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New Gnome Desktop Stands Tall

The Gnome Foundation today released a new version of its popular Linux desktop. The new release, Gnome version 2.8, boosts speed and usability and offers several new features, the foundation said in a statement ...

Cendant To Acquire Ramada International

Cendant Corporation's Hotel Group and Marriott International today announced the signing of a letter of intent for Cendant to purchase Ramada International Hotels & Resorts, primarily a franchised brand of 204 hotels representing 27,728 rooms in 26 countries and territories ...

SAP Opens Global Support Center in China

German software giant SAP has opened a support center in China to serve its customers in China, Japan and Korea, the company said in a statement ...

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Microsoft Sued by California Local Governments

Microsoft Corp has been sued by California cities and counties that are accusing the Redmond, Washington-based software giant of illegally charging inflated prices for its products as a result of a monopoly control it held on the personal computer operating systems market ...

Operation WebSnare Tallies Over 100 Internet Criminals

The Justice Department announced Thursday that its "Operation WebSnare," has resulted in the arrest of more than 100 criminals in the past 3 months throughout the United States ...

SP2 Conflicts Revealed by Microsoft

Some people are anxious to download and install the Service Pack 2 (SP2) update to the Microsoft XP operating system, but just as many others seem wary of the 80-MB security-focused package and foresee possible problems with it ...

Western Digital’s Raptor Outperforms SCSI 15K

The high-performance capabilities of Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives were validated recently, when Western Digital's Raptor 10,000-RPM SATA outperformed 10,000- and 15,000-RPM SCSI drives from two competitors in separate independent, head-to-head comparison tests conducted by and published in the June issue of Maximum PC magazine and the upcoming July issue of Custom PC magazine...

Clearwire To Commence Broadband Wireless Internet

In an appearance at the Wireless Communications Association conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, telecom entrepreneur Craig McCaw announced his plans to launch a nationwide broadband wireless network using spectrum and technologies his holding company has been assembling over the last year ...

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Intel Opens BIOS to Industry

Intel announced today it is working with CollabNet to release the Foundation code of Intel's next-generation firmware technology under the Common Public License (CPL) later this year. More than 20 years old, the BIOS -- the Basic Input-Output System -- is one of the oldest software technologies in the PC platform. It operates in the preboot environment, which is the first few seconds after a PC is turned on and before the operating system loads...

Fujitsu Forms Unix Server Alliance with Sun Microsystems

Fujitsu said the company has formed a strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems in the Unix server business to minimize its exposure to this segment amid the ongoing shift to Linux servers ...

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Sony Abruptly Ends Clie PDA Sales in US

Sony today said it will stop developing and selling new handheld PDAs in the United States this year, exiting what the company called "a market in decline" and possibly striking a blow to software maker PalmSource. ...

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Netherlands Court Sides with Lindows in Dispute with Microsoft

Microsoft's most recent attempt to push the Lindows name out of the marketplace has been thrown out of a Netherlands court. ...

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Taiwan Programmer Nabbed for Writing Trojan

Police in Taiwan arrested Wang An-ping, a 30-year-old man who admitted to authoring a Trojan application later used to steal information from government computers. Wang reportedly told police that he developed the software as a commercial venture but eventually posted the code for free on the Web, including to some Chinese-language hacking sites ...

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Macromedia Flash 7 for Linux Available

Macromedia has announced Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux. This new version of Macromedia Flash Player is said to offer improved performance and security and powerful new development capabilities. Macromedia Flash Player is bundled with Linux operating systems distributed by Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems and Turbolinux ...

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