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Red Hat’s JBoss dons BlackTie to target BEA Tuxedo

BlackTie will focus on building technology that emulates transaction-processing monitor APIs and provides open source legacy services

Sprint circles its wagons in Kansas

Sprint Nextel is consolidating its two headquarters, sticking with the one in Overland Park, Kansas and eliminating a relic from the Sprint-Nextel merger of 2005

Most analog cellular to fade away on Monday

Monday marks the day that cellular providers may shut off their old analog services, and most providers plan to take advantage of the opportunity

Spam and malware are for lovers

SIIA sues eBay-based software sellers

Because response by eBay to complaints about pirated software sales was too slow, the SIIA has filed charges against nine eBay-based software sellers

Daily news beat, Feb. 14, 2008

Red Hat, Hyperic start open source project

The RHQ project will consist of a set of a core set of IT infrastructure management capabilities that could be built into various product offerings

Wage cut prompts online protest at IBM

Instead of waving protest signs outside the company gates, employees are airing online their grievances over a pay cut affecting 6 percent of IBM

Update: Judge orders Oracle’s lawsuit againt SAP to mediation

Oracle filed suit against SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary last year, alleging 'corporate theft on a grand scale'

EU revisits copyright levy conundrum

European Commissioner will hold a conference in June to see if there is common ground to streamline the current system of copyrights

BenQ T80 mobile to start field trial next month

BenQ will test in Taiwan a new mobile phone that uses near field communications technology to access home security systems and pay for items

College coders working with IBM’s Project Zero

IBM says a commercial version of the Project Zero framework for creating Web 2.0 services, user interfaces, and mashups could surface soon

Talkback: Experts’ opinion of Carr’s prediction

Report: Microsoft to reshuffle its executive team

Pieter Knook, head of Microsoft's mobile phone group, jumps ship to Vodafone amid reports that Microsoft will reshuffle its executive team

Yahoo tightens staff quality in India

Yahoo reportedly trimmed some R&D staff in India after they failed in a performance appraisal

One fat PC that serves 30 users

Network operators encouraged to ‘think green’

Green technologies on show at the Mobile World Congress included a phone made of recycled materials and a transmission tower that uses 50 percent less energy

Heathrow launches RFID trial to track luggage

U.K. airport is starting to affix radio chips to luggage as part of a six-month trial aimed at reducing the number of lost bags

Microsoft’s mobile mistake

Integration problems arise with DLP tools

Early adopters of DLP systems, including financial services giants, are having problems enforcing security policies consistently across the different areas of DLP

Test Center Review: ConSentry LANShield Switch

Woman hits Best Buy with $54M suit for losing laptop

Lawsuit is meant to publicly embarrass Best Buy into changing its privacy policy and to expose its 'disregard for customers' personal information,' woman says

Yahoo sends letter to shareholders over Microsoft bid

CEO Jerry Yang says Yahoo wants to take advantage of a 'unique window of time' in the growth of online ads to build market share and create value for stockholders

Can Sun turn downloads into dollars?

Sun's new growth strategy in part involves giving away free copies of its software in hopes of building up a loyal developer base that will buy hardware and licenses

Red Hat aims to make JBoss an enterprise player

At JBoss World, Red Hat stated its goal of making the JBoss middleware 'a major part of 50 percent of all enterprise software infrastructure deployments by 2015'

NSF preparing for the demise of Moore’s Law

The National Science Foundation see's Moore's Law as becoming irrelevant within the next 10-20 years and is researching a replacement for current silicon tech

Google updates Android software development kit

First update since announcement of mobile phone SDK includes new user interface, support for additional file formats in Android media player, and more

Lawmakers introduce new net neutrality bill

Bipartisan bill requires FCC to investigate whether broadband providers have blocked or interfered with Web content, in violation of its August 2005 policy

Attack code posted for Microsoft Works bug

A proof-of-concept malware code has been posted a day after Microsoft released one of its largest sets of security patches

Report: News Corp., Yahoo in talks to fend off Microsoft

News Corp. is reportedly in talks to acquire as much as 20 percent of Yahoo as the Web portal searches for alternatives to Microsoft's buyout offer

Early Android SDK updated

Microsoft to offer subscription-based PCs in Russia

Microsoft has partnered with Mobile Telesystems to offer Vista-equipped PCs with mobile broadband access via subscription instead of outright purchase

Cellphones suck, and how

Daily news beat, Feb. 13, 2008

Cringely sides with founding fathers, not customs officers

iPhone love at first sight gives way in the end

Yager’s picks: Most welcome changes Apple’s 10.5.2 brings

Lockheed wins $1 billion FBI biometric contract

FBI awards Lockheed Martin a 10-year contract to design, develop, test, and deploy a next-generation biometrics-based identification system

HP lands $675M outsourcing contract from Unilever

Hewlett-Packard's outsourcing business inks a seven-year deal to manage Unilever's IT infrastructure in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Turkey, and the Middle East

Danish ISP prepares to fight Pirate Bay injunction

IFPI plans to send letters this week to other Danish ISPs asking them to also block The Pirate Bay file-sharing Web site

U.S. recession may benefit Indian outsourcers

Indian outsourcers pin their hopes on a mild U.S. recession, which could lead to an increase in business offshore to cut costs

Acer aims for Japan, plans low-cost PC push

Acer is rumored to be planning an ultra-low-cost laptop PC to compete against Asustek's Eee PC

IBM says it will continue large-scale hiring in India

IBM is not feeling the impact yet of reduced growth in IT budgets, and plans to continue hiring global services delivery staff in India by the thousands

Microsoft Office development platform ups and downs

Attendees at the Microsoft 2008 Office System Developer Conference are mostly pleased with company's efforts, but say the new ribbon-based Fluent UI takes getting used to

Groups call for passage of health IT legislation

Congress needs to pass health care IT legislation before private companies develop multiple systems that don't talk to each other, advocacy groups say

The new gold rush: wearable computing and its apps

Top 10 trends at the Mobile World Congress

There was a mobile phone for every taste and need on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Criticism of our MacBook Air review

Outage gives BlackBerry a black eye

Enterprises that need e-mail responses in less than eight hours to run their businesses should have a backup for the BlackBerry, Gartner warns

Intel and antitrust: A brief history

Antitrust cases that have dogged the world's largest chipmaker for years; here's the rundown