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CNBC has entered into an alliance with LinkedIn under which the financial news channel will air content generated by the professional networking site’s 27 million members. CNBC, which is part of General Electric Co, will integrate LinkedIn’s networking functionality into its website CNBC.com, enabling users to share and discuss news with their professional contacts. Community-generated […]

Microsoft kicked off a $300 million marketing campaign on Thursday, aimed at improving the image of its Windows Vista operating system and strike back at Apple’s “Mac vs. PC” ads. The first commercial of Microsoft’s new marketing push, being created by advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, aired on Thursday featuring comedian Jerry Seinfeld and […]

Japan’s Sony has launched a voluntary recall of 438,000 Vaio portable computers, citing a potential hazard that could cause the machines to overheat or possibly burn a user. It is one of the biggest computer recalls since 2006 when Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) recalled 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they could overheat and catch fire. […]

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is poised to announce a new mini-laptop computer later this week, a source familiar with the company’s plan said on Tuesday, confirming a Wall Street Journal story. The source said the Dell “mini” would be a low-priced computer that is two-thirds the size of full-featured laptops, which will put it into competition […]

Struggling Sony Ericsson ditched on Monday rumors that its first mobile phone powered by Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) operating system would miss the key year-end holiday sales period. Sony Ericsson introduced the Xperia 1 model in February, saying it would start to sell the phone in the second half of 2008 in selected markets. On Monday […]

A decision to dismiss appeals against the controversial fast-track approval of a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) document format has provoked six members of global standards-setting body ISO to question ISO’s relevance. Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela — countries with fast-growing IT markets — had appealed against ISO’s stamp of approval for Microsoft Office Open XML […]

SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. judge has thrown out a copyright infringement case against Veoh Networks Inc, an Internet video start-up with high-profile Hollywood backers, ruling that video-sharing companies are not solely responsible for policing piracy that may take place on their sites. The California court dismissed a copyright infringement suit by adult entertainment company […]

Source: Reuters Google, facing a U.S. Justice Department probe of its search-advertising partnership with Yahoo, will proceed with the agreement by early October, according to a Bloomberg report. “We are going to move forward,” Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) CEO, Eric Schmidt, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Thursday in Denver. “We are in the […]

Comcast, the largest U.S. cable operator, said on Thursday it would cap customers’ Internet usage starting Oct. 1, to ensure the best service for the vast majority of its subscribers. The company said it was setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigabytes (GB) per account for all residential high-speed Internet customers, or the […]

LONDON — Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has agreed to buy Greenfield Online, owner of European price comparison Web site ciao.com, for about $486 million to boost its Internet search and e-commerce business in Europe. Microsoft, whose $47.5 billion bid to buy Yahoo earlier this year failed after a protracted battle, said on Friday the acquisition should […]

CANBERRA — A Chinese factory worker has become an Internet sensation after a picture of her smiling and flashing a peace sign to a co-worker testing an Apple iPhone stayed on the phone that was sold to a man in Britain. Photos of the unidentified, smiling woman were posted on the Apple discussion website MacRumours.com […]

WASHINGTON — Major U.S. airports were operating normally on Tuesday evening after a glitch in the computer system for filing flight plans delayed hundreds of flights, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The Department of Homeland Security said there was no link to terrorism and the FAA said the computer glitch did not affect its ability […]