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HP Unwraps Notebooks Aimed at Small Businesses

April 28, 2009 12:39PM Hewlett-Packard, the No. 1 U.S. PC maker, has unveiled the HP ProBook line of notebooks for small businesses that offers business functionality with style. Starting at $529, the ...

by Michael Smith

Business Software: Open Source and Cloud Computing

March 26, 2009 7:17AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us There has been a lot of press on cloud computing applications. Cloud computing delivers a single application through the browser to thousands of ...

by Michael Smith

Data Hung Out To Dry: 9,000 USBs Left in Dry Cleaners

March 24, 2009 7:23AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us According to the survey, many mobile devices now have the capacity to store as much as 10,000 documents, 11,000 pictures, 500,000 contact details, ...

by Michael Smith

Brand-New IE8 Draws Howls From Users About Problems

March 20, 2009 2:15PM Microsoft’s final release of Internet Explorer 8 may not be so final as unhappy users flood IE8’s feedback pages with complaints. While Microsoft says it fixed problems found ...

by Mark McDonnell

Chrome Is Like Teflon in Browser-Hacking Contest

The Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security conference aims to unearth browser flaws. This year, “white-hat” hackers at Pwn2Own took down Safari on Mac OS X, IE8 and Firefox. Only Google’s Chrome ...

by Mark McDonnell

Brand-New IE8 Draws Howls From Users About Problems

Microsoft’s final release of Internet Explorer 8 may not be so final as unhappy users flood IE8’s feedback pages with complaints. While Microsoft says it fixed problems found by Internet Explorer beta ...

by Michael Smith

Expectations for Palm Rise as Pre Smartphone Nears

Barclays Capital has raised its estimates for Palm’s earnings in expectations that the launch of the Palm Pre will be met with solid demand. The Palm will use the company’s webOS platform ...

by Max S. Goldstein

Social Networking Linked To ‘Infantilized Lifestyle’

A neuroscientist has told the House of Lords that social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace may change the way brains function and lead to a more “infantilized lifestyle.” The baroness said her ...

by Mark McDonnell

WiMAX 4G Is Ahead of Verizon’s LTE, Sprint Says

The WiMAX 4G technology being rolled out by Sprint and Clearwire will arrive well before Verizon’s planned faster LTE technology, Sprint Vice President Todd Rowley says. He added that Verizon seems to ...

by Max S. Goldstein

GSMA Pushes for a Universal Mobile-Phone Charger

February 17, 2009 12:51PM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us The GSMA announced at the Mobile World Congress plans to develop a universal charger for mobile phones by 2012. The GSMA said a ...

by Michael Smith