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High Court Agrees to Hear ATandT-ISP Dispute

When the Federal Communications Commission classified DSL as an information service in 2005, it put telephone broadband providers in the same category as cable...

Automatic Backup Gets Bundled on PCs

Carbonite, a small but popular online data backup provider, made history of sorts in the storage business on June 25 by becoming the first...

Charter Drops NebuAd Plans

Charter Communications, the nation's fourth-largest broadband provider, hastily withdrew June 24 from a proposed deal with online advertising company NebuAd to track users' online...

Progress Software Acquires Iona

In something of a surprise, Progress Software announced June 25 that it is buying Iona Technologies for about $162 million.Iona's board of directors has...

Nokia-Symbian Pressures Apple, Microsoft, RIM

Nokia may have just switched the balance of power from proprietary to open-source mobile phone software by buying the remainder of the Symbian operating...

Panasonic Taps the Intel Atom

Panasonic is taking Intel's Atom processor into unexplored PC territory.The Panasonic Toughbook CF-U1, which the company announced June 25, will carry the Intel Atom...

How to Defend Security amid Budget Tightening: Four Approaches

Many predict that 2008 will produce the tightest economic conditions since the dot-com bust at the beginning of the decade. The subprime meltdown and...

Sepaton Can Take a Bow for HP’s New Dedupe

Hewlett-Packard this week announced that it is joining a growing group of data storage providers by adding its own brand of deduplication software to...

Google Is to Salesforce.com as Vendor X Is to Microsoft

When Google and Salesforce.com announced Salesforce for Google Apps, the deal was widely covered by press and analysts, with many in the latter group...

FCC Nails Verizon

In one of the poorest kept secrets at the FCC in recent years, the agency officially sanctioned Verizon June 23 for attempting to keep...