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Magic Quadrant cafuffle may continue

Single Parent Gossip author and child safety expert Pat McKenna has discovered disturbing information that provides evidence that the dangers of child porn and paedophiles may be much closer than you think.

Winsome ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina is running for the US Senate seat currently held by Barbara Boxer of California.

The Texas secretary of state’s office has pulled electoral registration from an IBM facilities management deal following a server crash.

Feds indict alleged cable modem hackerThe US federal government has indicted an Oregon man for allegedly helping customers modify their cable modems to obtain "free" Internet access.

altAMD spinoff Globalfoundries has announced that Hector Ruiz has quit as chairman with immediate effect.

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - ICANN - has, as expected, approved internet domain names (IDNs) containing non-Latin characters.


Chip giant Intel filed a case in a California district court alleging that a news service specializing in news about Mexico has infringed its trademark.
The UK government will take steps that will exclude persistent downloaders of content from connecting to the internet, it confirmed today.

Time for a change?

Opinion: We all know what a pain it is when we head out for a day's plowing before the sun's even risen. The oxen grumble as you prod them into wakefulness; the ground is crisp with frost; and that bottle of cold tea won't be much use in keeping the cold at bay. How much better would it be if we could somehow move time so it was daylight all the time? We could get more plowing done if it wasn't so damned dark in the morning.

Opinion: Whether it's a book fantasizing about a world in which Google executives run the United States or another tome that suggests geeks are on the road to controlling the globe, there's a hopeful strain among technology, business, and political writers that there's something special about the technically astute, the so-called digerati. Barack Obama bathes in some of that reflected glory because he's the first US president who knows how to use a Blackberry.

Microsoft earned a meager $12.92 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2009, a 14 percent decline from the same period last year.

Nokia sues Apple over alleged iPhone patent infringement

Nokia has alleged that Apple's iPhone infringes on a number of its patents. The 10 patents reportedly relate to technologies that are "fundamental" to device and mobile compatibility standards.

Strides'r'us

GPU accelerates profits

SMIC smacked down by jury

The Attorney General of New York accused Intel of antitrust behavior today.

Apple is acting just like the snotty monopolist it has become in electronic music distribution and combined that lousy attitude with the presumptive arrogance of a smartphone monopolist.

altA jury found Dell had to pay $12.8 million in damages for conspiracy and unfair competition after it was sued for a New Orleans CCTV system that still doesn't work.

altThe National Security Agency has started work on its new $2 billion data center in Utah.

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My one experience with a union was unpleasant. The union boss came into the restaurant I worked at as a teenager and told the manager that she either had to cut my hours or I had to join the union.


UPDATED: Cupertino firm Apple has received a writ from a company that alleges it breaches patents it owns. The company that's suing Apple has a track record of winning its actions.

Sony, Philips and a third firm, Taiyo Yuden, have received a not very severe ticking off for behaving monopolistically in the recordable media market.

Hector Ruiz, AMD's former CEO and currently chairman of AMD spinoff Globalfoundries, has been named in the Galleon insider trading scandal that has so far seen six top executives arrested.


Japanese firm Toshiba said it has signed a letter of intent with Kazatomprom, a firm owned by the Republic of Kazakhstan, to create a joint venture in rare metals.

Opinion We heard the CEO of Nokia, Oli-Pekka Kallasvuo at a CEO conference in Paris just two weeks ago shrugging off the iPhone and the BlackBerry as competitors.

The American Booksellers Association has accused Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target of illegal predatory pricing, and has asked the Department of Justice to investigate.

A congressional panel claimed that the Chinese government is expanding its cyberspying activities in the USA and has organized a campaign against one, unnamed US company.
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