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Groups call for investigation of ISP ad targeting

Privacy groups protest Charter Communications' plans to deliver targeted ads to its broadband subscribers

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Verizon reached a deal to buy Alltel for $28.1 billion; Broadcom co-founder is accused by the government of storing drugs in a warehouse for more than nine years

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HP shakes up research labs

HP labs will only take on 20 to 30 'big bet' technologies that HP believes will meet the next wave of business IT demands

Just days left to get XP PCs

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No Nvidia chipset for Via … yet

Companies showed off the latest Via Mini-ITX motherboard at Computex, but no Nvidia integrated graphics chipset for the Nano processor

Acer sees Linux as key to low-cost laptops

Acer exec's call to develop a Linux community around low-cost laptops appears to be a swipe at Microsoft

Trade group says FCC auction plan doomed to fail

Association representing mobile operators criticizes the FCC's plan to auction spectrum that would require the winner to offer free wireless Internet services

Do geeks make good jurors in tech cases? Not always

Federal judge says too much knowledge can be a dangerous thing for a jury

China takes broadband crown from U.S.

China experienced a 28 percent increase in fixed broadband subscribers over last year, ending the quarter with 71.6 million subscribers — 1.4 million more than the U.S.

Intel, AMD see date with justice pushed back to 2010

AMD's five-year-old antitrust suit alleging that Intel unfairly manipulated the chip market hits another snag

Spear-phishing attacks have hooked 15,000, says Verisign

Verisign believes that two crime groups are behind 95 percent of the spear-phishing e-mail incidents since February 2007

Last call for Windows XP PCs is mid-June

Retailers will stop taking orders for XP-based systems a few weeks before Microsoft's June 30 cutoff

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SSDs: Perfect fit for mobile computing?

IBM seeks consensus on ALM architecture

Company's Jazz platform is leveraged in its Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration along with HTML, REST, and XML

Bluetooth, IE to get critical Microsoft patches

Next Tuesday's patch releases will include seven sets of security updates, including six rated as 'important'

Broadcom co-founder drugged drinks, indictment says

Nicholas and former Broadcom CFO also indicted for engaging in stock-option backdating between 1999 and 2005 and falsifying corporate books, records

Desktop virtualization: Vista’s secret weapon?

Virtualization, which allows users to run apps from multiple versions of Windows at the same time on a desktop, can alleviate OS/software compatibility issues

More laws, collaboration required for online safety

At Authentication and Online Trust Summit, security experts discuss ways businesses, law enforcement, and policy makers must work together to solve cybercrime

Cornell bests HP in patent case

HP ordered to pay Cornell damages of $184 million in the case involving a patent that boosts computer speed by enabling more efficient data processing

Time to Git going

CRM to go

Mozilla says Firefox 3.0 bug-free

Mozilla launches Release Candidate 2 of its browser, which fixes about 40 bugs

Businesses, city launch free public Wi-Fi in Harvard Square

Harvard Square Business Association drove the project and Anaptyx installed the network for free public Wi-Fi for users within a half mile of the square

Update: Verizon Wireless to buy Alltel

Acquisition of wireless provider Alltel is valued at about $28 billion

Daily news beat for June 5, 2008

Reports say Apple may tout new OS next week

Apple may demo the next iteration of Mac OS X or even release code to developers in preparation for an early-2009 launch

BI steps into the cloud

Panorama Software unveils analytics service that goes beyond Google Docs

Google’s intentions for developers

E-Ten shows off Windows Mobile smartphones at Computex

E-Ten will launch two 3G touch-screen smartphones after Acer's proposed acquisition of the company is complete

Microsoft denies it’s running call-in ‘save XP’ petition

Callers flood support lines after Neowin.net posts a notice claiming Microsoft has been tallying calls in support of extending Windows XP's availability

MSI aims next Wind mini-laptop at businesses

MSI has plans for a smaller, thinner version of its Wind mini-laptop aimed at business people as well as a new mobile Internet device that's smaller than a mini-laptop

Will Linux get Palm its developers back?

Microsoft gets mixed ruling in latest Alcatel-Lucent case

Court rules Microsoft did not infringe Alcatel-Lucent's video encoding patent and upholds four Microsoft patents, but found that Alcatel-Lucent didn't infringe them

Developers give Google mixed reviews

Google I/O attendees laud development technologies but question the company's directions and intentions

Researchers say notification laws not lowering ID theft

Carnegie Mellon study finds no change in the rate of reported identity thefts before and after data breach laws; analysts say thieves are just getting better

Toshiba launches first laptops with new AMD chips

AMD's new Turion X2 Ultra ZM processors will be included in Toshiba's new Satellite PCs

Yahoo denies ‘poison pill,’ Icahn accusations

Roy Bostock fires new salvo in the war of words between Yahoo's board and Carl Icahn, saying the investor has 'no other plan' for the company other than merging with Microsoft

Update: Korea fines Intel $25 million for antitrust violations

Intel said it plans to appeal Korean FTC ruling that it abused its dominant position in the microprocessor market

Microsoft to aid developer teams with modeling

The next version of Visual Studio Team System will allow developers to create a visual model of an application's architecture and compare it to back-end code

AT&T speeds up 3G network

The upgrade has provided a 20 percent boost in downlink speeds

Icahn fires off scathing letter to Yahoo directors

Outspoken investor blasts Yahoo board and co-founder/CEO Jerry Yang over alleged maneuvers to scare away Microsoft from pursuing acquisition bid

Microsoft sees parallel app development as future trend

Multi-core app requirements pondered; TechEd attendees comment on multiple technologies

Windows XP SP3 omits critical security update

The missing security patch is the reason why some Windows XP SP3 users have critical vulnerabilities in their Flash software

Jimmy Wales unimpressed with Powerset’s Wikipedia search

Wikipedia founder says he's not yet sold on semantic search technology in general

Sun confirms plan to ship solid-state drives in 2008

Sun is working with undisclosed third parties to create solid-state drives that can support its software, server, and storage products

Yahoo releases Address Book API

Address Book API is second major step in Yahoo's long-range, ambitious Open Strategy initiative to open all Yahoo sites, services, and Web apps to outside developers

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