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Fido picks up the Pebl Motorola Canada’s MotoPebl is now available in Canada through Fido. The Pebl follows up on the success of Motorola’s...

Tao Sixuan sighed when asked about hiring people for her start-up, Beijing Rose Technology Ltd. "It took a lot longer than I expected, to say the least," she said, recounting difficulties finding staff to perform basic tasks such as Web design with hosting and back-end support.

Skype introduces Wi-Fi phones Open wireless Internet hotspots will soon serve as virtual phone booths, as four manufacturers plan to introduce Wi-Fi handsets...

From AOL and RealPlayer to IE 6 and Microsoft Bob, these products have managed to make our lives more difficult, challenging and just plain annoying.

It was interesting to see how many articles on the topic of productivity loss appeared in the mainstream press during the recently concluded World Cup soccer tournament.n one such article, Forbes reported that The Center for Economics and Business Research in London put the total monetary loss at US$4.8 billion worldwide. The biggest losses, the group said, were seen in Europe.

Toshiba plans new microSD, SDHC cardsToshiba Corp. will later this year put on sale new microSD and SDHC memory cards, the company has announced....

In a deal that marries one of the IT industry's biggest data storage vendors and one of its best-known security companies, EMC Corp. unveiled plans to acquire RSA Security Inc. Under the deal, Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC will pay US$28 a share, or almost $2.1 billion, for Bedford, Mass.-based RSA, according to the companies.

Intel Corp. will sell its communications and application processor business to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. for US$600 million, the companies announced Tuesday. The move is part of an Intel effort to shore up its core business in the face of increasing competitive pressure from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and a slowing global PC market.