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Oracle buys Dutch apps performance manager Moniforce

Oracle hopes to add evaluation capabilities from Moniforce's WebStress and WebProbe software to its Enterprise Manager application performance management tools

SourceForge opens eBay-like marketplace

SourceForge's open-source, project-hosting Web site now has an eBay-like marketplace where users can offer support services for sale

Lenovo will pass Olympic torch to Acer after Beijing

Acer strives to raise its profile as a worldwide PC brand by taking over from Lenovo as a sponsor of the Olympic Games after 2008

U.S. gov’t data rights and wrongs

Cookie variants skirt blockers, anti-spyware tools

Growing number of Web sites resort to subdomain cookies to skirt anti-spyware tools and cookie blockers and allow third-party information gathering and ad serving

Dell closes down hardware design unit in India

Dell will focus on software development, testing, and documentation in India and rely more on contract manufacturers to do its product design work

IBM researchers build supercomputer-on-a-chip

IBM's high-bandwidth, low-power, silicon nanophotonics technology could make supercomputers the size of a laptop a reality

Microsoft to trial Windows XP on OLPC in January

Redmond has not yet decided whether Windows will become commercially available on the XO laptop

Google picks iPhone for launch of new mobile app

iPhone's browser capabilities make it the first choice over smartphone rivals Nokia and BlackBerry for single Google navigation bar

AMD slows down shipment of Barcelona chips

Shipments of the quad-core Opteron processor are being delayed due to a bug on the L3 cache of the chip that was causing system problems

Update: Silicon Valley wireless group seeks new builder

Azulstar was not able to raise the approximately $100 million it needed to build the municipal wireless network, handing Silicon Valley Metro Connect another setback

Microsoft releases new Windows Server, Vista SP1 test code

Full versions, which Microsoft hopes will help spur increased Vista adoption, are due to be released early next year

Wii News Channel report: German court re-locks iPhone, bad dad blogger baffled

Tech groups call on Congress to extend R&D tax credit

More than 40 trade groups have banded together to press Congress to extend an R&D tax credit that is due to expire next month

Facebook tweaks Beacon again, Zuckerberg apologizes

Responding to criticism, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has modified its beacon ad platform to allow users to completely deny participation in the system

Experts to Facebook: Mind your manners

Analysts believe Facebook could have avoided the controversy about its Beacon ad platform had it simply been more honest and transparent about its user tracking

How to engineer a tumbler

Microsoft offers Volta preview for Web apps development

Volta, which requires Visual Studio 2008, features declarative tier-splitting for server and client parts, and SaaS apps are enabled

Novell delays financial results due to SEC inquiry

Novell is woking with the SEC to respond to the agency's inquiries into its accounting practices

December’s coolest gadgets

NEC showed off a concept PC that offers a lot of interesting features but suffers at the hands of rules and regulations

Orange sells 30,000 iPhones in five days

German operator T-Mobile says it sold 10,000 iPhones the day the mobile phone went on sale

The Linux server we couldn’t break

Ron Paul spam traced to Ukrainian botnet

Security researchers have shut down a network of computers responsible for sending out nearly 200 million spam messages

PDF approved as international standard

ISO's ratification of PDF as an ISO standard means Adobe gives up some control over the development of future versions

Salesforce launches data-sharing technology

Salesforce to Salesforce will allow users to integrate data with partners

How Leopard Time Machine works, and how it doesn’t

Verizon hedges on using Android

A Verizon spokeswoman says that the company has not decided if it will use Android, while Verizon's CEO has said that it will support Google's mobile software

France and Germany sell unlocked iPhones. What price freedom?

Red Hat aims MRG software at IBM, Tibco

Red Hat Enterprise MRG combines messaging, real-time, and grid capabilities and is part of the company's automation strategy for simplifying the deployment of applications

Compiere launches 3.0 version of ERP offering

The latest update to the company's open-source ERP platform includes a Web interface, 'enterprise-level data security,' and support services

Google integrates AIM into Gmail

Gmail users can now use AOL's popular instant-messaging program in addition to Google's own Gmail Chat

Former Motorola CTO takes the same position at Cisco

Padmasree Warrior, who resigned from Motorola yesterday, will take over as new CTO at Cisco, though the company has not given a start date

SAP puts a Web 2.0 spin on CRM upgrade

CRM 2007 will feature an easy-to-use Web 2.0-style interface that SAP hopes will help increase usage rates in the enterprise

Update: Sun dangles prize money over open-source efforts

Sun's new award program will involve the OpenSolaris, GlassFish, OpenJDK, OpenSparc, NetBeans, and OpenOffice.org communities

CDT urges changes to wiretapping legislation

Center for Democracy and Technology says the FISA Amendments Act offers 'no meaningful protection' to U.S. residents from controversial wiretapping program

Nokia helps operators target the enterprise

Nokia opens up its business channel partner program to mobile operators and ISVs in hopes of encouraging more enterprise mobile deployments

F-Secure: Malware samples doubled in one year

Innovation is on the decline and being replaced with volume and mass-produced kit malware, according to F-Secure report

Wi-Fi chip set sales soaring this year

Wi-Fi Alliance forecasts a gain of more than 40 percent in shipments of Wi-Fi chip sets over 2006 sales

Nokia lays plan for more Internet services

Nokia moves beyond cell phones and into the world of Internet services, where it will compete more directly with Google, Apple, and Microsoft

Court lets T-Mobile sell locked iPhones in Germany

Nokia to launch ‘free’ music download service

Certain Nokia phones will let customers download music for free for a year after purchase

Fujitsu, Taiwan to form WiMax joint venture

WiMax joint venture will reportedly see Fujitsu and Taiwan develop a WiMax chip for use in PCs, cell phones, and other digital devices

Giving users control of identity

Sun sets date for Ops Center release

Sun will release its new Ops Center virtualization management console on Dec. 10 under the open-source GPLv3 license

Group will develop AV testing guidelines by early next year

New set of software testing guidelines will give consumers more accurate information with which to compare anti-virus software

Microsoft: Windows flaw could steer IE to hackers

Flaw in the way Windows looks up other computers on the Internet resurfaces and could expose some customers to online attacks

Price war between Intel and AMD winding down, study says

Competition over average selling prices of chips has eased; now Intel and AMD battle on microprocessor features and functionality instead

Microsoft to beef up anti-piracy checks in Vista SP1

Windows Vista SP1 makes it harder for hackers to bypass anti-piracy checks and no longer sends systems into limited functionality mode should users fail to activate Vista

Metastorm to acquire Spotlight Data

Acquisition of process discovery tool will enhance BPM suite

Adobe upgrades, cuts price on video streaming software

Adobe Flash Media Server 3 supports streaming high-definition video at lowered prices for both the low-scale and high-performance model