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WiMax Potential Motivates Sprint, Motorola Deal

Sprint continued its push toward next-generation WiMax technology this week, announcing an agreement with Motorola to conduct joint testing on wireless broadband to lay the groundwork for future infrastructure and services ...

Sony, Microsoft May Take Console Losses for Gaming Wins

A recent investor report has highlighted expected losses for PlayStation 3 maker Sony, which will take an estimated hit of US$100 per sold next-gen gaming console when the devices go on sale next year ...

Cell Chip Goes Beyond Gaming Apps

The next-generation computer chip known as "Cell" isn't just about fun and games any more. With the announcement of the first major Cell applications effort, the chip will be used to enhance data-intensive apps such as sonar and digital X-ray by Mercury Computer Systems ...

AMD Alleges Intel Monopoly Abuse

AMD is accusing Intel of serious abuses of its dominant position in the computer microprocessor industry, saying the industry giant coerced manufacturers including Dell, HP, Sony, Acer, Fujitsu and others away from AMD products, thereby limiting the challenger's ability to compete ...

Cell Phones: Can’t Live Without ‘Em, Can’t Stand ‘Em

There are few of us who would choose to go anywhere without them, but we've all wished at one time or another that we had a magic jamming device that could hang up cell phones in the face of a loud, annoying user nearby. The fact is, for most of us, the only thing that makes us more angry than a fellow cell phone user is finding that our own cell phones can't get reception...

Microsoft Moves Into Midst of DVD Format War

As the two sides pushing different standards for the next-generation DVD format continue to send mixed signals on a unified technology, Microsoft and Toshiba announced today they would be collaborating to create products compatible with the HD DVD format, which is competing against the Sony-backed Blu-ray ...

Samsung, Analysts Clash Over Memory Market

Samsung's president and CEO of semiconductors Hwang Chang-gyu has reportedly signaled the price decline in Flash and DRAM chips is likely to subside and the cost of the memory technology -- popular in portable music players, digital cameras and mobile phones -- should stabilize ...

RIM Wins Another Victory in NTP Patent Dispute

Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the popular BlackBerry mobile messaging device, won another round in its intellectual property fight with U.S.-based NTP as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office continued its re-examination of patents that are the basis of NTP's case ...

Microsoft Finalizes Sybari Deal

Microsoft continued its efforts to make more third-party security software of its own this week, completing its acquisition of enterprise messaging protection provider Sybari ...

Microsoft Closes Sybari Deal

Microsoft continued its efforts to make more third-party security software of its own this week, completing its acquisition of enterprise messaging protection provider Sybari ...

Report Suggests Security Software Attacks Increasing

IT analysis firm Yankee Group is warning that an increasing number of vulnerabilities in security software from major vendors may be putting enterprises and users at risk ...

Intel Makes Multi-Mode, CMOS Radio for Wireless Chips

Intel is touting its development of a prototype, CMOS-standard wireless radio that supports all WiFi, or 802.11 standards, including a, b and g, as well as the next-generation wireless 802.11n ...

Intel Joins South Korea on Wireless Net

Looking to the world's leading nation in terms of broadband and wireless adoption, Intel is working with South Korean company KT to collaborate on the country's next wireless broadband solution ...

Big Blue Bolsters Blades with Opteron

IBM upped its backing of AMD's Opteron processor this week, announcing its new eServer Cluster 1350, which the company claims is the only integrated cluster solution using AMD 64 dual-core technology in the blade form factor -- thin, lower-power servers that are joined in large numbers for higher-performance computing ...

BT To Offer Dual-Mode Handsets, Services

Months after it first signaled its intentions to merge fixed wireless Bluetooth technology with WiFi 802.11 mobile wireless in one handset, UK telecom giant BT said this week that it is readying its BT Fusion brand for UK consumers, who will soon be able to purchase the dual-mode devices there ...

BT Bridging Mobile-Landline Gap with Dual-Mode Devices

Months after it first signaled its intentions to merge fixed wireless Bluetooth technology with WiFi 802.11 mobile wireless in one handset, UK telecom giant BT said this week that it is readying its BT Fusion brand for UK consumers, who will soon be able to purchase the dual-mode devices there ...

IBM Builds Sister for Top Supercomputer

Looking to match the kind of computing power it created in the BlueGene/L supercomputer -- a system made up over more than 130,000 processors -- IBM launched this week what it called the fastest privately-owned supercomputer in the world. The system is sister to BlueGene, dubbed "BGW," and is expected to rank among the world's three fastest public/private super systems...

HP Claims Circuit Breakthrough

HP said its researchers have created a new way to make electronic circuits using so-called "coding theory," which is already applied today in certain math, cryptography and telecommunications applications, including digital cell phones and deep-space probes ...

Cutting the Cord for Mobile Phones

The ranks of those cutting off their traditional, land line telephone service in favor of only wireless telecommunication services are growing, with some reports putting the figure at over 10 percent of wireless users ...

Intel’s Yonah: Dual Core To Go

Intel wound up a week of multi-core processor madness at Computex in Taiwan, fittingly, outlining its newest mobile chip technology: the dual-core "Yonah" processor and accompanying chipset and wireless module ...

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