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Dell hopes to strike a chord with holiday shoppers

A new Axim PDA is among products announced

IBM, Microsoft get cozy over Web services

Bill Gates and Steve Mills shun rivalries for public display of cooperation

ITAA panel debates outsourcing pros, cons

Administration hopes to fuel U.S. growth with increased investments in R&D, education

Microsoft prevails in Office Smart Tag patent suit

Summary judgment rules Smart Tags do not infringe Hyperphrase’s patents

Kodak focuses on digital printing

Move will put Kodak in direct competition with HP, Xerox, Canon

Update: California bans all spam e-mail

Law sets up an 'opt-in' requirement

Connexion in-flight Internet adds Atlantic coverage

Commercial service scheduled to begin in early 2004

PC technology takes center stage at Computex

Show postponed by SARS now gets its chance to highlight advances in computing technology

Update: Intel invests $450M in memory maker Micron

Next generation of chips anticipated

Samba 3.0 to be released Thursday

Open source project to unveil major release of their Unix, Linux file server software

Interview: Oracle plugs the power of the grid

Oracle's executive VP for server technology discusses security, grid rival IBM

Report: Amazon developing e-commerce search technology

Service will compete against Yahoo, Google

Java panel pondering Web services, portal proposals

J2EE 1.4 readied for approval

Today’s experiments hint at tomorrow’s technology

Testing methodologies enabled by advanced computing will lead to breakthroughs

Genome transforms, challenges drug discovery

Techniques for mining and analyzing vast amounts of data can be refined and improved

Salesnet aims Express at low end of CRM market

Offering retains much of the functionality of the standard edition

States protest congressional Internet tax ban

But backers say bill is essential for Internet growth

HP to indemnify Linux clients against SCO

HP will offer to take over litigation against its customers by SCO

i2 expands India staff for SCM customization

Company already employs more than 1,000 people in Bangalore

FTC settles with VeriSign over domain transfers

Company will provide refunds to customers who responded to deceptive marketing

Chip vendors prepare for 90 nanometer era

Intel, IBM, Texas Instruments ready to release first 90 nanometer chips

U.S. immigration system hit by virus

Network links suspended between Washington, foreign embassies, and consular offices for nine hours

Report: Widespread use of Microsoft poses security risk

Organizations should diversify their software mix, says industry group

AppForge adds support for Series 60, Palm OS5

Move lets developers create an application once and use it across different devices

Update: European Parliament votes to limit scope of software patents

Issue still must be debated by European Union member states

AMD’s Athlon 64 seen in short supply

Volume shipments of PCs based on the chip are not expected until next year

Myhrvold argues in favor of invention

Interview: Schwartz smells the services

Sun's software VP reveals his services strategy

Symantec buys storage company PowerQuest

Symantec to integrate PowerQuest technology into its Active State Management software

Sophos buys antispam vendor ActiveState for $23 million

Sophos will merge ActiveState's PureMessage gateway mail product with its own MailMonitor

Seagate to ship drives with Lindows

Some models of Barracuda family will have English version of the OS pre-installed

Microsoft to pull plug on free chat

MSN chat will become subscription-only service in the U.S.

Congress questions database protection proposal

Skepticism from members from two U.S. House subcommittees on if more protection is needed

Oracle e-mail product gets BlackBerry support

Blackberry users can now access Oracle Collaboration Suite e-mail on their handhelds

India blocks a Yahoo site

Government says it promotes "antinational news"

BEA says deployments on HP up 31 percent

But Sun remains the dominant platform for BEA's middleware products

Gov’t agency uses buying power to encourage security

Oracle asked to build new features in database software

AMD fires up 64-bit chips

Athlon chips see AMD step ahead of Intel in 64-bit computing

Symantec adds antivirus to early warning system

Changes to DeepSight give users more comprehensive picture of Internet security

Intel brings hyperthreading to luggable notebooks

Functionality will be added to Mobile Pentium 4 chip

Google test drives location search tool

Users can query for nearby services, stores

Sun signs up five more OEMs for Java

Acer, Gateway, Toshiba join the ranks of hardware developers installing JVM onto machines

Microsoft unwraps Windows XP 64-bit beta

Final release due first half of next year

Abit improves system monitoring for PCs

Function tracks voltage, fan speed, overclocking settings and temperature

Sun shows new way for computers to communicate

Proximity communication could spell the end of the integrated circuit board

Red Hat moves into enterprise software

Initiative focuses on interoperability among components in the enterprise

Yahoo offers new product search, e-commerce packages

Three new e-commerce packages are integrated with its Web hosting services

Nvidia debuts graphics chip for handhelds

Company looking to break away from its traditional PC graphics market

Hush debuts fanless Pentium 4-based PC

Hush ATX's aluminum case resembles a high-end stereo component

VeriSign ignores ICANN, faces new wildcard suit

Site Finder service questioned