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Is Google close to making a bid for Twitter? Yes, according to a report from TechCrunch, though neither company has made an official announcement ...

Aiming to rev up momentum behind its yet-to-be-released Pre smartphone, Palm has offered a few more details about the handset and the software running on it, webOS ...

Yahoo on Wednesday rolled out its new Yahoo Mobile service for smartphones. The company also announced Yahoo Messenger for the iPhone, which will be launched soon ...

The employment picture for high-tech workers is changing dramatically. Last year, the U.S. high-tech sector added 77,000 jobs, mainly in the software services and engineering sectors, according to "Cyberstates 2009," a report published by TechAmerica ...

Corporate network administrators can breathe a little easier as the world braces itself for what could be a massive Internet attack courtesy of the Conficker worm on April 1. International non-profit research organization The Honeynet Project, which works on Internet security, has come up with a new scanner to detect the worm on networks ...

Google is laying off about 200 staff worldwide in its sales and marketing organizations. The announcement was made in a blog post written by Omid Kordestani, the online search giant's senior vice president of global sales and business development ...

Dell on Wednesday announced a slew of products and services to underscore its thrust into the data center market. These include servers and workstations, lifecycle and system management software, storage, virtualization, and data center consulting services ...

Spark Capital, one of the early investors in Twitter, Akamai Technologies and Novatel Wireless, has launched a new seed fund for technology entrepreneurs, specifically in the Boston and New York City areas. Called "Start@Spark," the program will provide up to US$250,000 in seed money to business starters ...

Taking aim at the next generation of computing -- virtualization and the cloud -- Novell on Tuesday unveiled Suse Linux Enterprise 11 ...

VoIP provider Skype announced on Monday the beta version of its business-user-oriented Skype for SIP (session initiation protocol), which will run on enterprise PBX (private branch exchange) systems ...

Speed kills -- ask any cop -- and browser users are going to find that out very soon ...

Microsoft's unveiling of Internet Explorer 8 on Thursday was marred by news that the browser, touted to be its most secure ever, already has been hacked ...

Privacy rights organization EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to shut down Google's cloud services on grounds that the company is misleading consumers ...

HTC was the first mobile device maker to introduce a smartphone for the Android platform. Now it might be the second, third and fourth as well ...

On the face of it, the tie-in between Sprint and Palm for the upcoming Palm Pre brings to mind two drowning men hanging on to each other for dear life in a rough sea ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has electrifying news, if you'll pardon the pun -- engineers at the institute have come up with a way to speed up the charging and discharging of lithium-ion batteries to a matter of seconds ...

Like cats and mice, security product vendors and cyber-criminals do not care much for each other. Over the past 24 hours, however, cyber-criminals may have just about fallen in love with Symantec, which made a mistake that let crooks launch a flood of malware on the Internet ...

On Tuesday, HP announced with much fanfare its move into storage virtualization. It unveiled its StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) models 6400 and 8400, and the SAN (Storage Array Network) Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) 2.1 ...

The next five years or so will spell big trouble for data centers ...

Yahoo wants to tie all its various services together so each user needs to log in just once to access and manage its services, and will be able to do so from one central site ...