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Toshiba to use AMD chip in entry-level laptop

The new entry-level machine will be available in the United States and Europe 'soon,' though no definite date has been announced

Gartner revises down contract chip maker forecast

As growth declines 12.5 percent for the first quarter, Gartner revises its yearly revenue growth target for the market down to 5.1 percent for the year

Powerchip seeks control of flash memory maker

The company wants to place nominees in eight of 15 board seats at flash memory maker Macronix, in which it already holds a 5 percent stake

Infosys chairman faces charges over anthem

N.R. Narayana Murthy, chairman and cofounder of India's largest outsourcing company, played an instrumental version of the anthem during a visit by India's president

BEA tackles event-driven architecture

Java product offers high performance for SOA and is seen as further proof that the event-processing market is going mainstream

Attensa unlocks knowledge with RSS

Beyond e-mail: feeding information to the enterprise, Web 2.0-style

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Truviso: New tricks with old SQL

Event stream processing startup brings tried-and-true database technology to a new world of real-time data management

Novell goes public with terms of Microsoft Linux deal

Linux advocates expected to scour the documents for how the agreement may affect Linux, run afoul of GPLv3

Will enterprises hang up on desk phones?

Many analysts see enterprises moving away from traditional desk phones in favor of cell phones, softphone clients, and Wi-Fi devices, but the change may take a while

Microsoft sues alleged stock scammers

Company files 'John Doe' lawsuits against spammers using Hotmail to engage in stock pump-and-dump scams

OLPC seeks educational games for XO laptop

A three-day 'game jam' starting June 8 is planned in hopes of increasing the software available for the XO, making it a more attractive purchase

Users upset over Google Analytics outage

The service suffered outages of more than 24 hours this week, prompting affected users to wonder if Google intends to improve its performance and outage response

Microsoft cancels key developer conference

The company's Professional Developers Conference for this year is being cancelled due to timing issues

Former Hitachi Data Systems chief to head up HP storage

Dave Roberson will join HP on Wednesday as senior vice president and general manager for StorageWorks

Gates vs. Jobs headlines D5 conference

Groups praise U.S. broadband data bill

The proposed Senate bill would reconsider what can be defined as 'broadband' and use more accurate metrics for determining broadband penetration

Challenging the storage status quo

Agilysys to buy Sun reseller Innovativ

In third purchase in six months, Agilysys gets servers and storage SI for $100 million

Spyware bill’s chances uncertain in US Senate

EFF warns that bill could override stricter state laws

Apple fixes 17 Mac OS X flaws

Apple unveils its fifth major security update of the year for Mac OS X

Euro data protection chief backs Google

Other officials have warned Google it could be breaching European laws by storing data on people's searches for too long

Germany passes antihacking law

Law closes legal loopholes, makes hacking activity a crime punishable with up to 10 years in prison

Malicious software plays on legal fears

Websense warns: Hackers are distributing harmful program through e-mail purported to come from the Better Business Bureau

Taiwan to host online patent auction in October

Web site aims to collect unused patents that may be of value to another company

Facebook launches video system

Facebook opens its f8 platform to outside developers in effort to gain ground on social networking rivals

Sony, LG.Philips unveil flexible OLED displays

OLED technology is rugged, lightweight, and seen as important for future products — but it's not yet ready for commercial availability

Google offers mobile access to calendar service

Google Calendar users can now access their schedules from their mobile phones

A nod in favor of 64-bit Vista

Cogneto: to identity and beyond!

Startup uses authentication as springboard to hosted identity services

Update: EarthLink to build out full Philadelphia Wi-Fi network

Wireless Philadelphia has approved a 15-square-mile municipal Wi-Fi test network, setting the stage for citywide coverage, which could happen later this year

Condoleezza Rice talks technology

U.S. Secretary of State visits Silicon Valley for a meeting with IT execs as hosted by TechNet and discusses technology's impact on global issues

RIM plans Wi-Fi BlackBerry

Having fallen behind rivals Motorola and Nokia in the Wi-Fi space, RIM hopes to start shipping a Wi-Fi-enabled BlackBerry model later this year

VA Software becomes Sourceforge Inc.

The company is folding its software division to focus entirely on its Web properties like Slashdot and Sourceforge.net

Google Apps manager: Google hearts IT managers

In an interview, Rajen Sheth, the product manager for Google Apps talks about targeting bigger businesses and what improvements are to come

Bold M&A moves rewarded with stock price boosts

Big merger activity –and rumors –by Google, Salesforce, Intel, Dell, Yahoo, and others gained kudos from analysts as well as higher stock prices

Trade group forges e-waste proposal

The Electronic Industries Alliance has made the first recycling plan to be approved by both TV and IT hardware manufacturers and hopes for a federal recycling law

Symantec: Heavy price for smartphone security inaction

Symantec is stressing the growing threat ahead of the June launch of its Mobile Security Suite 5.0

Microsoft offers Zune team ‘iPod Amnesty Bin’

Photo of bin, thought to be a joke, has been posted on Flickr

Skype worm jumps to ICQ, MSN

Jump marks first time a worm has moved from Skype to another network, expert says

Coalition pushes for U.S. broadband plan

The Open Internet Coalition wants to see the governemnt enact a comprehensive plan to bring affordable broadband connections to all citizens

NetSuite goes wireless with help from its friends

Three of NetSuite's partners used its SuiteFlex development software to make the company's apps compatible with BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Palm Treo devices

Lessons of attack on Estonia

Analyst: Apple to demo new MacBook Pros at WWDC, but no iPhone

Next month's developers conference will likely feature new notebooks and Leopard OS, but no cellphone launch

Unpatched Symantec flaw leads to university data breach

Names, SSNs of nearly 45,000 students at the University of Colorado were compromised by flaw in AV console

Capgemini to expand its offshore services

French IT services company will soon have more staff in India than France

Dell signs sales deal with Wal-Mart

Dell moves beyond direct sales, will begin selling two models of its desktop PCs at Wal-Mart next month

Nokia to add lightning detector to mobile phone

Nokia software program analyzes radio waves to calculate the distance to the lightning and inform phone users of imminent strikes

Nokia counters with patent lawsuit against Qualcomm

Nokia accuses Qualcomm of infringing six of its patents relating to multiband and multimode technologies