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Research In Motion has rolled out an updated version of its top-end BlackBerry Bold, aiming to reassert its dominance in the professional market at a time when its retail consumer business has come under growing pressure from Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. The latest Bold, part of a series of new devices that Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM […]

WaveVideo helps enterprises, service providers, and manufacturers quantify and visualize 802.11n network and device HDTV-readiness. 802.11n’s high data rates can support many demanding multi-media applications, from video conferencing at the office to media distribution throughout the home. But ensuring quality HDTV delivery to tens or hundreds of Wi-Fi devices in a variety of potentially RF-hostile […]

Tens of millions of U.S. computers are loaded with scam security software that their owners may have paid for but which only makes the machines more vulnerable, according to a new Symantec report on cybercrime. Cyberthieves are increasingly planting fake security alerts that pop up when computer users access a legitimate website. The “alert” warns […]

Google said more than 2 million businesses now use its online office software, and the Web search leader is going global on Monday with an advertising campaign to lure customers away from Microsoft and IBM. The campaign, which starts Monday in countries including France, Japan and Britain, represents a rare foray by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) […]

It isn’t often that big blue gets a black eye. But on Friday IBM (NYSE: IBM), the leading U.S. technology firm known for its conservative management, found itself entangled in the largest ever hedge fund insider-trading scheme involving Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam. Robert Moffat, senior vice president and head of IBM’s systems and technology […]

Apple Inc is once again expected to top Wall Street’s estimates when it unveils quarterly earnings next week, but it may have to beat by a lot to drive an already lofty share price higher. The maker of the Mac, iPhone and iPod is on a roll: CEO Steve Jobs is back at the helm, […]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talked up his company’s prospects after a planned purchase of Sun Microsystems, saying he hopes the deal will help more than double revenue within five years. Ellison, who co-founded the company 32 years ago and built it into the world’s No. 2 maker of business software, said his purchase of ailing […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a Web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon’s Kindle. The Web search giant said on Thursday it would launch Google Editions in the first half of next year, initially offering about […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is launching a new version of its touchscreen Storm smartphone, marking its latest move in the fight with Apple’s iPhone. The Storm2, as the device is known, is “a biggie for us,” RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) co-CEO Jim Balsillie said in an interview. The smartphone retains the original Storm’s clickable touchscreen […]

Skype’s founders asked a U.S. federal court to prevent Index Ventures and one of its partners from further participating in the proposed $1.9 billion acquisition of the Web phone service, according to a court filing on Wednesday. The suit, brought by Joltid, the new company of Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, said Index […]

Michael Dell speaks during yesterday’s Oracle Open WorldSource: Reuters Dell CEO Michael Dell said the business climate was improving and repeated his expectation for a “powerful” hardware refresh cycle beginning next year. While noting that there are still obstacles to the recovery, Dell sounded optimistic about the upcoming year as the tech sector makes its […]

Investors are betting on Google Inc’s third-quarter results this week to show a recovery in revenue growth, pushing shares of the leading Web search engine to a 12-month high on Monday. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has declared the worst of the recession over, setting up expectations for third-quarter net revenue to show a modest increase […]