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Revises netbook upgrade tool after admitting it copied code
Venerable trade publication loses battle for survival
Microsoft's plan to buy Sentillion could help it take advantage of a potential boom in health-care technology spending
Project pays back with less power, fewer servers, reduced rack space
FTC makes five recommendations to virtual world operators to reduce explcit exposure
NASA test honeycomb airbag to protect passengers in helicopter crashes
The company is expanding the Dell EqualLogic, PowerEdge and PowerConnect lines
A GAO report finds significant customer concerns about billing and early termination fees
FCoE offers a single management layer for Ethernet and storage traffic
Old-school buffer overflows bedevil network management component
The company's failure to disclose 2007 SQL injection attack until 2009 was justified, and a lawsuit is dismissed
Antitrust issues, bad blood and merger complexity should put kibosh on an acquisition
Deal with Google provides most of Mozilla's revenues
The rules give preferential treatment to Chinese products
Aol fails to impress and Ciena reports widening loss
GAO report most critical of FCC complaint handling skills but billing, coverage and other problems exist
Doubling of Verizon early termination fee also subject of FCC inquiry
Personal information inadvertently exposed via Facebook privacy scheme, users complain
Apple gears up supply chain for1 million $1,000 tablet devices per month
Microsoft Azure server project moves into mainstream
Web hosting leader is building differentiated cloud services around Cisco gear
IBM Linux offering looks for new customers to shore up falling mainframe revenue
AT&T exec touts 3G, talks of transition to 4G
Symantec to protect Amazon cloud computing services
Lawmakers call gaffe shocking, demand investigation
The council will aim to remove barriers for enterprises interested in using cloud computing services
Cisco sought partners before making its own servers, Chairman and CEO Chambers said
This new application will be available to users of Apps' Education and Premier editions
The technology is targeted at markets where subscribers can't afford a personal mobile handset
Rollout includes data centers in Chicago, Manhattan
The chip giant will pay US$193 million for a 20 percent stake in Motech
The company will release a new set of APIs
Google's Mac browser whips Firefox, Opera, lags Apple's Safari in JavaScript rendering race
More than 100 publishers, book retailers and libraries use Adobe Content Server 4
It plans to liberalize its approach toward Digital Rights Management with eBooks
With starting price of $212,000, IBM wants to compete directly against higher-end x86 servers
A date for the 2010 conference, called 'Chirp,' has not been announced
With some smartphone users turning into data hogs, AT&T eyes a 'pricing scheme'
Executive: But developers won't be forced into a single programming method
The agency employee is sentenced to 12 months of probation and community service
Bye-bye, time share. Late-career IT pros retool for an extended stay in the workforce.
NASA WISE satellite to explore solar system; NSF greenlights largest solar telescope gets go ahead
And it will drop support for PowerPC Macs next year
Norton takes on file sharing and e-mail backup
Processes for Patch Tuesday in 2009 more refined
This data center is quiet, sans fans -- and energy efficient to the extreme
