Ask someone familiar with computers to suggest where the Microsoft Windows operating system will be in one year and, more than likely, you will hear about Vista, the newest iteration, or about enhancements to XP, the current version. Ask someone familiar with the Linux operating system to answer that same question and it's likely

Sony Ericsson said on Tuesday it was linking up with Google Inc. to incorporate the company's Web search and blog features into its mobile phones.
 
Phones will be able to launch a separate Google Web search option using a single keystroke without the need to open a new Web page.Read More...   Category: Internet

CUPERTINO, Calif. - Reaching further into living rooms, Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday introduced a speaker system for its iPod music players and a revamped Mac Mini computer that will let users access music, video and photos across their home networks.
 
The new Mac Mini includes Apple's Front Row software,

US software giant Microsoft announced the opening of an office in Bosnia, saying it hoped to reduce the illegal use of software there.
 
Microsoft manager for southeastern Europe Goran Radman said that "some 70.0 percent of software market in Bosnia-Hercegovina is illegal", adding that the average European rate was 30.0

Symantec announced new backup and recovery software aimed at consumers Monday. Called Norton Save & Restore, the software is due to ship in late March. 
 
More home users are creating and storing increasing amounts of digital content such as photos and music. In order to protect this content against malware as

Apple Computer unveiled a new mini-computer designed as a hub for digital entertainment, and a home stereo system linked with its popular iPod music player.
 
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs showed off the new-generation Mac Mini and the iPod Hi-Fi at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino,

IBM and Novell Inc. on Monday said they were contributing code to an open source initiative to build a user-centric, online identity management system.
 
The initiative, called "Project Higgins," is being managed by the Eclipse Foundation, which is building on a concept developed by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for

Caterina Fake knew she was onto something when one of the engineers at her Vancouver, British Columbia-based online game start-up created a cool tool to share photos and save them to a Web page while playing.
 
"It turned out the fun was in the photo sharing," she says.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — IBM Corp. has announced the availability of a 90-nm version of its floating-point unit (FPU) for its PowerPC processor line.
The product, dubbed the 440 Power Core Floating Point Unit, is designed to provide high-performance, low-power consumption for embedded applications in the PowerPC RISC processor line. This includes

On Wednesday, Yahoo will no longer offer advertisers the option to bid on search keywords containing a competitor's trademarked terms. Last week, the company notified its advertisers via E-mail that it planned on March 1st to modify its editorial guidelines regarding the use of trademarked keywords.
 
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