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FTC has granted permission to billionaire investor Carl Icahn to purchase more shares of the internet media giant Yahoo.
Icahn is said to be interested in acquiring another $1.5 billion worth of shares.
Icahn has already spent more than $1 billion to buy 59 million Yahoo shares.

Brazil and India filed an appeal against selection of the Microsoft’s Office Open XML format as an internationally recognized standard for electronic documents.
South Africa had expressed their disagreement as well.

Samsung announced a one-terabyte hard drive that provides a 15% power savings compared to other low-powered 1TB hard drives and a 50% improvement over traditional 1TB hard drives.
The EcoGreen F1 hard drive has a 5400RPM rotational speed, 3.0Gbps SATA interface, native command queuing features and a 32MB buffer memory.

Cisco unveiled a new hardware platform and four applications it said will help enterprise IT departments effectively manage their mobility services across a broad spectrum of mobile networks.
he core component of Cisco Motion is the Cisco 3300 Series Mobility Services Engine (MSE), a single appliance-based platform with an open application programming interface (API) for [...]

Christian Dior designed new luxurious line of mobile phones for fashion lovers.
Dior branded phone is classic clamshell with special design, touchscreen and camera as you can see on the photo and teamed up with ModeLabs in creating model that will cost about $5000 dollars.

NEC Corporation announced that it has concluded development on the “ECO CENTER,” a specialized space and energy-saving server.
The ECO CENTER consumes up to 55% less power, occupies 50% less space and is approximately 58% lighter than conventional servers due to the leveraging of cutting edge NEC technologies, such as highly efficient batteries, the optimum cooling [...]

Microsoft said that they are aiming to launch the second beta of their upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser before October this year.
Internet Explorer 8 introduces a new way to seamlessly experience the best of the web whether you are a web developer writing to standards or a user discovering a new online service.