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Cisco still open to IBM partnership

Cisco sought partners before making its own servers, Chairman and CEO Chambers said

Google Apps adds discussion forums

This new application will be available to users of Apps' Education and Premier editions

Virtual SIM allows multiple connections on a mobile handset

The technology is targeted at markets where subscribers can't afford a personal mobile handset

BT, Cisco to build global hosted unified communications service

Rollout includes data centers in Chicago, Manhattan

Chip maker TSMC buys stake in solar cell maker Motech

The chip giant will pay US$193 million for a 20 percent stake in Motech

MySpace opens activity stream to external developers

The company will release a new set of APIs

Safari edges Chrome in Mac speed trials

Google's Mac browser whips Firefox, Opera, lags Apple's Safari in JavaScript rendering race

Fear of Microsoft subsides in mergers and acquisitions arena

Amazon’s Kindle winning battle, but Adobe poised to win eBook war

More than 100 publishers, book retailers and libraries use Adobe Content Server 4

Adobe bends, a little, on eBook DRM

It plans to liberalize its approach toward Digital Rights Management with eBooks

Five Twitter Features I Want Most in 2010

IBM’s newest mainframe is all Linux

With starting price of $212,000, IBM wants to compete directly against higher-end x86 servers

Twitter to host developer’s conference in San Francisco

A date for the 2010 conference, called 'Chirp,' has not been announced

AT&T moves closer to usage-based fees for data

With some smartphone users turning into data hogs, AT&T eyes a 'pricing scheme'

SAP planning to open up on-demand development platform

Executive: But developers won't be forced into a single programming method

State Dept. worker sentenced for passport snooping

The agency employee is sentenced to 12 months of probation and community service

IT careers: Retire? How about never?

Bye-bye, time share. Late-career IT pros retool for an extended stay in the workforce.

NASA satellite; NSF telescope go on great space hunt

NASA WISE satellite to explore solar system; NSF greenlights largest solar telescope gets go ahead

BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac Gets Maintenance Update

Adobe fixes critical Flash Player flaws

And it will drop support for PowerPC Macs next year

Norton Online Backup gets big upgrade, supports Mac

Norton takes on file sharing and e-mail backup

Microsoft getting better at Patch Tuesday updates, experts say

Processes for Patch Tuesday in 2009 more refined

22 stories underground: Iron Mountain’s experimental Room 48

This data center is quiet, sans fans -- and energy efficient to the extreme

Intel nurses ‘black eye’ on Larrabee, as AMD, Nvidia get to work

Canceling long-awaited Larrabee graphics chip gives rivals time to get ahead

The Truth About CIO Tenure

TSA officials put on administrative leave after security lapse

DHS head promises full investigation into matter

Apple may ship tablet as early as March, analysts say

Gears up to sell 1M devices a month, component manufacturing sources report

Media increasingly outsources tech, copy editing

A push to cut costs without splitting infinitives

JSON data interchange format gets standards blessing

Ecma approves the format, which offers an alternative to XML

House passes R&D tax credit extension

But Senate passage of the tax credit is still up in the air

EC agrees to close DRAM antitrust case against Rambus

The case could have a bearing on part of the antitrust settlement with Microsoft due next Tuesday

Personal data of 24,000 Notre Dame employees exposed online

Information accidentally posted by an employee on the Web, available for three years

Infoblox, Neustar form alliance

DNS leaders to sell each others' wares to enterprise customers

Google ships beta of Chrome for Mac

More than a year after browser's debut, Mac version hits preview status

How Intel cut internal IT costs

Spacebook laptop to launch screen space race

gScreen's notebook will sport two 17-inch screens, but may not be ready for the holidays

Motorola to sell Droid-style phone in China this month

The MT710 will use a Chinese 3G standard and operating system

EMC automates data tiering across all primary array lines

Its ILM strategy is aimed at fast-paced virtualized data centers

Seagate announces its first solid-state drive

Seagate bided its time before entering the market

IBM offers hosted Tivoli monitoring for the midmarket

Big Blue is offering Tivoli monitoring as a monthly service starting at $44 per application or device

Two more operators put iPhone on sale in Singapore

M1 and StarHub ready to start selling Apple's iPhone

Seagate to launch slimmer laptop hard disk at CES

The new disk drive should help companies produce thinner laptops

Social network and banking scams are on the rise, says Cisco

Malware like Koobface and Zeus is replacing old-school phishing

Elpida sees DRAM prices rising next year, lifts spending

Elpida raised its capital spending plan 67 percent to US$1 billion

Google sues over work-at-home schemes

Pacific WebWorks used Google's brand name to push fraudulent home working schemes, Google alleges

Rewards needed to boost mobile phone recycling, says survey

Cash, store credits or a tax deduction will lure more consumers to recycle their phones, according to ABI

HP user group Connect looks online for growth

Chapters have spread to six continents, and social networking site is a key part of expansion

Gluster extends file system into Storage Platform, VM failover

Platform combines GlusterFS, OS and management tools

Ericsson to lay off up to 1,000 employees

Two manufacturing sites in Sweden hit by a new round of cuts

AT&T tops in 3G wireless speeds, study finds

Study does not undermine Verizon's claims of AT&T's overall 3G coverage gaps