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DOJ details opposition to Microsoft judgment extension

The Department of Justice thinks that the brief filed by several states requesting an extension of the Microsoft antitrust judgment does not sufficiently make its case

WS02 upgrades open-source ESB

ESB 1.5 will be bolstered with scheduler, XQuery, and caching, but analyst is not sold on company's approach

Analysts grade Vista’s first year: Did not meet expectations

Corporations have fallen way behind their original Vista adoption plans as they underestimated the difficulty and overestimated the value of moving to Vista

NaviSite says 90 percent of 165,000 Web sites back online

Web-hosting company NaviSite says Web sites that had been offline since Saturday due to a failed datacenter migration are now back up

Zero day specialists hooked on spear phishing

Complex phishing attacks are targeting financial services firms and government entities — the very organizations that spend more time and money on security than anyone

New Windows refurbisher program fights piracy, Linux

Microsoft's new Authorized Refurbisher program encourages refurbishers to install legitimate copies of Windows XP on used PCs

DOJ cracks down on Internet pharmacy

DOJ seeks forfeiture of more than $40 million in profit from six men charged with illegally distributing drugs through an Internet pharmacy

Google shares fall below $700

Google is just one of the high-flying technology stocks that took a hit on fears that U.S. economic growth could slow noticeably in Q4

Alicia Keys’ MySpace page sings with malicious code

Musicians find their MySpace pages hacked with a new type of hack that attempts to install malware

How Dell’s support upgrade doubles as a profit center

Nigeria favors Linux vendor Mandriva over Microsoft once more

Nigerian government overrules PC supplier's decision install Windows XP in place of Mandriva Linux on Classmate PCs intended for students

TSMC October chip sales hit all-time high

Chip sector continues to hum along despite problems in the U.S. economy

Red flags for IT bellwethers Cisco, Oracle, Sun

Technology vendors Cisco, Oracle, and Sun are coming off a solid quarter, but worries about U.S. economic problems could put a break on business spending

17 charged in massive ID theft bust

New York company charged with running an identity-theft and money-laundering operation that raked in more than $35 million over four years

Microsoft stands by its invite to arrested hacker

Microsoft invited Roberto Preatoni, founder of software bug auction site WabiSabiLabi, to speak at its security conference; Preatoni has since been arrested in a spying scandal in Italy

XP inventor talks about agile programming

Kent Beck touts shorter development cycles and says agile methods can detect unworkable software projects quicker

Federal IT pros insecure over security

A poll by Cisco finds that government IT managers are spending more time on security compliance but don't feel that their infrastructure is secure

Gigaspaces targets ‘the Digg effect’

In an attempt to build grassroots support among SMBs, Gigaspaces is offering its eXtreme Application Platform middleware for free to qualified startups

Source code testers expect PCI windfall

Companies' need to comply with new standards for storing and protecting sensitive data will be a significant driver of business for source code analysis vendors

Microsoft: Just a pair of security updates coming next week

Microsoft says that next week's Patch Tuesday will include only two updates, one of them a critical Windows fix

Exploit code out for Oracle Database 10g vulnerability

No patch is available for the buffer-overflow bug in Oracle's database software that VeriSign disclosed yesterday

JRuby upgrades offered

JRuby upgrades offered

An Ubuntu security epiphany

IBM, Microsoft, SAP lag behind on Web 2.0

Big vendors still lag behind smaller rivals in the market for blog, wiki, and content collaboration tools

Spammers beg for money in pre-holiday blast

New holiday spam campaign relies on social engineering, not technical tricks, to ask for money

Vonage tentatively settles AT&T patent lawsuit, reports loss

VOIP provider Vonage has tentatively agreed to pay AT&T about $39 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit

ARM’s CEO talks of iPhone, Android, and Acorns

Interview: ARM CEO Warren East says Google's Android will have a delayed effect on smartphone sales, which already received a big boost from Apple's iPhone launch

AMD brings GPU technology to high-performance computing

AMD's new FireStream high-performance chip package uses parallelism technology, commonly found in graphics processors, and applies it to general-purpose computing

IBM management tools reduce datacenter costs

IBM's new set of self-management tools that can reduce the cost and manpower needed to run datacenters are part of Big Blue's Autonomic Computing effort

The problem with Intel inside Macs: Recovery

Hard drive prices drop as PC demand rises

Competition from flash memory and increased shipment of PCs and consumer electronics are driving down prices and fueling demand for hard disk drives, survey shows

Google’s Android just a press release, says Ballmer

Microsoft's CEO says it's impossible to compare Android to Windows Mobile when Google's mobile platform is 'just some words on paper right now'

Sun eyes consumer focus for upcoming Java kit

Sun is still in the early stages of planning for Java Development Kit 7, its application development platform, and has a long list of potential features

Red Hat, Amazon deliver Linux on demand

Red Hat's Enterprise Linux OS will be available for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, which hosts business apps for customers

Update: Cisco revenue, profit rose in Q1

Revenue for the router manufacturer is up 17 percent from last year's Q1

Governors team with Google energy savings initiative

The governors of Kansas and Minnesota have joined Google's Climate Savers Computing Initiative and vowed to buy energy-efficient computers

Opposition to Google’s DoubleClick deal mounting

A group of 12 Republican members of U.S. House of Representatives join privacy advocates in urging hearings for the proposed merger

Washington state sues search engine fixer, again

Attorney general claims search engine marketer Internet Advancement failed to honor guarantees and misrepresented its services, among other charges

Fast mobile on track but faces curves

Early tests show promising transmission speeds for cell phones and other wireless devices, but several factors could keep system from living up to its full potential

Taking the mystery out of IT budgeting

PCI Council launches payments apps standard

The card industry group is pushing a new standard that will force companies to build point-of-sale and transactional systems that do not store as much sensitive customer data.

Symantec airs Vontu integration plan

Symantec will continue to market Vontu's products, but plans to integrate data-leak prevention into its desktop, network, and storage lineups

AOL’s online ad sales growth disappoints again

AOL plugs away at its transition into online advertising, announcing the acquisition of Quigo for its contextual advertising technology

Rational deepens ties to IBM’s mainframe business

IBM to announce Rational software aimed at modernizing applications running on Big Blue's flagship System Z mainframes

Grassley: H-1B visas being used to displace U.S. workers

U.S. Senator attacks H-1B visa program but is willing to consider an increase in the annual visa cap

About 165,000 Web sites knocked offline by NaviSite outage

NaviSite's attempt to migrate and replace hundreds of servers results in customers' Web sites being unavailable

Senator rips into investigation of Sun GSA contract

Senator Chuck Grassley calls investigative reports into the overcharging of government agencies by Sun 'incomplete' and 'poorly organized'

TomTom ups bid for Tele Atlas, thwarting Garmin

GPS maker TomTom ups the ante to $4.2 billion, hoping to edge out rival Gamin in its bidding for digital maps company Tele Atlas

Intel brings EMC to small-business storage

Intel adds Celeron processing brawn to its entry-level storage systems, enabling more users to carry out more complex tasks simultaneously with the stored data