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EU approves HP’s 3Com acquisition
The European Commission has approved Hewlett-Packard’s $2.7 billion takeover of 3Com without attaching conditions, the Commission announced. HP and 3Com both manufacture...
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Researchers find huge weakness in European payment cards
Hundreds of millions of payment cards throughout Europe have a flaw that could allow criminals with a stolen card to enter any...
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Google tweaks Buzz to address privacy concerns
Just two days after launching its Buzz social networking tools, Google said it has tweaked the technology address early privacy concerns. Google...
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Adobe to rush out another critical Reader patch
Just weeks after patching a critical flaw, Adobe Systems is rushing out another patch for its Reader and Acrobat software. The company...
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Motorola will split up in Q1 2011
Motorola will be split into two publicly traded companies in the first quarter of next year, with one focusing on handsets and...
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APC plans new push into containerised data centres
Power and cooling company APC by Schneider Electric will make a new push this year into the market for containerized data centers,...
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Credit card data security: Who’s responsible?
About a year ago security at Heartland Payment Systems Inc. was breached and information affecting more than 100 million credit cards stolen....
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It’s Microsoft’s Game to Lose with Windows Mobile 7
Speculation is mounting that Microsoft will show off the Windows Mobile 7 operating system at a wireless industry conference in Barcelona next...
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Microsoft announces Office for Mac 2011
Microsoft provided the most extensive look yet into the next version of the Mac version of its popular Office suite at Macworld...
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Google buys social search company Aardvark
Google is buying Aardvark, a company that fields questions and routes them for answers to the most qualified respondents within the user’s...
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Mozilla retracts Firefox add-on malware claim
Mozilla Corp. acknowledged that it had falsely accused a developer of infecting a Firefox add-on with attack code. The admission came a...
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Opera to reveal alternative iPhone browser next week
Opera Software plans to demo a version of its Opera Mini browser for the iPhone at the Mobile World Congress show in...
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Judge dismisses Windows anti-piracy software lawsuit
A federal judge last week dismissed a three-year-old lawsuit that accused Microsoft of duping customers when it fed them company anti-piracy software...
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Video will account for bulk of mobile data by 2014: Cisco
Cisco Systems Inc. has been saying for years that mobile video data traffic is exploding, and the networking company now predicts that...
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Microsoft delivers huge Windows security update
For the second time in the last four months, Microsoft today shipped a record 13 security updates that patched dozens of vulnerabilities...