A new and uncertain era of e-book prices has begun. HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that it has reached new price agreements with sellers that conform to a settlement with the Justice Department over allegations that five publishers and Apple colluded to set prices for e-books. Such new works as Michael Chabon`s "Telegraph Avenue" now can be purchased on Amazon.com for $9.99, a price pu
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HarperCollins Agrees To Lower EBook Prices
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Foxconn Denies Exploiting Vocational Student Interns
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The company that manufactures Apple`s iPhones has responded to an accusation that vocational students are forced to work in its Chinese factories by saying Wednesday its agreement with their schools allows them to leave.
China Labor Watch, a Hong Kong group, said this week that Foxconn, which employs some 1.2 million people in China, employed students aged 16 to 18 in its factories. It cited empl
IBM Updates Connections Social Business Platform
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IBM has unveiled version 4 of its IBM Connections social software platform. The company said the new version uses more sophisticated analytics capabilities and real-time data monitoring, and adds other features to extend its usefulness.
Connections provides collaboration, communication and communities between employees, and outside to clients or vendors, and is available in either on-premise or c
Cisco Rolls Out Integrated Security for Virtualized Data Centers
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Cisco has rolled out a new set of security products to better protect data centers against the threats they face as they move toward more consolidated and virtualized environments. The solutions also let businesses leverage new cloud-based models and secure mobile devices.
The solutions include: the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance line; virtualized ASA for multi-tenant environments; a data-cent
LTE iPhone Could Challenge Carriers New Networks
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Get ready, Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint. An ocean of 4G data usage is headed your way, now that Apple has unleashed the iPhone 5 with long-term evolution high-speed data capability.
Long anticipated, the 4G LTE iPhone -- a data hog`s delight -- reaches consumers` hands Sept. 21, less than 10 days from now. Verizon`s LTE network has been up since the end of 2010, and ATT launched its network
AMD Pushes Data Center Envelope with SeaMicro
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AMD is making a push on the data center technology front this week with its SeaMicro SM15000 server. The new server extends fabric-based computing across racks and aisles of the data center to connect to massive disk arrays supporting over 5 petabytes of storage capacity. AMD also announced a new generation of compute cards for its micro servers based on AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors.
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Blackhole exploit kit gets upgraded to evade antivirus software
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The creators of the infamous Blackhole exploit kit have announced version 2.0 of the malware, claiming to have rewritten the code entirely from scratch so as to evade popular antivirus software.
Intel hopes to double Ultrabook battery life with Haswell chip
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The battery life of Ultrabooks will nearly double with Intel`s upcoming processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture, which will succeed processors code-named Ivy Bridge, Intel executives said on Tuesday. The new Haswell chips will also deliver much faster graphics and applications performance when they appear in Ultrabook designs starting next year, said Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice presi
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