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Analyst: IBM’s services arm an asset for BI

IBM's Cognos BI management division gives it a distinct advantage in the BI market over competitors like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft

Study: U.S. needs stronger broadband policy

Government should take steps to improve the number of U.S. residents buying high-speed Internet service, report says

IBM datacenter offerings… a la iTunes

iTunes-like model for datacenters will enable a business to download the complete application stack, run it, and even turn over server management to IBM to run remotely

New iPhone spawns rampant rumors

Daily News beat for May 1, 2008

XP change corrupts data, hamstrings SP3 rollout

Microsoft has suspended automatic distribution of Vista SP1 as well as XP SP3

Does keeping XP hurt Microsoft’s bottom line?

Yahoo and the Facebook dilemma

Startups take on network security, management

Interop's Start-up City showcased networking technologies and tools from these five newbies

Virtual server sprawl highlights security concerns

Server virtualization projects are driven by a desire for consolidation, yet the uncontrolled proliferation of virtual machines can result in just the opposite

HP researchers build intelligent memory

Memristor technology could ultimately replace RAM and allow computers to make decisions by understanding past patterns of collected data, similar to human brains

VoIP reviews: IP phone systems help small businesses sound big

Appliances from Allworx, Critical Links, Fonality, Microsoft, and Sutus all combine sophisticated features and low cost; they differ in breadth and complexity, with Fonality’s Asterisk-based PBXtra rising to the top

Adobe opening up Flash

Open Screen Project seeks unified runtime platform for multiple system types

Update: Microsoft board meets over Yahoo bid

With the Microsoft-Yahoo buyout conflict at a stalemate, Microsoft's board is meeting to discuss the company's next move to get the deal done, or if it should walk away

SugarCRM to support iPhone, BlackBerry

SugarCRM bridges the gap between PCs and mobile devices with version 5.1 of its CRM software, which provides a better mobile interface

Tibco entering hardware space

Messaging appliance to work with the Rendezvous messaging product family readied for ultra-low-latency deployments

OpenPipeline seeks to ease document prep for search

Dieselpoint's open-source project helps companies standardize the processing of information before it gets pushed into a search-engine indexer

SOA failures traced to people, process issues

At Interop 2008, panelists said that most SOA efforts will fail, but the issues are with people and processes and not with technology

Report: AT&T will subsidize iPhone price by $200

Fortune claims that independent of Apple, AT&T will offer a $200 subsidy on new iPhone purchases this summer, dropping the cost to as low as $199

Symantec ends fiscal year with strong earnings

Earnings up 50 percent from last year's results and better than analyst expectations, thanks to strong growth outside of US

Xerox’s research arm now a business, execs say

Palo Alto Research Center, now spun off from Xerox, focuses research on technologies that can be commercialized through its parent or startup companies

Interpol: Olympics cyberattack not a major threat

Executive Director for Police Services at global police organization downplays threat of cyberattack at Beijing games, concentrates on protecting physical security of visitors

E-waste recycling faces several challenges, critics say

Many electric devices are sent overseas for recycling, where they are broken down in unsafe and environemtnally hazardous ways

Cloudy picture for cloud computing

Panelists at Interop say that cloud computing faces too many obstacles to already be considered the next big thing

Fujitsu climbs a volcano in pursuit of more reliable chips

Engineers are trying to better understand how cosmic rays cause computers to make errors

SpringSource launches Java application server

SpringSource's new Java application server reflects OSGi's growing role on the server side

Backbase delivers comprehensive suite of rich apps

IT vet talks about the most influential computers

Interview: Gordon Bell, a principal researcher at Microsoft, looks back at his nearly 50 years in the IT industry

Clarizen going after Microsoft Project users

Clarizen says Microsoft's on-demand project-management software is too complicated for most users' needs, dangles big discounts for Project customers who switch

Daily News beat for April 30, 2008

Update: SAP cuts investment in Business ByDesign

SAP retrenches its Business ByDesign efforts but says it maintains full confidence in the SMB ERP offering and associated business model

U.S. man gets 30 months in prison for ‘warez’ operation

Operator of Web sites where users could download unauthorized copies of movies, music, and software is sentenced on criminal copyright infringement charges

Is the Microsoft Architecture credential worth the cost?

Time Warner to sell stake in cable division

CEO Jeff Bewkes says its in the best interests of both companies' shareholders for Time Warner to make a complete structural separation from Time Warner Cable

The view from Microsoft’s Live Mesh and Apple’s .Mac

Tibco backing Microsoft Silverlight

Company pledges to use Microsoft's browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications

Asus: Eee PC shipments to soar in second quarter

Asustek expects to nearly double shipments of its Eee PC low-cost laptop in the second quarter, compared to the first

Skype claims improved voice quality for version 3.8 software

Upgraded version of Skype's VOIP client for Windows cuts out more background noise and drops fewer calls

Service Component Architecture: Making SOA easier

IBM and OASIS official hails specification for transforming IT assets into reusable services, cites Web 2.0 benefits

Sony Ericsson combines Java and Flash

The combination of the two technologies allows developers to get past shortcomings in each technology, Sony says

Microsoft helps law enforcement get around encryption

A growing number of cybercriminals are using encryption software like Microsoft's BitLocker; now the company has developed tools that law enforcement can use to combat them

The right Vista strategy: Do nothing

Most analyst firms were excited about Windows Vista in 2006, when it was on the verge of being released. But for several firms, that enthusiasm withered as it became clear that Vista is a flawed OS that few users actually want.

SpringSource launches app server

Next-generation application server platform based on Spring, OSGi, and Tomcat snubs Java EE

Service Component Architecture: Making SOA easier

SOA specification for transforming IT assets into reusable services gains momentum at OASIS 2008

Microsoft: Hyper-V on fast track for summer release

At the Interop conference, Microsoft said that its Hyper-V server virtualization technology should be ready to ship sooner than initially expected

IBM buys trading data vendor Infodyne

InfoDyne's market data consolidation technology will be moved under IBM's WebSphere brand

Microsoft designing application virtualization on server

The technology will let apps get centrally managed on a server and then streamed to desktops, devices, or shared PCs, and can also deliver upgrades on demand

Nortel emphasizes merging of IT, communications

Executive discusses trends of communication-enabled apps at the OASIS Standards 2008 conference

Prototyping tool eases design of iPhone apps

iRise's new software suite allows iPhone developers to create prototypes that look and behave like an application but don't have the underlying code

Microsoft delays release of Windows XP SP3

Microsoft said it had wrapped up development of the update, but a compatability issue with Dynamics RMS is forcing a delay in availability