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Power Politics Overshadow $100 PC Concept

DAVOS, Switzerland—Nicholas Negroponte, wandering around this city, was trying to get people excited about the idea of a very small, very cheap PC, costing...

Linksys Goes Long with MIMO-based Wireless

Two large industry "Pre-N" groups, the TGn Sync Group and the World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWSE), each espouse a different approach to achieving 100Mbits/sec of...

Could Cellular Be Added To MP3 Players?

Freescale Semiconductor said Wednesday that it is sampling its Mobile Extreme Convergence embedded cellular architecture to customers, potentially adding wireless capabilities to a variety...

Clustering Eases Talk Americas Replication Woes

Talk America Holdings Inc., a phone and high-speed Internet access provider and an early adopter of Oracle Corp.s 10g technology, has untangled itself from...

IBM Widens Net in SCO Subpoena Search

IBM has started a round of depositions aimed at gleaning as much information as possible about the contents of communications between The SCO Group...

MSN to Support Electronic ID Card Technology

Microsoft Corp.s Belgian subsidiary has launched an electronic ID card pilot program and is looking to integrate authentication for e-ID cards into future versions...

Linspire Chief Defies DRM Wave with New Music Service

Challenging the trend toward digital rights management, former MP3.com chief and Linspire CEO Michael Robertson will re-enter the music world next week with MP3tunes,...

Exploit Released for Combined RealPlayer, IE Flaws

Security researchers have found a way to combine two unrelated—and unpatched—vulnerabilities in RealPlayer and Internet Explorer to launch malicious hacker attacks on PCs.According to...

HP Targets Mobile Workers with New Notebooks, iPaqs

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday launched a series of products, services and partnerships aimed at the mobile workforce. The announcements ranged from new hardware to various...

Hacker Mudge Returns to BBN

Security industry veteran and itinerant hacker Peiter Zatko decided this week to rejoin Internet pioneer BBN Technologies Inc. as a research scientist.Better known in...