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Reports: Motorola reorganizes mobile phone business 17 Apr 08, 22:22 ET Motorola has reportedly reorganized its struggling mobile phone business in anticipation of plans to spin it off into a separate publicly traded entity. more Psystar Web store goes down again 17 Apr 08, 21:53 ET The Mac clone maker is currently unable to sell Open Computers with Mac OS X preinstalled after experiencing an outage for the second straight day. more Start-up aims for in-store search 17 Apr 08, 20:53 ET Google and any number of rivals have got online search covered. Evincii wants to profit by taking the idea to brick-and-mortar stores. more Microsoft buys airfare predictor Farecast 17 Apr 08, 20:23 ET The software maker buys the Seattle-based travel search engine, which helps predict which way air fares are headed. It's mum on just how it plans to use the service. more Google News adds quotations 17 Apr 08, 20:23 ET Google News now provides quotations for politicians and some celebrities and lets you search on just the quotes. more Google makes three: Tech heavyweights still bullish 17 Apr 08, 20:08 ET An analyst report had people worried that spending on search ads was starting to slip. But Thursday's earnings news from the search king seems to have put those fears to rest. more Microsoft, Nintendo tout NPD numbers, but where's Sony's brags? 17 Apr 08, 20:07 ET With its quarterly numbers out, NPD has something for everyone to brag about. Well, almost everyone. more Comcast, AT&T absent at FCC hearing on Net neutrality 17 Apr 08, 19:53 ET Major ISPs decline an invitation by the Federal Communications Commission to attend an en banc hearing here at Stanford University on the subject of broadband network management practices. more Microsoft working hard on Windows Mobile improvements 17 Apr 08, 19:53 ET The company just held an event for developers to come check out Windows Mobile 7, and while they can't say much, one attendee hopes Microsoft gets the new version out sooner rather than later. more Computer Virus Crashes San Diego Court Computers 17 Apr 08, 19:14 ET A computer virus infected San Diego Superior Court computers, forcing employees to work manually and causing some public service delays, court officials ... more One more dot.com execs bombs out in biofuels 17 Apr 08, 18:23 ET It's time to retire. more ArcAttack brings singing tesla coil music to the masses 17 Apr 08, 18:23 ET The group has mixed the singing tesla coils they've had for some time with a PVC pipe organ, a robotic drumset and original music. more Yahoo and Microsoft bid to ride Google's tailwind? 17 Apr 08, 18:08 ET With Google blowing past Wall Street's expectations for the quarter, anticipation may rise that Yahoo may catch a bit of the tailwind when it reports its quarterly results next week. more Latest MIT study sees stronger links between climate change, hurricanes 17 Apr 08, 18:08 ET Hurricanes getting worse with global warming? The evidence piles up. more Google's new mantra: Bore `em silly 17 Apr 08, 18:08 ET Google's CEO played his cards close when asked about the company's test run with Yahoo. more Great Google quarter--and a new quote feature 17 Apr 08, 17:52 ET While most people's attention was turned to the search giant's robust quarterly results, we've also spotted a quotable addition to Google News. more AMD's woes continue with $358 million loss 17 Apr 08, 16:53 ET The company's processor business took in more revenue despite not having its two best products available for much of the first quarter, but at the expense of profits. more Google clears Wall Street profit estimate 17 Apr 08, 16:53 ET Despite economic worries, Google exceeds Wall Street expectations for profitability. Stock rises more than 10 percent in after-hours trading. more Google settles a score with ComScore 17 Apr 08, 16:53 ET Search giant's shares go on a tear in after-hours trading as investors shrug off an earlier report on slowing click-through growth. more Flip Video camera maker hit with patent infringement lawsuit 17 Apr 08, 16:23 ET Advanced Video Technologies files a patent infringement lawsuit against Pure Digital Technology, maker of the popular Flip Video camera. more Recent Original Stories 17 Apr 08, 16:17 ET "There's lots of innovation going on in security - we're inundated with a steady stream of new stuff and it all sounds like it works just great. Every couple of months I'm invited to a new computer security conference, or I'm asked to write a foreword for a new computer security book. more Blockbuster sued over role in Facebook's Beacon ad program 17 Apr 08, 16:08 ET A Texas woman files a complaint citing the Videotape Privacy Protection Act from the 1980s, after a video store revealed the rental history of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. more JAPAN: Computer virus creator awaits ruling 17 Apr 08, 14:48 ET KYOTO (Kyodo) --- Prosecutors demanded a two-year prison term Wednesday for a graduate student who created and spread a computer virus. ... more UK advertising-tech fight shows complexity of privacy battle 17 Apr 08, 14:37 ET AP - As Phorm Inc. built a system that watches consumers' Web surfing in order to deliver targeted advertising, CEO Kent Ertugrul believed the British company was doing everything possible to respect, and actually enhance, Internet privacy. more Google and Microsoft your next healthcare partner? 