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Article | 7/12/2009 Lawsuit alleges Palm Pre violates copyright

Artifex Software is suing Palm over the PDF (Portable Document Format) viewer in Palm's Pre smartphone, it said on Thursday.

Article | 3/12/2009 Nokia CEO underscores support for Symbian

Symbian's future on Nokia's smartphones has been questioned lately, but Nokia's support for the OS remains unchanged for the foreseeable future, CEO O...

Article | 2/12/2009 Nokia sues LCD makers for price fixing

Nokia is suing display manufacturers Samsung, LG, Philips, Toshiba and others for price-fixing. As a result of the price fixing Nokia has paid too muc...

Article | 1/12/2009 Helsinki to recycle excess heat from data center

Helsinki public energy company Helsingin Energia will recycle heat from a new data center to help generate energy and deliver hot water for the Finnis...

Article | 26/11/2009 Redirecting DNS requests can harm the Internet, says ICANN

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) on Tuesday condemned the practice of redirecting Internet users to a third-party Web site ...

Article | 25/11/2009 Open-Xchange integrates Facebook, Twitter with e-mail inbox

Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange plans to open its e-mail inbox to messages from social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitt...

Article | 24/11/2009 Ciena will pay $US769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business

Ciena will pay US$769 million for the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel Networks' Metro Ethernet Networks business, the two com...

Article | 22/11/2009 EU security agency highlights cloud computing risks

Cloud computing users face problems including loss of control over data, difficulties proving compliance, and additional legal risks as data moves fro...

Article | 22/11/2009 Nokia cuts research staff by up to 330 people

Mobile phone giant Nokia on Friday said it will cut up to 330 people from its research and development staff.

Article | 20/11/2009 Money transfers to become hottest mobile app, says Gartner

Money transfers and payments over mobile phones will be among the top 10 most important mobile applications by 2012, market research company Gartner s...

Article | 20/11/2009 ARM, MIPS accelerate Android push

Processor makers ARM and MIPS Technologies are both aiming to simplify and accelerate the use of netbooks, MIDs (mobile Internet devices), set-top bo...

Article | 18/11/2009 Elastra offers a tool to build public-private clouds

Elastra has announced the availability of its Cloud Server platform, which lets enterprises build public-private computing clouds, it said on Tuesday.

Article | 17/11/2009 MasterCard to authenticate online transactions by phone

In the face of mounting threats from hackers, MasterCard will use mobile phones to improve security for online transactions, the company said on Monda...

Article | 16/11/2009 Cisco ups offer for videoconferencing firm Tandberg to $US3.4B

Cisco has raised its bid for Norwegian video conferencing vendor Tandberg to 19 billion Norwegian Kroner (US$3.4 billion), up from $3.0 billion, but s...

Article | 16/11/2009 Google aims for faster Web downloads with SPDY protocol

Google is hoping to make Web pages download up to twice as quickly using SPDY, a new application-layer protocol it's experimenting with, the company s...