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Samsung puts finishing touches on DDR3 memory

Successor to DDR2 is close to its commercial debut, but most PC users won't see the chips in their systems until early 2009

5 reasons not to plug security holes

Microsoft shows off new unified communications phones

Microsoft unveils 15 phones that help unify e-mail, instant messaging, and videoconferencing functions

Acer lawsuit puts suppliers in a bind

AMD is trying to force PC suppliers to side with it in legal battle with Hewlett-Packard

SAP fills gaps with two Nordic acquisitions

SAP also announces an agreement to collaborate with SunGard Data Systems

Santa Rosa plays grinch to April laptop sales

Arrival of Santa Rosa laptops could also be a boost to sales of the new Windows Vista OS

AMD set to launch ‘Phenom’ desktop chip

AMD replaces its Athlon with a new quad-core chip that is similar in design to the upcoming Barcelona server chip

Microsoft demands royalties for open source software

Microsoft general counsel claims open source software, including Linux, violates 235 of the company's patents

Talend: Data integration for the masses!

Paris-based startup's Open Studio shaking up market dominated by big players, proprietary solutions

VCs take startups on the road

VC-sponsored technology days introduce busy execs to the bleeding edge

Startup skirts datacenter bottlenecks with cache

Gear6 CACHEfx's cache-in-a-box approach serves data quickly to I/O-heavy apps

Intel linking Itanium to Java

Java to package software distribution feature

McNealy sees room for Sun’s scripting language

CodeGear shines up Ruby on Rails tool

Merging of command line and IDE capabilities also featured

Bungee Labs: App dev as a service

Startup provides online incubator from development, to testing, to launch

socialDragon: Advertisers get a piece of Average Joe

Snippets of ordinary life find their sponsor with this social networking startup

Red Hat ratchets up co-opetition with IBM, HP

Controversial Red Hat Exchange program could hold off rival Oracle but may also threaten preferred partners

Seven face felonies for online credit processing

Defendants accused of aiding gambling Web sites disguise payments from U.S. bettors and mislead credit card issuers

DHS privacy committee joins Real ID opposition

Committee lists privacy, security, and logical concerns as reasons for resistance to proposed national standard for state-issued identification

Fix for Microsoft Automatic Updates not working

Users report continued problems with Microsoft patch, even after downloading and running new hotfix

Social Security, spyware bills go to House vote

The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved modified versions of a pair of bills aimed at curbing abuse of social security numbers and computer spyware, respectively

Longhorn to sweep Linux off table

Big Blue announces ‘Big Green’ initiative

IBM's $1 billion-a-year initiative is aimed at building datacenters that consume less energy

Seven green products that can save you dough

Enterprises are paying closer attention to energy usage as energy costs, power requirements rise

No open source sugar daddy

Wall Street Beat: Apple up in down market

Apple shareholders vote down proposal that would have changed how Apple prices stock options for senior execs

Ballmer coy about Yahoo acquisition prospects

CEO says that Microsoft 'wouldn't rule out' an acquisition as large as the rumored Yahoo deal

3Leaf Systems: Scale up by scaling out

Silicon Valley virtualization startup pools commodity servers, reshaping enterprise datacenters

Building trust in downloads no simple feat

Truste hopes to become a virtual clearinghouse for trustworthy software distribution

Microsoft cuts virtualization features

Looking to prevent additional Viridian delays, company ditches key server virtualization features

AJAX, JavaServer Faces ties to get stronger

Panelists tout technology combination

Hackers hijack Windows Update’s downloader

Component of Windows XP, Server 2003, and Vista bypasses firewalls, could be used to pass malicious code downloads to PC

After the Treo 755p, whither the Palm OS?

New device uses Garnet OS, but future of old operating system unclear in light of Palm's impending switch to Linux-based platform

Visa tries new tack with payment app security

Visa USA urges adoption of company-issued best practices, discourages use of payment apps that captures and stores sensitive data

Qualcomm talks tough on patents, 4G

Chip giant plans to stay viable, pioneering in competition to create next-generation broadband wireless service

Ballmer dances around SaaS

GPL incompatibilities with Apache to be ironed out

Aim is to ease code usage under Apache and GPL together in the same application, Free Software Foundation manager says

Stupid user tricks, part 2

Hitachi adds data encryption to hard drive

Double-capacity Travelstar 7K200 increases performance without draining power

Microsoft buys into CareerBuilder

Microsoft buys minority stake, extends MSN's strategic alliance with job classifieds Web site

Vonage appeal cites Supreme Court patent ruling

Vonage says standard used to judge Verizon's patents was too strict

Sun’s JavaFX helps bridge digital divide, McNealy says

McNealy: Digital divide will not be solved by mainframes and PCs but by thin client computing, SaaS, and Java-enabled phones

The danger of virtualization

Clustered NEC arrays scale from gigabytes to a petabyte

NEC storage series achieves new benchmarks in scalability, performance, and availability

Microsoft invites hackers back for Blue Hat

Conference gives the security community a chance to show the software giant where it's gone wrong

Sun’s JavaFX helps bridge digital divide, McNealy says

No conflict seen between Java groups

Project Indiana set for Solaris

Symantec pitches rootkit tech as Veritas validation

Symantec's Raw Disk Scan rootkit search-and-remove app is an example of what kind of technology the Symantec-Veritas merger will bring forth