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In addition, the computer maker plans to increase its overall charitable donations to 1 percent of its pre-tax profits by the beginning of February 2010. The contributions will come in the form of corporate cash, in-kind giving, and employee directed giving.

Dell made a move to expand its charitable giving overseas on Tuesday, launching its YouthConnect Initiative.

Dell YouthConnect plans to focus on education and digital inclusion in emerging technology countries

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The marriage of advertising and search

Because of that, it’s getting more difficult for competitors to get their search engine into prominent products like Firefox and the iPhone–a key success factor in the search business. Regardless, it’s a necessary step if a company wants to beat Google.

That’s why I don’t necessarily believe relevance is the only indicator for the future success or failure of Google. I don’

Somewhere down the line you need to be able to aggregate the usage and parse the data for all it to make sense. If you consider that Amazon.com is doing millions of transactions a day, there will be some serious effort required.

Zhen emphasized that improving cloud security isn’t too far off. For
example, companies and managed service providers already use log
management products to capture logs for a variety of
business operations and forensics purposes. Why not t

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Of course, representatives from Nokia and Samsung, plus other analysts and executives at the event, begged to differ. Globally, Nokia takes 40 percent of the hardware market share, said Rick Witham, Nokia’s head of channels and VC relations. In Europe especially, “it’s like Kleenex.”

For Jeff Smith, Smule’s outspoken CEO and co-founder, casting his audio app company’s loyalty with the iPhone is largely a matter of the platform’s capabiliti

This week, the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Regulations pushed back the deadline to comply with a new state law mandating encryption of sensitive consumer data. The law, passed in September 2008, was supposed to take effect on January 1, 2008. Instead, the deadline will now be pushed back to May 1.

3. The British National High-Tech Crime Unit estimates that cybercrime costs $4.7 billion per year.

2. The number of malicious code variants is exploding. Ac

Starting on Monday, One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop will be available through the Give One, Get One program again, this time facilitated by Amazon.com.

For $400, the nonprofit low-cost laptop program will send one XO to the purchaser and one to a school-age child in a developing country.

CNET News’ Ina Fried contributed to this report.

For more about the upcoming Windows XP version of the XO, see the video below.

OLPC said in September tha

Borrego Solar Systems, a manufacturer of a solar power systems that can connect to electrical grids, received $14 million in venture funding on Wednesday.

A 97.2 kilowatt solar photovoltaic system Borrego Solar installed for a mixed live/work property in Richmond, Calif.

The money will go toward the company’s expansion already under way to bring more solar installations to the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S., according to the company. Borrego Solar recently opened off

The 25 finalists run the gamut from multiplayer games to college search to event planning.

Facebook members can now vote on the second round of finalists for its FBFund seed funding competition, which will give out a total of $225,000 to five grand prize winners. The 25 companies currently in the running have already pocketed $25,000 apiece for the applications they have proposed for Facebook’s third-party developer platform.

Here’s an interesting tidbit: The FBFund08

In addition, fotonauts public albums can be turned into widgets and easily distributed to any Web page. Fotonauts provides a unique URL for each album for sharing.

But Hullot isn’t satisfied just to create an collaboration environment for images. “We have one goal–create a great search engine,” he said.

The same goes for the business model. Hullot said that users will be creating content useful for the whole community, and like Wikipedia, fotonauts could offer

VMware was clearly doing work behind the scenes to amp up its presence in virtualization related to clients. However, it remained a work in progress and largely out of the limelight–more a set of point products and solutions than a systematic capability.

That said, an experimental “offline desktop” capability that VMware announced as part of View dovetails with virtualization on the desktop (using a new client hypervisor project still under development), so it wouldn’t surpr