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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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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
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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EMI Music has reached an agreement with Hulu to offer concerts and music videos from its artists to Hulu viewers.
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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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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
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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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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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 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
Microsoft opened to the public a beta version of the "Office 2010" suite for developers.
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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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Friday, November 13, 2009
Support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is coming next week, Youtube said today.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
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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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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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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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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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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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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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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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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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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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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Monday, November 09, 2009
Today at the Microsoft Tech?Ed Europe 2009 conference in Germany, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is now available worldwide.
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Friday, November 06, 2009
Microsoft said on Thursday it will issue six patches next week for 15 vulnerabilities, including three critical bulletins affecting Windows and two important Office-related bulletins.
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Google has been busy developing new tools related to developers of JavaScript web-apps, web retailers and also released the Dashboard offering more control and transparency to users account data.
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Sales are for the week of October 18 - 24, 2009 of Microsoft's Windows 7 boxed software surpassed those of Vista's first few days on the U.S. market, according to leading market research company, The NPD Group.
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Kingston Digital today announced it has joined with Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE), a division of Paramount Pictures, to deliver full-length motion picture feature films on Kingston Flash memory products.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
EU lawmakers and governments agreed Thursday on proposed new telecommunication rules that better protect European mobile phone and Internet users being cut off by their service provider.
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Infineon Technologies AG and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company today announced that they are extending their development and production partnership to a 65nanometer (nm) embedded flash (eFlash) process technology targeting next generation automotive, chip card and security applications.
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Samsung developed an 8-chip technology with a thickness of just 0.6mm, the world's thicknes multi-die package according to the company.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Yahoo is reportedly teaming up with OneRiot in an effort to provide up-to-the-minute Internet search results.
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Google released Chrome Beta v4.0.223.16 which is the first Beta release for 4.0. This release includes many bug fixes and for the first time Bookmark Sync is enabled.
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Microsoft today unveiled a preview of its new design for the popular MSN home page, which offers easy access to Bing search and favorite social networks.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Microsoft has launched Internet TV in Windows Media Center for Windows 7 users, allowing them to watch videos from a variety of providers via the Internet right in Windows Media Center in addition to live and recorded TV.
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Yahoo today debuted an open source version of Traffic Server, a high performance application server for builders of cloud services.
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Bittorent Inc is about to rerlease uTorrent 2.0, a new P2P client software that will take advantage of the case μTP (micro-transport protocol), which eliminates the need for ISPs to throttle or stop BitTorrent traffic.
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Monday, November 02, 2009
SRS Labs announced today that it is partnering with DivX, to develop the SRS WOW HD DivX Edition plug-in for the DivX player and DivX Web Player.
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Verizons' all-fiber-optic FiOS service launched on Friday the EPIX movie channel , letting subscribers watch films on-demand on televisions or on the Internet.
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The Mozilla community released Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for download. This beta version of the next version of Firefox is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Facebook outlined changes to its privacy policy on Thursday and asked for feedback from the social network's users.
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Google on Wednesday announced the launch of a brand spanking new version of orkut.
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The first Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish will soon be online thanks to today's approval of the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Canonical released today Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution.
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Google on Wednesday partnered with Web services Lala and MySpace's iLike to give music fans an easier way to find, sample and buy songs on the Internet.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Up until now, if users wanted to use Google Voice, they needed to choose a new number (a "Google number"). But not everyone wants to switch to a new phone number, so Google created a lighter version of Google Voice for people who are willing to trade some features for the ability to use their existing numbers.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
The Google Maps team rolled out last week a number of refinements to the look and feel of Google maps.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Amazon.com today announced "Kindle for PC," the free application that lets readers enjoy Kindle books on their personal computers (PC).
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Microsoft began to roll out Windows 7 operation system on Thursday with the hope of shaking off the negative image created by previous Vista version, aiming to strengthen its grip on the PC market.
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Sharp has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency of 35.8% using a triple-junction compound solar cell.
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Microsoft and Google have both began integrating Twitter messages into their search engines, the companies announced today.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Memory technology licensing companiy Rambus today announced it has achieved a new breakthrough level of power efficiency with its latest silicon test vehicle developed through its Mobile Memory Initiative (MMI).
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There is a lot of excitement for the launch of Windows 7 and Microsoft announced the availability of two new tools today - the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and the Windows 7 Compatibility Center.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Today, at Microsoft's SharePoint Conference, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced that the public beta of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 will become available in November, and revealed some of the new SharePoint Server 2010 capabilities for the first time.
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The IT industry is exiting its worst year ever, as worldwide IT spending is on pace to decline 5.2 percent, according to Gartner.
The IT industry will return to growth with 2010 IT spending forecast to total $3.3 trillion, a 3.3 percent increase from 2009.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
The HomePlug Powerline Alliance today announced that the IEEE P1901 Working Group has made significant progress in streamlining and preparing the Draft Standard for the final approval stage.
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Marvell today announced the game-changing ARMADA family of processors designed specifically for next generation ARM instruction set smartphones, smartbooks, consumer and embedded devices, and displays.
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Google today announced the expansion of the "Go Google" advertising campaign worldwide in an effort to further promote the Google Apps, underscoring increasing competition to provide businesses with email and other office software.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
The move to Microsoft?s latest operating system (OS), Windows 7, is all but inevitable for most organizations, and Gartner, Inc. has highlighted five key issues enterprises should examine as this new OS hits the market.
