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Google Gmail, Other Apps, Vulnerable To Attack

Date: 10 October 2008 - 07:19
Security researchers alert the company to a bug that could let hackers use Google Maps to infiltrate Google, Google Mail, or Google Apps accounts.

Yahoo Expands Mobile Voice Search

Date: 10 October 2008 - 06:39
The company's oneSearch 2.0 mobile search technology is coming to multiple BlackBerry and Nokia handsets.

World Bank Besieged By Hackers, Or Not

Date: 10 October 2008 - 06:30
According to a media report, the World Bank has experienced at least six major intrusions, two from the same IP address in China, since the summer of 2007.

Wall Street's Wild Ride: Analyst Predicts Hope For Tech

Date: 10 October 2008 - 06:09
Analysts and media outlets attributed the huge sell-offs to anxiety and panic, but Peter Schiff with Euro Pacific Capital sees the problem differently.

Wal-Mart Reverses Decision To Shutdown Digital Music DRM Servers

Date: 10 October 2008 - 05:41
Wal-Mart's original plans would have made its DRM-protected tracks difficult to play on a PC, unless the music was first burned to a CD.

U.S. Navy Intranet Realizes Big Savings Through Virtualization

Date: 10 October 2008 - 04:50
EDS has helped the military in consolidating 1,200 x86 servers down to 200, each hosting multiple VMware ESX virtual machines.

BlackBerry Bold Pulled In U.K. For Software Problems

Date: 10 October 2008 - 04:13
The smartphone is still undergoing testing on AT&T's networks to ensure that it won't face the same connectivity problems.

Verizon Wireless Raises Corporate Text Messaging Fees

Date: 10 October 2008 - 03:10
The fee boost for subscribers is expected to be particularly difficult on startups entering a crowded market for providing mobile services.

Google SketchUp Gets 3D Printing Plug-In

Date: 10 October 2008 - 02:56
The software may make 3-D printing more appealing to a wider audience, just as the declining price of laser printers in the '80s and '90s launched the desktop publishing revolution.

LG Fuels 8-Megapixel Craze With Latest Cameraphone

Date: 10 October 2008 - 02:28
The KC780 handset includes Bluetooth, expandable memory, and a multimedia player, but mobile professionals may be turned off by the lack of connectivity options and productivity features.

Apple To Fix MacBook Pros With Faulty Nvidia Part

Date: 10 October 2008 - 02:12
Products affected include 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros manufactured between May 2007 and September 2008.

Credit Crunch Endangers Nextel Sale, Alltel Acquisition

Date: 10 October 2008 - 01:59
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse recently questioned whether any potential buyer of the Nextel unit could raise the necessary capital to fund the purchase.

Microsoft, Apple Address Security Issues

Date: 10 October 2008 - 01:35
Microsoft's upcoming Patch Tuesday will address 11 flaws in software like Active Directory and IE, while Apple is fixing 40 vulnerabilities in its latest update.

Kansas To Get WiMax For Rural Areas

Date: 10 October 2008 - 11:43
Redline, which installed its RedMAX AN-100UX base stations, said the initial customer deployments are expected to be done by November.

Mobile Gaming Firms Eye Nokia, Apple Boost In 2009

Date: 10 October 2008 - 11:19
The mobile gaming market suffered an unexpected slump last year, with many game developers and analysts pointing to telecom operators' lack of investment in marketing.

Microsoft To Release Oslo Modeling Software Preview

Date: 10 October 2008 - 10:00
Oslo will be available as an add-on to Microsoft's Visual Studio development suite. It includes a new programming language, a visual modeling tool, and a repository for storing models in a database.

Investor Proposes Microsoft Buy Yahoo For $22/share

Date: 10 October 2008 - 08:00
The price would be a 74 percent premium to the current stock price. Yahoo shares are down 36 percent since the start of August, and fell to a five-year low Thursday.

Second Life Faces Otherworldly Competition

Date: 10 October 2008 - 04:00
A slew of companies, ranging in size from tiny startups to Google, are springing up virtual worlds of their own to challenge Second Life's dominance of the small but growing market.

Non-Market Meltdown Layoffs Hit Silicon Valley

Date: 10 October 2008 - 04:00
California State employment officials last month said that 1,417,000 people were unemployed in the state in August, up by 61,000 from July and by 413,000 from August 2007.

What's Sexy In Tech? Big And Boring Or Maybe Nothing

Date: 09 October 2008 - 08:00
When IBM surprised investors with strong preliminary earnings, some hoped it might throw a lifeline to the technology sector amid sinking financial markets.

Micron To Reduce Workforce, Cut Memory-Chip Production

Date: 09 October 2008 - 07:54
A global oversupply of NAND Flash memory, which is used in a variety of consumer electronics, such as the Apple iPod and digital cameras, has driven prices below manufacturing costs.

Nearly 75% Of Workers Will Be Mobile By 2012

Date: 09 October 2008 - 07:46
Meanwhile, "mobile wannabes" are expected to increase to 25% of all employees as smartphones become more popular with consumers, Forrester said.

HP Taps Samsung SSDs For Virtualization Blade Server

Date: 09 October 2008 - 06:10
Samsung claims the use of its SSDs over hard disk drives makes it possible for HP to free up more physical space in its ProLiant products for memory chips to improve system performance.

Android Could Signal Tipping Point In Smartphones

Date: 09 October 2008 - 05:21
The mobile platform could lead to wider adoption of smartphones and push carriers toward standardization, according to ABI Research.

