Education takes off in rural India, helped by PCs
Computer-assisted education is helping to draw village children back into school, and going a long way toward improving India's literacy rate of 65 percent.
AMD showing strength, but still weak
Chipmaker did better than expected in the first half this year, but is in "worse position" than rival Intel to cope with potential fall in demand, says analyst.
Microsoft faces legal action over Silverlight
Gotuit Media is suing the software giant over use of video metadata with the Flash rival, which has a featured role in next month's Olympics coverage.
Ruiz out at AMD, Dirk Meyer new CEO
A tumultuous six years as the head of AMD has come to an end for Hector Ruiz, and while he has several accomplishments to tout, AMD lost an amazing amount of money during his reign.
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Outsourcing the offshore operations
news analysis Western companies are increasingly getting away from running their own offshoring operations, handing the jobs over to Indian tech-services specialists.
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BT rolls out a massive fiber network
The telecom giant announced a network investment expected to connect as many as 10 million homes to the superfast broadband service by 2012.
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Microsoft revises DirectX security bulletins
Software giant revises critical DirectX-related security bulletins.
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Intel's in-home health device gets US FDA nod
Health management gadget, which remotely connects patients and doctors, is expected to hit the market by early 2009.
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Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'
The Linux creator has labeled creators of the OpenBSD operating system 'masturbating monkeys', as part of a wider critique of what he sees as self-centered behavior in the IT security industry.
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Schneier research team cracks TrueCrypt
Security expert Bruce Schneier says standard software such as Vista interferes with deniable file systems, designed to hide data on users' systems.
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eBay sees 22 percent jump in profits
The Web auctioneer has reported a boost in profits resulting from an increase in item listings and sales growth at the company's PayPal division.
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Why Korea's SK Telecom wants Sprint
news analysis With its home market nearly saturated, Korea's No. 1 mobile-phone operator seeks an acquisition to become a big player in the lucrative United States.
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Microsoft in talks over AOL merger
Redmond is pushing ahead in discussions with Time Warner over a possible merger with AOL's Web businesses, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Security heading for the cloud
Security software will jump off PCs and into 'the cloud', with spending on online security services forecast to triple by 2013.
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Apple OS continues to gain market share
The latest PC shipment numbers show Apple gaining at least another percentage point in U.S. market share.
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iPhone manufacturing costs down from last year
iSuppli estimates that Apple cut more than US$50 from manufacturing costs per unit since the phone made its debut last year.
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PC market surges ahead in the face of economic uncertainty
Growth from the same quarter a year ago is 16 percent, slightly better than analysts anticipated, though slowing in the Asia-Pacific market sparks some concern.
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Dell faces class action lawsuit from workers
The lawsuit claiming the computer company underpaid call center workers could draw as many as 5,000 plaintiffs now that it's been given class-action status in Oregon.
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