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Apple and Motorola Enter Mobile iTunes Pact

Apple and Motorola announced Monday that they will allow iTunes music store customers to transfer songs onto MP3-enabled Motorola phones. The Motorola phones will be part of Motorola's next generation of phones due early next year. Users will be able to download iTunes music through or Bluetooth wir...

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Disk Drive Leader Seagate Introduces Five-Year Warranty

Seagate Technology today announced it has introduced a five-year warranty, effective immediately, on every Seagate internal PC, notebook and enterprise hard drive shipped through its distribution and retail channels throughout the world.

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Infineon and Rosner Partner on Wireless Jacket

A new jacket from Rosner GmbH, a German clothing firm, combines a 128 MB MP3 player that is controlled through cloth buttons on the left sleeve. Headphones are built into the collar. The jacket also has a hands-free cell phone microphone tucked into the collar, which works with phones on the Bluetoo...

Google, Other Sites Slowed by MyDoom Worm

The reports about the worm, a variant of a Web attack called MyDoom, came as outages on the search site Google.com hit in the United States, France and Great Britain. In many places the site was said to be working normally.

Hackers Disguise Trojan Horse As Osama Bin Laden Suicide Photographs

Experts at Sophos have warned computer users that a file posing as photographic evidence that Osama Bin Laden has killed himself is in fact infected by the Hackarmy Trojan horse. Thousands of messages have been posted onto internet message boards and usenet newsgroups claiming that journalists from ...

Intel’s Low-Power Pentium M Processors

Intel today expanded the Intel Pentium M processor and Intel Celeron M processor families with products aimed at the notebook, subnotebook and tablet PC segments that represent small mobile PCs typically weighing around three pounds. Intel's new offerings include the Intel Pentium M processor Low Vo...

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First Pocket PC Virus ‘Poses No Threat’

Antivirus company Sophos's virus researchers reported the first ever virus to infect the Microsoft Pocket PC operating system. The Duts virus (W32/Duts-A) is able to infect PDAs running the Pocket PC operating system, and it was reportedly written by the 29A virus writing gang. This is the same grou...

AT&T Boosts 3G Wireless in US

3GSM makes its debut in the United States today as AT&T Wireless announces the rollout of its initial third-generation broadband mobile communications offering in Seattle, Phoenix, Detroit and San Francisco. The new U.S. service, launched ahead of schedule, brings the number of live 3GSM network...

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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Prince Charles Attacked for Opinions on Nanotech

The British scientific establishment responded with anger Monday to an attack by Prince Charles on nanotechnology -- applied science involving tiny particles. Fertility expert Robert Winston described as "very unfortunate" Charles' renewed attack over the weekend in which he suggested using the tech...

Patent Sought for Messages from Grave

Application for a U.S. patent has been filed by a California man for his system that allows the dead to speak from their tombs, New Scientist reported Thursday. Robert Barrows of Burlingame has devised a hollow headstone fitted with a flat LCD touch screen. It also houses a computer with a hard disc...

Sony’s New Micro Vault Offers 2 GB Storage

Sony Electronics today introduced the Micro Vault PRO, a new USB storage device that provides 2 GB of space plus a built-in "Auto Sync" file synchronization feature -- all in a form factor about the length and width of a business card. The Micro Vault PRO uses a one-inch hard disk drive in a brushed...

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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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Panasonic Debuts Blu-Ray DVD Recorder

Panasonic has released a DVD recorder based on Blu-Ray, a technology that can read and store data at much higher densities than previous DVD technologies. According to some analyst estimates, the move should give Panasonic an edge in the battle against a rival technology supported by fellow Japanese...

Comdex Canceled, Future Debated

MediaLive International today announced that Comdex Las Vegas 2004 has been "postponed." The company said the reason for the postponement is to "reshape the event" with the cooperation of IT industry leaders. Comdex 2004 had been scheduled to open November 14, 2004, in Las Vegas. Industry watchers a...

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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...

Global Alliance Pushes Home Network Specs

The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), formerly called the Digital Home Working Group (DHWG), today announced the availability of the Home Networked Device Interoperability Guidelines 1.0. A year in the making, the Interoperability Guidelines define the design principles necessary to move conte...

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Cisco Pushes Metropolitan Mobile Network Technologies

Cisco announced today a new technology, called the Cisco Metropolitan Mobile Network, that is designed to provide broadband wireless access for government agencies across an entire city. With a unified IP network foundation, the Cisco Metropolitan Mobile Network is designed to offer mobile access to...

COLSA To Build Apple Xserve Supercomputer

COLSA Corporation has purchased 1,566 dual-processor 1U rack-mount 64-bit Xserve G5 servers from Apple to build a new supercomputer that the company hopes will be one of the fastest in the world. The supercomputer, named MACH 5, is expected to deliver a peak performance capability of more than 25 te...

Great Plains 8.0 Hits the Street

Microsoft's business division today announced a new version of Great Plains, a financial management software package. According to the company, the new version of Great Plains, now in version 8.0, offers improved usability and functionality for distribution, manufacturing and project accounting. Mic...

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