The bMighty ANTenna -- June 2008 Archive

Dell Introduces Laptop Security Service -- Monday, June 30, 2008

Dell introduced Dell ProSupport Mobility Services to help companies track lost laptops, remotely delete sensitive information if necessary, and recover information from damaged computers.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb, Dell press release

PC Tools Launches iAntiVirus for Macs -- Monday, June 30, 2008

PC utility and security vendor PC Tools introduced iAntiVirus, a Mac-specific anti-malware application.

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Source(s): Macworld

Vendors Fight Back Against at 'Patent Trolls' -- Monday, June 30, 2008

Eleven high-tech companies have joined forces to safeguard themselves from costly patent lawsuits.

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Source(s): CNN Money, The Wall Street Journal

Mitel Upgrades Unified Communications Software Suite -- Monday, June 30, 2008

Unified communications solution provider Mitel has unveiled a new version of its IP-based Mitel Applications Suite.

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Source(s): Marketwire

Intel-Backed Nirvanix Goes Beta With CloudNAS Storage Service -- Friday, June 27, 2008

Intel-funded Nirvanix has released a beta version of its new CloudNAS online storage service, giving users the ability to store up to 25 TB of data for free.

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Source(s): Computerworld

Sun Packages MySQL Database With GlassFish App Server -- Friday, June 27, 2008

Sun Microsystems wants to take on commercial software providers, including IBM, BEA and Oracle, with a new offering that bundles its MySQL open-source database with its GlassFish application server.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

NEC To Acquire NetCracker -- Friday, June 27, 2008

Japan's NEC is spending $300 million to acquire NetCracker Technology, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of network interfaces and communications services.

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Source(s): Reuters

Symantec Upgrades DLP Security Software -- Friday, June 27, 2008

Symantec aims to simplify content discovery with an upgraded version of its Vontu Data Loss Prevention software suite.

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Source(s): eWeek

Internet Naming System Loosened -- Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted to relax the rules on top-level domain names (the familiar .com and .org, etc.), opening the door for companies and individuals to establish domains based on their names or products.

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Source(s): BBC News

CentOS Releases Free Clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux -- Thursday, June 26, 2008

Following on the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.2, the CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) organization has released a free clone, promising full compatibility.

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Source(s): Heise Online, The Register

Microsoft Releases Hyper-V Server Virtualization Software -- Thursday, June 26, 2008

Microsoft made the full release version of Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 available for download.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, NetworkWorld

Dell Adds Storage, Disaster Recovery to Services -- Thursday, June 26, 2008

Dell announced it was offering a new storage consulting practice and customizable backup and disaster management services to businesses.

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Source(s): PC World, ChannelWeb

Panasonic Introduces Ultra-Mobile Toughbook -- Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Panasonic came out with the Toughbook CF-U1, a ruggedized ultra-mobile PC that can run a full version of Windows XP or Vista.

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Source(s): CNET Crave, ChannelWeb

Adobe Releases Acrobat 9 -- Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Adobe released the finished update to its Acrobat document creation software, which includes support for multimedia content and for combining document types into one file.

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Source(s): PC Magazine, CNET News

Sage Upgrades ERP Software -- Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Sage Software has released Sage Pro ERP 7.5, its SMB-targeted business management software that the company says is easier to use than previous versions.

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HP Serves Up GigE Switches For SMBs -- Wednesday, June 25, 2008

ProCurve Networking by HP is targeting SMBs with two new Gigabit Ethernet switches that support large file transfers and high bandwidth applications, such as large databases and network backup.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb, Network World

Visa Creates Small Business Network on Facebook -- Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Visa is designing a small-business network and application for social networking site Facebook and will offer advertising credit to businesses that join.

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Source(s): Associated Press

Nokia Will Buy Symbian, Create Open Source Platform -- Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Nokia announced plans to buy the remaining shares of mobile OS developer Symbian (it already owns 48 percent) and join with others to make it an open platform.

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Source(s): InformationWeek,ChannelWeb

Logitech Readies Webcam For Macs -- Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Logitech has introduced its first Mac-tailored webcam that some say could pick up where Apple's discontinued external iSight camera left off.

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Source(s): Macworld

Jaxtr Intros Low-Cost Phone Service -- Tuesday, June 24, 2008

VoIP provider Jaxtr has launched an inexpensive, out-of-network service that lets users place calls on their mobile phones without first connecting to the Internet.

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Source(s): Webware

RedRoller Offers Comparison Shopping for Shipping -- Monday, June 23, 2008

RedRoller introduced a One-Stop Shipping site that enables small and midsize businesses to compare shipping options and prices, print labels, and arrange pickups.

