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Microsoft advances embedded apps

Microsoft on Tuesday is unveiling an upgrade to its .Net Micro Framework for building applications for embedded systems, featuring expanded language and processor support....

Ozzie reveals Azure, Microsoft’s development cloud

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie Monday revealed Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform that allows developers to build and host their services on Microsoft...

China regulator shuts video Web sites, warns others

China’s Internet regulator on Monday ordered 10 online video sites to shut down and warned another 17, resuming an aggressive policy on such sites...

Overstock.com restates earnings, cites ERP implementation

Internet retailer Overstock.com is restating its earnings for a five-and-a-half-year period, blaming the move mostly on problems with an Oracle ERP (enterprise resource planning)...

CenturyTel acquires Embarq for $5.8B

CenturyTel is spending US$5.8 billion to acquire Embarq, the Kansas-based telecom provider that was formed when Sprint spun off its landline division in 2006.

Synchronica sends e-mail to cheap phones via SMS

Using SimpleMail, cheap mobile phones will be able get access to push e-mail, Synchronica announced on Tuesday.

Gates, Microsoft lobby FCC for unlicensed white spaces use

Microsoft is lobbying the FCC this week to allow unlicensed use of so-called “white spaces” television spectrum for wireless Internet services.

NetApp cancels user conference, blames economy

In another sign of how far-reaching the economic downturn has become, NetApp on Monday said it plans to cancel its user conference scheduled for...

Intel invests $170M in China, Dalian fab on track

Saying Intel will invest its way through the current economic crisis, President and CEO Paul Otellini put the company’s money where his mouth is...

First look: Windows 7 takes on Apple, addresses IT needs

Activists have long known that the way to take the sting out of a pejorative moniker is to adopt it and proclaim it with...

What tech-industry CEOs are saying about the economy

Until September, the U.S. tech industry appeared insulated from the year-long economic slowdown. Most of the 20 largest U.S. tech firms reported solid second-quarter...

Nokia ventures into content deal with Orascom Telecoms

Orascom Telecom and Nokia have signed an agreement to make Nokia’s mobile content platform, Ovi, available to Orascom’s 74 million customers in Africa and...

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