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Micron and Nanya to invest $1.1 billion in new DRAM company

Loss of Nanya as a technology partner deals a blow to Qimonda

Asustek plans Eee PC with 10-inch screen

Asustek launches the Eee PC 900 with an 8.9-inch screen, and says a version with a 10-inch screen could follow later this year

EarthLink redirect service poses security risk, expert says

Although a specific bug has been patched, the basic approach raises alarms for some

Microsoft to halt Hotmail access via Outlook Express

Microsoft is ending Outlook Express access to Hotmail on June 30 and is urging Express users to switch to Windows Live Mail

Salesforce.com promotes development in the cloud

Gaving found success with the SaaS business model, Salesforce.com is now promoting its Force.com platform, which offers cloud-based app dev

Top 10: Military goods for sale and miscreants aplenty

This week's roundup of IT news stories includes Microsoft's Albany low-cost Office suite, Oracle expanding its lawsuit against SAP, the Web's coming crises, and more

Apple makes concession on pushing Safari to Windows users

After taking criticism for the way it pushed the Safari browser to Windows users, Apple will start separating software updates from offers to install new software

IBM buys storage vendor Diligent Technologies

Big Blue acquires Diligent's de-duplication technology for eliminating redundant data and saving storage space

Bull crams crypto chips into bootable USB hard disk drive

The Globull bootable, portable password-protected hard disk drive has an embedded cryptographic processor that protects data stored on laptops

PayPal to block users with old browsers to stem phishing attacks

eBay's electronic payment service will lock out people using versions of Web browsers with no phishing filters, which could mean trouble for users of Apple's Safari

Web 2.0 can cut costs during recession

Daily news beat for April 18, 2008

Update: AT&T to lay off more than 4,000 employees

Telecom giant will primarily target management in layoffs aimed at streamlining its operations

MacBook Air spurring LED use in screens

Market researcher says Apple's MacBook Air is driving adoption of LED backlighting in notebook screens and will help bring down prices

Android developers’ competition draws 1,788 entries

Google hopes to drum up interest in the Android platform for mobile devices with the Android Developer Challenge

Microsoft confirms testing of ‘Albany’ low-cost Office suite

Microsoft aims to compete with Google Docs with a subscription-based 'value box' of productivity software

Open Solutions Alliance looking for momentum boost

Nonprofit group aimed at fostering interoperability and adoption of open source software looks to shake off some growing pains

VMs are not more secure

5 IT skills that won’t boost your salary

Technology advances force companies to evolve as certain areas of expertise wane in importance

InfoWorld News Quiz: This week in Tech

Use of touchscreens soaring in mobiles, UMPCs next

The touchscreen market is expected to grow to $3.1 billion this year, fueled by their use in mobile phones and a new range of small computing devices

Google stock soars in aftermarket trading

Google's stock could close above $500 for the first time in months

Chinese blogs detail zero-day flaw in Microsoft Works

Blog shows how a problem within an ActiveX control for the Works' Image Server could cause Windows to crash

Oracle to expand SAP lawsuit, may target execs

Oracle claims that SAP's TomorrowNow subsidiary stole software applications from Oracle with the knowledge of SAP execs

You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master

Smart array may signal storage shift

Amazon.com adds support options for cloud computing

Tries to appeal to businesses seeking more than offload-and-forget outsourcing options

FCC Net neutrality hearing draws diverse views

Educators, entertainers, and religious groups, among others, come together to urge FCC to defend net neutrality

Google grows profit and revenue in Q1

Google exceeded Wall Street's expectations for profit and revenue, pacifying fears it would report a weak first quarter

Storm clouds looming for Internet, experts say

At FutureNet, speakers warned of impending Internet problems, including a dwindling supply of IP addresses and overloaded routers

Will MySQL keep lighting up LAMP?

Linux users worry that Sun's purchase of MySQL will mean a de-emphasis of Linux and the LAMP stack in favor of Sun's Solaris ecosystem

Microsoft’s Ozzie talks open source, mesh

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie says the company has been dramatically changed by open source and the concept of using the Web as a hub

SEMs eye MS-Yahoo for more search ad competition

Merger between Microsoft and Yahoo, if done right, could create a sorely needed competitor to Google in search engine ad market

Report: Yahoo-Google deal moves forward

Yahoo's positive test of Google's AdSense has prompted the company to take further steps toward outsourcing its search advertising to Google

Ballmer: Vista is ‘a work in progress’

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed some lessons learned from the launch of Windows Vista and said the company will focus on virtualization and search in the future

Cisco, Juniper duke it out over operating systems

Juniper believes its single-OS approach will help it gain market share at the expense of Cisco, which features myriad OSes for its various products

MySQL reserves features for paying customers

MySQL's customer base is upset at recent revelations that features like online backup capability are being reserved for paying customers only

Former EarthLink cities Wi-Fi comes down to Earth

Corpus Christi, Texas, and Milpitas, Calif., giving up on commercial Wi-Fi service and returning the focus to government applications and free public hotspots

Privacy advocates: Consumer education isn’t enough

Advocacy groups call for Congress to pass online privacy regulations, as well as create a do-not-track list prohibiting advertisers from tracking online activities

How to leave an IT job

Mozilla patches Firefox JavaScript bug

Critical security vulnerability in the JavaScript engine of Firefox was patched for stability reasons

SANS solves mystery of mass Web site infections

Computer security investigations find a sneaky software tool that uses Google's search engine to hunt for Web sites running certain kinds of vulnerable apps

Daily news beat for April 17, 2008

Forrester’s advice: Don’t skip Vista

New reports warns companies to get started sooner rather than later on updating their client desktops to the latest Microsoft OS

Code snippets and open source

Update: NetSuite goes global with OneWorld module

NetSuite aims to take on SAP and Microsoft with OneWorld add-on module for its hosted ERP software

Review: WaveMaker’s Java for dummies

5 tips for picking green desktop gear

CEO subpoena scam fires up anew

Phishers are sending e-mail messages to senior execs within companies, telling them they've been subpoenaed for a federal court case

MySpace hack reveals profile visitors

MySpace security problem could stymie law-enforcement efforts to track bad actors on the social-networking site