Reuters - Siemens (SIEGn.DE) will cut 6,800 jobs at its corporate telecoms unit -- two-fifths of the unit's workforce -- to reshape the business into a software provider as it seeks to divest the division, it said on Tuesday. Read more…
Macworld.com - TalkShoe, a community chat service that brings together live phone callers and online chatters, has been optimized for the iPhone. Read more…
Bill Thompson on new uses for Nintendo's in-demand consoles. Read more…
Reuters - VMware Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Tuesday they have signed an agreement to integrate VMware's virtualization software into 10 models of HP's computer servers. Read more…
Sony and Sharp agree a deal to work together to meet growing demand for flat-screen televisions. Read more…
Reuters - Yahoo Inc said Tuesday it will launch a service called Yahoo Buzz which will use consumers' voting to uncover the most popular content from sites across the Internet and bring them to Yahoo's homepage, one of the Web's most trafficked destinations. Read more…
Reuters - The number of new internet firms founded in Germany in 2007 more than tripled compared with the previous year, according to a survey published on Tuesday. Read more…
The latest version of Firefox will have search at its heart says developer Mozilla. Read more…
InfoWorld - Sunday's inadvertent? disruption of Google's YouTube video service? underscores a flaw in the Internet's design that could some day lead to a serious security problem, according to networking experts. Read more…
InfoWorld - Lenovo on Monday launched the much-anticipated ThinkPad X300 ultraportable, challenging? Apple's MacBook Air? as the lightest and thinnest notebook available today. Read more…
AP - Pakistan's telecoms regulator said Tuesday it has lifted restrictions on the YouTube Web site that led to the knocking out of access to the popular video-sharing site in many other countries for a few hours over the weekend. Read more…
PC World - Sunday's inadvertent disruption of Google's YouTube video service underscores a flaw in the Internet's design that could some day lead to a serious security problem, according to networking experts. Read more…
InfoWorld - BlackBerry sales in Taiwan in 2007 disappointed the local vendor of the popular devices, but the company expects a big improvement this year because people on the island will be able to type mobile e-mails in their own language. Read more…
PC World - BlackBerry sales in Taiwan in 2007 disappointed the local vendor of the popular devices, but the company expects a big improvement this year because people on the island will be able to type mobile e-mails in their own language. Read more…
InfoWorld - Google is one of six companies in a new consortium called Unity that is building a new undersea cable to boost Internet capacity between the United States and Asia. Read more…
Reuters - Microsoft Corp ramped up its fight to have its Office Open XML document format made into an international standard on Monday as delegates from 37 countries met to reconsider the proposal. Read more…
InfoWorld - IBM is unveiling software and resources Tuesday intended to educate the next generation of developers on how to build applications for the company's newly announced System z10 mainframe. Read more…
AP - Wall Street reversed earlier losses and moved higher Tuesday after IBM approved a $15 billion stock buyback, suggesting to investors that there are still some companies out there with financial muscle. Read more…
AP - IBM Corp. raised the low end of its 2008 earnings outlook Tuesday and said its board of directors had authorized a continuation of its massive stock buyback program. Its shares jumped 2.7 percent. Read more…
PC World - Cyberlaw author and professor Lawrence Lessig has decided not to run for the U.S. Congress after briefly flirting with the idea, he announced on his blog Monday. Read more…
AP - Sony Corp.'s first Blu-ray disc player that can download bonus materials like trailers and games from the Internet will debut this summer, the company announced Tuesday. Read more…
PC World - Siemens plans to cut 3,800 jobs at its Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN) subsidiary, including 2,000 jobs in Germany, the company announced Tuesday. Read more…
Reuters - IBM said on Tuesday its board authorized a $15 billion share buyback program that could boost 2008 earnings by up to 5 cents a share, sending its stock up more than 4 percent. Read more…
NewsFactor - Forget the buzz about Microsoft acquiring Yahoo. This week the search titan wants the world's attention on Yahoo Buzz, an extension to Yahoo.com that promises to deliver the most interesting and relevant content from Web sites. The new tool is currently in beta. Read more…
InfoWorld - Some of the biggest server vendors are starting to ship machines with built-in support for VMware virtualization software. Fujitsu-Siemens began to ship servers with embedded VMware technology Tuesday, while Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM will jump on the bandwagon within 60 days. Read more…
