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Technology executives say they are prepared to cut more costs if the downturn proves more prolonged than expected, but finding places to get further savings won’t be easy. The obvious place to look is research and development budgets, which are typically the last things to get cut at tech companies that thrive on innovation. But […]

Gates speaks during this week’s Microsoft CEO Summit 2009Source: Microsoft Technology can pull the United States out of recession and help the world’s ailing financial markets work better, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told a high-level business summit at the company he co-founded. “The drug companies will get back in high productivity mode. The software, IT […]

“Five-dimensional” discs with a capacity 10,000 times greater than current DVDs could be on the market within 10 years, researchers reported on Wednesday. A team from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia said that by harnessing nanoparticles and a “polarization” dimension to existing technology, storage can be massively boosted without changing the size of a […]

Microsoft said on Wednesday a Texas federal jury ordered the company to pay Canadian software firm i4i $200 million in damages for infringing a patent. The world’s largest software company, which is involved in a number of legal battles over patents, said the award was unsupported, and plans to appeal. Toronto-based i4i, a privately held […]

Intel said on Tuesday an even cheaper, more efficient version of its Atom chip used in most netbooks would ship in the fourth quarter, signaling the next stage in the development of the low-cost computers, which have become popular with consumers over the last year. The semiconductor maker also said the open-source Linux-based operating system […]

A new worm is propagating across the Web, and a growing chorus security experts are warning that the Gumblar worm might be the biggest danger now facing the Net. US-CERT yesterday issued an alert that the worm is propagating, joining warnings from other Internet security watchers like Sophos’ Graham Cluley, who last week blogged that […]

Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) will sell Palm’s (NASDAQ: PALM) long-awaited Pre smartphone starting on June 6 for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate, the phone company said on Tuesday. Pre is expected to help Sprint stem customer losses and is seen as Palm’s best hope to regain smartphone market […]

Twitter is working on various ways to make money from its fast-growing microblogging service, but advertising is an option that is not currently being considered. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Monday that the company is developing various add-on tools and services for the businesses and professional users of Twitter, which could create a revenue […]

Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of graphics chip maker nVidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), called Intel’s chip pricing unfair but said his company will not seek antitrust action against the world’s largest chip maker for now. nVidia makes graphics chips that pair with Intel’s low-powered Atom in lower-priced netbook computers. He said Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) sells an Atom chip […]

The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide a constitutional challenge to the 2002 law that created a national board to oversee U.S. public company auditors. The justices agreed to review a ruling by a U.S. appeals court that upheld the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which set up the private sector Public Company Accounting […]

Source: Reuters Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone Group (NYSE: VOD), will start selling Hewlett-Packard’s netbook computers starting May 17, according to a statement from Verizon Wireless. The netbook is priced at $199.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with a new two-year activation on a mobile broadband plan, the […]

Online classified site Craigslist will replace its “erotic services” ads with a new adult category following pressure by state authorities after the murder of a masseuse who advertised on the site. The “erotic services” section will end within seven days and be replaced by an “adult services” category where advertisements will be individually screened by […]