Research shows that U.S. regions where broadband was introduced saw accelerated job growth, but the increased labor pool weighed on wages
By Arik Hesseldahl
Increased access to high-speed Internet connections helps create jobs, though it doesn’t always result in higher wages, according to a new research report from the Public Policy Institute of California.
Areas of the [...]

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REDMOND, Wash.–After months of fits and starts, Microsoft and Yahoo on Wednesday announced a 10-year search deal that will see the two companies join forces to take on Google.

“In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers,” the companies [...]

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The antitrust police are after Microsoft again, but this time in Russia. Unlike other antitrust investigations involving Windows, the Russian case is focusing on Microsoft’s phase-out of XP, rather than bundling of various components into the base operating system.
The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) announced on June 4 it had opened an investigation of Microsoft. [...]

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Intel has recently announced that it will stall its Quad Core Intel Core
i7 940, 965 chips for retail availability. After that hiccup, Intel’s new Quad Core processors from Core i7 family showed up at the retail level sites
PCs for all and try Tage. Intel Core i7 950 and Core i7 Extreme 975 is expected to [...]

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Intel has been fined more than 1 billion euros by the European Commission for violating antitrust legislation, following a lengthy investigation prompted by complaints made by its chipmaking rival Advanced Micro Devices.
Intel is being fined 1.06 billion euros ($1.45 billion) for engaging in illegal anticompetitive practices to exclude competitors from the market for computer chips [...]

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