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Yahoo to add new domains to Webmail service

Yahoo will make millions of new addresses available to its Webmail account holders

Hands on with MSI’s Wind low-cost laptop

MSI's Wind wins high marks for battery life, performance, screen size, and the size of the keypad

China government office denies Microsoft investigation

China's State Intellectual Property Office says it has never undertaken any market monopoly investigation, and has no plan to do so

Firefox 3 vulnerability found

Tipping Point ranked the severity of Firefox 3's vulnerability as high, but said users would have to click on a link in an e-mail or visit a malicious Web page before being affected

HP, VMware team to manage virtual servers

HP an VMware are expanding their parternship to jointly develop management software that offers more than base-level capabilities

Microsoft calls shots on Windows XP downgrades, says Dell

Dell claims that Microsoft has placed a restriction on Windows XP downgrades, allowing them only on PCs intended for gaming

OLPC spin-off developing UI for Intel’s Classmate PC

Six months after leaving OLPC board, Intel partners with Sugar Labs Foundation to develop a version of Sugar, the UI originally created for OLPC's XO laptop

Red Hat Network to be open-sourced

Company CEO sees quicker development ahead for Red Hat's Web-based Linux infrastructure management platform

Update: Mozilla logs 8 million-plus Firefox 3 downloads in a day

Despite temporarily overloading Mozilla servers, browser's dynamite debut could net a Guinness World Record

Red Hat unveils new virtualization initiatives

Red Hat is adding an embeddable hypervisor and management console that is compatible with both Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Gripes about Vista and Silverlight

Sprint Nextel to launch WiMax in September

Sprint Nextel's joint venture with Clearwire will finally debut in September with a rollout in Baltimore

Daily news beat for June 18, 2008

Social networking site LinkedIn valued at $1 billion

Successful round of funding appears to validate LinkedIn's 'all business' feature set and look-and-feel, which are different from conventional social-networking sites

Cybercriminals turning to health-care data

Finjan security researchers see growing thirst from cybercriminals for data other than credit-card numbers

Carriers look to next U.S. administration on Net neutrality issue

U.S. telecommunications carriers say the impact a change in the White House will have on the issue of Net neutrality isn't clear

What BitTorrent throttling really means

Pitting Microsoft against VMware

Microsoft unaware of reported China investigation

China's reported probe follows a series of antitrust actions against Microsoft in South Korea, Europe, and the U.S.

Web 2.0 scores successes in the enterprise

Best Buy, Serena, and Oracle tout their social networking projects

Wine open source emulation software pops its cork

Wine allows Windows applications to run natively on other operating systems, including versions of Linux, Unix, and the Mac OS

SanDisk, Toshiba join to develop 3D memory

Venture could ultimately result in a new kind of memory technology to take over from NAND flash memory

WiMax Forum approves Mobile WiMax products running at 2.5GHz

Certification is long overdue because 2.5GHz is the frequency Clearwire and Sprint use in the U.S., analyst says

Report: China launches Microsoft antitrust probe

China's State Intellectual Property Office is investigating whether Microsoft engaged in discriminatory pricing

Looking back on the Top500 supercomputers

Interview: Erich Strohmaier talks about how the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers is put together and the performance gains it has seen

IBM’s Cell-based RoadRunner supercomputer is world’s fastest

RoadRunner pushes the IBM BlueGene/L system off the top spot in the Top 500 supercomputers that it has held since November 2004

Google’s App Engine breaks down

Google's application-hosting service suffers an outage as a result of a bug in its datastore servers

Windows XP on a new Dell will cost up to $50 extra

After Wednesday, Dell will start charging extra to do a factory install of Windows XP on its PCs

Gartner: iPhone 3G’s business readiness still in question

Businesses are eager to adopt the iPhone 3G but some questions about device security remain

Firefox 3 ‘Download Day’ cripples Mozilla site

Mozilla had hoped to set a dowload record, but its servers balked under the strain

Carriers say telecom fuels economic growth

At NXTcomm trade show, telecommunication execs tout their companies' investments in high-speed data, video, and voice networks

Fortinet buys assets of security vendor IPLocks

The purchase will give Fortinet a new line of database security and auditing tools

JBoss joins Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2

Customers can either license JBoss on EC2 and receive a virtual image of the software, or make their subscription of JBoss available on Amazon's compute cloud

BMC scoops up ITM

ITM's apps for managing the business aspect of IT fills a gap in BMC's product line

Does Google really ‘do no evil’?

Open source batch framework debuts

SpringSource, Accenture partner on Spring Batch, which can help enterprises reduce design and development times

Daily news beat for June 17, 2008

Knocking off Windows 7

BI vendors trying to reach the rank and file

Industry is heading toward 'pervasive BI,' providing more people access to analysis tools, analyst says

.Net, Java tops with wireless app builders

iPhone, Android are relative newcomers but are expected to gain more adherents

Pimp my datacenter

HP IT automation strategy set

Product rollout mixes technologies from different acquisitions, supports SOA, and offers SaaS options

Carrier Ethernet growing faster and smarter

Road to 100G Alliance targets seven key technical problems in the path to faster optical and Ethernet links

Intel puts solar technology into new company

SpectraWatt will develop solar energy technology and produce solar cells

Update: IBM says it has ‘no plans’ to open-source DB2 database

Despite comments from an IBM U.K. executive, the company says it will not open-source its flagship database

Adobe updates LiveCycle process automation

Content repository added along with support for AIR

Yahoo investor urges shareholders to pick Door No. 3

A major Yahoo shareholder believes the company's board should be a mix of current members and new members proposed by Carl Icahn

Novell patches Suse Linux kernel for VMware efficiency

The upgrade lets the kernel take advantage of paravirtualization techniques so it runs more efficiently as a guest operating system

Microsoft, Nortel offer hosted unified communications

The fully hosted UC service is based on Nortel Communications Server 2000 and the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Version 4.5

SOA: Service externalization ain’t easy