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News: Mac Pro Getting Core I7?
Apple is expected to launch updates to its Mac Pro range on Tuesday, rumours on the internet are claiming. Stating what many believe is the obvious; Apple will add the newly launched Intel Core i7...


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Computer Virus Bugs Area Businesses
A computer virus that presents itself as a virus scanning product is making its way around area workstations. Among those affected was Laura Del Monte, director of marketing and client services...
Uncharted 2 Wins Big With Five Winners At The 10th Annual Game Developers
Creative Word-Wielding Adventure Game, Scribblenauts, Wins for Best Handheld Game and Innovation Award; Other Big Winners Include Batman: Arkham Asylum, Farmville, Flower and...
Laptops Could Be Key To An Earthquake Early-warning System
If Elizabeth Cochran allowed herself to dream, the future would look something like this: Every personal computer would double as a seismic monitor. That MacBook at the coffee house, the one used...
Opengl 4.0 Spec Announced
The Khronos Group announced today the release of the latest version of the OpenGL specification, which provides for an API for creating 2D and 3D graphics on any platform. The new spec, 4.0, includes...
Joyce Raley Teel Regains Spot On Forbes' Rich List
If the number of billionaires in the world is any indication, it appears the economy is on the way to recovery. According to the latest list from Forbes, there are now 1,011 billionaires in the...
Computers One Step Closer To Reading Your Mind
When this poster was printed in 1900, mind reading was still in the realm of magic. A new computer program capable of predicting individuals recollections has brought telepathy a small step closer to...
Tech-firms Heading Up To Austin’s Sxsw
2010 opening tomorrow, San Antonio business owners and their employees are starting the weekend early by loading up their exhibits and heading to Austin. In case you’ve been living under a...
Northrop Grumman May Cut Jobs In Hagerstown
determining a new Washington area location for relocating its corporate headquarters from California, said work has slowed at one of its local operations, and that may affect dozens of employees. ...
Radisys Buys Pactolus Communications Software
Pactolus Communications Software Co. in a deal aimed at bolstering the company’s offerings of Internet-based communications products. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Hillsboro-based...
Ralink, Trendchip Announce Merger
TrendChip Technologies Corp. on Thursday announced a merger agreement. Ralink, a developer of high performance wireless products, has headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan and operates a development...
Forbes: Honolulu’s Omidyar On Billionaire List
, shared the 148th ranking with three others that have an estimated worth of $5.2 billion. Omidyar’s latest venture is a Honolulu-based online media service called Peer News that is expected...
Open Source Search Startup Lucid Imagination Raises $10m
Lucid Imagination Inc. said Thursday it has completed its Series B funding with $10 million in new investments. The San Mateo-based company said new...
Intel's 'gulftown' Tops Desktop Pc Processors
Gulftown " manufactured on the company's 32nm process--are up this morning, and the results are pretty much what you'd expect: The chip seems to easily surpass the current Core i7 as the fastest...
Utstarcom Lost $226 Million In 2009
changing CEOs and moving to Beijing . In the fourth quarter, UTStarcom lost $39.4 million on revenue of $116.3 million. A year earlier in the same quarter it lost $80.9 million on sales of $241.1...
Vf To Open Panama Office, Cut Local Jobs
has announced plans to establish a new centralized supply chain office to manage purchasing in the Latin America region. The office is expected to open in Panama City, Panama by October. As a result,...
National Semi Q3 Profit More Than Doubles To $53.2m
on Thursday reported third quarter net income of $53.2 million, or 22 cents a share, on sales of $362 million. That was above the company's year-ago net income of $21 million, or 9 cents a...
Newtek Has A Hand In Avatar’s Success At The Oscars
officials in San Antonio can bask in the knowledge that the company played a small role in that film’s success. Rob Powers, the supervisor of the Virtual Art Department team that created the...
Ftc Seen Likely To Oppose Google-admob Deal
Google said in December that the deal was being held up by questions from the FTC. The potential impact of the deal on Internet advertising is apparently what is being scrutinized, althoughthe...
Media Alert/photo Opportunity - Nintendo Of Canada Kicks-off March Break With
WHAT: Join Nintendo of Canada to film and photograph the laughter, smiles and excitement as kids kick-off their March Break with the chance to play the new Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver...
Telus To Sell Tablet Computers
Telus Corp., Canada's third-largest wireless carrier by subscribers, plans to sell tablet computers, looking beyond phones to lure customers away from larger rivals. "We're definitely going to have...
Twitter Wants To Know Where You Are
Twitter is making no bones about jumping onto the super-hot trend. The site today added another question to its long-standing "What's Happening" prompt: "Where Are You?" Twitter today rolled out the...
Comcast Defends Nbc Deal
NBC Universal Thursday, telling the Senate Commerce Committee that while the success of the deal is "not a sure thing," it will not adversely affect competition, cable rates, or the availability of...
Planet Payment Announces Tsys Certification Of Ipay Gateway
LONG BEACH, N.Y., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Planet Payment (LSE: AIM: PPT and PPTR; OTCQX: PLPM), a leading multi-currency and data processor, is pleased to announce that it has completed...
Diskeeper & Comptia Educational Foundation Keep Military Veterans' Computers Working At Top Speed
CompTIA Educational Foundation , providing 1,000 copies of its defragmentation software to keep the computers of the military veterans running at top speed while they train for new tech careers. ...
