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Greenpeace guide ranks green electronics devices

Phone from Sony-Ericsson, notebook from Sony, and PCs from Dell and HP top Greenpeace's 'Searching for green electronics' study

IBM takeover of Telelogic gets European approval

With the acquisition of Telelogic, IBM becomes by far the largest vendor of software modelling and requirements management tools

What gets neglected when testing SOA services

Whatever happened to $900 Google?

Google stock faces the same problem that Microsoft and other tech companies have faced: Once growth levels off, their share prices drop

Yahoo loses top spot in Taiwan to Wretch

Thanks to purchase of Wretch.cc, Yahoo sews up top two spots among Taiwan's most popular Web sites

Samsung’s new drives can give laptops 1TB of storage

The Spinpoint M6 drive has a 500GB capacity and fits into the chassis of most commercial notebooks, meaning that two drives combined can provide 1TB of storage

IBM promotes agile development

Company is probably one of the largest practitioners of the development practice, executive stresses

Samsung to deliver 256GB solid-state drive in 2009

The 256GB drives would quadruple the capacity of the SSDs Samsung is currently shipping

Microsoft’s cutting edge on display at TechFest

This year's TechFest show of research projects featured new developments in touch screens, GPS-enabled mobile devices, and Wi-Fi

Update: Facebook hires away Google online ad vice president

Sheryl Sandberg will leave Google to become Facebook's chief operating officer reporting directly to CEO Mark Zuckerberg

For Web apps, get a service-level guarantee

Businesses adopting SaaS should get from provider guarantee on levels of service for uptime, performance, as well as data security, backup, recovery, and integrity

Google Gears comes out for mobile

Google Gears, which allows browser-based apps to keep running while offline, is being ported to mobile devices

FTC settles breach complaint with student lender

Goal Financial had failed to protect sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, of thousands of customers

New Microsoft OS aimed at researchers

Microsoft says its new Singularity OS is like a concept car and that it is giving the prototype to researchers in hopes that they will develop new architectures

Microsoft shows off collaborative search tools

SearchTogether is a small program that appears as a sidebar on a Web browser and allows users to invite others to help them with searches

New D-Link products aim for higher frequency

Though not yet ratified, 802.11n already claims several compatible products, including D-Link's new Wireless N Access Point and Quadband Wireless N Router

TopCoder, AOL forge app dev partnership

AOL looks to build Web and mobile apps with the TopCoder Enterprise Software Development platform

Has agile programming peaked?

Daily news beat for March 4, 2008

Medical groups launch e-prescribing Web site

GetRxConnected.com aims to persuade physicians to switch from paper-based medical prescriptions to e-prescribing, claiming it can reduce errors and save lives

Is the ‘4.0’ era is upon us?

Analysts say an 'always-on' world with unheard-of levels of interaction between man and machine is already at hand

‘Mebroot’ proves to be a tough rootkit to crack

Mebroot is nearly invisible to security software since it infects the master boot record and loads before anything else

Power line networks pick up speed

DS2 and Devolo show at Cebit power line networks capable of supporting speeds of up to 400Mbps — twice the technology's current maximum capacity

Microsoft’s European antitrust point man leaves for Apple

Public affairs specialist who spent years helping Microsoft battle European Commission's competition regulators moves on to Apple's government affairs department

Knoa 5.0 tackles end-user performance

Knoa's Experience and Performance Manager tracks how users are interacting with products to help businesses determine whether they are getting the most from their investment

Yahoo adds OnePlace to its mobile suite

Yahoo's OnePlace gives mobile phone users a single repository for photos, Web links, news feeds, and other kinds of content

Which vendor is driving you crazy?

Security vendors prep anti-virus software for Mac OS X

Virus protection software is waiting in the wings in case Apple Mac OS X suddenly becomes a target of choice for hackers

A new breed of outsourcing: KPO

AMD launches 780 chip set for Puma, Cartwheel

AMD moves a step closer to introducing its upcoming Cartwheel desktop chip package and Puma notebook chip package

Dell toughens up notebook line

The new ruggedized version of Dell's Latitude D630 laptop is shock-resistant and resists moisture, high altitude and high temperatures

Asus shows new Eee PC with larger screen

Low-cost Eee PC 900 sports an 8.9-inch screen and more storage space

Microsoft offers $100K to testers of Office Live Workspace

To spur interest in its Web-based document storage and collaboration offering, Microsoft plans to give away 30,000 prizes as part of an Office Live Workspace sweepstakes

Microsoft teams with Nokia to put Silverlight on devices

Microsoft is leveraging partners to promote Silverlight adoption and will continue to use the cross-platform plug-in more and more as part of its Web content delivery strategy

Adventures in tape backup

Vodafone links IP and phone, killing roaming charges

Vodafone Germany will let users make and receive calls abroad using a PC, effectively rendering roaming charges a thing of the past

SAP, Intel partner on new ERP appliance

Appliances will be loaded with SAP's Business All-in-One ERP software and MaxDB database, and Novell's SUSE Enterprise Linux

Zend PHP to run on Windows Server 2008

Move provides parity between Linux and Windows Server for the popular Web language

Cisco jams features into faster WAN edge routers

New chips promise to allow added functionality without disrupting packet flow

Hosted SharePoint stifles partners, for now

Microsoft's decision to offer a hosted version of SharePoint for businesses of any size has negative repercussions for some current SharePoint users

Agile progress report shows adoption has hit a wall

IBM official talks about the strengths and weaknesses of software development; CodeGear officials tout upcoming Ruby IDE

Microsoft Workspace opens to broader availability

Microsoft Office Live Workspace, which is a free online component of Office, will be made available on Tuesday

HP exec: Supply and services next printing booster

Though printer prices are on the decline, customers will still need printer supplies and services, which could lead to larger revenues

SharePoint growth drives improvements

According to Bill Gates, SharePoint is the fastest-growing server product Microsoft has ever had and the company is going to dedicate more resources to the product

Microsoft to offer hosted versions of SharePoint and Exchange to SMBs

Previously, the hosted versions were only available to larger companies, but the move to target SMBs may be an attempt to compete with Google for customers

Ballmer: IT is entering another period of revolution

Speaking at the Cebit conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that IT is due for another revolution, this one geared toward how we interact with technology

Microsoft (sort of) owns up to Vista’s flaws

Government reviewing Microsoft’s interoperability changes

The DOJ and state attorneys general are reviewing the interoperability changes Microsoft has announced in its most recent antitrust status report

Visto: Microsoft has settled patent dispute with company

Visto's two-year-old suit against Microsoft for patent infringement of wireless e-mail technology has been dropped due to the settlement between the companies

Software AG lays out aggressive growth plan

CEO says Software AG is perfectly positioned to grow, innovate in business processes and SOA; predicts the company will double in size every five years