Saturday, December 22, 2007

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Google deal prompts Federal Trade Commission to recently propose a set of privacy principles for online behavioral advertising. 21-Dec-2007

Reports say store is selling Wiis on Ebay for a premium over the retail selling price. 21-Dec-2007

Alcatel-Lucent will pay fines in response to charges it provided incentives to Chinese government officials. 21-Dec-2007

Sharp and Toshiba, two proponents of LCD TV technology, to collaborate, the companies announced on Friday. 21-Dec-2007

Performance of both Blu-ray and HD DVD during this second holiday season is crucial in establishing the new generation of optical discs. 21-Dec-2007

Microsoft has published a new beta of its Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. 21-Dec-2007

Philips will buy U.S. medical products company Respironics $5.2 billion, its biggest ever acquisition, as it expands in the fast-growing healthcare sector. 21-Dec-2007

IBM will help people find information in their email databases by identifying the most relevant information in a search query and extrapolating what the user is trying to find. 21-Dec-2007

The second shareholder complaint adds four additional instances of alleged backdating by the Apple executive team and directors. 21-Dec-2007

IBM is buying Solid Information Technology, a maker of high-performance databases and a close partner of IBM rival MySQL. 21-Dec-2007

IBM is building a virtual world to help its employees collaborate. 21-Dec-2007

Thousands of versions of Pinch, which comes in Russian and English language versions, are still circulating on the Internet. 21-Dec-2007

Sharp and Toshiba discuss a flat-panel display alliance that could lead to a big shake-up in the industry, a Japanese newspaper reports. 21-Dec-2007

Hitachi is considering a shake-up of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-disk drive maker that it acquired from IBM in 2003. 21-Dec-2007