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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Anyone holding their breath for Apple Inc’s much-anticipated, but never confirmed, touchscreen tablet device may have to wait a bit longer than they planned. Early hopes that Apple could introduce a tablet — or “iPad” — at an event in September have given way to expectations that the company will instead […]

There is a lot of activity on the eBook front: Sony earlier announced that they would be moving towards supporting the open ePub eBook format on their eReaders, and they are expected to announce a new eReader that incorporates cellular data connectivity. Barnes and Noble announced this week that they are partnering with Irex Technologies […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia Oyj will try again to tackle Apple Inc’s iPhone in the top-end of the handset market with a bet on Linux software, several industry sources told Reuters. Top handset maker Nokia will show its first high-end phone running on Maemo, a version of Linux, next week at the annual Nokia World […]

BANGALORE (Reuters) – IBM and India’s top three outsourcing firms have each won five-year IT services contract from oil and gas major BP Plc, the firms said on Wednesday, amid hopes of a revival in technology spending. Neither IBM nor the Indian firms, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies and Wipro, disclosed financial details of the […]

SUNNYVALE, California (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said on Monday it has revamped its search to compete against Microsoft Corp’s Bing, even as it relies on the Redmond giant to power its queries. The announcement of plans to put a new face on Yahoo Messenger and Mail and add functions to its search engine came after […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Repeat offenders who persist in illegally downloading music from file-sharing sites such as Limewire could be blocked from accessing the Web under British government proposals issued on Tuesday. The government said it was publishing new ideas to speed up the process of tackling unlawful peer-to-peer file sharing to prevent damage to the […]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Jessica Biel has overtaken Brad Pitt as the most dangerous celebrity to search in cyberspace, according to Internet security company McAfee Inc. For the third consecutive year, McAfee surveyed which A-list celebrity was the riskiest to track on the Internet after Pitt topped the list last year and Paris Hilton […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it would start to make laptops, entering a fiercely competitive, but fast-growing market. Nokia has seen its profit margins drop over the last quarters as handset demand has slumped, and analysts have worried that entering the PC industry, where margins are traditionally razor-thin, […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – IPhone maker Apple Inc told U.S. regulators it has not approved Google Inc’s Voice application, which could challenge the wireless industry’s giants, because it interferes with the iPhone “user experience.” Apple told the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) on Friday that the Google app appears to replace the iPhone’s core mobile telephone functionality […]

Some paying customers already have the final, release version of Microsoft’s highly anticipated Windows 7. Those include subscribers to Microsoft’s TechNet and MSDN online services as well as volume licensees with Software Assurance contracts. Those who want to try the newest version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system before it reaches commercial availability on October 22 […]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it filed a motion to stay an injunction imposed by a federal court last week which threatened to halt sales of some versions of its popular Word application. In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Microsoft also asked for an expedited […]

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Netbook PC pioneer Asustek on Wednesday set a modest 2010 shipment target of 1 million units for its newly launched smartphone, underscoring its vulnerability as a new player in the sector. That would mean it will have a market share of less than 1 percent in the fast-growing smartphone market, which research […]