LAS VEGAS–Like last month’s RSA Conference, there’s a sufficient amount of hype about virtualization here at Interop. From a marketing perspective, this is to be expected. The industry is ga-ga over virtualization, so everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Beyond the spin however, server virtualization and networking are …

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Want to start a tech company?

Chances are, if you’re a U.S. entrepreneur, you’re 39 years-old, hold a bachelor’s degree and have a good chance your company was started in the same say where you received your education, according to a study released Thursday by the …

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Samsung HT-BD2S: the “s” is for “smaller speakers”

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A second Blu-ray home theater system has joined Samsung’s product line-up. The HT-BD2S is essentially identical to its predecessor, the Samsung HT-BD2T, but with two important distinctions: the BD2S has small satellite speakers (versus the four tallboy models that anchored the BD2T), and it’s available for an even $1,000 (a 33 percent discount off the BD2T’s asking price).

Does the downsized price and speaker size make the HT-BD2S more attractive than its large brother? …

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–At an Internet conference here Wednesday, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs tried to predict the future of the social-media business. Guess what? It looks a lot like the Web business model we’ve now.

Why the prognostication? VCs and executives are all trying to figure out how they …

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A federal district court in New York ruled Wednesday that the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is owed “reasonable license fees” by online media powerhouses AOL, RealNetworks, and Yahoo for the music streamed and distributed on their sites.

Currently, music streamed by sites owned by the three companies …

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Advertisers now can use Google Television Ads to, well, place ads on Television, Google said Wednesday. The service is out of its invitation-only beta program that began in June, the company said on its AdWords blog.

No doubt this service will get more interesting when the glorious future of integrated …

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As the week drags on, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer under pressure to propose which option to take in his unsolicited bid to purchase Yahoo, here are some stats to put in the spreadsheet.

But first, some background. Microsoft’s board, which reportedly met Wednesday, apparently came to no conclusion …

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We’re constantly hearing that seamless integration of TV and broadband video is fast approaching, but nobody’s gotten it right yet. That hasn’t stopped new companies from jumping into the mix.

Enter Sezmi, the latest start-up hoping to capture the market: on Thursday, the venture-backed company unveiled a …

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New movie releases from a number of major and independent studios will be available on iTunes the same day they’re offered on DVD, Apple announced Thursday.

Starting this week, iTunes customers will be able to buy movies just now being released on DVD, including American Gangster and The Diving …

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Business software maker SAP on Wednesday reported a steeper-than-expected drop in its first-quarter profits, due mainly to acquisition costs and the slumping dollar.

The company said net income fell 22 percent to 242 million euros, or $376.7 million, from 310 million euros in the year-earlier quarter. The latest quarter …

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