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ASUSTeK, the maker of the popular EEE PC is expected to globally launch its new Eee PC 901 notebook at Computex Show in Taiwan. On top of that, it appears that the company will also release the Eee PC 1000 series.
The invitation to the press indicated that the event will be the official global launch [...]

Yahoo’s Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang says Microsoft is still interested in potential partnerships with Yahoo.
“They are discussing various other ideas and partnerships with us and we’re listening,” said Yang.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the two companies were in ongoing discussions about developing a partnership, but declined to provide any specifics.

Facebook announced that it will open up its Facebook Platform, allowing similar sites to develop compatible applications.
The move is seen as a competitive response to Open Social, the offering backed by Google, MySpace and Yahoo!

Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update. The update includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of its Macintosh computers.
Apple fixed some 70 problems including more than 40 vulnerabilities in its update.

NY State Supreme Court Justice Joseph C. Teresi said Dell and its financing arm engaged in deceptive business practices related to financing promotions for its computers and technical support.
The judge said Dell engaged in repeated misleading, deceptive and unlawful business conduct, including false and deceptive advertising of financing promotions and the terms of warranties, fraudulent, [...]

Adobe Systems Incorporated gave a sneak peek at three applications from the next release of Adobe Creative Suite, its award-winning collection of graphic design, Web development and video editing applications.
The company released public beta of new versions of Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Soundbooth as free downloads on Adobe labs. Once downloaded and [...]

Nokia has announced that Nokia Maps 2.0 are finally available for download. Among new features users will have new enhanced Car Navigation with voice navigation, special pedestrian navigation, multimedia city guides, satellite images with extended maps database for over 200 countries and redesigned user interface.
Get your own Nokia Maps 2.0 from maps.nokia.com.

Cisco executives will discuss how to enable business mobility with ease – from more places than ever before, as well as how the barriers between public, personal and private wireless networks will disappear, simplifying IT management of mobile devices and assets.
The discussion will highlight:
- How enterprises can eliminate silos that divide networks, applications and mobile [...]

D Software, the makers of legendary games like Doom and Castle Wolfenstein, has declined to renew its membership in the Entertainment Software Association.
This adds to a long list of big-name game studios like Activision/Vivendi (which includes Blizzard Entertainment) and LucasArts that have also cancelled their memberships from the troubled video game group.
The [...]

Red Fox presented to the press their UMPC offering – the WizBook which comes in two flavors.
The RedFox Wizbook is a ten (10) inches notebook powered by AMD Geode and runs in a 512MB memory with an internal storage device (HDD) of 60GB capacity. The battery can run of up to 4.5 hours.
The RedFox [...]