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Otellini e-mail among those missing in AMD case
E-mail messages from some of Intel Corp.'s most senior executives are among those that should have been preserved but were not after the chip-maker was sued for alleged antitrust violations by Advanced Micro Devices Inc., according to a court transcript released by AMD.

HP pitches PCs for new Energy Star standard
Four months before federal regulators apply stringent new efficiency standards to desktop PCs, Hewlett-Packard Co. has tweaked three computers to qualify for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star 4.0 label.

Samsung samples 8 GB flash chip for mobile phones
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun shipping samples of an 8 G-byte flash memory chip, enough to store up to 2,000 songs on a mobile phone, the company said on Monday.

EDS acquiring Indian testing company
Electronic Data Systems Corp. is acquiring RelQ Software Pvt. Ltd., a privately owned software testing company in Bangalore, India, to strengthen its global testing capabilities by offering applications testing, validation and verification, and quality assurance services.

Cisco, IBM expand joint support to 46 countries
Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. are expanding a cooperative support offering from the U.S. to 46 other markets. Through the offering, called Managed Maintenance Solutions for Cisco Products, enterprises that use IBM as a systems integrator can get Cisco technical support by calling IBM.

More efficient quad-core Xeons coming Monday
Intel Corp. quad-core microprocessors that work at an energy-efficient 50 watts per processor will officially be on the market starting today, according to the company.

GoDaddy hit with denial-of-service attack
Domain registrar and hosting company GoDaddy.com Inc. was hit with "significant and sustained" distributed denial-of-service attacks Sunday, causing four to five hours of intermittent service disruptions, including hosting and e-mail, the company said.

Seagate ships super secure hard drive
Two years after first being announced by Seagate, the world's most secure hard drive is finally to go on sale in a laptop from system vendor ASI.

Verizon ruling could be hard on Vonage
Shares of Vonage Holdings Corp. plunged Friday in the wake of a patent-infringement ruling against the company that some analysts called a grim outcome for the VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service provider.


BOOK REVIEW

MySQL Cookbook, 2nd Edition
By Sandra Henry-Stocker

MySQL is one of the most popular open source databases. With an estimated 10 million active installations and more then 50,000 downloads every day, it runs on nearly every Unix platform and Windows as well. Along with this popularity, however, comes a host of questions from users on how to best accomplish any of a myriad of tasks. That's where MySQL Cookbook comes in. Whether you're new to MySQL or a long-time user, you will find numerous "tricks" that you can put to immediate use.


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