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  • Herding cats at Microsoft

    Tim O'Brien must have one of the more difficult jobs at Microsoft. As senior director of Microsoft Platforms, he is tasked with getting different parts of Microsoft to dance to the same tune.

  • Motorola denies Malaysian bribery accusations

    Motorola has rejected allegations that it broke any local laws pertaining to its reinvestment plans and involvement in a government contract in the Malaysian state of Penang.

  • DVD John frees the music for Facebook

    The man notorious for cracking the DVD code and Apple's FairPlay DRM, is looking to make a legitimate business out of his expertise.

  • Symbian under attack from Bluetooth, MMS worm

    The Beselo.A and Beselo.B worms are in the wild, looking to lure Symbian S60 users into clicking on their incoming malicious files, according to a warning issued on Tuesday by F-Secure.

  • Social networking may help us stay healthy

    Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have begun a project that will combine social networking techniques with search engine technology specifically tailored to Australians.

  • Ex-OpenDocument advocates opt for W3C alternative

    The conflict over document formats has taken a twist as some advocates for OpenDocument, or ODF, abandon the format in favor of the World Wide Web (W3) Consortium's Compound Document Formats standard.

  • VMware dangles next-gen virtualisation goodies

    VMware has some new ideas for tackling an age-old problem for system administrators: how do you keep a computing service available when the server it's running on fails?

  • Seagate updates hard drive portfolio

    Unlike in the past, when hard-drive makers typically released the same basic drive for various markets, they now nip and tuck their products to fit specific customer profiles and applications.

  • IBA's iSoft rival backs down in acquisition tussle

    Troubled software firm iSoft looks likely to be sold to Australian company IBA, as CompuGroup withdraws from the battle.

  • Spammers use YouTube to spread Storm worm

    In yet another twist to the Storm worm menace, spammers are using a fake YouTube site to trick users into downloading the malicious code.

  • Is a US$100 laptop truly useful?

    There has been a lot of focus in recent years on creating inexpensive, affordable computers for users in the developing world, and at the forefront is Professor Nicholoas Negroponte.

  • Power your electronic device with paper?

    A team of American scientists have developed a flexible, paper battery which could power electronic devices in the future.

  • AMD cuts prices in chip war

    AMD's long running battle with rival Intel took a new twist yesterday with the manufacturer announcing its latest round of CPU price cuts.

  • Dell confirms rumours, will build tablet PC

    After much speculation computer maker Dell confirmed on Friday that it will sell a tablet PC before the end of the year.

  • AMD's new Puma stalking Intel's Centrino

    Advanced Micro Devices is coming out with its own Centrino. The US-based chipmaker is prepping an energy-efficient notebook chip, code-named Griffin, as well as a platform based around Griffin called Puma, (similar to Intel's Centrino) that will likely allow AMD to better compete in the rapidly growing notebook market.

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