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Can AMD's Vision End PC Purchasing Nightmares? AMD wants to replace "speeds and feeds" with something better. Focus on the user, not what's inside the box.
Sprint Launches $70 Unlimited Mobile Calling Plan Called "Any Mobile, Anytime" the unlimited service will include voice, data, text, e-mail, GPS navigation, and sending videos and images from one mobile phone to another.
Obama Warns Kids on Stupid Facebook Posts US President Barack Obama warned school children on Wednesday to be careful what they post online while young.
Mozilla Releases Flash-checking Security Update Mozilla has pushed out the Firefox 3.5.3 update, which checks for up-to-date Flash plugins.
Symantec Calculates Your Identity's Black-Market Value Symantec has unveiled a new tool that gathers some basic information about you and the links between your financial information and the Internet, then calculates what the value of your identity would be on the black market.
Google Plans to Offer Micropayments Service to Media Owners Google is pushing a payments system to the newspaper industry that would let Web surfers pay a small amount for individual news stories.
Man Pleads Guilty in Wal-Mart Card Phishing Scheme A Sacramento man has pleaded guilty to his role in a phishing scam that used Wal-Mart kiosks to set up fake instant credit accounts.
New Nano Nice, iTunes 9 Is Nicer It has taken Apple until this week's release of iTunes 9 to allow users to share music they already own across multiple machines.
Analysts: Microsoft Enterprise Licensing Still Challenging Despite efforts from Microsoft over the years to simplify its software licensing, a new analyst report said it's more complex than ever.
Dell Previews Ultra-thin Adamo Laptop Design Dell on Wednesday posted a teaser for an sleek Adamo ultraportable device.
Microsoft Forms, Funds New Open-source Foundation Microsoft has cofounded and is providing the funding for a new open-source foundation, the CodePlex Foundation.
OpenID to Offer Easy Access to Government Resources Ten companies have pledged support for the open identity initiative to provide greater access to government sites and resources.
Vodafone Gets on Mobile Hotspot Bandwagon Vodafone is getting set to launch Novatel's mobile hotspot, the MiFi, in Europe, it said on Thursday.
Mobile Carriers Sign up to EU In-car Accident Alert System E.U.'s mobile-phone industry signed up to a Europe-wide road accident alert system designed to reduce fatalities and accidents on the continent's roads.
Orange Takes Step Toward Better Mobile Voice Quality Orange will launch of the world's first mobile telephone service offering improved sound quality using better speech coding technology, it said on Thursday.
How Apple's Nano Beat Palm's Pixi Who would compete with Apple for control of a tech news cycle? Well, Palm lost again.
Google Has "Supersized" Its Search Box The changes are subtle enough that you might not notice except for the before-and-after graphic Google has thoughtfully provided.
Smaller Indian Outsourcers in Favor During Recession India’s small and medium-size outsourcers have an opportunity as customers try to cut costs and size of orders.
SAP Exec: Business ByDesign Will Be Smash Success An SAP executive declared its Business ByDesign product will be a smashing success, but it's still not clear when it will be broadly available.
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