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Update: Apple picks Cingular to sell iPhone

Phone will operate on Cingular's EDGE data network and will support 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 wireless technologies

Macworld 2007 report: First, the dark side

New Office for Mac coming

Microsoft says it will ship by year’s end

Cisco: Intelligent networks will drive convergence

Company plans to target consumer market, develop user-friendly home network

Adobe ships Flex Builder 2 for Mac

Rich Internet design tools will combine benefits of desktop software with Web reach

Apple drops “Computer” from name

Company is more than just computers, says Jobs

Senators reintroduce net neutrality bill

BI vendor MicroStrategy eyes growth for 2007

Flash-integrated dashboard, 64-bit caching architecture among plans for the year

Dell urges telecom firms to deliver fiber to homes

Chairman's keynote speech highlights need for greater fiber-optic broadband to homes

ZTE mobile phone assembly plant in Africa closed

Closing of unprofitable plant casts doubt over second intended plant in Africa

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Still more iPhone

iPhone final details: Price is $499 for 4 GB, 8 GB $599

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$100 laptop group shows off recharger

OLPC unveils at CES a novel battery recharger that looks like a yo-yo

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Sun releases new blade, subscription service

New Sun service offers customers several automatic refreshes of its blade hardware

Talkback: Are iPhone, AppleTV revolutionary?

Patch for critical Excel flaw coming

A critical Excel flaw will be part of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, according to information released Tuesday from security firm Fortinet.

FTC goes after payments processor

InterBill, Pharmacycards.com allegedly debited $2.4M from consumers' bank accounts without permission

Bach: Wireless key to future entertainment

Interview: Robbie Bach discusses Microsoft's plan to help users untangle the web of products for the digital home

Germany checks 22 million cards for child porn payments

German police work with credit card companies to search out specific illegal transactions

TV CEOs: Converged services aren’t there yet

Execs at CES agree: Service providers need to improve on enabling converged services in the home

UK’s MI5 to send terrorism alerts via e-mail

Security Service will begin e-mailing U.K. citizens to warn them of changes to the national threat level

Sophos releases Web filtering appliance

Gateway helps prevent users from infecting their computers while Web surfing

Update: Motorola CEO announces new phones, digital TV boxes

Motorola at CES shows off its plans to hook the developing world on mobile phones

Researchers: Hack will help kill HD DVD copy protection

Release of software that decodes encrypted HD DVD and Blu-ray movies will make AACS standard obsolete

Report: Apple, Cingular to team up on cell phone

Steve Jobs expected to announce at Macworld a cell phone with wireless service from Cingular

Motorola music handset marries Microsoft, Linux

Motorola and Microsoft are also developing handsets for downloading music over 3G networks

Samsung phones to include Yahoo, Google services

Samsung will pre-load Yahoo's new services suite Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0

Second investor group to bid on BenQ Mobile

Rival U.S.-German group has plan to position BenQ Mobile as maker of high-end mobile phones

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HP offers touchscreen Vista on new PCs

HP's new desktop, notebook let users control Vista without a mouse

Disney CEO previews new site, game

Website revamp, Pirates of the Caribbean MMORPG showcase Disney's online advancements

Accelerate WSS applications with VTD-XML

Virtual Token Descriptor-XML can accelerate parsing for applications based on Web Services Security

Sony to stream high-def broadband video to new TVs

Bravia Internet Video Link allows users to connect to the Internet without a PC, controlling access through TV remote control

Update: Yahoo upgrades mobile suite with search app

Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 enters beta

VoiceBox aims to improve in-car voice controls

Better voice recognition and command interpretation improve voice-control performace for auto electronics

Update: Nokia unveils phone for bloggers

Nokia slim mobile phone and new Internet tablet are among its CES introductions

Brocade acquires Silverback for storage chips

Storage connector maker seeks to speed up the movement of data within a network

Another H-1B fight looms in Congress

Numerous employers are expected to file visa applications as soon as they can to beat a visa blackout

IBM names new chief of Greater China Group

Dah-Chuen Chien, previously the GM for South and Southeast Asia, named CEO of Greater China

Nokia to add mapping service in all converged phones

Nokia to add Smart2Go mapping and routing service to all converged devices

IRobot opens interface to Roomba platform

Programmers and students can tweak the Create platform to so that the robot can do nearly anything within the platform's 4-pound carrying capacity

Toolkit eyed for offline Web apps

Vonage to resell EarthLink municipal Wi-Fi

The deal brings together two underdogs going up against increasingly large incumbent carriers

Amazon’s Bezos backs ‘human powered’ search

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos backing ChaCha.com, human powered search.

Salesforce teams up with communications giant Siemens

Companies to offer real time mashup for CRM