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Washington - Microsoft has announced that its successor to Windows Vista will be called Windows 7. Microsoft reportedly decided to abandon the naming schemes of the recent past in favour of the simpler numerical names of the Windows 3.1 era. The reas...

Consumers say Apple must lower the phone's $500 price for them to make the move.

The company has released "Scribe," a product developed internally to help scale the social-networking site, as open-source code.

CNET - The U.S. intelligence community is concerned that terrorists might use micro-blogging tool Twitter to coordinate attacks, according to a purported draft Army intelligence report posted on the Web.

Though fewer servers were sold, the research firm points to the trend in virtualization and consolidation.

HP still rules, Sun is making money again and mainframe sales keep on chugging.

The start-up, which publishes music automatically to outlets like eMusic and iTunes for a nominal fee, has pulled in funding from Opus Capital.

THE Commonwealth Bank will slash at least $370 million off its bottom line, and major IT projects could be shelved.

A BRITISH man is facing legal action for libel after leaving negative feedback for an item he bought on auction website eBay.

A DRAFT US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter as a potential terrorist tool.