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Friday, November 20, 2009
Twitter is planning to relaese new services later this year, which will not be avaialble for free.
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Creating captions for your videos on YouTube becomes much easier today, thanks to automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology.
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Panasonic has developed the "Advanced Disc for Archive" (ADA) optical disc with a cassette-type shell case aimed at archiving data of pictures in the medical field.
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ASUS has adopted NVIDIA's ION graphics for many of its popular "Eee" netbooks and nettop PCs.
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Qualcomm and MediaTek have entered into a broad patent arrangement under each company?s patent portfolios, including CDMA and WCDMA essential patents, with respect to all integrated circuit products, including CDMA and WCDMA products.
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Hynix Semiconductor has announced the Intel validation of 2Gb (Gigabit) DDR3 DRAM using 40nm class process technology.
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Elpida Memory today announced that it had developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 that operates at a world-class high speed of 6Gbps.
The new graphic memory device marks Elpida's first successful step in the GDDR market.
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today with the launch of the PlayStation Network video delivery service for Europe.
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Blu-ray Disc (BD) sales will not be sufficient this year to compensate for the widely reported downward trend in DVD sales, although industry analysts of Screen Digest expect global consumer spending on packaged video software to stabilise again in 2010.
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Google's new operating system Chrome OS will be available in next year's holiday shopping season, aimed at low-cost computers.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
HTC Corporation chief executive officer announced the availability of the HD2 in Europe and Taiwan.
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Capping a decade dominated by the Internet, The Webby Awards today named the ten most influential Internet moments of the 2000s, with the launch of Wikipedia, Apple's iPhone and Google's AdWords to be among the winners.
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Jon Peddie Research (JPR) today announced the market forecast for PC gaming hardware, and the results are better than previously expected.
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Iomega, an EMC company and Sonic Solutions today announced a relationship that will allow consumers to buy or rent content to watch on their televisions without leaving their livingroom.
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Imation today announced U.S. availability of its Pro WX Wireless USB hard drive, the world's first Wireless USB external hard drive.
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EMI Music has reached an agreement with Hulu to offer concerts and music videos from its artists to Hulu viewers.
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Sony is implementing its restructuring plan in an effort to become a leader in the next generation 3D TV and gaming businesses, the company said Thursday.
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Diskeeper Corporation launched Diskeeper 2010 performance software.
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The HDMI Licensing, LLC has anounced the new logos for the cables that support the HDMI Specification Version 1.4.
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Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain?s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition.
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Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif, Intel Corporation and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines have entered into an agreement to create an Exascale Computing Research Center.
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Sony Ericsson showcased the beta version of WebSDK at the annual Web 2.0 conference in New York.
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During the second day of Microsoft?s Professional Developers Conference 2009, Microsoft invited developers to test new beta versions of Microsoft Silverlight 4, Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Nokia today announced that the Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers who jumped on the opportunity to be among the first to pre-order the Maemo-powered mobile computer.
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Sony today announced its newest addition to the Sony Reader Family - the Reader Daily Edition - is now available for pre-order on SonyStyle.com.
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A picture of a Fermi based Geforce product rendering graphics was officially published today online by Nvidia, just the same day as AMD's Radeon HD 5970 release.
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NVIDIA today, along with the leading PC manufacturers announced the expansion of the NVIDIA 3D Vision ecosystem to include high-definition notebook platforms that integrate 120Hz 3D Vision-capable displays directly into the chassis for on-the-go 3D.
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The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) issued its updated Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard, a companion standard to DisplayPort Version 1.1a.
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STMicroelectronics in collaboration with LG
Display today announced submission of their proposed iDP (Internal DisplayPort) interface standard aimed at replacing the current LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) standard to the VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) TV Panel Task Group.
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In October 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.4 percent search market share, up from 64.9 percent in September. Microsoft Sites grabbed 9.9 percent market share, up 0.5 percentage points versus September, according to comScore.
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Samsung today announced the South Korean market launch of its newest multimedia player, the R0 (YP-R0), featuring advanced audio and video capabilities together with a MicroSD external memory slot.
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Toshiba has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, and proved its viability with the world's first 20nm-scale generation process technology.
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Microsoft has updated the Xbox LIVE offering users access to Facebook, Zune, Last.fm and Twitter through the Xbox 360 game console. Sony's answer came today with a new firmware update (v3.10) that enables PlayStation 3 to access Facebook.
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Plextor introduced its latest entry into the Blu-ray market with the new PX-B940SA internal BD writer.
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AMD today officially announced the flagship installment in the line of graphics cards, the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which fully supports Microsoft Direct 11 technology and ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology.
