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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp released on Wednesday a second test version of Internet Explorer 8, delivering a feature-complete upgrade to the world's most widely used Web browser.

The world's largest software maker said the latest version -- beta 2 -- of Internet Explorer, which has a market share of about 75 percent, comes with new features to enhance privacy, ease-of-use, and security.

Microsoft first released a test -- or beta 1 -- version of IE 8 in March, but that was aimed at letting Web developers take a first look at the new browser. This latest version is aimed at a broader consumer audience.

TiVo Inc. posted a quarterly profit for only the third time in its 11-year history Wednesday as the pioneer in digital video recorders boosted margins on hardware and reduced marketing costs in its fiscal ...

SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. and the staff of the U.S. International Trade Commission have independently filed appeals with the ITC Administrative Law Judge's initial ruling this week.

Who is the "iPhone Girl"? Pictures of an Asian factory worker found on a new iPhone sold to a British customer have generated keen discussion on the Internet about her identity - and her fate.

San Jose's Immersion Corp., purveyor of all things force feedback, said Tuesday that it will pay Microsoft $21 million to settle litigation that cropped up in June last year, a legal web which also involved ...

STANFORD, Calif. - The Stanford University School of Medicine will no longer accept support from pharmaceutical or device companies for specific programs in continuing medical education, as industry-directed ...

Aug. 26, 2008 - Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 software with new Photoshop.com membership, a milestone release of the No.

No top-level management shuffle as HP folds much of its legacy services capability into the EDS management framework Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that it has completed its $13.9 billion purchase of massive ...

Netflix Inc. is blaming a faulty piece of computer hardware for a breakdown that delayed millions of shipments to the online DVD rental service's customers earlier this month.

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Infosys Technologies said on Monday it had agreed to buy British consultancy Axon Group Plc for 407 million pounds as India's second-biggest software services exporter looks for growth beyond an uncertain U.S. ...

Infections may play a bigger role in premature birth than doctors have thought, says a new study that found almost one in seven women in preterm labor harbored bacteria or fungi in their amniotic fluid.

It's a small study, and it doesn't prove that the germs triggered the early labor.

But Monday's research used specialized molecular testing to uncover microbes that ordinary methods miss, and thus uncovered more women with simmering infections than previously estimated.

The more heavily infected the amniotic fluid, the more likely the woman was to deliver a younger, sicker baby, researchers reported in PLoS One, the online journal of the Public Library of Science.

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After Google bought ad-serving firm DoubleClick in March 2007, Microsoft rushed onto the market in May 2007 and paid -- most say overpaid -- $5.9 billion for aQuantive and its three businesses: Atlas, DrivePM ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will sell its unit that makes chips for digital TV sets to fellow chip maker Broadcom Corp.

When the Milltown Dam was breached in March, it was hailed as a major step in the cleanup of the nation's largest Superfund complex.

AMD now holds the top three spots on the 16-core VMmark benchmark. This latest result is further proof that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors provide a high-performance virtualization solution that allows data ...

A judge denied a request for bail Thursday for a Tracy man accused of killing a co-worker during a fight at their Livermore workplace in July.

Nuance Communications Inc. has ample room to sweeten its takeover offer for Zi Corp.

Avago Technologies Ltd.--the chip spin-off of Agilent Technologies Inc.--plans to file for an initial public offering in the United States.