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“AFTER several years in development, 2008 was the year that WiMAX became a global reality,” said Sean Maloney, executive vice president, Intel, during a recently held teleconference discussing new findings from the WiMAX Forum®.

The WiMAX Forum announced that WiMAX Service Providers now provide networks cover 430 million people, or pops, globally and are on a [...]

Clerysys Philippines, Inc., a licensed reseller of SAP’s Business One software, recently marked a significant milestone by earning PEZA (Philippine Economic Zone Authority) status. The certification would allow Clerysys to gain access to PEZA companies and help them become more competitive in the global market through its business solutions offerings. The Company will also enjoy [...]

A group of Web services providers including IBM is set to unveil a “manifesto” that intends to lay out a number of principles for open cloud computing.
Microsoft and Amazon already said they are not ready to support the manifesto.
Microsoft believes that principles and standards for interoperability in cloud computing systems need to be [...]

Google has revealed that they are retiring their AdSense video units feature. The ads enabled the user to showcase YouTube content along with relevant ads on their web pages.
Google said that these ads did not perform as well as they had expected so they are discontinuing this product feature.

Nvidia filed a counter-suit against Intel alleging breach of contract and seeking to terminate Intel’s license to Nvidia’s patent portfolio. The suit is response to Intel’s move last month to block Nvidia from gaining access to technology in future generation Intel processors.
Nvidia notes the original Intel suit alleged that the four-year-old chipset license agreement between [...]

YouTube recently released a new sub-site called YouTube EDU, aggregating thousands of free lectures from over a hundred universities across the country, including MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and many more.
YouTube has announced a name change for some of the features on its site. They are as follows:
Spotlight Videos – These are videos that YouTube [...]

Western Digital is now offering a 2TB My Book external hard drive. WD claimed that this is the first product in the market with so much capacity in a single drive system.
Western Digital has made available two editions of this new external drive:
- My Book Studio Edition: FireWire 400, FireWire 800, eSATA and USB [...]

Twitter will soon offer paid-for accounts to businesses towards the end of the year. Twitter founder Biz Stone suggested paid-for accounts will likely to include lightweight analytics to track people reading the company’s page, and compile better records on what they’re saying.
There’s also suggestions there’ll be tools to verify companies and introduce them to potential [...]

US president Barack Obama answered questions posted by regular web users which are rated most important by the visitors. The new initiative is part of the launch of ‘Open for Questions’ sections on the White House website.
President Obama said: “We’re going to try something a little different. We’re going to take advantage of the Internet [...]

Adobe announced that they too are working on a version of Flash for the Google Android mobile platform. Flash on Android would further boost its capabilities when compared to the iPhone.
Apple has not hinted whether they are indeed working with Adobe to bring Flash to iPhone.