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Update: Billing nightmare for DreamHost customers

A mistaken input in an automated billing cycle has caused DreamHost's customers to be erroneously charged hundreds or even thousands of dollars

Early thoughts on Apple’s iPhone SDK

Microsoft to deliver ads on shopping carts

Microsoft partners with MediaCart to deliver personalized ads to shoppers through computerized carts; customer trials are expected to begin this year at ShopRite stores

Updated Cognos tool offers expanded performance management

Cognos 8 BI now provides more targeted performance management information to a broader set of users

Semantic Web takes big step forward

World Wide Web Consortium's SPARQL query technology published; Semantic Web could impact Google, Internet ad models, analyst says

Nokia to close German plant, lay off workers

Nokia plans to lay off 2,300 employees at a German plant and move its mobile phone production to lower-cost European sites

Perimeter eSecurity buys e-mail compliance vendor

Security services vendor Perimeter eSecurity acquires SECCAS for its e-mail management products

Mac security program tries to scare users into buying

MacSweeper may be the first 'scareware' application for Macs

RealBasic platform gets introspection and eyes the Web

The cross-platform application development tool supports Windows, Mac, and Linux OSes and offers a similar environment to Visual Basic

Why XP is greener than Vista

Will MacBooks follow iPhone to 3G?

Rumors ahead of Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote say that Apple could extend high-speed wireless WAN capability to its MacBook notebooks and even an 'ultramobile' computer

MuleSource readies open source SOA governance

ESB, BAM features also highlighted in product rollout

Thoughts on the iPhone/iPod touch SDK

Nashville laptop theft may cost $1 million

With Social Security numbers at risk, county officials offer registered voters in Tennessee county a year of free identity theft protection at the cost $10 per account

Submit your own “Save XP” video

InfoWorld encourages you to contribute your own videos on why Windows XP should be saved. (Although our plea is serious, why not have some fun at the same time, right?)

Macworld Conference and Expo: Why am I here?

Coghead moves UI over to Adobe Flex

Change will improve performance and broaden developer audience as it moves Web 2.0 application development toward the mainstream

iPhone briefly becomes No. 1 Google user

Apple's smartphone muscles past models by veteran handset makers to take top spot, then settles into second place in rankings

HP fattens midmarket server line

Hewlett-Packard has beefed up its ProLiant 100 series with four new two-processor rack-mount servers aimed at companies with 100-500 employees

Report: Small businesses moving to Vista fastest

Nearly half of businesses polled in a recent survey are in some phase of updating to Vista, and of those companies, 53 percent are small businesses

SAP reports strong fourth-quarter growth

Beating analysts' expectations, SAP is set to announce fourth-quarter revenue growth of 10 percent over last year's fourth quarter

What business can learn from NFL playoffs

Microsoft faces two new European antitrust cases

New antitrust investigations concern the interoperability of Windows with other software and Microsoft's tactic of bundling software products with Windows

New malware toolkit thwarts AV

Random JS Toolkit allows attackers to create threats that only attempt to victimize an individual computer in the same manner a single time to protect against discovery by anti-virus systems

IBM Q4 results beat predictions

Big Blue's Q4 revenue increased 10 percent over last year, boosted by exchange rates and sales outside the United States

Tech companies share environmental patents

IBM and Nokia are among the companies that donated patents to Eco-patent Commons to encourage the development of environmentally friendly technologies

IBM expanding Jazz ALM access

IBM is opening up the Jazz.net community to everyone and is touting its Bluegrass project — a Second Life-style virtual world for developers

Microsoft trained 200,000 teachers in India

Free Software Foundation criticizes Microsoft's philanthropy, comparing it to a cigarette manufacturer handing out free samples of cigarettes

InfoWorld is kicking off the Save XP campaign

Fortisphere aims Virtual Essentials at virtualization ‘sprawl’

Startup company Fortisphere launches a toolset for tracking, tagging, and monitoring virtual machines to help manage virtualization 'sprawl'

EMC will replace some disks with solid-state drives

EMC will offer solid-state drives with capacities of 73GB and 146GB, using flash memory as an option to replace some disk drives in its high-end Symmetrix storage arrays

Talent management meets Facebook

SuccessFactors will incorporate links to Facebook in its human capital management SaaS offering

Study shows SOA worries systems integrators

Standardized software environments could reduce demand for their services

Mindreef adds to SOA testing

SOAPscope Server 6.1 and three new client products offered to verify quality

Jazz open for feedback

IBM edges closer to creating an open-source Jazz version

First Google Android phone suite completed

Hacked MySpace page serves up fake Windows update

The hacked page offers a Trojan horse disguised as a popup advising users to download the latest Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

AMD delays 2 Phenom chips, moves up energy-saving quad-core

The Phenom 9700 and 9900 chips, originally slated for a Q1 2008 release, are being pushed back to Q2 as AMD prioritizes its energy-saving 9100E chip

Sun sounds death knell for datacenter

Tech stocks give up gains made in 2007

Wall Street Beat: Fears of a general downturn and bad news on the consumer front hit tech stocks

Rails stack inks $3.5 million deal

Google denies infringing search patent

In addition, Google files counterclaim against Northeastern University and Jarg, asking the court to dismiss patent as invalid

Academics butt heads over enterprise 2.0

Scholars from Harvard and Babson business schools spar over question of use of social networking and other Web 2.0 technologies in business environment

Is SOA a special project?

Risk model moves into identity

Experts are recommending that businesses abandon piecemeal security systems and instead adopt broader, risk management-style models

Congressional report rips U.S. TSA Web site security

A Congressional investigation found that a TSA site had security flaws that could enable identity theft and that the site's no-bid contract was awarded unfairly

Intel releases low-cost Clear Bay server platform

Intel's Clear Bay blade server is based on standardized components instead of specialized parts

UK gov’t report: Don’t upgrade to Vista

Report warns British schools not to upgrade to Microsoft's Vista OS and Office 2007 suite, and to avoid Microsoft's OOXML document format because of compatibility concerns

WSO2 bringing Ruby to SOA

Web services capabilities touted for scripting language, Rails Web framework

UMPCs panned for hardware and design flaws

Vendors from OQO to Lenovo and LG showed off ultramobile PC products with range of innovative features at CES