Data crunch test Academics and government agencies have a new, giant test bed for their computer data crunching. Yahoo, Intel and Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday teamed up to provide computing power that they hope will encourage research on software developmen

NEW YORK - As Facebook has blossomed into a hot internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends - or at least, an Indian-created unauthorised version of the word game that Scrabble's owners have tried to shut down.

Intel began shipping its Atom Processor 330 Friday. The chip is the latest addition to the Atom product line and has been specifically designed to run on so-called nettops -- desktop computers built primarily in order to surf the Web, send e-mail and perf

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— Apr. 28, 2008 — VoIP software provider Skype is beta testing a Java-based version of its flagship VoIP soft-client. The new "mobile Skype" software is currently available for about 50 Java-enabled mobile phones, including devices made by Motorola,