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Sun Microsystems showed off new server technology at a press event in New York this week where the firm took the opportunity to tout growth in its server business over consecutive quarters. As a backdrop to talk about its path to a positive future, Sun announced new Sparc-based Sun Fire workgroup s...
Dell on Tuesday rolled out new desktop computers in truly made-to-order style. Not only can customers choose sizes and graphics capabilities, they can also choose between Intel and AMD chips. Customers can select machines based on Intel's Core 2 Duo processors or, for the first time, AMD Athlon 64 X...
Microsoft on Tuesday released three security updates for Windows and Office to patch as many vulnerabilities, following several consecutive Patch Tuesday events that saw much larger batches of fixes. The software giant rated only one of the September patches as "critical." Bulletin MS06-054 addresse...
As technology becomes a large part of many consumers' everyday lives, the risk of overexposure to new advances grows for people of all ages. Children, however, may be especially at risk of becoming too dependent on devices and outlets such as television sets, cell phones, music players, video games ...
AT&T and MobiTV are now offering a mobile television service to broadband users. Called AT&T Broadband TV, it is available to subscribers of any broadband service. AT&T and MobiTV have already partnered to offer MobiTV's content to users of AT&T's WiFi hot spots; this new offering is...
Palm has launched a new Treo smartphone aimed at the European market, saying the device was specifically designed for Vodafone's third-generation high-speed mobile network. The Treo 750v, also the first Palm device unveiled in Europe to use Windows Mobile 5.0, will launch in seven countries by the e...
Microsoft opened another chapter in the Web search wars Monday, taking its Live Search platform out of the testing phase in 47 markets worldwide, including the United States. The software giant also said that the local version of the search tool, Live Local Search, was debuted in the UK and the U.S....
Shareholders approved last week the merger of Lucent and Alcatel, a deal first announced in March. The pairing is one of a handful that has taken place in the telecommunications equipment market since the year began. The changes underscore the diminishing vitality of the telecom equipment market and...
Surprised by a rapidly building revolt brewing among its normally loyal customers, social networking site Facebook has agreed to offer users privacy options with its news feed tool. Introduced just last week, Facebook's news feed provides updates to members every time a change is made to a friend's ...
Samsung on Monday unveiled a prototype for what could one day become a less expensive substitute for flash memory and at the same time touted a healthy flash memory market with high demand and prices to match. The South Korea firm's new technology -- phase-change random access memory -- could eventu...
In an effort to encourage greater adoption of broadcast mobile TV services and accelerate service deployment, Motorola and Nokia on Monday said they would work together to make their Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H)-enabled mobile devices and network services interoperable. DVB-H technology...
Online fantasy gaming site "Second Life" on Friday admitted it suffered a security breach that exposed real-world personal data of its role playing users. A detailed two-day investigation confirmed that some of the unencrypted customer information stored in the database was compromised, potentially ...
Last week, HP launched an impressive array of new products -- but few noticed, because the news once again surrounded events that happened when their ex-CEO was still there, screwing up the company. Meanwhile, Gateway finally got a new CEO in J. Edward Coleman, who has a good pedigree as a turnaroun...
Mobile phone network operators are responding to the competitive threat of free WiFi, progressively adding new technologies to their networks to improve the wireless coverage they offer, according to new research. Small cellular base stations designed for use in residential or corporate environments...
AOL is embracing third-party developers who would like to extend its AIM Phoneline service or build new products on the platform. The Dulles, Va.-based ISP plans to introduce new APIs to facilitate the creation of higher-end offerings for the Voice over IP service of its AIM instant messaging produc...
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