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It may be wishful thinking, but a Canadian government ministry has sent out a directive to its employees urging them to relax and not to use their BlackBerry smartphones at night or on weekends and holidays. Trying to re-establish a proper balance between work and life, Citizenship and Immigration Canada is starting by trying to […]

Yahoo would consider a business alliance with Google as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo’s strategy said on Sunday. Yahoo management is considering revisiting talks it held with Google several months ago on an alliance as an alternative to Microsoft’s bid, that source said. At […]

Amazon.com said on Thursday it reached a deal to buy digital audiobook provider Audible for about $300 million, aiming to bolster its audio download collection. Amazon has been building a digital music store to compete with Apple’s iTunes, and has signed deals with major music companies such as Vivendi’s Universal Music Group and Warner Music […]

— India’s Internet services were operating at about 80 percent capacity on Friday after breaks in undersea cables disrupted Web access, and normal services could be restored in a week, an industry official said. The undersea cable connections were disrupted off Egypt’s north coast on Wednesday, affecting Internet access in the Persian Gulf region and […]

Microsoft said on Friday it has offered to buy Yahoo, the popular Web portal, for $44.6 billion in cash and stock, seeking to join forces against Google in what would be the biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger. Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, a 62 percent premium over Yahoo’s […]

Dell said on Thursday it will close its call center in Edmonton, Alberta in Canada and eliminate most of the facility’s 900 jobs in the second quarter as it consolidates customer-service operations. Dell, the world’s second-largest personal computer maker, also said it had decided to scrap plans to open a second customer service center in […]

Google reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday and predicted further spending to shore up its operations, sending its shares down as much as 9.5 percent. The world’s top Internet company said it expected to continue to make “significant capital expenditures” after spending $678 million in the fourth quarter on data centers, servers and other […]

A bidder on Thursday offered $4.71 billion for a key slice of wireless airwaves being sold by the government, triggering a condition that the spectrum be accessible to any device or software application. After 17 auction rounds, the bidding for the C block of 700-megahertz spectrum surpassed a $4.64 billion minimum set by the Federal […]

As solar power becomes more affordable to deploy at both the consumer and enterprise level, Wi-Fi monitoring systems are key in maximizing its efficiency. At the other end of the spectrum (so to speak), solar-powered access points enable WLANs to be deployed in poor, rural, or rugged areas, bringing Wi-Fi to new, previously inaccessible locations. Collected here […]

Egypt had only about 40 percent of its Internet capacity on Thursday because of a disruption to an undersea cable that has also affected the Persian Gulf region and south Asia. The cable connection broke off Egypt’s northern coast on Wednesday, slowing or stopping Internet access for users across large parts of Asia and forcing […]

Dell said on Wednesday it would close all of its 140 U.S. kiosks, a concept it launched in 2002 to showcase computers, as it expands sales of PCs in retail stores. Dell, the world’s second-largest personal computer maker will shut the kiosks, mostly in shopping malls, today — a decision the company said fits with […]

New York lawmakers proposed legislation on Tuesday that would provide new protection from convicted sex offenders hanging out on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. The bill would require sex offenders to register instant messaging and e-mail addresses, which would then be passed to social networking sites. The sites could then block access […]