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S'pore facility delves into plastic electronics
News Japanese materials firm Nitto Denko sets up research site in Singapore; pumps US$6.6 million to develop integrated organic electronics with three partners.
Tags: R&D, Investments, Components, Electronics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, polymer, data storage, partnership, technique
Energy-aware Internet routing coming soon
News Researchers say they have developed routing algorithm that can help big Internet companies reduce their energy bills by millions of dollars.
Tags: Green IT, Energy, Cisco Systems Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Energy Usage, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, networking company, researcher, Internet
OpenDocument wins more fans
News Malaysia and Bristol are just two of the latest places to fly the ODF flag.
Tags: Open source
YouTube tour reveals Google data center designs
News Want to peek inside Google's formerly uber-secret data centers? The company has published a tour of its facilities on YouTube.
Tags: Data centers, Conference, Google Inc., financial incentive, Environment, Server, YouTube Inc., financial, data center, Belgium
Belgian publishers demand up to US$77M from Google
News Search giant says it intends to fight new claims that it owes newspaper publishers a hefty damage award related to copyright lawsuit still being appealed.
Tags: Lawsuits, Copyright, Web services, Google Inc., Search Engine, Associated Press, payment, copyright law, Google News, blog
Sun acquires cloud company Q-layer
News Software from Q-layer is designed to help companies simplify the management and deployment of data center applications.
Tags: Open source, Acquisitions, Storage, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Q-layer, Server, software, News.com, blog
EC to cap text-roaming costs
News Operators gave mixed reactions to the move, which is likely to be formalized in October, possibly along with restrictions on data-roaming prices
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile, Regulation, chairman, SMS, European Commission, Internet, industry, data service, Vodafone Group Plc.
Another Microsoft site gets hacked
News Microsoft Belgium was hacked late Thursday evening, according to Attrition.org, an independent organization that records hacking incidents.
The Net is meant for linking
Blogs Google has been fined €34 million because of a Belgian court order to remove all links to French- and German-language Be...
Lernout & Hauspie founders detained for a month
News Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, co-founders of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV, will be detained in jail for a month while an investigation into fraud and stock-price manipulation continues.
Newspapers want Google News' quarter
News Some in the newspaper industry are questioning whether it makes business sense to allow Google to use their material for free.
Tags: Web 2.0
Belgium cops raid homes of file swappers
News Acting on complaints from the music industry, police have raided the homes of people who use music-sharing Web sites, looking for evidence they infringed copyright rules, the prosecutors' office said Thursday.
Sail docks in S'pore
News A US$20 million venture has been set up in Singapore to incubate and nurture startups focusing on speech, artificial intelligence and language (Sail) technologies.
Eurostar links up with U.K. train operators
News International train company Eurostar has linked its online ticket service with seven U.K. rail operators, making it easier for customers to book tickets for travel to Europe.
Tags: Databases, Groupware, work flow software
Lucent banks on fast-modem demand
News The struggling equipment maker sees big demand ahead for wireless modems as gadget sales pick up. A new deal will help it deliver the goods.
