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GPLv3 Proposal Extends Compatibility

The first draft of the GNU General Public License version 3 is less controversial and more commercial-friendly than some expected.

The Free Software Foundations much anticipated GPLv3 extends license compatibility to open-source licenses such as Apache and Eclipse. But it also is designed to prevent commercial firms from imposing unfair patent and digital rights restrictions on free software and removes loopholes that could enable commercial vendors to hijack the GPL for their own purposes.

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Broadcom launches 802.11n chipsets

MANHASSET, N.Y. Broadcom Corp. has launched wireless local area network (WLAN) chipsets to comply with the next-generation IEEE 802.11n specification.

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Memory loss: Infineon back in the red

MUNICH, Germany Infineon Technologies AG reported a first-quarter, pre-tax loss of 122 million euros ($147.5 million) on Friday (Jan. 20), continuing a string of quarterly losses.

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IBM To Lay out Notes, WorkPlace OS Plans

IBM will use its annual Lotusphere conference next week as a stage to demonstrate progress made on its next generation of Lotus Notes/Domino, called Project Hannover; to formally unveil is Workplace OS 2.6 software; and to show a renewed commitment to Apple's Mac OS 10 and new Intel-based hardware.

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EarthLink And Motorola Team Up For City Wi-Fi Projects

Two vendors have teamed up to bring wireless networks to five major U.S. cities.

Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. said yesterday it has signed a contract with Motorola Inc., which will provide wireless equipment, design, installation, and system integration for five initial municipal deployments.

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Consumers Say Feds Should Protect Their Right To Internet Services: Survey

Two-thirds of Internet users worry that Internet providers may block their access to information and services, and a majority support congressional action to prevent the practice, says a new survey released this week by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA).

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Imation To Acquire Memorex For $330 Million

Imation Corp. said it will acquire Memorex International for $330 million in cash and said their merged product lines will create a "new global powerhouse in the data storage industry. "

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Toshiba Samsung Preps Blu-Ray For PCs

Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corp. has completed the technical development of its Blu-Ray disc drives for PCs, the company said.

The backward-compatible single-layer technology will read CD and DVD formats and is expected to launch in March, according to Richard Aguilera, western regional sales manager for optical disc-drive products at Samsung. "The first technology will burn Blu-Ray, but only read DVD and CD disks," he said.

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RIM, NTP Escalate Threats, War Of Words

NTP and Research In Motion (RIM), who are involved in a bitter patent dispute, escalated their threats and war of words this week.

NTP told the U.S. federal court that, if the court sides with NTP, the company would support a 30 day grace period during with BlackBerry users could switch to other products, the Reuters news service reported. NTP also said it would agree to exempt federal, state and local government users from any cut-off.

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DayStar ships first solar cells

SAN JOSE, Calif. DayStar Technologies Inc. said that it has shipped its initial line of TerraFoil solar cell products to customers.

Nearly 500 10- x 10-cm TerraFoil cells were shipped to Titan Energy in India, the contract module manufacturer of DayStar's first commercial customer, Blitzstrom GmbH, in Germany.

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Two Vendors Claim 'First' Pre-Standard 802.11n Chipsets

In the wake of significant progress this week toward ratification of the next-generation Wi-Fi standard, two separate vendors claimed to be the first to market with chipsets that support the pending specification.

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Alltell Claims Double-Digit Growth

The fifth-largest cellular operator in the U.S., Alltel, Friday claimed it enjoyed double-digit growth in both total revenues and income for the fourth quarter of 2005.

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Bluetooth Group On UWB Discord: 'Oh, Well'

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group, a trade group comprised of Bluetooth vendors, shrugged off what has become a permanent impasse in the attempt to create a single ultra-wideband (UWB) standard for short-range wireless networking.

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Nvidia Works To Improve Quality Of Third-Party Motherboards

A chipset manufacturer may give Advanced Micro Devices an unexpected boost in its bid to claim a larger share of the corporate market.

Nvidia, a Santa Clara, Calif., manufacturer of graphics processors and chipsets, has been quietly rolling out a certification program intended to shore up the quality of third-party desktop and notebook motherboards that use its chipsets coupled with AMD processors. Improving the quality of third-party motherboards has been a hot button for system builders.

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Memorex Bought for a Pricey Song

Now that Memorex has been acquired for at least $330 million, how long will it take before we hear the slogan, Is it live or is it Imation?

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New Tools Face WLAN Threats

When Carilion Health System, a Roanoke-based healthcare company with a network of hospitals serving western Virginia, extended its wireless network to a small pediatric unit in a nearby town, senior network engineer Brian Brindle noticed a disturbing fact: "Every day after 5 p.m. the network would just get pounded on all night. This unit neighbors a large apartment complex, and someone was launching these fake access-point attacks all night, every night. "

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Marketplace Left to Define UWB

Enterprise users are taking a wait-and-see attitude to forthcoming ultrawide-band (UWB) short-range wireless technology now that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) has dissolved the 802.15.3a Task Group.

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IBM To Bless Apple

IBM is ready to plant a big wet kiss on Apple Computer.

At Lotusphere next week, the IBM Software Group is poised to announce updated Mac OS X support in the latest Notes client. In addition, the company will pledge big-time support for the new Intel-based Macs due later this year, sources said.

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IEEE confirms next-gen Wi-Fi standard

SAN JOSE, Calif. A task force on Thursday (Jan. 19) voted to confirm the proposal for the next-generation, 802.11n Wi-Fi standard.

Passing the standard was the IEEE Task Group "N" organization. The draft will now proceed through the IEEE ratification process, which includes letter balloting, comment resolution, sponsor balloting and final ratification. Full approval of similar specifications have typically taken about a year, but the progress is unique to each standard and its associated participants.

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Productivity's Second Act

IT has helped power U.S. economic growth for a decade. As Fed Chairman Greenspan exits, his replacement may face a much different pace of tech change.

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