Cisco ruffles feathers with new collaboration tools

From CNET News.com: Cisco Systems is once again stepping on its partners' toes and taking on new rivals as it adds new capabilities to its suite of unified communications products and services.

On Monday, the company will announce several new and enhanced software tools for instant...

Droid Phone Released, Bests iPhone in Many Areas, Lags in a Few

From DailyTech: While the Blackberry is currently the bestselling smartphone, thanks largely to a strong core of business users, sales numbers indicate the iPhone dominates the multimedia entertainment phone market. Verizon's Droid phone, which launched on Friday, may change that as...

Intel Plans “Fast” Transition to Next-Generation Atom Platform

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. will reveal more details about its next-generation Intel Atom platform for netbooks and nettops on the 21st of December ’09 and computers makers will launch actual systems powered by Intel Atom N450 and derivatives on the 4th of January 2010, just in time...

Modern Warfare 2 PC Won't Have Console

From Tom's Hardware: Are you a COD4 fan just frothing at the mouth waiting for Modern Warfare 2? Many of us are too. Those of us who are looking forward to playing it on the PC have been given small frights with the rumored delay (now found untrue), and the sadly true news of the...

Dell Unleashes World’s Thinnest Notebook

From X-bit Labs: Dell on Thursday finally announced its highly-anticipated Adamo XPS notebook, which is currently the world’s thinnest laptop. Measuring just 9.99mm in thickness, Dell Adamo XPS packs in 4GB of memory and relatively powerful fully-fledged dual-core microprocessor. The...

Old Android devices may not support Android 2.0

From InfoWorld: With this week's release of Verizon Wireless' Droid phone comes the first real test of the potential for fragmentation with Android. The Droid will be the first phone to run Android 2.0. After it goes on sale Friday, there will be Android phones on the market running...

With Pine Trail's Imminent Arrival, Intel Turns to Nettops

From PC World: Hoping to build on the success of netbooks like Acer's AspireOne, Intel wants to prove that its Pine Trail chip package can do for desktops what the first Atom processors did for laptops.

Pine Trail is a package of chips built around Pineview, an upcoming version of...

IBM Sets up Top-end Business Analytics Center in India

From PC World: IBM has set up a center in Bangalore that will focus on offering high-end expertise to the business analytics market worldwide.

The center, called the Business Analytics Center of Competency, will have over 200 consultants in the area of business analytics who will...

Mozilla's e-mail group looks toward the cloud

From CNET News.com: For almost all of its existence, Mozilla Messaging has been known for Thunderbird--e-mail software with the traditional view that a person's PC is the center of their computing existence.

Now, though, the Mozilla Foundation subsidiary's scope is expanding beyond...

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