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PC makers introduce netbooks with new Atom processor
PC makers including Dell and Fujitsu have introduced netbooks based on Intel’s latest Atom processor that are smaller and offer battery lives...
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BlackBerry service hit by second outage in a week
An outage hit BlackBerry smartphone service in the Americas night, operator Research In Motion confirmed via its support service. The outage is...
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Microsoft brings Its largest IT conference Middle East with Tech.Ed
Microsoft Gulf announced that it will host the region’s first ever Tech.Ed Middle East 2010 event from March 1-3, 2010 at the...
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Why netbooks will still trump tablets in 2010
Netbooks have had no shortage of naysayers since they first appeared two fall seasons ago. Critics said they were too small, underpowered,...
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Red Hat to drop Itanium support in Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat is dropping support for Intel’s Itanium processor in Enterprise Linux 6, the next major release of its operating system, the...
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Microsoft’s 2010 task: Make the cloud clear
For Microsoft, 2010 is a platform building and marketing year with no less than the future success of its cloud strategy hanging...
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LG Display develops thinnest-yet LCD TV panel
LG Display has developed a prototype LCD panel for television sets that’s less than a quarter the thickness of the company’s current...
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Google’s Android Invasion: Prepare For Phase 2
Google’s Android operating system has plenty to celebrate this holiday season — and now, a new trio of studies suggests the platform...
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Intel launches next-generation Atom netbook processor
Intel launched its next-generation Atom netbook processor, saying it will bring longer battery life and improved system performance to low-cost laptops. The...
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Adobe explains PDF patch delay
Adobe chose to wait until mid-January to patch a critical PDF bug because issuing an emergency update would have disrupted its quarterly...
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MySQL developers release 5.5 beta
The MySQL developer community has released the first public iteration of what will be the next version of MySQL, version 5.5. MySQL...
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Mozilla ships Firefox 3.6 Beta 5, pushes final into 2010
Mozilla issued a fifth beta of Firefox 3.6 rather than move on to a release candidate, a decision that will push the...
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The 2009 data breach hall of shame
If there was anything even vaguely comforting about the data breaches that were announced this year, it was that many of them...
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Hackers take Twitter offline for a while
Microblogging site Twitter went offline for a while after hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army apparently managed to change DNS records,...
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Nexans offers Cat.6A shielded connector
Nexans Cabling Solutions announced that its LANmark-6A shielded snap-in connector has successfully received Cat.6A component compliance certification. This product was certified by...