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iPhone puts Apple into the medical sector

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:33:55 +0000

Apple have been showing off the new iPhone features as part of the WWDC Apple is running in America. Perhaps one of the most interesting features and pieces of news is how the medical... Read more...

Yahoo puts meat on Open Strategy bones

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:35:28 +0000

After months of preamble, Yahoo on Monday flipped the on switch for a massive project to increase activity, and advertising on its Internet sites through social connections and online applications. The company has been... Read more...

MSN puts ads on mobile phones

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:17:55 +0000

Microsoft began displaying advertisements to mobile users of its MSN site in the U.S. on Monday.Paramount Pictures and Jaguar Cars North America are among the first companies to advertise on MSN Mobile in the U.S.... Read more...

Mozilla Puts the Lid on Firefox 3.0 Beta Leak

Steven Parker — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:20:17 +0000

Mozilla has urged visitors to their FTP site to ignore the widely publicized leak of Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 (RC) after the news broke earlier today on Digg.com. Visitors are now redirected to a page... Read more...

Facebook Ad System Puts Business and Butterflies Together

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:26:00 +0000

Facebook has thrown down the gauntlet in front of Google, introducing an online ad platform designed to help businesses reach its social network of 50 million users. With industry pundits predicting that Facebook would usher... Read more...

Mother's ire puts Ballmer on defense over Vista

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:22:11 +0000

For a few minutes during Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer's appearance at the Gartner Inc. Symposium ITxpo conference here, emotionless management-speak gave way to a mother's frustration with the Vista operating system. "I'm one... Read more...

Military puts MySpace, other sites off limits

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 15 May 2007 01:43:37 +0000

Lt. Daniel Zimmerman, an infantry platoon leader in Iraq, puts a blog on the Internet every now and then "to basically keep my friends and family up to date" back home. It just got tougher... Read more...

Samsung puts finishing touches on DDR3 memory

Mon, 14 May 2007 19:20:19 +0000

Samsung Electronics revealed that 21 of its DDR3 memory chips and modules have been validated by Intel, meaning they are certified as compatible with Intel's PC chip sets. The newer chips will offer data transfer... Read more...

U.S. Puts 12 Nations on Watch for Piracy

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:10:49 +0000

The Bush administration has placed China, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Egypt, India, Israel, Lebanon, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela on a "priority watch list" for failing to sufficiently protect American producers of music, movies and other... Read more...

Mandriva Puts Linux on USB

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:55:38 +0000

Linux distributor Mandriva's Flash 4GB provides Mandriva Linux 2007 KDE 32-bit, which is bootable off the USB 2.0 stick sans installation. It includes drivers for common PC video cards, wireless adapters and modems – as... Read more...

Judge puts halt on new Vonage customers

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:06:31 +0000

A federal judge has ordered Vonage not to accept any new customers while it continues to infringe on Verizon Communications patents covering some aspects of Internet phone calls. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton said it... Read more...

Microsoft puts brakes on Soapbox video sharing

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:50:14 +0000

Soapbox, which was opened up to a public beta last month as Microsoft's answer to Google's YouTube, is getting technology from Audible Magic that will filter uploaded videos and block those with content under copyright.... Read more...

Microsoft Puts FoxPro Out to Pasture

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:26:12 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it will not be releasing any new versions of its Visual FoxPro development software past Version 9.0, but the company will continue to support the technology through 2015. Instead of releasing... Read more...

VMware puts a virtual machine in your pocket

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:14:14 +0000

VMware has introduced a public beta test of ACE 2 Enterprise Edition, adding on many new features (including the ability to distribute virtual machines on any portable USB drive) over the previous release which allowed... Read more...

Analyst: Microsoft's Revamped WGA Puts Burden On Users

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:17:25 +0000

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it would use Automatic Updates to roll out changes to the component of its anti-piracy scheme that nags users when their copy of Windows is tagged as counterfeit. An analyst criticizes... Read more...

Sony puts popular importer Lik-Sang out of business

Tom Warren — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:51:23 +0000

Sony, a company not content with illegally putting root kits onto customers machines, pushing out proprietary formats as much as they can and making sure customers laptops explode has now gone one step further. The... Read more...

Nasdaq puts Apple on notice

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:37:13 +0000

On Friday, Apple Computer, which has delayed a quarterly regulatory filing amid a stock-options accounting probe, said that it has received a letter from Nasdaq warning that it's not in compliance with the exchange's rules.... Read more...

Paul Thurrott puts the Leopard vs Vista War into Perspective

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:29:19 +0000

Those of you who have seen Steve Jobs' recent keynote speech at Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) will have undoubtedly made your own minds up over what Apple's answer to Bill Gates had to... Read more...

Microsoft puts a cap on Vista beta downloads

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:56:50 +0000

Microsoft has defended its decision to cut back on the amount of users who can download the beta version of Windows Vista. The software giant claimed that the pre-release versions of Vista are not appropriate... Read more...

China Puts the Censorship Ball Back in Googles' Court

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:44:57 +0000

On Tuesday, Google co-founder Sergey Brin stated that that the search giant may have "compromised our principles" in kowtowing to the Chinese governments demands for censorship. Now the government of China has responded. On Thursday... Read more...

