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Report: AMD to spin off its manufacturing units (AP) - 10/07/2008 07:00 AM

AP - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will announce Tuesday it is spinning off its manufacturing operations as part of a sweeping plan to cut cuts, The Wall Street Journal reported.

EBay cutting 1,600 jobs, 10 percent of work force (AP) - 10/06/2008 11:14 PM

AP - After a series of changes designed to draw more people to its online marketplace, eBay Inc.'s latest alteration is aimed at its own employees. The auction site operator said Monday it will cut about 1,600 jobs, 10 percent of its work force, in its largest round of dismissals ever.

SAP says business turmoil hurting its revenue (AP) - 10/06/2008 11:29 PM

AP - Shares of SAP AG plunged Monday after the business software maker said it saw a sudden drop in business at the end of September as global financial turmoil escalated.

Ford's 2010 cars will let parents set speed limit for teens (AP) - 10/06/2008 07:49 PM

AP - So you think junior is a little too lead-footed when he drives the family car? Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will give you the power to do something about it.

Industrial Origami snaps up $17 million (CNET) - 10/07/2008 08:26 AM

CNET - In its third round of funding, Industrial Origami secured $17 million on Monday toward commercializing its fold-up sheet metal technologies for building cars and household appliances.

Jury clears way for New York Plaza in Las Vegas: report (Reuters) - 10/07/2008 09:41 AM

Reuters - A jury ruled on Monday that the owners of New York's Plaza Hotel could use the Plaza name on a proposed $5 billion resort-casino on the Las Vegas Strip, despite the existence nearby of another Plaza Hotel and Casino, the New York Times said in a report on its Web site.

The perfect laptop, take two (InfoWorld) - 10/07/2008 12:00 PM

InfoWorld - A number of readers responded to our call to describe their perfect notebook. We were pleased to discover they generally agreed with major elements of our WorldBook design, especially the integrated smartphone and the embedded solar panel. We also learned that features we excluded for being too expensive or impractical might have enough market appeal to justify another crack at doing them affordably.

iPhone 3G Entices Mobile-Carrier Defections (NewsFactor) - 10/06/2008 11:01 PM

NewsFactor - The NPD Group, a market-research firm, reports that 30 percent of the U.S. consumers who purchased Apple's iPhone 3G from its release on July 11 through August switched mobile carriers in order to join AT&T, which holds exclusive U.S. sales rights for the red-hot device.

IBM Shifts Focus To Cloud Computing with New Services (NewsFactor) - 10/06/2008 07:46 PM

NewsFactor - IBM is getting in the cloud. After a string of announcements over the past few weeks from Citrix, Red Hat, VMware, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard, Big Blue is launching an initiative to extend its traditional software delivery model toward a mix of on-premise and cloud-computing applications with new software, services and technical resources for clients and independent software vendors (ISVs).

Judge orders RealNetworks to pull copying software (AP) - 10/06/2008 11:59 PM

AP - RealNetworks Inc. said Monday it had temporarily stopped distributing its DVD copying software, RealDVD, at a federal judge's request in a copyright case brought by Hollywood studios.

Facebook co-founder leaves for new venture (AFP) - 10/06/2008 10:45 PM

AFP - The college roommate who helped Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook is leaving the fast-growing social networking website in a matter of weeks to create a new Internet technology firm.

Game news: A new Nintendo portable (AP) - 10/06/2008 10:05 PM

AP - Real news from the virtual world: