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09/02/2010 11:30 AM
Dell cedes data-storage maker 3Par to HP (AP)

FILE - In this file photograph taken Feb. 16, 2010, the exterior of Hewlett Packard headquarters is shown in Palo Alto, Calif. The bidding is heating up between computer makers Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. for the data storage company 3Par Inc., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Even before Dell could make its latest offer public, HP has come back with a higher bid. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - Dell Inc. is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. for data-storage maker 3Par Inc.



09/02/2010 03:00 PM
Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown (AP)

In this photo taken on Friday Aug. 27, 2010, a man chats on his mobile as he walks past the hoarding of BlackBerry mobile in Ahmadabad, India.  Indian authorities are scheduled to meet Monday evening, Aug. 30,  to decide whether to ban some BlackBerry services in India, an official said, one day ahead of a government-imposed deadline for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. to give security agencies access to encrypted data or face a ban. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)AP - India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.



09/02/2010 12:40 PM
AP Interview: UN telecoms chief urges data sharing (AP)

Hamadoun Toure, chief of the U.N.'s telecommunication agency talks to Associated Press in London, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. The chief of the U.N.'s telecommunications agency urged the Canadian manufacturer of the BlackBerry to allow law enforcement agencies access to customer data, saying that governments all over the world had legitimate security concerns which should not be ignored. The International Telecommunication Union agency's Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure said that all governments engaged in the fight against terrorism had the right to demand access to users' information from the maker of the BlackBerry  Research in Motion Ltd. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - BlackBerry's Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data, the U.N. telecommunications chief said, adding that governments have legitimate security concerns that should not be ignored.



08/30/2010 03:19 PM
Able to unplug from work while you’re on vacation? (Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while you’re on holiday doesn’t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, it’s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more and more connected workers to stay plugged in even while they’re trying to tune out.
08/30/2010 11:58 AM
Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says (Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Feel the need to "check in" on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research.
09/02/2010 03:57 PM
See what iPhone users are listening to with SongStumblr (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - When you walk into a cafe and note the numerous iPhone-toting denizens with telltale white earbuds firmly embedded in their ears, do you wonder what they’re listening to? If so, Frimby’s new music discovery and sharing app for iOS, SongStumblr, could help you find out. Recently updated to 2.0, SongStumblr uses your iPhone’s 3G and Bluetooth abilities to let you see what others are listening to around the world as well as around the block.
09/02/2010 02:08 PM
New AOL search deal with Google includes mobile (AP)

FILE - In this file photo made Jan. 11, 2010, a Google logo is displayed at the National Retail Federation convention in New York. Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites under a new, five-year deal the companies signed this week. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites under a new, five-year deal the companies signed this week.



09/02/2010 03:16 PM
iTunes TV rentals now available on Mac and PC (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Looking to catch the most recent season of Lost, but don’t want to succumb the baggage of having to buy a bunch of episodes that you’ll only watch once? Relax, friend, because if you’re an iTunes 10 user, you can now rent TV shows from the comfort of your very own…computer.
09/02/2010 02:57 PM
Burger King agrees to $3.3 billion sale to 3G Capital (Reuters)

A Burger King sign outside a Miami restaurant. US fast food giant Burger King said Thursday it would no longer buy palm oil from Sinar Mas or its subsidiaries after Greenpeace campaigned against the Indonesian group's land-clearing practices.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)Reuters - Burger King Holdings Inc agreed to sell itself to investment firm 3G Capital for $3.26 billion, giving the No. 2 U.S. fast-food chain breathing room to fix its business and close the gap with leader McDonald's Corp.



09/02/2010 01:24 PM
Twitter launches iPad application (AFP)

Hot microblogging service Twitter launched an application for the Apple iPad that is getting rave reviews from technology blogs.(Twitter)AFP - Hot microblogging service Twitter launched an application for the Apple iPad on Thursday to rave reviews from technology blogs.



09/02/2010 04:19 PM
Apple TV could help Netflix growth (Reuters)
Reuters - Shares in Netflix Inc neared their all-time high on Thursday, after Apple Inc said that the company's streaming video service would be added to a new version of Apple TV.
09/02/2010 11:39 AM
Skype Introduces 10-Way Video Calling (Mashable)
Mashable - Skype -- apparently pleased with its five-way beta group video-calling functionality -- has just released a new version of Skype 5.0 for Windows that doubles group support. It now allows for up to 10 video callers.
09/02/2010 09:28 AM
Ping's scheme is to sell more tunes (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Do we really need another social network? That depends on how you view the purpose of social networks. The biggest, Facebook, is great for monitoring, from a safe distance, what your old high school buddies are doing. But don't put Apple's new Ping service into the same category.
09/02/2010 04:30 PM
Take-Two posts 3Q profit, revenue soars (AP)
AP - Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. posted better-than-expected results for its fiscal third quarter Thursday, reversing a loss as revenue more than tripled thanks to strong sales of "Red Dead Redemption" and other games.
09/02/2010 12:10 PM
Onapsis to Release ERP Vulnerability Testing Suite (PC World)
PC World - An information security company will soon release a tool that will allow companies to test their ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for security threats.
09/02/2010 06:40 AM
Botnet Takedown May Yield Valuable Data (PC World)
PC World - Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam.
08/30/2010 05:00 PM
Oracle's Suit Against Android Could Split Open Source (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Oracle's suit against Google for the use of Java in its Android portable operating system continues to reverberate through the open-source movement. In the newest development, Google has declined to participate in the upcoming JavaOne conference, an event formerly hosted by Java creator Sun Microsystems and now run by Sun's new owner, Oracle.
09/02/2010 02:20 PM
Microsoft Uses Bing Home Page to Push IE8 (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft on Thursday started featuring a small advertisement on its Bing home page for Internet Explorer 8 in an apparent effort to encourage more people to migrate to the latest version of its browser.

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