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New tools from Intel drive Mac apps to Penryn

Intel upgrades its software development tools to help Mac OS X Leopard apps perform better on Penryn processors

Business Objects to help SAP in new class of applications

EC approves the acquisition of Business Objects, which SAP says will help it bring to market business user apps targeted at users involved in ad-hoc and collaborative work

Web apps, Office among top security headaches, says SANS

Vulnerabilities in the Office applications suite jumped almost 300 percent between 2006 and 2007, according to an annual security report

Lenovo to build $20 million factory in Poland

Lenovo retools its product supply chain in hopes of expanding European and African sales with its new Polish PC plant

Orange to offer unlocked iPhone in France

Orange will sell unlocked iPhones in France for $964, far less than T-Mobile charges in neighboring Germany

Enterprise Web 2.0 apps highlighted by WaveMaker

Visual environment, framework are offered in WaveMaker's newest apps, which aim to help developers bring Facebook-style apps to enterprises

Rambus aims for 1-terabyte bandwidth

Rambus' Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative aims to develop a single memory chip that will provide data speeds of 1 TBps

Open source companies hitting their stride

Online shoppers set records on ‘Cyber Monday’

Online shoppers in the U.S. spent $733M on Cyber Monday, a 21 percent increase over the same day last year

Dell targets the enterprise with new workstations

Dell upgrades its line of workstations with the Dell Precision T5400 and the Precision T7400 quad-core systems, featuring multicore and multithreading capabilities

Lotus Notes vulnerable to e-mail attack

Serious bug in the Autonomy KeyView software used by IBM's Lotus Notes could be exploited by attackers to run unauthorized software on a victim's PC

Gmail works fine on iPhone, blanks on Windows Mobile

Google supports IMAP for Gmail, allowing for full synchronization between mobile and desktop access, but Windows Mobile users are being frustrated by ongoing bugs

BEA touts event-driven architecture

Company officials detail product stack but are mum on Oracle

Lawsuit charges CRT makers with price-fixing

A class-action lawsuit alleges that Chunghwa, LG, Matsushita, Philips, Samsung, and Toshiba all conspired to inflate the prices of CRT monitors as demand went down

IBM updates free enterprise search tool

With latest release of IBM's OmniFind Yahoo Edition, users can generate up to five separate indexes of documents and define additional custom search fields

Toys ‘R’ Us, Costco struggle on Cyber Monday

Yahoo also among online vendors unable to meet user demand as U.S. shoppers hit the Web on first work day after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend

Update: Verizon’s move called an opening for industry

Verizon's decision to open up its network to third-party apps and devices could be the beginning of an industry-wide shift toward an open model for the mobile Web

HP expands green agenda with investments

AMD is investing in both solar and wind power for its facilities in the U.S. and Ireland, expanding its plans to cut costs by investing in renewable energy resources

FTC: 8.3 million U.S. victims of ID theft in 2005

Though the FTC's tally shows that around 4 percent of the U.S.'s population experienced identity theft in 2005, most said the theft was not computer related

Survey: A quarter of U.S. workers telecommute regularly

While more workers would like permission to work off-site, management is often wary of the possibilities, survey also finds

Greenpeace slams Nokia, Nintendo in electronics guide

Greenpeace's annual list of the greenest IT companies rates Nintendo last, while Nokia fell from the top spot for not following through on its phone recycling program

Novell offers real-time Linux

In the throes of an outsourcing deathmarch

Software production management could boost productivity

Software production management tools are seen as a good way for developers to maintain quality and efficiency as applications get more complex

Motorola slides to third in mobile phones, study says

Inventory issues and an unremarkable product lineup caused Motorola to lose ground in the mobile phones market to Samsung, Gartner says

EU approves SAP, Vodafone acquisitions

The European Commission has found that SAP's acquisition of Business Objects and Vodafone's acquisition of Tele2 in Spain and Italy would not unfairly dominate the market

BMC releases ProActiveNet Analytics

BMC its first analytics software product stemming from the acquisition of ProActiveNet

Update: Verizon Wireless opens up network to outside devices

Verizon Wireless yields to customer demands and will begin letting mobile customers run any application they choose on approved devices by the end of 2008

Report: Google’s ‘Gdrive’ online storage due in a few months

Google hopes to differentiate the Gdrive hosted storage and backup service from existing competing ones by making it easier to use

EU wants more information on IBM’s Telelogic buy

European Commission will push back the deadline for ending its investigation into whether IBM's planned acquisition of Telelogic breaks EU competition rules

Webroot to buy service vendor Email Systems

Acquisition of Email Systems will give Webroot a new line of SaaS products to complement its existing security software

Tibco touts performance in Rendezvous upgrade

Messaging software features lower latency for increased performance in financial services and SOA environments

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Samsung develops RFID chip for mobile handsets

Samsung's RFID chip will be used in handheld devices to enable users to read RFID tags on products and access information on ingredients or dosages

Toshiba, NEC collaborate on 32-nanometer chips

Toshiba and NEC will work together on advanced chip manufacturing technologies vital to the continuing miniaturization of consumer electronics products

Yahoo to introduce structured Web search

Yahoo's new structured search is primarily suitable for e-commerce applications such as online shopping

Handful of bugs squashed in Firefox security fix

Among the fixes Mozilla has released is a patch for the well-known flaw in how Firefox handles .jar files

Hackers will feed on Vista in 2008, says McAfee

As Vista grows in popularity and surpasses the 10 percent market-share milestone, McAfee expets more hackers to start targeting the OS

Another inconvenient truth: Al Gore’s Web site hacked

A blog related to the former vice president's feature film has been hacked by spammers trying to boost their seach-engine rankings

Gartner: x86 servers gain as Unix shipments fall

Shipments of x86 servers grew 9.5 percent during the third quarter as Unix server shipments fell, though some companies reported increased Unix revenue

SaaS delivery model takes new turn

19Marketplace opens a retail SaaS store offering such apps as WebEx's WebOffice, Microsoft's Hosted Exchange, and Blackberry Mobile E-mail

HP looks to gain greater stake in IT automation market

Hewlett-Packard's Automated Operations 1.0 suite is the company's attempt to vie for automation market share with CA, IBM, and BMC

Young gov’t IT workers say tech is dated

A survey of Generation Y tech workers in the U.S. government by Telework Exchange finds concerns about present technologies but also hope for future opportunities

Data leakage prevention becomes a feature

Along with anti-spyware apps, spam filters, IDSes, and firewalls, DLP may go from stand-alone platform to become regular part of bigger packaged security suites

AT&T to hike prices on dial-up

Though rates for dial-up will be on a par with or exceed those for DSL, customers who live in areas without DSL access could feel the biggest pinch

Test tool readied for agile development

T-Mobile unlocks iPhone for a (big) price

In response to a lawsuit brought by Vodafone, T-Mobile Germany is selling unlocked iPhones for just under $1500, making it the first carrier to do so

Once-fixed bug pops up again in Leopard’s Mail

A bug in Apple Mail that the company had fixed for the Tiger version of OS-X has been resurrected in the Leopard version of the OS

GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement

The GNOME Foundation had been criticized by ODF supporters for helping Microsoft in its push to have its OOXML format accepted as an open standard

Vista may never be right for enterprise