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09/04/2010 10:53 AM
As Hurricane Earl approaches the East Coast, Verizon rolls out new prepaid data plans for smartphones--and emergency equipment in case the storm affects customers. - Network operator Verizon Wireless announced it will be expanding its
portfolio of prepaid offerings to include a new 3G Prepaid data package
that lets customers access unlimited data on select 3G smartphones and
multimedia phones for $30 monthly access. Multimedia phone customers
also have the o...
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09/04/2010 10:52 AM
Fast on the heels of Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablet annoucement, Toshiba debuts its own tablet device, the Google Android-powered Folio 100. - Computer maker Toshiba Europe introduced its media tablet, the Folio
100, a 10.1-inch touch screen device that the company said is being
targeted at users looking for a portable and versatile computer. The
tablet comes with a selection of apps and services dedicated to media
consumption, Web bro...
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09/04/2010 05:30 AM
The new Apple TV, a box that costs $99, is expected to challenge Google TV in a classic battle for the living room this holidays season. Who has the edge and why? - When Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new Apple TV Sept.
1 in one of his patented oh-there's-one-more-thing-moments, analysts rushed to
compare the digital TV service to the forthcoming and ballyhooed Google TV.
The freshened Apple TV is like the old hobbyist passion,
albeit streamlined and sa...
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09/04/2010 04:20 AM
Google said Sept. 3 that the Texas Attorney General is conducting an antitrust investigation of complaints that Google harms competition with its search engine. Foundem and Microsoft have popped into the picture again. - Google said Sept. 3 that Texas Attorney General Greg
Abbott is conducting an antitrust probe of complaints that the company stifles Websites
that compete with its search engine.
Search Engine Land
broke the news and Google Deputy General Counsel Don
Harrison confirmed the investigation in a
b...
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09/03/2010 08:07 PM
A Deloitte report finds that the combination of mobile devices and electronic health records is a "killer app" with significant benefits for patients. - The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions has released a report showing how mobile technology can improve people's health and reduce health-care costs.
The company describes electronic medical records on mobile devices as the quot;killer app quot; that will affect the health care industry.
qu...
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09/03/2010 05:31 PM
With the Galaxy Tab and Wave phone coming, Samsung executives predict a healthy profit from the company's third-quarter mobile sales. - At
the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin,
J.K. Shin, head of Samsung's mobile communications division, told journalists
he expects the company's mobile business to reach a quot;double-digit quot;
profit margin during the third quarter of 2010.
Samsung
company executives also expect to...
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09/03/2010 05:09 PM
ANALYSIS: CEO David Scott and venture capital firms Menlo Ventures, Worldview Technology Partners and Mayfield Fund will come away with many dollars when the deal is done. - In the aftermath of the out-of-control bidding war that recently concluded with Hewlett-Packard out-spending Dell at $2.35 billion for storage maker 3PAR, the winners undoubtedly are enjoying one of the sweetest Labor Day weekends of their lives.
Those victors include CEO David Scott and venture ...
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09/03/2010 03:33 PM
News Analysis: Major wireless carriers treat Hurricane Earl as a serious threat to their infrastructures, even though significant damage to US mainland is unlikely. - Wireless carriers are marshalling their forces at a series of mostly undisclosed locations in the mid-Atlantic as Hurricane Earl works its way up the US East Coast. Theyre on standby with trucks, mobile cell towers, generators, fuel and portable switching equipment staged to go anywhere the storm ma...
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09/03/2010 03:10 PM
A Nigerian man gets sentenced to 151 months in prison for a scam that stole $1.3 million from victims. - Okpako Diamreyan, a Nigerian citizen, was sentenced Sept. 1 to nearly 13
years in prison for masterminding an quot;advanced fee quot; scam that
cost his victims $1.3 million.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Diamreyan was also ordered
to pay more than $1 million in restitution to ...
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09/03/2010 02:34 PM
The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 is out, bringing a host of new features, including binary replication. - The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 has arrived with built-in binary
replication technology.
Expected to be ready for final release sometime in September, the RC
represents a significant overhaul
for the database, said PostgreSQL core team member Josh Berkus. New
features include pe...
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09/03/2010 01:33 PM
Twitter CEO Evan Williams said Sept. 2 use of Twitter from mobile applications has grown 62 percent since April, with Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for BlackBerry proving popular. Twitter for Android is apparently not a big hit. - Twitter has more than 145 million registered users, with mobile users jumping 62 percent since April after the company began offering its own mobile applications for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android.
Twitter CEO Evan Williams published a rare state-of-the-company stats blog post Sept. 2, highlighting...
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09/03/2010 01:17 PM
Nvidia's GeForce 400M GPU series allows users to take advantage of the latest 3D entertainment technology, and boasts the company's Optimus technology. - Chip maker Nvidia is calling its GeForce 400M Series of graphics processing
units the building blocks for the next generation of Nvidia Optimus and 3D
Vision notebooks which will come from vendors including Acer, Asus, Dell,
Lenovo, Samsung and Toshiba.
The new series of GeForce 400M GPUs, whic...
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09/03/2010 01:17 PM
IDC analysts say consumer purchases of PCs will slow in the second half of the year, but strong commercial sales will offset some of the weakness. - IDC analysts are predicting what others
have also: Consumer sales of PCs will slow in the second half of 2010 after a
strong first two quarters.
However, IDC pointed out in
a report Sept. 2 that the softening in the PC market in the second half was not
unexpected, and that worldwide a large num...
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09/03/2010 01:03 PM
A new Vlingo feature lets users check in to Foursquare by speaking into a smartphone running Android 2.0 or later. - Vlingo
is finding new ways to differentiate its software for smartphones based on
Google's voice search application.
The company Sept. 2 released a new feature for its Vlingo for Android application
that lets users check in to Foursquare simply by speaking into their smartphone
running Androi...
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09/03/2010 12:08 PM
Security pros are talking about the challenges educational institutions face when it comes to protecting user data. - The University of Virginia reportedly fell victim to a cyber-attack the week
of Aug. 23 that resulted in the theft of nearly $1 million. Unfortunately for
administrators at colleges and universities, their institutions are just as
vulnerable to data breaches as enterprises.
According to KrebsOnS...
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