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Apple releases QuickTime 7.5 with bug fixes

New version of Apple's QuickTime multimedia player repairs five vulnerabilities, all of which could result in a hacker taking control over a person's PC

Microsoft highlights virtualization at TechEd

Microsoft will outline a plan to include virtualization support in its Forefront line of security products

Saving Windows 7

Making the iPhone 3G work for IT

iPhone feature comparison

Check out how Apple's iPhone stacks up against the competition

Analyst: Apple may ship 18 million 3G iPhones this year

Higher expectation on the 3G iPhone reflects attractive prices and a broader distribution channel

VMware updates application virtualization software

ThinApp aims to reduce the cost of deploying new desktop programs to end users

Apple iPhone faces challenges in enterprise bid

Apple goes up against the dominant BlackBerry and Microsoft's Windows Mobile platforms, but the competition will invigorate the market and be good for everyone

Microsoft hits 21 U.S. resellers with piracy lawsuits

Almost all the lawsuits concern Windows XP and/or consumer versions of Office

Tech’s 15 turning points

Difficult decisions and paths not taken — here are the 15 pivotal moments that have shaped today's high-tech landscape

Yager’s exclusive scoops from WWDC

Serena heralds ‘rich interface mashups’

Users can mix in Silverlight and Flash components as part of tool to be launched with cloud service

Apple iPhone timeline

Track the lauded smartphone's history, from the earliest rumors to the latest announcements and all the developments in between

Update: Jobs announces iPhone 3G to much fanfare

Updates to iPhone include lower price, thinner, sleeker profile, support for faster 3G networks, built-in GPS, better battery life, and more

Jobs unveils 3G, $199 iPhone

The 3G iPhone will also feature built-in GPS and will be on sale July 11

Google’s Schmidt: More US innovation needed

The Google CEO predicted that the next Internet revolution will be the move from traditional to cloud computing, which some companies are not prepared for

iPhone: $199 for 8 GB, $299 for 16 GB, shipping on July 11

Steve demos iPhone 3G: GPS, $199, longer battery life, distribution to 70 countries

WWDC: iPhone 2.0 SDK creates BlackBerry-like infrastructure for notification

Update: Clearwire, Cisco, Intel form WiMax patent group

The Open Patent Alliance will help companies discover who holds relevant patents for WiMax and to figure out how much it would cost them to license those patents

.Mac evolves into MobileMe, Web 2.0 app suite with iPhone sync/push

Update: Icahn blasts Yahoo again

In his latest missive targeting Yahoo's Roy Bostock, Carl Icahn claims the Yahoo chairman needs to justify his salary and release his time sheets

WWDC #1: iPhone 2.0 SDK and apps

SOA: Focus on fundamentals

Microsoft, Kaiser pilot integration of e-health systems

Program allows Kaiser's employees to exchange information between Kaiser's My Health Manager e-health records system and Microsoft's HealthVault consumer platform

Linux beats Windows 2008 power-saving measures

Power consumption tests point to Linux as the 'greener' operating system

McAfee extends enterprise anti-virus line

McAfee will roll out versions of VirusScan Enterprise for offline virtual images, SAP's NetWeaver, and storage systems from EMC and Sun

Daily news beat for June 9, 2008

Startup’s SaaS helps IT shops pinpoint costs

Apptio, partly funded by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, offers a hosted app to help IT shops track the total cost of software

Study: IT execs report lack of license compliance

Unlicensed software is in use in 44 percent of environments, according to a King Research study

The promise of sandbox security

The greening of Dell’s M-Series

Momentum, some confusion mark ‘Enterprise 2.0’

Enterprise 2.0 show opens amid researchers' predictions that enterprise spending on technologies such as social-networking and RSS feeds will grow to $4.6 billion by 2013

Microsoft, others push new 2.0 wares

Microsoft will announce at the Enterprise 2.0 show vendors that have integrated their products with the SharePoint collaboration and content management platform

Samsung launches iPhone-like Omnia handset

Samsung's new handset has lower resolution than the iPhone or other likely competitors like the HTC Touch Diamond

Tech’s 15 top turning points

AMD steps up quad-core Opteron shipments

AMD ships four high-performance versions of the quad-core Opteron line

HP, Acer settle patent dispute

Settlement puts to rest three federal court cases and two investigations by the ITC into claims of patent infringement

You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master

Sun bolsters SOA software with data management

ESB capabilities reworked as part of Sun Java CAPS release

Microsoft Silverlight to back Ruby, Python in browser

Company looks to make these dynamic languages work on the client side

Symantec tool cleans up Windows XP SP3 registry corruption

SymRegFix eliminates entries in Windows registry that had affected some PCs running Symantec software and Windows XP SP3 or Vista SP1

Oracle to talk about BEA on July 1

High-ranking executives to talk about how the BEA acquisition affects the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform

Apple’s 3G iPhone may be announced at developer event

New iPhone will feature GPS services and a thinner form factor

Update: FCC delays free spectrum proposal

The FCC was originally scheduled to vote on June 12 on a proposal to auction a piece of spectrum and require the winner to use some of it for free wireless Internet access

Icahn to Yahoo: Sell to Microsoft for $49.5 billion

In a letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock, Carl Icahn urged the company to agree to an acquisition by Microsoft for $5 billion more than the initial offer

Will cable companies throttle YouTube?

Update: FTC opens antitrust investigation into Intel

The FTC's investigation comes on the heels of a $25 million fine against the company from the Korea Fair Trade Commission

Daily news beat for June 6, 2008

IBM to release enterprise mashup tool

IBM has delivered mashup prototypes before, but this will be the company's first generally available, supported product