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Microsoft trumps Google on free e-mail storage limit

Microsoft increases Live Hotmail's storage limit for a free account to 5GB, adds a 'report phishing' link for better security

Microsoft previews SP1 for Exchange Server 2007

Pack brings interoperability with Windows Server 2008, standby continuous replication, and tighter links to Office products

Prove your IT superiority

Google bowls for Microsoft Office buyers with free StarOffice

AMD proposes CPU extensions for multicore apps

Software and hardware will be better integrated, allowing users to take fuller advantage of multicore processors

VMware IPO price set at $29 per share

Software virtualization company files at top of price range it had forecast and plans to use proceeds for employee stock options and other company investments

Hospital undergoes wireless surgery

Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital has made a strong effort to incorporate wireless technologies like Wi-Fi into its operations

Why Boot Camp failed, and how I fixed it

Google Pack bundles Sun StarOffice

Google's software download package will now include Sun's answer to the Microsoft Office software suite

Microsoft reorganizes around aQuantive acquisition

Former CEO of aQuantive moves into leadership role at Microsoft; close of deal between two companies also heralds shifts in titles and divisions

Oracle readies 11g pricing as Linux version debuts

Price info for Oracle's latest enterprise database is expected on Tuesday while a Linux version of 11g was made available for download late last week

Microsoft questions FCC’s ‘white spaces’ decision

Though its own prototype wasn't working properly during FCC testing, Microsoft urges approval of wireless devices that detect available TV broadcast signals

Qualcomm counsel quits as legal troubles mount

Lou Lupin has resigned as Qualcomm's chief counsel in the wake of a series of legal setbacks for the company

‘Hackers’ deface U.N. site

The attackers used an SQL injection to add their own HTML code to the site and accuse the U.S. and Israel of killing children

Die Access! Long live Access!

Novell buys endpoint security firm Senforce

Novell will offer a new product dubbed ZENworks Endpoint Security to protect endpoints from data theft, wireless exploits, and malware

aQuantive shareholders approve Microsoft acquisition

Critics fear the $6 billion cost of the aQuantive purchase will not outweigh the benefits for Microsoft

Oracle looks to broaden appeal of Coherence data grid software

Oracle Coherence 3.3 debuts with improved performance and clustering, tighter links into Fusion, and support for .Net framework

German antihacker law could backfire, critics warn

Experts say the new law creates legal uncertainty about the use hacker tools to test the security of computer systems

Toshiba laptop batteries pose fire hazard

Toshiba recalls more defective batteries made by Sony

Update: BBC’s iPlayer multimedia player causes row over bandwidth

ISPs are upset that the BBC's new multimedia player may cause an increase in demand for bandwidth, placing stresses on infrastructure

Qwest names telecom veteran as new CEO

Industry veteran Edward Mueller replaces the retiring Richard Notebaert as chairman and CEO at Qwest

CodeGear, Red Hat add dev tools for Eclipse, Java

Open source developers' 'pain points' are key to product rollouts, which seek to simplify development in open source environments

Macs are easy to hack

SCO says it’s down but not out in Linux case

Threat to Linux posed by SCO has been severely diminished, but SCO notes not all its claims were dismissed and hints it might file an appeal

Jimmy Wales talks on the future of Wikimedia

In an interview, the co-founder of Wikipedia discusses modeling the Wikimedia Foundation after the Red Cross and content licese frustrations

XenSource takes on VMware with new release

XenEnterprise v4 features group provisioning and Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation data backup

Microsoft loses key U.S. OpenXML vote

INCITS' executive committee was one vote shy of approving Microsoft's OpenXML as a standard, dealing a setback to the company's efforts to compete with ODF

Beer declared second-best CPU coolant

SpikeSource CEO: Linux all grown up

In an interview, SpikeSource CEO Kim Polese talks about the company's new software suite that integrates blogs and wikis and says that Linux has come of age

Novell wins right to Unix, dismissing SCO

Judge rules Friday that Novell holds the Unix and UnixWare copyrights, denying The SCO Group's charges of breach of contract and slander

Microsoft maps out Visual C++ future

Zango founder calls it quits

Daniel Todd, the infamous adware company's president since it was founded in 1999, is stepping down at the end of August

AT&T wiretapping case headed for hearing

A three-judge panel will hear arguments about whether to allow the wiretapping case the EFF has filed against AT&T to proceed

U.S. plans changes in air passenger screening

Homeland Security will no longer assign risk scores or use predictive behavior technology for passengers, but privacy advocates want more transparency

‘Vista Capable’ suit against Microsoft proceeds

A class-action lawsuit alleging that the 'Vista Capable' stickers Microsoft had put on some PCs violated consumer protection laws has been allowed to move on to a jury trial

Nokia launches mobile social networking site beta

Nokia has launched a closed beta of Mosh, which is short for 'mobile sharing' and allows users to upload, share, and tag mobile apps, video, ringtones, and more

Thinking about a contract job

Changes at MySQL draw fire from community

Decision to restrict free access to MySQL Enterprise Server source code is contrary to the spirit of open source, some developers say

UK report questions role of ISPs in online safety

House of Lords stops short of proposing new rules, but says ISPs should take more responsibility for online security since users are often lax

Bankrupt BenQ Mobile sues parent again

Insolvent handset maker is demanding $36 million from BenQ for bonuses to execs that the parent company had approved

Universal to test sales of DRM-free music

UMG will sell a wide range of albums and songs in MP3 format without DRM copy protection — but not through iTunes

Researcher: Vista prevents users playing high-def content

Researcher outlines numerous features that harm system performance, calling Vista's content protection rules 'the longest suicide note in history'

Setting Silverlight up for development

Active RFID market surging

Active RFID's share of the total RFID market is expected to grow to $7 billion within 10 years

Fujitsu’s easy-to-use phone packs advanced features

Fujitsu's new Raku Raku cellphones, which are marketed to older people, boast an advanced noise cancellation system

Google faces more than just a new rival in Wikia

Wikia's open source project will drastically reduce the cost of making a search engine, opening the door to potentially hundreds of new competitors

Microsoft’s Live Skydrive online storage service goes beta

Microsoft's renamed free storage service looks set to beat out Google's long-rumored Gdrive

National ID? How about a global ID?

A little-known federation quietly lays the infrastructure for a universal identity system that could eventually be implemented nationally or internationally

Google: Energy issue is not black and white

Not to be outdone on 'green,' Google  says white-background home page does not waste more energy than a black one