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Article | 13/07/2010 Energy Efficient Ethernet being put to the test

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) has begun testing Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) products to make sure they work toge...

Article | 23/06/2010 Apple iPad passes 3 million sales in under three months

Apple says it has sold 3 million iPads in just 80 days, validating the tablet computer's popularity among consumers and business users.

Article | 22/06/2010 Biggest tech industry apologies of 2010 - so far

While apologies from BP to the world regarding its environmental disaster and even from a U.S. Congressman to BP have stolen headlines of late, the te...

Article | 17/06/2010 Microsoft gives behind-the-scenes look at internal "YouTube" network

Not that Microsoft has anything against e-mail – after all, it's made a killing on Outlook over the years – but the company realizes being too addicte...

Article | 4/05/2010 Apple's Steve Jobs: We've sold 1 million "magical" iPads

Apple said Monday it took just 28 days to hit the 1 million iPad sales mark, and that was even before the new 3G version went on sale.

Article | 4/05/2010 Average iPad apps cost more than iPhone apps

The average iPad app in the Apple App Store costs $4.67 vs. $3.87 for the average iPhone app, according to new research from apps watcher Distimo.

Article | 3/05/2010 Out-of-this-world Apple iPad 3G has 5 antennas

The new >iPad 3G no sooner went on sale Friday in the US than iFixit got to work looking at the tablet computer's insides, which include five antennas...

Article | 28/04/2010 Android smartphone market proving to be anyone’s game

HTC's Dream and Magic smartphones accounted for almost all traffic from Android devices 7 months ago, but now 11 different devices share in most of t...

Article | 8/04/2010 Speculation swirls about Yahoo eyeing Foursquare

A report that Yahoo is sniffing around at hyperlocal social networking company <a href="http://foursquare.com/">Foursquare</a> has Web watchers buzzin...

Article | 22/03/2010 Novell rejects "inadequate" $2 billion takeover bid

Novell's CEO on Saturday notified customers that the open source software company has rejected hedge fund Elliott Associates' roughly $2 billion bid t...

Article | 11/12/2009 Google Search Appliance now highlights Twitter posts

Google on Thursday said its enterprise search appliance will now show relevant Twitter posts alongside internal and external search results.

Article | 3/12/2009 Experts scrutinize 2009’s most notable IT apologies

We asked Peter Goolpacy and the team at Perfect Apology to rate the quality of the apologies issued by top tech companies and executives this year for...

Article | 25/11/2009 How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing power

Contribute to projects including the LHC, climate forecasting, projects that benefit humanity, target disease cures and more.

Article | 15/10/2009 Intel, CMU add muscle to wimpy processors

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh have built an experimental energy-efficient computing cluster that combines flash ...

Article | 7/10/2009 Father of fiber-optics snags share of Nobel Physics Prize

Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today's long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year's Nobel Prize in...