Google Inc. plans to invest US$600 million in a new data center in South Carolina, the state government said on Wednesday.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has begun shipping two 3GHz versions of its dual-core Opteron chip to server vendors, continuing a battle over multicore processing power with Intel Corp., the company said Wednesday.

The European Commission's complaint against Apple Inc. and the major record labels over a possible violation of European rules on cross-border trade has served to highlight the inconsistencies in how music is released and priced online.

A szolgáltatásorientált iparági szabványok kialakítását támogató Open SOA Collaboration bejelentette, hogy befejezte a szolgáltatás komponensek és adatok felhasználását megkönnyítő specifikációinak kialakítását, és benyújtotta azokat nyílt szabványosítás céljából az OASIS konzorciumhoz - adta hírül az Alerant Zrt., a BEA-termékek magyarországi disztribútora.

EMI Group has announced a plan to sell its music through online retailers without copy protection technologies, a significant move that should give consumers greater freedom in the way they can listen to music purchased online.

Tom Shea, writing in these pages 25 years ago, had it almost right. His article "Subscribe to Magazines with your Microcomputer" in January 1983 described Publishers Aide -- a "magazine subscription fulfillment" company that planned to let home computer users "key ... in a code" to access subscription data from the company's IBM mainframe.

The newest version of Minimo, the Mozilla mobile browser, became available this week in the midst of changes within the Minimo project that make its future uncertain.

If you receive an e-mail offering a download of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2, delete it. A new virus is making the rounds that comes disguised as a test version of Microsoft Corp.'s current Web browser.

Az Adobe Labs honlapján ízelítőt kaphatunk a továbbfejlesztett szoftverről és a 3D-s elemeket is tartalmazó PDF-ről.

A Novell Open Workgroup Suite segítségével világszerte számos vállalat és intézmény csökkenti költségeit és használja ki a nyílt forráskódú szoftverek nyújtotta rugalmasságot. A Novell ügyfelei, például az Oregon Department of Human Services (Oregon állam szociális és egészségügyi minisztériuma), a svédországi Norrköping városa, a Girosol Corp., a Michigan állambeli Detroit városa és a Hines Corporation már kihasználják az első, Nyitott Vállalatoknak szánt munkacsoport-programcsomag előnyeit, amely rugalmas és költséghatékony megoldást nyújt a nyílt forráskódú és szabványalapú szoftverekre alapozva.

Az új Novell ZENworks Configuration Management jelentősen leegyszerűsíti a desktop felügyeleti rendszerek telepítési folyamatát, és hatékony támogatást biztosít a Windows Vista-ra történő átálláshoz.

Adobe Systems Inc. on Tuesday said it had completely revamped its tools suite for high-end graphics and Web designers by combining, for the first time, products from the former Macromedia and its own portfolio.

You may not realize it, but YouTube has more to offer than stupid kids hurting themselves in stupid stunts and talent skits of questionable talent. In fact, it seems to have just about everything else -- including hilarious parodies, spoofs and jokes related to IT and computers.

Intel Corp. President and CEO Paul Otellini Monday confirmed the company plans to build a US$2.5 billion chip plant in China. The plant, to be built in Dalian, on China's northeastern coast, will enter production during the first half of 2010.

Two members of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation Inc., which manages the Wikipedia Web site, have resigned their posts.

A Sony PlayStation 3 európai és ausztrál premierjén néhol hangos ünnepléssel, máshol közönyös fogadtatással találkozott.

Oracle Corp. took its bitter rivalry with business applications vendor SAP AG up another notch, filing suit Thursday against SAP alleging violations of U.S. fraud legislation, unfair competition and civil conspiracy.

Nokia Corp. has started shipping its N95 mobile phone in Europe and Asia, the first in an expected series of devices from the Finnish company with built-in GPS (global positioning system) capabilities.

European competition commissioner Neelie Kroes hit out at Microsoft Corp. in comments to European parliamentarians Thursday, saying it is "unacceptable" that the company continues to gain market share using tactics that were outlawed in the Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against the software vendor.

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