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EC wins appeal, but Microsoft dominates market

The European Commission's victory over Microsoft's appeal keeps the 2004 antitrust ruling intact, but that ruling hasn't changed the market and has raised new concerns

On Windows updates and software ownership

Wikis, the Semantic Web head to the streets

Wiki technology takes real-time, user-generated data from mobile phones to create maps for pedestrians and other travelers making their way across a city

TechCrunch40: Startups gone wild

Apple starts handing out $100 iPhone credits

iPhone owners have until Nov. 30 to apply for Apple's $100 in-store credit

Nokia buys mobile advertiser Enpocket

Nokia hopes to carve a slice of the potentially lucrative mobile advertising market with its purchase of Enpocket

T-Mobile buys wireless operator SunCom for $2.4 billion

Acquisition of SunCom will expand T-Mobile's wireless coverage in the southeastern U.S.

BEA investor seeks company’s sale

Report: OLPC’s ‘$100 laptop’ now costs $188

One Laptop Per Child project raises the price of its XO laptop, blaming 'currency fluctuations' and the rising cost of raw materials

Business Objects provides BI software on-demand

Business Objects' Intelligence OnDemand service is for customers who have data stored in Salesforce.com's online CRM applications

Another kind of identity theft

Barracuda buys Web security vendor NetContinuum

Acquisition of NetContinuum will enable Barracuda to bring Web site protection to users of its spam filtering products

Symantec: Stolen bank account details fetch $400 online

The rise in threats to Internet security is driven by well-funded international gangs of criminals, Symantec says

Microsoft loses appeal against EU antitrust ruling

Court upholds ruling: Microsoft must unbundle Windows Media Player, share code with rivals, and pay $600M fine and the bulk of the EC's legal expenses

GlassFish app server goes enterprise

Sun also touting beta version of NetBeans 6.0 featuring Ruby accommodations

CodeGear releases IDE for Ruby on Rails

Developers get tool for building apps with open source Web framework

Silicon Valley wireless nears crunch time

No proof of progress, but model agreement should be completed in the fourth quarter, says one member of Silicon Valley Metro Connect

Intel to buy digital-media software maker Havok

Buy will boost visual computing and graphics efforts, Intel says

Google applauds ISO vote, voices OOXML concerns

Google, which has been largely mum about Microsoft's attempts to get OOXML approved as a standard, has come out in support of the ISO's rejection of the format

Hacked GOP site infects visitors with malware

For the first time, the infamous Storm Trojan horse has moved from e-mail to the Web as a hacked Republican Party site has been spreading the worm

Update: SCO seeks bankruptcy protection

Weakened by a long-running lawsuit with IBM plus a ruling in favor of Novell, Unix vendor SCO has filed for Chapter 11 protection

Will patents crush open source?

The eight secrets that make Apple No. 1

A call to PC makers and consumer electronics companies to steal Apple's secrets and start making better products

Verizon sues FCC over open-access auction

Google, others criticize Verizon's lawsuit, saying open access to the wireless spectrum is 'a big step for consumer choice and competition'

Fears of spending slowdown spook the IT sector

Tightening of credit in the U.S. is expected to dampen business and consumer spending, but the notebook market continues to grow

Google calls for global online privacy standard

Google will propose at UN meeting that governments and technology companies colllaborate to address privacy concerns over the handling of personal data on the Net

Nokia, others back new flash memory standard

Mobile phone companies are backing the new Universal Flash Storage standard to drive up data transfer speeds and memory storage capacity

No SOA? Might face a lawsuit from shareholders

Badware hunters tame wild Webmasters, hosts

PayPal and VeriSign throw their support behind the StopBadware project, which has so far netted a list of over 600,000 suspect apps

Google pledges $30 million for private moon landing

By encouraging private space exploration with its Lunar X Prize offer, Google hopes to also spur technological breakthroughs

Salesforce.com unveils user interface as a service

The next step in Platform-as-a-Service is hosting a highly customizable, build-it-yourself user interface

Microsoft forces Messenger upgrade for ‘security’ reasons

Users of Windows Live and MSN Messenger are being forced to upgrade to the latest versions due to a security patch in the new releases

The latest fraudulent Bill Gates interview

Alcatel-Lucent slashes forecast for year

The telecom equipment giant has revised its forecast downward, now predicting it will break even instead of enjoying moderate gains

Group releases free iPhone unlock hack

Programmers warn that work-around is 'not for everybody,' but users from across the globe have successfully accessed 90-plus carriers with Apple device

St. Petersburg consulate Web site hacked

According to Sophos and McAfee, two U.S. Department of State Web sites based in Russia could contain malware and should be avoided

Yahoo mistakenly blows the lid off new service

A Yahoo employee accidentally sent an invitation to the company's forthcoming social networking service, Yahoo Mash, to a New York Times reporter

Microsoft: ‘Secret’ updates were for Windows Update

Microsoft says that Unannounced updates to Windows XP and Vista machines were for the Windows Update software itself and has apologized for the secrecy

U.S. online video popularity keeps climbing

In July, 75 percent of U.S. Internet users watched videos online, and the average number of minutes watched is also on the rise

Governors to Congress: Increase H-1B cap

Exploit code appears for Microsoft Agent bug

Less than 24 hours after Microsoft released September's security patches, a proof-of-concept JavaScript exploit code that attacks Microsoft Agent was posted online

Data explosion shakes up IT

Proliferation of devices means businesses face tough decisions on how to store and secure data and comply with regulations

Design work trumps new technologies at Beijing Olympics

Officials have opted to deploy only 'proven technologies' at the '08 Summer Olympics, but its design work will be cutting edge

An old Microsoft bug back to haunt

HP wins license to sell more smartphones in China

HP currently is allowed to sell only one model of the iPaq smartphone in China

Court stays import ban while Qualcomm appeals

Qualcomm scores 'significant victory' in appeals court; handset makers get reprieve to bring in new phone models using Qualcomm chips

EMC could face class action discrimination lawsuit

Two female EMC employees have filed a sexual discrimination lawsuit against the company, and a judge may open the case up to other employees as well

Microsoft details Vista SP1 search changes

To stay in compliance with its antitrust ruling, Microsoft is making it easier for consumers to use third-party desktop search apps with Windows Vista

Sun to install Windows Server OS on its hardware

In a strengthening of the Microsoft-Sun interoperability agreement, Sun will start selling its 64-bit servers with the Windows Server OS preinstalled

BEA upgrades app server with SOA, Web 2.0 capabilities

Interoperability with Microsoft's .Net and modular downloading are also added to the WebLogic Server Java application server