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• ndmmxiaomayi

  6 Feb 06, 10:01

  Flat panel TV surge has retailers eyeing furniture
  
  When Suzanne Kimelman's husband began talking about replacing their 27-inch tube television with a plasma TV, the public relations executive knew something else would also have to be replaced--their furniture.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  6 Feb 06, 10:04

  Pixel counting joins film in obsolete bin
  
  If you work in the camera industry, February is an exciting month.
  
  That's when you head down to Florida for the annual Photo Marketing Association convention, where your company will unveil its latest camera models, thus making the ones everybody got for Christmas obsolete.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  6 Feb 06, 14:01

  Postage is due for companies sending e-mail
  
  Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  6 Feb 06, 14:01

  MTV's focus on colleges streams into your PC
  
  A hopped-up "Sesame Street" aesthetic pervades the programming on MTVU Uber, MTV's new broadband network.
  
  What's it about? A wholesome rainbow coalition of young adults seem to dance along the lanes of MTV's digital land, mugging, wielding consciences and admiring one another's video blogs. And that's the master plot, as far as it goes. If these kids are religious, they're cool about it. If they're political, they're blandly humanitarian. If they're in love, it's mostly online.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  6 Feb 06, 14:03

  South Korean commits suicide over stem-cell case
  
  SEOUL-- A South Korean truck driver killed himself on Saturday by setting himself on fire after distributing leaflets urging disgraced stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk to resume his research, police said.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:02

  AMD, Intel unwrap their latest server chips
  
  SAN FRANCISCO--In the world of server chips, Intel is touting performance while AMD is talking up power.
  
  The two rivals unfurled details of their next server chips at the International Solid State Circuits Conference taking place here this week and each took a slightly different tack.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:04

  Quest for power control moves beyond the chip
  
  Intel is working on two new manufacturing and design techniques to improve its transistors' power efficiency and reduce power consumption of a system's motherboard, the company's CTO said Monday.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:06

  Office upgrade could trap many businesses
  
  Microsoft's recent warning that customers must use an updated version of Office in new installations is likely to affect a significant number of businesses, according to a study.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:23

  IBM, Freescale to collaborate on Power chips
  
  IBM said Monday that it will work with Freescale Semiconductor, a maker of wireless and automotive chips, to find new applications and markets for IBM's Power microchips.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:25

  EMC gets serious about small-business storage
  
  Long dominant in the enterprise data industry, EMC now has its sights set at the other end of the storage spectrum and is going after the storage market for small and midsize organizations.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:26

  Linux users say OS needs touch-up with Photoshop
  
  Adobe Systems' Photoshop has been voted the most important application to port to Linux, according to the initial results of a survey carried out by software company Novell.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:41

  Earnings alert: 'Star Wars' boosts Hasbro profit
  
  Read the latest in earnings reports and financial news from some of technology's leading players. This page is updated as new reports are filed. Keep checking back for the latest.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:42

  Ingres hires Citigroup analyst as CFO
  
  Open-source database company Ingres has hired well-known financial analyst Tom Berquist as its chief financial officer, the latest in a series of management hires for the newly launched company.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:43

  Report: Alltel urges RIM-NTP settlement
  
  U.S. wireless carrier Alltel has urged Research In Motion to settle a legal dispute involving its popular BlackBerry device, the Wall Street Journal reported.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:44

  Toshiba buys Westinghouse for $5.4 billion
  
  Japan's Toshiba has agreed to buy Westinghouse, the U.S. power plant arm of British Nuclear Fuels, for $5.4 billion, three times what the target company initially hoped it would fetch.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:46

  Small is beautiful for Web 2.0 start-ups
  
  Jason Fried, president of start-up 37Signals, is a bona fide software entrepreneur. But he wants nothing to do with the traditional model of starting a software company.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:50

  Microsoft's security product hits home stretch
  
  Microsoft plans to release its subscription security program before the summer and to challenge its main rivals on pricing, CNET News.com has learned.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:51

  Eubanks joins Oakley Networks board
  
  Gordon Eubanks has joined the board of directors of IT security company Oakley Networks, the company announced Monday. Eubanks is the former chief executive of identity management company Oblix, which was recently purchased by Oracle.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:52

  Billions expected from wireless spectrum sales
  
  The sale of U.S. wireless communications licenses are projected to raise about $25 billion between 2007 and 2009, $7.8 billion higher than last year's estimate, according President Bush's 2007 budget, which was released on Monday.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:54

  Sony Ericsson phones support Exchange Server
  
  Microsoft announced Monday that Sony Ericsson, a joint venture of consumer electronics maker Sony and cell phone maker Ericsson, has licensed the Exchange ActiveSync protocol to enable Sony Ericsson's P990 and M600 phones to directly synchronize with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:55

  Can DSL handle success?
  
  After getting piles of mail from Verizon Communications about its new $14.95 DSL service, Barbara Cerney finally decided to ditch dial-up. But when she called Verizon to sign on, she got an unpleasant surprise.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:56

  Firm pushes open-source BlackBerry alternative
  
  Funambol released an open-source software product Monday that allows companies to provide e-mail services from several different types of e-mail servers such as Microsoft Exchange, IBM's Lotus Domino, IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and POP (Post Office Protocol) servers. Funambol v3 is expected to become available as a free download on the company's Web site late Monday, and a version with additional features will be available for a fee.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:57

  Gadget makers face the music
  
  It's still an iPod world, Dell learns to its dismay. Meanwhile, Sony Ericsson and others are blending tunes and phones.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:58

  'Star Wars' boosts Hasbro profit
  
  Toy maker Hasbro on Monday said fourth-quarter profit rose 15 percent on strong demand for its "Star Wars" products, but warned of tough comparisons this year as sales of the line are expected to decline.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  7 Feb 06, 10:59

  Dell bids adieu to hard-drive music players
  
  Dell is dropping high-capacity music players from its roster of consumer electronics products, a company spokesman confirmed Monday.