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Archive of December,2005
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2005-12-31 - Firm cuts forecast in video game industry
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Citing lackluster sales in the game-machine market, investment banking firm SG Cowe ...
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2005-12-29 - Lenovo Said To Be Developing Windows Mobile Smartphone
Several Web blogs and Web sites Tuesday reported that Lenovo, known for its ThinkPad laptops, will be releas ...
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2005-12-29 - China Cracks Down On Cell Phone Spam
China will begin requiring prepaid cell phone subscribers to register their devices using their real names i ...
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2005-12-29 - CBS Streams TV Shows on Yahoo
CBS has hooked up with Internet portal Yahoo to deliver two of the network's prime-time sitcoms in a joint p ...
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2005-12-29 - Man pleads guilty to eBay Internet attack
An Oregon man has pleaded guilty to using a computer worm to launch attacks against Internet auction site eB ...
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2005-12-28 - Password-stealing Trojan Snares Spanish Speakers
A Trojan horse that arrives via MSN Messenger tries to swipe Spanish speakers' online banking usernames and ...
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2005-12-28 - Soma, Sanyo team on Caribbean broadband net
TOKYO — Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. will provide broadband wireless access equipment that Soma Networks In ...
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2005-12-28 - 'Leaked' Windows Live Messenger Really A Trojan
Helsinki-based F-Secure told users to ignore instant messages with the subject head "MSN Messenger 8 Working ...
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2005-12-27 - Tech leaders tell of books offering insight, wisdom
Business leaders are often big readers, and many have a book or two that affected their thinking. USA TODAY' ...
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2005-12-26 - Gartner Warns About Vista Metadata Problem
Windows Vista, the next version of Microsoft's Windows client operating system, will give users the ability ...
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2005-12-26 - Symantec Bug Not Cut Out For Worm, Says Rival
The vulnerability in Symantec's anti-virus line disclosed earlier this week isn't a big risk, a rival securi ...
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2005-12-25 - Microsoft Seeks Online Partner
Microsoft may be cooking up a major Internet partnership to rival Google's newly bolstered relationship with ...
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2005-12-25 - Apple's Web Site Among Fastest Growing
NEW YORK - Driven largely by the popularity of the iTunes music service and software, Apple Computer Inc.'s ...
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2005-12-25 - Stacked SRAM cells support programmable startup
LONDON — Viciciv Technologies Inc. is a startup company that appears to be preparing to enter the FPGA ...
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2005-12-25 - EU threatens Microsoft with daily fines
Europe's competition regulator threatened U.S. software giant Microsoft with daily fines on Thursday for fai ...
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2005-12-24 - RIM Reports Profits Up, But Lowers Expected Subscriber Growth
Research In Motion Ltd, makers of the popular Blackberry mobile email device, reported on Wednesday that pro ...
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2005-12-24 - AMD Acknowledges Desktop CPU Shortages
Advanced Micro Devices said it expects to solve supply issues with some of its desktop processors by the fir ...
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2005-12-23 - TI set to buy Norwegian chip firm for $200 million
LONDON — Leading chip maker Texas Instruments Inc. has said it plans to acquire Chipcon, a Norwegian d ...
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2005-12-23 - Mobile Phone Exec's Communications Cloned By Terrorists
Terrorists reportedly have found a way to scam mobile phone companies by exploiting wireless phone vulnerabi ...
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2005-12-23 - Indian company says anti-virus solution stops threats
BANGALORE, India — Sanra Software Ltd., a Chennai-based firm, has unveiled what it claims is a breakth ...
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2005-12-23 - T-Mobile Expands Coverage, To Deploy 3G
T-Mobile USA is expanding has been coverage area and has started discussing its 3G rollout plans, according ...
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2005-12-22 - Netgear Upgrades SMB Networking Products
Netgear has unveiled three new ProSafe stackable smart switches and a dual-band wireless access point that i ...
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2005-12-22 - Carbon adds bus protocols for transaction-level simulation
SAN FRANCISCO — Carbon Design Systems said Tuesday (Dec. 20) that it has added PCI, PCI-X, USB 2.0 Hos ...
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2005-12-22 - Samsung offers WiBro services in Venezuala
SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Monday (Dec. 19) it has agreed to supply a Vene ...
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2005-12-21 - Apple's Xserve: MIA or DOA in the Enterprise?
Apple Computer's Xserve G5 offers significant processing power, notable storage capacity, and robust remote- ...
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2005-12-21 - Wi-Fi Enhances Personal Relationships, Not Just Productivity: Report
Wi-Fi enhances personal relationships as well as productivity, according to 46% of Americans polled for a re ...
