Market
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Facebook celebrates 6th birthday with redesign
Facebook is celebrating its sixth anniversary with another redesign of its homepage. Employees at Facebook last night were celebrating the company’s anniversary,...
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Google’s leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?
The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet’s main...
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10 best IT jobs right now
IT professionals looking to find new employment or upgrade their current positions should investigate job opportunities that address growing demand for technologies...
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Chrome snatches share from IE, Firefox
Google’s Chrome gained browser market share in January at the expense of both Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and IE’s biggest rival, Mozilla’s Firefox,...
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Oracle-Sun merger could benefit the small business
Small business has reason the cheer Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, now that it appears OpenOffice.org and MySQL look to do well–perhaps better–under...
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Oracle to keep investing in Sun’s server lines
Oracle Corp. is expected to offer assurances that it will continue to invest in all of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s main server platforms,...
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Before going on Cloud…
While cloud vendors trumpet the savings and flexibility they can provide compared to on-premise IT, they don’t, as a matter of course,...
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Apple builds tablet buzz with silence, say experts
Apple’s ability to spawn massive interest in its still-unannounced tablet is based on a respectable track record and keeping its corporate mouth...
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AMD takes processor market share from Intel, IDC says
Advanced Micro Devices gained share in worldwide processor shipments at the expense of rival Intel during the fourth quarter of 2009, IDC...
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HP opens subsidiary in Jordan
HP has set up a fully-owned subsidiary in Jordan and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Jordan for...
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Facebook building first custom data center
Facebook announced that it is building its first custom data center, a facility in Oregon that will help the social networking site...
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Twitter’s growth starts losing steam, study finds
Twitter Inc. may be having a great week, since both President Barack Obama and Microsoft founder Bill Gates have started Twittering, but...
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Microsoft cuts time Bing stores some user data to six months
Microsoft announced plans to cut the length of time it stores IP addresses of Web searchers using its Bing search engine from...
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SAP does U-turn on enterprise support
SAP has done a U-turn and reintroduced its standard enterprise support package for customers. The move follows significant user-group led resistance to...
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Microsoft’s Ballmer: We’re staying in China
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company is staying in China even though rival Google is talking about pulling out following a...