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LifeAt.com encourages people who live in the same building or in the same town to meet through launch parties and other events.

A soft semiconductor market and a weak global economy contribute to gloomier outlook.

Vendors increasingly turn to wireless IP telephony. Sales of wi-fi phones increased by more than 60 percent last year, according to Infonetics Research, as vendors have done more to support wireless IP (Internet Protocol) telephony.

Will they, won't they? Time Warner Cable and Comcast are negotiating a deal to invest in a new nationwide WiMAX company that would be jointly operated by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, according to reports this week in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

Blames faulty Solaris image. Sun Microsystems confirmed that it has shipped some servers in its SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 lines with disk images that contain unsafe configurations, which could allow remote attackers to hijack the machines.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has settled data-breach complaints against retailer TJX and data broker Reed Elsevier, requiring both companies to establish comprehensive information security programs and submit to biennial data security audits over the next 20 years.

Windows Search 4.0 is designed to let users quickly find documents, e-mails, photos, and other files archived on their hard drives.

A 10-second version of "Au Clair de la Lune, Pierro Repondit," now archived online, is said to predate Thomas Edison's Manhattan railroad sounds.

The service, which will initially launch on two handsets and with two exclusive channels, utilizes Qualcomm's MediaFLO technology.