Financial Meltdown Trims Semiconductor Sales Forecast

Date: 09 October 2008 - 05:15
Demand for electronic equipment by Wall Street firms, many of which have failed in the current crisis, is expected to drop dramatically by the end of the year, market researchers with iSuppli said.

Tech Stocks Caught In Slide Of Wall Street Avalanche

Date: 09 October 2008 - 05:12
Virtually all tech categories fell after a few, like Apple and Research In Motion, bucked the trend with some gains a day earlier.

Oracle To Buy A Leading Project Management Supplier

Date: 09 October 2008 - 05:08
The acquisition of Primavera Software will give Oracle the opportunity to bundle project management with its existing enterprise portfolio.

Entellium CEO, CFO Charged With Fraud

Date: 09 October 2008 - 04:45
A U.S. District Court complaint alleges that the pair lied about the financial state of their company to attract more than $50 million in investment between March 2004 and September 2008.

Apple Laptop Refresh Could Include $800 Model

Date: 09 October 2008 - 04:40
If the reports are accurate, the updated MacBook would close much of the price gap with low-cost PC laptops.

Amazon To Cut S3 Storage Prices

Date: 09 October 2008 - 03:15
Companies with more than 50 TB of data stored in the Internet giant's data center will see a price cut.

Researchers Teach Computers To Recognize Objects In Images

Date: 09 October 2008 - 03:05
Some 60,000 photos were manually tagged with keywords by Penn State computer scientists to associate keywords with the pixel patterns that depict the objects in images.

Verizon Gets Its Own Geek Squad

Date: 09 October 2008 - 02:58
With Expert Care, Verizon joins Best Buy and AT&T in the home electronics repair market.

Asustek Reportedly Plans Eee PC With Touch Screen

Date: 09 October 2008 - 02:30
The computer maker says it will showcase the updated mini-notebook at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.

Huawei's Bid To Sell Mobile Unit Stalls

Date: 09 October 2008 - 01:37
The company cited deteriorating financial market conditions as the reason for dropping the auction this week.

Motorola Intros Q 11 Smartphone

Date: 09 October 2008 - 01:35
The Moto Q 11 is a Windows Mobile handset that has Wi-Fi, push corporate e-mail, assisted GPS, and Bluetooth.

Industrial Sector Worry: How Bad Is It Going To Get?

Date: 09 October 2008 - 12:20
Given the collapse of the credit markets over the past month, merely solid third-quarter performances are not going to soothe jittery investors.

Web Technology Cuts Mobile Calling Fees

Date: 09 October 2008 - 12:14
The cost of talking on the go is coming down, thanks to an increasing number of options for using Internet calling services on cellphones as an alternative to traditional cellular service plans.

Broadcom Renews Its Patent Battle With Qualcomm

Date: 09 October 2008 - 11:55
The company argues in part that Qualcomm used "exhausted" patents to charge royalties for both chips in handsets and for the handsets themselves.

Green Car Showroom: 12 Low-Speed Electric Vehicles

Date: 09 October 2008 - 04:00
Check out our pictures of green, 25 mph lightweights, which cost pennies to operate, from upstart automakers Zap, Zenn, Dynasty IT, Miles Electric, and E-Ride.

Merchants Lack Technical Skill To Spot Online Ad Fraud

Date: 09 October 2008 - 04:00
Enforcement requires fact-intensive technical investigation -- examining HTML code and packet logs to uncover infractions, talents many companies can't maintain, a report suggests.

IBM Preliminary Profit Beats Expectations

Date: 08 October 2008 - 07:46
The news came after technology shares have been hammered by fears that a global recession would crush corporate IT spending.

Slowing Economy Hurting Cell Phone Sales Growth

Date: 08 October 2008 - 06:55
Two analyst firms cut 2009 handset growth forecasts because economic concerns are causing fewer consumers to upgrade their phones.

Sprint Faces WiMax Challenges, Despite Growing Device Availability

Date: 08 October 2008 - 06:15
The company has already raised $3.2 billion from investors to build the network, though it will cost an estimated total of $5 billion.

Some Tech Stocks Make Gains, Despite Widespread Losses

Date: 08 October 2008 - 05:15
Apple, eBay, Research in Motion, Oracle, and Amazon were among the few companies to recover slightly Tuesday, a day after steep losses across the board.

Clickjacking Attack Lets Web Sites See, Hear You

Date: 08 October 2008 - 05:10
The technique can be used to hijack a computer's Webcam and microphone to create a malicious surveillance platform.

Texting Is For Romantics, AT&T Finds

Date: 08 October 2008 - 04:37
Some 68% of the respondents to the telecom's survey said they sent a love note via text messaging, and 67% said they used texting to flirt.

Google Shows Off Maps On Android

Date: 08 October 2008 - 04:26
The T-Mobile G1 will have tight integration with Google Maps, enabling location-based searches, compass mode, and more.

Lenovo, Acer, Asus Give Sprint's WiMax Network A Boost

Date: 08 October 2008 - 04:11
Computer makers are offering products equipped to connect to Sprint's Xohm high-speed wireless network, launched recently in Baltimore.

Citigroup, Lehman Bros. Sell India Outsourcing Units

Date: 08 October 2008 - 03:25
Citibank's $505 million sale to Tata was a year in the making, while other U.S. banks may face difficulties unloading India outsourcing operations.

RIM Rolls Out Tools For Latest BlackBerrys

Date: 08 October 2008 - 03:00
The tools let developers take advantage of capabilities of the BlackBerry Bold, Flip, and Storm, including touch navigation, location-based services, and more.
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