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  • Lights out in Silicon Valley

    Intel, Sun, and other Silicon Valley companies are responding to warnings from California's power companies—power down or risk blacking out.

  • Silicon Valley faces slowest week in slow economy

    Silicon Valley faced its slowest week since the US economic downturn began, as major technology firms sent staff home for an extended July 4 holiday to turn off the lights and save money.

  • The road to real tech recovery

    Have falling stock prices and the tech meltdown got you down? The road to the real tech recovery is paved with back-to-basics innovation.

  • Web services patents fetch US$15.5 million

    A mysterious bidder paid US$15.5 million Monday in the US in a bankruptcy court auction of dozens of Internet-related patents--and then rushed out of the courtroom.

  • Google builds an empire to rival Microsoft

    Google's one-of-a-kind computer network gives it a chance to surpass Microsoft to become the most dominant company in tech, according to the author of a recently published book on the search giant.

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    Omnidrive: Alive and kicking?

    Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies.

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    StumbleUpon is great but ban it immediately

    StumbleUpon is one of most interesting and addictive new tools on the Web but administrators should immediately ban its use at work.

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  • Is Windows still relevant?

    In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.

  • BT bets on open development

    BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble?

  • Photos: When Bill Gates met Steve Jobs

    As the Microsoft and Apple execs get ready to share the stage at a conference this week, we look at other times the tech titans have shared the spotlight.

  • Debating the morality behind software development

    IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.

  • How WebEx went the Cisco route

    CEO Subrah Iyar explains why he thinks WebEx is worth more than YouTube and what's ahead for Web conferencing.

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