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TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp, the world’s No. 2 maker of NAND flash memory, will halt chip production at two plants for nine days due to weak demand, in its first output break in seven years, broadcaster NHK reported on Friday. Toshiba shares rose nearly 3 percent after the report, but company spokeswoman Hiroko Mochida […]

tcpdump is a packet sniffer — it captures the network packets (traffic) that pass through a machine, enabling you to examine and analyze the traffic afterward. It is capable of becoming very complex, but the basics are pretty straightforward and useful for network troubleshooting. To invoke it, you must be root. The absolute basic command […]

It begins. Now that the turkey has been gobbled up and geeks of all stripes have perused Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals to treat their loved ones (and themselves, who are we kidding?) let’s look at gifts that make a digital lifestyle worth living. In this list, we incorporate 10 product types that represent […]

NEW YORK — U.S. retail sales online rose 1 percent on Black Friday, the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, to $534 million, tracking firm comScore said on Sunday. Combined with Web sales on Thanksgiving the previous day, the figure rose 2 percent, but sales are down 4 percent to date in November from […]

Touchscreen phone users are discovering that much of the fun in their devices stems from applications — those little nuggets of convenience, amusement and distraction available for download on the slightest whim. A good example is Google’s newly updated Mobile App for Apple’s iPhone, which has been generating a lot of buzz for one main […]

Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have become enormously popular among consumers. But are businesses really prepared to embrace them? Many businesses aren’t ready to throw open their networks to Web 2.0 traffic unless it meets certain thresholds. There must be a clear business value and assurances that services don’t pose a security threat. “I […]

Think of it as a way to tell lies using technology. But they aren’t lies to you, or anybody else for that matter. The reality of memory address management in virtualized systems is that the virtualization software — usually the hypervisor — gives each operating system (OS) a fictional story about where its memory actually […]

Chip giant Intel cut its fourth-quarter revenue forecast by about 14 percent citing weak demand across the world and in all its products, indicating the economic crisis is set to hurt computer sales in the holiday season and beyond. The shock warning hammered tech shares, which had already tumbled earlier on Wednesday, with Intel plunging […]

U.S. business software maker VMware Inc (NYSE: VMW) has bought a small French company that specializes in virtualization software for mobile phones, which allows a single phone to run multiple operating systems. VMware, the leading maker of virtualization software for computers, said on Monday it bought privately held Trango Virtual Processors, based in Grenoble, France, […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – MySpace, the popular online social network owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, could develop a digital music player in the future, pitting it against Apple Inc’s hot-selling iPod. But there are no immediate plans to make or sell such a device, MySpace co-founder and Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe said at a […]

SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony Corp said five PC makers including Hewlett-Packard Co and Toshiba Corp will recall 100,000 computer battery packs made by the Japanese electronics maker due to a fire hazard. Sony said the recall is expected to have limited impact on its earnings, and its shares outperformed a falling Tokyo stock market […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will likely launch a new model of its top-selling handheld player, the DS, in overseas markets by the summer of 2009, President Satoru Iwata said. Nintendo will start selling the DSi, which can take pictures, play music and is slimmer than the current model, in […]