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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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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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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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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Samsung India launched a DVD writer, which is claimed to be the industry's fastest writer with 22X recording capability. The new Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 is available in the Indian market. With over-speed recording, users can write at 22X speeds on 16X media and 12X speeds on 8X media. As lower sp...
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Now that Microsoft Corp. has walked away from its takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. , the tech world is turning its focus on the Redmond, Wash. giant's next move. And for some analysts, Microsoft may still be in good shape to cut into Google's online search and advertising stranglehold without Yahoo'...
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Microsoft's Windows Vista is 37 percent more secure than its Windows XP ancestor, a security vendor claimed Friday, a rate it hinted was disappointing. Using different data collection techniques, Microsoft has recently asserted that Vista is 60 percent more secure than XP. For every 1,000 mach...
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Sun Microsystems Inc. plans on releasing a new version of its open source OpenSolaris operating system every six months, one of which will serve as the basis for the next version of its Solaris Unix operating system, said a company executive. It's yet undecided which of the open source versions ...
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Microsoft has warned users updating to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) that they won't be able to downgrade from Internet Explorer 7 to the older IE6 without uninstalling the service pack. The warning first appeared in a post Monday to a company blog written by the Internet Explorer (IE) develo...
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3Com has announced that the independent research firm In-Stat has found that 3Com's local area network (LAN) switches are up to 60 percent more energy-efficient, or 'green', than competitors' products. By deploying an industry-leading switching solution from 3Com, customers can save money -- and hel...
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly mulling a proxy fight against Yahoo's current board members in order to pressure the company to re-establish merger negotiations with Microsoft. Icahn has bought as many as 50 million Yahoo shares since Microsoft walked away from the deal, according to ...
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While Sun executives have said that JavaFX, the company's nascent rich Internet application (RIA) development product family and eventual competitor to Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, will be entirely open source, a FAQ page on Sun's site appears to contradict that. "The JavaFX ...
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is mulling a proxy fight against Yahoo 's current board members in order to pressure the company to reestablish merger negotiations with Microsoft , The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition Tuesday afternoon. Icahn has bought as many as 50 million Y...
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Olympus has launched the E-520, an update of its E-510 DSLR. The E-520 represents continuity, rather than revolution within the E-System camp. This process of orderly transistion sees the arrival of contrast detection AF at the E-5XX level of camera. This feature does not represent all the camera's ...
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U.S. retailer Best Buy is buying a 50 percent stake in an established European retailer to expand its worldwide consumer electronics business, the company said Thursday. Best Buy will pay US$2.1 billion for the stake in The Carphone Warehouse's European and U.S. retail business. The Carphone Ware...
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An anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean residents on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy problems in the country. The data was posted early Saturday morning on Fayerwayer.com , a popular Chilean technology blog. The hacker, who calls himself "Anonymous Cowar...
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