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Looking to slice into the hot slim phone market, electronics giant Samsung announced new ultra-thin handset models it hopes will win it more U.S. market share The South Korean giant will be shipping what it calls the slimmest mobile phones in America with its t509 model that is less than 10 millimeters thick....

The typical picture of a hacker has often been one of an introverted, misunderstood teen with a great deal of repressed anger. Launching an attack and disabling thousands of computers somehow seems to compensate for those feelings. Increasingly, however, while the hacker profile remains much the same, the ways in which these individuals compensate for their feelings of inadequacy have been changing. "Hackers are now being lured by the promise of financial gains," said Pete Lindstrom, research director at Spire Security, a security consulting company...

Despite national legislation, spam remains a menace that clogs e-mail inboxes and costs Internet Service Providers millions of dollars. One California company is trying to stem the flow of unwanted mail, but California legislators are threatening to stand in the way AOL has partnered withGoodmail Systems to offer its customers a service called "Ce...

San Francisco has selected a joint proposal from Google and EarthLink to run its citywide WiFi network. A panel of tech and municipal experts, which remained anonymous until the decision was announced, selected the two companies over MetroFi and four other bidders Now city officials will begin negotiating the final deal. The US$15 million network ...

Genesys has announced plans to acquire VoiceGenie, a provider of self-service voice applications -- a move that is expected to solidify the drive to determine which standard will dominate the industry The acquisition of the privately held firm, which is expected to close in a few weeks, will also advance Genesys' position in the highly competitive ...

Microsoft is reviewing a lawsuit filed against it by Lucent Technologies. The suit alleges that Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console contains technology that infringes on a Lucent patent Lucent filed the suit in the U.S. District Court in San Diego on March 28. The company is seeking an injunctive relief and unspecified damages....

The Walt Disney Co. said it will launch a family-friendly mobile phone service in June that will enable parents to monitor and manage how their children are using their cell phones Disney, which announced the service at the CTIA Wireless 2006 tradeshow in Las Vegas, said the service would go beyond family wireless plans focusing on sharing minutes....

Looking to slice into the hot slim phone market, electronics giant Samsung announced new ultra-thin handset models it hopes will win it more U.S. market share The South Korean giant will be shipping what it calls the slimmest mobile phones in America with its t509 model that is less than 10 millimeters thick....

Score one for Microsoft -- at Symbian's expense After getting out of the gate slowly, Microsoft won its largest-ever contract for mobile phone software from the U.S. Census Bureau. The contract covers 500,000 handsets and could lead the software giant to dethrone Research In Motion's BlackBerry as the most prolific device on the market....

Vodafone, one of the largest mobile phone carriers in the world, unveiled a sweeping restructuring plan designed to cut costs and help it compete in a rapidly changing marketplace The UK-based company -- the largest mobile carrier in terms of market value -- plans to split into three units to focus on mature markets, emerging markets and new techno...

Hundreds of technology patents from Fortune 500 companies will go to the highest bidders on Thursday in what could be the first live, multi-lot technology patent auction in the United States Sellers in the auction include Siemens, BellSouth, AT&T, Kimberly Clark (NYSE: KMB) and 3Com, as well as mid-sized companies and notable individual inventors.

On Wednesday NetSuite made five announcements designed to catapult it into a leadership position in the on-demand, or software as a service (SaaS), market In no particular order the company announced its version 11.0 release, informed the world that this release is fully AJAX infused, introduced a scripting language for customizing business process...

From billboards to clothing racks, electronic sign makers have paper products in their crosshairs Among the technologies threatening paper's signage dominion are super juiced LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) and electronic inks and papers....

So you say you want to share slideshows and videos on the Internet without a lot of rigmarole. Problem is, there's just so much noise in the media sharing space, you just don't know where to turn. Well, two well-known Net players have an end-to-end solution for you -- if you're willing to pay a hefty price for it VitalStream, a video streaming play...

New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer has filed suit in the New York Supreme Court against Direct Revenue, an Internet pop-up advertising company, for surreptitiously installing spyware on unsuspecting users' computers via free games or software Adware accompanying the free downloads tracked Web activity and delivered pop-up ads, according to the...

Microsoft and Alcatel expect to deliver a product next month that will target mid-sized companies with contact centers around the world. The two companies announced their intentions on Wednesday The new product will be based upon Alcatel's OmniTouch Contact Center Premium Edition and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. Also slated for integration with this...

IBM and Power.org member Rapport unveiled a new energy-efficient processor dubbed Kilocore that features more than 1,000 processing elements around a Power chip architecture Kilocore -- with parallel processing similar to that of the new Cell processor, Sun's Niagara, and Azul's multi-core chip -- has the ability to join hundreds or even thousands ...

Netflix on Tuesday filed a patent infringement suit against Blockbuster alleging the bricks-and-mortar movie rental chain illegally copied its ideas. Netflix is seeking a court order that would force Blockbuster to change its online rental processes and pay patent royalties The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. At issue a...

Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) may find it a challenge to nail both the right buyer and the right price if it ends up on the block. The company has announced it is exploring various alternatives including an outright sale On Tuesday, CSC said its board of directors "decided to explore strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value, includ...

Wireless technology is everywhere. Consumers, professionals and businesses are finding they can no longer survive without having wireless access in some form or another -- whether through PDAs, mobile phones, BlackBerries or laptops. One industry that really stands out when it comes to getting real value from advances in wireless technology is transportation...