Adobe Systems announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide

Adobe cutting 680 jobs

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Adobe Systems, known for its Photoshop editing program and Acrobat document software, announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide, about nine percent of its workforce.


Members of the media are given a demonstration of the Kindle DX

Amazon delivers Kindle books to PCs

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Amazon.com on Tuesday released free software that lets people read the online retail titan's electronic Kindle books on personal computers.


Inventing language

Inventing language

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, the day after the New York Yankees won their first World Series of the 21st century, MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, the 2008 recipient of the Turing Award — frequently ...


LinkedIn was launched in 2003 as an online community for people to advance career and job prospects

Twitter links to LinkedIn

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Twitter on Tuesday linked to LinkedIn, letting people share updates and tweets between the hot microblogging service and the career-oriented online social networking website.


Windows 7

Microsoft's monthly security fixes spare Windows 7

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(AP) -- Microsoft's newest computer operating system has survived its first few weeks on the market without needing any security fixes.


Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Big things often come in small packages. That's certainly the case with the potential created by recent successes in hydrogen research at Idaho National Laboratory.


New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...


Grant awarded to improve the security of mobile devices and cellular networks

Grant awarded to improve the security of mobile devices and cellular networks

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Smart phones -- like BlackBerrys and iPhones -- have become indispensable to today's highly mobile workforce and tech-savvy youngsters. While these devices keep friends and colleagues just a few thumb-taps ...


New 'finFETS' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...


Sky has launched an iPhone application

New software shows British TV live on iPhone

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British broadcaster Sky launched an iPhone application Tuesday which allows viewers to watch live TV on the move and is thought to be the first commercial TV service backed by the broadcaster itself.


Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure

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(AP) -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.


TSMC said China's top chip maker will settle a long-running dispute over theft of trade secrets

China chip maker to pay $200 mln to settle TSMC claims

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said Tuesday China's top chip maker will pay it 200 million US dollars cash after they settled a long-running dispute over alleged theft of trade secrets.


Google says its news approach is "fully consistent with copyright law"

Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off

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Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. ...


Eager gamers line up for 'Modern Warfare 2'

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(AP) -- Ryan Norwalk has cleared his schedule. The 26-year-old California State University student plans to spend Tuesday gunning down foes in "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," the highly anticipated first-person shooter ...


Improving security with face recognition technology

Improving security with face recognition technology

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A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. ...