Wednesday, January 30, 2008

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Two eBay laptop sellers--one of whom ended up without either his laptop or the buyer's money for it--share their experiences. 30-Jan-2008

Online auction giant says it will cut the fees it charges to list items by 25% to 50% and increase the fees for sold items. 29-Jan-2008

The problem caused Windows Mobile phone users to receive blank Gmail messages. 29-Jan-2008

Xbox makers appear to be counting on dissatisfaction with the Wii's lack of technology and lasting gameplay. 29-Jan-2008

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark says his site has been successful because it has built a culture of trust working with people. 29-Jan-2008

Downsize Windows Vista's famously large installation footprint with a free software tool. 29-Jan-2008

Some customers who pre-ordered the MacBook Air receive notification that the notebook has shipped. 29-Jan-2008

December's Patch Tuesday finds Vista in bad guys' sights. Plus: Get Office 2007 SP1, get your fix for Flash, and avoid an HP laptop disaster. 29-Jan-2008

Hands on with Via's new Artigo DIY PC kit, based on the credit-card-size Pico-ITX motherboard form factor. 29-Jan-2008

Dr. Howard Stark has moved most of his Washington-based practice onto the Web--here's how. 29-Jan-2008

A show-off posted a YouTube clip showing a motorcyclist speeding in Sussex; now it's being investigated. 29-Jan-2008

Skyfire unveiled a free mobile browser that does everything a full-fledged browser can. 29-Jan-2008

Upcoming laptops will likely have LED backlights and Blu-ray drives, but not WiMax and solid-state disks, MSI says. 29-Jan-2008

Akamai and Coradiant have announced products that help businesses eliminate Internet-related application performance bottlenecks. 29-Jan-2008

Ribbit's new Amphibian service makes phone-like voice features accessible via PC or online. 29-Jan-2008

Consumer electronics makers JVC and Funai Electric are joining forces on LCD TV production and marketing. 29-Jan-2008

Woolworths stores in the UK will no longer be stocking HD DVD titles, but they will be available online. 29-Jan-2008

Rock manager Paul McGuinness called on ISPs to crack down on illegal music downloads, share revenues with artists. 29-Jan-2008

At ISSCC next week, Intel will reveal details on a new CPU that sounds like Silverthorne--but execs won't confirm. 29-Jan-2008

Sony will neither confirm nor deny rumors that it's phasing out 80GB PS3 and ditching backward compatibility. 29-Jan-2008

The Apple iPhone can reduce the total number of devices used by employees and thus increase productivity. 29-Jan-2008

Nielsen will use its HeyNielsen site to track consumer preferences in real time for this year's Super Bowl ads. 29-Jan-2008

Microsoft announced that it would add Office 2003 SP3 to its Microsoft Update listings beginning February 27. 29-Jan-2008

EBay changes are designed to boost sales by making the shopping experience easier and safer. 29-Jan-2008

Cisco CEO John Chambers says that service providers will continue Internet build-out over the next decade. 29-Jan-2008

Apple is taking orders for an optical drive and an Ethernet adapter that plug into the MacBook Air's USB port. 29-Jan-2008

Kyocera plans to dissolve its joint venture with a Chinese parts maker, withdraw from China's handset market. 29-Jan-2008

Internet stocks have fallen in the last quarter, despite strong year-end results. 29-Jan-2008

President Bush asked Congress to extend Protect America Act, broaden protection for telecoms that cooperate with the government. 29-Jan-2008

The EU's top court ruled that telecoms do not have to reveal file-sharers' names when subpoenaed in civil cases. 29-Jan-2008

Analyst agrees that a high number of unlocked phones would affect Apple profits, but isn't sure that's the point. 29-Jan-2008

With so much traffic in cyberspace, it's about time someone blazed a direct trail to the internet. 29-Jan-2008

In which our columnist declares his loyalty to the Blu-ray camp, and readers tell us what they think. 29-Jan-2008

Your online community can help fine-tune your products. 29-Jan-2008

A Web-based information broker has been ordered to stop selling telephone records without owners' consent and to turn over nearly $200,000 in profits. 28-Jan-2008

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Latest News
AT&T has unveiled business plans for the iPhone--more costly than consumer rates but the first push for corporate customers of the smart phone. 21-Jan-2008

The huge European tech show will follow the standards of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. 21-Jan-2008

Coders can get free access to a database of translations of 22 EU languages, to help improve software. 21-Jan-2008

Strata8 is launching a service that lets enterprise cell-phone users make low-cost calls inside their offices. 21-Jan-2008

Adoption of Outlook, Exchange Server, and Sharepoint Server took a big jump in 2007, Microsoft says. 21-Jan-2008

New products and services include the 'one-stop-shop' Lotus Foundations and a partnership with SAP. 21-Jan-2008

Customers attending the MicroStrategy conference said they're pleased that the company is independent, even though its competitors have been bought by giants. 21-Jan-2008

GNUCitizen is describing an apparent vulnerability that could use VoIP to trick people into revealing personal data. 21-Jan-2008

An acquisition and an alliance give Microsoft new tools to target market leader VMware. 21-Jan-2008

Analysis: The DataPortability Workgroup ponders online about retaining rights but easing evolution. 21-Jan-2008

IT optimization vendor Integrien is set to ship 6.0 version of its Alive product. 21-Jan-2008

Big TV sales help push shipments of LCD panels to 38 percent growth, but the outlook for 2008 remains uncertain. 21-Jan-2008

Targeted spyware, network break-ins, and other digital crime pushes cyber espionage to a new level of concern. 21-Jan-2008

A technology agency is offering a $100,000 prize in a competition to develop multimedia search technologies. 21-Jan-2008

Vendors in the WiMax forum are developing a variation that broadens the spectrum of the wireless technology. 21-Jan-2008

About half of businesses surveyed are in some phase of updating to Windows Vista, a CDW study finds. 21-Jan-2008

Kyocera can use the Sanyo brand on cell phones sold in Japan and North America, in a deal a year in the making. 21-Jan-2008

The new Xeon M600 and Opteron M605 run Windows Server 2003 and Linux, and bundle OpenManage plus energy management tools. 21-Jan-2008

Sunday, January 20, 2008

The MacBook Air is a stunner, but has tough competition in ultralight PC notebooks. Check out our slide show.

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It hasn't happened in the U.S., but sevreal international cities have sustained attacks on utility systems--along with extortion demands.

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The wired instrument isn't digital, but it can stream Internet radio--for a price. 20-Jan-2008

HTC reports it sold last year 2 million of the Microsoft-based smartphones developed to compete with iPhone. 20-Jan-2008

IGG Software's iBank 3 update supports transactions via iPhone as well as the newest Mac OS. 20-Jan-2008

In electronic form, the popular hymnal Mission Praise can be searched, downloaded, and shared. 20-Jan-2008

Tango X2 provides a dock and speaker system for the Apple iPod, among other XtremeMac add-ons. 20-Jan-2008

The chipmaker is upbeat about growth prospects in Asia, but is also watching the economic developments in the U.S. 20-Jan-2008

Each vendor spins the year-end results to its advantage, but Sony had to scramble hardest. 20-Jan-2008

The new audio and video player has a smaller screen, function list, and price tag than Apple's entry. 20-Jan-2008

Pizza Hut's cell and Web orders aren't unique but they're widespread--and the firm expects mobile orders are the future. 19-Jan-2008

Wii games from third parties aren't selling, despite the console's popularity, developer says. 19-Jan-2008

Analysis: Sun broadens its open source stake, while MySQL enjoys Sun's standing and budget. 19-Jan-2008

When the bookseller reclaims its site's management, new features, deals, and designs are in the offing. 19-Jan-2008

The SenseCam is no tourist's point-and-shoot, but may help give Alzheimer's patients a photographic assist. 19-Jan-2008

Spammers may have found a way to thwart the CAPTCHA image-recognition system commonly used to combat spam. 19-Jan-2008

Report describes broadband rollout trends, maps availability, and recommends deployment strategy. 19-Jan-2008

Thieves have stolen two laptops containing unencrypted Social Security numbers of 337,000 Tennessee residents. 19-Jan-2008

Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands. 19-Jan-2008

Scientists identify dogs' emotions and say technology could help them better communicate with humans. 19-Jan-2008

