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Apple Computer Inc. may finally end the rumors and announce its own cell phone on Tuesday, with wireless service from Cingular Wireless LLC, a news report said. The device, which will combine a cell phone with Apple's popular iPod music player, is expected to be announced at the MacWorld show in San Francisco.
A second U.S.-German group of investors, led by Sentex Sensing Technologies Inc.
, plans to make an offer for insolvent mobile phone maker BenQ Mobile GmbH Co. OHG, following a bid by a rival group of American-German investors, Sentex said Monday.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
reached for the consumer market Monday with two new PCs that allow customers to control Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista OS with a touchscreen interface instead of a mouse.
The recent release of software that can be used to decode encrypted HD DVD and Blu-ray movies is the first step toward making the encryption standard used by these next-generation video players obsolete, Princeton University researchers said Monday.
Storage network equipment maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. has acquired Silverback Systems Inc. for its network acceleration processor technology.
New Zealand e-mail pioneer Pegasus Mail is to cease further development of its software, which is used by millions of users worldwide. Pegasus will also cease developing its Mercury mail transport system.
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With the new year comes a lot of buzz from the phone industry.
Not only are regular cell phones improving by getting smaller, smarter and lighter but a host of new network services, like higher-speed data transmission, are making them more useful. There's also a new breed of handset packing digital TV reception, and you can find examples of these in this month's round-up of hot gadgets. Looking ahead to the rest of the year we're sure to see more advanced phones with features like VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephony too.
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They've been predicting for years that CGI would supplant the need for real humans and sets in photography and film. Take this test to see if you can distinguish physical objects from craftily arranged pixels. NCR to spin off Teradata .
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NCR Corp. and its Teradata data warehousing division will separate into two publicly-traded companies in a move designed to better focus their respective business strategies, NCR said Monday.
New movie releases, more market entrants, improved technology and 1.
8 million HD DVD players from Toshiba Corp. are the weapons companies plan to use in the format battle against rival Blu-ray Disc this year, executives said Sunday.
Nokia Corp.
unveiled a slim mobile phone, a mobile phone for bloggers, and an updated wireless Internet tablet with VOIP capabilities at the CES show in Las Vegas on Monday.
Continuing to chase the grail of a media center PC, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) announced a notebook version of its AMD Live!
package, which the company had launched for desktop users in mid-2006.
Oracle Corp. on Monday released the first major upgrade to SQL Developer, its free visual database development tool, with one key theme being the ability to browse non-Oracle databases.
While production grinds to a halt at insolvent mobile phone maker BenQ Mobile GmbH Co. OHG, negotiations to find a buyer continue with potential investors, one of them an undisclosed U.S.
-German group of individuals with IT and telecommunications backgrounds.
Microsoft Corp. has eliminated four of eight previously announced security patches scheduled to be available to system administrators Tuesday.
EarthLink Inc. and the City and County of San Francisco have agreed on the terms of a contract under which EarthLink would build a citywide Wi-Fi network. EarthLink would offer a paid service on that network while Google Inc.
would provide a slower, free service.
LG Electronics Inc. took a big step on Sunday towards the end of the next-generation DVD format battle with the unveiling of a player and PC drive that support both the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats.
Netgear Inc. may be hoping to steal some of Apple Computer Inc.'s thunder by introducing on Sunday an appliance that lets users play Internet and other digital content on their TVs.
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By Joel Shore, ITworld.com
Windows Vista. It hasn't even hit the streets yet, and the first hack is already upon us.
Corporations, already reluctant to roll out any operating system upgrade until at least the first service pack is available, are no doubt becoming even more skittish. That's not a good way to start a new year.
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If image is everything in marketing, Redmond must be smarting from this pic: One Seattle-area Costco used a box of Zunes as an impromptu table to hold a stack of iPods.
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