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Archive of December,2005
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2005-12-31 - Canadian politicians urged to curb file-swapping
Canadian music labels Wednesday called for tougher laws against illegal Internet music downloading in an app ...
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2005-12-31 - The Year in Review: Apple
There can be no doubt that 2005 was a stellar year for Apple. From record-breaking quarterly financial repor ...
| Category: Apple Mac
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2005-12-31 - AT&T's New Mantra: "Your World, Delivered."
AT&T wants you to think about "Your World, Delivered." The former Baby Bell, renamed rece ...
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2005-12-31 - Google and Opera Make a Mobile Search Connection
Google Inc.'s search features will be included within the Opera Mini, a new browser for cell phones due next ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-30 - Attackers Exploit New Zero-Day Windows Bug
A new unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Windows and an in-the-wild exploit appeared Wednesday as security ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-29 - QuickLogic, Mentor in OEM agreement on FPGA tools
SAN FRANCISCO — Programmable logic supplier QuickLogic Corp. and top-tier EDA vendor Mentor Graphics C ...
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2005-12-29 - A Watershed for Open Source
Open-source software isn't a new phenomenon. It has been winding its way through the tech world for decades, ...
| Category: Open Source
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2005-12-29 - Pioneer To Release Blu-ray Disc Computer Drive
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. plans to ship in the first quarter of next year a Blu-ray Disc computer drive ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-28 - Softbank, Microsoft to Offer Internet Calls
TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- Softbank Corp. (9984.TO) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said Tuesday they have agreed to joi ...
| Category: Microsoft
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2005-12-28 - Camera phones to remain hot
The camera-enabled cellular phone market is booming, as shipments are expected to reach nearly 1 billion uni ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-28 - On-chip subsystem startup adds Tokyo design center
SAN FRANCISCO — On-chip subsystem provider IPextreme Inc. has opened a design center in Tokyo and name ...
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2005-12-26 - Japan MOF to sell gold coins via Internet auction
Japan's Ministry of Finance said on Monday it will auction off modern gold coins from its collection through ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-26 - TI's Expected Buy Of Chipcon Good News For Zigbee Market
Texas Instruments Inc.'s intention to buy Chipcon is expected to help drive down the costs for products base ...
| Category: Wireless Mobile
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2005-12-25 - NBC Universal to take control of MSNBC channel
NBC Universal said on Friday it bought control of cable channel MSNBC, unraveling a joint venture with Micro ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-25 - Hand it to iPod: Tiny TV looks crisp
You've got the whole TV world in your hand - if that's where you want it. Apple Mac
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2005-12-25 - Tech Investment Analyst Bullish on 2006 Semiconductor Market
Some Wall Street analysts are glum about 2006 for the U.S. economy because of fears of rising energy costs a ...
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2005-12-25 - San Francisco Issues RFP For Its Citywide Wi-Fi Network
San Francisco’s city government has issued an RFP (request for proposals) to build a Wi-Fi network tha ...
| Category: Wireless Mobile
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2005-12-25 - Broadcom engineer indicted on alleged theft of trade secrets
SAN FRANCISCO — An engineer has been indicted by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Califo ...
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2005-12-24 - Nortel, Option demo HSDPA at 3.6 Mbps
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Belgium-based wireless technology company Option and Toronto-based Nortel Networks C ...
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2005-12-24 - 3Com Reports Networking Sales Growth
3Com Wednesday reported a smaller loss and slightly higher revenue in its second fiscal quarter, driven by i ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-24 - Symantec Says Vulnerability Impacts 63 Products
Symantec on Wednesday named more than 60 of its products as affected by the critical vulnerability disclosed ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-24 - E-Carols For Cellular Phones In The Works
Music In Your Own Words (Miyow) Pty Ltd. is planning to develop a cellular phone application where consumers ...
| Category: Wireless Mobile
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2005-12-23 - PartyGaming looks to fuel poker explosion
Thanks to the Internet and television, poker exploded outside its U.S. homeland in 2005, and PartyGaming Chi ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-23 - Maxim chips worth $565,000 hijacked
SAN FRANCISCO — For the second time this year, a truck carrying chips made by Maxim Integrated Product ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-23 - Marines expand secure radio program
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marine Corps will beef up its battlefield communications network through a signi ...
