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News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com A Google executive challenged internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a semantic web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence. On Tuesday, Berners-Lee, the father of the web and... [19 Jul 2006]
Ex-Microsoft staffers set up open source directory site
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com. Timid about diving into the oceanic waters of open-source projects? A few former Microsoft employees have launched a website that evaluates open source projects. [17 Jul 2006]
Podcasts appeal to geeks shocker
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com To whom should you be targeting your podcasts? Apple users, Trekkies and maybe Nike lovers, according to a new survey. Macworld is the most-visited content site by people who download audio podcasts... [13 Jul 2006]
SAP making a play for on-demand e-tail CRM?
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com Business software giant SAP has acquired Praxis Software Solutions as it attempts to weave on-demand applications into its offerings. Technology from Praxis will be incorporated into SAP Business One, a... [11 Jul 2006]
Red Hat landed with JBoss patent suit
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com Red Hat has been hit by a patent lawsuit related to JBoss, just weeks after completing its purchase of the open source software company. In a complaint filed in US District Court in Texas this week... [03 Jul 2006]
Apple to show off next-gen big cat this summer
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com Apple CEO Steve Jobs, plus a team of executives, will open this year's Worldwide Developers Conference with a demonstration of Leopard, Apple's next-generation release of Mac OS X. [27 Jun 2006]
PCs getting more reliable, says Gartner
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com PCs are lasting longer without a part going wrong, according to new research from Gartner. There has been a 25 per cent decrease in annual failure rates for PC hardware over the last two years, the research... [27 Jun 2006]
Oracle set to open China support centre
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com Oracle is opening a support centre in China. The Dalian Global Support Center will not only service China, Korea and Taiwan but also future expansions in Asian Pacific, the company said. [23 Jun 2006]
Yahoo! blackouts hit IM addicts
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com users were left without email or instant-messaging capability on Tuesday and Wednesday. While the company acknowledged an early morning outage on Wednesday, some Yahoo! [22 Jun 2006]
Cuban backs corporate fraud exposé website
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com Entrepreneur billionaire Mark Cuban has invested in a new journalism site focused on exposing corporate fraud. Sharesleuth.com, the brainchild of veteran St Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Chris Carey, is... [15 Jun 2006]
Barracuda customers left high and dry
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com A faulty antivirus update left thousands of Barracuda Networks' customers without email for hours on Tuesday. More than three-quarters of the spam firewall company's 35,000 customers were affected by the... [14 Jun 2006]
Taiwan fingered as spam hub
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com The majority of spam servers are physically located in Taiwan, according to CipherTrust. In research conducted in May, the email security company found that 64 per cent of machines sending out junk mail... [12 Jun 2006]
Bologna unplugged: Italian city goes wi-fi
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com The Italian city of Bologna is to offer free high-speed wi-fi beginning on 12 June, according to an announcement on its website. The city's deputy mayor said in a statement the Iperbole Wireless Project is... [08 Jun 2006]
Should Oracle fear open source?
News Candace Lombardi writes for CNET News.com Oracle continues to dominate the database software market but challenges lie ahead from open source, analysts say. Research companies Gartner and IDC both predicted continued growth in worldwide sales of... [26 May 2006]
Apple plugs Nike-Nano hook-up
News Your Nikes can now talk to your iPod. Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Nike CEO Mark Parker on Tuesday unveiled new products that connect the Nike+ Air Zoom Moire - a new running shoe outfitted with a sensor and receiver - with an iPod Nano to report... [24 May 2006]
