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CA pursues co-founder on fraud

Committee recommends lawsuit to recover damages and company stock

Google-DoubleClick: Dangerous monopoly?

Update: Google to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion

Cash deal will boost Google's ability to sell targeted advertising online, including display and rich media advertising, which had been weak spots for the company

Bottom line impact of data breaches unclear

Despite dire predictions of massive financial consequences for breached companies, TJX's business has grown in the wake of its data breach

Broadcom sues Qualcomm over standards

Suit claims that Qualcomm wrongly used paid representatives who sit on standards bodies to push for acceptance for Qualcomm's patents

Forrester’s Latest Take on SOA

Space: Net’s final frontier?

Leopard delay jeopardizes Apple Boot Camp users

Users' rights to program may run out before new OS ships

Survey: Gov’t CISOs say FISMA can be improved

Law's benefits are starting to take effect, but more guidance is needed

Oracle’s Project X

Windows XP to be discontinued in early 2008

Microsoft plans to phase out OEM shipments of the older generation of Windows in order push Vista, upsetting many XP users

Calling Google Apps e-mail ‘moronic’

Judge orders CA’s Kumar to repay $800M

Former CEO will surrender $52M over the next 18 months

IBM teams with Indian hospital to offer hosted apps

IBM will provide hardware, middleware, and services infrastructure to a large hospital chain in India

Nokia insists that Qualcomm is using its patents

Nokia says Qualcomm is the largest user of its patents and will lose rights to them if a new contract is not signed

It’s already debate over FCoE

Samsung profits slide on weak memory chip market

Low memory prices are good news for consumers

Infosys’ revenues to reach $4 billion this year

Indian outsourcer reports revenue is expected to grow by 30 percent this year

Caveat: Tech is for creative types

China improving on piracy, says top Microsoft lawyer

CBS shows coming to MSN, Joost, AOL, and others

CBS adds new deals to distribute its television programs more widely over the Internet

Samsung to launch dual Blu-ray HD DVD player

Samsung becomes the second company to adopt the idea of a dual-format player

Taiwan’s Via scores big win with HP

For the first time Hewlett-Packard will use a Via chip in a full-fledged desktop PC

Best of Talkback: Content lockdown, end of print stirs

Microsoft warns of dangerous flaw in DNS server

'Highly critical' vulnerability in several Microsoft server products could allow attackers to run unauthorized code

Cisco fixes wireless security holes

Company issues two sets of patches, one for its Wireless Control System, and the other for its Wireless LAN Controller

More security OEM deals to come

Licensing agreements are seen as the best way to increase marketability amidst increased enterprise demands

Microsoft pressures testers after software leak

The company is cutting off a group of testers until it finds the identity of the one who leaked a preview of Windows Home Server

Market confidence in IT continues to build

As investors wait for quarterly financial reports from bellweather companies, other signs point to steadily increasing market confidence in the IT sector

IBM puts blades on a low-carb(on) diet

Big blue turns an environmental shade of green with its lower-wattage processors and flash memory to replace disks

Sun buys mobile phone software maker SavaJe

Acquisition gives Sun SavaJe's intellectual property, including its open Java platform for mobile devices

Tech group calls on Congress to act on priorities

More pressing issues have diverted legislators' attention for past two years, but now tech advocates are calling for decision making

Intel expected to launch new UMPC platform

The company is rumored to be announcing its entry into the nascent small-notebook market at the IDC

Apple delays Leopard, blames iPhone

Shipping of the latest version of OS X gets pushed back to October as some OS X personnel were reassigned to iPhone development

Tech wages going up and up, report says

According to the Yoh Index of Technology Wages, average IT pay is up 5.5 percent from last year

Qualcomm rejects $20M Nokia payment

The payment was intended to cover licenses for 3G mobile technology, but Qualcomm turned down the money and the stipulations that came with it

U.S. agencies still get low cybersecurity grades

The departments of Defense and State receive Fs, Homeland Security is rated a D, and the federal government overall got a C when it comes to IT security measures

Protecting WEP easier than you think

Microsoft delays key virtualization pieces

Public trial of Windows Server virtualization and SP1 of Virtual Server 2005 both pushed back

Government cybersecurity report card coming

The report card assesses the security performance of 24 federal agencies covered by the Federal Information Security Act

Dell folds Axim, may be eyeing Palm purchase

'The PDA is dead. Long live the smart phone,' says analyst Jack Gold

EU mobile phone roaming law moves closer to adoption

EP looks set to ignore pressure from phone companies and take a more consumer-friendly approach to charges

OASIS approves BPEL 2.0

Web services specification gets the nod

US military plans to put Internet router in space

Dept. of Defense chooses Cisco, Intelsat for project that could also benefit civilian broadband satellite communications

Oracle announces Siebel Wireless for BlackBerry

Oracle extends its CRM software to enterprises' mobile workforces

IBM will stack chips for more efficient processing

Big Blue to stack processors on top of memory or power components and drill holes through the chips to connect them

Europe’s .eu domain turns one year old

Europe's top-level Internet domain is now the continent's No. 3 regional domain name

Vonage CEO resigns

VOIP company also announces plans to cut its costs by $140 million

UK sees jump in identity-theft reports

Credit-checking agency Experian reports a 69 percent increase in number of identity theft victims

5 things to consider when beginning an SOA