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YouTube sued by Indian music label

Google's YouTube video sharing site accused of displaying content on which an Indian music label says it holds copyrights

China’s Founder agrees to preinstall Windows on more PCs

Founder Technology expands its agreement with Microsoft and will preinstall Vista on more laptops and commercial desktops

Vetting the quality of VoIP

Sun’s open source strategy questioned

Former VP Larry Singer says he left Sun because he disagreed with CEO Schwartz's over-emphasis on open-sourcing when the company should have been focusing on generating revenues

Google phones won’t challenge iPhone any time soon, says ARM CEO

ARM's CEO says Gphones may take time to catch on because building up a new mobile phone software platform can take years

Microsoft’s Centro becomes ‘Essential’ business server

Microsoft's Centro bundle of server software aims to make it simpler for businesses with limited IT management resources to install and control key software tools

Microsoft to open two more datacenters

Microsoft reveals details of new datacenters that will be located outside Chicago and in Dublin, Ireland

HP leverages SOA for wireless service providers

Service Delivery Platform 2.0 also encompasses Web 2.0 capabilities, including mashups

Customers looking beyond India for outsourcing, analysts say

Frequent staffing changes caused by attrition, combined with increased staff costs, have lowered customer satisfaction with outsourcing to India

Web 2.0 company changes name

Spring Framework upgrade set for November 19

Improvements include greater use of annotations and metadata, though some older versions of Java will no longer be supported as the platform progresses

Microsoft touts final release of Windows Live

The Windows Live suite of Web apps officially emerges from beta –with a few stragglers to come– as Microsoft shoots for an audience of 10 billion users in two months

Microsoft fires CIO

Stuart Scott has been let go for an unspecified violation of company policy

Lenovo personalizes Think brand, rolls out desktops

The ThinkStation D10 and S10 business workstations are aimed at computing-intensive industries like CAD and digital content creation

World of Warcraft, meet Visual Studio

To show off Microsoft's development technologies, a company developer ran a demo of World of WarCraft in the Visual Studio environment

What’s the (next) deal with the DLP business?

Some industry watchers contend that Symantec's move to buy Vontu won't mark the last acquisition in the data leakage space, as a wide array of IT companies could still be looking to expand their existing DLP portfolios, but others believe t

Facebook gives social spin to online ads

With Facebook Ads, businesses can create profiles, and users can pass ad info to each other, while Facebook itself provides feedback to marketers on user interaction

Nortel makes money despite falling revenue

Revenue for most of Nortel's businesses fell, but declined operating expenses helped the company to its biggest operating margin since 2004

Update: Salesforce.com falls for phishing scam, warns customers

After a phisher managed to get a corporate password, online criminals have been sending fake invoices as well as malware to Salesforce customers

HP launches the ‘mother of all workstations’

New HP XW8600 and XW6600 Workstations will include Intel Xeon quad-core processors and support for Nvidia graphics cards

Lawmakers rip Yahoo over testimony on dissident arrest

On Capitol Hill, Yahoo co-founder and general counsel maintain they were unaware of nature of investigation surrounding Chinese journalist Shi Tao

Hackers exploiting bug in DRM shipped with Windows

Security researcher claims that Microsoft, which is now issuing a patch to the Macrovision Security Driver, has known about the bug for weeks

Fate of Linux guru’s life, and life’s work, hang in balance

As Linux visionary Hans Reiser faces murder charges, his ReiserFS file system, which had become part of the Linux kernel, is being abandoned

Software vendors as prosecutor, judge and jury

EU looks to collect air passenger data

EC proposes rules that give authorities easier access to the databases of Internet service providers and a system for vetting air passengers

Google demands non-fragmentation pledge for Android

Interview: Google exec Rich Miner explains why Google decided to launch its own mobile Linux effort when several others already exist

London Tube could hop on music-sharing train

London Undersound project would let commuters on London's Underground subway system download and upload tracks to each other via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

Update: Amazon extends online storage in Europe

Amazon expands its data hosting service to the EU, speeding up service and enabling customers to comply with European data protection laws

Microsoft nonchalant about Phoenix assault on Windows

Vista SideShow is being challenged by Phoenix's HyperSpace, but Microsoft claims its attempt to solve the boot-up time problem is doing well

Report: WabiSabiLabi founder arrested in Italy

Founder of security start-up WabiSabiLabi arrested in connection with an ongoing spying scandal at Telecom Italia

Alibaba shares jump higher in Hong Kong opening

Price of shares in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com rose 122 percent on the first day of trading

Microsoft unveils enterprise search products

Search Server 2008 and Search Server Express 2008 are priced to sell into the low-cost enterprise search market that Microsoft believes is still widely untapped

Symbian CEO: Android just another Linux platform

CEO of Symbian says with Google's Android added to the list, Linux is fragmenting faster than it unifies

China abandons plans to sell Olympics tickets online

China will instead offer Olympics tickets through a lottery system after a swell of buyers crashed its online ticketing system

HTC already working on Google phone

HTC insists its commitment to Windows Mobile is unwavering, but Android could become a potent new rival to Microsoft's OS and other handset OSes

Microsoft to build $500 million datacenter in Dublin

Mircosoft invests in its first major European datacenter to support services such as MSN portal and Windows Live

Microsoft exec: We’re building bridges with Dynamic IT

At the DevConnections conference, Microsoft touts its Dynamic IT initiative, new features in SQL Server 2008, and the Oslo framework for modeling applications

Cisco’s Catalyst switch upgrades tout speed, ease, and innovation

New Catalyst 4500 E-Series chassis and supervisor promise an easy onramp to 10Gig, while new Catalyst 6500 supervisor and Virtual Switching System remake redundant networking

Google’s Android may signal change for operators

Google's open source mobile platform, which will make it easier for third-party developers to bring their apps to different phones and carriers, could spawn a wave of innovation

5 ways to roll out SOA

Microsoft gives first peek at Sync Framework

Microsoft's Sync Framework gives software developers a way to inject data synchronization capabilities into applications

IBM to ship AIX 6 Unix on Friday

Big Blue's new AIX 6 Unix OS provides improved security management and virtualization features

Microsoft to patch software driver vulnerability

Faulty driver used for copy protection in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP could allow a hacker to gain high-level access to a PC

Google’s mobile move: awe-inspiring and terrifying

Google aims to radically improve the creation and delivery of mobile online services in the hopes that mobile Web and Internet usage will balloon — along with online ad revenue

Symantec buys Vontu

The $350 million acquisition helps Symantec enter the new and crowded but still hot data leak prevention market

Google’s Android boosts enterprise mobile Linux

The clout of Google and its partners in the Android mobile platform could finally provide the stable, viable Linux option enterprise IT managers have been waiting for

Strong server sales lift Sun to profitable Q1

A slight growth in revenue as well as more efficient business practices helped Sun to its fourth consecutive profitable quarter

Apple posts QuickTime security fix

The QuickTime 7.3 update fixes seven bugs, six of which could allow an attacker to run unauthorized software on a victim's PC

BEA to open books to Icahn

Red Hat joins Sun’s open source Java project

As part of agreement, Sun's OpenJDK will now incorporate Red Hat's Java development efforts for Linux