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Microsoft today announced the availability of the Windows Azure platform at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), detailing its strategy and road map for developers to move, enhance and transform applications for the cloud.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Netflix today announced that Netflix members can now watch movies and TV episodes streamed from Netflix directly to TVs via Sony BRAVIA Internet Video-capable HDTVs, previous BRAVIA models compatible with Sony's BRAVIA Internet video link module and the Sony Network Blu-ray Disc Player.
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Nvidia unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA processor architecture, codenamed "Fermi".
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OCZ Technology today released the Colossus 3.5" Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, designed to meet the performance and storage demands of high-end desktop users and enterprise clients.
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In its third run to knock the IBM supercomputer nicknamed "Roadrunner" off the top perch on the TOP500 list of supercomputers, the Cray XT5 supercomputer known as Jaguar finally claimed the top spot on the 34th edition of the closely watched list.
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Microsoft opened to the public a beta version of the "Office 2010" suite for developers.
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Sony Computer Entertainment Japan (SCEJ) today announced that a "KINGDOM HEARTS Birth by Sleep 'KINGDOM HEARTS EDITION'" bundle pack will become available on January 9, 2010.
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KINGMAX new generation OverClocking DRAM Modules present the powerful strength and great intelligence just like Hercules with his characters.
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ARM today announced the Solution Center for Android, a resource for designers and developers of ARM technology-based products running on Android, the open source platform from the Open Handset Alliance.
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Adobe today announced that beta versions of Adobe AIR 2 and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 software are now available from Adobe Labs for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
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Nvidia's GeForce GT 240 GPU slipped off today targeting the mainstream desktop PCs and bringing support of DirectX 10.1 and higher speed to the sub-$100 market segment.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
While a market rebound for graphics add-in boards (AIBs) didn't occur in sync with the broader graphics hardware markets, it did eventually materialize in the third quarter, reports Jon Peddie Research.
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This week, Wii owners who connect their Wii consoles to the Internet can enjoy demos of five games for the WiiWare downloadable game service for zero Wii Points.
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SPARKLE Computer is bundling Nvidia's 3D Vision discover glasses with some of its graphic cards offerings for free.
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CyberLink Live 3 now supports the iPhone community, the comapny announced today.
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G.Skill claims that it has released the world?s fastest DRAM modules rated at a DDR3 2200 CL7-10-10-28 1.65V 4GB (2GBx2), and specially tuned for Intel Lynnfield Core i7 870, 860 processors.
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More than four out of every five supercomputers on the TOP500 list are powered by Intel processors.
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The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced last week its plans to launch a DisplayPort cable adaptor verification program.
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the availability of the newly designed SimpleDrive desktop external hard drive with capacities of up to two terabytes (2TB).
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The highly-anticipated Nokia E72, a device tailor-made for business and personal messaging is now available in stores.
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Pioneer announced that it has filed a complaint against Garmin International, Inc. (Garmin) and its associated company in the United States International Trade Commission, alleging Garmin?s infringement of Pioneer?s patents related to navigation technology.
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Samsung today officially announced its latest Android-powered smartphone, the 'Galaxy Spica' (I5700).
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Dell today confirmed plans to enter the smart phone business and announced partnerships with two of the world's largest mobile operators.
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Support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is coming next week, Youtube said today.
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Google today announced the acquisition of Gizmo5, a company that provides Internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers.
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The Wii has recalimed its spot at the top of the US game hardware sales charts, according to results released today by the NPD Group.
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T-Mobile USA today announced that the Samsung Behold II (SGH-t939) will be available beginning Nov. 18.
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Super Talent Technology today announced new 450X, 533X, and 600X high speed CompactFlash media cards which achieve read/write speeds up to 90MB/sec.
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CyberLink today announced that Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc., (HLDS) will bundle CyberLink DVD Suite with its latest DVD burners.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
While recordable DVDs are unreliable and unpredictable, often failing in as few as two years, a new 1,000 year DVD made of high tech, diamond-hard stone promises to preserve irreplaceable digital files for the ages.
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Intel and AMD today announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes.
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ARCTIC COOLING is expanding its product line from designing cooling solutions to various electronic products and peripherals. Today the company launched their first power adapter series ARCTIC C1 and ARCTIC C2, designing for frequent travelers for charging a wide range of USB-powered appliances.
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Google has improved the SafeSearch function of Google search, a feature that lets users filter sexually explicit web sites and images from their search results.
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Sharp today announced another Blu-Ray and HDD combo with the BD-HDS43, a mid-level Blu-Ray HDD combo with a single Digital and Analog TV tuner, 320GB of HDD and the ability to write on Blu-Ray DL discs.
