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Update: Oracle posts strong Q4, full-year results

Wall Street increasingly viewing Oracle as bellwether for overall tech space and even the larger economy

Yahoo defends Google deal to shareholders

Quoting better share prices and less dependency, Yahoo reassures stock owners that Google offers more than Microsoft would have

Enterprises sit up and take notice of low flash storage prices

Demand for flash memory devices and options is driving prices downward

Microsoft posts Vista SP1 reliability patches

First update for Windows Vista SP1 will be automatically pushed out to users

A new CFO for Google at last

Patrick Pichette is named as retiring Chief Financial Officer George Reyes' replacement

Is that a laptop in your pocket?

Expert notes that by 2010, smartphones will likely have eight times the CPU power they do now, rendering the bulky laptop obsolete

Microsoft expected to release Hyper-V Thursday

Sources indicate that Microsoft will launch its virtualization technology two months ahead of schedule

Gates may change direction of philanthropy

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's focus on creative capitalism, combining business and philanthropy to effect change, brings out critics on both sides of debate

Microsoft VP dangles possibility of XP availability past June 30

Company still not interested in licensing XP sales after that date

Debunking mobility myths

Senators question border laptop searches

Senators dispute the government's right to open laptops, read documents and e-mails, and examine the Web sites visited, all without any suspicion of wrongdoing

Bush: Tech workers won’t be hurt by visa extension

U.S. counters opposition to H-1B extensions by saying that foreign talent is needed to maintain competitiveness

Daily news beat for June 25, 2008

Progress buys Iona for SOA wares

The $162 million purchase of Iona will help Progress emerge as a full-feature SOA infrastructure provider

Dell adds storage, disaster management services to portfolio

New storage and disaster recovery offerings are part of Dell's push to reduce IT maintenance costs via customized hardware, software, and services

The dirtiest acronym in IT

Top 10 Firefox extensions

Yahoo fixes e-mail cross-site scripting flaw

Problem with the way Yahoo's Web mail interacted with its IM application could allow a hacker to get access to a person's account

Why is the new 3G iPhone so cheap?

Market researcher iSuppli says Apple's new iPhone costs just $173 to make

Sony, Sony Ericsson top latest Greenpeace ranking

Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics widens the focus to encompass corporate policies and practices toward climate change and energy issues

AT&T rolls out digital content delivery system

AT&T's new array of services are designed for large multinational organizations and enterprises with multiple offices

Microsoft releases security tools for ASP, ASP.Net

Tools are designed to protect Web sites that could be hit with SQL injection attacks

HP, Hitachi boost blade server offerings

Hitachi's new blades boast Intel's latest chips and Hewlett-Packard offers a specially configured appliance that handles data-warehousing

Keep Windows XP alive!

Microsoft says it's sticking to the June 30 deadline, but it also says it will listen to customers — so sign the Save XP petition now

Startup launches free search tool for virtual environments

Hyper9's free software helps virtual systems administrators search for meaningful data across virtual and physical machines

Intel’s Centrino 2 chips mushrooming on retail sites

PC makers and chip resellers are leaking details of Intel's upcoming Centrino 2 chips in advance of its official launch on July 14

Microsoft merger rumor prompts Yahoo trading

TechCrunch is reporting that Microsoft and Yahoo are holding merger talks again, causing more active trading of Yahoo's stock

WSO2 beefs up ESB

Version 1.7 of the open-source WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus features advances clustering capabilities; the company's registry is also being updated this week

Group says Google a top source of badware

According to Stopbadware.org, Google is one of the top five networks responsible for hosting dangerous websites

Microsoft denies Windows XP a last-minute reprieve

The company has re-asserted that it will stop shipping and licensing Windows XP on June 30

Cisco expands software for datacenter virtualization

Cisco is rolling out new products related to its Data Center 3.0 program, which uses the network as a means of applying virtualization across the entire datacenter

Free and open Symbian to hurt Android

Microsoft VP confirms Windows 7 ship date: January 2010

In a letter sent to enterprise and business customers, Microsoft says it is responding to users' request for a more regular, predictable Windows release schedule

Daily news beat for June 24, 2008

It’s not ‘Vista apps’ that matter

Will WiMax impact your business this year?

Enterprises thinking about investing in 4G services will have to decide whether it makes more sense to wait for LTE

When it looks to good to be true …

Update: Nokia buys rest of Symbian, will make code open source

Nokia's new approach could greatly benefit the Symbian platform by making it more stable and attractive to operators, developers, and consumers

What will become of Microsoft after Gates?

ICANN: Meddling with DNS poses security problem

Domain error resolution is a $1 billion industry; ICANN explains why ISPs and registrars should not be allowed to profit from people's typing errors in this way

Lenovo to offer new ThinkPad line for SMBs

New SL series ThinkPad laptop line will come with online backup services and LoJack technology to track down stolen laptops

Salesforce.com touts Web 3.0 as platform as a service

Company hails cloud-based application deployments that allow companies to have apps on-demand without the accompanying infrastructure

Dell extends Windows XP sales one week

Customer demand has caused Dell to push back its self-imposed deadline to stop selling PCs with Windows XP installed

How will 3G data services affect the enterprise?

Enterprises are finding ways of utilizing 3G technologies to mimic the desktop experience while out of the office, leading to a boost in productivity

Supreme Court to hear AT&T antitrust case

AT&T being sued by group of small California ISPs, who say AT&T were forcing small competitors out of business by setting wholesale prices too high

Free service tracks Amazon cloud’s performance

CloudStatus will provide real-toime performance metrics to users of Amazon Web Services, including EC2, S3, and SimpleDB

Linux kernel developers: Say no to closed-source modules

More than 135 Linux kernel developers are protesting vendors that create closed-source code modules for the kernel

The three S’s of service design

Gates’ historical legacy may focus more on philanthropy

The jury is still out on how history will view Microsoft founder

Should IT pros be thinking about Android?

Google's mobile phone platform still lacking devices, applications