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Mobile Linux group releases first specification

The Linux Phone Standards Forum has fully released its first mobile Linux standard, completing the half-specification it released in June

Toshiba launches its first tablet PC with LED screen

The Latitude XT is targeted at 'mobile professionals' and is Toshiba's effort to move tablet PCs from vertical markets into the consumer realm

Facebook partners quiet on Beacon fallout

While some partners have turned off Beacon until Facebook makes more changes, others are reticent to speak on the subject

CNBC taps Microsoft for banner, contextual ads

In a deal similar to ones already in place with Facebook and Digg, Microsoft will become exlusive provider of banner and contextual ads for the CNBC site

Intel adds encryption to vPro

Embedded security features, code-named Danbury, make application encryption easier, add new layer of hard drive protection

Paris on Rails welcomes Ruby on Rails 2.0

Conference organizers missed latest upgrade

Swiss vendor E2E pushes model-driven integration

Company releases version 4 of its Bridge tool for UML diagrams

Update: NetSuite IPO auction begins

Business applications host mimics Google with auction-style initial public offering

BlueNote Networks to offer APIs for unified communications

Web services will multiply reach of notification and IVR across channels

LinkedIn opens site to developers

Professional networking site also jazzes up its design

Iona upgrades open, closed source SOA technologies

Artix, Fuse product lines are refreshed in Iona Technology's extensive upgrade

Denver airport goes fast and free on Wi-Fi

Denver International Airport switched its public Wi-Fi offering from paid to advertising-supported and saw Wi-Fi use grew tenfold within a week

NTT DoCoMo updates kid-friendly cell phone

DoCoMo's F801i cell phone for children has a 'panic' alarm and a GPS location tracker to help parents find their kids quickly if they get lost

Red Hat offers JBoss Developer Studio IDE

Open source technologies bundled, tooling and runtime featured

Via shrinks the PC with Artigo do-it-yourself kit

Via Technologies' do-it-yourself computer kit, based on the credit card-size Pico-ITX motherboard, will appeal to PC enthusiasts willing to pay extra for a tiny computer

Amazed at innovation of the bad guys

Toshiba to make flash-based notebook drives

Toshiba's flash-based solid-state drives for laptops will offer faster boot times and lower power consumption than hard disk drives

CompUSA closing shop

Investment firm Gordon Brothers Group acquires CompUSA, will start winding down its retail operations and looking to sell the company's business and assets

Mob wisdom means business

So-called 'crowdsourcing' lets companies create massive focus groups, garner fresh ideas, and even predict the future

Borland to mix ALM, business intelligence

Company seeks to provide useful metrics in software development projects

RIM, Yahoo, JetBlue to offer in-flight Wi-Fi

Only e-mail and instant messaging will be available at first, but JetBlue hopes to add more services and planes; Virgin America has similar plans in the works

First Passport, now fraud: ex-MS employee charged

Former Microsoft worker whose error resulted in massive 1999 Hotmail outage also found guilty of billing company for more than $1 million in false expense reports

Ruby on Rails 2.0 released

Ruby on Rails 2.0 released for Web apps

Web framework emphasizes REST Web services

Dell’s Latitude XT convertible laptop ready to ship

New laptop's display flips, taking it from traditional form to that of a tablet PC

Stolen laptop had 268,000 blood donor IDs

Social Security numbers among data contained on laptop, but spokewoman for blood center believes information is secure

Free software group files copyright suit against Verizon

Software Freedom Law Center alleges that Verizon uses BusyBox's Unix utilities without providing the open source code as required by GPL

Delay, repairs, even success hit Palm’s profit

Though Centro has shipped in higher-than-expected numbers, it can't offset damage done by Foleo cancellation and company's other problems for the quarter

Analyst: NetSuite IPO should find success

With fiscal losses coming down and revenue going up, NetSuite's IPO is in a good position, but company's auction-style offering faces poor market and bad timing

Mozilla, Opera look to make video on the Web easier

Those two browsers will support a new HTML tag specifically for embedding video in Web pages

Corporations form group to create blogging best practices

The Blog Council, which aims to promote corporate blogging best practices, includes Dell, Cisco, Nokia, and SAP as founding members

Senate passes extension of R&D tax credit

Passage of the Temporary Tax Relief Act gives a one-year extension to the research and development tax credit program, enabling companies to plan for next year's R&D work

HP touts BI services growth, Neoview success

Hewlett-Packard's business intelligence services business grew by 50 percent this year

First look at Amazon Kindle

Microsoft uses new XBRL data tags in SEC filing

Microsoft says it is the first company to submit data using the new XML-based XBRL taxonomy

Blogger presses Gates for IE8 answers

Developers chastise Microsoft for not keeping browser upgrade promises, for not supporting crucial Web standards, and for not keeping them in the loop

Multimedia sharing off limits on Western Digital NAS drive

Piracy concerns lead Western Digital to disallow sharing of audio and video files on its 1TB WD My Book World Edition network-attached storage drive

Report: Apple threatens shops selling iPhone in Singapore

Apple threatens to pursue damages of $691 for every unlocked iPhone sold by retailers in a Singapore mall

Facebook doesn’t budge on Beacon’s broad user tracking

Despite privacy concerns, Facebook has no plans to modify Beacon's ability to indiscriminately track actions of all users on external sites that have implemented the ad system

IBM system to scan streets at Beijing Olympics, NYC

Smart Surveillance System, or S3, uses analytic tools to index digital video recordings and issue real-time alerts when certain patterns are detected

ClusterSeven offers monitoring for Google spreadsheets

Vendor's software captures all activities and changes associated with a spreadsheet and helps users spot and fix irregularities

Microsoft looks to make data access easier for developers

ADO.Net Entity Framework beta offered; ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions preview also planned

Disk storage capacity sales soared in Q3

According to IDC, EMC led the pack in the 50 percent growth over last year

Upcoming Microsoft patches focus on media formats

With seven Microsoft security updates set for release, December to be busy month for system administrators

AdultFriendFinder settles pop-up adware charges

Company has agreed to clean up its marketing practices and require consumers to give their consent before ads are displayed

AT&T will not unlock the iPhone to use on other networks

Although the company's wireless network is open to outside devices, iPhone is the lone exception

Microsoft reschedules PDC for October 2008

As expected, the show will happen when Windows Server, SQL Server and Visual Studio are ready for prime time

IDC forecasts IT spending slowdown in ’08

Though IT will be hit by economic uncertainties, market researcher IDC also predicts continued growth in developing markets, Web gadgets

Best Buy to distribute Dell PCs

With Best Buy deal, Dell's laptops, desktops, and all-in-one PCs will appear in more than 900 U.S. retail locations

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