Yahoo shut down GeoCities the site that offered a free platform for users to create their own Web sites during the dot-com boom. Yahoo paid $4.5 billion for it. The closure of GeoCities marks the end of an era, as the Internet community says goodbye to the pioneering Web… More: continued here

CDW sees a significant rise in hardware and software purchasing in the next 6 months for corporate and government sectors. The hardware and software reseller’s study showed most companies are keeping their staffing at the same levels. A recent Gartner study on technology spending was not as optimistic. – Spending on technology hardware and software [...]

Former Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz has been named as an inside tipster to Galleon Group by unnamed sources, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Website. – Galleon Group is the Wall Street hedge fund that recently had one of its key members, Raj Rajaratnam, arrested by the Department of Justice after years of [...]

Microsoft representative said the show – a variety show to be done by Alex Borstein and Seth MacFarlane – was not “a fit with the Windows brand.” Microsoft said Monday it has canceled its sponsorship of a planned variety show with the creator of the “Family Guy.” … More: continued here

On the same week that Dell introduced its 12.1-inch Latitude XT2 XFR, a thin but rugged convertible tablet, Lenovo introduced six new machines three IdeaPad laptops and three IdeaCentre desktops. Intel processors and Microsofts Windows 7 operating system are aboard all seven devices, and Dell makes particular use of its integrated multitouch capabilities. Lenovo, for [...]

Liaise is a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook designed to ease task and project management for individuals and teams through e-mail. The product shows some promise, but performance and other issues may make it more hinderance than help. – Liaise, a product that debuted at DEMOfall 2009 and was named a Peoples Choice Winner there, is [...]

In conjunction with a conference in Europe this week, Xerox has announced a new ink technology for printing electronic circuitry on everything from clothes to roll-up computer displays. In conjunction with a conference in Europe this week, Xerox has announced a new ink technology for printing electronic circuitry on… More: continued here

Nokia acknowledges that its Ovi Store application marketplace could use a lot of work, but the company also says the platform has moved quickly in the five months it has been in existence. – LONDON — Nokia acknowledges that its Ovi Store application marketplace could use a lot of work, but the company also says [...]

Tilera on Monday announced new general-purpose CPUs, including a 100-core chip, as it tries to make its way into the server market dominated by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. More: continued here

The Symbian Foundation is launching a new directory service as part of its Horizon developer program at the Symbian Exchange and Exposition. – LONDON — The Symbian Foundation is launching a new directory service as part of its Horizon developer program at the Symbian Exchange and Exposition here. The Horizon program consists of two parts, [...]

Asustek Computer unveiled its first supercomputer on Monday, the desktop computer-sized ESC 1000, which uses Nvidia graphics processors to attain speeds up to 1.1 teraflops. One teraflop is 1 trillion flops (floating point operations per second), a measure of computing speed. Computers able to perform at such high speeds can be used in a variety [...]

Microsoft has released a tool that lets netbook owners install Windows 7 on their machines using a USB flash drive, sidestepping the usual requirement of a DVD drive. The utility, Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, creates a bootable flash drive from a downloaded .iso file, or disk image, of Windows 7, and can be purchased [...]

Salesforce.com and Adobe Systems on Monday announced Flash Builder for Force.com, an IDE (integrated development environment) for building rich Internet applications deployable through browsers and on desktops. More: continued here