Wednesday, January 16, 2008

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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