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Acer wheels out Ferrari PDA

The Ferrari Racing Personal Navigator offers built-in GPS and strongly resembles Acer's c500 PDA

Cut printing costs, the green way

Novell says it benefits from Microsoft IP deal

Novell exec says Novell will get more money than Microsoft under their deal; also at TechEd: Microsoft touts SOA strengths

Server makers show first Barcelona systems

Servers based on AMD's upcoming quad-core chip are on display from Supermicro, Tyan, and Uniwide at Computex

Microsoft to update Web conferencing service

Microsoft Office Live Meeting will get a new user interface that allows users to share media files and participate over VOIP

Parallels 3.0 goes live with DirectX, OpenGL, much more–flash review coming

Movable Type has delusions of CMS grandeur

Salesforce.com, Google release first joint product

New offering will target small to midsize businesses and integrate AdWords with Salesforce CRM

Avaya to be sold for $8.2 billion

Private equity firms TPG Capital LLP and Silver Lake Partners intend to buy Avaya

Study – Database security needs work

A new survey conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by database security software maker Application Security finds that while businesses are devoting more time and money to protecting their information stores, much work remains to be done in th

YouTube in deal to offer local television programming

A deal with Hearst-Argyle Television will bring video content from five local markets to the Web

IBM, Ricoh joint venture InfoPrint opens its doors

New company signals IBM's eventual departure from printer business over next three years

Microsoft builds on managed services

Company recruits three more customers in continuing effort to build out hosted services for consumers and enterprises

Humans get bigger role in search

On the heels of the introduction of the people-powered Mahalo.com search engine, Google announces that it is using 'human intervention' in addition to algorithms

Study: U.S. government still lacking data protection

More than half of federal employees work from home unauthorized on nights and weekends, raising concerns about data security

McAfee: Search results can be dangerous

A study by the security company finds that 4 percent of search results send users to 'risky' Web pages; AOL's search results are the safest, while Yahoo's are the riskiest

Yahoo opens access to ad system APIs

The company is giving access to APIs for its Panama search ad platform in hopes that developers will create complementary apps and boost Panama's popularity

Saying ‘no’ to an overbearing IT boss

Flextronics to acquire Solectron in $3.6 billion deal

The two rivals will combine to create a global electronics manufacturing services company able to service a wide variety of consumer and enterprise industries

Microsoft names Visual Studio, SQL Server upgrades

Developer platform, database both will bear 2008 nameplate

Investment firm attracted to Palm’s software expertise

Equity firm Elevation Partners is set to buy a quarter of Palm's shares as it sees great potential in the company's mobile software division

German government moves on security

Support for tougher security measures has grown in E.U. as member states worry about their national security

Brits are Europe’s busiest Web surfers, study finds

The U.K. and Sweden both beat out the U.S. for most time spent online

Xandros joins Novell in licensing Microsoft IP

Deal includes 'covenants' to protect customers using Xandros software from potential patent-infringement claims by Microsoft

Microsoft unveils integrated security

'Stirling' package aimed at taking on rivals McAfee, Symantec

Stealthy attack method causes concern

New hacking method goes to great lengths to avoid detection by security software and researchers by serving malicious code only once

Palm gets private-equity bailout

Firm associated with rocker Bono chips in $325 M for 25 percent share of mobile device maker

LANDesk offers free software trial through Lenovo

Scaled down version of LANDesk Management Suite for ThinkVantage is available for a free 90-day trial

Asustek previews Net radio, overclocking laptop

Users can lower their costs by adding a desktop processor to Asustek's C90 laptop, which sports extra heat sinks, other cooling systems

Toshiba develops laptop HD DVD-RW drive

Toshiba unveils at the Computex trade show its slim HD DVD rewriter, which the company will begin sampling to PC makers in July

Report: Baidu to announce European expansion plans

China's most popular search engine will target younger Internet users in a bid to compete with Google in Europe, report says

IDC: Open source market going way up

EMC buys authentication service provider Verid

EMC will continue to sell Verid's services as stand-alone products and will also better integrate them with the RSA product line

Silicon Valley wireless vision taking time

The municipal wireless project has been delayed several times because of the ambition and complexity involved

Sun stresses multicore chips, Linux with dev tool

Platform upgraded for C, C++, and Fortran

Apple’s iPhone coming on June 29

No word from AT&T about how it will sell the two phone models

Wetpaint improves wiki site analysis

Seattle startup has developed a free wiki service that lets anyone create a Web site that can be altered by anyone

Oracle adds copyright charges to SAP complaint

Oracle now alleges that SAP violated its copyright by illegally downloading software and support documents

Google’s Book Search available in publisher sites

For the first time, the Book Search engine will be available outside of google.com, and publishers can tailor searches so that only their own books will show up as results

Parallels promises 3-D Windows games on Intel Macs

3-D graphics support leads the list of 50 new features or modifications to the virtualization software

Intel working on quad-core chip for notebooks

The chip, set for a 2008 release, will initially be aimed only at high-end users and is expected to be slow to penetrate the business notebook market

Groups call for competitive spectrum auction

A consortium of businesses, consumer advocates, and think tanks want the upcoming auction of 700MHz spectrum to include open access requirements

A search engine for open source code

Krugle aims to help open source developers find needed pre-existing code and has partnered with sites such as SourceForge and CollabNet

Corporate IT spending growth to slow in Q3

A ChangeWave Research survey shows that the percentage of companies planning on increasing IT spending is at its lowest point in four years

Google woos developers

Patent Office reopens Microsoft-Eolas case

Companies continue to vie over who owns patent claims on browser plug-in technology related to ActiveX implementation

Google buys FeedBurner to boost RSS services

Update: Acquisition of Feedburner adds to Google's publishing and advertising services and provides a content syndication feed

Oracle adds charges, amends complaint against SAP

In accordance with a legal stipulation made in May, Oracle has amended its complaint against SAP, adding copyright infringement and breach of contract to the suit

Early look at Microsoft Popfly

Google adds facial search

New features in Google's Image Search allow you to look for faces, or news related images.