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Atheros Communications this week is unveiling three chipsets that are designed to be company's second generation of draft 2 802.11n high-throughput wireless LANs. 21-May-2007
Announced at this week's Interop conference, a partnership with WhereNet will allow Cisco Wi-Fi access points to read signals of of active RFID chips. 21-May-2007
Yahoo is interested in purchasing Bebo Inc. to strengthen its disappointing social networking standing, the British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph has reported. 21-May-2007
The company will target SMBs with cheap, simple-to-use ZoneFlex wireless LAN products, which aim to undercut those from Trapeze and Aruba. 21-May-2007
Plus: Vista corrupts iPods, Yahoo Messenger creates Internet Explorer risk. 21-May-2007
Accordint to Microsoft, Office 2007 users running Windows Vista may not have received a patch for "important" Excel and Office 2007 holes. 21-May-2007
The Web search giant may be planning to boost its presence in Seattle after leasing a new building in the city. 21-May-2007
Organizers expect 20,000 attendees at this year's Interop networking trade show, an increase that speaks to the show's broader focus 21-May-2007
Norton Mobile Security for Smartphones--a product designed to protect devices running Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS--will be available Next week. 21-May-2007
Casio's new flagship Exilim Zoom camera is the 12 megapixel EX-Z1200, which arrives in July for $399.99. 21-May-2007
Sideshow-compatible gadgets and hardware compatible with Microsoft's external display standard have been slow to arrive. 21-May-2007
Dual-core server chip runs at 4.7GHz but uses the same amount of power as the Power5 line. 21-May-2007
Social Security numbers and other personal data on an estimated 300,000 licensees and applicants may have been compromised. 21-May-2007
After an about face, the popular social networking site will share the results of its data-mining efforts, which detect registered sex offenders who use the service. 21-May-2007
Aspyr announced on Monday that it's working on a Mac version of the new game Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. 21-May-2007
Startup merges social networking with collaboration tools targeted at designers and other creative professionals. 21-May-2007
Japanese police raided a military school during an investigation into the leak of confidential data about the Aegis missile defense system. 21-May-2007
Symantec virus signature disabled critical system files in Chinese PCs, crippling Windows XP for millions of users. 21-May-2007
Western Digital is shipping a new 250GB drive designed for use in notebook computers. 21-May-2007
New version of Trojan horse steals account numbers, passwords, Social Security numbers, and more, sends data to a server in Russia. 21-May-2007
New VoIP convergence products from enterprise Wi-Fi vendor Aruba let mobile phones work with IP PBXs. 21-May-2007
Mobile phone operator Vodafone has launched two ultra low-cost handsets for developing markets. 21-May-2007
Proposed immigration reform bill mandates development of an electronic employment verification system affecting every U.S. worker. 21-May-2007
As part of its restructuring plan, BenQ is selling its digital camera division to Ability Enterprise for an undisclosed sum. 21-May-2007
Microsoft is working with the Chinese government and universities to make a plug-in that lets users work with documents written in its own Open XML and China's UOF. 21-May-2007
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