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Daily news beat for June 16, 2008

New Nokia phones targeted at enterprises

Nokia stages a comeback in the enterprise market with its E71 and E66 mobile phones

Telligent: Atop the enterprise social software class

Update: eBay to open up merchant tool to developers

EBay will turn its Selling Manager tool into an open platform to enhance the visibility of third-party applications

BlackBerry vs. iPhone? Not so much …

AMD’s latest FireStream processor hits 1 teraflop

Latest version of AMD's FireStream 9250 high-performance chip package is due later this year

When even IT makes mistakes

New Samsung handsets made from corn

Samsung Electronics expands initiatives aimed at being more nature-friendly by unveiling its first mobile phone made using a new corn-based plastic

Microsoft snafu blocks enterprise patching

Administrators using one of Microsoft's patch distribution tools have not been able to install the latest security updates

Microsoft sponsors Open Source Census

Software giant's latest gesture toward the open-source community could help the census gain interest from larger enterprises

Support grows for universal power adapter

Startup Green Plug's smart power technology could help the environment by eliminating the need to ship a power adapter with every electronics device

Microsoft says it offered $9 billion to Yahoo

Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo's search assets for $1 billion and invest $8 billion in the remaining company before talks ended

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App replay extended to Java

Replay Solutions' ReplayDirector records the activity of apps and app servers to trace problems and find root causes

iPhone 3G not there yet for widescale business use

Even with all the enhancements Apple has announced, the iPhone still isn't quite ready to become a business handheld

Top 10: Yang sums it up, iPhone goes 3G

This week's roundup of the top tech stories includes Apple's big iPhone news, Yahoo shutting down Microsoft and partnering with Google, and more

FBI warns of child-support card scam

Phishing scam targets single parents who use EPPICards, which work like debit cards and are promoted as alternative to child support payment checks

Rentable virtual infrastructure: right for you?

Virtualization can allow a business to provision servers and deploy applications and upgrades far more quickly

On the obsolescence of computing books

MySpace to shake up its layout

MySpace will alter major components of its social-networking site to make it easier to navigate

Apple’s Snow Leopard: an OS without new features?

It's not as tough a sell as you'd think — and Apple is leaving the door ajar for a few new features

Daily news beat for June 13, 2008

Security firms frustrate loving customers

InfoWorld News Quiz: Tech’s worst kept secret this week

Acer’s Lanci takes over CEO role

Acer promotes top executives Gianfranco Lanci and J.T. Wang to new positions

Wall Street Beat: All eyes on Apple, Yahoo

Apple's iPhone 2.0 launch and Yahoo's search ad deal with Google overshadowed all other tech events this week for IT investors

British hacker faces extradition hearing

Gary McKinnon could become the first British hacker extradited to the U.S. for allegedly deleting data and accessing information on U.S. military and NASA computers

Weak evidence links congressmen’s cyberattacks to China

Chinese Foreign Ministry has denied any connection to the attacks; FBI declined to comment

AMD seeks advantages as x86 processors morph

AMD's strategy to compete with Intel includes facilitating the rewriting of software apps to tap the full potential of multiple CPU cores and the parallel computing power

FCC examines mobile termination fees

Customers, consultant tell FCC that early termination fees charged by mobile phone carriers are 'unique and predatory' and should be abolished

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IBM enhances Web 2.0 tools for businesses

Lotus Connections, Atlas upgraded with enhanced profiling, data display, and collaboration capabilities

Update: Google, Yahoo strike ad deal

The 10-year deal will feature Google advertising alongside Yahoo search results

Apple’s App Store vital to iPhone success, say analysts

Many analysts think the App Store be do for the iPhone what iTunes is for the iPod and that it can attract more developers to Apple's platform

Groups ask court to review laptop searches

EFF and ACTE file brief asking court to rehear and reverse decision that allows border agents to routinely search files on laptops and mobile devices

Intel developing video search technology

The video search technology cuts down videos frame-by-frame and then uses image and face recognition technology to recognize faces, objects, voices, and movements

Update: Yahoo ends talks with Microsoft, nears Google deal

Yahoo is not interested in a search deal with Microsoft and is instead further pursuing an arrangement with Google

A CTO’s take on agile and the social developer

Mozilla to release Firefox 3 on June 17

Company has started a campaign to set a Guiness World Record for most software downloads on the first day it is released

Windows group-management tools on tap

GroupID 5 merges Imanami's tools for synchronization, automation, and self-service into a single interface

NetSuite aims at SAP with manufacturing edition

NetSuite for Manufacturers includes capabilities for managing the production schedules, as well as functionality for automating inventory replenishment

Daily news beat for June 12, 2008

U.S. hacker gets 41 months for running rogue botnet

Hacker set up a botnet within Newell Rubbermaid's corporate network to install advertising software on PCs located throughout Europe without permission

Beijing prepares for ‘High-tech Olympics’

China will have spent five years and an estimated $400 million on IT planning and technology by the time the Olympics open on Aug. 8

Indian outsourcers gaining global share

Confidence in Indian providers is growing and customers are breaking down large multibillion orders into smaller orders that Indian outsourcers can handle, Gartner says

Sun code transforms x86 servers into storage arrays

Comstar can repurpose any OpenSolaris-based x86 server into a block-based storage device capable of emulating the physical characteristics of a storage array

Vista adoptions slipping

Spam-free blog search goes public

Swedish startup Twingly opens up beta testing of its blog search engine, which delivers spam-free search results