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HP continues to lead Indian PC market

Notebook sales soar in India; HP is the market leader in all segments, but unbranded PCs continue to have a 45 percent share of the Indian desktop market

EchoStar to acquire Sling Media

Developer of the Slingbox TV-streaming device is set to be acquired by EchoStar for $380 million

Pirate Bay strikes back at media content companies

Swedish police my pursue criminal action against 10 major music and movie companies over their alleged efforts to disrupt the Pirate Bay file-sharing search engines

WabiSabi Labi aims to be more than an eBay for zero-days

Swiss startup plans to offer an intrusion-detection system and will open up its auction site to range of intellectual property, not just security research

Test your Network Security IQ

Sun launches its first x86 quad-core servers

Sun-Intel partnership yields new fruit: New Sun Fire rack-mount servers are powered by Intel's quad-core Xeon 7300 processors

AJAXWorld: MS preps preview of Astoria for Web data services

Also at the show, Oracle exec talks up enterprise Web 2.0

Microsoft dates, prices Office 2008 for Mac

Office 2008 for Mac will launch Jan. 15 in the United States, priced at $400 for the basic edition and $240 for upgrades

DEMO ’07 presenter to light up copper wire

Global Communications unveils Video over Untwisted Pair, which can digitize light to deliver broadcast-quality content

GPLv3 shunned, survey says

Microsoft releases SP1 beta to limited group

A select group of testers have been given the beta of the much-anticipated Windows Vista Service Pack that is due in the first quarter of next year

Microsoft offers first RC of Windows Server 2008

Longhorn Server RC0, which includes a built-in virtualization hypervisor, will replace the Beta 3 release within the next 24 hours

AJAX alliance recognizes mashups

At the AJAXWorld conference, the OpenAjax Alliance detailed the upcoming OpenAjax Hub 1.0, which embraces mashups and irons out interoperability issues

NY blasts Facebook over predators, subpoenas docs

The New York Attorney General has found Facebook's safety and security measures to be lacking and is subpoening technical documents and correspondence

New activist tool: Cyber sit-ins

Civil disobedience gets an update, as protestors stage DoS-like attacks on Web sites to gain attention for their causes

Report: Microsoft seeks Facebook stake

By offering investment in social networking leader, Microsoft could also be headed for another showdown with rival Google

Vista Ultimate buyers fume over missing Extras

Microsoft had placated critics by promising a deadline to deliver highly touted Windows Vista add-ons, but it has missed that deadline

Microsoft launches campaign against Google-DoubleClick

Microsoft has teamed with PR firm Burson-Marsteller to form the Initiative for Competitive Online Marketplace and call for blocking the Google-DoubleClick deal

Coming up: DEMOfall 07 live blogging

WiMax World offers demos of mobile WiMax capability

WiMax equipment vendors and service providers will show off their wares and illustrate what can be accomplished using the wireless standard

FTC stops envelope-stuffing scheme

Group C Marketing must cease hawking its bogus work-at-home opportunities and pay a fine, as ordered by judge

DoubleClick launches mobile ad platform

Google's acquisition of company still not final, but DoubleClick proceeds with plans to allow customers to schedule ads on mobile devices as they do with Web sites

Microsoft’s end game for virtualization

FBI investigates Unisys over U.S. government hack

SI allegedly failed to detect data breach in the Department of Homeland security that sent sensitive data to a Chinese-language Web site

Verizon Business adds to SLAs

Company expands options as customers move voice, data, and video onto MPLS networks

AJAXWorld: Nexaweb hails mashups

Visual designer capabilities cited in improved platform; also, Backbase offers enterprise framework

4 steps to a more secure network

Virgin drops Windows Media-based music download service

Unable to compete with iTunes, site will shut down on Oct. 19

Euro think tank recommends unbundling Windows from PCs

Globalisation Institute, which usually practices a hands-off approach to business regulation, urges EC to take its thinking to a 'logical conclusion'

OLPC offers give one, get one for $400

Mass production set to begin in October

Chinese retailer Gome to sell Dell computers

PC makers strikes first deal in region with store that will offer its PCs

Special preview: DEMOfall ’07 highlights

A new crop of startups take the stage to pitch their wares, and as usual, the accent is on Web 2.0 and collaboration

WiMAX rolls out

Xerox PARC seeks collaboration partners

Following its successful collaborations with SolFocus and Powerset Xerox's PARC labs is putting out the feelers for new potential partners

Zimbra users vexed by Yahoo deal

Users of the e-mail and productivity suite worry that once the Yahoo deal is finalized, Zimbra will be phased out or altered to fit consumer rather than enterprise needs

Firefox 3.0 alpha blocks malware, secures plug-in updates

Mozilla has updated the preview version of the next iteration of the popular Firefox browser to include much-talked-about security features

Mobile Web developers irate at Vodafone move

To the dismay of mobile developers, Vodafone has tinkered with the user agent, which optimizes Web sites for each mobile device and also allows for ring tones and graphics

EarthLink stops funding Helio

Korean-based SK Telecom steps in to make a bigger investment in the project

The state of Califor-notification

The Golden State led the way with its seminal 1386 bill, the mother of all data breach laws, and California lawmakers continue to push the issue with new regulations that seek to extend protection for banks and card-issuers. Will others follow?

Microsoft, Philips retest ‘white spaces’ device

The mobile device designed to operate on unused portions of the television spectrum was panned by the FCC earlier this year, and broadcasters oppose it

Tech executives dominate richest Americans list

Five of the top 10 richest Americans on Forbes magazine's annual list are tech executives, led by Bill Gates, who retains his top spot

Microsoft developer: ‘Fuzzing’ key to Office security

'Fuzzing' — a method of plugging data into apps to see if and where they fail — helps researchers sniff out potential security issues

Mobile security, virtualization on tap at Microsoft hacking meet

Microsoft lowers the usual veil of secrecy around its semiannual BlueHat hacking conference and provides a preliminary schedule of topics

More on battling spam — and spamming morons

Shutdown of eDonkey file-sharing servers may be short-lived

IFPI shuts down seven servers responsible for maintaining an index of shared files for people using eDonkey's p-to-p network, but more servers are likely to pop up

JackBe readies Presto Wires mashup composer

The tool, which uses a drag-and-drop interface to integrate Web services and is aimed at business analysts as well as developers, is set to debut at AJAXWorld

Blacklisted for turning down a job

Remote Vietnamese village gets Internet access via WiMax

Initiative involving Intel, US government aims to narrow the digital divide in rural Vietnam with a wireless network that uses Wi-Fi and WiMax

Researcher: iPhone has potential security problems

Security researcher lists ways that determined hackers could use the Web to try to find a way into Apple's iPhone

Online auction for first A380 tickets nears end

Singapore Airlines' online auction of tickets for the first commercial A380 flight has raised $1.26 million for charity