Macworld.com - 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 - Microsoft Corp.'s free Web-based e-mail service and other sites have been unavailable for hours to Internet users around the world Tuesday. Read more…
InfoWorld - Microsoft introduced an updated version of .Net Micro Framework, a platform for the development of applications that run in a variety of embedded devices, such as retail point-of-sale terminals and home automation systems. Read more…
NewsFactor - Apple has updated its MacBook Pro line to include faster graphics. While there's not much to wow Mac fans, the new laptops offer speed increases thanks to Intel's new chip architecture. Read more…
InfoWorld - EMC will roll out software for online services this year from? its acquisition of Pi, aimed at boosting its cloud computing strategy, Pi CEO Paul Maritz said Tuesday. Read more…
AP - The New York attorney general's office has requested information from Comcast Corp. on the company's handling of Internet traffic. Read more…
InfoWorld - Yahoo is opening up its search platform to enable publishers to serve up more task-oriented, detailed search-page results as part of a larger strategy to encourage third-party development on its Internet platform. Read more…
Reuters - A federal court which hears patent appeals told a lower court on Tuesday to reconsider damages that Microsoft must pay a Guatemalan inventor for infringing his software in its popular Office Suite. Read more…
NewsFactor - While it appears that Google will not be getting into the cell-phone business, the search giant announced Tuesday it is taking a different route. Most observers believe Google wasn't the winning bidder in the Federal Communications Commission's 700MHz wireless spectrum auction. So rather than controlling the airwaves, Google has joined with five telecommunications companies to build a submarine fiber-optic cable to connect the U.S. and Japan. Read more…
AP - For many parents-to-be the excitement and nervousness is often difficult to contain. For Kyle Piechucki, the wait was decidedly boring. Read more…
InfoWorld - Adobe Systems is working on a research project intended to make it easier to run programs written in various languages on Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player client runtime. Read more…
AP - The U.S. economy is wheezing so badly that even Internet power Google Inc. and its once-robust stock is looking haggard. Read more…
PC World - Plus: Firefox rushes plug-in patch; how to lock down your digital picture frame. Read more…
NewsFactor - Is throttling of peer-to-peer traffic -- especially BitTorrent traffic -- on Comcast's cable Internet service "reasonable network management" or a breach of trust? That was the question at the Federal Communications Commission's hearing Monday in Cambridge, Mass. Read more…
InfoWorld - Microsoft acknowledged on Tuesday a problem that is preventing Hotmail users from accessing their accounts. Read more…
NewsFactor - On Tuesday, VMware pulled a virtual rabbit out of its software hat, announcing agreements to embed its ESX 3i hypervisor in servers from Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and IBM. The four vendors are expected to begin shipping VMware-embedded machines within the next 60 days. Read more…
InfoWorld - Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie said Tuesday that competitor Google owes its business in part to Microsoft and that his company is not concerned about losing its position as an innovator in the technology market to the search and advertising leader. Read more…
AP - An online privacy group is asking a federal court to order the release of all communications between Google Inc. and a former Justice Department official who now works for the Internet search company. Read more…
PC World - Some Hotmail users tell Microsoft they can't access their accounts. Read more…
NewsFactor - Novell has agreed to pay $205 million in cash to acquire Toronto-based PlateSpin, which provides software resources for the management of heterogeneous data-center workloads on a single physical or virtual host. Read more…
Macworld.com - Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) on Tuesday announced plans to release its DualShock 3 wireless controller for its PlayStation 3 video game console in April. The new controller will cost $54.95. Read more…
AP - Comcast Corp. on Tuesday acknowledged hiring people to fill seats before the start of a contentious federal hearing on how the company manages its broadband network, allowing its employees to take those seats when the filled-to-capacity hearing started. Read more…
Reuters - DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc said on Tuesday it was locked in an exclusive deal to distribute DVDs on Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) HD DVD format even though the Japanese electronics maker plans to quit the technology. Read more…
InfoWorld - WaveMaker Software will offer on Wednesday version 3.1.1 of WaveMaker Visual AJAX Studio, a framework for building database-driven AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web applications. Read more…
TechWeb - City leaders say their initiative has created the largest community based e-health records network in the United States and can serve as a national model. Read more…
