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Acronis Named Deloitte Rising Star in Deloitte's Technology Fast ... - MarketWatch

Acronis Named Deloitte Rising Star in Deloitte's Technology Fast ...MarketWatch - 9 hours agoDeloitte's Technology Fast 500 is a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, ...

Technology stocks get boost from auto deal - MarketWatch

Technology stocks get boost from auto dealMarketWatch - 7 hours agoBy Dan Gallagher, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Technology stocks added to gains early Thursday afternoon ...

2020 Marketing to Offer RewardStream's Lifecycle Marketing ... - MarketWatch

2020 Marketing to Offer RewardStream's Lifecycle Marketing ...MarketWatch - 7 hours ago"We are excited to welcome them to a growing list of forward-thinking partners who rely ...

The State of Georgia Selects IBM for Technology Services Agreement - MarketWatch

The State of Georgia Selects IBM for Technology Services AgreementMarketWatch - 5 hours agotoday announced that the State of Georgia has awarded IBM a contract, valued ...

Maxim CFO to Make Extended Presentation at the Credit Suisse ... - MarketWatch

Maxim CFO to Make Extended Presentation at the Credit Suisse ...MarketWatch - 5 hours agoannounced today that the Company's Chief Financial Officer, Bruce Kiddoo, will be ...

Aviza Technology Announces Fiscal Year 2008 Fourth Quarter and ... - MarketWatch

RTT NewsAviza Technology Announces Fiscal Year 2008 Fourth Quarter and ...MarketWatch - 5 hours agoa supplier of advanced semiconductor capital equipment and process technologies for the ...

California Micro Devices to Present at Barclays Capital Global ... - MarketWatch

California Micro Devices to Present at Barclays Capital Global ...MarketWatch - 5 hours ago... will present at the Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference on December 11, ...

CSC Establishes South Carolina's First Apprenticeship Program for ... - MarketWatch

CSC Establishes South Carolina's First Apprenticeship Program for ...MarketWatch - 3 hours agoCSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary ...

India:'Weave IT' to sharpen competitiveness of textile enterprises

Microsoft modifies Zune subscription model

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Thursday announced a new music subscription plan for owners of its Zune players, which would allow them to keep ...

Nokia to add IBM's Lotus Notes email to smartphones

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia smartphones will be able to access IBM Lotus Notes corporate email starting from next month, the two firms said on Thursday, ...

Virgin Media sees mobile broadband as complementary

LONDON (Reuters) - British cable operator Virgin Media said it did not believe mobile broadband had mass appeal in the short term, but it entered ...

"World of Warcraft" has rivals racing for new worlds

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - "World of Warcraft" has become a phenomenon among role-playing interactive online games with its unrivaled success leaving competitors racing to draw gamers ...

Dell profit tops Street view, shares rise

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc, the world's No. 2 PC maker, posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday as cost cuts offset lower revenue, ...

Sony says Blu-ray sales short of forecasts

NEW YORK (Reuters) - High definition Blu-ray disc players may be one of the holiday season's best sellers, but they will still fall short of ...

Xbox 360 gets a makeover — and avatars

Will “Halo 3” players want to make cute little avatars on their Xbox 360? Well, guess what? They’ll have to. It’s the first thing you’re ...

Quit your job and make your game

Created by two guys with a big idea and little money, "World of Goo" is proof that small-time game developers fueled by nothing more than ...

eHarmony agrees to provide same-sex matches

Online dating service eHarmony said Wednesday it will launch a new Web site which caters to same-sex singles as part of a discrimination settlement with ...

Copernicus’ remains and grave found

Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century ...

6,500-year-old village found in Greece

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a 6,500-year-old farming settlement in an antiquities-rich area of central Greece. ...

Cyberscams befriend social networks

Remember the associate of that deposed dictator who needed your help transferring a few million dollars from a Swiss bank account? Well, he's back. And ...

What a trip! Space station turns 10

The 10th anniversary of the international space station's birth provides a good opportunity for NASA to celebrate its successes — and learn from its mistakes. ...

European history, culture and art goes digital

Attention all culture-craving couch potatoes: Cultural riches from over 2,000 years of European civilization are going digital. ...

