Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2970 technology Business Tech en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:10:43 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2970 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100209/bs_nf/71576 nf/20100209/71576 NewsFactor business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:10:43 GMT NewsFactor - Among the 234 million cell-phone users over age 13 in the U.S. in the fourth quarter, Motorola-manufactured hardware dominated the market of all mobile users, according to a comScore survey released Monday. Among operating systems, Research In Motion had the largest smartphone market share. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_ikanos_communications ap/20100209/us_earns_ikanos_communications AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:51:10 GMT AP - Shares of Ikanos Communications Inc. jumped Tuesday after the provider of broadband semiconductors and software posted sharply higher revenue for the fourth quarter. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100209/tc_pcworld/virginiafirmfilesencryptionlawsuitagainsttechgiants pcworld/20100209/virginiafirmfilesencryptionlawsuitagainsttechgiants PC World technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:30:20 GMT PC World - TecSec, an encryption vendor based in McLean, Virginia, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against several large tech vendors, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, eBay, Oracle and Adobe Systems. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100209/bs_nf/71545 nf/20100209/71545 NewsFactor business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:58:09 GMT NewsFactor - Battery problems on Windows 7 machines are not caused by the operating system. That's the position of Stephen Sinofsky, head of the Windows division, in a long posting Monday on the Windows engineering blog. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100209/tc_pcworld/nvidiaunveilsoptimusswitchablegraphicstechnology pcworld/20100209/nvidiaunveilsoptimusswitchablegraphicstechnology PC World technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:01:00 GMT PC World - Does your laptop have switchable graphics? You know, both an integrated graphics chip that sips energy and gives you long battery life along with a discrete GPU (graphics processing unit) that offers better 3D graphics and video performance? Notebooks with switchable graphics have been shipping for years, but they haven't lived up to user expectations. Nvidia hopes to change that with their new Optimus technology. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100209/tc_zd/248250 zd/20100209/248250 PC Magazine technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:45:03 GMT PC Magazine - Apple and Google's Android operating system slightly gained market share during the last quarter of 2009, according to a market study released Tuesday by comScore, a portion of which tracked the growth of the various mobile OS platforms. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100209/tc_pcworld/windows7justbeinghonestaboutbatterylife pcworld/20100209/windows7justbeinghonestaboutbatterylife PC World technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:07:00 GMT PC World - Last week I wrote about reports that some Windows 7 users are experiencing anomalies with battery life, or at least how Windows 7 reports remaining battery life. The issue seemed worthy of exploring, but not big enough to cause any significant damage to Microsoft's flagship desktop operating system. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100208/tc_infoworld/112060 infoworld/20100208/112060 InfoWorld technology Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT InfoWorld - Why choose between Windows 7 and Snow Leopard when you can have both? A Mac with virtualization software is a great platform for running Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, or other Intel-based operating systems, all at the same time. There's also Mac OS X's native Boot Camp, but it only supports Windows and doesn't give you access to Mac OS X without rebooting. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/tc_nm/us_philips_leds nm/20100208/us_philips_leds Reuters technology Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:38 GMT Reuters - More than a century into its existence, Philips is once again betting heavily on semiconductors. This time the consumer electronics firm is looking to harness their potential as a source of light. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/bs_nm/us_monday_ibm nm/20100208/us_monday_ibm Reuters business Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:21:04 GMT Reuters - IBM is beginning a long-awaited upgrade to a range of servers and other hardware to make them more energy-efficient and competitive than rival products by Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems Inc. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100206/tc_afp/ethiopiatechnologymicrosoftlanguage afp/20100206/ethiopiatechnologymicrosoftlanguage AFP technology Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:03:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100206/tc_afp/ethiopiatechnologymicrosoftlanguage"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100206/capt.photo_1265468210965-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=115&q=85&sig=98wghe8_LdMjGO4lrbqFJw--" align="left" height="115" width="130" alt="Windows Vista operating software is displayed at a shop in Virginia. US software giant Microsoft has launched Windows Vista in Amharic, the first operating system in the national language of Ethiopia.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US software giant Microsoft has launched Windows Vista in Amharic, the first operating system in the national language of Ethiopia, the official news agency said Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100206/tc_afp/ethiopiatechnologymicrosoftlanguage"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100206/capt.photo_1265468210965-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=115&q=85&sig=98wghe8_LdMjGO4lrbqFJw--" align="left" height="115" width="130" alt="photo" title="Windows Vista operating software is displayed at a shop in Virginia. US software giant Microsoft has launched Windows Vista in Amharic, the first operating system in the national language of Ethiopia.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100205/tc_pcworld/withbugpublicoraclerushesoutweblogicfix pcworld/20100205/withbugpublicoraclerushesoutweblogicfix PC World technology Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:10:13 GMT PC World - Oracle has rushed out a patch for its WebLogic application server, two weeks after a Russian security researcher posted details of the vulnerability. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100205/tc_pcworld/microsofttodroplinuxunixversionsofenterprisesearch pcworld/20100205/microsofttodroplinuxunixversionsofenterprisesearch PC World technology Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:40:28 GMT PC World - Microsoft will no longer offer Linux or Unix versions of its enterprise search products after a wave of releases set to ship in the first half of this year, the company announced in an official blog post Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100205/tc_infoworld/112356 infoworld/20100205/112356 InfoWorld technology Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:12:34 GMT InfoWorld - Moonlight 3.0, which puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet plug-in software on Linux and Unix platforms, is now being offered in an alpha release, according to Web pages from the Mono project, which has jurisdiction over Moonlight. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100205/tc_pcworld/maliciousfirefoxaddonsinstalledtrojans pcworld/20100205/maliciousfirefoxaddonsinstalledtrojans PC World technology Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:56:00 GMT PC World - Mozilla last night announced that two experimental Firefox add-ons, Master Filer and the Sothink Web Video Downloader version 4, infected victim PCs with Trojans when either add-on was installed. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_brooks_automation ap/20100205/us_earns_brooks_automation AP technology Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:48:23 GMT AP - Brooks Automation Inc., which supplies semiconductor manufacturers, said Friday its fiscal 2010 first-quarter loss narrowed on a boost in product sales. But the results were below Wall Street's expectations and the company's stock took a hit. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100205/bs_nm/us_dell_lawsuit nm/20100205/us_dell_lawsuit Reuters business Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:36:21 GMT Reuters - A federal appeals court reinstated on Friday a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing Dell Inc of selling defective notebook computers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100205/tc_infoworld/112287 infoworld/20100205/112287 InfoWorld technology Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:00:00 GMT InfoWorld - Oracle on Thursday upgraded Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g, which is a set of free plug-ins for Eclipse IDE users to build Java EE and  Web services applications for the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100204/tc_pcworld/intelpushesoutvproforcorei5i7processors pcworld/20100204/intelpushesoutvproforcorei5i7processors PC World technology Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:40:18 GMT PC World - Intel on Thursday announced a new vPro platform for its Core processors to make remote maintenance and management of PCs easier in an enterprise. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/biztech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100204/tc_nf/71493 nf/20100204/71493 NewsFactor technology Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:57:54 GMT NewsFactor - Controversial Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz has stepped down in a nonconventional way by using Twitter. He tweeted his resignation early Thursday, well within the 140-character limit.