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January’s coolest gadgets

Phones become more useful, VoIP earns its stripes, and a new rugged laptop

LG’s Shine to make international debut

Company will be showing off its latest cell phone at CES

MySQL on track with storage engine

Alpha version of Falcon should be available for download within the week

Nokia, Samsung sued over Bluetooth

Patent infringement legal action surprises members of Bluetooth SIG

IBM: ISVs from emerging markets play bigger role

Big Blue official says the number of developers in Brazil, China, India, beginning to surpass that in the U.S. and Western Europe

Dash, Yahoo bring local search to GPS

Companies partner to enable in-car search for businesses and services

Fairchild to buy Taiwanese chip maker

Company plunks down $200 million for System General

Windows also target in month of Apple Bugs

Two days, two "Apple bugs"…that also work on Windows.

AT&T’s big buy could mean new bundles

Full ownership of Cingular will allow AT&T to combine more wired and wireless services

Outage knocks Lycos offline

"Cascade of failures" at provider SAVVIS takes the entire Lycos Network off the Internet

Q&A: E-voting issues still there

Security expert Eugene Spafford says there's still work to be done to ensure accuracy

November chip sales rise 11.3 percent

Analysts had been concerned about a slump in the selling price of many products

IT is strategic, after all

Florida court rejects attempt to see e-voting code

Judge says source code of machines is a trade secret

CheckFree buys smaller rival

Payment processing vendor hopes to boost presence with Carreker acquisition

Google closes Gmail cross-site scripting vulnerability

Hole would let sites collect e-mail addresses from Gmail users' contact lists

Apple faces US lawsuit over iTunes-iPod link

Class-action suit alleges that Apple violates antitrust laws

IBM, Siemens venture lands $9.2 billion German army IT deal

Ten-year contract for 'Herkules' project will see army's data centers modernized

First New Year’s resolution

Open source personal tracking system gets first test

OpenBeacon tracks attendees during Chaos Communication Congress

BenQ Mobile still seeks buyer for bankrupt German unit

Current circumstances create potential to make phone maker more attractive to investors

Alcatel-Lucent completes buy of Nortel 3G business

Acquisition makes company one of largest UMTS providers

LG to demo 1080p content at CES

Content created with high-speed motion camera

Java Fun and Games: Tips from the Java grab bag

Help yourself to some useful Java SE tips

Telelogic offers free UML tool

Free tool may spur UML adoption

Privacy, patents on agenda for new Congress

Dems give data protection, patent reforms new life

FFIEC deadline just the beginning

Support costs, fine tuning keep spending high in 2007

Quick Review: 15-inch Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro

Hacker: Blu-ray, HD DVD copy protection cracked

Mulix64 has posted a video purporting to show the software decrypting a copy of Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film, Full Metal Jacket

Net neutrality advocates cheer AT&T concessions

Conditions called an important precedent

Apple clears Jobs in options probe

Company also restates financial results

New Creative Commons head to reach out to businesses

Venture capitalist Joichi Ito eyes big business as next frontier for grassroots license

“Happy New Year!” worm on the move

Spreading from 160 domains, the malware requires users to run an executable

Open source franchising

Yahoo offers auction refunds

After Kaden-dot-com vanishes, Yahoo says it will return any money its auction users spent with the Japanese retailer

AT&T offers more concessions for BellSouth acquisition

Provider pledges to maintain a 'neutral network' and not prioritize traffic

Feds crawl toward encryption

Second Life buzz plagued by fuzzy numbers

Second Life is facing an acute case of buzzkill over claims that it's padding population figures.

Google Notebooks open to public

Alliance Data to buy another DoubleClick division

Company scoops up Abacus data management and analytics arm for $435 million

Mobile Tech Making Liars of Us All?

Amsterdam tests open source software

City authorities anticipate reducing reliance on Microsoft software

Yahoo delves into microeconomics

Search engine's research arm studying the behavior of users

‘Net access back in Asia after earthquake

Telcos redirected Web traffic to undamaged cables

YouTube response to Japan complaints ‘not satisfactory’

Group of content producers says YouTube lacks concrete proposals for how it will handle copyrighted material

Netflix tops customer satisfaction rating

CDW ranked last among top 40 retail Web sites

BT to offer long distance services in India

Telecom will provide both domestic and internation services to corporations

Microsoft: Botnets top cyber-threat

Armies of compromised computers are behind such scourges as spam, phishing and denial of service attacks

Taiwan allows three chip investments to China

Move marks significant easing of regulations for its technology industry and a sign of improving ties with China

After month, no rush to adopt Vista

Even some of Microsoft's own products still don't run on Vista