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Skype tests application for mobile phones

Client for mobile phones supports phone calls, chat, and other features of Skype's VoIP service

China tops U.S. in Internet population

China claims lead in the Internet market, with 221 million Internet users; India ranks third, behind the U.S.

Be careful of transitive trust

Vodafone, China Mobile, and Softbank team on mobile Internet

Joint Innovation Lab's first order of business is to develop a platform for mobile widgets

Research: IT leaders can slash nearly 40 percent of spending

In the weakening economy, The Hackett Group recommends companies make targeted cuts to their spending that quickly impact the bottom line

Microsoft didn’t crush Storm, counter researchers

Rival security researchers say Storm is diminished not because of Microsoft and its MSRT but because the botnet's operators have been diversifying

Test Center review: Adobe Flex Builder 3.0

Celebrating Parallels and its desktop virtualization gift

Sun buys processor startup Montalvo Systems

Montalvo is believed to be working on a low-power processor that aims to compete with chips from Intel and AMD

Vista sales at 140 million, Microsoft says

Microsoft's figure does not reflect how many licenses are actively being used to run Vista, since companies still have the option to buy a license and use downgrade rights to run XP

Microsoft considers life without Yahoo

Microsoft believes it has the engineering talent to succeed in the online ad market even without the acquisition of Yahoo

Researcher finds new way to hack Oracle database

Lateral SQL injection attack could be used to gain database administrator privileges on an Oracle server

No easy green strategy for storage

Update: Microsoft earnings flat, despite server launches

The company's earnings are in line with Wall Street expectations but are up only slightly from last year

Microsoft to offer Web-streamed Office

In an effort to stem the tide of customers switching to free online productivity suites like Google Apps, Microsoft will allow Office 2007 to be streamed from the Web

Sun continues pursuit of Java for iPhone

Third party emerges with another plan to get Java apps on Apple's device

Report: Antitrust regulators eye Google-Yahoo ad sharing

The Department of Justice is investigating whether Yahoo's trial run of serving up ads from Google alongside its own search results violated antitrust laws

Microsoft’s play for cloud computing

Expect a development environment and hosted virtual desktops, not just hosted apps

3G iPhone to be announced on June 9, analysts say

Analysts believe that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will announce the 3G iPhone during his keynote at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference

Microsoft’s XP intransigence is simply mystifying; can Dell save the day?

You have to wonder what's going on a Microsoft when it comes to the issue of keeping XP available past the planned June 30 cutoff date.

Andreessen: Mosaic expectations were very low

In Web 2.0 Expo keynote, co-creator of the Web browser that launched the Internet revolution says he had no notion of how influential the app would become

Apple coming to terms with iPhone ‘unlocking,’ says analyst

Apple's goal of selling 10 million iPhones this year could mean that it will bring the device to new markets without the current restrictions and business model

Dell to offer Windows XP beyond June 30 cutoff

The PC maker will take advantage of Microsoft's 'downgrade' program to preinstall XP for business and gaming users

IBM news may signal enterprise mashup maturity

Mashups have primarily been consumer applications, but IBM throwing its weight behind them could signal a major movement of mashups into enterprises

Qwest rolls out faster broadband

Company's fiber-to-the-home rollout will bring access to broadband speeds of up to 20Mbps to subscribers in 23 U.S. cities

Update: Yahoo to radically open its platforms

Yahoo is opening up its APIs to let outside developers create apps in order to replicate the experience of Web 2.0 social networking across its network of sites

Update: No change in Windows XP plan despite Ballmer comment

Comments made by Steve Ballmer indicated that Microsoft might be open to extending Windows XP, but the company says it is sticking with its June 30 deadline

Classmate PC spearheads Intel education initiatives

In addition to creating the laptop for developing countries, Intel has also trained more than 4 million teachers in more than 40 countries

Microsoft starts Vista SP1 auto delivery

The long-awaited service pack will be rolled out via Windows Update in phases

Web 2.0 moves beyond SaaS and social networking

LG’s Secret is out

LG Electronics launches the KF750 super-thin phone with a scratch-resistant touch screen

Daily news beat for April 24, 2008

Microsoft enhances hosted customer service platform

Microsoft's Automated Service Agent cloud-based service will get an SDK in July

Researchers: Windows Update should be redesigned

Off-the-shelf tools can design attack code for Microsoft patches within minutes, giving hackers more time to find vulnerable machines

Laying a green IT foundation for your users

DOJ nets two more guilty pleas in E-Rate fraud charges

DOJ filed conspiracy charges against the former co-owners of DeltaNet related to defrauding a government program designed to help schools and libraries connect to the Net

Microsoft may keep XP alive after all

Ballmer says the company may reconsider its decision to stop selling the Windows XP OS after June 30, based on customer feedback

IT not fast to follow mashup trend

Google goes from product to platform

Ballmer: Microsoft could walk away from Yahoo deal

CEO says acquiring Yahoo is essential to Microsoft successfully competing against Google in the online advertising business, but the company will go forward alone if need be

China worries hackers will strike during Beijing Olympics

Amid recent turmoil over Tibet, hackers view the Olympics as a challenge and a target; Chinese security officials say the network security situation is grim

Web apps developers told to aim for lofty goals

Developers of social apps should aim to improve lives and businesses, say keynote speakers at the Web 2.0 Expo

So what is an enterprise mashup, anyway?

There are hurdles for businesses that need to be addressed, but still some companies are taking the plunge into enterprise mashups

Customers balk at Dell XPS One update

XPS One customers who purchased the systems with Samsung hard drives received a firmware update from Dell — but some were suspicious about its legitimacy

OLPC’s open source qualms underscores a larger limit

Enterprise mashups revealed at Web 2.0 conference

Oracle executive offers perspectives on newfangled, data-linking Web apps, including what they need to provide in order to succeed in enterprises

Vista SP1 released to Automatic Update

The update will be distributed in phases and will download automatically to PCs that have the automatic update feature of Vista turned on

Datacenter mushrooming? Why not get rid of it?

If your datacenter needs to drastically grow quickly, outsourcing to a datacenter specialist may be a better option than trying to keep in-house systems

OLPC switch to Windows on XO is ‘muddled,’ developers say

OLPC has urged the open-source community to unite for the XO laptop, but many developers are upset with the decision to switch from Linux to Windows XP

SDK showdown: iPhone vs. Android

Apple has opened up its iPhone SDK, though it is still fairly restricted; Google's Android is more open but doesn't include an easy distribution model like Apple's AppStore