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AUSTIN, Texas-Thirty-two hungry entrepreneurs showed off their products and services at the SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft BizSpark on March 14 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival. The …

AUSTIN, Texas – Thirty-two hungry entrepreneurs showed off their products and services at the SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft Corp. BizSpark on March 14 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive …

In a move seemingly directly aimed at competing with Apple Inc.’s iPod Touch, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced a new ultra mobile device – the Galaxy Player, which comes in two flavors of either a 4-inch or 5-inch screen.

Sony Corp.’s legal team must be a busy bunch at the moment. On the one hand they’re battling LG Electronics Co. Ltd. in a Blu-Ray patent dispute that has seen European Union Playstation imports impounded in Holland, and on the other hand they’re fighting an increasingly vitriolic battle against renowned hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz, who is in hot water for cracking open the security on the companies popular console.

Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Corp.’s newest and fastest-ever browser, has scored around 2.3 million downloads since it launched on Monday evening. Microsoft has issued a back-slapping blog post detailing the feat, and certainly seems pleased as punch that people are flocking to their new browser.

Qualcomm Inc. says it does not foresee any significant impact to its semiconductor supply chain after last week’s earthquake in Japan and says it shouldn’t have a problem in continuing to supply product to its customers.

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. has decided to cancel its participation in the CTIA Wireless tradeshow in the aftermath of the powerfully destructive earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11.

Google Inc. has been rolling out plenty of new features to its Docs productivity suite over the last few months, most noticeably enabling editing on mobile devices in response to the increasing proliferation of smart phones and tablets. Now the search giant has added another one of those features you didn’t realise was missing until you try it, “Discussions.”

AUSTIN, Texas – As the nerds packed up their DSLRs and laptops, the music contingent descended upon Austin, marking the end of SXSW Interactive. Day five meant for an interesting melange …

Facebook may have most of the buzz and mindshare these days, but Google Inc. is still home to some of the hottest talent in Silicon Valley, as proved by the performance of one Petr Mitrichev at the inaugural Facebook Hacker Cup. Petr is currently the highest ranked Algorithmic Coder in the world, and just so happens to work at Google.