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Nine days after locking down city's IT system, disgruntled network admin invites Newsom to his cell and gives him the access codes. - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom demonstrated his negotiating prowess July 22 by breaking a nine-day-long standoff between an overly protective city network administrator and the city's attorney and IT department. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Newsom obtained the access codes to the c...

Vodafone, the world's largest cellphone operator, said it was cutting its revenue forecast for the year to around $79.6 billion, the lower end of its previous estimate.

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Nintendo Wii just got a photogenic makeover.

The nation's largest discount brokerage Charles Schwab said that it had appointed Walter W. Bettinger II as president and chief executive, to succeed its founder.

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, calls on open source developers to make the presentation layer of desktop Linux even more attractive to users than Apples mac os. - PORTLAND, Ore. -- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu Linux, called for desktop Linux to improve to the point that its presentation layer is more visually exciting than Apple's During a talk at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) here, Shuttleworth issued a final ch...

Despite reassurances that he is cancer free four years after he was treated for pancreatic cancer, analysts are worried that Steven P. Jobs might be sick again.

Vendors such as Black Duck Software and Intel show their support for open source software at OSCON. - PORTLAND, Ore. -- Black Duck Software, a provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced the expansion to the volume of open source software managed in the Koders.com code search engine. At the OReilly Open So...

AP - Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home.

Telecommunication companies in the U.S. have to juggle the financial effect of customers dropping their landlines, and increased competition between wireless operators.