Buried glacier found on Mars

Mars has vast glaciers hidden under aprons of rocky debris near mid-latitude mountains, a new study confirms, pointing to a new and large potential reservoir ...

Single-celled giant upends early evolution

Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth. ...

Did asteroid cause ancient N.Y. tsunami?

Long before New York City was the Big Apple, or even New Amsterdam, a giant tsunami crashed ashore. No one knows for sure what caused ...

NASA whittles down list of Mars landing sites

Four intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science ...

Cell phone in man's chest pocket stops bullet

A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn — hitting ...

Cosmic Log: A galaxy far, farther away

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The Hubble Space Telescope helps scientists figure out why a galaxy seemed unusually active. It turns out they had the ...

Astronauts finish up spacewalk No. 2

Spacewalking astronauts performed more repair work on a jammed joint at the international space station on Thursday, keeping a tight grip on all their tools ...

Google empowers users to edit search results

If Google delivers useless search results, just erase them and you won't see them again. ...

Why Dell Can't Keep Up With HP

The Texas computer maker is expected to report lower earnings Thursday. ...

Chip Sector Optimistic About Obama

The new administration's reforms are expected to help semiconductor companies. ...

The Dangers of Airport Wi-Fi

Travelers beware: Poorly secured airport Wi-Fi networks are catnip for snoops. AirTight Networks' David King is trying to harden them up ...

California E-Car Dreaming

A new public-private partnership pushes electric cars in the Golden State. ...

Indie Game Developers Rise Up

Digital distribution and Microsoft's Community Games levels the game publishing field. ...

Arguments in Case Involving Net and Suicide

Prosecutors began to present their side against a woman who they accuse of creating a phony account on MySpace to taunt a 13-year-old girl, in ...

eHarmony Agrees to Provide Same-Sex Matches

The online dating service will launch a new Web site which caters to same-sex singles as part of a discrimination settlement. ...

Dell’s Cost-Cutting Increases Profit but Revenue Falls

Dell’s third quarter results showed just how challenging a restructuring can be in the middle of a severe economic slowdown. ...

DVDs, Hollywood’s Profit Source, Are Sagging

Total DVD sales are down by about 4 percent for the year, contributing to a creeping dread in the movie capital that buyer interest is ...

Smithsonian's history museum to reopen

America's attic is back. ...

'PC' explains almost everything for you

You might want to take John Hodgman's new book, "More Information Than You Require," with a grain of salt. Or maybe the whole shaker. ...

Bush set to relax endangered species rules

Animals and plants in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams, highways and other projects don't ...

Queuing science: Can waiting in line be fun?

Warning: Standing in line can cause extreme boredom, annoyance and even rage, which is precisely why there is a fascinating science devoted to what makes ...

Hair helps identify Copernicus's remains

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Traffic Engine High Performance Search Technology Earns Praise at ... - MarketWatch

Traffic Engine High Performance Search Technology Earns Praise at ...MarketWatch - 16 hours agoTraffic Engine's Search Marketing Technology (SMarT) connects the right people with the right ...

FEBIT ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ... - MarketWatch

FEBIT ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ...MarketWatch - 15 hours agoThis strategic collaboration will further the development of febit's Geniom(R) Technology to detect pathogens more ...

U.S. woman posed as teen online, teased girl: attorney

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Missouri woman established a fake identity online to torment a vulnerable teenage girl who later committed suicide, federal prosecutors said ...

Yahoo, T-Mobile announce mobile search deal

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc announced an expansion of its mobile Web portals to T-mobile, so its smart phone users who get data will ...

Verizon Wireless bets on Storm for holiday season

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless is betting on the new BlackBerry Storm for the all-important holiday season, hoping the highly anticipated smartphone can compete ...

High-street shopping losing appeal in plugged-in Asia

SINGAPORE - The Internet is replacing the high street as the shopping destination of choice in the Asia Pacific, with a new survey showing a ...

New BlackBerry is good iPhone challenger

Review: BlackBerry fans can rejoice: the Storm, Research In Motion’s first all-touchscreen Blackberry will make even iPhone users salivate just a little bit over some ...

Microsoft lets Zune subscribers keep tunes

Microsoft Corp. is giving an early holiday gift to people who pay for all-you-can-listen access to the Zune digital music store: 10 songs to keep ...

