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Archive of December,2005
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2005-12-31 - Motorola Adds Wireless Valley To WLAN Portfolio
Motorola expanded its WLAN capabilities this week with by acquiring Wireless Valley, an Austin, Texas-based ...
| Category: Wireless Mobile
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2005-12-31 - XM To Deliver Voice-Enabled Digital Car Radio
XM Satellite Radio and VoiceBox Technologies Inc. said Thursday that they are jointly developing a voice-con ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-31 - MSN Gets Interactive For New Year's Eve
Microsoft Corp. will webcast New York City's Times Square New Year’s Eve 2006 countdown in real time v ...
| Category: Microsoft
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2005-12-30 - Opera Software chooses Google as search partner
Norwegian Opera Software has agreed that Google Inc. will be the default partner for its mobile Internet bro ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-29 - Cell Phone Users Dissatisfied With Online Help: Report
Web access is extremely important according to 83% of cell phone users, yet only 29% are currently satisfied ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-29 - Malicious Hackers Exploit Windows Flaw
Fully patched systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 can be successfully attacked by malicious h ...
| Category: Microsoft
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2005-12-28 - Web Browser Opera Denies Buyout Rumors
Oslo-based browser maker Opera has issued denials of a buyout, in the midst of persistent rumors that Micros ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-28 - Bangladeshi wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Towfique Raj, a Bangladeshi, has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarsh ...
| Category: Microsoft
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2005-12-27 - NEC seeks IC, cell phone partnerships
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In an effort to reverse its misfortunes, Japan’s NEC Corp. is seeking busines ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-26 - Spying Said to Be Broader Than Reported
The National Security Agency has conducted much broader surveillance of e-mails and phone calls — with ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-26 - Verizon Protests Drop In Its Credit Rating
Verizon Communications took issue Thursday with Moody’s Investors Service for downgrading the telecomm ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-25 - Online Teen Shoppers May Miss Fraud Signs
DALLAS - Online shopping is booming and many marketers are targeting teens, a combination of trends that rai ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-25 - Red Hat Shatters Earnings Expectations In Latest Quarter
Red Hat gave investors an early present Wednesday, handily topping last quarter's earnings views on torrid s ...
| Category: Open Source
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2005-12-24 - Bug Bites McAfee Anti-Virus
A security research firm said Wednesday that McAfee's anti-virus line is vulnerable to attack, the second su ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-24 - AOL testing toolbar for the Firefox
America Online has begun testing an AOL toolbar for the Firefox browser and a version of its Web-mail servic ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-23 - FTC 'making progress' with anti-spam efforts
Computer users are seeing fewer unsolicited commercial e-mail messages in their inboxes two years after the ...
| Category: Apple Mac
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2005-12-23 - Japanese fabless firm launches graphics chip
LONDON — A Japanese fabless semiconductor company, Digital Media Professionals Inc., has launched a gr ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-22 - The End of Software as We Know It
Computing is a dynamic field in which standards and practices rarely stay the same for long. Nowhere is this ...
| Category: Software
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2005-12-22 - Symantec Anti-virus Software Open To Attack
Symantec's line of anti-virus software is vulnerable to attack, a prominent security researcher revealed Tue ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-21 - IBM buys Bowstreet in business software expansion
IBM, the world's biggest computer company, said on Tuesday it bought privately-held Bowstreet Inc. to make i ...
| Category: Software
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2005-12-21 - AMI, Mentor team on mixed-signal design kit
SAN FRANCISCO — Mixed-signal and structured digital IC provider AMI Semiconductor and top-tier EDA sup ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-21 - IM Worm On MSN, AOL, ICQ, & Yahoo Plants Rootkit
A new worm posing as a come-on to a Santa Claus site is traveling across all the major instant messaging net ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-20 - Lights, camera, vlog: new video craze hits Internet
From the Internet counter-culture which spawned blogs and podcasts comes the newest thing in new media: vlog ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-20 - Softbank, Yahoo Japan launch web movie joint venture
Japanese Internet group Softbank and Yahoo Japan said they had set up a web portal to broadcast movies and t ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-20 - Microsoft changes anti-spyware name in Vista OS preview
Microsoft's December Community Technology Preview (CTP) for the Windows Vista client OS features a renamed v ...
| Category: Microsoft
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2005-12-19 - Lenovo Plans More Twists To Update An Old Favorite
Lenovo is planning more shakeups to the traditional design of the ThinkPad, including integration of phone c ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-19 - Dasher Worm On the Prowl, Infects 3,000 Machines
The Dasher.b worm attacking Windows machines still vulnerable to a bug patched in October has infected at le ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-18 - Britney Spears tops Yahoo list of popular online searches in 2005
Singer Britney Spears topped a star-studded list of the top-10 name searches on popular Internet portal Yaho ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-18 - Apple Sets Pace in Consumer Electronics
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Five years ago, Apple Computer Inc. was barely an afterthought in the halls of electronic ...
| Category: Apple Mac
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2005-12-17 - Infineon, Samsung vie in graphics memories
Infineon Technologies AG and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. are separately moving to raise the bar for graphic ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-17 - Microsoft to buy portfolio management software
Microsoft said Friday it plans to acquire software and intellectual property from UMT, a software and consul ...
| Category: Microsoft
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2005-12-17 - Ipevo launches Mac driver for its Skype phones
Ipevo Inc., a Taiwanese startup based in California, has launched the beta version of a software driver that ...
| Category: Apple Mac
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2005-12-17 - Amazon Offers Tools for DIY Search Engines
The Web search arena just became a little more crowded as Amazon.com has announced that it is opening progra ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-16 - YakForFree virtual videophone debuts for Mac OS X
Yak Communications on Wednesday announced the launch of its yakForFree Virtual VideoPhone software for Mac O ...
