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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.

Standard for secure mobile phone payments is on the way

NFC technology could soon replace credit cards once global standard for securing private data is established

Open Source Pioneer Shifts Focus

Memory maker Qimonda plans $2.7B fab

Qimonda's announcement comes despite rising DRAM supply that is expected to outpace demand in the short term

Siemens reports profit growth as CEO plans departure

Embattled CEO has reason to smile about the company's higher sales and earnings

Corning to invest $129M in advanced LCD plant

Newer 8G factories are important to continue to drive down the cost of LCD panels and to make bigger panels

Mobile entertainment faces barriers

Carriers' chokehold on services, multiple device platforms make it hard to deliver new mobile services to consumers

Hynix breaks ground on $4.1 billion plant in Korea

Hynix breaks ground on 12-inch chip factory in Korea, ending speculation it would build in China instead

US Army to evaluate Mobile WiMax use

Samsung Electronics will supply equipment for Mobile WiMax trial in military environment

CSC to buy outsourcer Covansys for $1.3 billion

CSC's acquisition will double its staff in India

Disgruntled employees may seek IT revenge

Security experts warn it can be hard to detect employees who may act maliciously within a company

IBM crowns MySQL

Zend readies PHP applications framework

The release, planned for May 2007, will simplify building PHP applications

AOL takes on Yahoo, MSN with Indian Web portal

AOL chases India's growing online ad market by combining services such as IM and e-mail with local content

Global chip glut hit bottom in Q1, TSMC says

TSMC reports dismal quarterly performance but says revenue will improve as the year goes on

Adobe to open-source Flex SDK by end of year

Adobe hopes to fend off Microsoft's Expression and Silverlight technologies by opening up Flex to a larger community of developers

Microsoft releases first Longhorn public beta

Long-awaited server update with new scripting and command-line technology will be available later this year

MacBook Pro health report, November through April

Microsoft releases public beta for Longhorn

Acer recalls 27,000 notebook PC batteries

After the claiming Acer laptop owners would not have to replace batteries, the company is now issuing a recall

Microsoft’s search group loses another executive

Dane Glasgow, the general manager of Windows Search Live, is the latest exec to leave Microsoft's floundering search business

Gartner analyst warns of IT irrelevance

Senior VP lays out four major business and IT trends

Google scratches controversial Calendar maintenance

Due to user confusion about timing and protests about potential service outages, Google has canceled a planned 13-hour maintenance on Google Calendar

Apple defends Jobs, posts quarterly revenue

On the same day that Apple announced an 88 percent revenue increase over the year-ago quarter, Apple's board backed Steve Jobs against stock backdating allegations

Web services transaction spec approved

Sun: 160,000 channels, should be somethin’ on

The Sun Streaming System delivers on-demand video over IP networks, allowing users to watch whatever TV programs or movies they want whenever they want to

Dell brings solid state to Latitude

SanDisk SSD option beefs up durability of laptop line

PC vendors push automated management

Improved IT management capabilities will help business users oversee large fleets of corporate PCs

BlackBerry from Verizon works worldwide

Verizon's version of the popular mobile device will be both GSM and CDMA compatible, meaning it will work in most foreign countries

Experts: U.S. vulnerable to major cyberattacks

Testifying before Congress, several security experts stated that the U.S. needs to make a major investment to tighten up its woeful cybersecurity

Microsoft’s $3 Windows fine by OLPC

The One Laptop Per Child group sees Microsoft's offer as a complement, not a threat, to its efforts to provide technology to students in developing countries

New home networks may change the face of IT

Home networking technologies like HomePNA and MOCA are expected to grow rapidly, and with teleworking on the rise, they could affect enterprise IT as well

Microsoft hails BizTalk Services

Desktop OS choices triple

Video search engine Blinkx to go public

Upcoming IPO is latest sign that online video has taken off

As Web 2.0 evolves, security becomes an issue

Researchers believe that without radical change in how browsers interact with the Web, security problems will only get worse

Computer dealers accuse Sun of blocking used sales

Group says Sun's business practices effectively close trade in used products in the EU to anyone other than Sun

Siemens CEO steps down

Klaus Kleinfeld asks that his contract not be renewed when it expires in October

Startup pitches smarter AV

Robot Genius claims to vastly improve on traditional products' ability to find, block, and remediate desktop malware

FaceTime offers Skype manager for business

New security product aims to allay IT managers' fears that Skype poses a security risk to enterprises

European Parliament sparks criticism with IP changes

Proposed law has narrow definition of IP infringement that would threaten software and Internet companies with fines and jail time

Microsoft ups security stance with new labs

New labs aim to study the growing amount of malicious software on the Internet

Orange seeks to deflect EU limit on roaming charges

French mobile phone operator introduces 'opt-in' plan with new lower tariffs for roaming calls

Chip assembly industry is still ripe for buyout deals

Sector is still ripe for consolidation despite The Carlyle Group's decision not to buy ASE