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Qualcomm Barred from Using Broadcom 3G Patents

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)—A federal judge in California ruled on Monday that wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc must immediately stop selling third-generation, or 3G, WCDMA...

Qualcomm Readies New Chip Sets

NEW YORK (Reuters)—Wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc. said on Wednesday new chipsets, designed to comply with a courts patent infringement ruling, were now available...

Is Tech Immune to Manufacturing Decline?

U.S. manufacturing shrank by the largest margin in almost five years, despite news that the overall economy still grew in December, which marked the...

Lenovo, Acer, Asus Prepping for U.S. Consumer Battle

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)—Asian computer makers including Lenovo and Asustek Computer are finding growth prospects in an unlikely place: the United States, a mature, slowing...

Judge Rules Qualcomm Chips Infringed on Broadcom Patents

NEW YORK (Reuters)—Sprint Nextel Corp said on Wednesday it does not expect any delay to its plan to launch QChat, a walkie-talkie cell phone...

SanDisk Does Storage on a Stick and in the Cloud at Once

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)—SanDisk Corp introduced a new flash storage drive on Wednesday that also automatically backs up data to the Internet.When consumers store documents,...

Microsoft Looking at Emacs for .Net

Microsoft is working on a project that would essentially bring the functionality of the Emacs text editor to .Net.Microsoft software architect Don Box on...

R.I.P. Netscape

Netscape, the Web browser that opened up not only the Web, but the entire Internet to mass use, is dead. It died after a...

Study: Cell Phone Users Tie Up Traffic

CHICAGO (Reuters)—If youre late for work, a driver using a cell phone may be to blame. U.S. researchers said on Wednesday that people who...

How to Spend (and Not Bust) Your 2008 IT Budget

With IT budgets remaining essentially flat for 2008 and uncertain economic times ahead, its more important than ever to make sure you dont overspend...