Samsung has launched a high-definition (HD) video camera that can also snap high-resolution digital photos and take smooth slow-motion video. The HMX20, which was shown in prototype form at CES in Las Vegas in January, can manage 1080p full high definition (1,920 pixel by 1,080 pixel resolution) a...
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They say everything comes to those that wait. A year after it went on sale in the rest of the world customers in Japan will soon get a chance to buy the LG Prada phone, but with a feature not available elsewhere: 3G. From the outside not much has changed. It has the same shiny black case, 3-inch to...
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Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months. Because of a virus infection, the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 was polluted with adware, Mozilla security chief Window Sn...
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Just when it seemed that their stormy relationship had ended, Yahoo and Microsoft may end up reconciling and coming to terms on a merger sooner rather than later. Comments by both CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker -- pressured by a sliding stock price and grumbling shareholders -- seem to...
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Microsoft 's TerraServer-USA satellite imagery project has been slapped with a trademark lawsuit from a small North Carolina company with a confusingly similar name. Terraserver.com filed the suit on Friday in North Carolina federal court, seeking monetary damages and asking that Microsoft be...
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Security researcher Aviv Raff has published code that would allow someone to take control of a computer running Internet Explorer, but there's a catch. He's not saying exactly where he's hidden the attack. "Somewhere in my blog, I embedded a proof-of-concept code which exploits this 0day vul...
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Advanced Micro Devices plans to release processors with 12 cores, which changes its product road map and kills earlier plans to release 8-core chips. The 12-core processor, code-named Magny-Cours, will be targeted at servers and is due for release in the first half of 2010, according to the compan...
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive, an online library, provide the agency with a user's personal information after the Web site challenged the records request in court. The FBI sent a national security letter, or NSL, to the Internet ...
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EBay will roll out a host of changes to its feedback mechanism this month globally, including the controversial elimination of sellers' ability to leave negative feedback for buyers. EBay announced the feedback changes along with modifications to other areas like its fee structure in January, pro...
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The WiMax joint venture between Sprint and Clearwire could be good news for end-users, who might soon be able to choose from a variety of new and competing broadband services. The deal, announced Wednesday, includes investments totaling US$3.2 billion from Intel, Google, Time Warner Cable, Comca...
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The Internet Storm Center, which tracks online threats, warns today that a worm is infecting vulnerable Web sites with a database attack.  Though relatively small by Web attack standards with about 4,000 reported infected sites, the assault adds invisible code to a site that can force vis...
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Chip makers Intel , Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. announced Monday that they will collaborate to move chip manufacturing onto larger silicon wafers by 2012. The move to 450-millimeter wafers will help semiconductor makers keep pace with demand for chips and also he...
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Microsoft should consider putting its search-advertising endeavors on the back burner for now and attempt an end run at Google by trying to become a leader in the display-, video- and mobile-advertising markets, where no company is a clear leader yet. Microsoft was pursuing Yahoo partly for its ...
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Qwest Communications International will resell Verizon Wireless mobile service, ending a five-year deal with Sprint Nextel . Customers of the regional landline carrier will be able to buy Verizon mobile service through Qwest, buy the services as a bundle and eventually be charged for all Qwest ...
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Yahoo 's stock lost significant value on Monday, the first day of trading after Microsoft 's decision over the weekend to give up on acquiring Yahoo. Yahoo's shares closed down 15 percent at US$24.37, after dropping as low as $22.97 during the day. While Wall Street seemed displeased that Yahoo ...
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Google has thrown its weight behind a fledgling security reporting group for the open-source community. The search engine giant, long a proponent of open-source software, is now one of three sponsors of oCERT , the Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team. Launched in late March, oCERT aims...
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Two public pension funds from the city of Detroit plan to expand a complaint against Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and other members of Yahoo 's board of directors, saying they failed to act in the best interest of shareholders in rejecting Microsoft 's bid to buy Yahoo. Their original lawsuits were filed...
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Ruckus Wireless has sued Netgear , alleging the networking vendor infringed its patents on technology for improving Wi-Fi performance and reliability. Netgear has used Ruckus technology in two products, one of which is still shipping, under a 2005 licensing agreement, according to Ruckus Presiden...
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After a pricing spat with Apple led NBC to pull its video content from iTunes, the broadcaster has struck a deal with Microsoft 's Zune online store. On Tuesday, as part of an announcement about new Zune features, Microsoft planned to say that it will start selling television programs at th...
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VMware says it's received a bad rap when it comes to security. The company's problems started with a 2006 presentation at the Black Hat security conference by Joanna Rutkowska, CEO of Invisible Things Lab. Ironically, Rutkowska's "Blue Pill" talk had nothing to do with VMware. It was abo...
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