17 Apr 08, 13:53 ET Google and Microsoft are just some of the corporate titans who are changing the landscape of who and how consumers are controlling their own personal health records, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine more With a nod to the Valley, CBS Interactive shuffles management 17 Apr 08, 13:23 ET The division's head, Quincy Smith, has his roots in Silicon Valley investment banking. Now, with the opening of a Menlo Park office, he's bringing the big-media brand to the Bay Area. more Microsoft: Better testing can speed development 17 Apr 08, 13:22 ET The software maker is working on something called the "Experimentation Platform" in which it hopes to accelerate its product development cycle through side-by-side testing. more SANS Solves Mystery of Mass Web Site Infections 17 Apr 08, 12:40 ET The SANS Institute has uncovered what they've termed a "rare gem" as far as computer security investigations go that sheds new... more TripIt nabs $5.1 million from old-school travel powerbroker 17 Apr 08, 12:08 ET Travel upstart raises millions from Sabre Holdings and German investment group European Founders Fund. Must be room for some online innovation in the business. more OpenSocial apps now available to Orkut users in India 17 Apr 08, 12:07 ET Plenty of social networks are rolling out OpenSocial-compatible developer platforms, but Orkut's is of particular interest because Google owns it. more Gold-plated support comes to Amazon Web Services 17 Apr 08, 11:53 ET It's no longer just about tiny Web start-ups. Amazon.com's premium-support offering is aimed at businesses used to around-the-clock support. more Microsoft shares may withstand 10 percent bump in Yahoo bid 17 Apr 08, 11:53 ET Software giant may appease shareholders, should it bump Yahoo bid up 10 percent, analyst report says. Its share price has the double-digit assumption baked in. more Google tweaked search 450 times in 2007 17 Apr 08, 11:08 ET Google's search quality chief shared a few details on the chore of keeping the search giant's results as useful as possible. more As expected, Buzznet inks a major music label deal 17 Apr 08, 10:53 ET Universal Music Group has invested in the pop-culture community site; now, Universal's catalog will be available to Buzznet, and Universal artists will have a deeper presence on its blogs. more How many gallons of water do you need to power a lightbulb? 17 Apr 08, 10:53 ET Virginia Tech researchers measure the water efficiency of fuel extraction and power generation, as fresh-water supply becomes a larger concern. more 'Lonelygirl15' creators launch production company, pull in venture funding 17 Apr 08, 10:23 ET The newly minted firm, Eqal, aims to create online-video projects with an infusion of social networking. And it's already grabbing the attention of notable Valley investors. more Red Hat bails on consumer Linux desktop 17 Apr 08, 09:53 ET Rather than take on Microsoft in the consumer world, software company to focus on businesses, developers, and resellers in emerging markets. more Exploring beyond the toolbar, Alexa overhauls rankings 17 Apr 08, 09:52 ET Until now, Alexa statistics were coming only from users who had manually installed the Alexa toolbar. In 2008, that practice just doesn't float. more Security experts split on "cyberterrorism" threat 17 Apr 08, 09:52 ET Reuters - International experts called on Wednesday for greater cooperation to fight threats to computer networks but they differed on the definition of cyberterrorism, with a top British security official describing it as a "myth." more Alta needs to do better on computer security:auditor general (Alta ... 17 Apr 08, 09:09 ET EDMONTON _ In the expanding world of cyber-information, Alberta needs to pull up its socks or risk having confidential data exposed, the provincial auditor ... more Facebook expands Mini-Feed to include Digg 17 Apr 08, 07:22 ET Facebook has expanded their Mini-Feed import feature to include your recently dugg stories from Digg. more A hidden Yahoo acquisition cost for Microsoft 17 Apr 08, 02:24 ET A New York Times report sheds a little light on how expensive bonuses can be to retain employees at an acquired company. more Google and Yahoo looking good? 17 Apr 08, 02:24 ET Yahoo is inching closer to an ad search outsourcing deal with Google, after early returns of their two-week test show favorable results, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. more 'Surface' may surface in 4 cities tomorrow 17 Apr 08, 01:24 ET Microsoft's touch-screen tabletop PC will reportedly be shown at AT stores in New York, Atlanta, San Antonio, and San Bruno, Calif., just south of San Francisco. more Enterprise 2.0: A Computer Security Nightmare? 17 Apr 08, 01:15 ET In the Internet age, the corporate firewall is a leaky sieve. That is the sobering conclusion, spelt out in technical detail, in a new report on what is ... more Computer Viruses Hit One Million 17 Apr 08, 01:14 ET The number of viruses, worms and trojans in circulation has topped the one million mark, reports the BBC news. The new high for malicious programs was ... more Darwin's private papers go digital 17 Apr 08, 00:24 ET The Darwin Online Project releases over 90,000 online pages of Charles Darwin's photographs, sketches, and manuscripts, including the first draft of his theory of evolution. more

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