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The launch of Apple Inc’s latest operating system, Leopard, was its best ever, a research group said on Monday. When comparing the first full month of sales of Apple Mac OS 10.5 “Leopard” (November 2007) to the first full month of sales for Mac OS 10.4 “Tiger” (May 2005), dollar volume for Leopard was up […]

WASHINGTON — The United States has reached a deal with the European Union, Japan and Canada to keep its Internet gambling market closed to foreign companies, but is continuing talks with India, Antigua and Barbuda, Macau and Costa Rica, U.S. trade officials said on Monday. “We are pleased to confirm that the United States has […]

DENVER — The 2007 mobile music market could be summed up in one phrase: “It’s the device, stupid.” And though no mobile music service or associated innovation gained even a fraction of the attention that Apple did by unveiling the iPhone, that story certainly helped shine a spotlight on other mobile music developments, if only […]

NEW YORK — Silicon Valley start-up Ribbit Corp has unveiled a technology platform that will let developers put Web telephony in everything from business software to popular social network sites such as Facebook. As well as planning to sell its own services directly to consumers in the first quarter, Ribbit said it is working with […]

Web search leader Google is testing an Internet site for sharing knowledge about any subject under the sun, one that could eventually compete with the popular user-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia. Google’s “knol” project started earlier this week and is working with a group of writers by invitation only, Google vice president of engineering Udi Manber wrote […]

HELSINKI — Intel, the world’s top chipmaker, is set to increase its share of a growing global semiconductor chip market this year to 12.2 percent, research firm Gartner said on Friday. The market is expected to grow 2.9 percent from last year to $270.3 billion (133.22 billion pounds), Gartner said. Intel’s revenue grew more than […]

Back in 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the Apple I, an early personal computer that consisted of a circuit board in a simple wooden box. Apple Inc and other computer makers went on to make advanced PCs in metal and plastic casings, but now Taiwan’s Asustek Computer Inc is finding potential beauty — […]

To help you gain a better understanding of what WPA is, how it works, and why you should be using it, we’ve gathered together our best tutorials on the subject. 1. The Caffe Latte Attack: How It Works—and How to Block It One more great reason to leave WEP and switch to WPA.   2. […]

Two privacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission chairman on Wednesday to recuse herself from considering Google’s purchase of DoubleClick because of her ties to a law firm hired by the smaller firm. The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy said DoubleClick has hired the Washington law firm of Jones Day, […]

BRUSSELS — A small Norwegian maker of Web browsers, backed by an industry coalition, has filed the first complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission since the software giant lost a landmark antitrust case earlier this year. Opera Software said it has complained that Microsoft illegally ties its Web browser, Internet Explorer, to its dominant […]

Top online auctioneer eBay said on Wednesday that it would appeal a U.S. court ruling in a patent dispute with MercExchange. MercExchange, a company that holds several patents related to Internet-based auctions and markets, said earlier that a U.S. district court found on Tuesday that eBay had intentionally infringed its patents. “We are disappointed with […]

“w00t,” an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary. Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster said “w00t” — typically spelled with two zeros — reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone […]