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Gartner buying AMR Research in $64M deal
Gartner announced Monday that it is buying AMR Research for $64 million, in the latest acquisition by the giant IT research firm....
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Android developers disgruntled with market
A recent study by Skyhook Wireless shows that Android developers are increasingly frustrated with Android Market. Some of the statistics reported from...
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Scammers get better tools for tapping social networks
New tools capable of quickly finding, gathering and correlating information about individuals from social networking sites and other public sources are giving...
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Microsoft game software preps soldiers for battle
Soldiers may go into battle better prepared to handle equipment and with a greater knowledge of their surroundings after an intellectual property...
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Switching to a Solid-State Drive
Prices on solid-state drives are dropping, and operating systems (particularly Windows 7) are beginning to take advantage of the potential higher speeds...
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Early adopters give Windows 7 high marks, says survey
Users who have moved to Windows 7 gave the new operating system a big thumbs up in a just-released survey, although people...
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Cloud security service from Webroot looks for malware
Webroot announced that it has extended its cloud-based Web security service, adding a way to filter outbound as well as inbound Web...
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Google nears Chrome Mac beta release
Google is closing in on a beta for the Mac version of its Chrome browser, according to a list of still-to-be-addressed issues....
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Avaya’s Nortel buy might not power it over Cisco
Even after it buys Nortel, Avaya won’t dominate Cisco in the battle for business-communications customers, according to a new study. IntelliCom Analytics...
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Nokia sues LCD makers for price fixing
Nokia said it is suing display manufacturers Samsung, LG, Philips, Toshiba and others for price-fixing, claiming it has paid too much for...
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Baidu targets Google with mobile search app
Top Chinese search engine Baidu.com has taken another swing at Google by launching a mobile service application it will pre-install on handsets,...
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Sun’s share of servers still slipping
Sun Microsystems share of the overall server market continues to slip away according to global results released by analyst firm Gartner. In...
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IBM stays tops as server market stabilizes, Gartner says
IBM retained its narrow lead over Hewlett-Packard in the worldwide server market as sales began to stabilize during the third quarter, Gartner...
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VoIP, network overhaul brings hospital savings, unified communications
What started out as an upgrade to the phone system at Ottawa Regional Hospital and Healthcare Center became a badly needed network...
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Microsoft investigates Windows ‘black screen of death’
Microsoft confirmed that it is looking into reports that November’s security updates have triggered a black screen on some Windows users’ PCs....