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posted by on Oct 14

Reuters - Mobile operator 3 UK is to sell Nokia’s N95 Comes With Music handset which offers unlimited music downloads, an industry source told Reuters on Tuesday.

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3 UK to sell Nokia’s N95 music phone: source
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posted by on Oct 14

AFP - A Canadian company has unveiled software crafted to prevent people, particularly mobile device-loving teenagers, from making telephone calls or text-messaging while driving.

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Software thwarts mobile phone chatting while driving
(AFP)

posted by on Oct 14

AFP - Michelin guides, lauded as roadmaps to the world’s finest cuisine, will be delivered to iPhones and other “smart” mobile devices as the century-old publication embraces the Internet age.

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Vaunted Michelin guide adds mobile Internet to its review menu
(AFP)

posted by on Oct 13

Reuters - The Internet has the potential to save the book trade instead of dealing it the near-fatal blow it dealt the music industry, the more optimistic participants at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair believe.

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Frankfurt book fair seeks hope in Web’s embrace
(Reuters)

posted by on Oct 10

CNET - With a tough economic climate figuring to put a crimp on IT spending, Microsoft is already working on honing a message that it can help businesses save money.

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Microsoft exec: Challenging times play to our strengths
(CNET)

posted by on Oct 10

NewsFactor - For people who worry that it’s impossible to escape from Google’s amazing search capabilities, the ability to hide just got harder. Last month, Google helped sponsor the launch of the high-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. After a month of calibration and testing, the satellite’s first image was released Friday by Satellite Imaging, a Houston-based remote sensing and survey company.

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Yoo-Hoo! Google’s Satellite Can See You Much Better
(NewsFactor)

posted by on Oct 10

InfoWorld - Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering codenames and citing the company’s DSL (Domain Specific Languages) concept as a lynchpin of the platform.

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Microsoft elaborates on Oslo
(InfoWorld)

posted by on Oct 10

Filed under: Wearables

We find it hard to believe that we won’t see one of these being used somewhere in the upcoming 007 film, but even if not, you can definitely put one to use in your everyday life — if you can get ahold of one of the ten being made, that is. Srulirecht’s D

posted by on Oct 9

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Call us devilish, but we just can’t help but love these types of stories. Here we have yet another overly confident group of researchers grossly underestimating the collective power of the hacking underground, as gurus from all across Europe have joined together to announce “the first commercial communication network using unbreakable encryption based on quantum cryptography.” Interestingly enough, quantum cryptography has already been cracked in a kinda-sorta way, but that’s not stopping these folks from pushing this claim hard to government agencies, financial institutions and companies with distributed subsidiaries. We’ve no doubt this stuff is pretty secure, but the last time we heard someone utter a claim similar to this, we saw him uncomfortably chowing down on those very words merely months later.

[Via Physorg]

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posted by on Oct 9

AP - IBM Corp. sold $3.9 billion in bonds on Thursday, a sign that the stalwarts of the corporate world are still finding lenders.

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IBM sells $3.9 billion in corporate bonds
(AP)

posted by on Oct 9

AP - Even after IBM Corp. surprised Wall Street with a healthy profit in the third quarter and a reaffirmation of its earnings outlook for the rest of the year, the broader technology sector dived again Thursday. There’s just not enough of what lifted IBM to go around.

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Despite IBM profits, a tech gloom still looms
(AP)

posted by on Oct 9

AP - Micron Technology Inc. will close a factory and cut about 15 percent of its work force around the world as part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations.

Micron Tech cuts global work force by 15 percent
(AP)

posted by on Oct 9

AP - Two former software executives grossly overstated their company’s revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found a set of cooked financial books as she was cleaning out a desk.

40 laid off at software company as execs arrested
(AP)

posted by on Oct 8

CNET - On Wednesday, HBGary announced that
Andy Purdy has joined their advisory board.

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Former ‘cyber czar’ goes corporate
(CNET)

posted by on Oct 8

AP - Two former software executives have been arrested and charged with wire fraud. Prosecutors say the men falsely inflated their company’s revenue to attract venture capital.

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2 former software executives charged with fraud
(AP)

posted by on Oct 8

Reuters - The European Commission adopted a proposal on Wednesday to strengthen consumer rights and make it easier and safer to shop online across borders.

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EU proposes new rules to protect online shoppers
(Reuters)

posted by on Oct 8

AP - The European Commission wants to give Internet shoppers more rights and better protection, in an effort to boost Internet shopping across the continent and provide consumers with more competitive prices.

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EU proposes increased rights for Internet shoppers
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posted by on Oct 8

InfoWorld - Red Hat is expanding its open-source JBoss SOA platform with the unveiling Wednesday of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1.

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Red Hat boosts open source SOA
(InfoWorld)

posted by on Oct 8

CNET - WASHINGTON–Is the idea of widespread biometric data collection still too spooky to win over the American public?

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Government use of biometrics still raises privacy concerns
(CNET)

posted by on Oct 6

InfoWorld - Mixing together a m??lange of services, software and marketing, IBM’s announcement this week of its Cloud Services Initiative is about putting an organizing construct around all of its cloud offerings, according to one IBM executive.

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IBM’s cloud initiative repackages its familiar offerings
(InfoWorld)