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Cisco sees Web 2.0 boom after posting strong Q4

Cisco predicts emerging technologies that allow collaboration will accelerate the company's revenue growth

Web is now entirely driven by advertising

SAP describes road ahead for its PLM software

SAP will keep 'stable core' for PLM software, providing new functionality through optional enhancement packages instead of upgrading the entire release

Oracle eyes ALM space

Microsoft: IPTV is entry to operator business

Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV isn't just another way for the company to get into consumers' living rooms, it's also a way for the company to get into telecom operators

Little progress in states’ ODF considerations

Many state legislators want to move state documents to ODF, citing compatibility and cost issues, but opponents wonder if the alleged benefits of ODF are just a mirage

eBay imparts datacenter knowlege

Bigger than Nasdaq, eBay knows how to manage a datacenter

Update: Former Brocade CEO guilty of backdating charges

Gregory Reyes has been found guilty on all 10 charges he faced, including securities fraud, conspiracy, and falsifying financial records

Cisco revenue, profit rose in Q4

The networking vendor's revenue rose 18 percent and EPS grew 24 percent over the same quarter last year

Microsoft’s Silverlight makes major league debut

Major League Baseball adopts Redmond's new multimedia technology for MLB.com Web site

Microsoft releases XP, Vista service pack previews

Microsoft had said it would have a beta of Vista SP1 available "sometime this year," but it won't commit to a more firm date

Sun to axe unspecified number of jobs by mid-2008

Despite posting healthy profits for most recent quarter, company plans layoffs to meet earnings goals

Laptop of VeriSign employee stolen

Company investigates theft of notebook PC containing files with employees' personal information, undertakes security measures to guard data

FCC members pitch spectrum plan

The FCC's commissioner and chairman both claim that having a private company build a nationwide broadband netowrk for emergency responders was the best viable option

Researchers: Take anti-spam fight to the Web

Target spammers' Web sites instead of e-mail servers, says team from UC San Diego

FCC requires mobile carriers to allow roaming

The FCC has ruled that mobile carriers must provide competitors with access to their networks on a 'nondiscriminatory' basis and at a 'reasonable cost'

IBM, Novell strengthen desktop, server ties

The companies' collaborations, aimed at countering Microsoft Exchange and Red Hat's JBoss, will provide an open collaboration client and additional support for WAS CE

Indian agency to deploy Linux in schools

ELCOT, whic provides IT services to the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, has already migrated its own infrastructure from Windows to Suse Linux Enterprise

IT salary: Know how much to ask for

Qualcomm can’t enforce patents, judge rules

Qualcomm's latest setback means it cannot enforce two patents related to the H.264 video compression technology

Apple Town Hall; New iWork (Keynote, Pages, SPREADSHEET) $79

Amazon.com CTO stresses services over datacenters

Executive cites shifting paradigms in online retailer's new offerings in software services rather than physical resources

Lenovo, Acer vie for Packard Bell

Lenovo has announced plans to acquire Packard Bell, stymying rival Acer's rumored plans to do the same

Apple Town Hall: iLife $79, free w/new Macs; .Mac same price, 10 GB storage

Apple Town Hall: .Mac Web Gallery

Apple Town Hall: iLife ’08 (iPhoto)

Apple Town Hall: New iMacs, keyboard, PRICING

Apple Town Hall: As it happens

Apple Town Hall: Steve is in the building. I repeat…

India’s BPO industry to invest in education

BPO and call-center industry is willing to invest in government programs that would increase the number of people it trains

OSA debuts CCV interoperability prototype

Common Customer View makes it easier for users to have a single companywide view of interactions with their customers

EnterpriseDB releases PostgreSQL distribution

EnterpriseDB adds tools for cryptography, security, full-text searching, and replication to better compete with MySQL

Dell buys Zing, launches Ubuntu in Europe

Dell makes new consumer play, acquiring a startup that makes software for distributing and managing music on mobile devices

Web scam: Pssst… wanna buy a house?

Scammers turning to online property forums to collect personal information about users

Sharp hits Samsung with LCD patent suit

Sharp claims Samsung Electronics infringed five of its patents relating to flat screen technology

Sybase, HTC aim to improve Windows Mobile devices

IAnywhere's partnership with HTC could help its smart phones compete more effectively with the BlackBerry

FCC pans ‘white space’ device from MS, Google, others

Device designed to sniff for broadcasts in spectrum before transmitting does not consistently detect signals and could interfere with TV broadcasts, FCC says

Dell, Red Hat mix and match OS and application stack

Windows OS and open-source infrastructure will give IT more choice

Judge reverses $1.5B patent award against Microsoft

Judge rules Microsoft did not infringe one of Lucent-Alcatel's MP3 patents

Google ups Linux support as OIN licensee

Google is first end-user licensee of intellectual property company focused on protecting Linux against patent infringement attacks

Will proprietary software disappear in our lifetime?

Linux kernel maintainer allays fears about forking

Linux Foundation official also expresses doubts about GPL v3, OpenSolaris

Mobile Linux group gets wider support

LiMo Foundation gains new members; group will work to create a Linux platform for mobile devices

IBM shows what Power6 processor can do

Power6's Live Partition Mobility makes it possible to move a Unix-based computer workload from one server to another while it is running

Lenovo to preload Linux on some Thinkpads

Lenovo will sell and provide support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 for the first time, in answer to similar moves by rival Dell

Opinion: For Apple, what a difference a decade makes

In 10 years since Steve Jobs' return, company's outlook has gone from grim to grand, with huge gains in music/video, computer, and now mobile phone markets

Entering the Digital Dark Ages?

Bush lets Qualcomm ban stand

The president denied to overturn the ITC's ban on imports using Qualcomm chips, leaving the company to appeal the decision in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals

SF sets Wi-Fi vote, but deal may fade

San Francisco will vote on a nonbinding ballot measure regarding free citywide Wi-Fi in November, but the city's deal with Earthlink may be dead before then

Researcher blasts Apple for ‘negligent’ patching

Member of research team that found the first iPhone vulnerability criticizes Apple for not keeping up to date with security fixes to its open source components