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iPhone shortage fuels rumors of imminent 3G phone

HP aggravates its own failure rate

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Oracle looks to India for financial services business

Oracle's i-flex subsidiary changes its name to Oracle Financial Services and acquires Flexcel International

4 tactics for educating users about security

IOC accepts Beijing Internet-access assurances

Beijing Organizing Committee has given assurances that Internet and media access will meet Olympic standards this summer

Secrets for searching for a job during a recession

The 10 best practices for conducting a job search when times are tight

Eclipse’s crossroads

Lenovo completes sales of handset unit

Lenovo ends its foray into the mobile phone business

Controversy surrounds unsold spectrum block intended for public safety use

Company advising a public safety group denies it demanded lease payments from potential winning bidders in the recently concluded 700MHz spectrum auction

Microsoft takes big step in managing enterprise handhelds

New code in Windows Mobile 6.1 hooks into Microsoft's Mobile Device Manager in an effort to make handhelds as manageable and secure as PCs

Intel to release anti-theft technology for laptops

In the event of theft, Intel's technology will render both the laptop's processor and storage inaccessible so that thieves cannot get at and maliciously use the data

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“Diskosaurs” bite back

IBM expert: IT risk is opaque

IBM's Steven Adler says that until IT security teams become more progressive in assessing risk, they won't be able to sufficiently secure their assets and data

XP for cheap PCs: a second crack in the wall

Dell layoffs could exceed original expectations

Michael Dell reaffirmed that Dell will lay off 8,800 workers, but he also indicated that the total number of layoffs could exceed that

Darts into data: Leveraging random action to competitive advantage

Wireless as primary net? Not till management matures

Network managers today rely on their wireless LANs to support end-users and critical applications, but they don't plan on unplugging the wired net just yet

Microsoft extends Windows XP through 2010 for ultra-low-cost laptops

Windows XP Home will be available for OEMs to install on ULCPCs either until June 30, 2010, or one year after the availability of the Windows 7, whichever date comes later

Windows XP Home extension could boost developers

Platform sales to continue for ultra-low-cost PCs, giving developers a chance to bring their apps to a broader set of Windows systems

3G, 4G networks to require backhaul upgrades

Panelists at the CTIA Wireless event said that the upgrade from 3G to 4G will require ISPs to improve their backhaul architecture to handle new technologies

IEEE task force approves power boost over Ethernet

Task force draft for 24 watts is given the go-ahead, meaning businesses will be better able to take advantage of the freedom of expansion PoE provides

iPhone picks up serious steam in smartphone market

The smartphone market is now a battle between the iPhone and the BlackBerry, and the iPhone is the one gaining momentum

The Universal SOA

IBM completes Telelogic buy

$845 million deal puts Big Blue in market to develop apps for devices.

Most iPhone buyers are existing Apple customers

Cisco enterprise growth slowing

UBS Warburg downgraded Cisco stock and revenue estimates based on the company's slowing enterprise business in both the U.S. and Europe

Daily news beat for April 3, 2008

Gartner: Global IT spending growth stable

Study finds that IT spending has so far been largely unaffected by weakness in the U.S. and global economies and is still projected to grow by 3.3 percent this year

Motorola: WiMax will be big — with or without Sprint

Motorola sees a a huge global market for WiMax even though financial backing for Sprint's high-speed wireless WiMax Xohm service is still questionable

Dell looks to emerging markets, services

Dell is aggressively expanding to tap into the $800 billion market for infrastructure services with its own customizable, a la carte services and features

Turning hot air into ROI

Psst! Wanna save $110 on Windows Vista SP1?

Microsoft gives tacit blessing to consumers who exploit a technical loophole allowing them to upgrade to SP1 without owning the necessary prior editions of Windows

Google CIO changes his tune, heads for EMI

Douglas Merrill's defection to EMI Music is a public-relations blow for Google, which had made a conscious effort to build up its CIO's public profile

AT&T’s so-called open network principles

Exec touts developing iPhone apps without the iPhone SDK

Until Apple opens up the iPhone SDK business, his company will likely use alternate technologies to build apps

RIM ships record number of BlackBerries

RIM remains immune to U.S. credit and economic woes, adding 2.18 million new BlackBerry subscribers in its fiscal fourth quarter

Scientists links laptops to detect earthquakes

Many laptops have a sensor that can be used to detect the intensity of earthquakes when a laptop shakes

Adobe gets rich apps right

Intel has a chip, but where are the MIDs?

Intel's Mobile Internet Devices may suffer from too much hype and overly high expectations, analyst says

Open source’s 97-pound weakling

Startup hopes to keep spam out of blog search results

Swedish startup Twingly uses its own algorithm to deliver spam-free blog search results

Symantec, Microsoft resolve spat over storage tech

Microsoft and Symantec move to drop a two-year-old lawsuit after agreeing to extend their technical cooperation on volume management technologies

Apps security testing companies ride wave

IBM and HP are working to integrate apps testing into their development platforms, but vendors of stand-alone security solutions still find business booming

Dell ironing out kinks in supply chain, executive says

Dell tweaks its 'build it yourself' direct sales model and will offer base configurations for various price points that customers can then modify if they choose

100 VoIP flaws

Intel gives Classmate PC a makeover

Intel makes cosmetic changes to its Classmate PC, but most of the laptop's internal components remain largely unchanged

Apple plugs QuickTime with 11 patches

Apple fixes a variety of problems with its QuickTime multimedia program that could allow a hacker to execute malicious code on a machine

Microsoft to unveil ‘Stirling’ at next week’s RSA security conference

With Stirling Microsoft will finally be able to offer administrators a single product that manages all of its security offerings