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VC deals show sector confidence

Q2 2007 showed the highest level of VC deals since Q3 2001, and most of that activity was in the tech sector, underlining investor confidence in IT

OASIS forms six committees to simplify SOA

Standard group's effort focuses on Service Component Architecture specifications

Enterprise security remains a balancing act

Minimizing risk by improving process, prioritizing threats, and accepting limitations is the only way for large enterprises to effectively defend their operations

VMware co-founder: Virtual appliance a threat to OS

At LinuxWorld, VMware officer cautions that virtual appliance/virtualized server combo could supplant use of host OS, but some conference attendees disagree

Symantec patches critical Norton flaw

The company has patched a 'highly critical' flaw in how non-enterprise Norton AntiVirus software uses ActiveX

Microsoft plans nine security updates for next week

The patches will include six critical fixes for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and Visual Basic

SpikeSource CEO cites open source opportunities

RSA to buy data leak detection company Tablus

Tablus's Content Sentinel software, which monitors computers to see if they are leaking sensitive information, will be added to RSA's security software portfolio

Behind the scenes: Pimp your datacenter, part 3

Vonage battles to stay in the VoIP game

Vonage is nearly done deploying work-arounds to patents claimed by Verizon

Dell to pay $48.5M to ousted CEO

Dell pays former CEO Kevin Rollins for his stock options six months after he resigned

Vodafone hedges its bets, joins WiMax Forum

Vodafone says it is 'technology neutral' and wants a role in shaping both LTE and WiMax standards

Paris moves ahead with free Wi-Fi plans

Paris is abuzz with open Wi-Fi hotspots, but picking out the signals among all that competing noise is no easy matter

Update: Porn company Perfect 10 sues Microsoft

Suit alleges Microsoft's MSN image search creates unauthorized thumbnails of Perfect 10 content, includes links to see free full-size versions

Profit tumbles, pressure rises at Deutsche Telekom

Price pressure and a steady exodus of traditional telephone customers cause DT's Q2 profits to plunge nearly 40 percent

Former SunRocket customers struggle with new VOIP provider

Customers who chose to move to Teleblend have had problems with service disruptions this week

Linux seen vying with Windows for platform dominance

Linux Foundation director sees Linux entering second stage of growth and a computing world dominated by two platforms

When will MS just kill Access?

India is Asia’s largest consumer of outsourcing

Most of India's business went to multinational service companies such as HP and IBM rather than Indian outsourcers

Hacker strips DRM from streaming Netflix movies

Hackers escalate the war against Microsoft's copy protection technology by posting instructions for how to save streamed movies

AOL drops free Kaspersky anti-virus, offers McAfee

AOL's free AV product is now McAfee VirusScan Plus

Java desktop development with Qt Jambi

A sophisticated alternative to GUI development with Swing and Java 2D

iPhone: iTunes 7.3.2 (iPhone firmware 1.0.1) update does not mess up “activate and cancel” iPhone

HP turns to Linux for datacenter of the future

The company claims that the next-generation datacenter will depend in part on Linux and the open source community

Microsoft reveals Commerce Server road map

The company revealed plans to keep developing its Commerce Server Web marketplace software for the next three years

Cisco blames site outage on accident

An accident during maintenance of a San Jose, California, data center knocked the Cisco site offline for more than two hours

‘Facility issues’ knock Cisco.com offline

The main page was offline for more than two and a half hours on Wednesday, and Cisco has offered little by way of explanation

Dell pushes Linux into enterprises with virtualization

At LinuxWorld, Dell's CTO envisioned clients running several operating systems via virtualization and noted that Linux is best prepared to handle such a task

U.S. panel approves supercomputer funding

The National Science Board has authorized funding to build the two most powerful supercomputers in the world, including one capable of petaflop-speed operation

Red Hat exec leery of Novell Linux effort

Google mistakes own blog for spam, deletes it

Company says normal policy procedure — not external hack — resulted in Custom Search Blog temporarily hosting nonsensical message

SpyProxy takes Web apps security fight to ‘virtual sandbox’

Researchers at the ongoing Usenix Security Symposium showed off a new method for thwarting Web-based malware attacks

Motorola sees Linux as its mobile mainstay

At LinuxWorld, Motorola announced plans to install Linux on 60 percent of its handsets within two years

IDC: PDA shipments dropped 43 percent in Q2

The PDA market is in steep decline, and manufacturers like Dell and Palm are looking to leave the market and focus on smartphones instead

Study: Search engine privacy policies improving

The Center for Democracy and Technology says that publish pressure has forced some search engine companies to tighten their privacy rules

Novell CEO backs standard Linux apps certification

Hovsepian emphasized the need for a vendor-neutral effort on certification

Oracle opens up latest Linux enhancements

At the LinuxWorld conference, Oracle unveiled improvements to its open source software that are aimed at improving Linux's enterprise capabilities

Google News: Have your say in comments

Google News is adding new functionality that allows people who are part of a given news story to add comments to it

Deep divide between SOA and Web services

Leaked Vista hotfix packs ready for download

The two updates are now officially available, though Microsoft is mum on whether they are a part of the forthcoming SP1 Vista service pack

Dell to offer Inspirons with Linux in European market

Analysts predict brisk sales for the Linux computers, which are priced $50 to $100 less than similar Windows models

Linux Foundation adds ace open-source attorneys to team

Linux group will host a strategy summit to build a legal defense infrastructure to protect Linux users from legal challenges

Vista, wireless kept off core Olympic IT roster

Lenovo chairman says Windows XP was chosen to run on PCs because the Olympic Games require mature, stable technologies

Pop-up ads: Coming to a mobile phone near you?

Startups Mobile Posse and Acuity Mobile are pushing technology that can deliver pop-up ads to a mobile phone's idle screen any time

Ingres names new CEO, says appliance servers coming soon

Roger Burkhardt is promoted to CEO; Ingres preps new products that build on its Icebreaker database appliance

Survey: Microsoft’s IIS may catch Apache in Web server market

IIS continues to narrow the gap with the open-source Apache Web server, adding 2.6 million Web sites in the last month

Vodafone decides to hang onto Verizon Wireless

Vodafone keeps a toehold in the U.S. mobile phone market with its 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless

Court finds vote-swapping over the Internet is legal

California court rules Web sites that encourage voters to swap their votes are protected by the First Amendment

Update: Nokia discontinues some chip set development

Nokia will rely on technology from four chip set manufacturers, including Broadcom chips for EDGE networks and STMicroelectronics for 3G

Beijing’s Olympics: One year to go

China still has a lot of work to do, including resolving issues such as 3G telephony licenses and wireless Internet