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Google plans to begin rolling out to Gmail users on Tuesday a new feature designed to automatically rearrange messages in their inbox so that the most important and pressing ones appear at the top. Called Priority Inbox, the feature will be released with the beta, or test, label and is being described for now as [...]

Data warehousing vendor Teradata has quietly scooped up Kickfire, a startup analytic appliance vendor known for its use of the open-source MySQL database and a SQL processing chip to boost query performance. Rumors of Kickfire’s demise as an independent company had been circulating for weeks. Teradata’s move came to light during the vendor’s earnings conference [...]

Mozilla on Tuesday released the first beta of Firefox 4, a major upgrade expected later this year that features a revamped interface, support for a wide range of Web technologies, and performance increases. Firefox 4 Beta 1, which missed its original end-of-June ship date by less than a week, is available for Windows, Mac, and [...]

SAP’s venture capital arm is leading a $10 million investment round for DeviceVM, maker of Splashtop, an “‘instant-on” platform aimed at mobile users, the companies announced Wednesday. DeviceVM’s software is already preinstalled on many laptops made by major manufacturers. The company is also eyeing the non-PC device market. It is working now to support Intel [...]

Mozilla is working on an iPhone application called Home that will let users access their desktop Firefox browsing history, bookmarks, and the tabs from their most recent browser session, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday Firefox Home relies on Mozilla Sync, a service that synchronizes personal information such as bookmarks and browsing [...]

Web video without ads? No one would mind that. However, iPad users viewing the popular New York Times site are finding out that not having to sit through ads has a price: fewer videos to watch. Here’s why: Apple won’t allow Flash based videos to run on an iPad. The Times and thousands of other [...]

Web video without ads? No one would mind that. However, iPad users viewing the popular New York Times site are finding out that not having to sit through ads has a price: fewer videos to watch. Here’s why: Apple won’t allow Flash based videos to run on an iPad. The Times and thousands of other [...]

Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to research compiled over the past few months by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The research puts a quantitative assessment on something that security gurus [...]

SAP is nearing a deal to buy mobile and database vendor Sybase for roughly $6 billion, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing two individuals with knowledge of the company’s plans. The acquisition could be announced later today, but may also fail to be completed, the report added. [ Discover what's new in business applications with InfoWorld's [...]

Apple may soon find itself the subject of a federal antitrust inquiry over its stance on Flash-built iPhone apps, if a report in the New York Post pans out. The newspaper says the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are discussing which of the two agencies would handle the inquiry, which would focus on [...]