Google Introduces New Products for Users

Google Introduces New Products for Users

Google Inc. on Wednesday fired another salvo aimed at maintaining the lead in Internet search while making its software more accessible outside Web browsers in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.

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Texas Instruments Sees Phone Market Growth

Texas Instruments Inc., which makes chips for about half the world's cell phones, believes it can profit from both the fancy models favored by affluent consumers and the basic handsets catching on in developing countries.

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Unison leads bids for air-ground wireless airwaves

Unison Spectrum LLC led the early bidding on Wednesday in the U.S. sale of wireless airwaves that would let companies offer Internet access and other communications services aboard commercial airplanes.

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Yahoo, Telemundo form US Hispanic Web business

Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and NBC Universal Television Group's Telemundo said on Wednesday they agreed to merge their Internet sites to form a single Web site targeted at the fast-growing U.S. Hispanic market.

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Novell pitches alternative to Microsoft desktop

Novell took a swing at Microsoft's dominance on the corporate desktop this week with the release of the Novell Open Workgroup Suite, which repackages several open-source applications and tools under new licensing terms.

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Microsoft Refreshes Outlook, OneNote

Besides patching Windows, Exchange, and the Flash Player Tuesday, Microsoft also released a pair of Office 2003 non-security, high-priority updates, and as usual, unveiled a tweaked version of its Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.

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Competitors shouldn't expect any helping hand from PCCW

Richard Li Tzar-kai's PCCW certainly knows the value of its stake in the broadband television business, and allowing rivals to ride on the network to advance their interests just does not sit well with the telecommunications and media giant.

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HP unveils new mobile computers

Following in the footsteps of rivals Hewlett-Packard, the world's second-largest computer maker, unveiled laptops with spiffier designs as well as more powerful processors.

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Spam vigilante spat knocks out blog services

Spam vigilante spat knocks out blog services

A dispute between a mysterious Russian spammer and an Israeli antispam firm spilled over to the rest of the Internet on Wednesday, when denial of service attacks aimed at the Israeli firm's Web site knocked out servers that host millions of blogs.

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VOIP fees set to rise with regulation on the horizon

With the deadline for voice over IP (VoIP) carriers to comply with the FCC Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act [CALEA] less than a year away, VoIP vendors are beginning to roll out their wire tap technology.

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Anti-spam measures tackle the symptom, not the problem

Government officials from throughout the Asia-Pacific region gathered in Calgary, Canada, last month for a two-day meeting devoted to the status of the anti-spam battle.

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Survey finds 14pc of world's adults use internet

Calculating the international growth of the World Wide Web is largely guesswork, more than a decade after the commercial internet exploded into popular view.

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AOL to offer free phone numbers to instant-messaging users

AOL is set to offer its instant-messaging users a free phone number to use for incoming calls, and for a fee, the ability to call regular phones from the software.

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Microsoft Preps New Version of Windows CE

While Microsoft Corp. has been beset by delays in its new operating system for personal computers, developers quietly have been working on a new version of another Windows, this one found in everything from sewing machines to sophisticated cell phones.

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E-Mail Is Exhibit A

Before you click that send" button, ask yourself these questions: Are you able to defend the statements made in that E-mail? Are you willing to do so under oath in court?

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Antispam Firm Claims Attack

The CEO of an antispam firm whose service was knocked offline by a spammer earlier this week claimed his company was the victim of a sophisticated attack carried out, in part, with the help of someone at a top-tier ISP.

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-read full story from PCWorld.com, May 8 2006