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2005-12-22 - Seagate set to acquire Maxtor for $1.9 billion
LONDON — Seagate Technology LLC has agreed to acquire rival disk drive maker Maxtor Corp. in an all-st ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-22 - Oracle Ships ID, Access Management System
Oracle Corp. on Tuesday released the Identity and Access Management Suite, an integrated set of products for ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-22 - Google takes 5 pct stake in AOL in new ad deal
Google Inc. and America Online Inc. on Tuesday expanded their Web search and advertising alliance to offer t ...
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2005-12-22 - IBM to Buy Micromuse for $865 Million
International Business Machines Corp. said Wednesday it agreed to acquire Micromuse Inc., which makes softwa ...
| Category: Software
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2005-12-22 - Microsoft Drops Mac Browser
After years of being stuck in the mud technologically, Motley Fool Inside Value Microsoft finally announced ...
| Category: Microsoft
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2005-12-21 - Web Sites Let Users Send E-Mail to Future
NEW YORK - In the year 2009, on the 25th of April, a man named Greg is supposed to get an e-mail. The e-mail ...
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2005-12-21 - Report: Inexpensive, Portable PCs To Drive PC Market
Low-cost and portable PCs should continue to drive unit growth of the personal computer market in 2006, acco ...
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2005-12-21 - NEC says parallelizing processor cuts time, cost
Japan-based NEC Corp. has announced it has developed a multicore processor technology capable of performing ...
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2005-12-21 - Indian government urged to adopt IPv6
BANGALORE, India — The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India issued its draft recommendations on Tuesd ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-20 - TXU to Provide Internet Over Power Lines
The utility TXU Corp. said Monday it will offer high-speed Internet service over power lines to several mill ...
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2005-12-19 - Google Groans Under Data Strain
Google is consuming storage and computing power at a worrying rate, according to David Girouard, general man ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-19 - Battery firm powers meter readers
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Tadiran Batteries Ltd. has been awarded a four-year, $30 million contract for the s ...
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2005-12-18 - Microsoft Adopts Mozilla's RSS Icon
Microsoft has extended an olive branch in announcing on Wednesday on the Team RSS Blog that it will adopt th ...
| Category: Open Source
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2005-12-17 - 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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2005-12-17 - Verso, Saab Grintek Test VoIP over WiMAX
VoIP over Pre-WiMAX has been successfully tested in a trial in South Africa utilizing solutions supplied by ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-17 - Intel vs. AMD becomes an epic
SAN JOSE, Calif. — For years, Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have battled each other in t ...
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2005-12-17 - SwitchEasy Launches Accessories for iPod Nano
Hong Kong-based SwitchEasy, Ltd., a young company currently focused on Apple iPod add-ons, announced this we ...
| Category: Apple Mac
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2005-12-17 - Google, Microsoft, and Sun Fund Internet Research Lab
Technology titans Google, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems will provide $7.5 million, collectively, to fund r ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-16 - AT&T launches news channel for Internet security
AT&T Inc. on Wednesday said it had launched a news channel that would focus on Internet security issues ...
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2005-12-16 - Hawking Claims Dish Antenna Increases Wi-Fi Range
Equipment vendor Hawking Technologies Wednesday released a dish-shaped Wi-Fi network adapter that it claims ...
| Category: Wireless Mobile
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2005-12-16 - Quanta Computer to build $100 laptop
Taiwan-based original design manufacturer Quanta Computer Inc. has been chosen as the ODM for the $100 lapto ...
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2005-12-16 - RF Micro expands assembly in China
SAN JOSE, Calif. — RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a provider of radio frequency integrated circuits for ...
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2005-12-15 - Creative Offers Alternative to Video iPod
Creative Technology, Ltd., a company geared toward digital entertainment via PC platform, announced Thursday ...
| Category: Apple Mac
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2005-12-14 - Linksys Teams With Telabria To Deliver VoIP Over WiMAX
Linksys will collaborate with Telabria to deliver VoIP services over a European WiMAX-class broadband networ ...
