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AP - Is the Internet boom back? No, but information technology companies have again overtaken the financial industry as the largest sector in the S&P 500 index, Standard & Poor's said Wednesday.

Despite its historically dim view of such applications, Comcast has announced its investment in the hybrid P2P/CDN provider GridNetworks. GridNetworks is a provider of HD quality programming over the internet via its GridCast peer-to-peer technology. Prior to this announcement, GridNetworks also revealed that Cisco was part of the $9.5 million Series A funding secured last [...]

Shantanu Narayen says he's is not interested in bargain hunting, but does like small companies with 10 to 50 employees that fill gaps in Adobe's technology.

NewsFactor - A report pegs the much-awaited announcement of the 3G version of Apple's iphone for June 9. According to technology blog Gizmodo, a source 'very, very close' to the launch has confirmed that the second-generation iPhone will be announced during the keynote address of the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on that date.

Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest technology company, reported revenue of $28.3 billion in the quarter, up 11 percent from the period a year ago.

AT&T announced on Wednesday that they are nearing completion of their 3G HSPA technology that will deliver broadband speeds on its 3G network: 1.4 Mbps down and 800 Kbps up

Apple will be moving its entire MacBook product line to LED backlighting in 2009. Kenmos technology told the Chinese language newspaper Economic Daily News that Apple would be making the switch, and that his company would be providing the BLUs, or LED Backligh Units. That report was then translated by DigitTimes

Western Digital announced Wednesday a new line of hard drives called My Passport. The portable hard drive product line is being specifically marketed towards Mac users, and comes pre-formatted out of the box in Mac OS X's HFS+, and is compatible with Leopard's Time Machine backup technology. The hard drive sports USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 interfaces, and weighs a mere...

One laptop Per Child, the organization focused on bringing low-cost laptops to children in developing nations, announced it intends to release a newly redesigned version of the XO notebook, the XO-2, in 2010. The second generation of the XO will include new technology to meet OLPC's goal of advancing new concepts of learning, lowering power consumption and decreasing the laptop's footprint, the organization said.

Nanotechnology may be considered one of the most promising new technologies emerging today, but it's also the source of considerable concern about potential risks to the environment and human health. A new study published Tuesday in Nature Nanotechnology, adds further evidence that there's good reason for that concern.