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Article | 30/01/2008 Penryn, Phenom PCs: Fast, Not Phenomenal

Mainstream and boutique PC vendors are having a field day releasing new systems with next-generation Intel Penryn and AMD Phenom processors. We found ...

Article | 31/01/2008 HP gives new life to used printer cartridges

Hewlett-Packard is boosting its effort to effectively recycle used inkjet printer cartridges, Wednesday introducing a new process that manufactures ne...

Article | 31/01/2008 More Taiwanese chip makers slash spending

Three more Taiwanese chip makers plan to spend significantly less money on new factories and equipment this year as a DRAM (dynamic RAM) glut and unce...

Article | 31/01/2008 Microsoft to stay under court's eye for two more years

Microsoft's compliance with a US antitrust settlement will remain under court supervision for another two years, in part because the company delayed p...

Article | 31/01/2008 Femto Forum looks to standardize femtocell architecture

In an effort to slim down a crowded femtocell architecture field, the Femto Forum this week announced a program to unite different device models.

Article | 31/01/2008 VMware stock tumbles; virtualization leader's future cloudy

VMware stock plunged this week by more than 30% after the EMC-controlled company posted disappointing earnings influenced by challenges from large ven...

Article | 30/01/2008 IM attacks get nastier

Attacks on instant messaging systems continued to grow more sophisticated and dangerous in January, according to Akonix, a vendor of messaging securit...

Article | 30/01/2008 New utility cuts Vista install down to size

Windows Vista users now have a way to cut down the operating system's famously large installation footprint with a free software tool.

Article | 31/01/2008 New attack proves critical Windows bug 'highly exploitable'

Security researchers Tuesday said they'd discredited Microsoft's claim that the year's first critical Windows vulnerability would be "difficult and un...

Article | 31/01/2008 California company introduces new mobile Linux platform

Another mobile Linux platform, this time from Azingo, hit the market on Wednesday, joining an increasingly crowded market of Linux phone software.

Article | 31/01/2008 Expedia, Rhapsody serve attack ads, claim researchers

Name-brand Web sites such as Expedia.com and Rhapsody.com have been serving up malicious banner advertisements this week, researchers said Wednesday.

Article | 31/01/2008 Mozilla ups Firefox bug threat, slates fix for Feb. 5

Mozilla bumped up the threat ranking for an unpatched Firefox bug to "high" Tuesday, but promised a fix is coming in Version 2.0.0.12, now slated for ...

Article | 31/01/2008 Apple shipping MacBook Air laptops, but no stock in stores

Apple announced Wednesday that it has begun shipping the first MacBook Air laptops to customers, but acknowledged that a planned update to Apple TV ha...

Article | 30/01/2008 Google fixes Gmail IMAP problem on Windows Mobile

Google said it has fixed a problem that was causing Windows Mobile phone users to receive blank Gmail messages.

Article | 25/01/2008 Microsoft: Vista 'most secure Windows'

Microsoft's Windows Vista recorded about half as many vulnerabilities in its first full year of availability as Windows XP did in its opening 12 month...

Article | 29/01/2008 Nokia to buy software developer Trolltech for $US153M

Nokia has offered to buy Trolltech, the Norwegian developer of a widely used application framework, for 844 million Norwegian kroner ($US153 million) ...

Article | 29/01/2008 Cisco's Nexus forms core of datacentre drive

As servers and storage start to merge into unified, virtualised systems, Cisco wants to do the same thing with the networks that connect them.

Article | 28/01/2008 Microsoft delays SQL Server 2008 RTM to Q3

SQL Server 2008 won't be sticking to its release schedule after all.

Article | 28/01/2008 Microsoft picks up Vista SP1 pace

For the second time in two weeks, Microsoft has released a new build of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to its invitation-only group of approximate...

Article | 29/01/2008 'Missing' iPhones not really missing, says analyst

Calculations that claim Apple Inc. is "missing" 1.4 million iPhones may be missing the point, according to an analyst, who said Monday that talk of un...