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Distant Stars Reveal Hidden Planets

A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system: two worlds that represent a new category of extra-solar planets. Each of newly discovered planets is roughly comparable to the planet Neptune in our own solar system, says Geoffrey...

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Nokia Ships One Million N-Gage Game Decks

Nokia announced that it has shipped its one millionth game deck globally since the sales of the N-Gage platform started eleven months ago. According to Nokia, the sale of one million N-Gage and N-Gage QD game decks marks a significant milestone in the world of portable gaming. "We're proud to have r...

Astronomers Find New Class of Planets

A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system: two worlds that represent a new category of extra-solar planets. Each of newly discovered planets is roughly comparable to the planet Neptune in our own solar system, says Geoffrey...

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Blu-ray Adds Microsoft’s VC-1 Codec

The Blu-ray Disc Association and Microsoft have agreed to include the VC-1 advanced compression video codec, the proposed SMPTE standard based on Windows Media 9, as a mandatory codec in Blu-ray Disc's BD-ROM specification for video playback equipment. Video codecs are used to compress video images ...

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Skype Beta Version Released for Mac OS X

Skype Technologies today launched the beta version of Skype for Mac OS X. The software can be downloaded for free and is available immediately. "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennstrom, Skype...

Free Internet Telephony Now Available for the Mac

Skype Technologies today launched the beta version of Skype for Mac OS X. The software can be downloaded for free and is available immediately. "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennstrom, Skype...

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Opera Browser Goes Mobile

Opera Software announced that its Opera smartphone browser will soon become available for Microsoft Windows Mobile software.

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Circuit City and Verizon Wireless Expand Relationship

Circuit City and Verizon Wireless have signed an agreement to create a Verizon Wireless store within each of more than 570 Circuit City stores around the country.

OASIS Consortium Takes On Data Center Markup Language

Plans were announced today for the Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Organization to become part of the global OASIS standards consortium. Through this shift in proprietorship, the DCML Organization could benefit from the OASIS membership base -- more than 3,000 participants representing over 600 o...

Aruba Wireless Debuts WiFi Wall Outlet

Aruba Wireless and Ortronics today announced they have developed a WiFi wall outlet. Financial details of the strategic development agreement were not disclosed. The new Wi-Jack WiFi wall outlet will be marketed and manufactured by Ortronics and will integrate Aruba's enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) ...

Federal Court Dismisses VeriSign Claim Against ICANN

ICANN confirmed today that Judge A. Howard Matz of the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, has issued an order dismissing VeriSign's antitrust claims against ICANN -- with prejudice. In dismissing VeriSign's antitrust claims, Judge Matz noted that VeriSign had failed in its first am...

Sprint, SBC Make WiFi Roaming Pact

Sprint and SBC Communications today announced a reciprocal WiFi roaming agreement that will provide their customers access to each other's public WiFi networks. Under the agreement, customers will be able to roam on the WiFi networks of each company using their existing user IDs and passwords. Servi...

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Nokia, Vodafone Partner on Mobile Service Architecture

Finnish telecom provider Nokia announced on Thursday that it had, together with the UK telecom operator Vodafone, formed a mobile service architecture initiative. The aim of the initiative is to simplify mobile Java standards by defining the next generation, open standards-based mobile Java services...

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RealNetworks Reports Selling One Million Songs in a Week

RealNetworks today announced that the company sold more than one million songs in the first week of its "Freedom of Choice" campaign. The combination of the ongoing 49-cent-per-song RealPlayer Music Store promotion and a simultaneous promotion of Rhapsody resulted in the highest number of songs sold...

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Vonage Teams With Netgear on VoIP Tech

Vonage, a broadband phone company, has teamed with Netgear to develop a suite of broadband telephony devices. These devices will incorporate the latest version of Texas Instruments' Voice over IP (VoIP) and wireless LAN chipsets. First available will be a VoIP-enabled 802.11g wireless router followe...

Sophos: Worm Spies on Innocent Computer Users

According to a new alert by Sophos today, a newly discovered worm, called the Rbot-GR worm or W32/Rbot-GR worm, spreads via network shares, exploiting several Microsoft security vulnerabilities, installing a backdoor Trojan horse as it travels. Once installed on an infected computer, remote hackers ...

Cisco Grabs P-Cube for $200 Million

Cisco Systems today announced an agreement to acquire privately held P-Cube of Sunnyvale, California. P-Cube is a developer of Internet service control platforms designed to help service providers identify subscribers, classify applications, improve service performance and charge for multiple IP ser...

NASA Genesis Mission Returns with Piece of the Sun

In a dramatic ending that marks a beginning in scientific research, NASA's Genesis spacecraft is set to swing by Earth and jettison a sample return capsule filled with particles of the Sun that might ultimately tell us more about the genesis of our solar system. "The Genesis mission -- to capture a ...

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Study Reveals Cisco’s Strengths and Weaknesses

A study on enterprise routers released today by Infonetics Research shows Cisco Systems rates better than the competition when it comes to pricing, security, technology, management features, product roadmap, financial stability and service and support. The study, "User Plans for Routers, North Ameri...

Rocks Tell Stories: Spirit’s First 90 Martian Days

Scientific findings from the NASA rover Spirit's first three months on Mars will be published Friday, marking the start of a flood of peer-reviewed discoveries in scientific journals from the continuing two-rover adventure. Researchers using Spirit's toolkit of geological instruments from early Janu...

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