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Becoming better at security

Oracle releases first ECM product since buying Stellent

Oracle's ECM platform retains Stellent's ability to interact with third-party products while tightening integration with Oracle software

Google courts government sector webmasters

Google partners with four U.S. states to help them optimize their sites for its search engine

Samsung making bigger, faster flash memory chip

New chips can hold 2GB of data and offer an 80 percent increase in speed

Yahoo buys remainder of Right Media for $680 million

Acquisition of online advertising exchange expands Yahoo's advertising reach

Onaro looks to bridge app-storage gap

Application Insight 2.0 yields path-level visibility into SAN health

How to get bought by Google (or IBM, or Oracle)

Startups are trailblazing in the enterprise sector again, but where will the trail lead?

Spring Java framework gets a Java 6 upgrade

XO laptop is fun for child’s play

One Laptop Per Child shows off the first version of its XO laptop, including many features geared toward helping kids learn in their own environment

Microsoft MIX07 conference to begin

AOL: Hacker unlikely to have stolen customer data

The Internet giant is presently investigating the recent hacks and has stated for the moment that it's unlikely that the hacker stole sensitive customer data

Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight

The company is revealing the source code of its alternative to Flash in order to make inroads with the Web developer community and better compete with Adobe

EarthLink scales back, focuses muni Wi-Fi effort

Move raises questions about growing trend of city-wide wireless networks

Digital currency firms face money laundering charges

EGold and Gold & Silver Reserve are accused of operating without the proper permits as well as using their digital currency operations to launder money

Google: Personalized home page glitch solved

The glitch, which caused personalized Google home pages to revert to old or default settings, has been fixed, but reliability questions remain

The strangest of queries

UK Dept. of Health admits data incident

The UK's Dept. of Health published the personal details of hundreds of doctors on an unsecured section of its Web site yesterday.

Acer strikes back at HP lawsuit

Acer hires same lawyer who helped EMC win a big patent case against HP two years ago

Chartered ready for surge in 65nm chip production

High demand for chips made using 65nm process will account for a 'double-digit' percentage of Chartered's revenue by Q4

In Brief: China’s Baidu sees profits double

New scheme could boost online music services in Europe

Licensing system aims to simplify process of obtaining music distribution rights across Europe

In Brief: Wikipedia appears on cellphones in Japan

ICANN releases toolkit for handling new TLDs

Toolkit helps Web site designers, developers fix problems caused by recently added Internet addresses

Acer passes Lenovo in Q1, next up: Dell

Acer will continue to keep prices low in order to take market share in the U.S.

This is definitely not Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace

Beta of MySpace site launched in China suffers from domain-name squatting confusion

Attracting and hiring qualified IT folks

Google Desktop 5 speaks 29 languages

Google faces renewed competition on the desktop from Microsoft

Acer to buy small PC vendor — but not Gateway, it says

Acer chairman says talks are underway with target company that is 'not in the United States'

OLPC raises hundred-dollar laptop price to $175

OLPC is still confident they will have enough orders to begin volume production by September

Update: Websense makes $400M bid for SurfControl

With the move to buy out its competitor, Websense seeks to better equip itself to become a global IT security solutions company

Sun eyes a JavaScript alternative to AJAX

Company hopes to release an early version of Project Flair, a self-supporting programming kernel meant to streamline development and collaboration, later this year

Mitel to acquire Inter-Tel to boost its size

The acquisition, expected to close in the third quarter will help Mitel be beter positioned to to target the growing SMB IP communications market

Sun opens doors to next-generation technology

Projects covering wire-free chip links, Web 2.0 security, and Java aired at Sun Labs Open House

Yahoo’s cofounder: Emerging markets critical

In an interview, David Filo says that attracting customers from emerging markets not only makes business sense but can be an agent for social change

Groups raise concerns about patent reform bill

Several companies worry that the bill would expand the ability to invalidate or skirt patents without paying any penalty

Deferred revenue drives Microsoft to solid Q3

Figures even higher than company expected

Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings fuel optimism

Showing strong financial performances, tech companies help push recent Nasdaq and Dow gains

Update: VMware files prospectus for IPO

Virtualization software provider's IPO is expected to raise $100 million

NY teen hacks AOL, infects systems

District Attorney's office charges 17-year-old boy with computer tampering, computer trespass, and criminal possession of computer material

Falcon to be the major piece of MySQL 6.0

Originally developed in response to surprise Oracle acquisition of MySQL partner, homegrown storage engine will join next version of open source database

Qualcomm boosts Q3 forecast

Despite its legal wrangling with Nokia, the telecom company sees a rosy enough future to raise its revenue and profits forecasts

Experts: Google AdWords needs policing

Security and legal experts contend that the only way for Google to avoid badware-brokering advertisers is to more aggressively vet its AdWords customers

Google Website Optimizer boosts page effectiveness

The service lets users post varying iterations of a given Web page and track which versions are the most successful

Four plead guilty in auction software piracy scheme

Combined, the men sold more than $19 million worth of pirated Rockwell Automation software on eBay

Young MacBook Pro aging already

Google ‘frantic’ about Personalized Home Page glitch

It remains unclear whether users will be able to recover customized home pages that have been lost

IBM to bring together mainframes and game chips

IBM plans to add its Cell gaming chips to its mainframe servers

EU to go ahead with Galileo satellites, says official

EC vice president calls it an 'essential project'

FCC approves plan for auctioning 700MHz spectrum

Tech and telecom companies are eyeing the new spectrum for a variety of wireless broadband services

TJX slapped with class action suit by banks

The Massachusetts Bankers Association fires the latest round in the TJX data breach scandal: a class action lawsuit to recover the cost of cleaning up after stolen cards.