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In the cloud: What startups need to succeed

As large enterprises make their forays into cloud computing, there are plenty of opportunities for startups to find and exploit niches

Sun cites open source tribulations

But company is world's largest open source vendor, executive says, while other officials add that company has learned a lot in its efforts

Report: Sprint thinking of spinning off Nextel

Three years after merger, company has posted lackluster financial results, and there's been speculation that Deutsche Telekom is interested in buying Sprint

T-Mobile launches 3G in NYC

T-Mobile has debuted its first 3G network, and it is starting to sell mobile phones that can take advantage of 3G's faster data speed

US to investigate PC power supply trade complaint

PC maker Ultra Products, parent company Systemax file patent complaint, asking ITC to bar 14 companies from importing some PC power supplies into the U.S.

Update: Google concerned about Verizon’s open access

Google files with FCC to voice concerns that Verizon Wireless not committed to open-access rules put in place for 700MHz spectrum auction

Three companies Microsoft could buy instead of Yahoo

A look at the merits and disadvantages to Microsoft acquiring AOL, LinkedIn, and ValueClick

Sizing up Microsoft and Yahoo: Did anybody win?

Microsoft likely will increase the pressure on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the proposed advertising joint venture between Yahoo and Google, analyst says

The Empire strikes back

InfoWorld News beat for May 5, 2008

Yahoo’s stock slides as U.S. markets open

Investors react to Microsoft's decision over the weekend to give up on acquiring Yahoo

Zoho CRM aims big but hits small

Stupid hacker tricks, part two

Three HP user groups combine forces

Encompass, HP Interex EMEA, and ITUG have consolidated into a single organization called Connect

Google takes down open source project after DMCA complaint

Google has removed its CoreAVC for Linux project after a complaint from the codec's developer for 'reverse engineering without permission'

Battery shortage should evaporate by Q3

Companies will struggle until the battery returns to normal, which should happen by Q3, according to the head of the largest independent laptop battery maker

Microsoft and Yahoo: Now what?

Yahoo must articulate very quickly what its strategy is now, while Microsoft should change course and stop vowing to catch Google in search advertising, analyst says

Google’s shadow hung over Microsoft-Yahoo deal

Google served as the ammunition that Yahoo needed to discourage Microsoft from launching a hostile takeover

Ballmer’s withdrawal letter to Yang

Microsoft CEO says it is not sensible to take Microsoft's offer directly to Yahoo shareholders as that would necessarily involve a protracted proxy contest

Microsoft abandons Yahoo acquisition

Microsoft has dropped its three-month-long pursuit of Yahoo after raising its initial bid by about $5 billion, to $33 per share, failed to convince Yahoo

You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master

OpenSolaris OS officially debuts

Sun also adding PHP to NetBeans as it debuts the new products at the CommunityOne conference

Windows XP SP3 still AWOL, but resides on Microsoft servers

Though Windows XP SP3's official release has been delayed, it can be found on pirate sites and well as Microsoft's servers

Top 10: Microsoft grows hostile, Yahoo says nyah nyah

This week's top tech news stories include Microsoft's possible hostile takeover of Yahoo, Yahoo's deal with Google, and BEA employees mourning their company

OLPC names new president, COO

Charles Kane will move from CFO to COO for the nonprofit

Military computer contractor convicted of ID theft

Former contractor acknowledged selling information contained in a military database to a person he believed to represent a foreign government

Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo try to work it out

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal report that talks between the companies have suddenly gathered steam

Tibco airs SOA plans

WebSphere, Ruby, SCA ambitions for the ActiveMatrix SOA platform detailed at the Tibco User Conference

Vendors vie for green IT appeal

At the Interop conference, many vendors tried to talk up the green aspects of their products, with many of them taking shots at Cisco

Update: SAP, RIM bring CRM application to BlackBerry

SAP's CRM is just the first application that will run natively on the BlackBerry: mobile versions of SAP's ERP and supply chain apps are also in the cards for RIM's device

Google and IBM are bonding in a serious way

The CEOs of Google and IBM shared the stage at IBM's PartnerWorld conference and seemed very keen on partnering on cloud computing

InfoWorld News Quiz: You don’t know tech

Daily News beat for May 2, 2008

U.S. firm fined for violations related to H-1B program

Outsourcer iGate to pay $45,000 to settle allegations it discriminated against U.S. residents when attempting to hire foreign workers

Mobile industry on the hunt for lower emissions

Main driver behind improved energy efficiency is to reduce the cost of running mobile networks; reduced CO2 emissions are a bonus

BEA employees in mourning

EMC extends Mozy online storage to Macs

MozyHome lets consumers back up the data on their desktops and laptops to a remote datacenter

AirMagnet’s WLAN management apps now support 802.11n

Updates to AirMagnet's two main WLAN management applications help network administrators design and monitor 802.11 deployments

Small form factor drives mount viable challenge

Intel opens software marketplace

Intel's Business Exchange is meant to help businesses find software applications that run on the chip maker's hardware

Sun to cut as many as 2,500 jobs

Sun blames its third-quarter revenue drop on a weak U.S. economy

IBM to build apps marketplace

Global Applications Marketplace will let businesses browse and purchase apps from potentially thousands of ISVs, which local IBM channel partners will then install and manage

Report: Yahoo could run Google ads next week

Ad agreement with Google would make it more difficult for Microsoft to take over Yahoo

Report: Microsoft close to hostile bid for Yahoo

Ballmer: 'I will go to what I think it's worth if that gets a deal done'

You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master

Storage that takes care of itself

Yahoo goes full steam ahead with ‘open’ strategy

In an interview, Yahoo chief platform architect Neal Sample discusses the Yahoo Open Strategy, its implementation, and the challenges it presents

7 dirty secrets of the security industry

At the Interop conference, Joshua Corman, principal security strategist for IBM/ISS, discussed the misconceptions and half-truths surrounding the security industry

BEA employees hold ‘wake’ for company

Now that the acquisition by Oracle is formal, mixed emotions set in

Microsoft ships Expression Studio 2 tools

Products back Silverlight and provide application design tools that complement the app dev tools found in Visual Studio