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InterSystems details new integration suite

Ensemble package speeds up integration, company says

SQL Server ‘Yukon’ to get XML data type

CLR integration also planned for database

Intentia standardizes on IBM middleware

Swedish ERP maker will integrate IBM's middleware technology into its applications

AmberPoint, Microsoft partner on Web services

Visual Studio gets management software

Microsoft eyes Web services design tool

Offering to be similar to BEA product

Ohio accuses AOL of charging users without permission

State claims that AOL failed to honor cancellation requests from users on free subscription trials

Update: Longhorn gets first showing at PDC

Gates calls the forthcoming OS 'the biggest release of this decade, the biggest since Windows 95'

TSMC results hit high as chip sector recovers

Industry group now estimates chip demand will grow 14.2 percent to $161 billion in 2003

SCO: IBM cannot enforce GPL

Free Software Foundation is the only entity that can enforce the GPL, SCO officials say

Cisco partner upgrades performance management

Visual Networks divides its WAN management software into modules

Web services, XML touted for Longhorn

Microsoft again beats drum for planned operating system

Lotus set to launch Workplace 1.1

Updated collaboration platform gains team and real-time collaboration components

Antispam advocates question Senate bill

Critics say the CAN-SPAM Act will do little to stem the tide of spam

CeBIT America audit shows low attendance

Event's managers will focus on small numbers of influential IT decision makers

E.piphany upgrades to 6.5, adds four modules

Integration architecture allows users to tailor the software to their needs

Linux 2.6 creeps forward

OSDL releases test version of the kernel

Fujitsu preparing to launch new Tablet PC

Slate model carries larger screen, bigger hard drive than its predecessor

Symantec adds compliance features to ESM 6.0

Product includes best practices for variety of regulations

Veritas ports storage tools to SuSE Linux

Analyst says SuSE needed this to compete with Red Hat

Actional links Web services monitoring to Microsoft

Looking Glass tied to MOM

Symantec buys ON Technology

Security vendor spends $100 million to get remote PC management technology

Cerf: ICANN finally working on ‘substantive issues’

Group's chairman says it has been bogged down with organizational tasks

Cray models commercial supercomputer on Sandia machine

Red Storm machine to house thousands of AMD Opteron chips

SNIA unveils storage management spec

Former Bluefin spec achieves broad industry backing

NTT DoCoMo, Sony team on IC cards for phones

Companies look to bring electronic payment, travel pass and security to handsets

PDC sketches product road map

Microsoft gives developers early versions of Longhorn and Yukon

Burgeoning Russia IT blasts government policies

Corporate leaders complain that government is not supporting IT industry

Intel VP says Taiwan needs to flex some R&D muscle

Pat Gelsinger advises Taiwanese execs how to keep competitors from Russia, China, India at bay

U.S., Japan exchange IT, telecom deregulation views

U.S. calls for removal of regulatory barriers to e-commerce in Japan

California wins first state suit against spammers

Marketing company fined $2 million for sending unsolicited commercial e-mail

Report: Japanese government to invest in memory chip maker

Bank will invest in joint venture of NEC and Hitachi, report says

Update: AOL turning off users’ Windows Messenger

Company claims it is an aggressive move to combat spam

Motorola stacks mobile chip, memory

MXC chip to hasten mobile app dev and enable more wireless devices

Thinkpad workstations get graphics boost

High-performace models aimed at engineers, CAD/CAM

CA unveils suite take on eTrust

Identity management strategy echoes IBM, Novell plays

Office 2003 power comes at a cost

Deepened product interdependencies may ramp up license fees

U.S. Senate approves antispam bill

Bill allows fines as large as $3 million for some types of illegal spam

Law proposed for security audits

Public companies would report results yearly

Trend Micro’s bent for innovation

IBM previewing DB2 upgrade

'Stinger' release, due in 2004, is first in a series of previews

Microsoft, SuSE Linux unwrap messaging servers

Updated versions of Exchange, Openexchange tout cost savings

Messaging worlds on course to merge

XMPP, SIMPLE groups discuss interoperability

Judge ponders Microsoft license sales

Jurist in anti-trust case wonders why company has not sold more

Microsoft results could show weakness in license plans

Financial analysts express concern that Microsoft's installed base is rejecting its software subscription plan

Scientific computing: Apple’s next big leap?

Exec pushes idea of G5, Mac OS X, as platform for scientific use

Gateway to launch business PCs

Convertible Tablet PC among new offerings

IBM execs ponder technology plans

Semantic Web, Eclipse improvements eyed

U.S. to talk on piracy, technology transfer with China

Secretary of Commerce will focus on uneven level of competition

Consumer sales push Microsoft results up

Software giant reports increase in earnings, revenue for first quarter

Update: Nortel reports profit

Networking equipment maker to restate past results as part of ongoing review