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CFIUS OKs AMD-ATIC TFC AMD's Abu Dhabi-funded manufacturing spin-off has been rubberstamped by the US Treasury Department.… Full published article at: Read More »

Remember him as he was VMware's landed its second ex-Microsoft executive at the top, this time the individual who drove Redmond's developer outreach in the glory days of the 1990s.… Full published article at: Read More »

IBM Power/AIX machines get 64-bit support - finally Some software development projects take a long time to complete, and others seem to take an eternity. So it is, it seems, for 64-bit support for IBM's COBOL compiler for its own AIX Unix variant running on Power-based servers.… Full published article at: Read More »

If only people will make more phone calls Verizon's head of device certification expects to see rivals to Amazon's Kindle launching on Verizon's network during 2009, once he has time to certify them.… Full published article at: Read More »

Complains to EC over IPCom Nokia has lodged a complaint with the European Commission, claiming that IPCom is abusing mobile patents originally owned by Bosch that are already the subject of legal action in the UK and Germany.… Full published article at: Read More »

Watch out, iPhone... After denying British punters a touch screen Tube in their Christmas stockings, Nokia has announced that the much-hyped phone will launch in Blighty this month.… Full published article at: Read More »

The pursuit of 'happiness' Miscreants broke into Twitter's admin system on Sunday night using a simple password guessing hack, it has emerged.… Full published article at: Read More »

It's for your own good Microsoft will cushion you from the Internet Explorer 8 standards mess with software to prevent automatic download of its next browser to your machine.… Full published article at: Read More »

Ian Williams, Computing, Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 17:36:00 Telefónica lands European agreement with Deutsche Post World Net Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN) has signed a contract with Telefonica worth nearly €350m which will see the telecoms firm managing the full breadth of DPWN's communications services across 28 European countries over the next five years. The deal aims to completely transform the IP network services of DPWN as well as its integrated Deutsche Post, DHL and Postbank companies, saving the company's logistics group more than €150m in costs over the duration of the contract. This is...Read More »