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In a break from tradition, Apple is allowing customers in Hong Kong to buy unlocked iPhones , according to vnunet.com . But the phones will cost a pretty penny. The 8GB model is going for $6... More >
Tech stocks took it on the chin in Monday's Wall Street nosedive after the U.S. House turned thumbs-down on a plan to bail out the nation's financial markets. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite I... More >
Change is in the air at Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia. The world's No. 1 cell phone maker is reportedly close to selling off its computer security hardware unit to an unnamed financi... More >
Chalk one up for Windows XP and Dell. Down in a story about how UCLA mathematicians apparently have won a $100,000 prize for discovering a nearly 13 million digit prime number, we learn that t... More >
The ongoing credit crisis could mean Microsoft, Cisco and other tech companies could lose $4.3 billion in orders next year as the financial industry cuts spending, reports Bloomberg . Larr... More >
Dell has committed to adopting more environmentally friendly displays for its notebook computers. By the end of next year, Dell plans to have at least 80 percent of shipped notebooks contain mercury... More >
Oracle, the second-largest software maker, is teaming with Hewlett-Packard on server systems designed to improve performance of data warehouses, reports The New York Times . In the process,... More >
IBM is pushing farther into the cloud and into emerging markets by opening data centers in Brazil, South Korea, India and Vietnam , reports eWEEK . The new cloud computing centers in Sao Pau... More >
Cisco has released a bundle of security patches for the software it uses to power its routers and switches. According to Computerworld , the release is part of Cisco's twice-yearly Internet ... More >
As part of its 10th anniversary celebration, Google is launching a project to find and develop ideas to make the world a better place, reports vnunet.com . The company that has pledged to do no ev... More >
Yahoo's board approved additional talks with Time Warner about its AOL unit. The go ahead was given after the Internet company's board of directors met for the first time with Carl Icahn aboard, repo... More >
IBM says it will review its participation in organizations that set international standards and withdraw from those without transparent processes and practices, reports The Wall Street Journal . &... More >
IBM is making use of its Watchfire acquisition in new source-code-scanning software that squashes security bugs as software is being written, reports InfoWorld . By using technology from ... More >
With data center energy costs reaching the stratosphere, Microsoft has joined the ranks of those experimenting with options. Its experiment with running a rack of servers in a tent has shown the equi... More >
Verizon Wireless has begun offering the option of month-to-month service , ditching those long-term contracts and their early cancellation fees, reports Bloomberg . The monthly fees will be ... More >
In perhaps the most anticipated phone launch since the iPhone, today T-Mobile will unveil the G1 , the first mobile phone to feature Google's Android operating system. Google and T-Mobile hav... More >
In a $17.5 million cash deal, Netgear will buy CP Secure , which focuses on network protection, Web filtering and e-mail security, reports ChannelWeb . Netgear says it will incorporate CP Se... More >
Google is closing its office in Tempe, Ariz. , calling the work being done there "highly fragmented," according to an Associated Press story in USA Today. The office on the campus of Arizon... More >
Cisco has purchased instant-messaging company Jabber for an undisclosed sum and will fold the technology into its WebEx Connect and unified communications packages, reports vnunet.com . Jab... More >
Microsoft announced Monday that it has completed its $40 billion stock repurchase program and its board has approved another $40 billion buyback , according to an Associated Press story in The New... More >
In a move that it hopes will strengthen its position in security risk management, McAfee will buy Secure Computing in a $465 million cash deal, reports Reuters . According to NetworkWorld ... More >
The November elections could turn into a huge mess with a surge of new voters and the first implementation of a 2002 law requiring statewide databases of the voter rolls, reports The Washington Po... More >
A week after Apple updated its media player to patch nine vulnerabilities , a hacker has released a zero-day attack code that exploits yet anouther vulnerability in QuickTime . According to ... More >
This week, IBM unveiled its computational scaling process that could enable the company to produce 22-nanometer chips. Currently the smallest PC processor components are 45-nanometers. Accordi... More >
Looking to help developers deliver public Web content with low latency and high data transfer rates, Amazon has plans to expand its hosted Web services , according to PC World . The still-un... More >
Microsoft has released 21 localized versions of its second beta of Internet Explorer 8 , including editions in Czech, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and other languages, reports Computerworld... More >
According to CNET News and a number of other news sources, Google is on the brink of buying Half Life game maker Valve Software . The blogosphere was abuzz this morning wondering why Google... More >
Microsoft has announced that it will release in November three programs to help companies reduce vulnerabilities in software and to develop more secure programs, reports SecurityFocus . The compan... More >
Originally downplaying buyout rumors , SanDisk has rejected a $5.9 billion bid by Samsung, reports Reuters . SanDisk says it rejected the bid because the $26-a-share cash offer undervalues ... More >
Yesterday, PC maker Lenovo joined Climate Group , a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing business and government leadership on climate change. In addition, the company announced the launch... More >
A leak by an Apple engineer seems to confirm that the company is working on its own processor for the iPhone , reports BetaNews . An engineer for PA Semiconductor , which Apple acquired in ... More >
