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Hewlett-Packard announced that it would start offering a new line of “Enviro” laptop batteries in early 2009. The products are aimed at users wishing to enhance their machine with longer-lasting and more sustainably designed batteries.
The new Sonata lithium-ion batteries have been tested by HP and Boston Power for three years.
The announcement underscores the companies’ shared [...]

Open Handset Alliance has seen a major expansion with the addition of 14 new member companies.
These include: AKM Semiconductor Inc., ARM, ASUS, Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Sony Ericsson, Teleca AB, Toshiba and Vodafone.
Google G1 is the first product which is based on this alliance.

Microsoft recently released the latest updates as part of Patch Tuesday December 2008 fixing 28 flaws.
Around 6 of these issues are considered critical by the company. Microsoft said that the critical bugs affect products like Windows GDI, Word, Excel, Internet Explorer and Windows Search.

Yahoo is expected to announce that 1,500 employees are to lose their jobs, majority in the human resources and finance departments.
Yahoo is expected to cut its workforce in high-cost markets and hire aggressively in places such as Eastern Europe, India and Southeast Asia.

Mozilla has unleashed the second beta of the Firefox 3.1 web browser which incorporates a multitude of effective features, including private browsing, popularly referred to as “porn mode” and a quicker JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey.
The second beta also features improved Clear Private Data tool that allows its users to remove the history of online activities, [...]