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Is Microsoft Feeling the Heat in Embedded Systems?

Microsoft is renaming its existing embedded Windows operating systems and supplementing them with additional offerings in key device categories, the company announced Tuesday ...

Microsoft’s Silverlight Gaining Ground – and DRM

Adobe may still enjoy a resounding lead with its Flash rich-media runtime and player, but Microsoft appears to be gradually gaining ground with its Silverlight application platform ...

Video Beating Stokes Debate Over Fame, Violence

For the eight Florida teens accused of imprisoning, beating and videotaping 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay as they brutalized her for more than half an hour, the events of March 30 have led to kidnapping and battery charges that cast a dark shadow over their future ...

Scrabble Brings Scrabulous Scrap to Facebook

Until recently, the closest Facebook users could get to playing Scrabble online was Scrabulous, the wildly popular application launched by two Indian brothers back in 2006 ...

Bumpy Road on the Way to WiMax

Adding another bump in the road on the way to WiMax, Sprint has delayed the nationwide launch of its Xohm WiMax network ...

Google CIO Jumps Ship, Signs With EMI Music

EMI Music has recruited Google CIO Douglas Merrill to head up its growing digital music business, the company announced Wednesday ...

Doctor Suggests Cell Phones May Be Riskier Than Cigarettes

The dangers associated with cell phones could far outweigh those tied to asbestos and smoking, an Australian doctor recently warned in a new report ...

Intel Looks Closer to Home for Classmate ‘Netbook’ Sales

Intel's low-cost Classmate PC, originally focused on emerging markets, will soon be available to U.S. and European consumers ...

Quattrone Bounces Back with Tech-Focused Investment Firm

After years spent battling obstruction of justice charges in an investigation of Credit Suisse First Boston, former investment banker Frank Quattrone is back with an investment firm of his own ...

Japanese ISPs Agree to Shut Down Illegal File-Sharers

Japan's four major Internet service provider (ISP) organizations have agreed to cut off Internet access for users who repeatedly copy gaming software and music illegally online ...

MPAA Chief: Net Neutrality Hamstrings Antipiracy Efforts

Net neutrality would make it harder for the movie industry to fight piracy, Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), told attendees at the movie industry's annual ShoWest convention in Las Vegas ...

Study: Dark Data Shadow Follows Everyone

The "digital universe" of data was bigger than expected in 2007 and continuing to explode in size, according to a new study from IDC ...

New Tech Fights Chip Piracy With Virtual Lock and Key

A new technology unveiled Wednesday aims to prevent hardware privacy by protecting microchips with the virtual equivalent of an embedded "lock" that can be opened only by the patent owner ...

Siemens Plugs Into Software With Open Unified Communications

Continuing its departure from a largely hardware-focused history, Siemens Communications on Monday announced a new software-only unified communications server ...

IBM Promises Blazing Fast, Efficient Optical Net

IBM on Thursday unveiled a prototype green optical network technology that promises to enable the high-speed transmission of huge files with very little power consumption ...

Windows Live Hobbled by Daylong Outage

Users of many Microsoft Windows Live services worldwide were hit by an outage on Tuesday that lasted most of the day before Microsoft managed to fix it ...

Nokia Tinkers With Morphing Phone Concept

Imagine what you'd get if you crossed Gumby with a smartphone, and you've got some idea of what a new, nanotech handset from Nokia could be like ...

Will Balloons Lift Google’s Wireless Aspirations?

High-tech rumors sometimes amount to little more than hot air, but a new one circulating about Google doesn't involve hot air -- it involves hydrogen ...

Can the PC Survive as a Gaming Platform?

As myriad game makers displayed their wares at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, 10 leading companies in the industry announced on Tuesday that they have teamed up to form a new alliance ...

HP Settles With Journalists Over Pretexting

HP on Wednesday reached a financial settlement with the New York Times and four reporters who were spied upon as part of a scandal dating back to 2006 that brought about the downfall of the company's chairwoman, Patricia C. Dunn, along with several high-ranking executives ...

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