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Carriers should concentrate less on revenues, more on adoption, says Yankee Group
Cloud computing to include many virtual applications
The U.S. Secret Service, the Italian police and the Italian postal service are involved in the effort
Offers upgrade on opening day to users of older browser to boost uptake
The researcher had found serious flaws in ATM software
IT spending declines were worse than expected; could herald early turnaround
Pennsylvania man reportedly went after sites that ran stories about 'cybervigilante' group
Smaller PC makers are either eating or putting the cost of the OS into hardware prices
Google, Yahoo and Bing get the press but Exalead, Scour, Hunch , Scirus and Indeed fill a void
Max Ray Butler charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of credit cards in September '07
Company exec denies that higher EU prices stem from antitrust action
Evaluate encryption and redundancy before selecting a cloud vendor, Forrester says
Forrester Research says U.S. IT market will shrink by 5%, anticipates spending to start to return in Q4 and early 2010
Cisco says it is up to the challenge from Google's Voice, Wave
John McHugh, vice president of enterprise data solutions, says what Nortel is going through is akin to 'chemotherapy'
It takes more than a labor protest and a demonstration glitch to stop Cisco's chief from selling his vision
The Google plug-in disabled Windows Desktop Search in Outlook
Thomson Reuters avoids equipment and service costs with virtualization
Site members want Google to offer them the option to keep the old layout on their channels
The new Energy Star 5.0 power-efficiency specification will help cut electricity bills
While just 6% of its stores are completely out, 57% have no 16GB white models
Users get free minutes or texts in return
However, it remains to be seen if Oracle will back the technology once the Sun merger is complete
A Mac Pro and 40-year-old tape drives are helping restore the original Lunar Orbiter tapes
The company claims success in signing-up over 19,000 subscribers in one of the world's most closed countries
World-Check relies on people, not software, to build database of high-risk individuals for banks.
The system analyzes thought patterns and translates them into wheelchair movement in a fraction of a second
In what may become commonplace, Apple and Dell have begun shipping notebooks with sealed-in batteries, promising longer battery life but preventing battery swapping
Mobile phone charger harmonization is a first step, with work under way to find a universal charger
ICANN and the Chinese government could pressure Xin Net and eName to clean up their registrations
Squeaks in under the 'first half of year' wire on last daygg
The new Cisco Certified Architect is a level above the CCIE and will marry engineering knowledge with business acumen.
Resist 25-PC maximum, expert urges, don't pay twice for the new OS
The organizations are offering an SMS-based information service in Uganda
Twitter protest quiets down, but questions remain
Toyota touts ability to control wheelchairs with brainwaves
The social-networking site hires a Genentech veteran
No surprise, but hackers use pop star's demise to dupe users
