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If there's anything more exciting than the barely-seen Apple iPhone, it's got to be a possible Google-made mobile phone. While rumors have been all over the Web lately, the search engine giant is closed for discussion "This is all we plan to say," Erin Fors, a spokesperson for Google, told TechNewsWorld. "Mobile is an important area for Google, and...
Open Linux system platform and open source technology provider a la Mobile announced this week the availability of a complete Voice over IP (VoIP) Linux system stack for WiFi/GSM dual-mode phones The new stack is part of the company's Market-Ready Series of Linux-based solutions for smartphones....
SWsoft announced Thursday it will deliver its popular Virtuozzo server virtualization software in a new bundle with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 The SWsoft bundle will be available through the SWsoft channel. Although Novell provided support and resources for the bundle, the company doesn't plan to sell it directly....
Ever since Dell launched its IdeaStorm Web site earlier this year, the company has been inundated with customers -- and potential customers -- clamoring for Dell to offer Linux preinstalled on desktop and laptop PCs In February, Dell said it would certify Novell's Suse Linux on business desktop and laptop PCs, but stopped short of saying it would o...
Right on the heels of Microsoft's announcement last week that its Xbox Live online gaming and entertainment service had 6 million users, Sony let loose with its own groundbreaking online gaming announcement: PS3 Home PS3 Home is an immersive, virtual 3D world for PS3 gamers where they can create their own avatars, meet other gamers, chat, watch vir...
Seagate Technology has been working on delivering a laptop hard drive with built-in hardware encryption for a couple of years, but now the technology is finally hitting the streets, the company announced Monday Seagate's new Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (full disk encryption) uses a government-grade security protocol to encrypt all hard drive information tr...
The European Union (EU) announced Friday it has reached an ambitious agreement to increase the use of renewable energy to 20 percent of all energy usage by 2020. The EU also agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent in relation to 1990 levels over the next 13 years The objective is to combat global warming and lead the world in renewable...
What's the big deal with having a false persona? We live in a world of fake names, and "World of Warcraft" and Second Life are only part of it. Want to participate in an Internet discussion forum? You'll have to create a user ID, and most likely it won't have your first and last name in it What about MySpace? Does anyone believe all those MySpace p...
Yahoo and Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC) have inked a deal to preload Yahoo Web services on millions of HTC's smartphones that run Windows Mobile, giving Yahoo an edge in the race to capture mobile Web users HTC develops smartphones and customizes them for mobile operators and distributors around the world. In the deal with Yahoo, HTC will prelo...
Comedy Central's Emmy award-winning cartoon series "South Park" is getting its first-ever high-definition (HD) episode, "Good Times With Weapons," and Microsoft's Xbox Live service will distribute it free for two weeks "South Park" is the raunchy and irreverent comedy about the misadventures of four foul-mouthed kids in South Park, Colo. The show's...
For years, police departments have given video surveillance tapes to local television news channels in an effort to attract attention and fight crime. These days, a handful of police departments are turning to YouTube, according to a report from The Associated Press One of the most sensational success stories came after Detective Sergeant Jorge Las...
Researchers have fashioned the world's smallest transistor out of a one-atom-thick layer of graphene that's also less than 50 atoms wide. The minuscule graphene-based transistor may be the breakthrough that leads to faster microprocessors, ultimately replacing silicon, which becomes unstable at sizes ten times larger than graphene A key element in ...
A new upstart in online social networking, Ning, launched Tuesday, saying it plans to leapfrog social networking powerhouses MySpace and Facebook Cofounded by Marc Andreessen, who also cofounded Netscape, Ning is a platform that lets people create their own social networks. The next generation of social networks, Ning says, will be many focused nic...
Dell's new IdeaStorm Web site, which invites the public to post ideas and product suggestions to the company, has exploded with interest in desktop Linux. Thousands of site community members have asked Dell to preinstall several different versions of Linux on desktop and laptop computers, prompting Dell to take steps toward definitive action The co...
San Francisco-based BitTorrent, a firm infamous for creating file-sharing software that lets millions of people swap pirated movies and video content online, on Monday launched the BitTorrent Entertainment Network at BitTorrent.com The surprising shift comes with the support of major studios, television networks and video game publishers. BitTorren...
The South African government announced Thursday it is ditching proprietary software for a new policy and strategy based on free and open source software Under the new plan, all new software developed for or by the government of South Africa will be based on open standards. Adopting open standards in itself doesn't require the solutions to be open s...
AT&T has won one of the largest commercial contracts in its history, the company announced Wednesday -- a massive five-year global networking contract from automotive giant General Motors (GM) The deal, which is worth nearly US$1 billion, calls for AT&T to deliver next-generation telecommunications to GM to help the company integrate its global res...
AT&T has won one of the largest commercial contracts in its history, the company announced Wednesday -- a massive five-year global networking contract from automotive giant General Motors (GM) The deal, which is worth nearly US$1 billion, calls for AT&T to deliver next-generation telecommunications to GM to help the company integrate its global res...
AT&T has won one of the largest commercial contracts in its history, the company announced Wednesday -- a massive five-year global networking contract from automotive giant General Motors (GM) The deal, which is worth nearly US$1 billion, calls for AT&T to deliver next-generation telecommunications to GM to help the company integrate its global res...
Intel and Motion Computing have teamed up to develop and deliver a new tablet PC for the healthcare industry -- the C5 mobile clinical assistant (MCA) Based on Intel's new MCA platform, Motion's C5 device is currently in trial use in hospitals and is already gaining enthusiastic interest from the healthcare community....
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