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Source(s): Computerworld

Salesforce.com Expands Links to Google Apps -- Monday, June 23, 2008

Salesforce.com has introduced a toolkit to enable developers to combine Google services with Salesforce's database and workflow functions.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

Delta Tests Paperless Mobile Check-In -- Monday, June 23, 2008

Following in Continental Airlines' flight path, Delta Airlines is testing a new mobile phone boarding pass program, for now at New York's LaGuardia Airport on domestic flights.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

Nokia Acquires Social Networking Startup -- Monday, June 23, 2008

Continuing its push into the mobile services world, Nokia has announced plans to buy Plazes, a Berlin-based social networking startup.

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Source(s): TechCrunch, Network World

Google Resolves App Engine Glitch; Unveils Pricing Plan For Web Site Optimizer -- Friday, June 20, 2008

Those who advocate the benefits of cloud computing should take comfort in knowing the flaw that brought down Google's Web application hosting service on Tuesday has been fixed, the Mountain View, Calif.-based search company said.

Read all of "Google Resolves App Engine Glitch; Unveils Pricing Plan For Web Site Optimizer"

Source(s): InformationWeek

Houses Passes Revamped Spy Bill -- Friday, June 20, 2008

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that overhauls the nation's wiretapping laws, and the same is expected to happen next week when it reaches the Senate.

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Source(s): The Washington Post, Reuters

Yahoo Down More Execs, Up Two E-Mail Domains -- Friday, June 20, 2008

Post-breakdown of Microsoft talks, and despite its recent advertising deal with Google, Yahoo's revolving door continues to spin.

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Source(s): TechCrunch, The New York Times

Apple Patches Safari for Windows Users -- Friday, June 20, 2008

Apple has released a new Windows version of Safari that patches four vulnerabilities, including one that had Microsoft telling its customers to not use the browser.

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Source(s): Computerworld

Red Hat Announces Embedded Virtualization Product -- Thursday, June 19, 2008

Linux developer Red Hat announced that it's developing a Linux-based hypervisor for a fully open-source virtualization solution.

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Source(s): CNET News, The Register

Sprint Ready to Launch Long-Promised WiMax Service -- Thursday, June 19, 2008

The WiMax service promoted by Sprint months ago will finally see commercial daylight in Baltimore in September.

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Source(s): PC World, FierceWireless

HP Reorganizes Printer Divisions; New Division to Address Small Businesses -- Thursday, June 19, 2008

Hewlett-Packard announced plans to reorganize its printer unit from five to three divisions, with one concentrating on small business and consumer markets.

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Source(s): PC World

Parallels Releases Virtual OS X Server -- Thursday, June 19, 2008

Parallels announced Parallels Server for Mac, which it claims is the first server virtualization solution for Intel-based Macs.

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Source(s): The Register, Parallels press release

Trend Micro to Entrust Security to the Cloud -- Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Trend Micro will start relying more on analyzing malware in the cloud rather than on the desktop, resulting it quicker identification of new threats.

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Source(s): NetworkWorld, CNET News

Verizon Boosts FiOS Speed -- Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Verizon announced plans to expand the availability of its fastest fiber-optic Internet service to 10 additional states, bringing the total to 16.

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Source(s): Wired, Wall Street Journal

Toshiba Debuts Ultrathin Portege R500 Notebook Line -- Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Toshiba has introduced an ultrathin laptop that weighs less than Apple's MacBook Air and Hewlett-Packard's Voodoo Envy 133, which was announced last week.

Read all of "Toshiba Debuts Ultrathin Portege R500 Notebook Line"

Source(s): InformationWeek, The Tech Herald

Skype 4.0 Hits Beta -- Wednesday, June 18, 2008

EBay-owned Skype is beta testing a redesigned version of its software that makes video a more integral part of the offering.

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Source(s): Reuters, TechCrunch

LaCie Introduces 1TB Portable Hard Disk -- Tuesday, June 17, 2008

LaCie's Little Big Disk Quadra line of portable hard drives now includes a 1TB model.

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Source(s): Wired, The Inquirer

CherryPal Announces Pocket-Size PC -- Tuesday, June 17, 2008

CherryPal will introduce a personal computer that measures 1.3 x 5.8 x 4.2 inches (smaller than a paperback book), weighs 10.5 ounces, and consumes two watts of power.

Read all of "CherryPal Announces Pocket-Size PC"

Source(s): The Register, The Earth Times

Icahn: Yahoo, Google Deal 'Might Have Some Merit' -- Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Carl Icahn, who last month launched a proxy fight against Yahoo's board, conceded the online advertising deal between Yahoo and Google "might have some merit," though he's still disappointed that a merger with Microsoft didn't happen.

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Source(s): The Street

Microsoft Unveils OS for Portable Navigation Devices -- Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Microsoft has introduced its first operating system for handheld electronic navigation devices.

