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Palm said its upcoming Pre phone needs “more polishing” but that it was on track to start selling the high profit device in the first half of the year as it looks to grab back smartphone business from rivals. The company gave the update while it reported a wider loss and revenue that fell 70 […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at this week’s McGraw-Hill Media Summit.Source: Reuters Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the only discussion he’s had with Yahoo’s top executive was a single phone call, but is holding out hopes for further talks. “I’m sure when it’s appropriate, we will have a chance to sit down and talk” with […]

Nine in 10 people expect their ISPs to offer open and unrestricted access to the Web, a survey showed on Wednesday. The survey, commissioned by Google, Yahoo and Web telephone company Skype, came as the European Parliament and EU states hold talks on a joint deal to reform the bloc’s telecoms rules to boost competition. […]

IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems, sources with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could bolster the technology giant against rivals in the high-end computer server market. International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) is offering to pay at least $6.5 billion, or double Sun’s Tuesday closing price of $4.97, The Wall Street […]

Dell’s new Adamo notebook PC. Source: DellClick to enlarge. Dell unveiled its “luxury” Adamo laptop on Tuesday, calling it the world’s thinnest notebook as it seeks to compete in the high-end ultraportable market defined by Apple’s MacBook Air. The sleek, aluminum-encased notebook is 0.65-inches thick and comes with a 13.4-inch screen and a 128-gigabyte solid-state drive. Shipping begins […]

U.S. retail sales of Apple Mac computers fell 16 percent in February on a unit basis, even as low-cost netbooks helped Windows-based PCs sales rise 22 percent, research group NPD said on Monday. Unit sales of Macbook laptops dropped 7 percent, while Windows laptops jumped 36 percent. Without netbooks, Windows laptops rose 16 percent, NPD […]

Surfers on the Internet are at increasing risk from governments and corporations tracking the sites they visit to build up a picture of their activities, the founder of the World Wide Web said on Friday. Tim Berners-Lee, whose proposal for an information management system at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN 20 years ago […]

The FBI raided the former office of Obama administration official Vivek Kundra and arrested two people in a corruption probe on Thursday, but Kundra is not a target of the investigation, a spokeswoman for Washington’s mayor said. The FBI searched the offices of the District of Columbia’s chief technology officer, a post formerly held by […]

Apple will take third-quarter delivery of newly developed 10-inch touchscreens from Taiwan, a source said on Wednesday, amid talk the U.S. firm is developing a touchscreen PC. Taiwan touchscreen specialist Wintek already makes small screens for Apple iPhones, and has received orders for the larger ones that are roughly the same size as those used […]

Apple introduced a smaller version of its popular iPod Shuffle music player on Wednesday with a new feature that announces songs to its user. The new 4 gigabyte Shuffle is priced at $79 and carries up to 1,000 songs, twice as many as the last generation of Shuffles. Users can control their songs and playlists […]

Google’s online video site, YouTube, said on Monday it will block all music videos to British users after it was unable to reach a rights deal with the main songwriters’ collection society. The world’s largest video sharing site said PRS for Music, a British collection society that collects royalties on behalf of nearly 50,000 composers, […]

Western governments have overstated the role the Internet plays in the recruitment of militants, and measures to block extremist material are “crude, expensive and counterproductive,” a report said on Tuesday. Any attempts to filter or restrict access to sites grooming potential suicide bombers would be impractical and ineffective, said the study by the International Center […]