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On SOA and political will

IBM upgrades enterprise search software

OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.5 features a new dashboard view, better integration with other IBM products, and a forthcoming tool to analyze call center data

Daily news beat for March 11, 2008

CDT launches health privacy initiative

Digital rights and privacy group takes over the Health Privacy Project and will expand its focus to work on patient privacy issues, such as the rights of patients to access their data

Companies are most vulnerable to insider threats

There is a 72 percent likelihood that the next successful attack will come from an insider, says IBM Tivoli exec

Update: EU approves Google-DoubleClick deal

Lobby group warns that in permitting Google to dramatically grow in clout, regulators will have to likely permit the further growth of rival Microsoft in its proposed takeover of Yahoo

Senator describes black market in H-1B visas

Charles Grassley says the Bush Administration isn't enforcing the H-1B visa program; releases letter to DHS outlining abuses

Windows “workstation” 2008 smooth but bizarre

Mozilla unleashes Firefox 3 Beta 4

Development pace for Firefox 3 picks up; next beta's code will freeze in a week

TSMC to spend $5B expanding chip R&D

World's largest contract chipmaker will turn a manufacturing plant in Taiwan into a center to research and develop 32nm, 22nm, and 15nm process technologies

Review: RedSeal Security Risk Manager

Latest outsourcing region: Middle East

Qualcomm buys mobile ad targeting company

Qualcomm's acquistion of Irish software developer Xiam will help network operators deliver more personalized advertising and content to mobile phone users

Cisco to patch IOS on a regular schedule

Cisco will begin updating its IOS software, used by routers and switches in the enterprise and telecommunications industries, twice a year

TI reveals bad news in 3G handset market

Texas Instruments lowers its Q1 revenue forecast after demand for chips in higher-end mobile phones falls

Alcatel-Lucent’s WNG tracks mobile apps’ traffic demands

Alcatel-Lucent's 9900 Wireless Network Guardian enables mobile operators to track traffic and see how each application is affecting overall network performance

HP shows off future printing technologies

Hewlett-Packard's Inkjet Web Press printer can print up to 2,600 color pages a minute, and the new Latex Ink can withstand snow and rain

Spam from Gmail doubled last month

Rise in Gmail spam indicates spammers are still defeating the CAPTCHA distorted text used as a security test to thwart mass registration of e-mail accounts

Google to media companies: We’re your friend

Hoping to allay fears that Google is looking to become a content producer, the company reassured media companies that it wants to help them, not compete with them

Serena extends Creative Commons license to mashups

The move will have the company license pre-built Business Mashups in hopes of spurring adoption of a forthcoming commercially hosted service

IBM pledges $1 billion to unified communications

IBM will invest heavily in the unified communications market over the next three years in order to get a leg up on Microsoft in the fast-growing market

Silverlight’s link to Microsoft developer skills touted

Observers cite benefits of platform, saying its accommodation of .Net development skills helps it compare favorably to Adobe Flash

Verizon moving to 100Gbps network in 2009

Verizon Business will make good on its claims that 40Gbps networking was just a stepping stone to a 100Gbps network, which it will deploy over major routes in 2009

Vista virtualization rules relaxed to quash antitrust probes

A complaint made by Phoenix Technologies led to Microsoft allowing Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium to run on virtual machines

IE8 balks at Windows Update

Users running the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 are unable to access Microsoft's Windows Update service unless they set the browser to emulate IE7

Study: H-1Bs go with job creation

National Foundation for American Policy survey finds that companies applying for H-1B visas create jobs not filled by foreign workers, but opponents contest figures

IT’s credibility may be at stake with users

3 reasons EAs fall short with SOA

Microsoft, Sun expand their collaboration

A Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center for Sun Fire x64 systems has been opened, and Sun Infrastructure Solution for Exchange Server 2007 is now available

Daily news beat for March 10, 2008

Musings about iPhone apps and licensing

Top 10 improvements in Windows Server 2008

New iPhone enterprise developer program, $299; musings about iPhone app licensing

What great security leaders are made of

Ericsson predicts demise of hotspots

Ericsson exec says Wi-Fi hotspots will become as irrelevant as telephone booths as mobile broadband takes off

IBM, Hitachi team up to advance chip research

IBM and Hitachi researchers will try to accelerate the miniaturization of chip circuitry by researching at the atomic level for 32nm and 22nm semiconductors

IT’s 7 dirtiest jobs

Atom-based notebooks to cost between $250 and $300

Low-cost notebooks based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor are in the works and will ship with either Windows XP or some version of Linux

Gartner warns of rising chip inventories

Lackluster sales of electronic devices have caused semiconductor inventories to spike; report warns that chip makers need to slow production to stave off a glut

Microsoft, Sun open interoperability lab

As part of last year's OEM agreement, focus will be on Sun x64 and Microsoft applications

Former head of Motorola handset business steps down

Stu Reed is the latest in a series of high-level executives to leave struggling Motorola

AccuRev, Electric Cloud software build partnership detailed

AccuRev, Electric Cloud seek to boost app development productivity by combining automated capabilities with process-enabled software configuration management

Sun: We’ll put Java on the iPhone

Sun readies virtual machine to make Java apps run on Apple's mobile platform

Brothers sentenced for software piracy

Men made millions manufacturing and selling counterfeit software featuring trademarks and service marks of legitimate companies such as Adobe, Autodesk, and Macromedia

CloudBooks may use Intel’s Diamondville processor

Bigger screens and more storage also planned for Everex's update of ultraportable, Linux-based notebooks

ICANN looks toward end of US agreement

Nonprofit group that manages the Internet domain name system ponders independence from U.S. Commerce Department after agreement expires in 2009

Opera: IE8’s changes don’t let Microsoft off legal hook

Rival browser companies, including Opera, applauded Microsoft's embrace of a 'super standards' mode but noted that not all legal issues have been resolved

Virtual machines face same threats real ones do

ActiveState upgrades IDE

Daily news beat for March 7, 2008