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Salesforce broadens platform with call center buy

Company acquires InStranet, a call center software provider, and plans a new offering for its software-as-a-service platform.
(Posted in Business Tech by Mike Ricciuti)

Intel plans to deliver Atom processor next month

Chipmaker reveals during the Intel Developer Forum that it is set to deliver the new power-efficient dual-core processor next month.
(Posted in Nanotech: The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)
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eBay to lower sellers' fixed-price fees

The move, to take effect in mid-September, is intended to help eBay compete better with online retail rivals such as Amazon.com.
(Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil)

Big Blue's latest big bet on cloud computing

IBM is spending $300 million to equip data centers around the world to let customers access cloud-based computer services in the event of service disruptions.
(Posted in Coop's Corner by Charles Cooper)

Dell, Facebook prep 'significant' announcement

The companies are expected to announce a cloud computing partnership at a special event next week.
(Posted in Digital Media by Erica Ogg)

Google outpaces search market growth

In July, U.S. searches rose 3 percent to 8 billion over the last year, according to Nielsen. But Google's searches in the U.S. increased faster at 16 percent.
(Posted in Digital Media by Stephen Shankland)

HP posts another solid quarter

Growth in notebook sales again leads the way for the computer maker, which beat Wall Street estimates for the third quarter with $2.03 billion in earnings.
(Posted in Business Tech by Erica Ogg)

Verizon exec: Some Net neutrality fans suffer from 'paranoia'

In the wake of the FCC's ruling against Comcast, broadband providers and their allies at a tech policy confab say Net neutrality is dangerous, still makes no sense.
(Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh)

Ringback tone sales to triple in four years

Those tunes that play while you wait for someone to pick up are expected to generate $4.7 billion in revenue for mobile operators by 2012, according to new research.
(Posted in Wireless by Marguerite Reardon)

New York to Montreal overnight--with no GPS?

In the inaugural Rental Car Rally, you'd be surprised how many teams didn't opt for a GPS navigator. Even the ones that did still encountered a few surprises.
(Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

Canonical joins Linux Foundation

The only surprise, says an open-source analyst, is that Ubuntu-sponsor Canonical has taken until now to join the foundation.
(By Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK)

Palm leaks Treo Pro photos and videos

Photos and videos of Palm's soon-to-be addition to its Windows Mobile smartphone lineup are all over the Internet this morning after Palm posted, then quickly pulled, the images.
(Posted in Wireless by Tom Krazit)

Google digs up funds for geothermal energy

Tech giant invests $10 million in start-ups AltaRock Energy and Potter Drilling in quest to produce a gigawatt of electricity through renewable sources.
(Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)
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