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Nuance Communications narrows 1Q loss(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 23:38:58)
AP - Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. said Monday it narrowed its loss in the fiscal first quarter as revenue in the company's two largest divisions, health care and dictation, and mobile and enterprise, increased.
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Google May Add Facebook, Twitter Links to Gmail(NewsFactor) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 22:58:34)
NewsFactor - E-mail is about communicating with friends, coworkers and the world at large. So why should users have to switch over to Facebook or Twitter to post a status update? That seems to be the thinking behind the news that Google will roll more social-networking features into Gmail, the fastest-growing e-mail service.
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Tw Telecom's 4Q profit soars past analyst views(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 22:52:37)
AP - Tw Telecom Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit soared past analyst forecasts as sales of its computer and data networking services rose.
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Report: Google to Make Gmail More Social(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 20:10:12)
PC World - Google plans to tweak Gmail to make it easier for its users to post and share status updates, in an attempt to inject the Web mail service with social-networking capabilities popularized by Twitter and Facebook, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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IBM's New POWER7 Servers Save Energy with Big Loads(NewsFactor) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 19:36:58)
NewsFactor - IBM on Monday unveiled high-capacity servers that are the first to be based on its new, multi-core POWER7 chip. The company said the new product line is designed "to manage the most demanding emerging applications," including high-capacity smart electrical grids and real-time analytics for financial markets.
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IBM Takes on Itanium with POWER7 Chip(PC Magazine) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 17:02:17)
PC Magazine - On Monday, IBM rolled out its long-awaited POWER7 microprocessor and servers, going head to head against Intel in the high-end enterprise server space.
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Report: Google to Add Social Features to Gmail(PC Magazine) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 16:51:06)
PC Magazine - Google will be adding hooks to popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter via Gmail, according to reports. Is this a push version of Google's Social Search?
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IBM Launches Eight-core Power7 Processor, Servers(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 16:30:11)
PC World - IBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time.
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Ahead of the Bell: RightNow upgraded at Baird(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 14:00:10)
AP - RightNow Technologies Inc. is poised to benefit from a number of factors including expanded business opportunities for a new product that monitors customer conversations over social networking sites, an analyst said Monday as he upgraded the company's stock.
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Vodafone Enterprise signs 4-year Oracle deal(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 13:50:37)
Reuters - Vodafone Group Plc, the world's largest mobile phone operator by revenue, has secured a four-year deal to provide Oracle Corp with voice, data and management services to employees in the EMEA region.
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Making the Most of Year Two(BusinessWeek) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 13:08:41)
BusinessWeek - What a difference a year makes. This time last year was incredibly exciting, overwhelming, stressful, and intense. There were so many people to meet. Classes required more reading and practice problems than time allowed to complete. Recruiting, resumes, and networking never ended. New people, perspectives, and faces peered around every corner, and each represented a different story and a potential friend. Everything at business school seemed so important. Every day presented new opportunities. Amid all the noise, it was difficult to prioritize and manage my time. ...
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IBM begins Power server upgrade to battle HP, Sun(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-08 05:21:04)
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.
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Facebook gets more Bing -- and control of display ads(AFP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-06 00:24:04)
AFP - Microsoft said Friday that Bing will power Internet searches for Facebook's 400 million members in an arrangement that returns control of display advertising to the social-networking service.
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Facebook removes Microsoft banner ads from site(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-05 22:03:55)
Reuters - Facebook is taking full control of display ads on the world's No. 1 social networking website, cutting short an exclusive deal that had allowed Microsoft Corp to manage part of that business.
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AMD Aims for GPUs in Mainstream Servers Starting 2012(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-05 21:10:17)
PC World - Advanced Micro Devices will put more focus on tightly integrating graphics processor cores into mainstream servers starting 2012 as it tries to increase system performance, a company executive said.
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With Bug Public, Oracle Rushes out WebLogic Fix(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-05 21:10:13)
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.
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Microsoft to Drop Linux, Unix Versions of Enterprise Search(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-05 20:40:28)
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.
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IBM Details World's Fastest Graphene Transistor(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-05 20:20:21)
PC World - Thanks to a change in recipe, IBM has created a graphene-based processor that can execute 100 billion cycles per second (100GHz), almost four times the speed of previous experimental graphene chips.
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Microsoft to Stop Selling Display Ads for Facebook(PC World) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-05 18:30:15)
PC World - Microsoft is expanding its search arrangement with Facebook but reining in its advertising deal with the social-networking site.
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IBM Opens Eco-Friendly, Cloud-Focused Data Center(NewsFactor) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2010-02-05 18:16:32)
NewsFactor - IBM opened its latest data center on Friday in North Carolina. Big Blue said the $362 million, 100,000-square-foot facility at its Research Triangle Park campus is designed to support cloud computing and other new computing models.