The laptop with personal information on about 600,000 people was stolen from an officer in the Royal Navy. 19-Jan-2008

Friday, January 18, 2008

Latest News
Electronic Arts will release its latest Mac title, Spore, later this year. 18-Jan-2008

Retailers must take advantage of virtual worlds and mobile technology to stay competitive. 18-Jan-2008

Despite fluctuating stock prices, AMD and Intel assure investors that microprocessor market remains strong; analysts agree. 18-Jan-2008

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved standards intended to protect the U.S. power grid from coming under cyberattack. 18-Jan-2008

Most TV viewers who do not have cable or satellite TV will stick to broadcast programming after the switch to digital TV in February 2009. 18-Jan-2008

Apple has reached a deal with an independent distributor that brings music from 200 labels to its DRM-free iTunes Plus. 18-Jan-2008

Google is warning iPhone users that the latest software update will change the way Gmail works on their phone. 18-Jan-2008

Greenpeace says Apple's environmentally friendly MacBook Air "raises the bar" for the PC industry. 18-Jan-2008

MTV says that players of its Rock Band have downloaded more than 2.5 million songs since the game went on sale. 18-Jan-2008

Zhongyi Electronic says that Microsoft has been using its technology and Chinese fonts in Windows for a decade. 18-Jan-2008

Google's philanthropic arm is moving beyond alternative energy to focus on health, poverty, and climate change in Southeast Asia and Africa. 18-Jan-2008

Sprint Nextel is laying off about 4000 employees and closing retail outlets after losing more than 100,000 customers in the last quarter. 18-Jan-2008

Indian outsourcer Wipro says 2007 revenues were up, but profits growth was slow due to higher salaries and reduced margins. 18-Jan-2008

JiWire will offer iPhone and iPod Touch users ad-supported Wi-Fi Internet access for free in select locations. 18-Jan-2008

Time Warner Cable is looking to revolutionize home broadband pricing in the U.S. by selling consumers service based on bandwidth usage. 18-Jan-2008

IBM's says 2007 services and software revenues were up, sees emerging markets as a 'virtual gold rush.' 18-Jan-2008

The number of Internet users in China is up 53 percent from 2006--and it is poised to become the world's top Internet market. 18-Jan-2008

Sears.com is selling a fully equipped Linux desktop PC from Mirus International for $299, minus a $100 rebate. 18-Jan-2008

A programming error in Skype could let hackers use "Add Video" feature to run malicious code on the victim's system. 18-Jan-2008

Internet television network Revision3 is launching The Digg Reel, a new weekly show that will highlight the most popular videos submitted to Digg.com. 18-Jan-2008

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Latest News
Sun Microsystems will pay US$1 billion for Swedish software company MySQL, whose open-source database is used for some of the most widely visited Web sites in the world. 16-Jan-2008

New voice recognition program, shown at Macworld Expo, borrows technology from Dragon Naturally Speaking. 16-Jan-2008

Oracle has agreed to buy BEA Systems for around US$8.5 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. 16-Jan-2008

MediaCart and Microsoft team to serve personalized digital ads to Wakefern Food shoppers. 16-Jan-2008

Public interest groups praise the FCC for beginning inquires into traffic management by broadband providers and mobile phone carriers. 16-Jan-2008

The list of features missing from Apple's wafer-thin laptop is almost as long as the list of what it's got. 15-Jan-2008

The MacBook Air is a stunner, no doubt, but it's going to be up against stiff challenges from PC notebook makers. Here are a few of the top ones. 15-Jan-2008

A new study on Vista adoption shows that the year-old Microsoft operating system may be finding a groove with business users. 15-Jan-2008

A new software upgrade to Apple TV turns the device into a substantially different product. 15-Jan-2008

Security researchers release code that shows how a pair of widely used technologies could be misused to take control of a victim's Web browsing experience. 15-Jan-2008

The MacBook Air has arrived, a third MacBook model that brings incredibly small size to the MacBook line at a premium price. 15-Jan-2008

Microsoft used today's Macworld conference to release its much-anticipated Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac software suite. 15-Jan-2008

Storm, now a large remotely controlled botnet, is getting a graphic profile on a Web site set up to track it. 15-Jan-2008

