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SOA shortfall cited by Accenture executive

Promise not being met for process model, which is only halfway through a four-phase progression, Accenture CTO says at BEA event

Mac QuickTime exploit emerges

Days after a bug in QuickTime was revealed, an attack code for exploiting the bug and hijacking Macs, including those running Leopard, has come out

Microsoft readies parallel development tools

Wall Street Beat: Stormy ride for tech

The turbulence in the housing, mortgage, credit, and financial services sectors is spilling into the tech sector

Microsoft solves Office Mobile incompatibility issue

The free upgrade allows Office Mobile users to work with documents created in Office 2007

Apps accelerators tackle security

As apps acceleration providers deal with ever-increasing amounts of security technologies, they are starting to integrate security into their product lines

Update: Dell revenue up though U.S. consumer business falls

As desktop revenues continue to decline, company growth spurred by global sales of mobile products, including notebooks

Microsoft set to release SP1 for Exchange Server

The update includes new unified communications functionality and standby continuous replication of e-mails

Verizon Wireless will use LTE for fourth-gen networks

Adoption of Long-Term Evolution technology would switch Verizon from CDMA to GSM, the standard currently used by 80 percent of cell phones worldwide

Photo-sharing lawsuit against Creative Commons dropped

Plaintiffs weren't seeking monetary damages from Creative Commons, but wanted nonprofit to clarify that its licenses don't deal with privacy rights

Microsoft releases SP1 for Exchange Server 2007

The update fixes bugs, adds some new features, and includes support for the highly anticipated Windows Server 2008

Insider charged with hacking California canal system

A former employee hacked the computer system that controls water flow in central California irrigation canals, highlighting security holes in the nation's infrastructure

Silverlight 2.0 to launch early next year

The next version of Microsoft's Silverlight cross-platform browser plug-in will include a go-live license and a subset of the .Net framework

Take a bite out of Vista services

Infineon-Siemens joint venture gets EU’s green light

The partnership will allow the two German companies to produce bipolar high-power semiconductors

Apple: Boot Camp beta expires Dec. 31

Windows partitions already installed on Macs running Tiger will remain intact after the Boot Camp cut-off, Apple promises

Google expunges malware sites from search results

Google purges its search index of thousands of sites stocked with Trojan horses, rootkits, and password-stealers

BEA, Accenture partner on innovation center

Update: Police raid botmaster blamed for 1 million infections

New Zealand raid a joint effort with the FBI to crack down on botnets that are 'the weapon of choice of cyber criminals'

AMD may build a chip plant in India

An AMD chip manufacturing plant in India would be a significant breakthrough for the country's high-tech ambitions

Advertiser settles spam charges for $650,000

Adteractive settles charges that it used deceptive spam messages to lure people to its Web sites

Nokia cell phone battery explodes in the night

Nokia is investigating report of a cell phone battery that exploded and burst into flames while recharging

As ISPs choke file-sharing, users look elsewhere

Users are moving to file-hosting Web sites to avoid slow downloads on peer-to-peer networks

AMD opens second R&D facility in India

Rapid growth of operations in India caused AMD's team of chip engineers to outgrow their R&D center

DRAM prices may hit speed bump on way down

Strong holiday sales could temporarily deplete inventory, but chipmakers continue to supply the market with too much memory, ensuring prices will resume their slide swiftly

Placing IT effectiveness on the org chart

Google gets extension in Northeastern patent suit

Google has until January to reply to charges it used patented search technology developed by a Northeastern professor

Zonbu launches bare-bones subscription laptops

Users are freed from the hassle of computer maintenance with Zonbu's $279 subscription notebook that comes bundled with applications and services

Yahoo and Adobe team up to put online ads in PDFs

Yahoo/Adobe initiative will allow publishers to display contextually relevant, dynamically generated ads on PDF files posted on the Web or sent via e-mail

Sun bullied, used threats to gain control of open source project, former owner says

Yahoo adds Flash to widget platform

The lightweight applications used to access content have been given extended HTML support for developers as well as Flash capability

Intel upgrades tools for Apple Leopard developers

The Intel Software Development Products have been upgraded to allow Leopard developers to take better advantage of Intel's Penryn chips

Client-side vulnerabilities loom large

The SANS Institute's annual report on the top 20 Internet security risks finds that attackers have found a target-rich environment in both apps and OSes

Krugle adds former Borland executives

Google service uses cell towers to locate users

The new Google Maps with MyLocation service allows users without GPS-enabled phones to figure out their location by using nearby cell-phone towers

Panelists: Content management, meet social networking

At the Gilbane Groups' annual conference, execs pondered the nexus between enterprises and emerging Web 2.0 technologies like social networking

Micron exec: SSDs to reach portable devices in 2008

Memory maker champions solid-state drives as future replacements for hard drives, thanks to their efficiency, ruggedness, and size

My life as a dog: Adventures in RFID research

Researcher's duplication of his dog's RFID tags points to potential for virtual animal cloning as countries roll out RFID-based systems that keep track of livestock

Study: .Net overtakes Java

Verizon Wireless’ open network earns praise

Verizon's decision to open its mobile network has garnered kudos from many organizations — including several that had been critical of the company in the past

IBM sues company for selling fake batteries

IBM has accused Shentech of selling defective — and flammable — batteries with fake IBM logos on them

Yelp glitch blocks site for some

Update to popular Web site for user-generated restaurant, entertainment, and business reviews in Bay Area caused partial outage, says Yelp

Micron unveils first solid state drive offerings

The RealSSD 32GB and 64GB drives are currently being sampled and are slated for mass production next year as Micron enters the nascent SSD market

EU telecom lobby group blasts regulatory laggards

The European Competitive Telecom Association says that Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece, and Belgium are the worst in the EU for promoting telecom competition

Microsoft loses patent appeal, must pay $140M in damages

A federal appeals court has upheld a decision requiring Microsoft and Autodesk to pay z4 for patent infringement and has denied Microsoft's request for a new trial

EC launches probe into TomTom plan to buy Tele Atlas

The European Commission is concerned that the proposed acquisition would stifle competition in the satellite navigation market

Spyware, not virus or worm attacks, takes malware crown

IBM loses server market share to rivals HP, Dell, Sun

HP makes big gains in server shipments but IBM still holds onto slim lead in market share revenue

OLPC sued for patent infringement

Massachusetts company claims the OLPC project illegally reverse-engineered its patented multilingual keyboard

Microsoft won’t confirm proxy configuration flaw

Hacker discovers vulnerability that appears to exploit an eight-year-old flaw in Windows