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Microsoft: Customers demand energy-saving software

Microsoft will release a set of best practices for administrators running datacenters that focus on energy-saving strategies

Daily news beat for March 3, 2008

L-1 Visas being abused

Microsoft claims European antitrust issues are past

CEO Steve Ballmer says Microsoft is permitting more interoperability and 'maybe also more potential for third parties to cannibalize what could have been Microsoft business'

Cobra language goes to open source

.Net-based programming language also gains a Subversion-based repository

TomTom upgrades route-finding software in GPS devices

TomTom aims to speed GPS users on their way with improved route-finding and guidance on which traffic lane to choose at complex junctions

Ballmer: Yahoo still in Microsoft’s sights

Microsoft's CEO would not say whether the company plans to pursue a proxy fight to remove Yahoo's board

Siemens aims to simplify unified communications with OpenScape

Siemens exec says unified communications solutions have been hard to implement, unlike its upcoming OpenScape UC Server

iPhone in the enterprise?

Micron, Nanya ink DRAM agreement

Micron and Nanya's plans to jointly develop and design DRAM with more advanced, sub-50-nanometer technology could spell trouble for Qimonda, Nanya's current technology partner

Samsung sets sights on mobile computing

New Samsung printers and laptops spearhead the company's expanded push into the corporate and consumer markets

Sun hires two key Python developers

Move is part of an effort to expand Java's reach

Deutsche Telekom keeps its ‘4G’ options open

Deutsche Telekom is demonstrating at Cebit LTE technology for speeding up 3G cellular networks, but other 4G options on the table include Mobile Wimax and UMB

Nexaweb offers way to move apps from desktop to Web

New tool helps developers reengineer and redeploy existing apps for Internet provisioning

Commercial support for open source Drupal on the way

Startup Acquia will release the first commercially supported distribution of the Drupal open-source Web site builder/content management system

Product review: Inside open source AJAX toolkits

Scripting language set for semantic Web

TopQuadrant looks to simplify data-oriented apps development with its visual scripting language

SOA spending up, but where’s the value?

Microsoft expands hosted software offering for business

Microsoft makes another move toward Internet-centric computing; it will begin letting smaller businesses use key Microsoft Online apps later this year

Gartner lowers global chip forecast on memory doldrums

Market researcher now predicts 3.4 percent chip revenue growth this year, compared to a previous estimate of 6.2 percent

Acer acquires smartphone maker E-Ten

With the $291 million purchase of E-Ten, Acer seeks to carve a role for itself in the fast-evolving market for mobile devices

Microsoft adds to SharePoint collaboration capabilities

Search, online and Silverlight links among the new features, as is an Internet-delivered version

Intel ultramobile chips step up with Atom branding

Intels sets the stage for the tiny, low-power chips' upcoming release, marks opening salvo in push to take ultramobile computers mainstream

Wikileaks back on the Web after judge ends injunction

Case that riled privacy advocates turns on unrelated technicalities

Serena plans SaaS products

Curl linking rich Internet applications, SOA

Curl RIA Platform 6.0 update features Web services capabilities

Future of Web Apps: replying to mom’s e-mails

At the Future of Web Apps conference, Digg founder Kevin Rose floated the idea of an app that would help mediate the issue of e-mail going unread for several days

Civil rights groups: FCC should allow network management

A coalition of seven civil rights groups believes that net neutrality laws would only serve to protect bandwidth higs at the expense of other users

Changes to OOXML draft standard waved through

Close to four-fifths of the proposed changes to OOXML were accepted without further discussion at a ballot resolution meeting in Geneva

On the necessity of InfoWorld’s ‘Save XP’ campaign

Green computing finds its place at Cebit

Climate Savers Computing Initiative aims to reduce IT's carbon dioxide emissions from computer operations by 50 percent between 2007 and 2010

Daily news beat for Feb. 29, 2008

Microsoft will prevail against Freetards

Microsoft execs struggled with Vista too, say internal e-mails

Company messages show top Microsoft officials were unhappy with Vista's graphics demands, drivers

Cringely’s geek week in review

Counterfeit Cisco gear seized by U.S., Canadian agencies

Authorities find more than $78 million worth of counterfeit Cisco Systems networking equipment in an ongoing investigation into imports from China

InfoWorld Test Center guide: Content management systems

Price cuts don’t get to heart of Vista’s problems, says analyst

It's the muddle of multiple SKUs and hardware uncertainty that's stymieing Vista sales

Microsoft cuts retail Vista prices

Microsoft will slash prices of Windows Vista by up to 50 percent, mainly in developing countries; U.S., Europe will see smaller cuts, if any

Dell plans more low-cost notebook models

Dell steps up the introduction of new models across its entire notebook line as part of a push to win over consumers and small businesses in Asian markets

Security development lifecycle trumps code complexity

Spam King trial set to start next month

Notorious spammer Robert Soloway faces more than $770,000 in fines as well as charges of fraud and identity theft that could result in jail time

Mozilla in talks with carriers about mobile Firefox

Mozilla must woo carriers threatened by the introduction of a free mobile browser if it is to succeed in breaking open a closed market

JotSpot users: mixed feelings about Google Sites

Users and developers are concerned by the lack of an API for Google Sites and the limited information about migration paths and backwards compatibility between the services

Yahoo sued again by Chinese dissidents

Yahoo faces its second major lawsuit for handing over to Chinese authorities e-mails and other electronic communications that ended up landing one plaintiff in jail

The death knell for RAID?

You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master

Update: Dell’s income drops despite higher sales, layoffs

Even with a 17 percent increase in U.S. sales and a 36 percent rise in combined sales in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, Dell's net income dips 6 percent year-over-year

High-tech stars falling in investors’ eyes

Sprint and Dell both reported poor quarterly results, and Google's share price plummeted as investor fears about the IT sector mount

FTC data: Telcos, banks are top targets for ID theft

According to UC Berkeley study, Bank of America, Sprint, and AT&T top list of identity theft events, but several banks and telcos compromised too