Google gives online life to Life mag's photos

Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will feature millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the ...

Advent Recognized in FinTech 100 Ranking of Top Technology ... - MarketWatch

Advent Recognized in FinTech 100 Ranking of Top Technology ...MarketWatch - 13 hours agoFirms in 60 countries use Advent technology. Advent's quality software, data, services and ...

American Greetings Selects Capgemini to Support Technology ... - MarketWatch

American Greetings Selects Capgemini to Support Technology ...MarketWatch - 12 hours agoCapgemini will combine technology and consulting services with retail and consumer products industry insight to ...

Kingston Technology Boosts DataTraveler 150 Capacity to 64GB - MarketWatch

Kingston Technology Boosts DataTraveler 150 Capacity to 64GBMarketWatch - 11 hours agoKingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world's largest independent manufacturer of memory products. Kingston ...

Anoto Digital Pen and Paper Technology Wins Mobile Star Awards in ... - MarketWatch

Anoto Digital Pen and Paper Technology Wins Mobile Star Awards in ...MarketWatch - 11 hours agoWinners are chosen by Go Mobile(R) newsletter subscribers that are comprised ...

Servigistics Named in Deloitte's 2008 Technology Fast 500 - MarketWatch

Servigistics Named in Deloitte's 2008 Technology Fast 500MarketWatch - 11 hours ago... has been named to Deloitte's prestigious 2008 Technology Fast 500 Program, a ranking ...

NewMarket Technology, Inc. to Be Featured at Starlight Capital ... - MarketWatch

NewMarket Technology, Inc. to Be Featured at Starlight Capital ...MarketWatch - 11 hours agoTo find out more about NewMarket Technology or to be added to NewMarket ...

"Potential Game-Changing" Confocal Technology Opening Eyes - MarketWatch

"Potential Game-Changing" Confocal Technology Opening EyesMarketWatch - 9 hours agoPENTAX Medical's emerging Confocal Endomicroscopy technology, however, is showing great promise in possibly one day erasing some ...

Oxyfuel Technology Solutions for Carbon Capture Presented by Air ... - MarketWatch

Oxyfuel Technology Solutions for Carbon Capture Presented by Air ...MarketWatch - 9 hours agotold attendees today in a presentation at the 9th International Conference on Greenhouse ...

Firan Technology Group Corporation (FTG) Signs Investment ... - MarketWatch

Firan Technology Group Corporation (FTG) Signs Investment ...MarketWatch - 6 hours agoThe WOFE will leverage the skills and technology from the Toronto based FTG Aerospace Division. ...

New Yahoo CEO must be willing to do Microsoft deal

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - To impress shareholders, Yahoo Inc's next chief executive needs just one qualification: the willingness to do a deal with Microsoft ...

Microsoft rules out buying Yahoo but likes search deal

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer ruled out an acquisition of Yahoo Inc on Wednesday but said his company was interested ...

Cybercrime as destructive as credit crisis: experts

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Cybercrime is likely to wreak as much havoc as the credit crisis in the coming years if international regulation is not improved, ...

After iPhone, consumers seek handsome gadgets

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fed up with ugly routers and clunky hard drives, a growing number of consumers are looking for well-designed gadgets that complement ...

Global chip sales forecast to drop 5.6 percent in 2009

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Global semiconductor sales will fall in 2009, the first decline in eight years, as the financial crisis takes its toll on ...

Irish the heaviest users of mobile phones: Ofcom

LONDON (Reuters) - Residents in the Republic of Ireland spent the most time on their mobile phones and sent the most text messages per head ...

McCartney, Guns N' Roses albums to launch on MySpace

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and Guns N' Roses released their biggest hits on vinyl records and compact discs, but on Thursday, their ...

Microsoft: New software not Symantec, McAfee rival

BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's upcoming security software is not designed to take sales from Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc as it is a stripped-down, ...

When you don't want to be Facebook friends

With so many opportunities these days to connect with people online, some are confronting a question they thought they had left behind during their awkward ...

Best PlayStation 3 games of 2008

PlayStation 3 has advanced technology in spades but has been hit and miss with great games to show it all off. This is the year ...

