Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system took another step forward on Sunday with the launch of a second experimental satellite. The Giove-B carries an atomic clock that is stable to within 1 nanosecond per day making it the most accurate atomic clock ever flown into space, according to the Eur...
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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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3Com has been challenged in its claim of leading the market in making its networking gear more energy efficient. The company based its claim on a report by US analyst firm In-Stat; however, a rival has charged that 3Com only counted its role in enterprise-class large switches and may actually la...
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LONDON (Reuters) - The rise of gadgets such as the iPhone , Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation which helped to build the Internet, a leading Oxford academic has warned in a new book. Professor Jonathan Zittrain says the latest must-have devices are sealed, "st...
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:45 PM PDT Hitachi has developed a 450GB enterprise-class hard drive with speeds of 15,000 RPM, matching Seagate for the highest-capacity hard drive at that speed level. 15,000-RPM drives are competing for customer demand with 7,200-RPM drives, which have slower spee...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:47 AM PDT Microsoft Mulls Subscriptions, Ads for Office Apps Latest Neil McAllister on Software Posts: Sunday, April 20, 2008 Microsoft Mulls Subscriptions, Ads for Office Apps Friday, April 18, 2008 Stop QuickTime Nagging About Safari Friday, April 18, ...
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Just imagine if one day in the near future the FBI comes to your enterprise with warrants that allow them to seize and remove any computer-related equipment, utility bills, telephone bills, any addressed correspondence sent through the U.S. mail, video gear, camera equipment, checkbooks, bank stat...
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Blinkx has decided to package and sell parts of the technology it has developed over time for its video search engine , in an attempt to capitalize on the rapidly increasing amount of online video. As they create and license more and more video content, Web publishers need software to categorize,...
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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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C++ developers using Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris OS have a new tool from Intel for optimizing their applications to run on multicore processors, Intel said on Thursday. Called Threading Building Blocks , the tool aims to reduce the amount of coding that C++ developers have to do to take adva...
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Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking a different approach, compared to its rivals, toward offering a rich Internet applications platform geared for the designer. Web designers can currently use tools like Microsoft Expression and Adobe Creative Suite, but Sun said it will also offer a designer tool...
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Advanced Micro Devices announced a series of executive changes Monday, including the creation of a Central Engineering Organization to oversee the company's product roadmap. Leading the new executive appointments was the announcement that Randy Allen will replace Mario Rivas as head of the company...
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Hewlett-Packard is close to acquiring IT services company Electronic Data Systems for around $13 billion, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal published on Monday. The deal could be announced as early as Tuesday, according to the news report, which cited sources close to the matt...
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:15 PM PDT In the latest death knell for Outlook Express, Microsoft Corp. announced last week that it will turn off access to its Web-based Hotmail service from the desktop e-mail software at the end of June. Outlook Express users who want to continue to access their...
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As COO of Microsoft , Kevin Turner is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of some 38,000 employees in Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services units. And along with Bill Gates , Steve Ballmer and five other top executives, Turner sits on the senior leadership team...
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Though 802.11n Wi-Fi is in its infancy and there's still no associated official wireless standard, 99 percent of all North American universities will be using it in the year 2013, according to a report released in early May by market-watcher ABI Research . 802.11n, a proposed upgrade to today's w...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:10 AM PDT Global digital information -- the digital universe -- amounted to 281 billion gigabytes (281 exabytes) in 2007, or almost 45 GB of digital information for every person on earth, according to EMC-sponsored research by IDC. The figure is 10 percent more than the p...
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(Note: This article was updated with Microsoft 's response and analyst comments at 7:05 p.m. on 4/27/08.) Yahoo failed to agree to an acquisition deal with Microsoft by Saturday, the deadline Microsoft had set for wrapping up negotiations. Now Microsoft must decide whether to pursue a host...
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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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After a slow climb during the height of a generally positive earnings season, the IT-heavy Nasdaq hit turbulence this week, with a mixed earnings report from Cisco, and merger and acquisition news and rumors involving Microsoft , Yahoo , Deutsche Telekom and Sprint Nextel . The Microsoft-Yahoo s...
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