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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Top cellphone maker Nokia has seen growing interest among companies for its first netbook or mini-laptop, a company executive said on Thursday. “When we launched the Booklet 3G … we thought it to be primarily a consumer device, but after the launch a big, growing interest is coming from companies,” Heikki Norta, […]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it will launch its long-awaited Windows Azure cloud computing system on Jan 1, as it looks to take advantage of the growing interest in internet-based software and services. Azure, which provides an online platform for software developers to create their own programs, and space for customers […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Dell Inc is entering the smartphone market, with its first device to launch in China in late November, followed by Brazil toward the end of the year. But the world’s No. 3 personal computer maker gave scant details on the long-rumored new phone, which is called Mini 3 and uses Google […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – IBM launched a new cloud computing service on Monday, aiming to take on companies such as Amazon.com Inc, Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Salesforce.com Inc. Cloud computing allows companies to run software and store information in remote, large-scale data centers that can be accessed over the Internet. That means users can […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Inc said on Thursday it plans to open 40 to 50 retail stores next year as the consumer electronics giant expands its reach to customers. More than half of the new stores will be outside the United States, with new outlets planned in London, Paris and two in Shanghai. Speaking […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Qualcomm Inc said on Thursday that it has started providing multi-mode high-speed wireless chips to customers on a trial basis as it looks to cash in on the move to next generation wireless services. The wireless chip and technology licensing company said that device manufacturers now evaluating the new chips include […]

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co is making a move into the network equipment market by striking a $3.1 billion deal for 3Com Corp, in a major challenge to Cisco Systems Inc. The deal is the latest sign that technology giants from IBM to Oracle Corp are increasingly encroaching in each other’s markets as […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s two largest cellphone makers, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, unveiled on Tuesday their latest rivals to the iPhone as Apple became the top profit generator in the handset industry. Apple Inc overtook Nokia in the September quarter as the cellphone maker generating the highest total operating profit in the industry, research […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s two largest cell phone makers, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, have unveiled their latest attempts to keep pace in the battle with smartphone rivals like iPhone and Blackberry. Nokia said on Tuesday it has started deliveries of its top-of-the-range N900, while Samsung announced it will launch its own open mobile platform, […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – LinkedIn and Twitter have linked up. Starting immediately, users of LinkedIn and Twitter can cross-file to each other’s services, by checking a box on either Twitter or LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the largest professional social network, with 50 million members around the world who post information about themselves, such as resumes, to […]

Application security vendor Cenzic today released its security trends report for the first half of 2009 application. In it, Cenzic claims that the Mozilla’s Firefox browser led the field of Web browsers in terms of total vulnerabilities. According to Cenzic, Firefox accounted for 44 percent of all browser vulnerabilities reported in the first half of […]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it is cutting a further 800 jobs across its operations, on top of 5,000 jobs already eliminated under a plan to reduce costs that was announced in January. A spokesman for the world’s largest software firm said the latest job cuts are spread across the company’s global […]