New penguin found, 500 years after extinction

Researchers studying a rare and endangered species of penguin have uncovered a previously unknown species that disappeared about 500 years ago. ...

Facebook application fee rankles developers

Facebook plans to start charging for verifying applications built for the social network — an optional process that has upset some developers despite the company's ...

Jury selection begins in Internet suicide case

Jury selection began Tuesday in the case against a Missouri mother accused of taking part in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led to a 13-year-old ...

Microsoft to offer free security software

Microsoft Corp said Wednesday it will discontinue sales of its subscription PC security service and instead offer free software to help protect computers from viruses, ...

China's Baidu.com fights to rescue reputation

Baidu.com has been the star of China's Internet world. But now the search engine dubbed "China's Google" is scrambling to rescue its reputation after state ...

Our ancestors had floppy, flexible gibbon feet

Our ape-like ancestors might have walked like today’s gibbons, whose super bendy feet give them a floppy strut. ...

Woolly mammoth task: Critter's DNA mapped

Scientists for the first time have unraveled much of the genetic code of an extinct animal, the ice age's woolly mammoth, and with it they ...

Did an asteroid kill Mars' magnetic field?

Deep in Mars' past, an asteroid struck the planet with such titanic force that it could've killed off the planet's entire magnetic field, according to ...

'Fake Steve' stops blogging as 'Real Dan'

It was bad enough when Dan Lyons stopped sharing his musings about the technology scene in a hilarious satire of what Apple Inc. founder Steve ...

Spacewalker learns from tool mistake

The astronaut who lost her tool bag on a spacewalk admitted Wednesday that she made a mistake by not checking to see if the sack ...

Experts: New evidence for Herod's tomb site

Israeli archaeologists excavating what they believe is the tomb of biblical King Herod said Wednesday they have unearthed further evidence bolstering their conviction that the ...

Scientists spot hints of dark-matter blast

A balloon-borne instrument soaring high over Antarctica has found potential evidence of a large clump of mysterious dark matter relatively close to our solar system, ...

How a camera can 'steal' your keys

Scientists in California have developed a software algorithm that automatically creates a physical key based solely on a picture of one, regardless of angle or ...

A real-life ‘Star Trek’ deflector shield

In "Star Trek," a deflector shield surrounded the Starship Enterprise, and radiation bounced off it. Now tests show it's possible to create a real deflector ...

Eye-Catcher

Sling Media goes up against YouTube and Hulu to grab eyeballs for online video. ...

Microsoft to Offer Free Security Software

With the move, the software giant appears to be taking aim at McAfee and Symantec, its chief rivals in the PC security market. ...

DealBook: Another View: Mark Cuban Nabbed. So What?

The case shows that the “cop on the beat” is there to ensure the integrity of the markets. But is this something we should care ...

France Dominates Europe’s Digital Library

A new digital library, called Europeana, intends to showcase Europe’s history, literature, arts and science. ...

PC Magazine, a Flagship for Ziff Davis, Will Cease Printing a Paper Version

It is the latest of several magazine publishers to drop a print edition, as advertising plummets and the cost of printing a paper version rises. ...

Study Finds Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Isn’t Such a Bad Thing

Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to the MacArthur Foundation. ...

Web Retailers Are Waging Seasonal Price Wars

As deserted malls and department stores struggle to court cash-short consumers with steep discounts, an even more ferocious price war is being waged online. ...

Yahoo Bid Is Over, Microsoft Says

Steven A. Ballmer’s stance may force Yahoo’s next chief executive to find another way to revive the company’s profit. ...

Coming to a store near you: chainless bicycles

Read full story for latest details. ...

Scientists map DNA of prehistoric animal

A team of scientists at Penn State University could be one step closer to bringing extinct species back to life. ...

Scientists discover long-lost Furby look-alike

Scientists have found a wide-eyed primate -- a clawed fur ball that fits snugly in one hand -- in the first live sighting in more ...

Medtronic to Showcase Latest Aortic Repair Technology at ... - MarketWatch

Medtronic to Showcase Latest Aortic Repair Technology at ...MarketWatch - 1 hour agoNumerous scientific sessions reporting the latest data on Medtronic's aortic repair technology will be ...