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Broadband Reaches Critical Mass

Nielsen//NetRatings is reporting that broadband connections for the first time reached 51 percent of the American online population at home during the month of July, as compared to 38 percent last July. Sixty-three million Web users connected to the Internet via broadband during July 2004 as compare...

PacketHop, Nortel Join on Homeland Security

Mobile broadband networking products developer PacketHop today announced it has joined with wireless networks provider Nortel Networks to provide mobile communications technology targeting the homeland security market. Under the agreement, the companies will initially target the US$11 billion homela...

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Telstra, Hutchison Partner on Infrastructure

Telstra gained a head start on Australian rival entrants to the third generation mobile phone market with a US$450 million deal to share Hutchison Telecommunications' third generation infrastructure. The agreement ends speculation about whether Australia's biggest telco would build its own infrastru...

Electronic Arts To Acquire Criterion Software Group

Electronic Arts announced an agreement to acquire Criterion Software Group from Canon Europe. With the acquisition, EA will assume Criterion's studio in Guildford, UK; two intellectual properties, Burnout and Black; and the RenderWare middleware technology. Under a previous agreement, Criterion's Bu...

Worldwide DRAM Revenue Increased 20 Percent

Worldwide dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) revenue reached US$6.7 billion in the second quarter of 2004, a 19.8 percent increase from the first quarter of this year, according to preliminary results by Gartner. Hynix Semiconductor moved into the number two position in the second quarter of 2004 w...

Ballmer Pledges Support for Innovation, Security

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the third and final day of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2004 -- the company's main event for business partners -- with a message of increased company investments to fuel innovation in the industry. "For businesses dedicated to innovating with tech...

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Microsoft To Meet with EU Appeals Judge on July 27

The judge presiding over Microsoft's appeal of the European Union's antitrust decision has scheduled a first meeting for July 27th.

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Network Associates Denies Microsoft Acquisition Rumor

George Samenuk, chairman and CEO of Network Associates, sent an e-mail to all company staff reassuring them that rumors of a Microsoft takeover are not true. "Many of you have seen the article in Computer Reseller News (CRN) which says that Network Associates is being acquired by Microsoft," said th...

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Nokia Global Market Share Declines

Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia said Tuesday its global market share tanked in the first quarter due to bad design and shaky business relationships. Nokia's global market share fell to 28.9 percent in the first three months of the year, compared to 34.6 percent it held a year ago, reported Gar...

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