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BlackBerrys cozy up to office phone systems

Using technology it got through its acquisition of Ascendent Systems, RIM is developing an app to allow BlackBerrys to communicate with enterprise PBXs

Web 2.0 still primarily attracting hardcore techies

A recent Pew survey shows that while a quarter of Americans use advanced mobile technology and Web 2.0 apps, more than half don't use either

Sun: Pay open-source developers

Current Robin Hood-in-reverse scenario of taking code for free in order to enrich corporations is called unsustainable

Will Sun ever join Eclipse?

Samsung launches Q1 Ultra ultramobile

Samsung has upgraded the performance and lwered the price of its UMPCs in hopes of expanding the devices' appeal

Microsoft delivers Hotmail upgrade

Microsoft closes testing and begins migrating users to major upgrade of its Web mail service

RIM to offer plug-in for Visual Studio

In an effort to broaden both the capabilities and the customer base of its BlackBerry mobile devices, RIM is allowing developers to create .Net-based apps

Toshiba to establish software center in Vietnam

The development center will work on embedded software for consumer electronics

Tokyo’s coolest gadgets for May

Merger adds IM to SaaS communications

Apptix's acquisition of WebMessenger gives it many of the tools it needs to create a SaaS-based package of unified communications tools

Microsoft, Packeteer team on branch office appliance

The Packeteer iShaper combines WAN optimization with native Windows apps

Microsoft-Yahoo deal still worth doing

Merger rumors have cooled, but the idea is still hot

Ubuntu plans mobile Linux version

Ubuntu will develop a mobile version of its Debian-based Linux OS in collaboration with Intel

In Brief: NTT DoCoMo cancels I-mode plans in India

Sophos warns of new worm virus

Vodafone deal cleared in India

Vodafone receives clearance to acquire a majority stake in mobile services operator Hutchison Essar

Galileo financing plan unworkable, says Commission

Companies are getting cold feet about investing in the satellite navigation system and fighting over how to split up the work

CodeGear CEO eyes Ruby

New executive discusses Borland tools subsidiary

Oracle focuses on app server, AJAX at JavaOne

The company has plenty of announcements in the works for the conference, including a donation of more than 80 JavaServer Faces components to Apache

Comcast works on dashboard with Zimbra

SmartZone dashboard gives broadband users a single place to manage all their communications

Microsoft delivers Hotmail upgrade

Microsoft closes testing and begins migrating users to major upgrade of its Web mail service

Dell joins Microsoft, Novell in Linux collaboration

Dell is the first hardware vendor to join the Windows-Linux alliance

Startups class of ’06: Where are they now?

Buyouts, build-outs, and shakeups shape last year's startups

Rover, IBM extend CDP to laptops

Flash drive provides mobile workers with portable backup and recovery functionality

Oracle focuses on app server, AJAX

Can G.ho.st scare Microsoft?

Hosted OS company plays David to Windows' Goliath

Riya: New eyes on search

Visual search could revolutionize enterprise search and content management by allowing companies to catalog and quickly access non-text information.

YouTube starts paying a few contributors

The video-sharing site will start sharing revenue with individual content providers the same way it shares with corporate content partners

California county to share data in e-voting suit

Alameda County will share the data from its e-voting machines as part of a lawsuit brought against the county charging failure to properly disclose the required data

Microsoft promises DNS patch Tuesday

Patch will address vulnerability acknowledged by the company three weeks ago

CSIA backs federal breach act

NetBeans IDE tackles Ruby, JavaScript

Scripting languages make the cut in upgrade of open source tools package

Microsoft plus Yahoo — not so scary

Nokia Siemens Networks to cut 9,000 jobs

The joint venture still expects to cut between 10 and 15 percent of its workforce over four years

Silverlight coming to Linux via Mono

Mono open-source project wants to back new Microsoft technology as part of its ongoing effort to implement .Net on Linux systems

Flickr pushes Yahoo Photos out of the picture

In a move to eliminate overlap, Yahoo will close its Yahoo Photos service in favor of Web 2.0 darling Flickr

Microsoft-Yahoo: Not if but when, analysts say

Given the difficulty of Yahoo and Microsoft to compete individually with dominance of Google, a deal between the two giants was only a matter of time, according to analysts

EC still convinced mobile roaming consensus is possible

Some powerful countries in Europe are resisting pressure to curb the costs of mobile roaming

RIM announces new BlackBerry Curve

Reports: Microsoft ogles Yahoo to beat Google

Reports say Microsoft has initiated a new round of buyout talks with Yahoo in a bid to rein in Google's lead in search and online ads

Danish consumer agency finds design flaw in Apple iBook

Manufacturing defect leads to power failures in some of Apple's iBook G4 notebook computers

Developers can’t target iPhone?

Acer has no plan to launch an ultra-low cost PC

Acer chairman says OLPC is a good cause for charity, but it's no way for a business to work

Acer forecasts huge sales gains in laptops, desktops

Acer's chairman predicts the company's laptop shipments could rise as much as 70 percent year-over-year in 2007

Microsoft challenges attorney fees in Iowa case

Microsoft claims plantiffs' law firm might be charging it repeatedly for the same work in different states

Acer: No major laptop battery improvement in offing

The recent massive recall highlights the main reason why development of new battery technologies moves slowly: safety concerns

Google gears up to jump the shark

oDesk: job search meets the online exchange

Not just an online employment service, oDesk is a virtual environment for contract workers and their employers with collaboration tools, a time clock, and monitoring features

JAVAONE : NetBeans IDE tackles Ruby, JavaScript

MacBook Pro update update: Battery fix?