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Yesterday, AT&T announced that its AT&T Services affiliate has joined the Green Grid , a non-profit group of nearly 200 members sharing information with the unified goal of improving data ce... More >
Portugal's order for a half-million Classmate PCs is putting its squabbles with the One Laptop Per Child project back into the spotlight. The government of Portugal ordered 500,000 of the lo... More >
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has renewed its interest in starting a venture capital arm to seed startups. Sources indicate the group will be led by David Drummond, Google senior ... More >
Looking to cash in on the markets of China and India as more developed markets mature, Nokia plans an infusion of $150 million into its venture investment arm. Reuters reports Nokia Growth Pa... More >
Oracle has agreed to buy its partner, Global Knowledge Software , for an undisclosed sum, reports PCWorld.com . Global Knowledge provides tools for building self-service training courses for... More >
Motorola surprised everyone by posting a small profit after it cut jobs and found sales a bit better than expected, reports Bloomberg . Net income was $4 million, compared with a loss of $2... More >
Performance reviews of Via Technologies' Nano processor and Intel's Atom chip put Via on top, according to InfoWorld . Reviewers, like Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective, say Via's new processor... More >
Some Dell customers are feeling a bit overheated, but the computer maker is trying to get users fired up in a different way with its new Studio Hybrid PC line . BusinessGreen reports the li... More >
Microsoft has stepped up efforts to protect the tarnished image of Windows Vista. The company went on the offensive against Forrester Research, calling the analyst firm's report on its operating syst... More >
Ten models of Dell laptops have Nvidia graphics cards that can overheat, but users aren't happy with a patch issued last week, reports InfoWorld . They want the cards replaced, lest their laptops d... More >
Oracle has issued an emergency workaround for a severe vulnerability in the company's WebLogic server that can be exploited without a user name or password, reports Computerworld . It affec... More >
Motorola plans to buy AirDefense , maker of systems that secure corporate Wi-Fi networks, reports BusinessWeek . The terms have not been disclosed, but the deal is expected to close in the next few ... More >
AT&T has thrown a monkey wrench in the proposed partnership between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire that would deploy a nationwide WiMax network later this year. The telecommunications giant... More >
AOL plans to shutter three services and is seeking a buyer for its storage service XDrive, reports CRN . It will close AOL Pictures, one of the Internet's first photo-sharing sites, and yea... More >
Gateway on Friday announced the end of direct sales of PCs, moving to the indirect sales model of its new parent company, Acer. The company said computers no longer will be available through ... More >
Motorola is splitting its business into three parts rather than two , reports GigaOm , citing a story in The Wall Street Journal. There will be one devoted to set-top boxes and home networking, a n... More >
IBM has announced it will pay $340 million for Paris-based ILOG , which makes business rules management software. Such software can enhance business systems that have trouble with processes t... More >
After signing a letter of intent to buy Digg last week, Google walked away from the deal, reports TechCrunch . The story says the two companies were in final negotiations in the $200 millio... More >
Sophos has bid $342 million to acquire data loss prevention firm Utimaco , reports The Register . The largest Utimaco shareholder, Investcorp Technology Partners , has agreed to sell its 24.99 per... More >
After announcing its quarterly loss was twice what it had expected, Infineon Technologies said it will cut about 3,000 jobs , reports Bloomberg . Europe's second-largest semiconductor maker ... More >
So much Microsoft news, so little time. In a meeting with analysts, CEO Steve Ballmer said Microsoft will spend at least $2.5 billion a year to compete with Google in the lucrative online ad... More >
ActaCell is one of the first recipients of funding from Google's RechargeIT program, reports PC Magazine . The lithium-ion battery startup says it will use the $5.8 million to look for high-... More >
Sprint Nextel is expected to raise $670 million in cash after selling its cell phone towers to North Carolina-based TowerCo. According to a mocoNews.net article published in The Washington ... More >
Cisco plans to buy Pure Networks , which makes home-networking software and tools, for $120 million in cash, reports InformationWeek . With the decision to buy out its partner, Cisco will ad... More >
