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On Wednesday, Google held its annual I/O software developers conference in San Francisco and announced changes to its Google Earth 3D mapping software and Google Gears.
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Google Gears, or ?Gears? as it?s to be known, is a set of online development tools for webmasters. According to Vic Gundotra, the vice president of engineering, mobile and developer [...]

On Tuesday, the public beta for Adobe?s Dreamweaver CS4 was released. The new program has significant changes to the 10-year-old design and development tool with big changes to the user interface and many new features aimed at the professional web developer. Dreamweaver has been used by individuals and large companies over the years like Manchester [...]

Samsung have developed a new multi-level cell solid state drive that holds 256 GB of data, which makes it a practical competitor to hard disk drives in laptop computers. Practical - yes. Cheap ? No.
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Unveiled at the annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei, the 2.5-inch, 256 gigabyte, multi-level cell (MLC)-based SSD uses a SATA [...]

Watchdogs, Ofcom have announced the deregulation of almost 70 percent of he UK wholesale broadband market.
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The plan has already achieved the approval of the European Commission and will see competition-boosting regulatory restrictions lifted in areas of the UK where there are now four or more broadband providers. Although Ofcom have announced the implementation of the [...]

This Thursday the internet search company Yahoo nominated nine of its existing 10 directors for re-election to the company?s board, setting the stage for a showdown with shareholders at its annual shareholders meeting. The annual meeting has now been pushed back to the end of July.
The company, who have been embroiled in a battle with [...]

BT was always the biggest supplier of UK of ICT to the government in 2007, but HP?s purchase of EDS could now put the merged company in to the lead.
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Research from Kable shows that the state sector spent ?2.1bn with BT last year; but the combined ICT spending with HP and EDS was ?2.234bn.
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HP announced [...]

Fun spoiler?s Greenpeace have taken umbrage with game console makers for using hazardous materials in their devices.

In a report released on Tuesday titled ?Playing Dirty?, the organisation indicated that Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony had moved away from or limited their use of toxic compounds in certain materials in the consoles.

However, the group believes that the [...]

According to findings from Jon Peddie Research, nearly 66 percent of PCs sold in 2007 include only the bare minimum of functionality which means these systems cannot provide a satisfactory gaming experience.
Chip designers Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have unveiled a new plan dubbed ?Game?, which will have an impact on the gaming industry. Jon Peddie [...]

Computer giants Microsoft have said they are considering a deal with Yahoo which would not involve buying out the company.
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Microsoft?s previous offer to buy Yahoo for a $33 a share ? a figure which valued the company at $47.5bn ? was turned down. Last week Yahoo rebuffed billionaire investor Carl Icahn?s plan to oust the [...]

Aberdeen Group have researched the use of usernames and passwords in business, and have found that many organizations are learning more about the benefits of deploying strong user authentication to increase the level of assurance for online identities as part of an overall approach to securing access to information and managing risk.
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The research indicates the [...]