Grant Gross

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$838 billion stimulus package gets Senate OK

The Senate voted 61-37 to pass the legislation, pushed by U.S. President Barack Obama. The Senate version of the bill, however, cut spending on a smart electricity grid project and on health IT

Google, partners release net neutrality tools

Though Measurementlab.net, the online search company will offer a network diagnostic tool so users can figure out if their ISP is putting their traffic on the back burner.

Sprint Nextel to lay off about 8,000 workers

After chalking up a loss of about 3.5 million mobile phone customers from 2007 to 2008, Sprint Nextel says it will slash some 8,000 positions by the end of March this year

Court orders White House to preserve Bush-era e-mails

With only a few days left before George Bush leaves to make way for Barack Obama, comes a report that more than 5 million e-mails over a nearly a three-year period covering the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the devastation by Hurricane Katrina has gone missing. White House staff workstations and other storage devices will be searched following a lawsuit filed by two watchdog groups

Dell revamps business sales units

Computer maker hopes gain global perspective and respond quicker to customer requests

Google, Microsoft still support net neutrality

Microsoft and Google dismiss reports that they are straying from the principle of an unbiased Internet

Obama: Broadband, computers part of stimulus package

The President-Elect wants every American doctor and hospital to have electronic health records and plans to make public buildings more energy-efficient. Get the details on Obama

Nvidia releases $10,000 ‘personal supercomputer’

New systems runs at processing speeds of four teraflops, or four trillion floating point operations per second but cost 100 times cheaper that grid computers

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