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Article | 17/03/2008 Apple in no rush for iPhone Flash, says analyst
While Microsoft and Adobe Systems made nice over Flash</a> Monday, there's little pressure for Apple to follow suit and rush to put the technology on...
Article | 14/03/2008 Trend Micro site infected users with Trojan
Antivirus vendor Trend Micro confirmed Thursday that "some portions" of its site had been hacked earlier this week, but hedged when asked if those pag...
Article | 18/03/2008 Sweden once again hotbed for file-sharing debate
The Swedish Pirate Party said the country's government is sanctioning blackmail by making it possible for copyright holders to get people's IP address...
Article | 18/03/2008 In Pictures: Motorola and Optus Launch Live 3G Newsfeed
Motorola, in partnership with Optus, has announced the launch of SCREEN3, a content service available on all MOTORAZR2 V9 and MOTOKRZR handsets throug...
Article | 18/03/2008 Researchers provide a chill to fan-cooled PCs
Researchers at Purdue University and Intel have developed heat dissipation technology that can boost the performance of chip-cooling systems by up to ...
Article | 18/03/2008 Intel: Six-core chip to ship by second half '08
Intel Monday announced that it expects to ship a six-core processor to OEMs in the second half of this year.
Article | 18/03/2008 Microsoft, Intel to fund multi-core research at UC Berkeley
Microsoft and Intel on Tuesday will unveil a plan to fund university research into new ways to program software for multi-core processors, Microsoft c...
Article | 18/03/2008 IBM builds optical switch for multi-core chips
IBM Monday announced that its scientists have built a switch that can control the flow of information on a chip using pulses of light instead of elect...
Article | 18/03/2008 Google News, YouTube blocked in China amid Tibet riots
Beijing appears to have taken a page out of Myanmar's playbook by blocking some Internet access amid rioting in Tibet that has already seen as many as...
Article | 18/03/2008 Second Life founder steps back from CEO role
The founder of Second Life will give up the role of CEO and become chairman of the board for Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual online communi...
Article | 17/03/2008 Expert panel to pick the winning bid for the fibre backbone
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has announced a panel of experts to decide who will build Australia's $8 billion Fibre-to-the-Node (FttN) netwo...
Article | 17/03/2008 Verizon gets into P2P technology
Verizon announced last week that it has successfully tested a new peer-to-peer, file-transfer system that the company says could eliminate many of the...
Article | 17/03/2008 Microsoft blames Xbox shortages for lagging sales
Microsoft is citing a shortage in console availability as the reason its Xbox 360 console trailed substantially behind competitors in U.S. sales for t...
Article | 17/03/2008 Microsoft Research hits the road with mobile tech
Mobile technologies, from Wi-Fi to RFID, took center stage among the two-dozen-plus prototypes on display for the press last week at Microsoft Researc...
Article | 17/03/2008 Intel to deliver quad-core chips for notebooks
Intel on Friday confirmed it will ship quad-core chips designed specifically for notebooks, most likely for desktop replacement laptops, later this ye...
Article | 17/03/2008 Nortel partners testing 40Gbps-plus technology on existing infrastructure
At at time when carriers are just swallowing 10 Gigabit per second technology, Nortel Networks says will soon let them significantly up their network ...
Article | 17/03/2008 Sun's plan for Java on iPhone could hit roadblock
Acknowledging that conditions of Apple's iPhone SDK agreement may impede Sun's plan to put a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) on the iPhone, a Sun official ...
Article | 14/03/2008 Weekly Tech News Update: March 14, 2008
Bill Gates appeals, the EU approves, AOL buys, hands free comes into question, brain chips control computers and more!
Article | 14/03/2008 Trend Micro hit by massive Web hack
Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to a widespread Web attack that splashed malicious software onto hundreds of legitimate Web sites in rec...
Article | 14/03/2008 Asus predicts Windows Eee PC will outsell Linux version
Asustek Computer (Asus) predicts the Eee PC it has started selling with Microsoft Windows XP Home edition on board will outsell the original Linux-bas...

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