Intel on Thursday introduced the first products from its system-on-a-chip designs that it plans to use in consumer electronics, mobile Internet devices and embedded systems, reports InformationWe... More >
After reporting a 13 percent second-quarter jump in profits, EMC saw its shares rise as much as 7 percent. The company reported profit of $377.5 million compared with $344 million in the year-before ... More >
The German Federal Patent Court has ruled Qualcomm's GSM patent case against Nokia invalid, reports Reuters . The two companies have been butting heads since failing to renew a technology licensin... More >
There's nothing like a "private matter" to stir it into a very public one. When analysts in Apple's quarterly earnings conference call again raised questions about Steve Jobs' health, the co... More >
This TechCrunch piece reports that Google and Digg have signed a letter of intent and are close to a deal that would see Digg acquired by the search giant for around $200 million. According ... More >
Blogging network GigaOm has acquired an independent mobile-focused blog called jkOnTheRun. GigaOm Founder Om Malik says it was far easier to nab jkOnTheRun than to build out a new blog to tra... More >
Storage networking company Brocade Communications Systems has agreed to pay about $3 billion in cash for Internet router and switch maker Foundry Networks, reports eWEEK . Foundry's busine... More >
Apple saw its net income increase 31 percent to $1.07 billion in its third quarter. The company has become a major player in the personal computer market and has become the third-largest computer mak... More >
Raining on the cloud, so to speak, Amazon's S3 storage service was down over the weekend, taking with it sites such as Twitter and SmugMug, reports Planaroo Blog . It says the outage lasted nearly... More >
News.com reports that Intel is slashing the price of some of its processors as much as 31 percent. Intel's desktop Core Duo E8500 was reduced to $183 from $266. Other price cuts included the quad-co... More >
Replacing CEO Hector Ruiz with former COO Dirk Meyer has done little to redeem AMD in the eyes of Wall Street after the company reported its seventh consecutive quarterly loss, reports EE Times .... More >
Dell is opening its own version of Best Buy's Geek Squad in a test though Dallas-area Wal-Mart stores , reports Financial Times . The 15 "Solution Centers by Dell" will provide home install... More >
The European Commission has added three new charges to its antitrust case against Intel and warned it might order the chip maker to change its ways or be fined 10 percent of its global revenues, ac... More >
Trying to pin down the sorry state of the U.S. economy? The latest tech-industry earnings reports are enough to give anyone a headache. Google and Microsoft missed Wall Street estimates , wh... More >
Earlier this month, chip maker AMD said it would take an $800 million writedown for business units associated with its 2006 acquisition of ATI Technologies that did not make forecasts. The n... More >
Calling the launch of its synchronization service MobileMe "a lot rockier than we had hoped," Apple has apologized to users for all the trouble and given them a free month of service , reports Bloo... More >
Tape storage is in the news from several fronts this week. The next-generation digital audio tape unveiled by Hewlett-Packard and Sony boasts twice the capacity of the current technology and... More >
An Oregon judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit that alleges the company underpaid 5,000 call-center employees , reports The Austin American-Statesman . The suit filed in Februa... More >
BBC News reports that the British government has its sights set on becoming the first to make its computer systems carbon-neutral. Currently, computer systems account for about 20 percent of the gov... More >
Despite seeing its net income drop 61 percent amidst concerns of a global economic slowdown, a declining U.S. dollar and the reduction in the retail costs of handsets, Nokia still has several reasons... More >
Global PC shipments remained strong in the second quarter despite the sluggish U.S. economy, according to reports by Gartner and IDC, reports eWEEK . Hewlett-Packard and Dell kept their tit... More >
Microsoft has released three bundles of updates that affect Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express, Office Project Server 2007... More >
Google's U.S. search market share drew closer to 70 percent in June, reaching 69.17 percent, according to Hitwise. It was at 68.29 in May. News.com reports Yahoo's share fell from 19.95 per... More >
Intel has reported a 25 percent increase in profit and record sales in the second quarter, soothing fears a bit about effects of the U.S. economy, reports The Associated Press in a story on Physo... More >
The rumors are true: Twitter co-founder Evan Williams confirmed that Twitter has acquired the Summize search engine . The Washington Post reports that Twitter has hired five of the six Summi... More >