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HP and 3Com today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase 3Com, a provider of networking switching, routing and security solutions, at an enterprise value of approximately $2.7 billion.
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GIGABYTE has released BIOS updates for their full series of P55 based motherboards to solve the iPhone sync issues with the Intel P55 chipset.
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SANYO today announced the release of a 'Contactless Charger Set for Wii Remote,' produced especially for Nintendo?s Wii Remote.
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Microsoft has announced a deal which will bring the Wolfram Alpha search tool to its Bing search service, allowing users to take advantage of the Wolfram Alpha algorithms and search tools within Bing queries.
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AMD today announced new details on its platform roadmap at the 2009 Financial Analyst Day, where attendees got to see firsthand the roadmaps outlined for platforms and technology that span the most popular usage scenarios for users at work, at home and at play.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Primera Technology today announced its BravoPro Xi-Series Disc Publishers (DP-PRO Xi-Series in Europe, Scandinavia and Middle East).
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Google today open sourced an experimental new language called Go. Go combines the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++.
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Thousands of gamers have been cut off from Microsoft's online gaming service Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games.
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Garmin-Asus, a co-branded alliance between Garmin and ASUSTeK, today announced that the n?vifone M20?an phone is now available with Windows Mobile 6.5.
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Members of the controlyour.info (CYI) group claimed on Tuesday to have seized control of nearly 300 Facebook community groups in an effort to draw attention to questions concerning online privacy awareness.
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On the ocassion of the release of Windows 7, Samsung is offering a Nero 9 bundle for Windows 7 upgrade for free to the existing owners of Samsung/TSST drives bnundled with Nero 8.
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GIGABYTE today announced two new challenges for PC overclockers everywhere.
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Nokia is today strengthening its CDMA portfolio with the announcement of three new CDMA mobile devices: Nokia 6316s, Nokia 3806 and Nokia 1506.
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Pioneer and Sharp have completed all the necessary procedures and launched their optical disk joint venture today.
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Lite-On today announced the launch of a a new external DVD writer. With the introduction of the eHAU324 Lite-On offers the 24x DVD writing speeds now also on an external DVD writer.
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Japanese supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Elpida Memory and Winbond Electronics Corp. today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for DRAM foundry services that will see Winbond manufacture DRAMs under contract to Elpida.
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Intel plans to release a new 40GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive for serves as well as new enterprise-class SSDs with 50GB, 100GB and 200GB capacities.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Matrox Graphics today announced the launch of the Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 Octal graphics card, capable of supporting eight DisplayPort or DVI Single-Link outputs from a single workstation.
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Intel today announced the Intel Reader, a mobile handheld device designed to increase independence for people who have trouble reading standard print.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) today announced that TSMC and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) have reached a settlement of the action brought in California State Court by TSMC against SMIC in 2006 related to SMIC?s misappropriation of TSMC trade secrets and breach of a 2005 settlement agreement between the two companies.
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OCZ Technology Group today announced its collaboration with SandForce on OCZ?s next generation of mainstream and enterprise solid state drives (SSDs).
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Netflix today announced that Netflix members can now instantly watch thousands of movies and TV episodes streamed to TVs from Netflix via the PlayStation 3 (PS3) computer entertainment system. Instantly watching movies streamed from Netflix via the PS3 system is at no additional cost to Netflix members who have a PS3 system.
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At the 2009 BlackBerry Developer Conference, Research In Motion (RIM) and Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that application developers will be able to use the Adobe Flash Platform technology and Adobe Creative Suite tools to create rich content and application experiences for BlackBerry smartphones.
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ASUS today unveiled the O!Play Air HDP-R3 HD media player that enables users to access all their digital content from various sources wirelessly.
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Google today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display ad technology provider, for $750 million in stock.
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Samsung should be banned from selling certain LCD-TVs and computer monitors in the U.S. after losing a patent case filed by Sharp, the U.S. International Trade Commission said.
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The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today issued its Mini-Display Port (mDP) Connector Standard, defining the new, small connector that supports the full range of power, signaling and protocol capabilities defined in the DisplayPort Standard Version 1, Revision 1a.
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Samsung today announced the launch of its own open mobile platform, Samsung bada [bada] in December.
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Today sees the first batch of Nokia N900 handsets boxed up and shipped out on their maiden voyage into wild. Nokia hopes that its new flagship phone will compete with iPhone and Blackberry.
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European Commission (EC) antitrust regulators have raised formal objections to Oracle's proposed 7.4 billion U.S. dollars acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
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