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Google brings Buzz social networking to Gmail, mobile
You’ve got to hand it to Google: when they take on a project, they don’t do things by halves. On Tuesday, in...
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Microsoft offers Visual Studio 2010 release candidate
Microsoft has taken another step toward releasing its Visual Studio 2010 IDE and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 programming platform, offering a...
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AMD details speed, power saving features of Fusion
Advanced Micro Devices today offered more details about its forthcoming Fusion processor, including the speed, power consumption and plans to begin shipping...
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Google Nexus One fee cut follows broad FCC inquiry
Google has quietly acknowledged that $350 is a bit too much to charge consumers who ditch its Nexus One smartphone. The company’s...
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Cisco, Juniper push new mobility-focused products
The two biggest router companies are focusing their attention on mobility this week with products to address operator needs for rich 4G...
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Lenovo targets Kuwait?s IT market
The Idea products target consumers and professionals who are looking to maximise entertainment and computing performance to get the job done at...
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Planning for virtualization? Beware of server overload
As virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual server ratios...
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Oracle buys AmberPoint for SOA management
Oracle fattened up its already burgeoning middleware stack, announcing that it has purchased SOA (service oriented architecture) management vendor AmberPoint. Terms were...
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Xerox, ACS close $6.4B merger deal
Xerox Corp.’s $6.4 billion acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services Inc., approved by the shareholders of both companies on Friday, creates a combined...
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Report: Google to make Gmail more social
Google plans to tweak Gmail to make it easier for its users to post and share status updates, in an attempt to...
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Adobe apologizes for 16-month-old Flash bug
Adobe apologized over the weekend for letting a 16-month-old bug in Flash Player languish without a patch, even though it updated the...
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Cisco to unleash data center extensions
Cisco next week is expected to unveil new and enhanced data center products that are designed to more easily interconnect and allocate...
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Almasa IT Distribution signs Ericom Software
This agreement authorises Almasa IT Distribution to distribute, market, service and maintain designated Ericom Software in the Middle East and Africa Region....
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IBM details world’s fastest graphene transistor
Thanks to a change in recipe, IBM has created a graphene-based processor that can execute 100 billion cycles per second (100GHz), almost...
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Blackberry spyware source code released
Veracode released Blackberry-specific spyware, which the code-review specialist intends as a “call for defensive research” to show that the BlackBerry is vulnerable...