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Reuters - The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday proposed halving the minimum opening bid on a piece of valuable wireless spectrum, but several commissioners expressed doubt that the plan would work, after an earlier auction failed to attract industry interest. The five-member FCC approved a plan devised by agency Chairman Kevin Martin, cutting to $750 […]

Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced that Gemtek, a world-leading provider of wireless broadband solutions, has deployed the Black Duck(TM) Protex platform to manage their hybrid product development process — or development that involves the assembly […]

It’s been two months since we began “opening up” the Yahoo! Search infrastructure with the launch of Yahoo! Search BOSS and we’ve already seen some great products created. We shared a handful with you last month, and we’re excited to see that the creativity hasn’t slowed down. From new vertical search engines to a personalized […]

Users of the popular social-networking site MySpace can now listen to and download music from several music companies, including Sony, EMI and Warner.
Starting Thursday, users will have free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from hundreds of record labels — but there’s a catch. MySpace’s 120 million users who want to use the free […]

BeanKeeper (formerly Simple Persistence for Java) is a full featured, powerful object/relational persistence and query library. It has a unique philosophy of simpleness and ease of use: it does not require config files, annotations, code generation, code “enhancing”, or any kind of tools to be used. It handles simple Java beans (or POJOs) and its […]

Evidently HP’s acquisition of EDS persuaded Fujitsu that there’s money to be made in the services sector because it’s combining its US product and service businesses under one roof to drive revenue growth and help it compete against IBM and HP. On October 1, the doors will open on a newly created Fujitsu North America […]

Visa said Thursday that it will develop applications for Android and Nokia phones with mobile payment systems planned for the latter. First up, the company said Chase Visa cardholders could get notifications about transaction activity on Android phones (statement). Visa added that location-based services, maps and merchant offers will also be delivered to Android phones. […]

Reviews of the tablet version of Lenovo’s X200 ultraportable are in. The big change in this version, which replaces the longstanding ThinkPad X61t, is the switch to a widescreen display. The X200 Tablet is also thinner and lighter, weighing about 3.5 pounds with the standard four-cell battery and a little more than 4 pounds with […]

XMOS, the creator of Software Defined Silicon, has introduced a credit card sized development board that provides everything needed to start developing applications based on its XS1-G family of programmable devices. The XC-1 development board is available as part of the US$99 XC-1 hardware development kit and comes with all necessary support hardware and immediate […]

Remember how Yahoo and Google carefully restricted their deal to the US and Canada so they could tiptoe past the persnickety European Commission? Well, it turns out the slumbering giant woke up anyway and has been informally reviewing the controversial web search advertising axis since mid-July on the theory that the pact could violate European […]