After months of scathing criticism of its customer service and warranty protection, Dell has extended the length of its warranties.

Dell said Monday that it’s boosting its limited warranties from 90 days to a year throughout its Inspiron notebook lineup. The warranty upgrade carries no extra charge.

The Round Rock,

LONDON — Kineto Wireless has teamed with Wi-Fi network integrator Boingo Wireless to ensure full interoperability between Boingo's Wi-Fi toolkit for mobile handsets and Kineto Wireless' Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) system.

“UMA based services today are focused on home solutions. This agreement means operators can now extend the reach of these converged

McAfee announced Wednesday that it had acquired Boston-based SiteAdvisor to add complementary defenses for customers surfing the Internet.
Early last month, the privately-held SiteAdvisor launched free Internet Explorer and Firefox plug-ins that reveal dangerous Web sites listed by popular search engines, including Google, MSN, and Yahoo, before users click on a link.

SAN DIEGO -- Storage Networking World -- Intel and EMC today said the chip maker will sell EMC's SANs for SMBs through an OEM deal.

Intel has sold its chips in storage systems and dabbled in networked storage with low-end unbranded SANs made from cheap parts, or "white box" systems. But the

San Jose, Calif. -- Not long ago, the NAND flash memory market was red-hot, while DRAMs were cold and in the tank. But suddenly, the cyclical memory markets have taken a surprising and unexpected turn amid a slowdown in MP3 player sales, PC software delays and other factors.

In a major turn

Apple and Warner Bros. announced on Tuesday announced pre-orders for the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new double-album Stadium Arcadium. What may be more significant is a deal Apple, the band and Ticketmaster have put together to sell concert tickets for the bands U.S. tour.
 
Customers can pre-order a copy of

BOSTON—Messaging company Sendmail is looking at open-sourcing more of its technologies, including its commercial administration tool, Sendmail Switch MTA, and its Sendmail Mailstream Manager.
 
"We are looking at open-sourcing those products that we believe will bring innovation to the open-source community and create a level of excitement going forward, but

Research In Motion will put such Yahoo Inc. Web offerings as search, e-mail, instant messaging, and news on its BlackBerry devices, and will start rolling out the service in 60 countries in about two weeks, the two companies said on Wednesday.
 
The deal greatly expands RIM's relationship with Yahoo, the

Geisinger Health System will build a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) with two community hospitals that could eventually provide thousands of doctors at dozens of hospitals access to patient health records electronically, the Pennsylvania company said Tuesday.
 
The platform built on Vignette Corp. software tools, along with a record locator

Microsoft is pushing further into the virtualization realm, announcing that its Virtual Server 2005 R2 product will provide support for Linux. In addition, the company is now offering the software as a free download.
 
Virtualization is widely recognized as a way companies can slash I.T. infrastructure costs. By using the