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Eastman Kodak has signed an agreement to purchase National Semiconductor's imaging business unit, which develops and manufactures metal oxide semiconductor image sensor (CIS) devices. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. As part of this agreement, Kodak will acquire certain assets, including i...

Intel cut the prices of many of its most popular semiconductors, a move that might be designed to help clear the way for the company's next generation of chips. The price cuts, which were announced on the company's Web site, were being billed as part of the normal course of doing business and not as...

Recent events in Nepal could spill over into India and hurt technology and financial firms in the United States and UK. The United States finds itself in a dilemma, with the policies of the previous two U.S. administrations serving less to promote security or democracy in the region and more to inci...

AT&T today announced that Best Buy will be among the first national retailers to offer AT&T's residential Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service, called the AT&T CallVantage Service, in its 628 stores nationwide and online at bestbuy.com. AT&T CallVantage Service will be available in Bes...

AT&T today announced that Best Buy will be among the first national retailers to offer AT&T's residential Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service, called the AT&T CallVantage Service, in its 628 stores nationwide and online at bestbuy.com. AT&T CallVantage Service will be available in Bes...

AT&T today announced that Best Buy will be among the first national retailers to offer AT&T's residential Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service, called the AT&T CallVantage Service, in its 628 stores nationwide and online at bestbuy.com. AT&T CallVantage Service will be available in Bes...

The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to provide battle command training support to Army commanders to improve their capabilities. The contract value is approximately $408 million over ten years. As part of the contract, Northrop Grumman's IT departments will provide planning and sup...

File-sharing applications Morpheus and Grokster were claiming legal victory after a U.S. court said it was not responsible for protecting the copyrights of material swapped on its person-to-person network. The ruling deals a blow to some 28 entertainment companies, including giants such as Disney, M...

Gateway today announced that its new line of retail notebooks, desktops and monitors are now available at Micro Center's 20 stores nationwide. The Gateway products are available at Micro Center stores and on the company's Web site, microcenter.com. The agreement is the latest in a series of announce...

Disaster recovery is a familiar topic for most information-intensive businesses. Disaster recovery is so familiar, in fact, that many businesses have been doing it the same way for years. The typical recovery scenario: retrieve backed-up data on tapes from remote sites, rush them to data centers whe...

News that a tense situation in a key Iraq city was coming to an end caused a rare drop in oil prices Friday, which in turn gave stocks a chance to make a run and end the week on a positive note. News that the standoff between U.S. forces and those loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr might have en...

Battered Nortel Networks said it would lay off 3,500 workers and fire seven executives as part of its latest attempt to move beyond an epic accounting scandal and regain its market prominence. The layoffs, part of a US$400 million restructuring aimed at cutting costs to be more competitive, represen...

When Ed Trimble founded EzGov five years ago, however, he had to play the role of evangelist, touting the security and capabilities of the Web. A few months after EzGov was incorporated, it sold its first application -- a property tax payment system -- to Dekalb County, Georgia. Now it serves govern...

As Google lurched into its new life as a public company, debuting Thursday as the newest member of the Nasdaq, the impact of the search engine's still-blockbuster IPO on the tech industry as a whole was already being debated. Before the offering was completed, there were some signs that the way Goog...

In a recent decision, a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) domain name arbitration panel dismissed a complaint filed by the Mexican Tourist Board (MTB) against Latin America Telecom (LAT) concerning the domain name "mexico.com." The panel went so far as to find that the complaint was br...