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HP recently unveiled its multifunction printers (MFP) targeting enterprise and SMBs customers. The three new models of MFP (HP Laserjet M1319f MFP, HP Color Laserjet CM1312 MFP, HP Color Laserjet CM2320n MPF) will enable organizations to cut-cost, streamline supplies management and optimize device utilization.
The HP LaserJet M1319f MFP comes with four-in-one capabilities including enhanced [...]

Microsoft made the announcement today that it’s pulling the plug on its Encarta site as part of its MSN services. Furthermore, Microsoft will also cease to sell Microsoft Student and Encarta Pemium software products worldwide by June 2009.
Microsoft said the decision to exit the Encarta business was part of Microsoft’s goal to deliver the [...]

Adobe and Facebook are announcing a formal partnership to make it simpler for developers to create Flash applications, by making available Actionscript 3 Client Library for Facebook Platform.
The platform for building apps on the social network. This library will enable developers to use Flash to create more compelling apps. This will prove useful as [...]

Google has signed a deal with Walt Disney to bring their content to the video sharing service YouTube.
YouTube would now offer content from Walt Disney services like ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC Family, SOAPnet, and ESPN. The deal allows for short duration videos and the two companies would share the revenues generated from the [...]

Western Digital Corp. (WD) announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc., a supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market. Integration into WD begins immediately, with SiliconSystems now becoming known as the WD Solid-State Storage business unit, complementing WD’s existing Branded Products, Client Storage, Consumer Storage and [...]

NEC has announced it will halt production and sales of PCs in the Asia-Pacific region from July, a move that withdraws it completely from the oversea PC business.
The announcement comes just a month after it signalled a withdrawal from the PC business in Europe, Africa and the Middle East amid slumping demand and tough [...]

A group of researchers from the University of Toronto-based Monk Centre for International Studies have discovered a a “GhostNet” or cyber espionage network based in China has infiltrated over 1,295 computers in 103 countries including foreign affairs departments and embassies with malware. The investigation consisted of fieldwork, technical scouting and laboratory analysis.
It uncovered a [...]

Skype has confirmed that a version of its VoIP client will be available to iPhone users through the iTunes apps store. Skype offers free calls between Skype users, but charges for calls made to other numbers.
The iPhone version of Skype will allow customers to use their existing iPhone address book, rather than requiring them [...]

Symantec has launched a new marketing campaign entitled Norton Heroes. The campaign is based on conflict between a set of super heroes and villains – the later of which are essentially personified versions of various forms of malware, which Symantec says is designed to help educate users against the threats.
Symantec said the goal [...]

Intel rolls out new Nehalem-based Xeon processors targeted at servers using up to two processors.
Nehalem offers some important firsts for Intel, including an integrated memory controller for better performance, hyper-threading for up to 16 virtual cores (which improves multitasking), and Turbo Boost Technology, which dynamically increases the processor’s frequency (speed), as needed.