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Phone casing made from a minimum of 50 percent recycled plastics
The move could neutralize some of Android's advantages over Moblin
ECS showed off a home media computer with Blu-ray Disc player shaped like a vase for the living room
Halifax doesn't have to refund £2,100 to a man who believe his ATM card may have been cloned by criminals
Consumer groups object to expected selection of Google exec to deputy CTO post
Evidence about how the visa program affects wages is growing
However, 2010 could be a transitional year for enterprises to consider alternatives, an analyst said
Tax breaks could total $300 million for 50-employee server farm in North Carolina
Computerworld's 2009 survey on Unix use shows that the OS will be alive and kicking for some time to come.
The hosted word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software will be dramatically better in a year's time
Sears software collected bank statements, prescription records and e-mail messages, the agency says
It will contribute sample .Net code to the Apache project
The test version will finally expand the popular video-viewing platform beyond AppleTV, Mac and Linux
Slates 10 updates, the most in eight months, and includes first fix for IE8
Legislators and others raise concerns about ICANN independence
Palm says feature adds ease of use, elegance; Apple won't comment
The site is not strong enough, hackers say
Intel will use Wind River products to optimize software for embedded and mobile chips
IT hiring forecasts show lots of jobs going unfilled despite growing unemployment rate
Symantec says its threat intelligence does back up FTC case
But StrongWebmail not yet ready to concede, wants to confirm claims
Designer Amosu launches Colour Couture service for select smartphones, computers and gaming consoles, but it ain't cheap
The real test of the openness of government database information will be public adoption
The popular Google site served up 6.8 billion videos in April, up 15 percent from the previous month
Orange, Vodafone and Sony Ericsson are trying to make testing easier for developers
The carrier expects to compete with Sprint's deal for delivering content to the Kindle, a top executive says
The vendor's Silver platform combines development tools, "self-aware" auto-scaling and a governance framework
Department of Justice scrutinizing reported agreements among companies not to poach staff
The company expects to be first to market with chips supporting the new Microsoft graphics API
Company mum on details; reliable site says no free upgrades for netbooks, Vista Basic
The chip makers wish is more easily said than done as consumers demand high-performance notebooks
The company showed an Aspire One netbook with Moblin 2.0 installed
Storage giants duke it out for de-duplication vendor
NetApp ups its cash and stock offer by $400M
Pramana analyzes interactions with Web applications in order to stop spam and click fraud
The netbook's detachable touchscreen contains the chip used to run Android
Our take at making sense of competing platforms for unified servers, storage and networking from Cisco, IBM, Juniper and others
Service can be billed for daily usage with access to both virtual, physical servers
Company says open source emphasis will help differentiate its virtualization products
