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Deutsche Telekom May Gain Control of Greek Company
ATHENS - With its sales slipping and fixed-line customers defecting, Deutsche Telekom looked set this week to complete plans to buy a stake worth nearly 3 billion euros ($4.6 billion) in Greeces former phone monopoly. The deal would give Deutsche Telekom

Foley: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16
Systems administrators: Mark your calendars. Microsoft is going to start pushing the first service packs for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 next month. In December, when , company officials said theyd give customers a minimum 30-day advance notice

Microsoft appeals $1.4B EU antitrust fine
SEATTLE Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it has appealed a $1.39 billion fine imposed in February by the European Commission for the company's failure to comply with a 2004 antitrust order. Spokesman Jack Evans said Microsoft filed an application with the

Logged into Google? You may see more ads
Google may be using its propertiesiGoogle, Gmail and Appsto step up its behavioral ad efforts. Thats the conclusion from Piper Jaffray Gene Munster who tracks 400 searches on Google and Yahoo each month. Munster defines a behavioral ad as one that

Do You Have That Portable in a Midsize?
THIRTY-SIX years ago, Alan Kay, a computer scientist, published a rough sketch of his Dynabook portable computer, establishing the ideal of ever more intimate personal computers. A new category that Intel calls Mobile Internet Devices, or M.I.D.?s,

Is Microsoft stalking Powerset's search technology?
I asked Barney Pell, Powerset co-founder and CTO, whether there was any truth to a Microsoft-Powerset deal. He said, 'No comment,' and noted his policy of not commenting on rumors. Our News.com team has calls into Microsoft. Bringing Powerset, which has

Spam Moves to Cellphones and Gets More Invasive
If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself for round two: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. Cellphones have become consumers most personal technological devices. That is why some industry executives, along with consumer

Kombat's creator: 'Dramatic' changes for game
(GameTap.com) The superviolent fatalities and finishing moves put it front and center at the local quickie mart as a must-play arcade game, but those same moves also fueled parent groups, which used what they deemed as a growing out-of-control level of

Microsoft appeals record European Commission fine
Microsoft is appealing a record European Commission fine for not complying with a milestone European Commission anti-trust ruling. Four months after the Commission ordered Microsoft to pay $1.39bn (899m euro) for not meeting the terms of its original

And top five (last-minute) camera accessories
Dont worryyou still have a couple of days to get it together for Mothers Day. If your favorite mom already has a digital camera, getting her one of these cool camera accoutrements is sure to put a smile on her face. Pandigitals latest line of digital

Janice Chen: Top five digital cameras to get for Mom
Still scrambling to figure out what to get your favorite mom for Sunday? A little help: Here are my top picks for the perfect Mothers Day gift (hint, hint). Best Budget Camera: Canon PowerShotA470 This 7.1-megapixel camera is a steal, especially if you

Burma's emergency telecoms delay
Infrastructure in many areas has been destroyedForeign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms in disaster areas have been prevented from going into cyclone-hit Burma.Like many charity groups, the Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF)

With Microsoft mum, analysts mull next moves for Live Search
SEATTLE Without the influx of Web traffic that Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into a Google-killer. Since it withdrew a $47.5

Microsoft's Southeast Asia Boost
It's nice to play elder statesman. While Microsoft (MSFT) Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is coping with the aftermath of his (YHOO) (BusinessWeek, 5/8/08), Bill Gates is far, far away and focusing on loftier subjects. The outgoing Microsoft

Oracle's Phillips: Talking Enterprise 2.0
This morning I participated in a round table conversation with Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, discussing his take on Enterprise 2.0 technologies and how they apply to Oracles view of the enterprise applications space. While there was nothing

XP SP3 cripples some PCs with endless reboots
Windows blogger has tentatively identified XP SP3's endless reboot problem as involving only machines using processors from AMD Talkback E-mail Printer Friendly Reprints Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 sends some PCs into an endless series of

Large Hadron Collider explained
(CNN) -- Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed. Immense detectors surround the areas where inconceivably small particles slam into one another at super-high energies, collisions that may confirm

Physics wonder boy to test Einstein's theories
(CNN) -- Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed. Immense detectors surround the areas where inconceivably small particles slam into one another at super-high energies, collisions that may confirm

Intel buys license for Sweden-wide WiMax network
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Intel Corp. dove further into the cellular business on Thursday, becoming one of the winners in Sweden's auction of licenses for nationwide wireless broadband. Intel paid $26 million for a 15-year license it intends to use for WiMax, a

Inside Microsoft's War Against Google
It's April, and Microsoft's (MSFT) top U. S. salesman for online advertising, Keith Lorizio, is visiting clients in New York City. In a midtown office tower, he sits down with Nicholas Utton, the gregarious chief marketing officer at online broker

Microsoft orders 65nm Xbox 360 graphics chip
Claims the next incarnation of the Xbox 360's internal workings is due to begin being built into the console in August appear to be on track. Microsoft was this week said to have placed orders with chip and motherboard makers. According to a Taiwanese

Inside Microsoft's War Against Google
It's April, and Microsoft's (MSFT) top U. S. salesman for online advertising, Keith Lorizio, is visiting clients in New York City. In a midtown office tower, he sits down with Nicholas Utton, the gregarious chief marketing officer at online broker

LIVEBLOGGING: Schmidt, Page, and Brin Happy About Failed Microsoft-Yahoo Deal
Im sort of liveblogging a talk that Google honchos Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page is having with reporters before the companys annual meeting. Ill post their comments in chunks as it goes along&and clean it up later. As you can probably see

Facebook Agrees to Devise Tools to Protect Young Users
The social network Facebook has reached an agreement with 49 state attorneys general to institute a broad set of principles intended to protect young users from online predators and inappropriate material. The company will require users under 18 to

Court issues split decision in Lucent-Microsoft patent row
NEW YORK A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated one of two patent cases tossed out last year in the ongoing user-interface technology dispute pitting Alcatel-Lucent against Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. The appeals court said the San Diego

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MySpace lets users share data
Maggie ShielsBBC technology reporter Silicon ValleyTwitter meets MySpaceThe world's most popular social networking site MySpace is to allow users to make their information available to other websites. Its 'data availability' project will let members

MySpace Turns Social Network Sharing the Right Direction
Amid all the initiatives in which Internet companies are supposed to make friends with each other-such as Facebooks Platform and Googles rival OpenSocial initiative-the announcement today by MySpace may well be the most useful to ordinary people and thus

Why can't Unix and Linux just get along?
Can the Linux community get over its not invented here ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go

Movers: Sprint Nextel, Clearwire, Disney, Cisco Systems, ON Semiconductor
From Sprint Nextel (S) and Clearwire (CLWR) agree to combine their next-generation wireless broadband businesses to form a new wireless communications company. Intel (INTC), Google (GOOG), Comcast (CMCSA), Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Bright House