Google's Maps application is making headway against the number-one ranked map Web site. 15-Jan-2008

iPod Touch users will get new features for their handheld device. But unlike a free iPhone update, iPod users will have to pay for their new capabilities. 15-Jan-2008

Taking the keynote stage at Macworld Expo on Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs wasted no time in introducing Time Machine, a new product designed as companion hardware to Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard's" Time Capsule backup technology. 15-Jan-2008

Data Robotics' new DroboShare works with its Drobo hard drive system to let users share files a LAN. 15-Jan-2008

Iogear's new switch lets users share a dual-link DVI display, USB keyboard, mouse, and surround sound audio between two computers. 15-Jan-2008

Wireless service provider Clearwire will offer Google's e-mail, calendar, and chat applications to its subscribers. 15-Jan-2008

Newer Technology's new USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter now has connection status LEDs. 15-Jan-2008

Scientists in Japan have succeeded in controlling a humanoid robot with signals from a monkey's brain. 15-Jan-2008

Nokia is laying off 2300 employees at a German factory and moving production to lower-cost sites. 15-Jan-2008

British music label EMI will cut up to 2000 jobs to increase Internet sales by promoting digital music, and boost its roster of talent. 15-Jan-2008

Perimeter eSecurity is buying SECCAS, which sells e-mail management products to financial institutions. 15-Jan-2008

Microsoft officials say that Nintendo president Satoru Iwata blocked the release of a GoldenEye port on Xbox Live Arcade. 15-Jan-2008

As the Writers Guild strike continues, iTunes subscribers who have season passes for favorite TV shows are out of luck. 15-Jan-2008

A free iPhone application provides the booth location of every company exhibiting at MacWorld Expo. 15-Jan-2008

Newspapers report that RIM's BlackBerry is set to go on sale in China this month. 15-Jan-2008

The MacSweeper site purports to scan Macs for security issues, then sell users a software fix--but researchers have their doubts. 15-Jan-2008
Faster cellular service for the iPhone is on its way, but Apple may also add high-speed wireless WAN capability to its MacBooks. 15-Jan-2008

With only two major studios left in the HD DVD camp, Toshiba is slashing prices on its players and ramping up its marketing. 15-Jan-2008

A new Trojan program is targeting unwitting users' bank data by intercepting account information before it is encrypted and sending it to a central attacker database. 14-Jan-2008

Microsoft now has opened public access to the latest beta build of Vista Service Pack 1 to all who are interested. 14-Jan-2008

An agreement between MySpace and most U.S. state attorneys general aims to significantly increase the safety of minors on the popular social network. 14-Jan-2008

We try to pinpoin the discernible directions in which the consumer electronics industry seems to be heading. 14-Jan-2008

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Gadgets rule, editors drool, and wireless tech takes over. Here are our picks--the best, the worst and the weirdest--from this year's Consumer Electronics Show.

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HD DVD writers, Intel Penryn processors, and 1 terabyte of storage are among the features coming to new laptops near you.


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Macworld Preview: Slim Laptop, Movie Rentals?

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Security firm Kaspersky confirms a variant of the Fujack worm was loaded on some DVD players shipped for the holidays. 13-Jan-2008

Thousands follow a long-dead soldier's fate as a descendant posts a series of real letters home. 12-Jan-2008

Enterprise search companies and analysts say Microsoft's deal to buy FASTshows the market has arrived. 12-Jan-2008
A Columbia man's computer fraud scheme allegedly involved more than 600 victims worldwide. 12-Jan-2008

Stock drops and financial losses prompt worries that game publisher SCi will go out of business. 12-Jan-2008

The search giant calls Northeastern University's patent on search technology invalid. 12-Jan-2008
The Storm worm network nearly doubled in size over the Christmas holidays. 12-Jan-2008

A peek at the packaging exposes the name -- Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles -- and that its story is a prequel. 12-Jan-2008
Hackers are using MySpace to download Trojan Horse software disguised as a Microsoft download. 12-Jan-2008

The head of the One Laptop Per Child effort says Intel could still contribute to the program for developing nations. 12-Jan-2008

