more effic... More >
Motorola is restructuring its research and development group , pulling the plug on some projects and cutting 150 jobs, reports The Chicago Tribune . Another 180 employees will be transferre... More >
Yahoo says its non-exclusive advertising deal with Google will make it a stronger competitor, though regulators already are looking into it, according to Seattle Post-Intelligencer blogger Todd B... More >
LG claims to have the world's most energy-efficient monitor with the unveiling of its Flatron W2252TE . The 22-inch widescreen LCD consumes 22W of power compared to the average 40W used by similarly... More >
Even as activist investor Carl Icahn continues to press Yahoo to sell to Microsoft, the company said talks with the Redmond software maker about a partial deal are dead, reports MSNBC . And Yahoo ... More >
Microsoft has applied for a patent for technology that could either be viewed as bringing some much-needed gadget etiquette to society or digitally enforcing it. According to Ars Technica , t... More >
Corporate users of iPhones, BlackBerrys or other smartphones could soon no longer have to worry about their device running out of juice at a critical moment or at all for that matter. G24 Innovation... More >
Firefox 3 isn't out yet , but Google's Gears project will support it , reports News.com . Gears' initial feature was offline access to Web applications, but other features are in the works, ... More >
Computer maker NEC is offering to repair some of its laptops for free because they could start smoking and smell like melting plastic, reports Agence France Presse in a story on on IOL. Th... More >
Google continued its rise in the U.S. search market during May, gaining to 68.3 percent versus 20 percent for Yahoo and 5.9 percent for Microsoft, according to Hitwise numbers. During the mont... More >
In May 2007, Loraine Lawson of IT Business Edge mentioned IBM's Project Big Green in her post on why you should keep an eye on green technology. A little more than a year later, IBM has an... More >
If you've ever wondered how advertisements will fit on a cell phone's tiny screen, you're not alone. USA Today looks at that issue and the trials of adapting search to the small screen as w... More >
In a massive refresh , Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday unveiled a revised line of business-oriented notebooks , a touch-screen PC, and a display that the company claims can show 1 billion colors, reports... More >
Perhaps the end isn't near just yet. The end of Windows XP, that is. Though InfoWorld reported Dell would no longer take orders for PCs with XP installed as of June 18, Neowin.net got hold... More >
There is growing acceptance of the Mac OS X platform in enterprise environments, but a common complaint is that there is no good way of encrypting data. PGP Corp. and Check Point Systems have a optio... More >
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider the decision to throw out the agency's antitrust ruling against chip designer Rambus, reports Bloomberg . T... More >
The whole rest of the world, it seems, has been doing it , so now the United States has decided to launch a formal investigation in whether Intel abused its dominant market position , reports The ... More >
Borrowing from the idea of the Energy Star program, Verizon has set its own energy-consumption standards along with a measurement process for telecommunications-related equipment that its supplie... More >
Do so! retorts activist investor Carl Icahn to Yahoo's claim that he doesn't have a plan for the company . According to News.com blogger Dawn Kawamoto, Icahn laid out a five-point plan in a let... More >
On the same day South Korean regulators slapped Intel with a $25.4 million fine for abusing its dominant market position, rival AMD's lawsuit against the chip maker was pushed back to 2010, repo... More >
Microsoft will issue seven security bulletins in its next Patch Tuesday on June 10. Computerworld reports that three of the patches are considered "critical." They address a remote code exec... More >
In another sign of Google's monstrous growth, it has signed a 40-year agreement to lease 42.2 acres of unimproved land at the NASA Ames Research Center adjacent to the Googleplex to expand. ... More >
Saying Intel paid rebates to computer makers to encourage them not to use chips made by rival AMD, South Korea's competition regulator has fined the chip-maker 26bn won ($25.4 million), reports Ag... More >
AMD announced its new laptop platform Wednesday at the Computex show in Taiwan. Code-named Puma, it includes Turion X2 Ultra dual-core processors, Mobile 7-series chipset with integrated graph... More >
Yahoo has set Aug. 1 as the date for its showdown with activist investor Carl Icahn at its shareholders meeting , reports Reuters . It has delayed the meeting twice. All the members of Yahoo... More >
Hewlett-Packard is continuing its efforts to go carbon-neutral. The company announced its five-year strategy for the sustainability arm of its HP Labs . News.com reports HP Lab researchers w... More >
The version of Adobe Flash Player that ships with Windows XP SP3 is old and harbors a zero-day vulnerability that was fixed in a later version, reports InfoWorld . The attacks to version 9.0.115.0... More >
Time Warner Cable's experiment with tiered pricing for Internet bandwidth begins Thursday in Beaumont, Texas. The tiers range from $29.95 a month for relatively slow service at 768 kilobits per s... More >
According to InformationWeek , Research in Motion told India's Department of Telecommunications during a recent presentation that lowering encryption levels on its smartphones won't help India's se... More >
Dell's announcement last month that it would develop more energy efficient PCs is beginning to bear fruit. Dell has released the VostroTM 410 desktop as part of its Energy Smart group of computers.... More >
A private community in Minnesota has in effect told Google to get lost , reports The Minneapolis Star Tribune . In the city of 4,500 residents, the streets are privately owned. The city mai... More >
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