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Dell could start offering managed print services later this year as it tries to extend its reach in the printing and imaging market, a company executive said on Wednesday. The company is laying down the framework to enter the market by releasing enterprise printer hardware around which it could provide services, said Donald Heath, senior [...]

SAN BRUNO, Calif.–YouTube is rolling out a new coat of paint on Wednesday. Its video page redesign, which went up as a beta test to users in late January, will be going out live to everyone by the end of the day. The cleaner look is part of a bigger plan to simplify the site [...]

Developer enthusiasm for Apple’s iPad has cooled somewhat because the tablet lacks multitasking and a camera, a company that makes cross-platform development tools said today. Of the more than 1,000 developers surveyed by Appcelerator earlier this month, 80 percent said they plan to create an Apple media tablet application in the next year, according to [...]

AMD is closing out the month of March with the introduction of a new line of 12-core Opteron 6000 series processors, previously code-named Magny-Cours. The processor architecture not only raises the bar for server CPU’s, but doubles the number of cores in Intel’s latest Xeon processors rolled out just a few weeks ago. Businesses looking [...]

Verizon Business and IBM are now offering a joint service aimed at helping large businesses safely store large chunks of data within the Verizon cloud. Verizon says that the service will be its first incorporate IBM’s backup infrastructure and management capabilities to help monitor and protect stored data. [ Keep up on the day's tech [...]

The Digital Due Process coalition is pushing Congress to modernize privacy laws in the United States. The coalition — comprised of technology companies and special interest groups, including Microsoft, Google, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), eBay, and others — feels that existing privacy regulations do not adequately protect data in the [...]

A touchpad manufacturer that last year sued Apple for patent infringement filed a complaint Monday with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), asking it to ban imports of Apple products, including the iPad and iPhone. In its complaint, Hsinchu, Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics charged Apple with “knowingly and willingly” using Elan’s technology in its touchpads and [...]

IELO, Mandriva, and Nexedi this week joined forces and formed the Free Cloud Alliance, which will work to push open source products for cloud computing. The Free Cloud Alliance was formed to show that companies can build a cloud-based infrastructure using open source products, according to Jean-Paul Smets, CEO at Nexedi. The members also want [...]

(AP) — Disruptions suffered by Google Inc.’s Chinese search service show how vulnerable it remains to the country’s Internet police – a threat industry executives said is likely to drive users and advertisers in the mainland away. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Less than two years after its launch, Mozilla has issued the final member of Firefox 3.0 family: version 3.0.19. Firefox 3.0 was the center of a major effort to adopt the open-source browser. Its release in June 2008 was labeled download day, and since its release, Firefox did steadily gain in usage. Since then, though, [...]