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GN Netcom A/S maker of headsets sold under the Jabra brand announced its appointment of Wordtext Systems Inc. (WSI) as its exclusive distributor for Office Headsets in the enterprise market.
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Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a spokesman for Allen’s firm Vulcan Inc. said. Allen, who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 but later left the company, was previously diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 1983, but was successfully treated.
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Cisco Systems upped its offer for Tandberg to 170 Norwegian kroner a share, or 19 billion kroner ($3.4 billion) in total. Cisco will also increase the interest payable on the new offer price to 3.0% per annum.
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Canon Inc is set to takeover Europe’s largest printer manufacturer, Océ for approximately €730 million ($1.1 billion) in an all-cash deal, aiming to create the world’s largest printing entity, benefiting from an excellent complementary fit in product lineup, R&D and business lines.
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NetApp Philippines country sales manager Neil Ocampo has resigned and is now the new country sales manager of RSA Philippines.

NetApp Philippines has made no announcement yet as to who will replace Ocampo.

Researcher Laurent Gaffie discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 7 which basically crashes a Windows 7 system when exploited. The issue is in the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol that forms the backbone of Windows file sharing. When triggered, the flaw results in an infinite loop which renders the computer useless.
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A US judge ruled in favor of Apple Inc., in a copyrights violation lawsuit against Macintosh clone maker Psystar Corp. The latter has been charged with both violating Apple’s copyrights as well as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

The ruling said Psystar had infringed Apple’s “exclusive right” to come up with “derivative works of Mac OS X”, and original files had been replaced with unauthorized software

Dell confirmed its intentions to get into the smartphone market by announcing its first handset – the Dell Mini 3.

Dell plans to distribute its new Mini 3 smart phones through China Mobile, the largest telecommunications company in the world with more than 500 million customers, and Claro, which serves more than 42 million people in Brazil as part of the America Movil network.

No details were given about the phone except that it will run on the Google-backed Android operating system.

Intel Corporation agreed to settle a long standing dispute with its arch rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc, by paying AMD $1.25 billion as compensation.
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According to reports, Google will offer downloads of its Chrome operating system anytime soon.

On Googles Blog, it is stated:
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