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IBM’s free office suite Lotus Symphony has seen more than 100,000 downloads in the first week of availability, while the official site has received more than one million visitors during that interval.
Lotus Symphony, which includes three core applications (Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations), is available for download since September 18 [...]

In an effort to ensure that mobile WiMAX wireless products work well together and with other products globally, Intel Corporation, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks announced that they are testing interoperability across Intel’s forthcoming WiMAX silicon for laptops and mobile Internet devices, Nokia WiMAX devices and Nokia Siemens Networks WiMAX infrastructure equipment.
Mobile WiMAX is [...]

According to GNUCitizens.org,  revealed that the email service of Goolge – GMail account is vulnerable to an attack that allows malicious folks to keep tabs on your e-mail traffic.
The victim visits a page while being logged into GMail. Upon execution, the page performs a multipart/form-data POST to one of the GMail interfaces and injects a filter into [...]

Red Hat Inc announced a 64% jump in its quarterly earnings on higher revenues from subscriptions for its Linux software.  The company said its net earnings in the three months ended August 31 rose to $18.2 million, or $0.09 per share, from $11.0 million, or $0.05 per share, in the year-ago quarter.
Red Hat’s revenues climbed [...]

NVIDIA Corporation is well positioned to capitalize on this emerging trend, and is proud to announce that it has extended its family of GeForce 7-Series motherboard graphics processing units (mGPUs) to Intel processor-based PCs.
In addition to delivering an unparalleled graphics experience to mainstream PCs, the GeForce 7-Series mGPUs support optional HDMI or DVI digital [...]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server — which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size.
The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers, powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, enable customers to solve [...]

Facebook Inc., is reportedly in talks with Microsoft Corp. about making an investment.  If the talks succeed, Microsoft could buy an up-to-5% stake in the start-up. A 5% stake could equal between $300 and $500 million.
Facebook is raising up to $500 million in cash to help expand its operations.

Microsoft Corp. has launched its much-awaited and highly anticipated game Halo 3 across US, Australia and New Zealand and avid gamers thronged stores in hope of grabbing an early copy.
Halo tells a story of a cybernetically enhanced super soldier, called only Master Chief, who is sent out to battle an alien race called the [...]

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced two major upgrades to its digital photo and video software for consumers: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Windows & Adobe Premiere Elements 4 for Windows. Tight integration and a shared Organizer, with a common database accessible from either application, allow users to do more with their photos and videos.
Available separately or [...]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced new support subscriptions and enhanced graphical user interfaces to make Solaris Express Developer Edition software easier for developers to install and use.
New to Solaris Express Developer Edition software is D-Light, the new GUI front end tool to dynamic tracing (DTrace.) This tool brings the tremendous advantages of DTrace’s system level performance [...]