GSC Game World puts S.T.A.L.K.E.R. rumors to rest

Todd Tanner — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:19:40 +0000

I got a simple press release email from GSC today regarding some rumors running around the internet the last few days. In these rumors, it was said that not only was development on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. losing... Read more...

Phone buy Puts Adobe Head-to-Head With Microsoft

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:49:31 +0000

Macromedia is to acquire Mobile Innovation, a privately-held design and integration house in the UK with around 50 staff, for an undisclosed sum. What makes this deal noteworthy is that Mobile Innovation designs phones as... Read more...

IE Flaw Puts Windows XP SP2 at Risk

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:00:01 +0000

A flaw has been discovered in Internet Explorer that could enable a remote attack on systems running Windows XP with Service Pack 2, eEye Digital Security has warned. The flaw, which also... Read more...

Google puts brakes on Accelerator

Wed, 11 May 2005 16:08:50 +0000

Google has stopped allowing downloads of its Web Accelerator software, just days after it began offering the product. Google cited capacity as the reason for putting the brake on downloads of Accelerator,... Read more...

Microsoft puts a little money where its mouth is

Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:35:09 +0000

Afraid Microsoft's anti-spyware will muck up your hard drive, erasing your digital photos, music collection and work files? Don't worry, you've got a $5 rebate coming your way in this worst-case scenario--enough... Read more...

Sony puts 500 PSPs up for auction, early distribution

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:28:47 +0000

Sony Japan enlists top online retailer in scheme to direct funds to earthquake victims in Japan. It's the perfect pay-to-play scenario. 500 PSPs are being put up for auction on Japan's most... Read more...

MS Certification Puts Graphics Innovations Under Fire

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 10:29:46 +0000

At least some NVIDIA's ForceWare drivers cannot pass certain WHQL tests as Microsoft's Display Compatibility Test does not pass pixel shaders 3.0 along with some other pixel shaders tests on the drivers version 66.81. Earlier... Read more...

MySQL Update Puts a Toe Into Big Vendors' Database Turf

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:24:51 +0000

MySQL AB on Wednesday released into general availability a version of its open-source database with subqueries, faster and more secure client-server communication, tools that ease installation and configuration, and support for international character sets and... Read more...

Nvidia Puts a Firewall on a Motherboard

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:30:41 +0000

Motherboard chip sets don't normally excite much attention in the security world, but Nvidia's NForce 4 could turn out to be the exception. Better known for its graphics chips, Nvidia has become the first to... Read more...

AIM update puts price on new buddies

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:21:38 +0000

America Online released a new version of its popular instant messaging program (AIM 5.9 Beta) earlier this week. This new version adds several new features, but this time at a price. For... Read more...

Microsoft puts multisearch tool on show

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:46:23 +0000

REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft revealed the progress it has made in building search technology on Thursday when it demonstrated a tool that can comb both the Internet and a PC's hard drive. MSN Chief... Read more...

Shuttle Puts LGA775 Chips into Small Form-Factor PCs

Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:33:33 +0000

Shuttle has unveiled its new series of small PC barebones powered by Intel's latest chips in LGA775 packaging. To feed the chips with enough power and provide sufficient cooling, the company that is mostly known... Read more...

Sun puts Java into gear for cars

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:34:11 +0000

Java is slowly showing up on just about everything. In the last few years Java has shown up on cell phones and now automobiles (in-car computers). What good would Java be in the... Read more...

AOL puts pop-unders on the night shift

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:34:41 +0000

America Online will begin limiting pop-under advertisements linked to its AOL Instant Messenger service on Thursday, in order to target at-home rather than at-work audiences, according to a company representative. The Internet service... Read more...

Opteron Puts AMD to Work

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 03:01:16 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices has gone from an afterthought among server customers to the darling of the enterprise world in just a year. The company's Opteron chip has opened the doors of corporate server rooms for... Read more...

Business buying puts Dell back atop PC pile

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:15:54 +0000

PC shipments grew somewhat faster than expected during the first quarter of 2004, helping to hoist Dell into the No. 1 market share position, according to preliminary figures from research firms IDC and Gartner. Shipments... Read more...

Nebraska court puts Microsoft back in the dock

Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:33:09 +0000

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday revived a class-action suit brought by consumers that charges Microsoft with antitrust violations. In a divided ruling, the court sent the case back to a lower... Read more...

AOL puts heat on Sunshine State spammers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:19:46 +0000

America Online reported Wednesday that it has filed a civil suit against four Florida-based individuals who the company believes are responsible for sending massive amounts of spam e-mail to its members. The giant Internet service... Read more...

TuneRecycler Puts Twist on ITunes Deal

Tue, 03 Feb 2004 06:02:05 +0000

When the big ITunes/PepsiCo promotion kicked off on Sunday during the Super Bowl, independent music advocacy group Downhill Battle also launched a promotion of their own, one aimed at taking some of Pepsi's dollars away... Read more...

ATI puts 3D in mobile phones

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 10:01:47 +0000

The PC graphics chipmaker has scaled down its technology to bring high-end games to the world of handheld computers. Graphics chipmaker ATI is jumping into the handheld market with a new line of processors aimed... Read more...