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2005-12-21 - Yahoo's hosting clients get blogging software
Yahoo Inc. will make available to subscribers of its Web hosting services the open-source WordPress blog pub ...
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2005-12-20 - ReplayTV to launch TV recording software for PCs
Digital video recording pioneer ReplayTV plans to announce on Monday it will start selling software to allow ...
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2005-12-19 - Flat-panel TVs enter the mainstream
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Flat-panel TVs took major strides in becoming a mainstream product in 2005, thanks t ...
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2005-12-19 - Symantec Taps Into Linksys Routers
Symantec and Linksys are teaming up to provide a powerful security solution aimed at protecting networks fro ...
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2005-12-19 - Cingular To Offer HBO 'Sopranos' On Mobile Phones
Cingular Wireless has signed a deal to offer streaming video of HBO shows, including the "Sopranos," "Sex an ...
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2005-12-18 - Music industry slump accelerated in 2005
It all seemed so promising for the music business heading into 2005. CD sales were up, albeit ever so slight ...
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2005-12-17 - Startup Offers BlackBerry Alternative For Mobile E-Mail
Companies that want constant employee E-mail access but can't afford the cost of PDAs, such as Research In M ...
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2005-12-16 - Yahoo Builds Better Widgets
Yahoo has upgraded its platform of tiny desktop applications, called widgets, to include better integration ...
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2005-12-16 - Sigma to acquire UWB chipset maker
Digital media processor supplier Sigma Designs has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Blue7 Communicat ...
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2005-12-16 - Google adds music search and purchase features
Google Inc. is introducing a music search feature that details the work of certain featured artists, the com ...
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2005-12-16 - PolyFuel claims fuel cell power boost
Fuel cell membrane specialist PolyFuel, Inc., has developed an especially thin membrane for passive direct m ...
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2005-12-15 - Microsoft Patches Critical Bugs In Internet Explorer
Microsoft on Tuesday released two security bulletins that patched four vulnerabilities its Internet Explorer ...
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2005-12-15 - Internet Security Gone Wild
Applications designed to protect you from outside threats, such as adware and spyware, are becoming so rigid ...
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2005-12-15 - Yahoo offers Movable Type for bloggers
Yahoo Inc. and Six Apart Ltd., creator of Movable Type -- the most popular software used to create professio ...
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2005-12-15 - Microsoft ships Windows Server 2003 R2
A long-awaited interim update to the current version of Microsoft's Windows Server OS, called Windows Server ...
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2005-12-14 - Sprint To Launch Cell Phone Film Service
Sprint Nextel was set to launch a service Monday that would deliver full-length films to cell phones, the Re ...
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2005-12-13 - BellSouth Launches Residential VOIP
BellSouth Corp. has launched a residential VOIP service by reselling 8x8 Inc.'s Packet8 service, Light Readi ...
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2005-12-12 - DivX offers Mac video encoding software
DivX 6 for Mac is now available — a new version of the digital video compression technology that’ ...
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2005-12-12 - Web Advertising Expected to Double Its Take Of The Overall Market In Five Years
Internet advertising is expected to account for 10 percent of the overall U.S. market by 2010, a twofold inc ...
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2005-12-11 - Microsoft Delays Next Internet Explorer Release
Microsoft Corp. postponed the introduction of the next test release of its Internet Explorer 7 Web browser u ...
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2005-12-11 - Yahoo to offer cheap PC-to-phone calls
Yahoo Inc. said the company plans to allow computer users to make and receive calls from phones at rates tha ...
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2005-12-11 - 'Podcast' Named 2005 Word of the Year
The phenomenal year of the iPod continues this week following the announcement that the New Oxford American ...
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2005-12-10 - Hitachi develops 42-inch HD plasma display
TOKYO — Hitachi Ltd. and its subsidiary Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Ltd. (FHP) have developed a 42- ...
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2005-12-10 - Yahoo Launches VoIP Service Linked To Web Features
The crowded VoIP sector is getting another major player. Yahoo Inc., which is entering the field with a serv ...
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2005-12-09 - European Web Addresses Open for Business
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union planted its flag in cyberspace Wednesday when the ".eu" Internet doma ...
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2005-12-08 - Cisco technology to boost software performance
Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday said it is introducing technology to speed the performance of software program ...
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2005-12-07 - Intel, ST set common spec for mobile flash subsystems
LONDON — STMicroelectronics NV and Intel Corp. have collaborated to develop a NOR-flash memory subsyst ...
