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3Com still seeking Huawei deal

The security issues that scuttled the initial buyout of 3Com still haven't been solved to the satisfaction of all parties involved, including the U.S. government

700MHz auction: FCC decision coming on public safety block

The FCC closed the spectrum auction yesterday, but the reserve price for the block containing spectrum to be set aside for public safety agencies was not met

Scared straight, IT-style

Microsoft releases feature-complete code for Hyper-V

Microsoft expects its Hyper-V virtualization technology will be available for Windows Server 2008 on schedule in August

Daily news beat for March 19, 2008

Microsoft buys its way into call centers

Aspect Software will integrate its unified communications platform with Office Communications Server

A storage technology that breaks Moore’s Law

Nanochip's new flash memory technology applies to USB drives, solid-state disk drives, and even enterprise servers

European countries ahead of U.S. on broadband, study says

Eight European countries have broadband penetration higher than the United States, according to the EC's progress report

Apple issues mega-monster security update

'Frighteningly large' security release from Apple patches nearly 90 bugs in Leopard, Tiger

The ROI of IT metrics

Google sees mobile search on the rise

Ease of use, increased speed, and flat-rate data plans are all helping mobile search grow in popularity

Adobe will make Flash work on iPhone

Steve Jobs may say Flash isn't suitable for the iPhone, but Adobe's CEO is committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone nonetheless

OSGi successes cited for Android

Technologist stress that still more needs to be done to get Eclipse's Equinox, Apache Felix, and Concierge OSGi implementations accommodated on Android

IBM opens cloud computing center in Dublin

Big Blue's Dublin cloud computing facility is the first one to be built in Europe

Can iPhone topple BlackBerry?

DRAM may remain cheap for a long time

Glut in memory chips shows no signs of abating and may remain down for a year or more

FCC closes 700MHz spectrum auction

FCC failed to sell off a swath of spectrum that was set aside for a public safety network and has not revealed which companies won the rights to the bands that were sold

Pennsylvania pulls plug on voter site after data leak

Voter registration Web site was found to be exposing sensitive data about voters

Google brings gadgets to Docs’ spreadsheet

Enhancements to Google's online spreadsheet include the ability to display data in new ways using lightweight 'gadgets' and to notify users via e-mail when data is changed

Adobe offers rights management server

The Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server software is intend for media companies that want to protect their Flash video assets

WiMax will take flight with Intel’s new mobile platform

Intel will continue pushing the WiMax wireless standard by including it in more than one-third of the ultramobile PCs coming later this year on the Atom Centrino platform

Scaring users into IT security

In order to get all employees to do their part in maintaining IT security, sometimes the best strategy is to simply tell them about the attacks and vulnerabilities that companies deal with

Dell launches new servers for SMBs

The PowerEdge T300 tower chassis and R300 rack server are designed to consume less power and include system management tools to better manage IT tasks

Windows Vista SP1 officially available

Interested Vista users can manually open Windows Update and download the new software or wait until mid-April to have it automatically downloaded to their PCs

Microsoft, Eclipse finally playing nice. What’s in store?

Collaboration plan set to be unveiled tomorrow, but Microsoft likely won't open-source all of Visual Studio

Survey: IT workers like McCain, Obama

CompTIA survey also finds significant support for Governor Mike Huckabee and Rep. Ron Paul among IT professionals

Oracle: EclipseLink links JCP, Eclipse

Sun opts for Eclipse-backed technology but still won’t join the Eclipse Foundation

HP adding Novell’s Linux to its desktop lineup

HP will join Dell and Lenovo in pre-installing Novell's Suse Linux 10 on desktop PCs

Update: Yahoo to Microsoft: Cheapskate

Yahoo continues to say it's worth much more than Microsoft offered; reportedly Yahoo is trying to reject Microsoft's offer without making itself liable to shareholder lawsuits

Daily news beat for March 18, 2008

India’s Tata sets up delivery center in Ohio

India's largest outsourcer sets up shop in a suburb of Cincinnati as its primary software development center for North American customers

How Microsoft is trying to eradicate e-mail

EMC reaches out to Chinese partners with joint venture

EMC's first-ever joint venture underscores the importance and opportunities the storage and software company sees in China

iPhone raises enterprise questions

Malicious subtitle file could trip up VLC media player

Security advisory warns that attackers could use a buffer overflow flaw in VLC to execute malicious code in a subtitle file and tamper with a PC

LightPole delivers dynamic content to mobile users

LightPole's new mobile content service lets mobile users find information about nearby restaurants, events, and shops, and potentially feed content back to publishers

Toshiba, Samsung top Greenpeace electronics ranking

Toshiba climbed six places in the latest Greenpeace environmental rankings to tie at the top with previous leader Samsung

Chinese Internet censorship code of conduct in the works

Human rights group prepares a code of conduct for how ISPs should deal with Internet censorship in China in the run up to the Beijing Olympic Games

iAnywhere adds push email for Notes on iPhones

Sybase iAnywhere adds iPhone support in its Information Anywhere Suite, so companies using Lotus Notes will be able to securely push e-mail messages to iPhone users

JasperSoft claims to be most widely deployed BI tool

JasperSoft claims its core BI open source product has been downloaded more than 3 million times

Intel to shrink upcoming Nehalem chips for laptops

Intel's Nehalem chip, which will pack between two and eight cores, will first be targeted at servers and high-end desktops but later will be scaled down for laptops

Building your IT security team

At the CSO Perspectives conference, security execs outlined their process for hiring, promoting, and training employees to maintain a desired level of corporate protection

Data thieves steal credit card data from supermarket chain

The thieves broke into computers at supermarket chains Hannaford Brothers and Sweetbay, stealing an estimated 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers

Tips to avoid SOA implementation problems

SOA is all the rage because of its promises of increased agility and business alignment if done right, but a misstep can lead to failure

Microsoft, Intel to fund multicore research at UC Berkeley

The research on how best to tackle the challenges of multicore computing will take place at UC Berkeley's Parallel Computing Lab

Intel: Six-core chip to ship by second half ’08

The six-core chip, code-named Dunnington, will be built with 45nm technology and feature 16MB of L3 cache

SAS buys natural language processing vendor Teragram

Teragram's natural language processing will boost SAS's text mining and business intelligence technology

Apple in no rush for iPhone Flash, says analyst

Flash is not as important to Apple as it is to Microsoft, and neither Apple nor Adobe is in a hurry to get the technology onto the iPhone

Iomega likes new EMC bid

EMC's second attempt to acquire the consumer and small-business storage maker is drawing a much more positive reaction

Was Vista DOA?