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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Intel Corp was sued by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who accused the world’s largest chipmaker of threatening computer makers and paying billions of dollars in kickbacks to maintain its market dominance. The lawsuit accuses Intel of violating state and federal antitrust law through a “systematic worldwide campaign” of bullying […]

If you can’t beat ’em, try to undercut them. That’s what Microsoft appears to be doing with the new prices rolled out this week for its hosted software offerings for IT shops. Earlier in the week Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced price cuts for two of its online “software-plus-services” offerings, meant to both woo customers away […]

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan’s economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company’s first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry. Cloud computing — the hosting and storage of services and data on remote centralized computers, is expected to […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Sony Ericsson unveiled its new X10 flagship mobile phone on Tuesday, its first to run on Google’s Android operating system, but said it would not go on sale until early next year. Android has gained a lot of traction this year as handset vendors look for ways to beat Apple’s iPhone. Loss-making […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) and EMC Corp (EMC.N) are teaming up to sell a new line of networking gear, computers and storage equipment designed for use with cloud computing, according to sources familiar with their plans. The line of products, dubbed vBlock, position the two companies to better compete against IBM […]

(Reuters) – Social networking website Facebook was awarded $711.2 million in damages relating to an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace, court documents show. Wallace did not oppose the motion or appear at the hearing on September 18, 2009, according to a filing on Thursday in a San Jose, California federal court. The site […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – The body in charge of assigning the world’s Internet users their online addresses on Friday said it had agreed to allow the use of any of the world’s scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which approved the change at a meeting in […]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Google Inc on Wednesday partnered with Web services Lala and MySpace’s iLike to give music fans an easier way to find, sample and buy songs on the Internet, expanding its music industry footprint. The global Web search leader will provide users who want to sample a song with a pop-up box […]

Microsoft on Tuesday released the final code for a set of libraries that enables developers to write applications for Windows 7 that will also preserve the Windows 7 look and feel when the application is run on Windows Vista. The Platform Update for Windows Vista is a free download from Windows Update, Windows Server Update […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc has introduced a new feature that will allow consumers to use its Google Voice service without switching to a special phone number, potentially broadening the appeal of the nascent, and controversial, service. Google said late Monday that new users of its service will be able to have the calls […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cisco Systems said on Tuesday that it would buy privately held security software company ScanSafe for about $183 million to expand in a fast-growing segment of the Web-based security market. Cisco said the deal, whose price tag includes cash and retention-based incentives, would close, subject to various conditions, in the second […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Apple faces the possibility of having to pay Nokia up to $1 billion for the technologies used in iPhones sold so far if it loses a lawsuit brought by Nokia, analysts said. The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia filed the suit in the United States on Thursday, saying Apple had infringed 10 […]