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Texas Instruments to Sell Sensors & Controls Unit for $3 Billion

Texas Instruments today announced a definitive agreement to sell its sensors and controls business to a global private equity investment firm for US$3 billion in cash Bain Capital, LLC will purchase the Attleboro, Mass. division that supplies engineered sensors and controls to the appliance, climate control, industrial, automotive, lighting, and ai...

Texas Instruments to Sell Sensors & Controls Unit for $3 Billion

Texas Instruments today announced a definitive agreement to sell its sensors and controls business to a global private equity investment firm for US$3 billion in cash Bain Capital, LLC will purchase the Attleboro, Mass. division that supplies engineered sensors and controls to the appliance, climate control, industrial, automotive, lighting, and ai...

Texas Instruments to Sell Sensors & Controls Unit for $3 Billion

Texas Instruments today announced a definitive agreement to sell its sensors and controls business to a global private equity investment firm for US$3 billion in cash Bain Capital, LLC will purchase the Attleboro, Mass. division that supplies engineered sensors and controls to the appliance, climate control, industrial, automotive, lighting, and ai...

EMC Makes Grid-Computing Move

EMC Corporation yesterday said it has acquired Acxiom's information grid software for US$30 million The companies also announced a partnership to combine Acxiom's grid technology with EMC's portfolio of storage, information management and resource management solutions....

Microsoft Releases First Patch of '06

Amid growing consumer concern and increasing media attention,Microsoft yesterday did something rather rare: It released an out-of-cycle patch The company issued the fix for the zero-day Metafile vulnerability five days ahead of schedule. The hole is related to Windows metafiles (WMF), which are image files used by popular applications, such as Micr...

Report: Unix/Linux Vulnerabilities Triple Those of Windows

A fervent debate over which operating system is safest for users has been raging for years, and it looks like the next chapter has begun, thanks to a report issued this week by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) US-CERT's 2005 year-end index declared Unix/Linux logged more vulnerability reports in 2005 than market-dominan...

Sober Variant Set to Unleash Havoc Today

As the security world awaits yet another Sober variant scheduled to attack today, Sophos revealed the top 10 viruses and hoaxes hindering businesses around the world during December 2005. Sober-Z is atop that list Sober-Z took the world by storm in December, accounting for a massive 78.9 percent of all malware reported to Sophos. Its domination of ...

Symantec Scoops Up IM Software Firm

Symantec yesterday announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire instant messaging (IM) software maker IMlogic IMlogic's technology is designed to control and secure public and enterprise IM networks while ensuring compliance with regulatory and corporate governance policies....

Qualcomm, Samsung to Demo Mobile-TV Tech for Cell Phones

Qualcomm today announced it would conduct a live demonstration of its mobile TV FLO Technology withSamsung Electronics at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show taking place in Las Vegas this week FLO Technology, a multicast innovation and key component of Qualcomm's MediaFLO System, is an air-interface system designed to increase capacit...

Attack Vulnerability Worries Windows Users

It's not exactly a happy new year for millions of PC users exposed to a Microsoft Windows flaw that leaves the door wide open for hackers, Trojans, worms, spyware and other malicious attacks F-Secure first reported the zero-day vulnerability on Dec. 27. Microsoft does not plan to issue a patch until Jan. 10. In the meantime, virus writers could hav...

Starz Pushes Full-Length Movies to Portable Devices

Cable movie channel Starz today announced a video download application and service for broadband Dubbed Vongo, the service delivers movies and other video content over the Internet for playback on Windows-based PCs, laptops and select portable media devices, as well as TVs....

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Web Hosting Enters the 21st Century

Looking for a Web hosting service provider? All vendors are not created equal. A little consumer education goes a long way toward ensuring you get a host that offers the right combination of products and services -- and at the right price "There are so many Web hosting providers out there today," said John Lally, area vice president of marketing fo...

Intel Leaps Into New Year With New Branding Strategy

Intel may still be "inside" but the chipmaker is taking a leap ahead in the New Year with a new branding strategy. That is, Intel is adding to its ubiquitous brand "Intel Inside" with a new tagline: "Leap ahead." Intel is expected to formally announce the changes on Tuesday as part of a move to market itself as a platform provider with offerings li...

Sony Settles Spyware Class Action Suit

Sony BMG Music Entertainment has reached a tentative settlement with consumers who filed a class action lawsuit over the music giant's digital rights management (DRM) software on CDs, according to documents filed in New York federal court on Wednesday The settlement will likely be considered in a hearing set for January 6, 2005....

Google Sued for Talk Infringement

Google is the target of yet another lawsuit. The search giant has been charged with patent infringement allegations related to Google Talk, its Instant Message and Internet phone feature Rates Technology Inc. (RTI) filed suit against Google in New York federal court in October. The company alleges that Google Talk illegally uses its technology to b...

Study: Men and Women Use Internet Differently

You've come a long way, baby, at least according to a study released yesterday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project The report, "How Women and Men Use the Internet," reveals women are catching up to men in overall Internet use and framing their online experience with a greater emphasis on deepening connections with people....

Yahoo's TV Foray Signals Growing Interest in New Formats

Adding another page to the growing list of TV shows debuting in new formats, Yahoo announced yesterday that it is teaming up with CBS Television to air free episodes of two of its popular prime-time comedies Yahoo TV began presenting the network sitcoms, "Two And A Half Men" and "How I MetYour Mother," on Monday, marking the first time a Web porta...

Pioneer's Blu-ray Move Rekindles DVD Standards Debate

Pioneer Electronics yesterday announced one of the industry's first Blu-ray Disc computer drives will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2006. The company expects the drive to revolutionize digital and high-definition media storage The new Pioneer BDR-101A uses shorter wavelength blue lasers in order tostore up to 25 gigabytes of information on...

Big Four Music Studios Subpoenaed in Digital-Music Pricing Probe

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has subpoenaed three major music labels as yet another controversy in the digital-music industry unfolds. The subpoenas are in connection with an ongoing antitrust investigation into the pricing of digital-music downloads Werner Music Group on Friday confirmed news accounts that Spitzer's office subpoenaed th...

Schwarzenegger's Spat With Hometown Shows Net's Political Pull

With a spate of headlines that demonstrate the importance of the Internet as a lever for political and social issues, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian birthplace of Graz is making a name for itself in a new way: political critic It started when Schwarzenegger asked that his name be removed from a soccer stadium. The California governor wrote to his...

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