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Article | 6/02/2008 Apple beats Microsoft, Motorola in 4Q phone sales
Even after being on the market for less than half a year, more iPhones sold in the fourth quarter than Windows Mobile phones in the US, according to r...
Article | 6/02/2008 AOL acquires Buy.at to boost online ad business
AOL said Tuesday that it has purchased Buy.at, an online affiliate marketing network, as part of its strategy to boost its online advertising business...
Article | 6/02/2008 Toner scheme busted by sharp eyed Xerox employees
A former Xerox customer service agent on Tuesday pleaded guilty to mail fraud for stealing and selling cartridges stolen from his former employer onli...
Article | 6/02/2008 Attackers zero in on Yahoo Jukebox ActiveX flaw
Just one day after hackers showed how to exploit a number of flaws in the ActiveX software used by Internet Explorer, Symantec has spotted online crim...
Article | 5/02/2008 ISPs label OPEL a feeble overbuild of existing infrastructure
Regional ISPs have dubbed the OPEL WiMax network a token gesture and said local operators should have been awarded the government funds to extend solu...
Article | 5/02/2008 Consumer group slams RealPlayer as 'badware'
A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users.
Article | 5/02/2008 Analyst: Microsoft 'frightened' of Google monopoly
As made abundantly clear with Friday's announcement, Microsoft's US$44.6 billion bid for search engine Yahoo was driven by the software giant's desire...
Article | 5/02/2008 Are Dell, Google planning a phone partnership?
Speculation is mounting that Dell and Google will announce plans for a smart phone based on the Android platform at the Mobile World Congress next wee...
Article | 5/02/2008 Google releases code to help make social data portable
Google has unveiled a new API that it hopes will make data created by users of social networks portable.
Article | 5/02/2008 MIT: New mobile chip will boost energy efficiency by 10x
Researchers at MIT have created a new chip design that they claim will be 10 times more energy efficient than the processors currently used in mobile ...
Article | 5/02/2008 MIT, TI debut energy-efficient microchip
Mobile phones running low on battery power could be a thing of the past if new chip technology co-developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Instit...
Article | 5/02/2008 Judge orders end to weight-loss, anti-aging spam operation
A US judge has ordered a Las Vegas company to stop making weight-loss and anti-aging claims and to stop sending unsolicited e-mail, the US Federal Tra...
Article | 5/02/2008 IDG revives The Industry Standard online
International Data Group (IDG) Monday relaunched an online-only version of The Industry Standard, once known as The Bible of the Internet economy, wit...
Article | 4/02/2008 Startup looks to head off botnets
A startup with US military backing will begin beta-testing a security appliance this month, which it argues could change the face of network security ...
Article | 5/02/2008 IPv6 internet overhaul begins
The internet's master address books are being updated to include records in IP version 6 (IPv6), a new format which forms part of a major overhaul of ...
Article | 5/02/2008 MYOB forum overrun by adult spam
A forum set up to assist users of MYOB accounting software has been so heavily crippled by spam that users have now been forced to join other help for...
Article | 5/02/2008 Another PC maker touts Vista downgrade
NEC Computers has launched a kit that will allow IT administrators to quickly "downgrade" machines running Windows Vista Business to Windows XP Profes...
Article | 5/02/2008 Does it Pay to Strip Modules Out of Vista?
Microsoft Vista may seem overloaded to some, but the idea of stripping away the fat and leaving only the specific Vista components (including drivers ...
Article | 5/02/2008 Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 set to go
Microsoft Monday wrapped up work on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 and said both the server and client software will be generally available...
Article | 5/02/2008 Researcher roots out critical bugs in Yahoo's music player
The researcher who last week revealed vulnerabilities in the photo uploader used by Facebook and MySpace Monday said that multiple flaws in Yahoo's mu...

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