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Judge finds Qualcomm in contempt of injunction

Qualcomm must pay Broadcom royalties and gross profits earned from the QChat push-to-talk software that Qualcomm was ordered to stop sellling

IBM flash memory breaks 1 million IOPS barrier

IBM research project delivers flash storage data transfer speeds that are two and a half times faster than the industry's fastest disk storage

Comcast sets monthly bandwidth limit for customers

Beginning Oct. 1, Comcast will limit customers to 250GB of bandwidth a month and will suspend their service if they fail to comply

Performance-improvement integral to Windows 7, IE8

User complaints of major performance problems in Windows Vista and IE7 hurt Microsoft's reputation, which the company hopes to repair with its next-gen releases

Google introduces Android apps store

Android Market is a concept similar to Apple's iPhone App Store and will feature YouTube-style feedback and rating systems

Update: Google extends Apps Premier credit for Gmail outages

The company is hoping to convince users to stay with its SaaS offerings and not be scared away by service outages

Aptana adds Python to Web 2.0 nest

Company already has backed AJAX, Ruby on Rails, and PHP, and its Pydev buy will add Python to the mix

Why your project management practices are failing

Forrester report says IT project management practices are stuck in the mud

Microsoft warns of IE8 lock-in with XP SP3

XP SP3 users won't be able to uninstall either the service pack or Internet Explorer 8 under some circumstances

Developers rest easier with JavaScript reversal

Foregone enhancements might have helped some developers, but many coders found them too complex

Sprint’s WiMax service to include local features

Sprint Nextel partners with uLocate to present location-based content on its Xohm Web portal that will change as a subscriber moves from one place to another

European court won’t stop U.K. hacker’s extradition to U.S.

Gary McKinnon is accused of breaking into computers belonging to NASA and the U.S. military

Nortel uses USB drive to secure remote work

Nortel's 'office on a stick' USB drive can link almost any PC with a corporate VPN and keep all the information from a session encrypted

Nexus 1.0 to ease Maven repository management

Sonatype will release open source tool for developers using Maven 2

Cloned code finder offered for Visual Studio

Developers can analyze C# projects and find cloned code, which can lead to inconsistencies; capabilities for Visual Basic, .Net, and C++ to come in the next release

LG unveils netbook PC with embedded 3G at IFA

LG X110 also supports 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, is based on the 1.6GHz Atom processor, and has a 10-inch WSVGA resolution and a wired Ethernet connector

Cisco buys into e-mail with PostPath acquisition

Cisco's $215 million acquisition of PostPath will add e-mail and calendaring capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform

Microsoft Office Live Small Biz suffers outage, lost e-mail

Microsoft acknowledges a "brief isolated" e-mail outage, joining Apple's MobileMe and Google's Gmail in having online service woes

Grim outlook for U.S. IT spending

New study finds that U.S. companies are pulling back hard on IT spending as the economic downturn continues

Oracle integrates CRM On Demand with Siebel

Hybrid approach to CRM allows companies to more easily add new users while enabling data from both systems to be analyzed at once

Samsung: Market for SSDs in low-cost PCs exploding

Market for low-density SSDs will grow by 57 percent per year annually until 2011 due mainly to brisk demand for low-cost PCs, Samsung predicts

Intel brings more than lip service to green IT

Mozilla extension would tap into typed commands

Experimental extension to Mozilla Firefox lets people substitute simple text commands for complex Web tasks

Sharing Microsoft Office files: A 5-minute productivity tip

All too often people share documents by sending the files around in e-mail, when there's a better way that takes only moments to learn

Locked iPhones can be unlocked without a password

Private information stored in Apple's iPhone and protected by a lock code can be accessed by anyone just by pushing a few buttons

China aims for petaflop computer in 2010

China still lags behind its international rivals in chip development but is stepping up investment in its homegrown Godson microprocessor

Fujitsu readies eight-core Sparc64 chip

Eight-core processor, code-named Venus, will have an embedded memory controller and offer peak throughput of 128Gflops

Linux end-user summit planned

Event scheduled for October in New York City is intended to bring together users, senior Linux developers

Update: Google may let users comment on, rearrange search results

Google has already run public tests on its search results pages

Microsoft tweaks anti-piracy check for Windows XP

The company said it made changes to the Windows Genuine Notification for Windows XP Professional Edition

Alcatel-Lucent introduces Gigabit Ethernet switches

OmniSwitch 6400 comes in six models that can be stacked so a single logical switch supports a maximum of 384 ports

Mac clone maker sues Apple, plays antitrust card

Psystar has answered Apple's suit by filing one of its own, and says there's been no modification of propriety Mac code

Four quick tips for choosing an IM security product

71 percent of businesses will invest in real-time messaging this year. If you're one of them, be sure to protect your enterprise

Forrester analysts ID hot IT jobs

Research group finds 16 IT roles with a promising future

Nvidia claims 10 hours of HD video on Tegra chip

The Tegra 600 and 650 can be used with hard disk drives and are designed partly for mobile Internet devices

Database vendors add Google’s MapReduce

Greenplum and Aster Data Systems will support Google's programming technique, developed for parallel processing of large data sets across commodity hardware

Network management: Tips for managing costs

New technologies, changing requirements, and ongoing equipment maintenance and upgrades cost money, but there are ways to manage expenses

EMC targets SMBs, branch offices with new low-end storage

Celerra NX4 highlights include thin provisioning, snapshot technology for data recovery and backups, and Web-based console for management of storage volumes

Call out a phisher, get attacked by malware

In new twist, phishing scam snares victims through a log-in screen where they can give the cybercrooks a piece of their mind

Update: U.S. border-crossing database raises concerns

U.S. Customs plans to collect personal information on every traveler coming into the country and keep that information in a database for 15 years

HP closes EDS deal, preserves leadership team

No top-level management shuffle as HP folds much of its legacy services capability into the EDS management framework

Java developers get repository help

Nexus 1.0 tool from Sonatype leverages Maven capabilities

Prepaid software: Demand your vendors allow it

Nokia expands its N series of smartphones

Nokia will also start selling an Americanized version of the upcoming N96 smartphone

HP and Acer start netbook price war

Acer slashes prices on its Aspire one netbooks to as low as $329, while HP reveals new prices for Mini-Notes

Google drops Bluetooth, GTalkService APIs from Android 1.0

Software developers won't be able to create apps for the Android OS that use Bluetooth, but handsets using Android will still work with Bluetooth devices such as headsets

IE8 to get privacy features

Microsoft's next browser release will make it easier for people to delete and control information about their Web browsing history

Citrix puts virtualization spin on flagship software

XenApp 5, which replaces Presentation Server 4.5, features load times as much as nine times faster than the previous version

Twenty ways to survive a layoff

One day you're employed, the next you're not. One writer provides tips on how to deal with aspects you may not have thought about.

Designing iPhone business apps: Does usefulness outweigh effort?

Various vendors are designing business apps for the iPhone, but not all of them agree that it's worth it