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Former Intel worker faces more charges in alleged trade secrets ...

CNET Tech blog  Thu, 11/06/2008 - 10:53am

Man faces four new counts of wire fraud for allegedly stealing trade secrets from the chip maker while working for competitor Advanced Micro Devices.



 

PayPal competitor unveils details on eBay services

CNET Tech blog  Tue, 10/07/2008 - 9:11am

ProPay, a PayPal competitor will try its luck on eBay by the end of October.



 

Gas Drops Below $3 a Gallon in Austin

KEYE - CBS 42  Mon, 10/06/2008 - 11:24am

An Austin gas station is advertising a gallon for $2.89. Next door, a competitor is showing $2.97. What's behind the drop in prices?



 

Cisco unveils collaboration lineup; Enterprise 2.0 on the move?

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Wed, 09/24/2008 - 9:50am

Cisco on Wednesday rolled out its collaboration portfolio as it targets the enterprise market–and notably the Microsoft SharePoint juggernaut.

At least Cisco isn’t alone–Oracle earlier this week unveiled Beehive, which is another collaboration effort.

Oracle wouldn’t say that Beehive is a direct competitor to SharePoint, but it certainly looks that way.



 

Sony Ericsson ready to challenge Nokia's 'Comes with Music'

CNET Tech blog  Thu, 09/18/2008 - 3:01pm

It's teaming with British firm Omnifone to launch a competitor to Nokia. All four music sources are aboard, according to sources.



 

Remote meeting app Fuze is decent but incomplete

CNET Tech blog  Thu, 09/18/2008 - 12:13pm

Callwave releases its Flash-based Webex competitor.



 

Mozilla: Threat to Windows or boilerplate risk factor?

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Sun, 08/03/2008 - 1:56pm

InformationWeek made a big deal of Microsoft citing Mozilla as a competitor to Windows in its annual report, but the report is a bit overblown.

InformationWeek writes: Microsoft always paints a picture of the competitive landscape in when it files its annual 10-K report to the Securities and Exchange Commission.



 

Creative introduces superslim Flip competitor: The Vado Pocket V...

CNET Tech blog  Tue, 05/13/2008 - 2:28pm

The Vado appears to be slimmer than the Flip Video Ultra.

(Credit: Creative)



 

OpenOffice 3 beta: More compatibility, new features

CNET Tech blog  Wed, 05/07/2008 - 3:55pm

Sun Microsystems has released the first beta for OpenOffice.org 3 for Windows and Mac.

The popular open-source competitor to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 3 looks to offer users improvements on every component from interface to features to behavior.



 

UNIX - Let’s get together and feel all right

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Fri, 04/18/2008 - 7:00am

People have often accused me of dreaming too much and not having my thoughts anchored in reality, particularly in this world of multi-billion dollar technology companies and big business, when huge amounts of money are at stake and every competitor is vying for the top spot.