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CyberLink today released CyberLink TrueTheater Enhancer that improves the playback quality of videos on YouTube, including "High Quality" and "HD" online video content.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Microsoft issued its biggest software patch on record on Tuesday to fix a range of security issues in its programs, including the yet to be released Windows 7 operating system.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Philips developed the "Emotions Jacket", a research platform that uses the sense of touch allowing viewers to experience the intense emotions felt by characters on-screen.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
LG Display today unveiled an e-book that is equipped with in-house developed solar cell.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Twitter is currently available only in English and Japanese. The company is seeking for translators in order to roll out support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
ARM announced at the IEEE SOI Conference, Foster City, Calif., the results from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings of up to 40 percent over traditional bulk process for manufacturing chips.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
The European Commission will on 9 October 2009 formally invite comments from consumers, software companies, computer manufacturers and other interested parties on an improved proposal by Microsoft to give present and future users of the Windows PC operating system a greater choice of web browsers.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
ARM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced a long-term strategic relationship to provide their customers with a SoC enablement program.
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the FTC Act.
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SPMT, LLC, the entity responsible for licensing the Serial Port Memory Technology (SPMT) specification and administering the SPMT Consortium, announced the release of the SPMT specification.
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According to market research company The NPD Group's 2009 Household Penetration Study, 12 percent of all U.S. computer households own an Apple computer. Of those 12 percent, nearly 85 percent also own a Windows-based PC.
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Monday, October 05, 2009
Adobe Systems today unveiled Adobe Flash? Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Adobe Flash Platform to reach users wherever they are.
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Sony today announced the development of an efficient wireless power transfer system that eliminates the use of power cables from electronic products such as television sets.
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body primarily responsible for managing internet domain names, will become more open and accountable to billions of internet users worldwide.
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Panasonic has developed a 1.5 kWh battery module from 18650-type (18 mm in diameter x 65 mm in length) lithium-ion battery cells, which are widely used in laptop computers, to provide energy storage solutions for a wide range of environmentally friendly energy technologies.
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Google today announced a new website translator gadget powered by Google Translate that enables website owners to make their site's content available in 51 languages.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. by Panasonic Corporation.
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Microsoft works with Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Western Union to provide financial scam guidance to people as they search the Web.
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Warner Music Group announced that that the company has reached a new and expanded agreement with Google and its YouTube subsidiary that would bring WMG content back to the service as early as the end of the year.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft's new anti-malware service that helps protect consumers against viruses, spyware and other malicious software, is finally available for download today for free.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Apple today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world.
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Nero today introduced Nero MobileSync for smartphones, a universal, hardware-agnostic platform of fully customizable PC applications for mobile handset, Netbook, gaming console and Ultra-Mobile PC manufacturers.
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Twitter received $100 million in funding on Friday, after the company closed a round of funding with a group of investment firms.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
A worm is propagating through Twitter direct messages (DMs) trying to trick unsuspecting members into thinking it?s a legitimate message from a friend. SocialToo has a solution for that and is launching automatic anti-virus solutions for Twitter and other social networks.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Adobe Systems today announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 & Adobe Premiere Elements 8 for Windows.
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Yahoo announced today that it has realigned all aspects of its business around simplifying and enhancing the Web experience for everyone. The company is launching a $100 million branding campaign next week.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Internet service providers couldn't block or slow lawful Web traffic under rules to be proposed by the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
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In-Stat has released a new whitepaper where the company examines two main competitors in the industry of mobile microprocessors: ARM vs. x86
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IBM has successfully developed a prototype of the semiconductor industry's smallest and fastest on-chip dynamic memory device in next-generation, 32-nanometer, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Microsoft today announced the start of the Microsoft Office Web Apps Technical Preview program for consumers.
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AT&T and Intel today announced plans to bring enhanced remote PC tech support to small and midsize businesses, offering them helpdesk capabilities more typically found in much larger enterprises.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Advancing its goal of unifying the next generation of entertainment, computing and communications devices, the WiGig Alliance today announced five new members, bringing total membership to more than 20 companies.
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EU antitrust regulators are reportedly in touch with Microsoft and Yahoo about their search engine deal, the Reuters reported today.
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When it comes to writing the pen apparently is mightier than the computer keyboard. Second, fourth and sixth grade children with and without handwriting disabilities were able to write more and faster when using a pen than a keyboard to compose essays, according to new research.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
IBM today announced A high-performance processor for system-on-chip (SoC) product families in the communication, storage, consumer, and aerospace and defense markets.
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NEC Electronics, Renesas Technology Corp., NEC Corporation , Hitachi, Ltd., and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to integrate business operations at NEC Electronics and Renesas.
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Adobe Systems and Omniture, Inc. announced the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Adobe to acquire Omniture in a transaction valued at approximately $1.8 billion on a fully diluted equity-value basis.
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Nakaya Microdevices Corporation, Amkor Technology, Inc. and Toshiba Corporation today announced that they are continuing their negotiations of definitive agreements pursuant to a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the formation of a joint venture in Japan to provide system LSI assembly and testing services.
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