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Lawmakers question another ISP about NebuAd service

Legislators ask Kansas-based Embarq if it notified customers prior to testing controversial ad service

HP to offer datacenter-in-a-box

HP joins Sun Microsystems, Rackable Systems and IBM, among others, selling portable datacenters housed in shipping containers

Mobile life without Microsoft Exchange

Femtocells continue to make headway

The members of the Femto Forum have agreed on a standard for management of femtocells, yet another step toward a commercial roll-out of the small base stations for wireless home broadband.

Activists raise awareness over targeted advertising

In June 2007, Stephen Mainwaring of Weston Super Mare, England, noticed something wasn't quite right with his Web browser.

Update: SAP customers forced to move to pricier support

SAP announced Wednesday that as of Jan. 1, 2009, customers will be "transitioned" to the vendor's enterprise-level support, a change that will result in increased level of service but also higher fees down the road.

Is open source getting riskier, security-wise?

Serena linking requirements, change management

Serena's Dimensions RM 10.1.4 requirements management software can link to test and change management platforms

Microsoft updates servers with latest Search features

Microsoft has released three bundles of fixes and new features for its server products.

Symbian CEO says collaboration with Google is possible

Broader collaboration between Symbian and Google at either the application or operating system level is possible in the future, Symbian's CEO said Wednesday.

CyberLink sees opportunities in Netbooks, Linux

Company's software offerings include browser and several multimedia programs

Virtualization vendors start supporting common spec

Vendors would like to avoid a standards war that could keep potential customers from buying a product and are joining to create an interoperability specification

MS sets virtualization management tool pricing, ship date

Management software for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor will be available at the end of the year

Cisco enhances carrier router’s 40G support

IP over dense wavelength-division multiplexing interface intended to help service providers handle the growth in video traffic and IPTV applications

Zoho gets big partner win for its SaaS business apps

Zoho, maker of online collaborative and business productivity apps, lands six-month partnership with Swisscom to deliver products to telecom's 300,000 customers

Windows update servers score 100 percent uptime, beat competitors

Microsoft's Windows beat operating system rivals Mac OS X and Ubuntu in a three-month test of update server uptime, a Swedish uptime monitoring company said

Update: MS says Google/Yahoo deal means less competition

Microsoft executives contend that Yahoo's parternship with Google would give the companies 90 percent of the search advertising market

Open source business apps for the iPhone

Leopard MobileMe patch issued, mysterious notify pop-up; Windows MobileMe?

<p> Apple's MobileMe collaboration service for Mac and iPhone users got its true launch today with the distribution of a Mail patch for OS X Leopard. Now I'm checking out MobileMe's Windows side. </p>

Report: IT admin locks up San Francisco’s network

Network administrator is refusing to give police the password to a multimillion dollar computer system that handles sensitive data

Daily news beat for July 15, 2008

How sole-sourcing benefits vendors and customers alike

User group targets SAP’s talent shortage

ASUG's database is meant to help members find the right outsourcer at a time when SAP is experiencing a talent shortage it says is in the tens of thousands

Citrix aims to simplify mixed virtual environments

Making it easier for enterprises to run a mixed environment will become increasingly important as virtualization becomes a more mainstream technology

Centrino 2 with vPro coming in August

VPro version on Intel's Centrino 2 will contain support for 802.11n and an anti-theft feature designed to help companies more easily manage laptops

Sony unveils Centrino 2-based laptops

Sony reveals four Vaio laptops based on Intel's new mobile processor, which offers better multimedia performance and lower power consumption

New Eclipse member looks to rival Visual Studio

Russian company also added to the fold at open-source tools organization

Lenovo to push SSDs in more laptops

Business users seek a longer battery life, especially when traveling, and SSDs could help achieve that

Surviving sans Microsoft Office

Intel to shrink Centrino 2 chips for thinner laptops

Small Form Factor version of Centrino 2 will open the door to more ultra-thin laptop designs like Apple's MacBook Air

Intel to release quad-core chip for laptops next month

Very little PC software is designed to take advantage of multiple cores and it's unclear what performance benefits a quad-core chip will offer over a dual-core chip

Adobe readies ‘Gumbo’ upgrade to Flex

Company cites SDK component and skinning architecture as highlights of the next version of the Flex platform

Judge delays ‘spam king’ sentencing

Notorious spammer Robert Soloway is almost certain to get some jail time at his sentencing next week

Lenovo launches ultramobile ThinkPad laptops

Lenovo's ThinkPad X200 ultrathin laptop is one of the lightest fully functional laptops available

Intel launches Centrino 2 mobile platform

Intel claims its latest mobile platform will increase laptop battery life while delivering speedier performance and faster wireless connectivity

PC makers roll out Centrino 2 laptops

HP, Lenovo, and Fujitsu announce business laptops that support Centrino 2's speedier processors and improved mobility features

New Eclipse member looks to rival Visual Studio

Maven creator Jason van Zyl joins the Eclipse foundation

For me, Wednesday is iPhone 3G launch day

<p> The story of my T-Moile BlackBerry to AT&T iPhone 3G switch begins with the unboxing of iPhone 3G Wednesday morning. </p>

Open-source quality tester out in alpha

Alitheia Core is a usable alpha build of an open-source software quality-checking tool created by the Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software project

Microsoft buys Zoomix to add data quality to SQL Server

Microsoft plans to add Zoomix's Accelerator data-quality software to future releases of its SQL Server database

A look at Microsoft’s Visio 2007 add-in for virtualization

Daily news beat for July 14, 2008

XTuple releases ‘hybrid’ open-source ERP

Company formerly known as OpenMFG releases the 3.0 version of its ERP app with new features and JavaScript support for additional customization

6 security flaws prove IT needs to secure Macs

Sun and Fujitsu give Sparc servers a speed bump

Sparc Enterprise Server line has been updated with a new quad-core processor

IBM slims down the Web for your phone

IBM's Highlight software lets mobile users create slimmed-down Web pages that can be viewed more easily on small devices

New service tracks missing laptops for free

Adeona provides the IP address last used by a stolen laptop as well as data on what nearby routers it used to connect to the Internet, making it easier to track criminals

3 ways to cut enterprise applications support contracts

Hands on with Acer’s Aspire one netbook

Acer's mini-laptop impresses with features focused on Internet use, including browser, all-in-one e-mail box, unified messaging center, media software, and Office-like software

Enterprises become the battleground for social networking

Who will dominate social networking: Major software vendors or sites like Facebook?