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December 23, 2010
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Skype Outage Affecting Two-Thirds of Users The outage was caused by problems with Skype's underlying peer-to-peer interconnection system, and about 5 million users are back online.
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Skype Blames Service Outage on "supernode" Problem Internet telephony giant Skype blamed its peer-to-peer interconnection system for a problem that some reports said resulted in millions of users being unable to...
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BenQ to Launch R100 Tablet PC in Early 2011 Taiwanese consumer electronics vendor BenQ plans to launch its first tablet PC in China and Taiwan during the first quarter of 2011, a company representative...
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Microsoft Launches HTML5 Labs Microsoft has announced an HTML5 interoperability site to help Web developers.
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Man Used Neighbor's Wi-Fi to Threaten Vice President Biden A Blaine, Minnesota, man has pleaded guilty to charges that he hacked into his neighbor's Wi-Fi connection to e-mail death threats and child pornography...
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Advanced Energy Research Projects Are Hot Millions of dollars were laid out this year for all manner of energy research--from new biofuels and wind projects to better batteries and smartgrid programs.
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FTC Takes Action Against Sites Promising Gov't Grants The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit asking a court to stop a "far-reaching" Internet enterprise that allegedly made millions of dollars by...
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Microsoft Cloud Data Breach Heralds Things to Come There was an accidental data leak in one of Microsoft's cloud services, but we can expect more in the future as we come to grips with working online.
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SAP Beefs up Legal Team After Oracle Lawsuit Verdict SAP has tapped the services of several additional lawyers following a jury's decision last month to award Oracle US$1.3 billion in its corporate-theft lawsuit...
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IBM Resource Software Governs Mexican Securities Trading Mexico's central securities depository finds resource allocation can save money in financial trades
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Skype Slowly Restoring Service to Users Skype continues to recover after an outage caused by problems with its peer-to-peer interconnection system, and 10 million users are reportedly online.
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Rovi Offers $720M for Roxio and DivX Owner Sonic Solutions Rovi Corporation has signed an agreement to acquire Sonic Solutions in an all-stock deal worth around US$720 million, the company said on Wednesday.
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Mattel Disavows Barbie Video Girl Porn Link Somehow somebody put a link to a pornographic chat site on a Barbie.com page used to promote Barbie Video Girl, a version of the iconic doll that comes with an...
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Rise in Virtualized Data Centers Creates New Mix of Needs The drive to keep costs down is key to most organizations' virtualization strategies. In a new report, Forrester has offered a guide to the new shape of data centers.
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FCC's Net Neutrality Order: What It Means For Internet Access Here's a look at the FCC's net neutrality outline and what it means for you.
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Top 10 Google Apps Marketplace Add-Ons Here are the most-popular applications recently downloaded from the Google Apps Marketplace, where third-party developers offer tools to supplement the Google Apps suite.
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