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Hi-def video to ring in digital living room

Interview: CyberLink CEO Alice Chang discusses the new generation of digital technologies

Better password hashes

Taiwan company sues Apple over lost sales

Maker of iPod-like music player wants compensation for losses incurred when its products were under injunction

Toshiba readies desktop HD DVD drive

New optical disc drive provides read and write support for HD DVD, CD, and DVD formats

Drive makers race to be first with 1TB drives

Seagate and Hitachi both plan to ship 1TB drives in the first half of this year

Google partners with Chinese P2P site

Google continues to expand access to its search services in China through partnerships

Adobe to issue patches for Reader vulnerability

Dangerous vulnerability could be used for phishing attacks or to remotely access files

Implement crosscutting concerns using Spring 2.0 AOP

Spring 2.0 offers excellent user-friendly AOP capabilities

Researcher: QuickTime still at risk from MySpace bug

Bug could still be exploited in combination with other malicious software to run unauthorized software on a patched computer, expert says

Seagate: 1TB drive by June

The switch to perpendicular recording is the key to enabling such big jumps in storage capacity on hard-disk drives

House member outlines agenda in Second Life

George Miller's short question-and-answer session in Second Life didn't address many technology issues

Does VMware for Macs have a chance?

Although Parallels has first-mover advantage in the market, VMware's dominance in the Windows market may overcome that lead

Cisco warns of vulnerabilities in NAC product

NAC in a box vulnerable to remote hackers

Ready to produce IMs in court?

Companies are now on the hook to retain a broader range of digital data than before

Microsoft to kick off 2007 with 8 security updates

The company will release three updates each for Windows and Office, it said Thursday

Vote: Worst vendor of ’06

Google upgrades enterprise search engine

Results clustering and adding bias help refine search

Study: Most info searches are useless

Accenture finds managers spends hours every day looking for information that is of little value

French game maker sues Microsoft

Legal battle is holding up the development of a mobile version of Halo

Online spending tops $100 billion

Spending on U.S. retail Web sites up 24 percent over 2005

Technology helps Hollywood control burning

Sonic Solutions' Qflix technology and IP licensing program aim to cut down illegal DVD burning

Patch issued for OpenOffice.org vulnerability

'Highly critical' flaw could be exploited by creating a malicious file in the WMF or EMF formats

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Disk-makers join to push flash-embedded drives

Hitachi, Seagate, Fujitsu, Samsung Electronics, and Toshiba form Hybrid Storage Alliance

SanDisk releases 32GB drive for notebooks

SanDisk's solid-state drive using flash memory aims to replace conventional hard disk drives

Cisco buys e-mail security firm for $830m

IronPort brings messaging security smarts

Sohu offers updated Sogou search engine

Chinese Internet company offers faster, more accurate search results

Lattix tackles software architecture complexity

Upgrade adds ability to gauge databases, Web services

Google nets search deal with China Mobile

Google to provide search service for China Mobile's Monternet WAP portal

LG to show dual HD DVD/Blu-ray player

LG's high-definition video disc player will go on sale in early 2007

Adobe to launch Production Studio for Mac

Adobe also plans to ship an updated version of the Windows suite

India’s Firstsource acquires U.S. outsourcer

Firstsource to pay $40M for health-care claims outsourcing company BPM and its subsidiaries

Cisco offers $830 million for IronPort

Cisco to buy developer of e-mail and Web security products

SpectraLink Wi-Fi phones expand to a, b, g networks

New multi-network phones let employees talk everywhere a wireless LAN reaches, avoiding cellular bills and using traditional phone features

OLPC aims for mass production in Q3

One Laptop per Child plans to conclude its third build of the laptop by early April, finalizing any last-minute engineering tweaks

One Laptop Per Child readies ‘Sugar’ interface

As children start using the laptops, OLPC is looking to incorporate feedback on Sugar into the design process

Parallels Desktop boots from, reads and writes NTFS and FAT32 partitions

Apple, Google, and Napster hit with lawsuits

Parallels Desktop beta: Faster graphics, CD/DVD burn and the marvelous Coherence Mode

Spotlight on current trends, not tech breakthroughs

Adoption of the "connected" digital home and HD video didn't take off as predicted last year, so will continue to be the focus

Plaintiffs to amend Apple stock-options lawsuit

Apple's acknowledgement in the SEC filing is a "tacit admission" of a practice of backdating, attorney says

Breaking Grid Down

VMware and Parallels: The Mac virtualization slugfest is on

Enabling the innovators within

Earthlink CEO Betty dead at 49

Social networking site figures in memorial to longtime chief

Acrobat Reader plugin vulnerable to attacks

Code could run malicious attack on PCs

Key Indian IT services organization moving to Linux

ELCOT goes open source for price, ease of operation and security

Kodak, Sony end patent dispute

Under new agreement, companies will have access to each other's patent portfolios

Negative image undermines BenQ sell-off

Investors interested only in changing the manufacturer into a designer of mobile phone for other companies

Talkin’ open source blues