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Source: Xerox PALO ALTO, Calif. — Despite all of the great inventions to come from Xerox’s (NYSE: XRX) Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) — Ethernet, object-oriented programming, the laser printer – it will forever be known as the place where a young Steve Jobs saw the first graphical user interface and was smarter than Xerox […]

LAS VEGAS — A century ago, Henry Ford transformed America with his automobile production line in Michigan. Today, Professor C.K. Prahalad, Distinguished Professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, delivered a keynote at the Interop trade show detailing a very different world than the one Henry Ford knew. Prahalad used the Interop […]

Source: Reuters Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) Warner Bros. Television Group will relaunch the WB Network as an online video site offering original programming alongside reruns of shows such as “Friends” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” to court a new generation of viewers. TheWB.com targets 16- to 34-years-old viewers with new shows developed by writer and […]

Chip and electronics makers Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Infineon, Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) and Panasonic have formed an alliance to promote home networks for movies, music and pictures using domestic wiring. The four leading chip and electronics makers will help market and test a standard to wire together computers, TVs and entertainment systems using electricity, phone […]

Source: Reuters Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) because it would be “nonexclusive” and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google’s thinking said on Friday. Yahoo is exploring alternatives to Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) $42.7 billion takeover offer, which the Web pioneer […]

An investigation has cleared a for-profit adviser of any blame for tripping up U.S. government plans to create a wireless network that could be shared with emergency workers. The Federal Communications Commission’s inspector general said on Friday the evidence did not support concerns that the company advising public-safety groups had scared away bidders from meeting […]

CNET Networks (NASDAQ: CNET), fighting dissident shareholders who want to expand the board, posted a narrower first-quarter loss on Thursday and announced a partnership with Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) to provide content to Yahoo sites and cross-sell advertising. The venture, set to launch in the third quarter, would bring CNET about $100 million in revenue over […]

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) shares fell about 4 percent on Friday after a Fortune.com story said that a high-speed wireless version of its BlackBerry smartphone for top U.S. phone company AT&T (NYSE: T) is facing delays. The introduction has been pushed back as far as August from June, the story on Fortune magazine’s Web […]

Deadline looms in proposed merger. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) gave Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) no hope of a higher takeover price, saying it was ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if Yahoo maintains “unrealistic expectations” of a better deal. “Speed is of the essence for the deal to make sense,” Microsoft Chief Financial […]

China has surpassed the United States to become the world’s largest Internet-using population, reaching 221 million by the end of February, state media said on Thursday. The number of Internet users in China was 210 million at the end of last year, only 5 million fewer than the U.S. Internet users then, Xinhua news agency […]

Shares of virtualization darling VMware (NYSE: VMW) enjoyed more positive gains a day after it reported revenue growth of close to 70 percent for the quarter just ended compared to the same time last year. Shares closed up at $61.41 today, gaining another .57 cents after it said it earned 11 cents per share on […]

Microsoft could rethink plans to phase out its Windows XP operating system if customers show they want to keep it but so far they have not, CEO Steve Ballmer said. “XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies we can always wake up smarter, but right now we have a […]