Digital music leader Soundbuzz lures Motorola, seeking to expand the selection of platforms. 12-Jan-2008
Both Windows and Mac versions of the multimedia program have a buffer overflow flaw that puts users at risk. 12-Jan-2008

OLPC America plans to combat digital divide by distributing low-cost laptops to needy students in the U.S. 12-Jan-2008

Proponents say the wireless networking technology is gaining momentum for its portability, wide range. 12-Jan-2008

Proposals would clarify fair use of digital materials, bringing British law in line with that of many other countries. 12-Jan-2008

Friday, January 11, 2008

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The cost of upgrading Britain's schools to Vista would be $350 million, two-thirds of which go to deployment costs, testing and hardware upgrades. 11-Jan-2008

Amazon said the deal makes it the only retailer to offer customer DRM-free songs in the MP3 format. 11-Jan-2008

Concept gadgets rule, editors drool, and wireless, hands-free tech takes over. Here are our picks for the best--and worst--of this year's show. 10-Jan-2008

Here's what happens when you take the powerful Cell microprocessor, the chip that sits at the heart of the PS3, and put it to use inside a television. It's impressive. 10-Jan-2008

Jeff Raikes, the president of Microsoft's Business Division, plans to retire in September, the company said on Thursday. 10-Jan-2008

Amazon announces that it will add music from Sony BMG to its Amazon MP3 digital music download service. 10-Jan-2008

We didn't see a ton of new cell phones at CES--vendors mostly showed off their holiday-season products--but here are the best of the new and upcoming arrivals. 10-Jan-2008

Another $400, 2-lb. Linux-based mini-laptop will arrive in U.S. Wal-Mart stores by the end of this month. 10-Jan-2008

Sony today said it will emphasize a single and more cost effect 40GB model, which excludes backward compatibility. 10-Jan-2008

HD DVD writers, Intel Penryn processors, and 1 terabyte of storage are among the features coming to new laptops near you. 10-Jan-2008

Despite recent setbacks for the HD DVD format, most retailers interviewed at CES don't see a clear winner. 10-Jan-2008

Comcast says it will work with the FCC during investigation, but denies interfering with file-sharing services. 10-Jan-2008

Founder and primary investor Mitchell Kapor is phasing out his involvement in the Open Source Applications Foundation. 10-Jan-2008

Adobe will demonstrate its new Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac at Macworld Expo in San Francisco next week. 10-Jan-2008

The New York attorney general has launched a formal investigation to determine whether Intel violated antitrust laws to squeeze out AMD. 10-Jan-2008

With the coolest gadgets at CES offering anywhere, anytime access to Web 2.0 content and services, Convergence 2.0 is the new buzzword. 10-Jan-2008

NewsGator has released its $30 RSS newsreader NetNewsWire as a free product, along with FeedDemon 2.6 and NewsGator Go. 10-Jan-2008

Robots will be truly useful when they get sensitive arms and hands, plus the programming to use them properly. 10-Jan-2008

The focus of this year's Consumer Electronics Show has shifted from futuristic gadgets to instant consumer gratification, attendees say. 10-Jan-2008

Microsoft's Bruce Jaffe, corporate VP in charge of acquisitions, is retiring on February 29. 10-Jan-2008

Parallels Server is an enterprise version of the software that lets x86-based hardware, such as Apple Macs, run the Windows OS. 10-Jan-2008

Network Solutions visitors who use the site's "Find a domain" tool find that search results are automatically registered to the company. 10-Jan-2008

Rumor has it that Apple will announce a super-slim laptop and online movie rentals at its Macworld conference next week. 10-Jan-2008

In less than two years, plasma TVs have gone from dominant format to afterthought, then back to a viable option. 10-Jan-2008

Jim Safka, who heads the venture capital division of Ask.com's parent company, is replacing Jim Lanzone as company CEO. 10-Jan-2008

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

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A new generation of car technologies promises to add more fun and functionality to motoring. 08-Jan-2008

Companies at CES debuting cheaper 802.11n gear, plus options for adding the faster standard without getting rid of your existing equipment. 08-Jan-2008

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin confirms that the deadline for the country's switch to digital TV next year will not be postponed. 08-Jan-2008

