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Torch May Not Guide RIM Through the Tunnel

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 has been widely viewed as Research In Motion's best shot at regaining even footing in its battle with rivals Apple and Google in the smartphone arena, but after just a few days on the market, the device's price has already been slashed ...

Snuffing Out OpenSolaris Dims Oracle’s Light in FOSS Community

Just a day after Oracle filed suit against Google for its use of Java in Android, the FOSS community received another blow at the hands of the tech giant in the form of news that it plans to kill the OpenSolaris project ...

Net Neutrality: Who’s the Boss?

The Internet traffic management plan from Google and Verizon may be just a new proposal at this point, but in the short time since its introduction, it's proven to be nothing if not controversial ...

Study: Big Biz Falls in Love With FOSS, but Not Just ‘Cause It’s a Cheap Date

Open source software is poised for rapid growth in enterprises over the next 12 months, but cost is no longer the primary driver behind open source adoption ...

RIM’s Capitulation to Saudis Could Set Off Domino Effect

As a deadline looms to decide the fate of the BlackBerry Messenger service in Saudi Arabia, Research In Motion is reportedly testing a series of in-country servers that would enable government monitoring of communications over the BlackBerry network ...

Are Motorola and Verizon Building a Boob Tab?

Motorola and Verizon are working on a new tablet device on which users will be able to watch TV, according to a Tuesday report in the Financial Times ...

New Illumos Project to Reopen OpenSolaris

A new group announced Tuesday aims to create a community-built and -maintained version of Oracle's OpenSolaris operating system in which all portions of the code are open and fully available for use by developers ...

Linux Kernel Gets Multicore Muscle With Latest Upgrade

The latest version of the Linux kernel was released on Sunday, offering not just a host of bug fixes but also new features designed for multicore environments ...

UAE to Go Dark for BlackBerry Data

The United Arab Emirates announced on Sunday that BlackBerry Messenger, BlackBerry E-mail and BlackBerry Web browsing services will be suspended in the UAE as of October 11 ...

Are Amazon’s New Kindles Tablets-in-Training?

Amazon's new, slimmed-down Kindle devices are notable for several things, not the least of which are the upgrades to their experimental WebKit browser ...

That Cute Android Wallpaper May Be Sending Your Data to China

Personal data about millions of Android users could be sent to a mysterious Chinese website thanks to a set of wallpaper apps in the Android Market ...

Google Gets Playful With Facebook Rivalry

Google's "Facebook killer" came a step closer to reality Wednesday, when it was revealed that the company has been talking with game makers for potential inclusion of their wares on a new social network. ...

GNOME Bands With LiMo to Build Mobile Linux Inroads

The LiMo Foundation and the GNOME Foundation on Monday announced that they have begun working together as partners to further open source innovation ...

Wikileaks Plunges Political World Into Turmoil

In what's been called the "biggest leak in intelligence history," more than 90,000 classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan came to light on Sunday and are wreaking havoc in political circles around the globe ...

Droid X Screen Problems Nipped in Bud

Even as Apple suffers the continuing pains of its iPhone 4 "Antennagate" brouhaha, it appears at least one competing device is now facing problems of its own: Motorola and Verizon on Tuesday acknowledged faulty screens on some Droid X handsets and offered affected consumers a free replacement device ...

Rackspace’s Risky Open Cloud Bet

Rackspace Hosting on Monday announced the launch of OpenStack, an open source cloud platform designed to foster technology standards and cloud interoperability. ...

Opera Raises Curtain on Mini 5.1 for Android

Opera Software on Wednesday released its Opera Mini 5.1 browser for the Android mobile platform, concluding a beta period that began in March ...

Ballmer: The Slates Are Coming

Microsoft will roll out multiple Windows 7 slate devices "over the course of the next several months," company CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed in a keynote speech on Monday ...

Solar-Powered Plane Takes Off for Day-and-Night Test Flight

A manned solar-powered airplane took off in the early hours of Wednesday morning for a 24-hour trip that will include its first nighttime flight ...

Cisco Floats Business-Minded Android Tablet

Cisco on Tuesday unveiled the Cisco Cius, an Android-powered tablet that targets business users ...

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