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Samsung Electronics is now mass-producing the industry's first 1.8-inch solid state drives (SSD) at a whopping 64 gigabytes, making the high-density flash-memory-based drives suitable for widespread ultra-portable laptop use ...

As Microsoft's saber-rattling patent infringement claims continue to resound throughout the open source world, Linux distributor Mandriva is the latest player to stand up to Microsoft and draw a line in the sand ...

The world of high performance computing (HPC) is expanding every day, particularly in the fields of geosciences, molecular biology and medical diagnostics, where scientists are increasingly turning to supercomputers to crunch massive amounts of data via complex simulations and applications ...

Google's latest idea takes it off the information superhighway and onto the world's real-life streets with it's new RechargeIT initiative ...

A London-based privacy advocacy group, Privacy International, has ranked the world's No. 1 search engine company worse in protecting customer privacy than any of nearly two dozen other major Internet-based companies ...

Monster Worldwide, the parent company of leading online job recruiter Monster.com, shook up its management team Wednesday, and in the process has shed a little stock value ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have issued new joint guidance for their field offices for the protection of wetlands and bodies of water that are protected under the Clean Water Act ...

Microsoft has launched a music promotion effort designed to promote new music artists through its Zune, MSN and Xbox-focused electronic outlets. Dubbed "Ignition," Microsoft says the program will provide a steady stream of new music through online access to exclusive content, free song and video downloads, streaming videos, editorial features and artist playlists...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released the "last call" draft of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3). The near-final draft simultaneously paves for the way for the controversial Microsoft-Novell Suse Linux distribution pact while at the same time inhibits similar deals from occurring again in the future ...

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has announced the winners of is second largest contract to provide next-generation telecom services to federal agencies: AT&T, Level 3 Communications, Qwest Communications, Sprint Nextel and Verizon ...

Microsoft has taken the touchscreen PC concept in a new direction, amping it up with a 30-inch screen, giving it five eyes and turning it horizontal to create a coffee table that can sense multiple touches at the same time ...

Public companies are required to note possible risk factors that investors need to be aware of, and one of the risk factors reported by Novell notes the uncertainty of the effects of the new and upcoming GNU General Public License (GPLv3), according to the company's annual U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10-K, released last week ...

Recent press reports have indicated that a managed copy specification -- supported by the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) that provides the copy-prevention system on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs -- may be nearing reality ...

A group of semiconductor firms have opted to extend their partnership to develop high-performance, energy-efficient chips down to the 32 nanometer scale ...

The super-popular MySpace social networking site has been buffeted by a storm of negative press over the actions of several state attorneys general and their recent requests for sex offender information ...

As new open source document standards emerge, Microsoft continues to expand interoperability options for its Microsoft Office customers. Microsoft has launched an open source project with Chinese organizations to support interoperability with Microsoft Office and the Chinese UOF standard, the company announced Sunday ...

Mozilla Labs, the division of Mozilla focused on developing new technology, is working on a new Firefox browser add-on that will let a mobile phone user collect interesting Web content, aggregate the content in Firefox and then access it via a mobile phone ...

Motorola announced a series of new phones Tuesday, and while all of them have interesting form factors and compelling features, only one -- the Razr 2 -- has the potential to compete with Apple's upcoming iPhone ...

In response to a Supreme Court ruling that found carbon dioxide qualifies as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act, President Bush has called for changes designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2008 ...

Microsoft's push to get the free and open source software (FOSS) world to license its technology has ignited a firestorm of criticism and speculation. The software behemoth's actions have perhaps also generated a strong dose of fear, uncertainty and doubt -- aka FUD -- in the minds of open source developers, providers and users ...