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The iPhone 4 has a very good antenna design as long as you let it do its job. The antenna design demonstrates that the best antenna design from an engineering standpoint isn’t necessarily the best design from a usability standpoint. Imagine, if you will, a day when the term “wireless” had a lot to do […]

A Presidential Memorandum signed by President Obama would nearly double the amount of wireless broadband spectrum, through an auction, for governmental and commercial use, the White House said. The actual amount will depend on effective implementation and additional design details, but based on past auctions, some analysts believe the revenue potential could reach in the […]

Following a report on the latest IT spending data from technology research company Computer Economics that found 42 percent of surveyed companies were reducing IT staff, eWEEK interviewed Computer Economics analyst John Longwell. In an e-mail exchange June 24, Longwell explained some of the nuances of the company’s latest report, "IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks […]

Red Hat has announced JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0, the new version of the open-source software provider’s portal solution. Announced at the joint Red Hat Summit/JBoss World 2010 event in Boston on June 24, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0 is designed to reduce the time and cost associated with creating, deploying and managing dynamic web […]

The Motorola Droid X is ready to hit store shelves on July 15. And when it does, the device will be carrying the Android OS banner as Google’s operating system tries to compete against Apple’s iOS 4. It won’t be easy. Apple’s new mobile operating system is arguably the best version of the software the […]

AUSTIN, Texas, June 24 (Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) said on Thursday it is squarely focused on improving profitability and diversifying its business, but investors expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the company’s turnaround plan. Shares of Dell were down 5 percent in noon trading as the company laid out its strategy during its annual […]

There are some folks that weren’t lucky enough to preorder an iPhone 4 on launch day, so they will be trying to pick one up at an Apple Store on June 24. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone should simply run out and buy an iPhone 4 in next few days. For some folks, […]

The company, satisfying a heavily requested feature, upgraded its Facebook application to show Twitter users what Facebook friends of theirs are on Twitter. Users may then save them to a Twitter List and post tweets to a Facebook profile and Facebook Pages. Facebook then turned around and blocked the functionality, Twitter said. The idea is […]

YouTube June 23 said it won its fight against Viacom for copyright infringement after the New York district court hearing the case granted YouTube’s motion for summary judgment. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton believes YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement. Viacom called […]

Salesforce.com wants to put Chatter, its new social collaboration platform, into the hands of every corporate user who needs to work with customers or with co-workers to solve problems, provide service or share ideas. Salesforce.com is offering Chatter-only licenses for customers that are already using the Salesforce.com suite so that companies can deploy the collaboration […]

Apple’s updated privacy policy will not let users download any applications from the iTunes store without agreeing to the new terms and conditions. Timed for the launch of the vaunted iPhone 4, iAd lets developers insert advertisements within their applications. Developers keep 60 percent of the proceeds from ads shown; Apple gets the remaining 40 […]

In a presentation at July’s Black Hat security conference, HBGary CEO Greg Hoglund will talk about how to use what he calls the development fingerprints in malware to track down attackers. Just as criminals can leave fingerprints in the physical world, malware authors can leave fingerprints on their products in the digital world. In a […]