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Cisco Revenue, Profit Grew in Fourth Quarter
Cisco reported revenue and profit gains for its fiscal fourth quarter ended last month.News
Eleven Indicted in Massive ID Theft Scheme
Eleven people have been indicted in a massive identity theft and computer fraud scheme involving some of the largest data…News
Red Hat, Community Release Fedora 10 Alpha
An alpha test version of Fedora 10, the next version of a community-sponsored, free Red-Hat-based Linux distribution, is now…News
Missing Laptop Grounds US Registered Traveler Program
A laptop containing personal information of 33,000 U.S. travelers goes missing at San Francisco International Airport.Glenn Fleishman on Hardware
Delta Equips Fleet with Broadband
Delta Airlines will put in-flight broadband on all 330 of its planes, starting later this year.News
Verizon Launches Emergency Communications Service
Verizon Business launches a service to help emergency response agencies talk to each other.News
Blog: Apple Updates iPhone OS: Thwarts Hackers, Fixes Flaws
Apple updates iPhone and iPod Touch firmware. Update aims to fix iPhone flaws consumers have griped about for nearly a month.News
AT&T Dives Into Cloud Computing
AT&T has entered the cloud computing game, it announced Tuesday.News
Delta Adds Wi-Fi to Entire Domestic Airline Fleet
Delta Air Lines says all its U.S. domestic passengers will be able to surf the Web at broadband speeds via Wi-Fi.News
Blog: AMD Fusion to Compete with Intel’s Larrabee
There are reports that AMD has a CPU/GPU in the works, code named Shrike, that will compete with Intel's Larrabee.News
Adobe Warns Over Bogus Flash Player Installers
Hackers are trying to dupe people into downloading malicious software labeled as Adobe's Flash Player, prompting a warning from the company.News
Camera Makers Aim to Trim Camera Depth by Half
Digital cameras that can use lenses from different vendors could be up to 50 percent smaller in the future, two camera…News
Microsoft to Give Vendors an Early Peek at Patches
Black Hat News: This fall, security vendors will get an early look at technical details of Microsoft's monthly security updates.News
Olympic Games Torch DRAM Market
Beijing's window dressing ahead of the Olympic Games has crimped DRAM imports to the country, sending prices lower.News
Nissan Goes High-tech to Stop Accidents, Inefficient Driving
Nissan has developed two new systems that send safety and fuel efficiency information to car drivers through force feedback of…News
HTC to Ship 1 Millionth Touch Diamond by Mid-August
HTC will ship its one millionth iPhone-rival handset within months of its June launch.News
YouTube to Carry Olympic Videos in Some Countries
The International Olympic Committee is launching its own VOD channel for the games in cooperation with YouTube.News
Security Oversight May Have Enabled Countrywide Breach
FBI affidavits offer more insight into how a man stole customer data from Countrywide.News
Google Mislabels Blogger Sites as Splogs, Locks Them
A bug led Google to misidentify as splogs a number of blogs hosted on its Blogger service.Erik Larkin on the Web
Cloud Computing, Microsoft’s Midori, and the End of Windows
CIO's today have their head in the clouds. The good ones, at least.News
SiteMeter Bug Affects IE Users
SiteMeter's Web-tracking widget rendered pages unviewable via IE, causing problems for Web publishers.News
Blog: EFF Helps Spot ISP Spies
'Switzerland' helps you test your Internet connection for bandwidth monitoring by your ISP.News
Unpatched Microsoft Flaw Leaves IE6 at Risk
Security vendor Symantec says an unpatched Microsoft vulnerability presents a bigger risk to IE6 than later version of the browser.News
Mobile Linux Group Gets Members, Phones and Software
The LiMo Foundation announced new members and new handsets.News
Thales Picks up First UK ID Card Contract Worth £18m
Thales has won a four-year contract worth £18 milllion (US$36 million) for the UK's national ID card program.News
Group Offers Tools to Evade China’s Web Censorship
A US-based group is offering tools to help reporters evade Chinese censorship of Internet sites.News
New Browsers Fight the Malware Scourge
The just-released Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5, and the upcoming IE 8, respond to the growing threat with enhanced blocking features.News
MSI Offers Wind Netbook With Better Batteries
MSI is adding better batteries to the Wind netbook, for longer run time.News
Intel Keeps Number of Larrabee Cores Under Wraps
Intel plans to detail the architecture of its upcoming Larrabee chip on Aug. 12,, but it will keep the number of cores secret…News
Softbank Aims to Be World’s Top Mobile Internet Company
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son has set a goal to become the world's largest mobile Internet company.News
Alibaba: ‘We Will Do Things Our Own Way’
Alibaba.com Group CEO Jack Ma said Saturday that no matter what happened with major shareholder Yahoo, the company would retain its independence.News
Firewall Vendors Scramble to Fix DNS Problem
Firewall vendors are scrambling to release a bug in their products that undoes part of a recent critical DNS patch.News
Dell Tries to Trademark ‘cloud Computing’
Dell is trying to trademark the term 'cloud computing.'News
US Border Agency Says It Can Seize Laptops
U.S. agents now have the authority to seize and retain laptops indefinitely, according to a new policy detailed in documents issued by the DHS.News
FBI: Flash Drive Used to Steal Countrywide Data
Two men were arrested for their alleged roles in stealing and selling personal customer information from Countrywide.News
Firefox Closer to Supporting Open-source Video Codec
Mozilla developers are edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox that could drive the use of open-source software to encode video files.News
FCC Rules Against Comcast P-to-P Throttling
The U.S. FCC orders Comcast to stop slowing peer-to-peer traffic.News
Apple Finally Patches Dangerous DNS Flaw
Apple has at last issued a patch for the DNS (Domain Name System) flaw considered one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities to ever affect the Internet.News
China May Have to Wait for Chip Investment From Taiwan
Taiwanese chip investment rules related to China may change, but companies are in no mood to invest.News
Toyota, Sony Develop Personal Transportation Robot
Toyota has developed and demonstrated on Friday a Segway-like personal transporter based partly on robotics technology from…News
Nvidia Likely to Confirm Scale of Chip Troubles Soon
The scale of Nvidia's chip-packaging troubles should become apparent when the company releases its financial results.News
China Hits Back at US Senator’s Spying Claims
China brushed off accusations that authorities are forcing foreign hotel chains to install Internet eavesdropping devices…News
PC Owners Urged to Manage Power Use and Save Money
PC users are being urged to make wider use of power management tools, which can save money and help the environment.News
McAfee to Buy Data Protection Vendor Reconnex
McAfee plans to buy DLP vendor Reconnex for $46 million.News
In-flight Cell Call Ban Advances in Congress
A bill that would stifle in-flight cellular calls permanently is headed for the U.S. House of Representatives.News
Microsoft Sees Uptick in Use of 64-bit Vista
People are beginning to use 64-bit Windows Vista on PCs in favor of the 32-bit version of the OS.News
Reduce Cell-phone Cancer Risk
Can cell phones lead to cancer? That's a never-ending debate, but until conclusive data arrives, users can take small steps to…News
Windows Mobile Sales Lower Than Expected
Microsoft missed its target for Windows Mobile shipments in its fiscal year 2008 by 10 percent.News
Symantec: New Attitude on Security Needed
Symantec officials encourage government agencies to take an information-centric approach to security.News