A proposed new RFID-enabled U.S. passport card poses serious security and privacy risks for users, the Centers for Democracy and Technology warns. 08-Jan-2008

A federal judge took action against Qualcomm and six of its outside attorneys for hiding documents in the patent lawsuit. 08-Jan-2008

Microsoft fixes a critical flaw in the Windows operating system that could be used by criminals to create a self-copying PC worm attack. 08-Jan-2008

Netgear recalls its XE103 Powerline Ethernet Adapter after testing revealed circuitry malfunctions. 08-Jan-2008

Added PSP functionality added includes Blu-ray to PSP movie transfers, GPS tracking, Skype support, and a 16GB memory stick. 08-Jan-2008

Sprint Nextel and its hardware partners today sought to convince a small CES audience that their WiMax plans are solid. 08-Jan-2008

The Trojan specifically targets users that have modded their iPhone so they can install third-party applications. 08-Jan-2008

Comcast launched a one-stop movie-television hub where viewers can watch 3,000 hours of TV, movie trailers and short videos, check show listings. 08-Jan-2008

Navigation devices at CES have acquired new features such as speech recognition, 3D maps, and information on fuel prices at nearby gas stations. 08-Jan-2008

Microsoft has offered to buy Norwegian Internet-search software firm Fast Search & Transfer for about $1.2 billion. 08-Jan-2008

Software errors in satellite navigation devices in the Netherlands are sending vehicles through residential areas not intended for heavy traffic. 08-Jan-2008

Nearly one-fourth of companies are now using Web 2.0-social networking software in some form. 08-Jan-2008

Despite major studios' recent decisions (and rumors from others) to back Blu-ray, Microsoft says it is standing by its decision to support HD DVD on Xbox 360. 08-Jan-2008

The IRS continues to have "pervasive" information security weaknesses according to a new Government Accountability Office report. 08-Jan-2008

New games this week include Harvey Birdman for Wii, PS2, and PSP; NFL Tour for 360 and PS3; and Sonic Riders for Wii and PS2. 08-Jan-2008

Sharp is planning on 10 percent profit growth this fiscal year by increasing LCD production and TV sales in China. 08-Jan-2008

Smart phone users may not be accessing online content because it's difficult to do--intelligent network services will help. 08-Jan-2008

Sears faces a class-action suit seeking damages plus an accounting to determine whether the Managemyhome.com site was misused by criminals. 08-Jan-2008

Sony's Transfer Jet technology can move data wirelessly at rates of up to 375 megabits per second, at short range. 08-Jan-2008

In addition to a slew of new hard drives, LaCie has launched a new high-def 24-inch LCD monitor at CES. 08-Jan-2008

Belkin's updated TuneBase FM and TuneCast Auto now work with iPhones and iPods; Rockstar iPod users share tunes. 08-Jan-2008

New Apple Xserve servers come with dual Intel Quad-Core Xeon CPUs and an unlimited client licence for the late3st Mac OS X Server. 08-Jan-2008

The new Mac Pros run on dual Intel Quad-Core Xeon CPUs and a system architecture with "up to twice the performance of its predecessor." 08-Jan-2008

SanDisk CEO says his company has strong growth in international sales, insulating it from any downturn in the U.S. economy. 08-Jan-2008

In a recent SEC filing, McAfee warns investors that it faces risks from the "ambiguous" nature of open source licensing. 08-Jan-2008

Sony also talks HDTV and shows off the Rolly MP3 player that thinks it's a robot. 08-Jan-2008

Via Technologies says its tiny Mobile ITX motherboard probably won't ship till next year. 08-Jan-2008

Yahoo says its mobile Internet service may run on Google's Android platform and the Apple iPhone. 08-Jan-2008

EMC's new Clariion AX4, for small and medium businesses, can take advantage of advanced enterprise storage management apps. 08-Jan-2008

The New York Times and CNBC are teaming up against News Corp. with an agreement to share video and other online content. 08-Jan-2008

At CES Qualcomm demonstrated a prototype of its 'pocketable computer,' which runs Windows Mobile and has a slide-out keyboard. 08-Jan-2008

Viacom is making videos available on five online video services, plus Comcast's broadband site. 08-Jan-2008