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Dell and its employees will donate up to RMB 2.1 million to aid relief efforts in the wake of the massive earthquake affecting China Monday – the second major disaster to hit Asia in less than a week.
The company’s contributions will come from Dell Inc., the Dell Foundation and Dell employees, whose funds will be [...]

Facebook announced that it will block Google’s Friend Connect service from accessing data on its social network site because Friend Connect does not comply with their privacy policy.
Facebook said Google’s service is allowing third party sites to have access to the user information that is transmitted while exporting profile information.
The decision comes as a blow [...]

Adobe has released the first beta of their upcoming Flash Player 10 edition.
This new release is codenamed Astro and it comes loaded with new features for both designers and developers.
Some new features are support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, extensible rich text layout and GPU hardware acceleration.
Adobe claims that the [...]

Microsoft announced its plans to aid the One Laptop Per Child project by offering its Windows XP operating system for a fee of just $3 per unit.
The XP OS will be used by students in developing countries who will be given the low-cost notebook computers by the OLPC.
The collaboration between the two is called Unlimited [...]

CBS Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire CNET Networks, Inc., it was announced by Leslie Moonves, President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Corporation.
Under the terms of the agreement, CBS will make a cash tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of CNET Networks for $11.50 per share, representing an equity value of [...]