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• ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 million

  AMD has announced that it will take charges totaling $948 million in its recently ended quarter for goodwill impairment and restructuring. A whopping $880 million of that is made up ...

  Tags: Memory, Components, Flash Memory, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Investment, ATI Technologies Inc., Finance

  Jul 11, 2008 9:46 AM PDT

• When proprietary companies go open source

  I've been burning the midnight oil yet again, working like a beaver on speed as I build my software castle on a server in Los Angeles not that beavers build ...

  Tags: Netscape Communications Corp., Open Source, Software, Stallman, John Carroll

  Jul 11, 2008 9:43 AM PDT

• Jobs, lawyer cleared of criminal charges

  Steve Jobs is off the hook for options backdating charges, according to the Wall Street Journal. Not that he was ever really on the hook. More interesting is that former ...

  Tags: Lawyer, Corporate Law, Backdating, Corporate Governance, Apple Inc., Richard Koman, Hook, Job, Litigation, Board

  Jul 11, 2008 9:33 AM PDT

• iPhone App store; why do we need 10 tip calculators?

  As I posted yesterday, I updated my first generation iPhone to the 2.0 firmware and started trying out 3rd party applications from the App Store. Since there are no trials ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Application, Matthew Miller, Games, Apple iPhone, E-books

  Jul 11, 2008 9:23 AM PDT

• Most employees are frustrated with IT

  If you ever get the feeling that employees do nothing but complain about the technology they use at work, you're not being paranoid. According to a new report, most workers ...

  Tags: Management, Information Technology, Worker, Strategy, Gartner Inc., Deb Perelman

  Jul 11, 2008 8:59 AM PDT

• The iPhone: Now with Microsoft ActiveSync support

  Microsoft's been noticeably and characteristically mum about Apple's iPhone 2.0 unveiling this week. But on July 11, the Redmondians did make sure to note that iPhones now include ActiveSync support ...

  Tags: Microsoft ActiveSync, Marketing, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Apple Inc.

  Jul 11, 2008 8:58 AM PDT

• iPhone 3G poses barriers to business adoption

  UK enterprise adoption of the iPhone 3G may be hampered by security issues and Apple's exclusive partnership with O2, among other factors. For years, Apple has paid little attention to ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Phil Jackson, Ignacio Toro Lyng, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Natasha Lomas silicon.com, IT, Apple iPhone, Consumer Electronics, John Romeis

  Jul 11, 2008 8:51 AM PDT

• Best Buy to sell Ubuntu for $19.99

  Canonical, along with software distributor ValuSoft, have come together to push a boxed version of Ubuntu 8.04 into Best Buy retail stores. The catch, it'll cost you $19.99. by Adrian ...

  Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Linux, Ubuntu, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, UNIX

  Jul 11, 2008 8:39 AM PDT

• Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90% of desktops currently at risk*

  * The 90% of desktops currently at risk comes from numbers presented at the Java One Keynote in 2008.  If you aren't patched, get the Java control panel up and ...

  Tags: Nathan McFeters, Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., Java, Software/Web Development, JRE, Software Development, Programming Languages

  Jul 11, 2008 8:08 AM PDT

• Gone fishing...

  I'll be taking my first break from blogging in over two years next week. It's family vacation time for the Dawson's before I have to really dig in for the ...

  Tags: Servers, Christopher Dawson, Hardware, Internet, Blogging

  Jul 11, 2008 8:00 AM PDT

• iPhone has a year to make its open source play

  Right now, if you have an open source Internet application and want to get it into wide distribution on a handheld, you have only one choice. The iPhone. by Dana ...

  Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Internet, Apple iPhone

  Jul 11, 2008 7:59 AM PDT

• Weekend Gadget Guidance: Back up and restore your USB thumb drive, free

  Ever get a little nervous about leaving those important files on your USB thumb drive? (What if I lose it? What if the flash memory doesn't hold up? How will ...

  Tags: USB, Flash Memory, Andrew Nusca, USB Flash Drive, Manager

  Jul 11, 2008 7:57 AM PDT

• Apple's MobileMe experiences post-launch pain

  Apple's new MobileMe web service experienced post-launch downtime yesterday, frustrating users who expected more. by Michael Krigsman

  Tags: Servers, Cloud Computing, GigaOm, Apple Inc., Hardware, Manufacturing, Michael Krigsman

  Jul 11, 2008 7:56 AM PDT

• Wow! FCC to punish Comcast

  Cable company arrogance is taking one on the cheek today. Amazingly, FCC chair Kevin Martin will recommend Comcast be punished for its infamous throttling of BitTorrent traffic. Just as Free ...

  Tags: Federal Government, FCC, Government, Richard Koman, Internet, Comcast Corp.

  Jul 11, 2008 7:47 AM PDT

• Ubuntu goes with newspaper model in consumer market

  What Ubuntu is trying to do is find an audience which has hardware but lacks regular Internet access or knowledge. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Ubuntu, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source

  Jul 11, 2008 7:25 AM PDT

• Apple's iPhone 3G activation problems (updated 5x)

  Atlantic City -- I'm not sure if it's just a server load issue because of all the east coast Apple and AT&T stores opening, but here at the Apple Store ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Media, Apple iPhone, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Jul 11, 2008 7:21 AM PDT

• Murdoch says News Corp, Yahoo tie-up very unlikely

  News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said it was "very unlikely" his company would be involved in any Yahoo transaction and said Yahoo and Microsoft would not end up with any deal. ...

  Tags: Financial Accounting, News Corp., Yahoo, Marketing, Microhoo, mergers, Microsoft, Social Networking, Yahoo! Inc., Finance

  Jul 11, 2008 7:20 AM PDT

• Yahoo to offer free games with in-game ads

  Yahoo said it would offer its users hundreds of popular casual online games as free downloads backed by revenue from advertising integrated into the games. NEW YORK--Yahoo said on Thursday ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Reuters, advertising, Yahoo, games

  Jul 11, 2008 7:16 AM PDT

• Two Friday polls

  Here's a couple questions for a hot, lazy, Friday in the middle of July: What are your training goals for the coming year? Summer is an ideal time to develop ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson, Training And Certification, Training

  Jul 11, 2008 7:00 AM PDT

• You can buy two iPhones if...

  Apple Store The Pier in Atlantic City --  I'm here at my local store and surprisingly they're letting me purchase two iPhone 3G handsets today. I think that the reasons ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Handset, Apple iPhone, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Jul 11, 2008 6:33 AM PDT

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