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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

Update: eBay, Yahoo Japan to tie up in auctions

Alliance between eBay and Yahoo Japan, expected to begin later this year, stands to benefit users of both sites

InfoWorld’s OS X Leopard review: “A Perfect 10,” and thanks for the links

Google exec pans term, mashup

AJAX technologies advancing

Motorola CTO leaves company

Padmasree Warrior, who was executive vice president and chief technology officer at Motorola, has left the company

CA: Beacon’s reach extends to non-Facebook users

Facebook's Beacon ad system tracks user activity across all third-party partner sites even if users have never signed up for Facebook

AJAX benefits, issues cited by Zimbra exec

Scott Dietzen, CTO, charts and champions his company's use of JavaScript as base of its open source Web 2.0 platform

700MHz spectrum filing deadline: What’s next?

Now that AT&T, Google, and others have announced plans to bid for highly valued spectrum, here's what to expect of the upcoming auction

French auction regulator sues to close down eBay France

The French auction regulatory authority has accused eBay of hiding behind the status of broker to avoid giving the required legal guarantees to buyers and sellers

Microsoft buys startup to boost Web, mobile services

Microsoft has acquired WebFives, a Web-based file-sharing service that allows users to automatically upload multimedia files from mobile devices

When Microsoft attacks! FUD at its worst

IT spending to see anemic start in ’08

ChangeWave calls corporate IT spending environment 'murky'

Vista and Mac usage both on the rise

Windows XP falls one percentage point in terms of market share

Facebook admits Beacon tracks logged-off users

Users were not informed that data on their activities was flowing back to Facebook

Activision hopes Blizzard merger can take it online

In deal with Vivendi's Blizzard and Sierra game units, Activision would like to see some of its titles come to the Internet

Shell, Rolls Royce reportedly hacked by Chinese spies

Britain's intelligence agency says Chinese state organizations are looking in networks for information

Intel’s Diamondville will be based on Silverthorne processor

Intel's new chip targeted at ultra-low cost and low-power notebooks will ship next year and will be built around the core of Intel's upcoming low-power Silverthorne processor

Samsung to produce faster graphics memory next year

Samsung Electronics' GDDR 5 chips consume less power and are significantly faster than existing chips, with data transfer speeds up to 6Gbps

Alfresco aligns with Adobe, bashes SharePoint

Alfresco updates its open-source content management platform, integrating it with services like iGoogle and MediaWiki, as well as Adobe's Web development tools

Begin RBAC, strengthen security

Russia’s SUP buys LiveJournal

Russian online media company SUP acquires LiveJournal, Russia's most popular blogging and community site

Verizon’s move to test LTE may signal 4G consolidation

Move to LTE mobile technology marks a shift by Verizon from CDMA technology, but would lead to a consistent system across Verizon's network and that of part owner Vodafone

Suit over Intel Pentium chip speeds pushed back

Illinois judge threw out a state appeals court ruling that would have launched a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Intel over its Pentium 4 processors

Attackers target unpatched QuickTime flaw

Attacks using QuickTime flaw appeared aimed at Windows users, but Mac OS users could also be at risk

Podcast: An identity layer for the Web

Podcast: User-centric identity in the enterprise

Autonomy to offer first remote legal hold application

Desktop Legal Hold finds documents relevant to a litigation whether or not they have been deleted

SPSS and Business Objects sign OEM pact

Deal will give Business Objects predictive analytics capability

Data theft touches 150,000 Massachusetts seniors

Members of Massachusetts' Prescription Advantage insurance program may have had their identity information stolen

CA: Facebook’s Beacon more intrusive than previously thought

A CA security researcher has found that Facebook's Beacon ad system goes much further than originally thought in tracking users' Web activities after they leave the site

Microsoft eyes developers with portal launch

Serena to ship enterprise mashup platform

Serena Business Mashups 2008 allows business users to build simple apps to solve everyday problems

Cloudsmith service pushes ‘virtual distros’

Cloudsmith's Web-based service allows developers access and exchange custom configurations of open-source software

After winning patent suit, z4 sues Microsoft again

z4 Technologies has again filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft, this time claiming that its patents are being used illegally in Windows Vista and Office 2007

EFF: Comcast continues to block P-to-P

The EFF claims that Comcast is using various hacker techniques to disrupt customers' use off peer-to-peer services, though Comcast says it is merely managing its network

Google working to make Street View anonymous

Street View, which gives users a 360-degree view of an area, will be modified in Europe and possibly the U.S. to blur people's faces and license plate numbers

What IT jobs are hot right now?

OpenSolaris demo’d on mainframe

Update: Ed Zander replaced at struggling Motorola

Motorola's CEO will step down at the end of the year and be replaced by Greg Brown, the mobile phone company's current president and COO

Vista turns one and businesses are still dragging their feet

According to a Forrester survey, after eight months only 2 percent of corporate PCs were running Vista

Government-sponsored cyberattacks on the rise

Governments are using the Internet to spy and launch cyberattacks that target critical systems, according to McAfee's cybersecurity report

Update: Google to bid for 700MHz spectrum

Google's application to participate in the 700MHz spectrum auction will not include any partners

Outsourcing moves closer to home

Offshore service providers are moving some operations back to the U.S. in an effort to increase their appeal to U.S. companies

Google asks for help finding malicious Web sites

Google creates online form to make it easy for Web surfers to report sites they suspect of hosting malicious code

Cell phone battery didn’t kill Korean worker, LG said

South Korean construction worker was actually killed in an industrial accident, not by a cell phone battery exploding in his pocket, according to LG Electronics

HP, Acer beat up on Dell in Q3 laptop PC rankings

HP widens its lead over Dell in the overall PC market, while Acer passes the beleaguered Dell to place second in notebook market share behind HP

IT backlogs as metric for SOA?

Privacy concerns prompt U-turn at Facebook

Facebook will modify its controversial Beacon service and ask users to opt in before broadcasting details of their online activities to others

Look out Lenovo: Dell plans expansion in China

Dell is counting on fast-growing markets like China to regain ground lost in recent quarters to rivals like Hewlett-Packard