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Update: Yahoo to support OpenID single sign-on

Users will be able to use their Yahoo name and password to access non-Yahoo Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework

Arbor Networks buys Ellacoya

Acquisition of Ellacoya Networks will allow Arbor to increase its focus on providing traffic and service management to broadband providers

Oracle buys document capture vendor Captovation

Oracle continues its string of acquisitions, snapping up document-capture vendor Captovation on the same day as its purchase of middleware giant BEA

Salesforce to launch development-as-a-service

SaaS provider Salesforce.com introduces the Force.com Development-as-a Service technology as well as a 99-cent-per-log-in pricing model

High-tech sits behind high-seas drama

Environmentalists protesting Japanese whaling make use of digital video and global satellite communications to get their message heard

On morality and business success

Intel’s Classmate PC goes on sale to consumers in India

HCL's MiLeap X laptop, priced at $356 in India, uses the same beefy case as Intel's rugged, low-cost Classmate PC

Dell tops HP as the largest PC supplier in the U.S.

Dell extends its lead over Hewlett-Packard in the U.S., but HP remains the world's largest PC dealer, topping Dell, Acer, and Lenovo

SAP, Business Objects announce first joint products

Just a few months after SAP bought Business Objects, the first joint products — nine software packages — have been announced

BEA, Oracle users fear price hikes, dumping of products

While users are optimistic about buying a database and app server from the same vendor, they worry about potential downsides to the deal

U.S. OMB pushes for software as a service

A top OMB official is pushing for greater government adoption of SaaS to cut development costs, but she also sees a lot of reluctance to move to a different model

Mac users: MacBook Air lacks features

Omission of FireWire port, lack of storage capacity, slow hard drive, and high price tag are some of the complaints Mac users have about Apple's latest laptop

Oracle-BEA: It aint over till it’s over

Analysts: OOXML to TKO ODF in late rounds

Oracle’s BEA buy should bolster Fusion

But it's unclear if this will reshape Fusion's middleware strategy

With trials beginning, another Estonia cyberattack

Echoing last year's month-long siege, Estonian news agency's servers flooded with Internet traffic for two weeks

Oracle-BEA: A fight against IBM, Sun, and open source, and a nasty hairball of technology integration

Sun, MySQL synergies stressed in merger

Sun gets successful open source vendor and part of LAMP stack while MySQL gets major IT vendor backing

Microsoft defends Open XML work

Company says customers and concerns about interoperability drive its continued work to standardize its open file format, a rival to ODF

Mozilla nabs top UI developers from Humanized

Neither an acquisition nor a partnership, details remain sketchy about move that would bring three of Humanized's five top employees to Mozilla

Microsoft ‘spyware’ to jack into your brain waves

Windows XP as Coke Classic

Tech analysis: BEA’s sweet portfolio

Integrien revs system analysis with Alive 6.0

Integrien revamps its Alive IT optimization tool with real-time analytics that are viewable through a new graphical user interface

MicroStrategy charts its own course amid BI consolidation

CEO Saylor says that MicroStrategy is BI's Switzerland, retaining the freedom and flexibility to support a broad variety of third-party products

XO’s VoIP pricing model may save small companies money

Telecom carrier XO Communications rolls out a new pricing model for VoIP based on the bandwidth a business uses, instead of the number of lines

Update: Sun to acquire MySQL for $1 billion

Open source offering to augment Sun's position in database fray, the company hopes

Update: Oracle to buy BEA Systems for $8.5 billion

Three months after BEA turned Oracle down, the deal is set to go through

Outsourcer Tata posts strong revenue and profit growth

India's largest outsourcer cost cuts and improved productivity to achieve strong quarterly results, but growth rates are not likely to be as high going forward

Wipro denies discussions on acquisition of Capgemini

At the request of French securities regulators, Indian outsourcer Wipro issued a denial of rumors that it was planning to buy French IT services company Capgemini

Prize for zero-day Windows flaws: $20,000

Security research company holds 'Hacker's Challenge' through the end of February

Microsoft warns of new Excel vulnerability

'Users are familiar with the document being sent to them and are likely to open it,' security expert says

Oracle fixes critical flaws in quarterly update

Administrators are advised to patch their machines as soon as possible to guard against exploits

Web flaw yields free Macworld VIP pass

Security researcher taps design flaw for second year in a row to procure a Platinum pass

Intel, upbeat on Asia, closely watches US economy

Chipmaker says bulk of its growth coming from Asia-Pacific and its concerned about recession in US

Collaboration software’s untold drawback

Update: Weak memory pricing hurts Intel revenue

Intel's revenue for the fourth quarter is up 10.5 percent over last year, but it still fell short of analysts' predictions

Sun to acquire MySQL for US$1 billion

Sun branches out, claims ongoing support for PostgreSQL and Java DB

Microsoft, JVC in IP agreement

Microsoft confirms another executive departure

Rob Short, a former vice president of the WIndows Core Technology group, is the latest executive to leave the company

Apple’s first security patches of 2008 fix iPhone, QuickTime

The security update fixes critical flaws in QuickTime and the Safari browser, and, as with other updates, the iPhone patches will disable handhelds with Jailbreak installed

12,500 sign ‘Save XP’ petition

The petition results and related comments show that there's still a strong desire to keep the current Windows

Cyber-espionage moves into B2B

The SANS Institute says that cyber-espionage has spilled from governments into the private sector and that it will expand in international business in 2008

JBoss boosts Java app services platform

News analysis: Cognos wants IT’s approval

Added administrative tools should help IT be willing to spread BI to more knowledge workers

Groups praise FCC’s inquiries on net neutrality

FCC to look into the blocking of text messages on cellular networks, the slowing of p-to-p traffic, and what constitutes reasonable broadband traffic management

VMware buys application-based virtualization vendor

Acquisition of Thinstall will boost VMware's virtualization technology to deploy, update, and manage desktop environments

Flash attack could take over your router

Researches have found a way to exploit the universal plug and play protocol as well as Adobe's Flash to hijack computers and change the primary DNS server

Google shows off new Seattle digs

Google's new Seattle offices employ 400 people, many of whom were plucked from the local University of Washington before rival Microsoft could get to them

Jobs unveils skinny notebook, iTunes movie rentals

At Macworld, Apple announces 'world's thinnest notebook' MacBook Air and PC-free movie renting and downloading capabilities for Apple TV