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Source(s): Computerworld

eBay Opens Selling Manager to Developers -- Monday, June 16, 2008

eBay is launching a developer program called Project Echo which will for the first time enable third-party developers to add functions to the tools eBay sellers use to manage their listings.

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Source(s): Washington Post, Computerworld

LiveOffice Launches SaaS E-Mail Archiving -- Monday, June 16, 2008

E-mail archiving solution provider LiveOffice introduced LiveOffice Mail Archive, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) hosted solution suitable for small and midsize businesses.

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Source(s): LiveOffice Press Release

Nvidia, AMD Launch Teraflop Graphics Chips -- Monday, June 16, 2008

Nvidia and AMD have each rolled out competing high-end graphics cards that near 1 teraflop of performance.

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Source(s): The Industry Standard, InformationWeek

IBM Hints At Open-Source DB2 -- Monday, June 16, 2008

IBM's DB2 relational database software, which this month turned 25, may be going open source -- at some point.

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Source(s): CNET News

IBM Urges Staff to Move to Open Standards (Non-MS) Office Software -- Friday, June 13, 2008

IBM chief information officer Mark Hennessey and vice president Gina Poole have sent a memo to the company's technical staff, urging them to start using productivity software that -- unlike Microsoft Office -- conforms to open standards.

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Source(s): The Irish Times

Google Developing Broadband Analysis Tools -- Friday, June 13, 2008

Google plans to provide tools to let individual users of broadband services analyze how their providers are managing traffic, so they can object to traffic discrimination if they find it.

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Source(s): The Register

Verizon Tacks on Wireless to Freedom for Business Phone Plan -- Friday, June 13, 2008

Verizon has expanded its Freedom for Business phone plan to include unlimited wireless.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

Yahoo, Google Join Advertising Forces -- Friday, June 13, 2008

Yahoo has announced a nonexclusive advertising partnership with Google that (for now) puts to rest acquisition discussions it continued having with Microsoft.

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Source(s): PC World, Redmond Channel Partner

Digium Fills In VoIP Lineup with SMB Model -- Thursday, June 12, 2008

VoIP phone service provider Digium released a new IP PBX appliance targeted at companies with up to 150 employees.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb, TMCnet

Microsoft Shows Off Intra-Enterprise Social Network -- Thursday, June 12, 2008

Microsoft's Office Labs operation has been testing a prototype internal social network that can provide company-wide information by drawing from a Sharepoint server.

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Source(s): Computerworld

Firefox 3.0 Set For Tuesday Debut -- Thursday, June 12, 2008

Following 34 months of development and three release candidates (RC), the latest version of Mozilla's browser, Firefox 3.0, will become available Tuesday, June 17.

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Source(s): The Register, The Tech Herald

Palm To Sell Centro Smartphone Through Verizon -- Thursday, June 12, 2008

More smartphone news: Palm and Verizon have inked a deal for the wireless carrier to sell Palm's $99 Centro smartphone.

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Source(s): The Wall Street Journal

Apple's "Snow Leopard" OS to Offer Exchange Support -- Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Lost in the iPhone hoopla have been the few details released about Apple's upcoming Snow Leopard version of OS X. Most interesting to businesses will be its built-in support for Microsoft Exchange servers.

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Source(s): Webmonkey, PC Magazine

Verizon Study Calls 90% of Data Breaches Preventable -- Wednesday, June 11, 2008

A "2008 Data Breach Investigations Report" from Verizon Business finds that nearly nine out of ten business data breaches could have been prevented through reasonable security measures.

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Source(s): Yahoo Finance

Microsoft Zaps Windows Home Server Bug -- Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Microsoft has released a public beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1, which eliminates a data corruption bug that surfaced when the product launched last year.

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Source(s): BetaNews

IBM Takes Modular Approach With Project Big Green -- Wednesday, June 11, 2008

IBM is kicking off phase two of its Project Big Green initiative with the addition of three modular data centers that it says cuts energy consumption by as much as half.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb

PGP Brings Government-Approved Security to Mac OS X -- Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Data encryption specialist PGP announced an update to its Whole Disk Encryption product that brings same level of functionality and security to Macintoshes as the product already provides to Windows.

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Source(s): InternetNews, ChannelWeb

Symantec Marries Virtualization, Storage Management -- Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Symantec is mixing Citrix's XenServer virtualization technology with its own Veritas Storage Foundation storage management solution to create the Veritas Virtual Infrastructure (VVI) in an attempt to grab a piece of the burgeoning virtualization market.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, The Register

Oracle Joins the SaaS Bandwagon With Social CRM -- Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Oracle is going social with a raft of new software offerings that leverage the software-as-a-service business model along with social networking.