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2005-12-07 - Microsoft chairman offers Bangladeshi teachers computer training
Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist and chairman of software giant Microsoft, pledged to train teachers i ...
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2005-12-07 - Microsoft plans 3,000 new jobs in India
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said that the US software giant plans to nearly double its workforce in India ...
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2005-12-06 - RealNetworks opens Rhapsody music service to the Mac
Music service provider, RealNetworks Inc., on Monday will open its subscription-based Rhapsody streaming mus ...
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2005-12-06 - OpSource launches SaaS incubator program
In what some are calling a significant sign of the times in the software industry, OpSource, a SaaS (softwar ...
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2005-12-06 - Ignify Updates E-Commerce Engine To Detect Fraud
ERP and accounting partners targeting the midmarket with online store aspirations might want to check out Ig ...
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2005-12-06 - Intel, ST set common spec for mobile flash subsystems
LONDON — STMicroelectronics NV and Intel Corp. have collaborated to develop a NOR-flash memory subsyst ...
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2005-12-06 - Microsoft plans global development centers
Microsoft plans to create a network of 90 software development centers around the world to support programme ...
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2005-12-05 - Taipei To Get City-Wide Wi-Fi Network, Free Calls
A city-wide Wi-Fi network is being created in Taipei, and one private vendor says it will use that network t ...
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2005-12-04 - REVIEW: Latest iMac Offers Remote Control
When asked a few years ago if they might someday offer a Mac that works like a Microsoft entertainment PC, A ...
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2005-12-04 - Microsoft Likely To Break Cycle, Patch Early
An "extremely critical" threat may cause Microsoft to release a patch before its next scheduled round of sof ...
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2005-12-04 - Security firms warn of new Microsoft threats
Two security firms today issued new warnings about two separate threats affecting Microsoft Corp. products. ...
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2005-12-04 - Microsoft Plans New Apps Optimized for Faster Processor
Microsoft officials have revealed a long-term plan to develop server products exclusively for x86-compatible ...
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2005-12-03 - Va. Pilot Unit Starts Video Web Site
Virginian-Pilot Interactive Media, a division of The Virginian-Pilot newspaper, began a video-only Web site ...
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2005-12-03 - Mozilla Updates Firefox on Schedule
Firefox 1.5 is available now at getfirefox.com and mozilla.com. The Mozilla site is the "new home" of Firefo ...
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2005-12-03 - No decision yet on Internet domain for sex sites
The fate of the proposed .xxx Internet domain for sex sites, which has drawn fire from U.S. conservative gro ...
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2005-12-03 - Skype Partners With Logitech, Creative For Webcam Sales
Logitech and Creative, which together own about three-quarters of the Webcam market, joined Skype on Thursda ...
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2005-12-02 - Google, Yahoo Test New Online Ad Model
Internet giants Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are testing a new form of online advertising that encourages peop ...
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2005-12-02 - Review: WinZip 10 Compression Utility
WinZip, a well-known name in software compression, recently unveiled the latest version of its long-standing ...
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2005-12-02 - Sharp, Tokyo University pursue flexible circuits
The University of Tokyo and Sharp Corp. have established Todai-Sharp Laboratories, an institute aimed at con ...
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2005-12-02 - Sun Gives Away Java Enterprise System, Other Software
Sun Microsystems Inc. has decided to make its Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 management software, and Sun de ...
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2005-12-02 - KDE Upgrades Its Linux Graphical Desktop
The KDE Project on Tuesday released the newest version of the popular KDE graphical desktop for Linux, KDE 3 ...
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2005-12-02 - Microsoft Launches Security Service Test
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is offering the public a free test version of its new service for protecting consu ...
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2005-12-01 - Small Form Factors To Push Hard Disk Market
The lackluster hard disk drive (HDD) market will receive a shot in the arm from the booming small form facto ...
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2005-12-01 - TI Says New Chipset To Lead To Cheaper 3G Phones
Texas Instruments Inc. says it is testing two new semiconductor chipsets that could mark the next step in ma ...
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2005-12-01 - Intel faces more chipset shortages
HILLSBORO, Ore. — Intel Corp. on Wednesday (Nov. 30) said that it expects to see shortages for its chi ...
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2005-12-01 - Panda Prepares To Battle Corporate Espionage
Panda Software is developing a service expected to launch early next year to protect enterprises against an ...
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2005-12-01 - Big Easy Launches Free Wireless System
To help boost its stalled economy, hurricane-ravaged New Orleans is offering the nation's first free wireles ...
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