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Hewlett-Packard has redesigned three versions of its desktop PC line to meet new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency energy standards ...

Samsung Electronics is putting the finishing touches on an 8-gigabyte chip -- a high-density embedded flash memory device capable of storing up to 2,000 songs on a mobile phone ...

Oracle has joined the board of the Eclipse Foundation, an open source consortium, and says it will donate its Java persistence framework, Oracle TopLink, to help grow the new Eclipse Persistence Platform Project ...

Microsoft plans to skip its monthly round of security patches scheduled for release next Tuesday, despite at least five zero-day vulnerabilities waiting to be fixed ...

Microsoft plans to submit a new photo format to an international standards group that it claims offers the highest quality images available with improved compression techniques ...

Connecticut lawmakers are pushing a bill that would require social networking sites such asMySpace.com to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors who want to post profiles ...

Microsoft is putting search at the forefront of its future plans, and is demonstrating its increasing prowess in that field at the company's annual TechFest this week ...

Red Hat andExadel announced a partnership on Monday that will bring Eclipse-based developer tools to Red Hat's JBoss suite of middleware ...

Cisco Systems is now offering customers an upgraded version of its software and network equipment that links desktop computers to cell phones and other mobile devices ...

In its relatively short life online, reference Web site Wikipedia has endured numerous shots from corners ranging from the generally staid Encyclopedia Britannica to a former aide of the late Robert F. Kennedy. Now it's lined up in the sites of a new foe -- a group of high school students with a conservative and religious bent ...

A new computer virus targeting antivirus vendor Symantec's security software has hit a division of at least one big U.S. corporation this week and is still considered a threat to other networks ...

Google plans to provide Web advertisers with more data and tools to combat click fraud, a damaging practice that costs advertisers an estimated US$16 billion a year ...

Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to deliver a service that streams television to mobile phones with the Thursday launch of its new Mobile TV on the MediaFLO network ...

Open source database vendor MySQL and business intelligence (BI) software providerJasperSoft are teaming up in a joint reselling agreement to deliver solutions for the burgeoning ISV/OEM (independent software vendor/original equipment manufacturer) market ...

Advanced Micro Devices has announced the availability of its AMD 690 chipset, the first integrated chipset that includes the recently acquired ATI Radeon X1250 graphics processor ...

A pair of hackers arrested last year for trying to extort US$150,000 from MySpace.com have struck a deal that will spare them jail time. The two pleaded no contest in a Los Angeles court to the lesser charge of illegal computer access ...

IBM is offering no guarantees that its Linux-based applications are compatible with Oracle's new version of the Linux operating system ...

Swedish wireless equipment giant Ericsson is hoping to boost its multimedia services for the Internet with the purchase ofTandberg Television ...

Eric Raymond, a key figure behind the Red Hat Linux distribution, has sparked a storm of controversy by shifting his allegiance to the rival open source platform Ubuntu ...

Tiny computer chips with myriad applications -- from scanning concert tickets to tracking the family dog to monitoring travelers as they cross international borders -- are shrinking, and have now have caught up with the imaginations of science fiction and spy novel writers ...