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Source(s): InformationWeek

HP Intros Ultrathin Laptop That Rivals MacBook Air -- Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Hewlett-Packard is going head-to-head with the MacBook Air with a new ultrathin laptop that's a hair thinner than Apple's offering.

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Source(s): PC Pro, The Wall Street Journal

Motorola Joins Mobile 3G Party -- Monday, June 9, 2008

Joining Samsung and Apple in today's rush of 3G phone announcements is Motorola, which launched its MC75, a ruggedized handheld "enterprise digital assistant."

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Source(s): ChannelWeb, Computerworld

New iPhone Due Out July 11 -- Monday, June 9, 2008

The second generation iPhone, with 3G wireless connectivity and GPS, plus lower prices, will be available July 11 in 22 countries.

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Source(s): Macworld, InformationWeek

Vendors Including Intel and Cisco Form WiMAX Alliance -- Monday, June 9, 2008

Six big names in high-tech are joining forces to license WiMax patents to limit royalty rates and make the technology more affordable.

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Source(s): Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal

Samsung Beats Apple's iPhone To the 3G Smartphone Punch -- Monday, June 9, 2008

On the same day Apple is expected to reveal details about its upgraded iPhone, Samsung has launched Ominia, a touchscreen smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6.1.

Read all of "Samsung Beats Apple's iPhone To the 3G Smartphone Punch"

Source(s): Register, Reuters

AMD Debuts External Graphics Card -- Friday, June 6, 2008

AMD (parent company of graphics card vendor ATI) has proposed a graphics booster for GPU-deficient laptops, in the form of the eXternal Graphics Platform (XGP), a box that connects to a laptop through a special PCI Express connector.

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Source(s): The Register, Computer Shopper

Comcast Speeding Up Network, Slowing Down Heavy Users -- Friday, June 6, 2008

Comcast has said that by the end of this year 20 percent of its markets will have 100 Mbps Internet service, with that speed available to most customers by early 2010. At the same time, the company is testing a scheme whereby heavy users would have their bandwidth restricted during peak hours.

Read all of "Comcast Speeding Up Network, Slowing Down Heavy Users"

Source(s): Associated Press, eWeek

Yahoo, Icahn Trade More Letters -- Friday, June 6, 2008

In yet another letter sent to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, investor Carl Icahn has accused Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the Yahoo board of creating and activating a James Bond-like "self-destructive doomsday machine."

Read all of "Yahoo, Icahn Trade More Letters"

Source(s): The Wall Street Journal, The Register

BlackBerry Trumps iPhone For Q3 Spending: Report -- Friday, June 6, 2008

Research In Motion's BlackBerry is the No. 1 choice on corporations' smartphone-buying list, according to a new ChangeWave survey of more than 2,000 people.

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Source(s): InformationWeek, Silicon Alley Insider

Microsoft Tells Vista-Averse Businesses Not to Wait for Windows 7 -- Thursday, June 5, 2008

In a new white paper (PDF) entitled "The Business Value Of Windows Vista," Microsoft outlines five reasons businesses should switch to Vista now (if they already haven't). The paper also explicitly warns against planning to skip Vista and move right to Windows 7, due out in 2009.

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Source(s): ChannelWeb

YouMail Puts Visual Voicemail on Smartphones -- Thursday, June 5, 2008

Online visual voicemail provider YouMail has announced that users with mobile phone browsers can use their phones to view and manage their messages the same way they now do from their PC.

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Source(s): CNET News, Mashable

Verizon To Buy Alltel -- Thursday, June 5, 2008

Verizon Communications has agreed to acquire Alltel, pushing it ahead of AT&T Wireless as the nation's largest cell-phone provider.

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Source(s): The New York Times

Apple Ready To Show Off Mac OS X 10.6: Rumor -- Thursday, June 5, 2008

Rumors are swirling that Apple may demo Mac OS X 10.6, the next version of its operating system, at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Read all of "Apple Ready To Show Off Mac OS X 10.6: Rumor"

Source(s): The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), ars technica

HP Targets Data Centers' Carbon Footprint -- Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Hewlett-Packard announced its intention to push the development of technology to cut power use in data centers and otherwise reduce their carbon footprint by up to 75 percent.

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Source(s): CNETNews.com

Microsoft Updates Windows Search -- Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Microsoft has released Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Home Server. The new version is supposedly faster and adds helpful administrative features.

Read all of "Microsoft Updates Windows Search"

Source(s): ChannelWeb

Asus Upgrades Eee PCs With WiMax -- Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Asus has unveiled a trio of WiMax-enabled Eee PCs, all of which include Intel's Atom processor, Bluetooth and 802.11n connectivity.

Read all of "Asus Upgrades Eee PCs With WiMax"

Source(s): PC Magazine, InformationWeek