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Tech startup Fusion Garage CEO Chanda Rathakrishnan announced the upcoming debut of the JooJoo, a tablet PC with a 12.1-inch touch-screen, during a Dec. 7 Web conference. Fusion Garage will likely be sued by Michael Arrington, founder of popular technology blog TechCrunch, who insists that Fusion Garage stole the concept and... 

Micro Focus, a provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, has announced the release of RUMBA 8, a new version of the companys terminal emulation suite designed to support new technologies and the Windows 7 operating system. – Micro Focus, a provider of enterprise application... 

Google could get left in the dark with white spaces, after it fought so vocally to get white spaces approved. The FCC could grant a five-year monopoly to a white spaces service provider, and Microsoft has already demonstrated its technology in the first public network — one that was funded by a FCC director’s own... 

BusyMac upgraded BusyCal, the multi-user calendaring software it bills as “iCal Pro”, to version 1.1, with many changes to both the user interface and under the hood, including a mini-month calendar, new fields in various event views, and 64-bit Snow Leopard support. BusyCal is $40 per computer, with a 20 percent... 

Apple has been ordered to pay over $21.5 million in damages to Opti, according to a press release (PDF link) published on the latter company’s website. Original post:  Apple to pay damages in chip optimization patent case  Read More →

A Palm Pre user is suing Palm and Sprint Nextel, alleging they caused him to lose most of the data from his phone, and he wants to turn the suit into a class action. See the rest here:  Palm Pre user sues, alleging data loss  Read More →

Much of the laptop- and desktop-manufacturing industry may be focused on producing smaller, lighter devices along the lines of netbooks and ultrathins, but Apple seems determined to buck that trend with the 27-inch iMac, which marries high-powered processing with a considerable widescreen display. Weighing in at 30 pounds, with... 

For US$34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says. Excerpt from:  New cloud-based service steals Wi-Fi passwords  Read More →