Networking Calendar For Week Of March 15
Arizona International Growth Group, first Monday of the month, 7:30 a.m., Jobing.com, 4747 N. 22nd St., Phoenix. $5. www.azigg.com. EcoMonday, first Monday of the month, 7:30 a.m., Hilton Garden...
Chelsea Therapeutics Narrows Losses For 4q, Year
reports a loss of $6 million, or 18 cents per share, for the fourth quarter of 2009. That improves on its net loss of $9 million, or 30 cents per share, for the same period a year earlier. The...
Tax Opponents Who Ran Edm, Joy Convicted On Fraud Charges
A federal jury in Tampa convicted Joseph Nelson Sweet of Bradenton and Jack Lee Malone of Largo on charges related to a scheme to interfere with tax laws. Both men had advocated a position that...
Cambridge Startup Follows Vc Money West
RunMyErrand Inc. is making a westward move: The company is moving its top three startup executives to a new office in San Francisco. However, founder Leah Busque said the move may not be permanent,...
Matrixx Software Raises $9m In 2nd Round
Matrixx Software said Thursday it raised $9 million in the funding. The Mountain View company focuses on online charging and policy management. Funders...
Boston Scientific Stent Wins Fda Approval
Boston Scientific Corp. heart-stent system designed to boost circulation in a patient’s legs. The Natick, Mass.-based medical device company’s Express LD Iliac Premounted Stent System is...
Powernet In Market For Acquisitions
said Thursday it is looking for “complementary businesses” to acquire. “We’re committed to accelerating our growth in the Enterprise and SMG space, and an acquisition by...
Synta Swings To Profit On Gsk Breakup
GlaxoSmithKline . GSK cancelled the partnership following Synta’s halting of a late-stage drug trial last year. The move stemmed from safety concerns discovered in February 2009 and triggered...
Better Business Bureau: Consumers Complained More In 2009
Complaints to the Better Business Bureau nationally grew 10 percent in 2009 as consumers dealing with a rough economy and deteriorating finances reported their frustrations to the nonprofit consumer...
Spirit Aerosystems Named To Boeing Tanker Supplier Team
/CNW/ -- Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPR) has been named to the Boeing (NYSE: BA) NewGen Tanker Supplier Team. Boeing, Spirit's largest customer, is bidding on the KC-X program, the U.S....
Verizon's Lte Mobile Phones Could Ship Early
told the Wall Street Journal this week. Verizon plans to roll out its long-term evolution (LTE), high-speed 4G network by year's end, and could have compatible phones available three to six months...
Ocz Delivers Ssd For Under $100
On Thursday, OCZ announced the Onyx, the first solid-state disc to be priced at under $100. OCZ did not actually announce the price of the Onyx, nor did it provide a ship date. According to an OCZ...
What Happens When Your Webmail Gets Hacked
This is a story about a friend whose webmail account got hijacked by a scammer, and the long ordeal that my friend had go through before she regained control of her account--and how she regained her...
Samsung Films Black Eyed Peas Concert In 3d
Panasonic, Best Buy Begin Selling 3D HDTV Bundles Panasonic began selling its first 3D HDTVs on Wednesday, via a partnership with Best Buy's Magnolia specialty...
Surprisingly, Motorola Turns To Bing For Search
Bing search engine on Android-powered Motorola devices. The offering will first show up this quarter on smartphones in China. Existing customers will get Bing via an over-the-air update. The phones...
Android Keeps Climbing In Mobile Os Share
Google Apps Marketplace Targets Biz Developers Google has already jumped into the consumer apps marketplace with the Android Market, but it is now tackling the enterprise side with a business...
Over 170 Chinese Consumers File Complaints On Hp Laptops
SHANGHAI (AFP) - More than 170 Chinese laptop users have filed complaints against US computer giant Hewlett-Packard, requesting a recall of products they say are faulty, a lawyer said Thursday.The...
News: Hard Drive Update Means Xp Slowdowns
Since the days of DOS, hard drives have always been comprised of blocks of data 512 bytes in size that are read in a chunk. But that's to change in early 2010, as storage manufacturers have agreed to...
Bedfordreport.com Complimentary Analyst Research On Tech Stocks Such As Microsoft Corp. , Apple, Inc. , Dell, Inc. , Palm, Inc. And Many More
TORONTO--(Marketwire - March 11, 2010) - The Bedford Report is pleased to announce that its latest Market Update analyzing the Technology Sector has been released. Technology is such an integral part...
University Of Tennessee System Linking To At&t’s Tennessee Virtual Private Network
for the state of Tennessee. NetTN was created through a 10-year networking agreement between the state and AT&T. It connects the 50,000 students, faculty and staff in the University of Tennessee...
Phil Knight Drops To No. 62 On List Of World's Richest People
While most faced pay cuts or unemployment, the folks on Forbe’s 2010 Billionaire list did quite well, even though many dropped down on the list. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates dropped from...
Safeguard Scientifics Loses $58.5m, Agrees To Debt Swap
said Thursday it lost $58.5 million in the fourth quarter of last year and has agreed to a debt swap that better aligns its obligations with expected exits from its investments. The Wayne, Pa.,...
Austin Music Tech Start-up Launching At Sxsw
PorchJam , an Austin-based technology start-up aimed at music lovers, musicians and club owners, is gearing up to launch at South By Southwest. Founders Bruce Gardner and Alan Goldstein are putting...
Advent Software Buys Norway’s Goya
Goya AS , a Norwegian software business. San Francisco-based Advent (NASDAQ: ADVS) bought Goya for its Tradex software, used by fund managers and other finance firms. Advent didn’t say what it...