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Social networking firm Facebook may sell a partial ownership stake to Microsoft as it moves to beef up its value and move toward a possible IPO (initial public offering), according to reports After being linked to Yahoo in persistent acquisition rumors -- Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg reportedly turned down an offer of close to US$1 billion from...
Ask an IT executive to define service-oriented architecture (SOA), and there's a good chance you'll get at least some kind of a reasonable answer. Ask that executive's functional peers the same question, and the answer might not be so clear SOA has become a hot topic in the IT world, and many view it as the next stage in the evolutionary process fo...
TheOne Laptop Per Child organization, which seeks to bridge the digital divide for poor children in developing economies, is kicking off a deal that allows charity-minded consumers to buy two laptops -- one for a child in a developing country and one for the buyer to keep The two-laptops promotion, with a limited-time price of US$399, will kick off...
Computer security company FireEye announced on Monday a new strategy for fighting the worsening threat to consumers and businesses posed by botnets The company announced its new Botwall appliance, linked to a worldwide intelligence network coupled to local botnet analysis designed to thwart attacks....
Google has formally asked the European Commission to review itsacquisition of interactive advertising firm DoubleClick. The next few weeks will be critical, as regulators and lawmakers on both sides ofthe Atlantic contemplate how -- or whether -- the merger should move forward The EC on Monday indicated that it had received Google'srequest and wou...
Less than a year after its much-ballyhooed rollout of Vista, Microsoft is giving in to the demands of manufacturers and business users who want to switch back to the XP operating system Some manufacturers, such as Dell, are already offering customers a choice of OSes in response to a groundswell of client demand. Dell reportedly began offering cust...
Users of Pudding Media's free, new Internet phone service might want to watch what they say, because the system listens for keywords in their phone conversations and displays related ads on their computer screens A consumer talking about movies, for example, may see links to trailers, reviews and show times for nearby theaters. A sports fan talking...
Dell said Monday it would start selling its personal computers through China's sprawling Gome electronics chain as the company continues to embrace retail as a key part of its turnaround plan Hoping to tap into a customer base it doesn't reach through direct online and phone sales, Dell said it would start making its PCs available in 50 Gome stores...
Microsoft's "Halo 3" video game for the Xbox 360 console will blast its way into the world Monday at midnight when it goes on sale for the first time. The first two games in the "Halo" trilogy, a series of first-person shooter games that lets friends cooperate as well as play against one another online, were wildly successful. All indications suggest that "Halo 3" will meet with a similar destiny...
Hoping to ride the rising mobile Web wave, Fox Interactive Media (FIM) is offering free mobile access to MySpace and several other sites The free mobile Web versions of the sites will be supported by advertising instead of user subscription fees. However, the fee-based versions of the sites will remain available and will offer more features than th...
With an eye toward minimizing its carbon footprint, Wal-Mart Stores will partner with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) to measure the amount of energy used to create products throughout its supply chain An initial pilot project will focus on seven commonly used product categories -- DVDs, toothpaste, soap, milk, beer, vacuum cleaners and soda --...
With all the games people play with Internet company names, it's quite possible that someday no one will be able to spell anything correctly ever again Perhaps it's already happening. Ever wonder how many times gross misspellings like "Del.icio.us" or "Flickr" show up on eighth-grade spelling tests? Besides wreaking havoc on this country's educatio...
Intel has created a new open source energy-saving project -- LessWatts.org -- which it hopes will help drive innovations so that Linux-powered servers, PCs and even household devices use up less juice Intel unveiled the project at its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Friday, noting that the fledgling initiative will bring together a commun...
Looking back at last week, it was a combination of news from the past and news from the future Starting out the week, we had the EU ruling come down against Microsoft. I think if the company is smart, it can actually play this to its advantage (silly bureaucrats) and actually benefit from the ruling....
As the world watched the progress of the space shuttle Endeavour's mission to the international space station and back last month, it was hard not to suffer from flashbacks to past space disasters The presence of Mission Specialist Barbara Morgan, for one, evoked memories of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster, since Morgan had served as bac...
Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, and Steve Perlman, who developed Apple's QuickTime video technology and WebTV, were among the people who descended upon Capitol Hill to protest the Patent Reform Act passed by the House of Representatives at the beginning of September Kamen and Perlman are perhaps two of the more iconic representatives of a grou...
When NASA sends astronauts back to the moon, they will likely have pressurized rovers to drive and large-capacity habitation modules to live in, NASA officials reportedly said Thursday Speaking at the Space 2007 Conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Long Beach, Calif., Doug Cooke, NASA's deputy associate adm...
SAS added a new application to its lineup of customer service analytical offerings. SAS Real Time Decision Manager embeds analytically driven decision logic at every customer interaction The Decision Manager tool was introduced during Gartner's CRM conference this week, along with an updated version of its Marketing Optimization application. The pr...
Once again, technology entrepreneurs played a prominent role in the Forbes 400, the annual list of the wealthiest Americans, with Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin breaking the top 10 for the first time, though the arrival of several hedge fund billionaires helped dilute the impact of tech Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates remained at the to...
MTV, the teen-centric network focused on reality TV, the luxurious lifestyles of the rich and famous, and the occasional music video, announced the beta launch of Think.MTV.com Thursday. The network called the site an effort to give teens and young adults a community through which they can do good works within their local, national and global communities...
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