Wikia Search Engine Goes Live Today

It has been a long time, since the Wikia project and the company behind the thing has started, but finally we can see some results."Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy...

One Laptop Per Child Versus Intel--Who Speaks for India and China?

Money talks?"At the Consumer Electronic Show this week, the One Laptop Per Child foundation was supposed to make two announcements—the number of computers it sold under the Give One, Get One holiday program and...

Sony CEO wants to go back in time, avert high-def format war

"Customers aren't the only ones frustrated with the high-definition format wars—Sony CEO Howard Stringer is reaching the end of his rope as well. Blu-ray, which is backed by Sony, was doing well up until recently and winning the war based on merits, Stringer said at an...

Intel's 45nm Penryn desktop expected to pack a big wallop

"Intel Corp.'s new 45-nanometer chip for the desktop, part of the newly released Penryn family, should give gamers, researchers and serious multitaskers a significant performance boost, according to analysts. And that is not good news for rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.,...

Hungarian police ban rightist march

"Hungarian police banned a march by rightists groups planned in downtown Budapest as part of ceremonies marking the 1956 failed anti-Soviet revolt. Budapest police decided right-wing organizations will not be...

Web 2.0: Microsoft Releases Beta of Popfly Mashup Tool

"Microsoft Corp.'s CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public beta availability of Popfly, the company's mashup creation tool for non-technical users introduced in alpha form in May. During Ballmer's appearance on...

CBS, Microsoft, and MySpace Unveil Copyright Guidelines

"Web sites with user-generated content have an obligation to deploy "state-of-the-art" filtering technology to prevent the unauthorized posting of copyright material, a group of large broadcasting and Web...

iPhone, you'll be a computer, soon

"In an inevitable move, Jobs revealed the plan for third-party iPhone applications on Wednesday. Come February, budding iPhone developers will be able to obtain a software development kit that will give them the tools and the know-how to create safe and reliable applications...

Sprint Shuffle Squeezes Intel

"The biggest long-term impact of Gary Forsee's departure as CEO and chairman of Sprint Nextel Corp. could be on the company's huge WiMax wireless broadband initiative called Xohm. Some financial and technology analysts believe that Xohm could be in trouble, although not...

Nurses Strike in Northern California

"Nearly 5,000 nurses in 15 Northern California hospitals began a two-day walkout Wednesday to protest what they said were inadequate contract offerings. Officials with the Sutter Health hospital chain said...

Chrysler workers walk out on the job - MarketWatch

"Chrysler LLC union workers walked away from the assembly lines Wednesday after a long night of negotiations failed to bring an accord between the automaker and the United Auto Workers ahead of the strike...

Google, IBM sponsor parallel computing courses at universities

"IT companies are becoming more active in making sure that there will be enough engineers that will be able to handle emerging technologies such as parallel computing. Following examples such as the one set by...

Seagate Combines Flash Memory, Hard Disk For Notebook Storage

"Seagate Technology on Monday launched its first combination disk storage and flash memory hard drive, joining rival Samsung Electronics in offering hybrid drives that manufacturers say speed the boot-up time of...

Hacker Breaks Into eBay Server, Locks Users Out

"A malicious hacker broke into an eBay Inc. server on Friday and temporarily suspended the accounts of a "very small" number of members, the company said. "We were able to block the fraudster quickly before any...

The Cheap Revolution

"Poor Steve Jobs. First he apologizes for dropping the price of the iPhone from $599 to $399 after just 10 weeks on the market and offers Apple customers a $100 rebate. Now he's being slapped with a $1 million...

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