August 14, 2008 - Technology News
Light-Bending Materials Could Slow Light, Speed Up Net
Use light-bending materials to slow and separate light signals, and thus speed up the Internet. That's the advice of some scientists, who are ...
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August 4, 2008 - Technology News
Where Technology Has Taken Us -- and the Path Ahead
Customer Relationship Management tools have been a part of business for decades -- they just weren't as advanced as they are today. Today's CRM ...
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June 25, 2008 - Industry News
Nokia Buys Symbian as Mobile-Phone War Escalates
On Tuesday, Nokia made a cash offer to acquire the 52 percent of Symbian it doesn't already own. Nokia is willing to pay $410 million for the ...
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June 10, 2008 - Technology News
PS3 Components Used To Build World's Fastest Computer
A supercomputer with components originally developed for Sony's PlayStation video-game console has become the world's fastest ...
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May 13, 2008 - Technology News
AMD Introduces Energy-Efficient Server Chips
Advanced Micro Devices has taken the wraps off its first energy-efficient x86 server chips featuring four processing cores and a low ...
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April 29, 2008 - Industry News
Nokia Announces Three New Mid-Range Phones
Nokia announced Monday three new cell phones for the mid-priced market. The world's biggest phone maker, based in Finland, described the Nokia ...
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April 16, 2008 - Technology News
Infected USB Devices on the Rise
You can plug lots of handy items into your computer's USB port, from mobile storage devices to printers. If you're not careful, you can ...
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March 12, 2008 - Industry News
Troubled Motorola May Spin Off Mobile-Device Business
The revolving door at Motorola could spin off a new business as an executive exodus continues. On the heels of Paul Liska stepping into ...
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March 11, 2008 - Industry News
Infineon Will Sell Hard-Drive Business to LSI
Infineon Technologies has agreed to sell its hard-disk-drive operations to LSI under terms that were not disclosed. Infineon's HDD business ...
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February 26, 2008 - Industry News
MetaRAM Finds a Way To Quadruple Memory
While microprocessing power increases dramatically from year to year, memory capacity lags behind. That may change as a start-up called ...
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January 17, 2008 - Technology News
Research Breakthrough Could Mean 40-Hour Laptop Batteries
Imagine running your laptop nonstop from New York to Tokyo -- crunch some numbers, work on a memo pop in a few DVDs -- and then do a full ...
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December 12, 2007 - Industry News
Nokia Fights To Defend Its Dominance
The entrance in 2007 of Apple and Google into the cell phone business is causing major upheavals. For one thing, Apple fundamentally changed ...
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December 10, 2007 - Technology News
IBM Claims Optical Computing Breakthrough
New research from IBM could bring the speed of fiber optic networks to computer processors, resulting in chips 100 times faster and 10 times ...
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December 4, 2007 - Technology News
Microchip Tech: Faster, Better, Cheaper
According to the latest report from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), chip sales growth was driven in October by ...
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November 16, 2007 - Technology News
IBM Introduces 'Blue Cloud' Computing
"Blue Cloud" might sound like the overhanging precipitation that follows a forlorn cartoon character, but if IBM's new initiative of that name ...
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August 31, 2007 - Technology News
Nokia Readies Challenge to iTunes
Nokia is making moves on Apple in more ways than one. While its latest rendition of the N95 mobile device debuted as a so-called iPhone ...
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August 29, 2007 - Technology News
Will iPhone Be Most-Hacked Handset Ever?
Hackers are coming out of the woodwork, taking aim at the Apple iPhone. Just this week, three Israeli hackers claimed they unlocked the ...
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August 9, 2007 - Industry News
White House Declines To Halt Qualcomm Chip Ban
The White House announced that it would not overturn the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision to ban the importation of ...
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July 24, 2007 - Industry News
OLPC Now Ready for Mass Production
First, the good news. The nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) announced on Monday that it has authorized the start of mass ...
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July 23, 2007 - Industry News
Toshiba Recalls 10,000 Notebook PC Batteries
On Wednesday, Toshiba announced that it is recalling another set of Sony laptop batteries as a result of reports that at least three ...
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July 12, 2007 - Industry News
Media CEOs Consider the Digital Future
The sun always seems to shine in Sun Valley, a pristine mountain resort in Idaho, when the top brass from media and technology companies ...
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June 19, 2007 - Industry News
Death Knell Sounds for HD DVD Format
The war between the two high-definition DVD formats entered a new phase on Monday, as Blockbuster announced that it will offer the ...
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January 12, 2007 - Technology News
Yahoo Tells Road Rogues To Go
There was a time when mobile phones just made phone calls -- or, to be more precise, tried to make phone calls, forcing their owners to ...
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January 12, 2007 - Industry News
Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony Sued over Game Controllers
Texas-based Fenner Investments is suing the big three game console makers -- Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony -- for violating a patent ...
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January 3, 2007 - Top Story News
Hot Tech: The Year that Was and The Year that Will Be
2007 will be the year for Windows Vista and a new class of PCs designed "for the next decade," predicts analyst Rob Enderle. "You'll see sleek new designs, vastly increased ...
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