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Oracle to buy premier PLM company Agile

Oracle pays $495 million for key player in keeping companies honest when it comes to environmental and food industry regulations 

MySpace asked for names of registered sex offenders

Attorneys general from eight states seek better protection for children who use popular social networking site

American Express plans business, consumer buy site

Giant credit card company will also audit business and consumer bills and recover funds

IBM pitches risk management strategy

The company unveils a comprehensive IT risk management strategy that will help enterprises simplify — and ease the financial burden of– security and compliance work

Analysis: Apple’s new MacBooks

Apple celebrates 10 percent notebook share with new MacBooks

Motorola hopes to cut losses with Razr2

The company hopes that its six new mobile devices, including the Razr2, along with its embrace of GSM, 3G HSDPA, and EvDO CDMA standards, will reverse its sales slump

PayPal granted banking license in Europe

Online payment service will market services directly to merchants, move European headquarters to Luxembourg

H-1B visas are a trade issue, says India’s NASSCOM

In response to an H-1B probe by U.S. senators, India's National Association of Software and Service Companies seeks to separate H-1B issues from immigration issues

Even in IT, lunacy is relative

Nuance buys VoiceSignal, eyes mobile voice control

$293 million deal would give the voice-recognition vendor VoiceSignal's control software for mobile devices, allowing Nuance to further expand into the mobile market

Novell SUSE, SAP partner to simplify support

The newly launched program gives users of SAP applications on Novell's Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers a single point of contact for support on the OS and apps

IBM deepens focus on governance, risk management

Big Blue unwraps new and enhanced offerings to further its GRM strategy

Microsoft expands sales channel for home server

Gateway, others, join the ranks of those building hardware for the OS

Software piracy hits $40B worldwide, says study

Experts indicate that for every two dollars of software purchased legitimately, one dollar was obtained illegally in 2006

Senators say offshore firms are biggest H-1B users

Foreign-based companies that specialize in offshoring U.S. technology jobs received 30 percent of visas last year

Tech groups support new cybersecurity bill

legislation would broaden penalties for cybercrime including botnet attacks

AOL buys company to boost mobile ad business

Third Screen Media will become a subsidiary of AOL's Advertising.com division

Funambol upgrades open-source BlackBerry rival

Plug-ins for Windows Mobile, Office make the new version's interface more user friendly

Samsung mulling new overseas cellphone factory

South Korean vendor says it won't be moving its main phone production base overseas, contrary to reports

Norway likely to mandate open document formats

Regulation could eventually reduce the use of Microsoft's Office in Norway

NTT DoCoMo to invest $10M in China venture fund

Gobi Fund II will target startups working on the convergence of telecom, media, and digital media

Intel settles copyright fight with Chinese company

A protracted court fight could have tarnished Intel's image and significant investment in China

U.S. ISPs slam into wiretap deadline

FCC rule on accommodating law-enforcement wiretaps has hit some smaller VOIP companies hard

AMD gives boost to software aimed at multicore chips

AMD Developer Center aims to help software run at peak performance on systems with multicore chips

Sun licenses chip technology to ARM

Deal is the first licensing of Sun's Sparc CMT technology in mobile devices

Ways to handle headhunters

Samba developers quash serious bug

Open-source developer issues patch for a critical bug in the Samba file-and-print software

IBM union calls work stoppage to protest U.S. layoffs

Big Blue has quickly grown its operations in India and China over the past few years

ColdWatt: making servers mean and green

Startup's energy-efficient power supplies take a bite out of operations costs

Open-source users, companies scoff at Microsoft threats

Supporters say Microsoft's patent claims show that Redmond is worried about open source, Linux competition for long-term business

Microsoft’s patent hard line hardest on startups

Small companies do not have the resources to defend themselves in legal battles that larger companies do

HDS blends virtualization with thin provisioning

Control-unit approach to virtualization boosts Universal Storage Platform V's performance

Microsoft desperate, says target OpenOffice.org

Open source alternative to Office incredulous over Microsoft's claims

Players in potential patent battle hunker down

Microsoft, Red Hat, Free Software Foundation mostly quiet

Microsoft online storage disappears overnight

Former Oracle VP pays $198,000 in trading charge

Oracle exec used confidential information on pending acquisitions to make illegal stock market profits

U.S. piracy crackdown nets 50th conviction

Ongoing DOJ investigation nabs member of Apocalypse Crew, provider of pre-release copyrighted music to the Internet

Researcher: Apple TV, iTunes video “dead ends”

Paid video downloads will give way to ad-backed streaming media and subscription model, according to Forrester analyst

CCube targets Craigslist users for click to call

Startup VoIP social network wants to give Craigslist posts a voice.

Microsoft patent claims hint at internal issues

Company's claims raise questions about the business strategy behind its aggressive moves to seek licensing money from patents

Wal-Mart to sell Skype gear

Wal-Mart says it will sell Skype-certified gear…at those rock bottom prices you've grown to love!

Passive RFID tag market to hit $486M in 2013

Despite current and anticipated growth, the rate falls short of vendor hopes

Update: Verizon Business to acquire Cybertrust

Verizon Business aims to become a leading provider of managed information security services

Alcatel-Lucent to buy gateway vendor

Company sees purchase as means to combine data and voice communications and security in a single box

Microsoft patch party gone wrong

U.S., EU officials hopeful on airline data privacy pact

U.S. secretary of homeland security tries to persuade Europeans of need to share data

DoD cites security in YouTube, MySpace crackdown

The Department of Defense bans YouTube, MySpace, Pandora.com and other sites, saying they may compromise the security of unclassified military networks. They sure do eat up the bandwidth, too!!!

SAP still on track with A1S

SAP admits problems but says its hosted midmarket app will still ship in Q1 2008

Europe’s mobile advances

Cell phone users in Europe can look forward to VoIP and televisions, coming to their handsets soon

Nortel plans major enterprise product launch

Nortel is expected to announce a datacenter application acceleration product