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Top 5 reasons SOAs succeed

Apple signs iPhone deals for Europe, report says

Germany's T-Mobile Deutschland, France's Orange, and Britain's O2 sign exclusive deals to sell the iPhone in their respective markets

Update: Microsoft plans unified communications as a service

Company plans to offer Unified Communications Server 2007 as a hosted service so smaller companies will be able to afford and utilize it

Update: State says e-voting machines weren’t certified

Election Systems & Software sold almost 1,000 uncertified voting machines to five California counties in 2006, says Secretary of State Debra Bowen

Sun eyes GPL for NetBeans

Google adds YouTube clips to News site

As part of its ongoing effort to integrate links from different parts of its Web holdings into its search results, Google is now placing YouTube video clips in news stories

MTV to invest $230M in TV ads for Rhapsody venture

The ad campaign, set to debut September 9, was revealed as company executives discussed the financial implications of their deal

Mobile workers still struggling with security

A new study shows that even as the business use of mobile devices increases, many users are unconcerned or uninformed about security issues and practices

Phishers looking to cash in on Wells Fargo crash

In the wake of Wells Fargo's computer problems, security experts are bracing for a new wave of phishing attacks related to the crash

Web apps use Google Gears to go offline

Microsoft: Skype outage shows work to be done

At the VoiceCon conference, the vice president of Microsoft's Unified Communications Group claimed that VoIP is an automobile in a horse-drawn buggy world

Verizon Business rolls out VoIP enhancements

Verizon's Integrated Communications Package upgrades its VoIP offering with access to e-mail, calendar synchronization, and fully managed voice communication

Ask.com CEO: Search technology prominence grows

Jim Lanzone cites search technology's importance in everyday life and talks about upcoming developments and Google

Wells Fargo recovering from computer crash

A computer failure on Sunday has caused the nation's fifth-largest bank to restore data from a backup

How Skype lost credibility

Business Objects, Thomson partner on SaaS

Together, the companies will offer prebuilt Thomson financial reports on demand with Business Objects' reporting, analytics, and dashboard capabilities

RealNetworks, MTV join forces to compete with Apple

New company signs an exclusive deal to be Verizon Wireless' platform for its wireless music service

Vlingo rolls out speech recognition beta for mobile phones

Startup touts its Find speech recognition software as a 'breakthrough' for mobile phone users

IBM to turn Sametime IM into a family of products

Big Blue aims to broaden the appeal of Sametime to better compete with unified communications players Microsoft and Cisco

Infosys sets up Mexico operation

Indian outsourcers continue trend of setting up shop outside India in locales closer to customers

Open-source developers face H1-B visa puzzle

Visa process is forbidding obstacle to SMB firms, who say it 'plays into the hands of large corporations'

Wipro sets up Wi-Fi test lab in India

Wi-Fi Alliance picks Indian outsourcer to set up an authorized test laboratory for certifying products as Wi-Fi compliant

MTV, RealNetworks said to merge digital music stores

Deal is aimed at reducing Apple's hold on the music download business; Wal-Mart says it will sell MP3s on its Web site free of DRM

Tech’s own datacenters are their green showrooms

Sun, Fujitsu demonstrate how their energy-efficient ways can help other companies act green and save

Skype offers more details of ‘perfect storm’ outage

Exceptionally high traffic at the same time as the Windows Update process led to a shortage of supernodes in Skype's peer-to-peer network

Google offers refunds for irked video customers

'Everyone who ever bought a video' from Google Video will be refunded and will be allowed to keep playing their videos for another six months

Toshiba readies 320GB laptop drive

Toshiba's first 320GB 2.5-inch drive will begin production in the fourth quarter

Spring in the air for Web services

The exit interview that came back to haunt

LSI to sell mobility unit to Infineon in $450M deal

Deal is part of LSI's attempts to revamp its business after merging with Agere Systems

Tiled is the next hot multicore chip design

Chip makers study parallel computing for its energy efficiency and because they believe the uniprocessor chip set will eventually reach its limit

Microsoft, others scramble for spotlight at VoiceCon

Vendors use VoiceCon as a showcase for IP telephony advancements, including Microsoft announcing the Oct. 16 launch of Office Communications Server 2007

Moviestar debut brings high-def video to Flash

Adobe backs the H.264 video compression technology in the 'Moviestar' update to Flash Player 9, acknowledging the growing importance of video online

Gunplay blamed for Internet slowdown

More than two-thirds of a mile of fiber-optic cable near Cleveland shows evidence of gunfire that officials say appears deliberate

Google struggles with phone number ‘for life’

Google's GrandCentral phone call management business is having difficulty keeping its 'one phone number for life' promise as local carriers stop providing service

Skype users don’t buy outage explanation

eBay says the outage in its Skype system were caused by Microsoft's security updates, but Skype users remain suspicious

Making a case for virtual patching

Sentrigo's flagship application sits on top of a database and protects it during any patches or updates, filling a crucial hole in enterprise data security

First exploit appears for Patch Tuesday vulnerability

Brussels security engineer exploits critical bug in XML Core Services

Ballmer parries discussion of Yahoo buy

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn't say if a Yahoo buyout was still being considered but noted that the company currently doesn't want another big merger like aQuantive

Mobile management portal gets simpler

Movero Technology's tool to help enterprises manage employees' mobile devices and service plans has been updated with AJAX to work more like a Web app

ACM, Infosys create $150,000 computing award

The prize will be awarded annually to mid-career computer scientists who have made 'outstanding innovations' in their field

Workday fleshes out more of its hosted ERP suites

Human Capital Management, which uses Web 2.0-style tagging to allow users to find and link financial data, is the first of the company's four planned ERP releases

Top 5 reasons SOAs fail

Monster.com identity attack may claim more vicitims

New Trojan horse has stolen more than 1.6 million records belonging to people from Monster's job search service

Your data’s less safe today than two years ago

Gartner: Situation with identity thieves will only get worse before it gets better

Skype says crash followed Windows security update

Load placed on VOIP system as computers rebooted after receiving a routine set of Microsoft patches revealed a bug in Skype's software

Google offers local language support in India

Google techology lets users type search queries in 14 Indian languages and also generate content in local languages

Huawei expands development in India

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker will invest $100 million to consolidate all its development centers into a single facility in India

UMC to reshuffle management after top executive retires

In the wake of Vice Chairman Peter Chang's departure, UMC will create separate managers to serve customers using 12-inch technology

IBM, TDK to work on compact MRAM chips

One potential market for MRAM is for computers that can be turned on instantly without the need to load software into memory