| Category: Apple Mac
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2005-12-16 - 3M to acquire Siemens' flex circuit group
3M has agreed to acquire the Siemens Ultrasound Division's flexible circuit manufacturing line in Canoga Par ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-16 - Worm Targets October Windows Flaw
The first worm that successfully attacks an October vulnerability in Microsoft Windows was spotted in the wi ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-15 - AOL Tests Remote Access Service
America Online has begun testing a new service that lets users access their PC remotely from any computer th ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-14 - MTV, Microsoft team up for digital music service
MTV Networks Inc. said Tuesday it has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to develop an online music service to l ...
| Category: Microsoft
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2005-12-14 - Phoenix Suburb Pushes To Become First With Wi-Fi Everywhere
Call it a municipal status symbol in the digital age: a city blanketed by a wireless Internet network, acces ...
| Category: Wireless Mobile
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2005-12-14 - Security Expert Finds Port Scans Not Tied To Hack Attacks
Port scanning, the practice of sniffing for computers with unprotected and open ports, isn't much of a harbi ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-14 - Forecast 2006: Hackers May Hit Mobile Devices, Cisco Routers, Microsoft Vista
Mobile devices, Cisco routers, Oracle software, VoIP: businesses can expect all these and more to become hac ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-13 - Networking Takes Center Stage at Interop NYC
At Interop this week, networking technology will enjoy more popularity than it has in at least five years. < ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-12 - 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 ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-11 - Bluesocket Beefs Up VoWLAN Infrastructure
Wireless vendor Bluesocket has upgraded its BlueSecure WLAN management software to strengthen security and i ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-11 - Experts Debate Whether Cybercrime Profits Surpass Drug Trafficking
A statement that cybercrime proceeds amounted to more than $105 billion in 2004, made Nov. 28 during a banki ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-10 - Software piracy curb would boost global economy: study
Curbing the use of illegally copied software would yield vast economic benefits globally -- including in cou ...
| Category: Software
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2005-12-10 - Small Data Breaches Pose Big Identity Theft Risks
Consumers whose financial and personal information is stolen are more likely to be victimized if the data br ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-09 - Most Americans Unprepared For Phishing Attacks
The growing sophistication of phishers has left the majority of Americans unable to tell the difference betw ...
| Category: Security
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2005-12-09 - NEC touts nanobridge, 45-nm feats at IEDM
WASHINGTON — NEC Corp., in its latest research results reported at the International Electron Devices ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-08 - Large WiMAX Network Slated For Canada
A WiMAX wireless broadband network covering 8000 square miles of southeastern Alberta will be rolled out in ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-07 - Toshiba Unveils New Business Notebooks, New Channel Purchase Program
Toshiba's Digital Products Division Monday unveiled its latest Tecra mobile PCs along with a new program aim ...
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2005-12-07 - Senvid Launches Virtual Workplace for Small Businesses
Senvid introduced MioNet, virtual workplace software that allows small business users to remotely access, sh ...
| Category: Software
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2005-12-06 - IBM Gets Autonomic With Self-Healing Software
IBM Tivoli announced its next wave of software that automatically finds and fixes problems. & ...
| Category: Software
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2005-12-06 - RealNetworks to Offer Rhapsody Service
RealNetworks Inc. to launch a Web-based version of its Rhapsody subscription music service, becoming the lat ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-06 - New Sun Servers Get Nods From Solution Providers
Sun Microsystems Tuesday unveiled two rack-mount servers based on its new UltraSparc T1 processors with pric ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-05 - Caltech Supercomputer Analyzes Earthquakes
The California Institute of Technology said earlier this week that it has created the most powerful computer ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-05 - IBM Workplace to support Open Document standard
All this love for open format coming from the government ranks of Massachusetts is nice, but where are the p ...
| Category: Open Source
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2005-12-05 - AOL Offers Mobile Search Services
Several mobile search services that America Online made publicly available for testing back in July are now ...
| Category: Internet
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2005-12-04 - Microsoft Readies Online Classifieds Service
Microsoft Corp. is testing internally an online classifieds service that would enable people to sell persona ...
| Category: Microsoft
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2005-12-04 - New Mobile Games Help Fight Against AIDS
Several developers roll out games to help raise money for HIV and AIDS research and prevention. Wireless Mobile
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2005-12-03 - Microsoft Goes Live with OneCare Security Software
Microsoft has opened the beta of OneCare to the general public, inviting Windows users everywhere to test th ...
| Category: Software
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2005-12-02 - Trying for the Top: Desktop Linux Aims for the Big Time
Linux desktops have always faced an uphill battle against Windows desktops. Now, OSDL is calling together ar ...
| Category: Open Source
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2005-12-02 - Microsoft under pressure for timely Vista release
Microsoft Corp.'s business customers may have come to expect delays in product releases, but the company is ...
| Category: Microsoft
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2005-12-02 - E911 Tough for Nomadic VOIP
It now appears that most of the “bring-your-own-access” VOIP providers have fallen well short of ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-01 - Samsung to make wireless handsets in India
BANGALORE, India — Samsung has become the latest to join the bandwagon of global handset makers that h ...
| Category: Hardware
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2005-12-01 - Akron Builds Wi-Fi /WiMAX Mesh Network
The City of Akron is planning to build a 62-square-mile wireless network that will anticipate future technol ...
| Category: Network
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2005-12-01 - Scientists Take Small Leap Toward Quantum Computing
By getting atoms to spin simultaneously in opposite directions, scientists at the National Institute of Stan ...
| Category: Hardware
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