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Flat panel TV surge has retailers eyeing furniture

When Suzanne Kimelman's husband began talking about replacing their 27-inch tube television with a plasma TV, the public relations executive knew something else would also have to be replaced--their furniture.

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Pixel counting joins film in obsolete bin

If you work in the camera industry, February is an exciting month.

That's when you head down to Florida for the annual Photo Marketing Association convention, where your company will unveil its latest camera models, thus making the ones everybody got for Christmas obsolete.

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Postage is due for companies sending e-mail

Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers.

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MTV's focus on colleges streams into your PC

A hopped-up "Sesame Street" aesthetic pervades the programming on MTVU Uber, MTV's new broadband network.

What's it about? A wholesome rainbow coalition of young adults seem to dance along the lanes of MTV's digital land, mugging, wielding consciences and admiring one another's video blogs. And that's the master plot, as far as it goes. If these kids are religious, they're cool about it. If they're political, they're blandly humanitarian. If they're in love, it's mostly online.

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South Korean commits suicide over stem-cell case

SEOUL-- A South Korean truck driver killed himself on Saturday by setting himself on fire after distributing leaflets urging disgraced stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk to resume his research, police said.

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AMD, Intel unwrap their latest server chips

SAN FRANCISCO--In the world of server chips, Intel is touting performance while AMD is talking up power.

The two rivals unfurled details of their next server chips at the International Solid State Circuits Conference taking place here this week and each took a slightly different tack.

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Quest for power control moves beyond the chip

Intel is working on two new manufacturing and design techniques to improve its transistors' power efficiency and reduce power consumption of a system's motherboard, the company's CTO said Monday.

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Office upgrade could trap many businesses

Microsoft's recent warning that customers must use an updated version of Office in new installations is likely to affect a significant number of businesses, according to a study.

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IBM, Freescale to collaborate on Power chips

IBM said Monday that it will work with Freescale Semiconductor, a maker of wireless and automotive chips, to find new applications and markets for IBM's Power microchips.

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EMC gets serious about small-business storage

Long dominant in the enterprise data industry, EMC now has its sights set at the other end of the storage spectrum and is going after the storage market for small and midsize organizations.

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Linux users say OS needs touch-up with Photoshop

Adobe Systems' Photoshop has been voted the most important application to port to Linux, according to the initial results of a survey carried out by software company Novell.

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Earnings alert: 'Star Wars' boosts Hasbro profit

Read the latest in earnings reports and financial news from some of technology's leading players. This page is updated as new reports are filed. Keep checking back for the latest.

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Ingres hires Citigroup analyst as CFO

Open-source database company Ingres has hired well-known financial analyst Tom Berquist as its chief financial officer, the latest in a series of management hires for the newly launched company.

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Report: Alltel urges RIM-NTP settlement

U.S. wireless carrier Alltel has urged Research In Motion to settle a legal dispute involving its popular BlackBerry device, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Toshiba buys Westinghouse for $5.4 billion

Japan's Toshiba has agreed to buy Westinghouse, the U.S. power plant arm of British Nuclear Fuels, for $5.4 billion, three times what the target company initially hoped it would fetch.

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Small is beautiful for Web 2.0 start-ups

Jason Fried, president of start-up 37Signals, is a bona fide software entrepreneur. But he wants nothing to do with the traditional model of starting a software company.

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Microsoft's security product hits home stretch

Microsoft plans to release its subscription security program before the summer and to challenge its main rivals on pricing, CNET News.com has learned.

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Eubanks joins Oakley Networks board

Gordon Eubanks has joined the board of directors of IT security company Oakley Networks, the company announced Monday. Eubanks is the former chief executive of identity management company Oblix, which was recently purchased by Oracle.

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Billions expected from wireless spectrum sales

The sale of U.S. wireless communications licenses are projected to raise about $25 billion between 2007 and 2009, $7.8 billion higher than last year's estimate, according President Bush's 2007 budget, which was released on Monday.

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Sony Ericsson phones support Exchange Server

Microsoft announced Monday that Sony Ericsson, a joint venture of consumer electronics maker Sony and cell phone maker Ericsson, has licensed the Exchange ActiveSync protocol to enable Sony Ericsson's P990 and M600 phones to directly synchronize with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

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