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International Business Machines announced today that it plans to provide free access to the information in 500 company patents to individuals and groups working on open-source software ...

Samsung has found a way to increase memory while allowing for theever-thinner profile of mobile devices, the company announced today ...

In the doldrums of January, how could it be hard to sell Tahiti? Perhaps that was TiVo's thought when it named the strategy it unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. "Tahiti" is the umbrella term for the company's plans for a host of premium services designed to compete against the ever-encroaching DVR boxes from cable and satellite TV providers...

McAfee has released a list of the top 10 computer threats of 2004, but the security firm hasn't gone far enough, according to one analyst ...

Microsoft beefed up its security offerings, buying the anti-spyware companyGiant and announcing it would make available for free a beta version of thesoftware for Windows 2000 and later. The test version will be availablewithin a month, Microsoft said ...

Ending a disappointing chapter in its history, Hewlett-Packard todayannounced that Intel would hire its Itanium chip team, severing a 12-yeardevelopment partnership between the companies. HP, however, said it wasstill planning to spend US$3 billion over three years on the 64-bittechnology ...

The Motion Picture Association of America continued its assault on filesharing, joining with police in Europe and the United States to try to stopdefendants that John Malcolm, the MPAA's director of worldwide antipiracyoperations, called "parasites, leeching off the creativity of others." ...

The New York Stock Exchange and IBM announced in a conference call todaythat TradeWorks, a new processing system complete with custom hand-helddevices -- all designed and built by IBM -- was up and running on the tradefloor ...

IBM said grid computing is moving beyond the early adopter phase andannounced today a series of "Think Grid" workshops to help its businesspartners learn more about creating, selling and using enterprise grids ...

Google's quest to aggregate all content on the Web has expanded to encompasswhole libraries ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has won again, this time after an acrimonious,18-month-long battle with PeopleSoft, whose board of directors bowed todayand agreed to a US$10.3 billion takeover offer ...

Adding weight to the notion that two high-definition DVD formats may co-exist, leading manufacturer Thomson today announced that it would manufacture HD DVD-compatible discs as well as Blu-ray versions in its Technicolor division ...

Men who have been balancing laptops on their knees as they work during rush hour on the train or wait in the airport for flights may be at risk of more than aches and pains from hunching over that little keyboard. They could also be prone to another major side effect: infertility ...

Disney and its Buena Vista Home Entertainment Division have thrown theirconsiderable weight behind the Blu-ray standard for next-generation DVDs,escalating the battle between this format and HD DVDs ...

PalmSource, the separate company that develops the palmOne mobile operating system, announced today it would buy China MobileSoft, whose Linux technology will give PalmSource an instant foothold in the open-source market ...

In an attempt to get a jump on the spread of malware through instant messaging, a group of security firms has banded together to create a community of watchdogs that will share information about potential threats ...

As an Australian court considers whether Kazaa's parentcompany should be forced to pay damages for the file sharing that goes onover its peer-to-peer (P2P) network, questions persist about the effectiveness of themusic industry's enforcement efforts ...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is extending its PowerNow technology into theserver and workstation realms, building it into Opteron processors, thecompany announced today ...

Trend Micro is giving away its antivirus and anti-spam software forsmartphones until June, the company announced today, but how necessary that software is remains unclear ...

Microsoft today handed aspiring bloggers a simple, free tool to get started, releasing a public beta version of MSN Spaces ...