Though IT Business Edge's Ann All recently wrote about about how the tech sector seems to be faring better than others in the down U.S. economy, tell that to Dell. The computer maker tried... More >
Google, which previously purchased blogging platform Blogger in 2003, now owns Korean blogging software provider Tatter and Company. The purchase price has not been disclosed, but they buy marks Goog... More >
Apple's support forums have been abuzz with users complaining that the latest version of iTunes brings the blue screen of death on Vista when an iPod or iPhone is plugged into a PC, reports Comput... More >
Research in Motion is continues to court the consumer side of the smartphone market. On Thursday, the Canadian wireless device company announced a spate of consumer-centric partnerships. CNET ... More >
Senior executives at Apple, including CEO Steve Jobs, and board members have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by shareholders who claimed damage from management's handling of stock options, repor... More >
EMC, IBM and Microsoft have been working with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS ) to develop standards to make their enterprise content management syst... More >
Google's Chrome Web browser has certainly received its share of attention from IT Business Edge , as our Loraine Lawson can attest. Whether the attention paid Chrome is good or bad, what wil... More >
A healthier-looking Steve Jobs rolled out a refreshed line of iPods on Tuesday, joking that he's not dead after all , reports MarketWatch . He announced a lower price for the iPod Touch an... More >
Criticizing a "total failure of political leadership" to solve America's energy problems, Google CEO Eric Schmidt laid out his own 20-year alternative-energy plan, reports the San Francisco Chronicl... More >
Electronics maker Sharp, Opera Software and seven other companies have announced they will join the Symbian Foundation , bringing to 40 its number of member companies, reports Reuters . Members gai... More >
Google's being pressured into cutting the length of time it stores search data , saying it will ditch it after nine months instead of 18, reports The Associated Press in a story in the Seattle Pos... More >
Hewlett-Packard is releasing next month a laptop that can run for 24 hours on a single charge using a high-capacity battery, reports Network World . And it will have to run Microsoft's Windows XP ... More >
Last month, Intel tossed its hat into the ring that is solid-state with the announcement of a series of flash drives . The company unveiled that it would start with 80 and 160 GB MLC drives and 32 a... More >
AT&T announced Monday it will make Yahoo the search engine for its Web-enabled cell phones and offer a collection of Yahoo's OneSearch mobile Web services such as news, financial information, w... More >
In my post on Google turning 10 on Friday, I noted that Google' s everywhere, even under the sea . Little did I know about Google's latest plans. Do we still call it a search company? Anyway,... More >
Intel's new line of Xeon processors are of the eco-friendly variety. The four new Xeon 5400 processors are built from a process that uses a Halfium-based, high-k metal gate formula, reports The Regi... More >
Google turns 10 Sunday and the world is agog at the ways it is redefining media, marketing and technology even before it hits its teens, according to an Associated Press story in the Seattle Post-... More >
According to InfoWorld , Samsung is eying SanDisk as a possible acquisition. Neither company is saying much other than that they are "considering various opportunities." Although Forbes reports ... More >
Dell is trying to sell its computer factories and plans to contract with buyers to build its PCs, reports The Wall Street Journal . Citing an unnamed source, the story says most and possibl... More >
Plan on four security bulletins in Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday release, according to eWEEK . Set for Sept. 9, the fixes address remote execution vulnerabilities in Windows Media Pla... More >
Yesterday marked Dell's entry into the mini-notebook market with the release of its Dell Inspiron Mini 9 . The device offers up to 1GB of memory with a 8.9-inch LED display and is under 2.3 pounds. ... More >
The general reaction so far to Microsoft's first commercial featuring Jerry Seinfeld has been, "Huh?" The first commercial created by Crispin Porter + Bogusky in its $300 million advertis... More >
HP has a new smartphone -- the unlocked 3G HP iPAQ 912 Series Business Messenger . Coming in at a whopping $499, the iPAQ features GPS and HP's Enterprise Mobility Suite of applications on Wi... More >
Dell appears to have provided its answer to the Asus Eee PC with its Dell Inspiron Mini 9 . The product is Dell's first foray into the notebook category. Dell follows the entries of Asus, H... More >
HP's Pavillion dv6929wm Entertainment Notebook PC garnered the company bragging rights as the winner of Wal-Mart's Home Entertainment Design Challenge. HP reduced packaging for the notebook ... More >
In a deal valued at up to $20 million, Secure Computing is set to buy user access monitoring and control firm Securify , reports internetnews.com . According to The Register , Secure Comput... More >
Google has signed a deal for GeoEye to supply images of Earth that Google calls "the highest ground-resolution color imagery available in the commercial marketplace," reports CNET . The cost of th... More >
With very little fanfare, Intel added to its economy quad-cores, introduced a new entry-level dual-core chip and debuted an upgrade to the Celeron D family over the weekend. The Channel Regist... More >
Google on Tuesday launched a sort of YouTube for business , attempting to make video-sharing as common as trading e-mails or instant messages, reports Reuters . It's added the video componen... More >
Six countries have called into question the vendor neutrality of the International Standards Organization after the organization recently approved Microsoft's Office Open XML document format, rep... More >
A leading researcher says the share of global Internet traffic that passes through the United States has dropped from 75 percent a decade ago to about 25 percent today, according to an interesting re... More >
An iPhone software glitch has drawn criticism from security analysts as another example of why many enterprises are a little nervous about adopting the ultra-sexy consumer device, and Apple products ... More >
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