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Manic Cyber Monday expected, as e-tailers lure shoppers

About 72 million people are expected to shop online on Cyber Monday, solidifying its position as the online equivalent of Black Friday

Dubai investment fund takes ‘substantial’ stake in Sony

Sony purchase follows the recent Abu Dabai investment in AMD — signs of Middle Eastern investors' growing interest in technology

China Mobile testing 3G Windows Mobile handset

China Mobile expects to finish building 3G networks in at least 10 cities by the time the Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing next August

Refuting the dire need for more H-1B visas

Online holiday shopping starts strong in the U.S.

Shoppers spent more than $800 million online on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, up significantly from last year

Broadcom will pursue injunction against Qualcomm

Broadcom wants an injunction to stop Qualcomm from making 3G and EVDO cellular chips that infringe on its patents

Feature list leaked for Microsoft’s next IM version

Windows Live Messenger 9.0 will feature SPIM, a new security feature that reports users who send unsolicited messages

The only Leopard tip guide you’ll ever need

Cool facts about the Leopard kernel

Leopard kernel source code published November 8

Is security software becoming a security risk?

Due to bugs in antivirus software, the security suite becomes a risk by itself, and adding multiple pieces of security software makes the problem worse, not better

Apple settles iPod lawsuit for $10 million

Burst.com, which had charged Apple with using four of its patents in the iPod and iTunes, will get $10 million and will make most of its patents available to Apple

Python upgrades readied for 2008

Developers look to smooth transition between versions of the language as they work concurrently on two upgrades to the platform

HP fails to spark market

HP beat analyst expectations and reported a quarterly profit earlier this week, but the overall market remained in turmoil, and some bellwethers took the hit

Engineers tackle big waits for big files

WAN optimization offers one solution for medium-size companies seeking ways to centralize servers or make links between remote sites run faster

One year later: Did Vista’s focus on security pay off?

Some analysts think Microsoft overemphasized the security upgrades in Vista, which were not enough to convince businesses to adopt the OS

RightNow November release includes unique widget

Knowledge base widget gives users wide access to product info with a single click

OLPC asked to free XO laptop

As One Laptop Per Child wraps up commercial sales of its XO laptop, a user thinks keeping the XO available will have great benefits for the nonprofit and its mission

Genuitec tailors MyEclipse toolset for WebSphere

Company presents users of the WebSphere app server an alternative to the more expensive IBM Rational tool

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Group pushing for open data portability stack

New workgroup proposes 'open standards stack,' saying the boom in social networking has created the need for user data to be portable

Google’s OpenSocial targets social apps API ‘balkanization’

Interview: Scott McMullan discusses Google's initiative to establish common, standard APIs for creating social-networking applications

T-Mobile unlocks iPhone in Germany

Legal challenge from rival Vodafone forces T-Mobile to provide an unlocked version of Apple's iPhone in Germany

AOL eyes mobile ad revenue through U.K. portal

New mobile Web portal is the latest step in AOL's effort to reinvent itself from an Internet service provider into an advertising and content company

12 spam research projects that might make a difference

Research labs are developing new ways to thwart the latest tricks from spammers, phishers, and other cybercriminals

Is e-mail dead? Hardly

Analysts predict e-mail accounts will continue to grow even as instant messaging, texting, and social networking sites gain in popularity

Bye bye BI?

A Google climb to $900 would face headwinds

Bank analyst increases his price target for Google stock to $900, but a slowing economy and faltering advertising revenues could also hurt the company's shares

Studies show online holiday spending uncertain

Dollar amount spent online might not live up to the historical 20 percent growth because overall spending might be down due to broader economic factors

Firefox plans bug fix release for next week

Mozilla will release a bug fix for its Firefox browser that repairs a long-standing security flaw that can be used to launch a cross-site scripting attack

Apple’s Leopard OS certified for Unix 03 standard

The Open Group has confirmed that Apple's latest OS X client software and server both meet the latest Unix 03 standards

Oracle tops corporate software usage study

A study done by ChangeWave finds that Oracle's software is the most used for corporate BI or CRM purposes and is in second place for ERP usage

Nokia Siemens adopts ‘green’ policy to cut costs

In what Nokia Siemens says is an example of things to come, the company has instituted more energy-efficient practices for its network equipment

Firefox 3.0 beta release adds security, search

Mozilla says second beta to follow before the end of the year, ultimately leading to the finished product in 2008

Free software group files copyright lawsuits

Software Freedom Law Center alleges that two companies distributing open source BusyBox are not providing access to the source code, as required by GPL

Dell wants to be more than a hardware vendor

With the acquisition of Everdream, has Dell tipped its hand to a new direction?

FCC awards spectrum to public safety group

Public Safety Spectrum Trust granted 10MHz of the 700MHz spectrum in anticipation of building out a nationwide emergency communications network

On the limited value of corporate cheerleaders

Microsoft hires former Sun, IBM executive to lead sales

Microsoft names Robert YoungJohns as its president of North America sales and marketing

FSF finalizes GPL-based license for Web services

New GNU AGPLv3 license ensures that modifications to software used to power publicly available services will be contributed to the free software community

Hackers jack Monster.com, infect job hunters

Monster.com takes a portion of its Web site offline after job seekers are pounced on by the Neosploit attack tool kit

African nations agree to $1 billion Indian satellite project

Indian government will finance $1 billion project to at develop Africa's information and communication technology infrastructure

NAC industry at a crossroads

Device authentication technology is failing to deliver on its promise, experts say

‘Lust’ virus: Film fans in China hit with virus attack

Unauthorized copies of Ang Lee's latest film being dowloaded in China contain software that infects end-users' computers

Is Windows Vista slower than XP?

AT&T buys pay-per-call advertising company

Acquisition of Ingenio puts AT&T in competition with Google and other online advertisement leaders

Appeals court sends back wiretap case

U.S. appeals court in San Francisco says a case about alleged illegal surveillance by the federal government is not secret because the government has discussed the program

Vodafone protests T-Mobile’s iPhone sales in Germany

Vodafone claims T-Mobile's sale of an unsubsidized, locked handset with a 24-month contract violates German competition law

‘Swatters’ tricked AT&T while making fake 911 calls

Ohio man faces five years in prison, $250,000 fine for harassing people by tricking 911 operators into dispatching police SWAT teams to their homes

HP records quarterly profit, beats analyst estimates

Hewlett-Packard's software business provides boost in company income