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2005-12-13 - Philips tunes in U.S. market with mobile TV device
MADISON, Wis. — In hopes of getting U.S. consumers to connect to live digital TV on their mobile phone ...
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2005-12-13 - E Ink, Citizen demo flexible clock
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Citizen Watch Co. Ltd. and E Ink Corp. on Monday (Dec. 12) demonstrated what the co ...
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2005-12-11 - NEC Develops Paper-Thin Mobile Battery
NEC said Wednesday it has developed a flexible, paper-thin battery that eventually will be usable by a varie ...
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2005-12-11 - Yahoo Adds Human Touch To Search
Yahoo Inc. on Thursday released in beta an online service that lets registered users post and answer questio ...
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2005-12-11 - SugarCRM Expands Open-Source CRM Capabilities
There's a reason SugarCRM Inc. is fast becoming a serious option on the customer-relationship-management fro ...
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2005-12-11 - SAP Teaming With Intel On 'Euclid' Enterprise Search
SAP AG has co-developed a product with Intel Corp. to speed search capabilities. Separately, SAP is working ...
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2005-12-11 - Consortium seeks to ramp nanoelectronics research
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Seeking to accelerate nanoelectronics research in the United States, a consortium o ...
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2005-12-10 - Microsoft to beef up Internet Explorer 7 security
Microsoft is changing Internet Explorer 7's security zones in a bid to create a more attack-resistant browse ...
| Category: Microsoft
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2005-12-10 - TiVo Execs Bet Google Ad Model Will Work On TV
The theme of the year for media companies has been "on demand." From the video iPod to selling episodes of h ...
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2005-12-10 - ESPN considering offering programs on Apple iTunes
Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN cable sports network is looking into distributing some of its television programs on ...
| Category: Apple Mac
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2005-12-10 - Wi-Fi Power Saving Program Launched For Mobile Devices
The Wi-Fi Alliance trade group this week launched a program to decrease Wi-Fi power requirements in an attem ...
| Category: Wireless Mobile
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2005-12-09 - NBC makes downloadable TV deal with Apple
NBC Universal has begun selling downloadable television shows, from "Law & Order" to "The Tonight Show w ...
| Category: Apple Mac
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2005-12-09 - Online comparison shopping nabs Web market share
Comparison shopping Web sites have seen a surge in holiday visits this year, as more consumers look to the I ...
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2005-12-09 - D-Link Adds Bandwidth Management Tool
D-Link has upgraded two of its high-end VPN/firewall products and introduced a new application security gate ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-09 - Open-Source Directory Server Released
Linux and other server administrators now have a fully open source directory server available to them for th ...
| Category: Open Source
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2005-12-08 - Study Predicts 100 Million India Web Users
India - The number of Internet users in India will shoot to 100 million in two years from the current 38.5 m ...
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2005-12-08 - Japan to lead chip equipment market, says SEMI
LONDON — Japan is set to remain by far the largest buyer of chip making equipment in 2005 and 2006, ro ...
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2005-12-08 - BellSouth To Deliver TV Two Ways
BellSouth will offer a package of voice, data, and television services in a partnership with TV programming ...
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2005-12-07 - SanDisk to appeal flash ruling in ST's favor
LONDON — SanDisk Corp., a supplier of flash storage products, said Tuesday (Dec. 6) it intends to appe ...
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2005-12-07 - Cable Modem Sales Jumped 15% In 3Q: Report
Worldwide revenues from cable modem termination system (CMTS) sales continue to grow at a healthy rate, acco ...
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2005-12-07 - ICANN Gives Tentative OK on '.asia' Domain
The quasi-governmental organization that oversees the Internet has tentatively approved a ".asia" Web domain ...
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2005-12-07 - Avidian Updates Prophet Sales Management Software
Avidian Technologies today announced an upgrade of Prophet, a Microsoft Outlook-based sales software package ...
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2005-12-06 - Podcaster Falls Prey to RSS Hijacking
Extortionists now have a new type of victim to pick on: podcasters. U.S. podcaster Eric Marcus has fallen pr ...
