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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

Ford explores switch to Linux-based servers

Desktop platform remains Microsoft

Expedia owner InterActiveCorp scoops up Hotwire

Online travel empire is expanded

Judge orders Microsoft to pay state’s attorneys’ fees

Massachusetts owed nearly $1 million

Sun pricing model wows users

Per-employee system draws reactions

TruSecure tackles risk management

Move seen as part of effort to repackage services

Virginia Tech prepares to deploy Apple supercomputer

System based on G5 desktops

OASIS ratifies SAML 1.1

RSA supports latest version in products

Offshore outsourcers grapple with U.S. backlash

U.S. reaction a common theme among foreign competition

‘Right-sized’ Baan to become market focused

Leaner comany to create products based on customer need, offical says

Acer readies new notebooks for Q4 launch

Company touts Tablet, widescreen notebook

U.K. fights spam with law and a trip to Washington

MPs will attempt to persuade U.S. lawmakers to take a tough 'opt-in' approach to spam

Oracle e-mail shows losses to Peoplesoft, spin efforts

Internal memos give insight into competition

North Korean cellphone network goes nationwide

40 base stations installed to establish the network

BEA recruits 30 ISVs for Workshop

Third-party extensions will allow developers to link to apps built in WebLogic Workshop

Sun makes crucial step toward open source J2EE

Object Web Consortium to begin testing on JOnAS

ASEAN countries to combine on cybersecurity

Each country to create its own CERT by 2005

ADIC to integrate disk and tape backup

Pathlight VX RAID 5 system houses up to 40 TB of serial ATA disks

IBM announces availability, price of Lotus Notes 6.5

Latest iteration due by September's end at $90 per user

ICANN asks Verisign to suspend controversial service

Organization to conduct investigation into Site Finder service

Global Crossing buyout gets U.S. go-ahead

Singapore Technologies approved to buy $250 million stake in bankrupt company

Sony in talks with Samsung, others on LCD venture

Denies reports that the companies are already discussing final details

Toshiba, Samsung plan to merge optical disc drive ops

Increasing competition in the market is behind the plan

Sonic beefs up integration suite

Company adds BPM, XML, and development environment to suite

CRM vendors tout major upgrades

Vendors target data quality with new versions and modules of their applications

Mercury Interactive heats up optimization suite

BTO player eyes systems management opportunities

Microsoft builds out Office components

Software add-ons expand Office System's reach

PeopleSoft peddles more Oracle emails

Microsoft to charge for Mobile Hotmail

Fees begin December 3

IT in permanent decline, execs worry

Industry leaders at Intel Developer Forum air concerns about US future

JBoss joins JCP, but without J2EE certification

Developers now able to participate in "expert groups"

Motorola chairman, CEO Galvin retires

Successor not yet appointed

Sun touts Fast Web Services plan

Binary encodings key to proposal

Code editors renew approach to IDEs

Developers seek more control over productivity with an old programming tool standby

Intel focuses on blades

Effort will tap server management and provisioning software from Veritas

DemoMobile illuminates unwired future

Show focuses on wireless management and infrastructure

VeriSign changes prompt privacy warnings, anger

Privacy advocates claim Site Finder captures user data

Bluetooth reality check

BTO buzz rises at TechXNY

Outsourcing moves to 'transformation' stage

Intel showcases chip visions

Convergence theme competes with desktop, server chip announcements

PeopleSoft customers believe Oracle deal is dead

Conference attendees watch the Oracle FUD fade away