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DOJ, telecom strike cable competition settlement

Agreement called 'good result for rural telephone customers'

Oracle CFO Catz bares fangs

Safra Catz lashes out at rivals IBM, Microsoft, and SAP

Apple patches Safari a second time

Latest problems include memory corruption, cross-site scripting flaw

Macs ‘snap-crackle-pop’ after 10.4.10 update

Strange noises seep from Apple laptops; user creates workaround

UK delays procurement for ID, passport projects

Chief executive of the project did say when it will start

Trials and tribulations of virtualizing Vista

Update: Symantec compensates for bad software update

Initially slow to respond, company offers affected Chinese users software licenses in what it calls 'a gesture of goodwill'

Yahoo reorganizes sales

Company also shakes up search and display advertising units

Hands on: Korea’s cutting-edge wireless broadband

Reporter tests country's Mobile WiMax service and wonders what's holding people back

Mobile phone production growing in India

Gartner says phones are largest piece of country's overall rising electronics manufacturing revenue

Samsung begins producing 1.8-inch SSDs

New drives are latest to make use of flash memory instead of magnetic disc

Chips are here, but wireless HDMI still out of sight

Several device makers developing products, but competing standards cloud the market

The big dig, Seattle style

The five-story underground parking garage Microsoft is building on its corporate campus is drawing plenty of attention due to its massive size

Microsoft sues more alleged Hotmail spammers

In an attempt to cut down on spam on its Windows Live Hotmail Web e-mail, Microsoft is charging 'John Doe' suits against two alleged spammers

NetSuite launches 2007 version of SaaS enterprise software

All-in-one host solution includes CRM, PRM, and ERP

Microsoft puts the spotlight on Silverlight again

The upcoming multimedia technology that Microsoft hopes will peel developers away from Adobe's Flash, is hailed at ReMix07

From Zero to 450,000 users in three weeks

Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Facebook. Benjamin: Just how do you mean that, sir?

IBM pushes 32-nanometer chips with BASF deal

Smaller chips use less electricity and allow for more processing power in less space for smartphones, notebook PCs, and other electronics devices

Update: eBay resumes advertising on Google

After a 10-day boycott of Google's AdWords, eBay will once again start advertising on the massive advertising network, though on a smaller scale

U.S. labor department probe of H-1B video sought

Lawmakers looking into potential abuse of visa program for foreign workers

Symantec Labs working on SiteAdvisor alternative

For more than a year, security giant has been working on reputation-based security systems for Web and for files

Microsoft kills Longhorn continuation project

Citing a violation of the end-user agreement, Microsoft has sent a 'cease and desist' letter to a group of developers who were trying to revive Longhorn

Inspiring change at your company

Cisco pushes IronPort smarts to firewalls

Exec says company wants to ‘leverage the footprint of firewall and switches to better inform customers’

Extradited copyright infringer sentenced

Hew Raymond Griffiths gets 51 months in prison

ITC denies stay on Qualcomm ban

Group says Qualcomm failed to meet four-pronged test

Peer-to-Patent allows public to find prior art

Exposing existing inventions would weed out patents that might face challenges

Microsoft looks for space in China’s living room

Microsoft's investment in Chinese TV maker is latest move in its strategy to play a bigger role in China's home-entertainment market

Two fatal flaws of IT hiring

Nuance buys T9 text-input tool for mobile phones

AOL to sell Tegic to Nuance for $265 million and concentrate on its core business

Microsoft better at patching XP than Vista

Microsoft has patched 12 out of 27 disclosed Vista vulnerabilities in the first six months after it shipped

iPhone: The device IT managers will love to hate

Apple's upcoming handheld has tremendous consumer cachet, but for enterprises, it has many shortcomings that have companies balking at providing iPhone support

Opinion: Analysts miss the point on the iPhone

Analysts warn of the iPhone's enterprise shortcomings, but in doing so, they overlook the handheld's many strengths, including its sky-high coolness factor

The coming war over the iPhone

Gartner analyst advises IT executives to avoid Apple's iPhone like the plague and to actively keep it away from their company networks

Pentagon shuts down systems after cyberattack

An estimated 1,500 computers in an unclassified part of the Secretary of Defense's office were taken offline following an attack

Q&A: Virtualization questions abound at HP Forum

Nick van der Sweep, HP's virtualization guru, discusses the increasingly widespread adoption of virtualization as well as some of the new technology's complexities

Apple’s Leopard leaks, BitTorrent downloads ensue

Beta of Mac OS X 10.5, set for release in October, can currently be found on Internet file-sharing sites

Wall Street Beat: Products, transitions slam IT shares

Prices for Apple, Yahoo, and AMD shares ebb and flow in response to week's developments

Dell lets users avoid ‘bloatware’

In response to consumers' blog posts, Dell allows customers to decline unwanted software when they order PCs

Government groups oppose permanent Net tax ban

But many lawmakers would like to suspend Internet tax ban indefinitely

Industry group asks Bush to veto Qualcomm ban

The head of the CTIA has sent a letter to President Bush asking him to overturn the ITA's ban on Qualcomm imports, citing the dire effects it could have on the industry

SurfSafe vendor, Washington state settle suit for $1M

Consumer Digital Services admits no wrongdoing, but agreement settles accusations of using deceptive marketing tactics and selling customers' personal information

IBM pushes z9 mainframe for small business

As part of IBM's ongoing effort to gain customers in the burgeoning SMB sector, it has created a more efficient alternative to high-end servers

University tech group leaks iPhone technical details

A tech team at the University of Washington posted tech specs revealed at WWDC but has since taken down the page to stay in compliance with the show's NDA

The beauty and invisibility of infrastructure

Messaging standard OK’d for Web services

EU data protection group questions other search engines

Organization to assess citizens' privacy in relation to search engines

Report slams UK e-voting trials

Missed votes, crashed computers are among the problems a study found

IBM, MS feel Google apps heat

Microsoft executive says Google brings ‘a good spirit in terms of simplicity, ease of use, and things we’re trying to leverage’

Linden CTO: DRM drags down economy

Executive at company behind Second Life says that it 'makes you less competitive'