NEW YORK, NY, March 13, 2008 - AOL announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bebo (http://www.bebo.com), a leading global social media network. Together with its AIM and ICQ personal communications network, the acquisition will give AOL a premier position in the fast growing world of social media with a network of approximately 80 million unique users.
With a total membership of more than 40 million worldwide, Bebo is a global social media network which combines community, self-expression and entertainment to enable its users to consume, create, …

Kodak Active Matrix OLED Technology to be Incorporated Into a Variety of Next-Generation Portable Media Devices
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Mar. 14 — Eastman Kodak Company, a pioneer in organic light emitting diode technology (OLED), today announced an intellectual property cross-licensing agreement with LG Display Co., Ltd., of Korea, a world-class flat- panel display industry leader.
The license, which is royalty bearing to Kodak, enables LG Display to use Kodak technology, including yield-improving capabilities for Active Matrix OLED (AMOLED) modules, in a variety of small to medium size display …

Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the fastest-growing vendor among the top five in the worldwide server market, according to the latest report from market research company Gartner*. The company exhibited a record year-on-year growth of 17.9 percent in server unit shipments**. In the x86 server market, Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers also delivered the strongest growth among the top five server vendors with 19.8 percent***.
Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers was able to generate a record growth in x86 unit shipments by focusing on customer requirements and needs, delivering better overall value to its customers …

New IPv6 Training Lab Is Part of European Union Initiative
SOFIA, Bulgaria - March 12, 2008 - Cisco® and the Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (DAITS) today announced the opening of Southeast Europe’s first lab for training and research in Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The lab’s networking and communication equipment is being donated by Cisco.
Located in the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia, this is Europe’s second IPv6 lab, after the one operated by RENATER, the French national research network in Paris. The laboratories will be interconnected to …

Joel Cohen of The Simpsons and John Halamka of Harvard Medical School to discuss the use of open source solutions in the entertainment and healthcare industries
Raleigh NC – March 11, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Joel Cohen, writer and co-executive producer for The Simpsons, and John Halamka, MD, MS, CIO of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will keynote at the fourth-annual Red Hat Summit, taking place June 18-20, 2008 in Boston, Mass. In addition, …

McLean, Va., March 10, 2008 — ServInt, a pioneering provider of high-reliability web hosting for businesses worldwide, today introduced its new SuperVPS service.  The SuperVPS virtual private server is a powerful replacement for the traditional dedicated server.  It offers customers increased redundancy while providing the same computing performance of a traditional dedicated server — with significant cost savings.
As ServInt’s new flagship service, SuperVPS is ideal for small and medium-size web-based companies that demand a hosting service managed by experienced professionals.
SuperVPS is particularly well suited for socially …

HP today announced it has reached a settlement with Maxicom PC Inc., its owner-operators, and a sales representative who were defendants in gray market litigation that HP filed in February in a Florida federal court.
HP sought to recover more than $4 million in pricing discounts for computer equipment that Maxicom PC had received based on misrepresentations that the equipment would be resold to specified end-user customers.
“HP is committed to supporting our authorized business partners and protecting our mutual customers,” said Adrian Jones, vice president and general manager, Solution Partners Organization …

Announce Availability of Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
SANTA CLARA, CA REDMOND, WA March 10, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced two new milestones in their ongoing alliance - the official opening of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center on Microsoft’s Redmond campus for optimizing Microsoft applications on Sun Fire x64 server systems and storage, and the availability of the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. More information on the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is available …

Malaysian stocks tumbled the most in a decade today with government-linked companies hardest hit after the weekend’s political upsets.
At 2:58pm, trading was stopped for an hour as the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) fell 130.01 points to 1,166.32, from the previous day’s closing level 1,296.33 - about 10.03 percent.
Trading resumed at 3:58pm, and the stock market recovered slightly.
After it closed for the day at 5pm at 1,117.2, a drop of 123.11 or 9.5 percent.
This was the biggest one-day percentage loss in recent years. The turnover was valued at RM2.47 billion.
State-owned …

New systems based on the 450 gigabyte 15K-rpm Cheetah drives will deliver record performance, reliability, and dramatic reduction in power consumption
HANOVER, Germany-March 4, 2008-Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) announced it will begin shipping its new Cheetah® 15K.6 hard drive this month. Designed for the world’s most demanding enterprise storage environments, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive is Seagate’s highest-performance hard drive ever in a 3.5-inch form factor, with a 28% increase in sustained data transfer rates compared to previous generations. With this new performance on tap, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive remarkably consumes significantly less …