Setting the stage as Senate hearings start Tuesday on the Google-Yahoo tie-up, News.com 's Declan McCullagh says don't expect sober, selfless discussions of the case. Instead, expect outlan... More >
After an initial delay , Intel finally launched its Centrino 2 platform for laptops. According to The INQUIRER , the platform is powered by five Intel Core Duo processors, touts improved battery li... More >
Earlier this month, a U.S. District Court ordered Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom . The ruling sparked off privacy complaints by Google and advocacy groups. Yesterday, Google ... More >
In moving from a job at IBM to Hewlett-Packard, Atul Malhotra made at least two mistakes. The former sales and business development director for IBM Global Services sent e-mails to two superio... More >
Struggling chip maker AMD says it will take a $880 million writedown because units associated with its 2006 acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies hadn't met forecasts, reports Bloom... More >
Steve Jobs and other Apple executives will not be charged in a two-year Justice Department investigation of backdated stock options , reports The Wall Street Journal . None of the parties inv... More >
In its quarterly security update, Oracle will release 45 critical security fixes Tuesday, according to InfoWorld . Oracle Database, Application Server, E-Business Suite, WebLogic Server and... More >
The U.S. Defense Department is launching itself into the cloud in a deal with Hewlett-Packard, reports vnunet.com . Dollar figures have not been released for the contract to build a huge cl... More >
VMware's board on Tuesday gave CEO Diane Greene the boot and replaced her with Microsoft and Intel exec Paul Maritz, most recently with VMware parent EMC, reports Bloomberg . The company al... More >
Though AMD reportedly gained a little ground in the first quarter, rival Intel picks off its customers . Now it's worked its way into the animated heart of movie studio DreamWorks , reports Reut... More >
As activist investor Carl Icahn cozies up to Microsoft in an effort to turn up the pressure on Yahoo, Yahoo has re-entered merger talks with Time Warner , reports Times Online . Microsoft an... More >
Microsoft on Monday told the a European Union court that the 899 million euro fine levied against it in February is excessive and disproportionate, reports Reuters . The fine, for failing ... More >
Oops! Gartner says it got its first-quarter server market report wrong and IBM remains the leader in revenue , reports eWEEK . It had reported that HP had overtaken Big Blue, and still mai... More >
On a slow holiday weekend for news, reports that Apple has dropped the price for its high-end MacBook Air ultra-thin laptop are getting a lot of attention. The site MacRumors is getting cred... More >
Google has released its Ratproxy Web application scanner under an Apache 2.0 software license, reports PCWorld . The tool sniffs out coding problems that could allow a cross-site scripting attack ... More >
The timing couldn't be more perfect for Microsoft to unveil the security features of Internet Explorer 8 , which is currently in beta testing . Microsoft has often been criticized on browser... More >
Here we go again: The Wall Street Journal is creating buzz with today's headline, " Microsoft Seeks Partners for a New Run at Yahoo . " According to the article, Microsoft is in preliminary ... More >
Network World reports that AMD has made up some of the distance between it and its chief rival Intel. According to technology researcher iSuppli, AMD gained 2.2 percent market share of the global mi... More >
In its quest to close the search gap with Google, Microsoft is moving past its failed attempt to acquire Yahoo , reports BusinessWeek . Microsoft is set to purchase semantic Web technology d... More >
Back in April, we reported that Google planned to sell of Performics , a division of DoubleClick. It turns out the search giant has decided to rebrand the affiliate ad network , according to Seeki... More >
AT&T has just released iPhone 3G pricing , which will be available in AT&T retail stores Friday, July 11 : With a two-year contract, customers eligible for an upgrade or activating a new li... More >
Bill Gates recently expressed doubts on a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo . Yahoo is now giving its side of the story. The company filed a comprehensive report of its acquisition talks with ... More >
Apple has updated its Mac OS X Leopard operating system with the posting of 10.5.4. TG Daily reports that 10.5.4 includes code for Apple's upcoming MobileMe online service as well as performance im... More >
Adobe is teaming up with Google and Yahoo to enable searches on Flash content, according to The Washington Post . For now, the search will only work on text, not images or video. Google is a... More >
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