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CES – Casio unveils super high-speed digital still camera

Sears puts customers’ buying histories on the Web

Meraki’s SF Wi-Fi plan avoids roadblocks

Warner Bros dumps HD DVD, to go Blu-ray exclusive

US agency initiates DRAM investigation, along with 3 others

CEOs on Facebook easy to dupe, says researcher

After criticism, Sears plugs Web site’s privacy hole

U.K. politicians want losing data to be a crime

Qimonda, Macronix join in memory development pact

A Wi-Fi virus outbreak? Researchers say it’s possible

OLPC: Won’t miss Intel’s ‘half-hearted’ laptop effort

Cisco set-top boxes on tap for CES

Wireless gear from Cisco also enhanced for "visual networking"

Dirty data no more: five tips for data governance

Anti-botnet vendors plug in

Wall Street Beat: Tumult marks start of year for IT

Study: Open Document Format gained momentum in ’07

Google looks to technology that recognizes text in images

LG.Philips LCD unrolls 14-inch color e-paper display

Asus unveils terabyte laptop

Lenovo’s new IdeaPad: A consumer laptop line

Hitachi unveils first laptop 500GB drive

Marvell’s new 802.11n chipset hits 450Mbps

Semiconductor vendor introduces 450Mbps 3x3 wireless chipset

Book alleges Alexander Graham Bell fraudulently obtained his lucrative telephone patent

Author and science journalist Seth Shulman contends that dodgy patenting in the telecom industry extends all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell

Webroot software offers real-time defense

E-mail bankruptcy is just too expensive

U.S. Patent Office gets funding increase

Facebook’s “Secret Crush” malicious widget tricks users

Facebook users faked into downloading adware, security firm says

Consumers, businesses snapping up more hard drives

Apple patent reveals docking station for ultramobile PC

Social media start-up Mixx sets self apart via “ultra-personalization”

Q&A: LinkedIn, Facebook, Digg and other sites provided inspiration, Mixx CEO says

IBM enlists former EMC engineering head to help win storage wars

Acquisition of storage vendor XIV brings Symmetrix architect to IBM

Facebook and Plaxo in data portability tussle

Google’s Android ambition is to reshape the mobile industry, report says

But Android faces big problems, tight deadline, says report

Open source infiltrates government IT worldwide

8 hottest skills for ’08

8 hot-button issues to watch in ’08

Security dominates 2008 IT agenda

Techs, threats and trends industry watchers say will strike landfall in 2008

Oregon launches massive data center consolidation, virtualization project

Cisco-based network revamp could save state up to $12 million annually

Take home more tech pay in 2008

McAfee, Symantec CEOs talk security

Study: Biggest businesses rely more on service providers for messaging security

On-site protection remains important, finds IDC survey.

IBM buys Israeli storage startup XIV

Company suing OLPC asked for $20 million

CLEC line share continues to decline

CLECs claim 17.1% of all switched access lines in U.S., the FCC says.

‘Ransomware’ extorts payment with phone call

Malware honeypots wait for ’08

Researcher says Sears downloads spyware

OLPC CTO Jepsen quits nonprofit effort

Chinese chip-equipment maker faces US lawsuit

Holiday electronics sales strong, says SIA