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Last Updated: Aug 14th, 2008 - 19:36:34 
  • Ex-Googler, husband launch new Cuil search engine

  • [Jul 29, 2008, 14:36]
    A former Google Inc. employee and her husband launched a new search engine on Monday called Cuil (pronounced "cool"), aiming to topple Google by indexing more Web pages than the search giant. Cuil Inc. in Menlo Park, Calif., is led by Anna Patterson, a former leader of Google's search index, and her husband, Tom Costello, who researched and developed search

  • Intel slashes chip prices

  • [Jul 29, 2008, 13:54]
    Intel Corp. last week dropped the price of seven processors by up to 31%. Intel said it was lowering the price of the 3.16-GHz Core 2 Duo E8500 by 31% to $183. Intel cut the prices of the Core 2 Duo 2.53-GHz E2700 chip and the 3-GHz E8400 model by 15% and 11%, to $113 and $163, respectively.

  • Intel unveils embedded chip set

  • [Jul 28, 2008, 05:17]
    Intel Corp. yesterday launched its system-on-chip (SoC) EP8579 integrated processor, which is said to offer lower power and customization capabilities for embedded voice, storage and security applications. The new product family is the first wave of Intel's revamped SoC design, which the company said adds smarter chip intelligence.

  • Yahoo: Burn your DRMed tracks to CD now

  • [Jul 28, 2008, 05:08]
    Yahoo Inc. has become the latest company to abandon customers who bought tracks from its music store encoded with digital rights management (DRM), drawing fire from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). On Sept. 30, Yahoo will shut down the servers that are needed to reauthorize music purchased from its failed Unlimited Music Store if it is transferred to a new PC, Yahoo said

  • Microsoft exec now says virtual-management software due in September

  • [Jul 28, 2008, 05:05]
    Microsoft Corp. will ship its virtual machine management tool in September, according to Kevin Turner, the company's chief operating officer. Turner's remarks, made during his presentation Wednesday at Microsoft's annual meeting for financial analysts, are in contrast to comments the company made last week

  • Microsoft bolsters Ruby efforts

  • [Jul 28, 2008, 05:00]
    Microsoft Corp. on Thursday plans to delve deeper into Ruby programming, with plans to ship Ruby libraries and participate in a testing project for the language. The libraries are akin to any other software library, helping developers build software.

  • SAP price hike stirs backlash in U.K., Germany

  • [Jul 28, 2008, 04:57]
    The SAP U.K. & Ireland Users Group today spoke out against a 29.4% price hike that "is proving to be a particularly difficult area to accept," said Alan Bowling, the group's chairman. "The mandatory nature of this change along with the increase in cost has received hugely negative feedback from our membership to date," said Bowling.

  • EBay, British luxury goods group to discuss counterfeit sales

  • [Jul 25, 2008, 04:23]
    Intellectual property lawyers from eBay Inc. and Walpole British Luxury, a group that represents the British luxury goods industry, are meeting Monday in London to discuss ways they can work together to prevent the sale of counterfeit goods online. The meeting comes after courts in the U.S. and France gave contrasting rulings on the issue of who is responsible

  • Drizzle plans a stripped-down MySQL

  • [Jul 25, 2008, 04:20]
    The open source MySQL database began life as a lightweight alternative to big, resource-hungry database management systems such as Oracle or Sybase. Over the years, however, users have clamored for more and more features, causing MySQL's codebase to

  • Analyst: Android, Symbian should combine as mobile open source OS

  • [Jul 25, 2008, 04:19]
    As wireless computing mushrooms with new devices, applications and a global move toward "openness," one analyst is suggesting some contraction is in order. Specifically, analyst Jack Gold says the open Symbian and open Android operating systems should combine into a single open source operating system for mobile devices.


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