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2005-12-06 - JBoss makes enterprise transaction play
JBoss on Monday is set to make enterprise transactional software part of its open source software portfolio. ...
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2005-12-06 - Cingular Finally Joins Push-To-Talk Party
Cingular Wireless, the largest mobile operator in the U.S., said Monday that it will finally offer push-to-t ...
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2005-12-06 - Hynix claims fastest, highest-density graphics DRAM
Hynix Semiconductor Inc. has introduced what the company claims is the world's fastest and highest-density g ...
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2005-12-05 - EMC Lags Hot Q3 Storage Market, IDC Reports
EMC remained the leading vendor in networked storage category during the third quarter of 2005, but its shar ...
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2005-12-05 - MP3Tunes.com Offers 'Oboe' Online Music Locker
MP3Tunes.com LLC, a self-described Music Service Provider, has launched a new online music service dubbed "O ...
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2005-12-04 - Fox Exec Gives Edge To Sony's Blue-Ray
The Blue-ray high definition DVD standard has received an endorsement from the co-chairman of Fox Filmed Ent ...
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2005-12-04 - Yahoo using online behavior to target ads
Yahoo Inc. aims to boost the effectiveness of its advertising -- and rates -- by targeting ads to users base ...
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2005-12-04 - Almost 300 Million Cameraphones Sold In 2005: Gartner
Market research firm Gartner projected Thursday that slightly less than 300 million cameraphones will be sol ...
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2005-12-04 - Study: Lack Of App Support Stunting Linux
Corporate adoption of Linux desktops is hindered by the inability to run Windows applications, the difficult ...
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2005-12-04 - New Aironet Offering Could Change Wireless Mesh Market Landscape
With its new entry into the wireless mesh market, Cisco brings some new cards to the table, including multi- ...
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2005-12-03 - Motorola unveils license plate readers
Motorola Inc. and PIPS Technology are releasing an innovative license plate reader technology to public safe ...
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2005-12-03 - AOL Services Go Mobile
AOL Thursday launched its AOL Mobile Search Services, which it said will provide both search capabilities an ...
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2005-12-03 - IP VPN Market To Hit $34.6 Billion In U.S.: Report
Dedicated IP virtual private network (VPN) revenues will total $34.6 billion in the United States between 20 ...
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2005-12-02 - Apple releases Broadband Tuner 1.0
Apple has released Broadband Tuner v1.0, a utility that tweaks the system parameters of Macs with very high ...
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2005-12-02 - Software Streams Media To Mobile Devices In Real Time
Entertainment services company Thomson is testing software it developed that manages encoding and decoding o ...
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2005-12-02 - Researcher ranks top 25 chip companies in 2005
Market research company iSuppli Corp. has ranked the top 25 semiconductor companies in terms of their projec ...
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2005-12-02 - Customers Unwilling To Pay Premium For Intel Servers Flock To AMD
Intel may continue to dominate the desktop, but AMD would have a hard time claiming that its larger rival is ...
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2005-12-02 - AT&T, BellSouth debut Yellowpages.com venture
Telephone operators BellSouth Corp. and AT&T Inc. unveiled their improved online directory, Yellowpages. ...
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2005-12-02 - Macworld Expo Users Conference details Tiger, video
IDG World Expo on Tuesday announced the schedule for the Users Conference and the Hands-On MacLabs at Januar ...
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2005-12-01 - Big Easy Gets Free Wi-Fi Network
One of the many hard lessons New Orleans learned from Hurricane Katrina was that traditional telephone and m ...
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2005-12-01 - IE Exploit At Large, Microsoft Urges Scan
Microsoft acknowledged Tuesday that malicious software targeting an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer is on ...
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2005-12-01 - Cisco May Soon Top WLAN Switch Market: Report
Competition for domination of the wireless local area network (LAN) switch market is heating up, according t ...
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2005-12-01 - Fake IRS E-Mail Scam Goes Phishing
A new phishing attack posing as a tax refund from the Internal Revenue Service is using a configuration prob ...
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