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(AP) -- European Union regulators appear to be softening their opposition to Oracle Corp.'s proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc., a shift that has resurrected some investors' hopes that one of the year's biggest technology deals will go ahead as planned. http://www.physorg.com/news180081807.html Technology Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:47:47 EST news180081807 The EU's competition watchdog on Monday welcomed concessions made by US business software giant Oracle over its bid for Sun Microsystems, saying the deal is now likely to be approved. http://www.physorg.com/news180024600.html Technology Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:51:15 EST news180024600 (AP) -- The European Union's antitrust chief said Tuesday that U.S. senators who pressed her to approve Oracle Corp.'s takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. should stop interfering in Europe's affairs and prioritize U.S. health care reform. http://www.physorg.com/news179515043.html Technology Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:30:02 EST news179515043 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in California and elsewhere are deliberately setting out to compromise the mobile phone system used by around three billion people. The system uses Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) encryption technology to prevent eavesdropping. http://www.physorg.com/news179479214.html Technology Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:50:01 EST news179479214 (PhysOrg.com) -- Small companies prepared to share commercially sensitive information can add value and develop new services for their customers, using a distributed track-and-trace software solution. http://www.physorg.com/news179073711.html Technology Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:40:01 EST news179073711 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive toward more secure computing environments. http://www.physorg.com/news177931452.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:40:02 EST news177931452 Nokia today announced that the highly anticipated Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers who jumped on the opportunity to be among the first to pre-order the Maemo-powered mobile computer. With the Linux-based Maemo platform and with multiple ways to connect to the Internet, the Nokia N900 enables users to be online as it happens with a powerful computer in the palm of their hands. http://www.physorg.com/news177778483.html Electronics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:20:02 EST news177778483 (PhysOrg.com) -- Google has introduced its new experimental programming language Go, which aims to combine speedy application development through simplified coding with high-speed program execution. http://www.physorg.com/news177146819.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:28:09 EST news177146819 (AP) -- European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S. http://www.physorg.com/news177020567.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:23:33 EST news177020567 Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment. http://www.physorg.com/news176044262.html Technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:40:03 EST news176044262 (PhysOrg.com) -- While you can't yet teleport or clone yourself to be in two places nearly at once, computer scientists are working on what might be the next best thing. http://www.physorg.com/news175198398.html Technology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:15:24 EST news175198398 Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison opened fire on US technology veteran IBM and expressed optimism about the pending 7.4-billion-dollar-deal to buy Sun Microsystems. http://www.physorg.com/news174544290.html Technology Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:32:24 EST news174544290 Declaring that Sun Microsystems is losing $100 million a month, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has expressed frustration over an extended European antitrust review that has delayed his plans to acquire the struggling computer maker. http://www.physorg.com/news173121770.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:10:02 EST news173121770 (AP) -- Oracle Corp. figured its $7.4 billion buyout for Sun Microsystems Inc. could skate through antitrust scrutiny, folding Sun into a technology powerhouse when Sun badly needs the lifeline. Both companies will have to wait. http://www.physorg.com/news171222688.html Technology Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:06:38 EST news171222688 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an "open-source" digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks. http://www.physorg.com/news171209557.html Technology Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:13:07 EST news171209557 US wireless carrier Sprint Nextel and Taiwan's HTC Corp. announced plans Thursday to release a touch-screen mobile phone in October powered by Google's Android software. http://www.physorg.com/news171196068.html Electronics Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:40:02 EST news171196068 Business software giant Oracle's 7.4-billion-dollar bid for Sun Microsystems is under investigation under EU merger regulations, the European Commission announced on Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news171178676.html Technology Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:30:01 EST news171178676 When T-Mobile and Google launched the T-Mobile G1 last fall, there were high hopes that the device and its Android mobile operating system would provide a real threat to Apple's iPhone. http://www.physorg.com/news171138581.html Electronics Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:30:28 EST news171138581 The OpenAjax Alliance announced today the approval and availability of OpenAjax Hub 2.0 as an industry standard for more secure Web 2.0 mashup applications. Advances in security in Hub 2.0 can help protect enterprise mashups from malicious intent, giving IT staff greater confidence in adding these features to their Web sites. http://www.physorg.com/news170955671.html Technology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:20:05 EST news170955671 Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) will combine the scientific and scholarly expertise of their humanities and computer science experts in a new project to analyze degraded Hebrew documents. http://www.physorg.com/news169478552.html Technology Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:40:02 EST news169478552 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has released an open-source version of its popular FalconView software. The program displays topographical maps, aeronautical charts, satellite images and other maps, along with overlay tools that can be displayed on any map background. http://www.physorg.com/news169313918.html Technology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:50:01 EST news169313918 Mozilla announced Friday that it had passed one billion downloads of Firefox, its Web browser that has gained popularity as a free alternative to Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer. http://www.physorg.com/news168280974.html Technology Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:30:02 EST news168280974 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new open source, Web 2.0-inspired solution for building and managing business relationships online promises to level the playing field for small- and medium-sized enterprises. http://www.physorg.com/news168258378.html Technology Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:50:01 EST news168258378 (PhysOrg.com) -- Human-computer interaction is undergoing a revolution, entering a multimodal era that goes beyond, way beyond, the WIMP (Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointers) paradigm. Now European researchers have developed a platform to speed up that revolution. http://www.physorg.com/news166285286.html Technology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:00:07 EST news166285286 Intel Corp. and Nokia Corp. said Tuesday they're joining forces to build better technology for smart phones and other mobile Internet devices. http://www.physorg.com/news164996028.html Technology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:20:02 EST news164996028 The world's two leading makers of mini laptops Tuesday introduced their latest computers at the opening of Asia's leading information technology trade fair. http://www.physorg.com/news163145512.html Electronics Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:12:20 EST news163145512 (PhysOrg.com) -- Android 1.5 is right around the corner and this version promises better camera and GPS performance, support for video recording and Bluetooth stereo. Also included in this new version is support for soft keyboards, live folders and speech recognition. http://www.physorg.com/news158929473.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:05:18 EST news158929473 Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center in Milwaukee have just made the very expensive and promising area of protein research more accessible to scientists worldwide. http://www.physorg.com/news158583793.html Medicine & Health Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:04:03 EST news158583793 Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have identified a new "guilt-by-association" threat to privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that would enable an eavesdropper to accurately classify groups of users with similar download behavior. To thwart this threat, they have released publicly available, open source software that restores privacy by masking a user's real download activity in such a manner as to disrupt classification. http://www.physorg.com/news158419063.html Technology Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:18:18 EST news158419063 Leading US computer maker Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it is studying the possibility of building machines based on Google-backed Android operating systems. http://www.physorg.com/news157746404.html Technology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:27:54 EST news157746404