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A Capital Idea in Google China

With the postscript "Enjoy the liberation while you can, citizens," the Web site Crypticide recently unleashed a way to beat Googles censoring of its...

Municipal Wi-Fi Catches On in U.S. Cities

Municipal Wi-Fi networks are making headway in the United States, with Philadelphia closing a major contract for citywide wireless service, and a couple of...

Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2003 R2

Microsofts long-awaited Windows Server 2003 R2, the update to Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, is finally generally available, the company said on...

Unauthorized Sale of Phone Records on the Rise

Reports of the unauthorized sale of personal telephone records may be sending chills up the spines of callers across the county, but the practice...

Adobe to Release Flex 2, Flash 8.5 Betas

Adobe will release on Feb. 1 the beta version of Adobe Flex 2.0 and Adobe Flash Player 8.5. The software was released in alpha...

RIM Wins Round in BlackBerry Patent Bout

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has sided with BlackBerry e-mail device maker Research in Motion, but the case is far from over. RIM scored...

Sun and Imation Unite to Push Tape Technology

Sun Microsystems and Imation expanded their storage media relationship on Feb. 1 by announcing plans to jointly develop new tape cartridge technology and work...

Globe Gaffe Delivers Subscriber Credit Card Data

The Boston Globe newspaper said on Feb. 1 that it accidentally released sensitive data on as many as 227,000 subscribers. Information on around 13,000...

EFF Sues AT&T for Role in NSA Eavesdropping

AT&T is being sued in federal court for allegedly violating the Constitutional rights of Americans by enabling the National Security Agency to spy on...

Handset Shipments Surged in Late 2005

New research indicates that manufacturers shipments of new mobile phones reached an all-time high during the fourth quarter of 2005, but experts said that...