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AOL tests local search service

AOL Local lets users find businesses, provides maps and driving directions

Intel’s Barrett, educators want competitiveness bills

Money would go to scholarships for math and science teachers, increased federal research

Prowling for more stupid user tricks

Study: Economic impact of tech often understated

Think tank rep urges U.S. government to draft more IT-friendly policies

Despite attacks, Qualcomm increases expectations

Qualcomm posts higher revenues, looks to continued growth amid industry conflicts

Google offers priority reporting to Indian police

Tool will help flag objectionable material on Orkut, will not affect user data, according to Google

Grisoft releases small business security software

New products provide simple management, says Grisoft

Intel gets approval to build $2.5B plant in China

Plant would be Intel's first manufacturing center in China

Oracle Enterprise Manager to add support for SAP

Oracle, Nimsoft partner on plug-in that helps app manage third-party software

Dell polls PC users on favorite Linux varieties

Struggling PC maker plans to offer alternatives to Windows

Eclipse exec: Platform upgrade a blank slate

Milinkovich also gives thumbs-up to open source for Java

Software developer growth slows in North America

Study shows Asia will lead in software developer jobs by 2010

Viacom slaps Google with $1B YouTube lawsuit

Media giant alleges copyright infringement, requests injunction

Microsoft to offer ‘MySpace’ for apps users

"You can think of it as the MySpace for financial professionals," said Satya Nadella, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Business Solutions group

VC firm, ex-Microsoft execs back Internet OS company

Xcerion works from within a browser, which developers can use to build Web-based versions of existing software or new applications quickly

Viacom seeks $1B in damages from Google

YouTube video suit alleges "massive infractions"

Motorola buys stake in HD video chip designer

Company takes step toward transmitting uncompressed HD video wirelessly

EU tackles online copyright law

European Parliament suggests major changes to current fee distribution system

A desktop virtualization alternative

Intel stomps into flash memory

Chip giant touts new memory product's big reliability

IBM enhances software development program

Developers will be able to share information in company's new software code exchange

Verizon rolls out nationwide WAN service

Enterprises can determine their own bandwidth and routing

Cisco, IBM expand joint support to 46 countries

Program gives enterprises one point of contact

McAfee says Vista’s StickyKeys could be misused

Feature for disabled could be used to launch software, researcher says

Update: SEC charges ex-Nortel executives

CEO Dunn, others accused of using secret fund to fabricate profits

Three indicted for alleged online brokerage scam

Overseas group accused of hijacking accounts to drive up stock prices

Free domain registrations help spread malware

SOA vendors good and bad

Microsoft ups Dynamics’ industry focus

Aims to make business applications more relevant to government, other sectors

Microsoft creates ‘Duet’ for Dynamics

Tool designed to link back-end software more closely to Office

Microsoft confirms departure of search executive

Search research chief Payne leaving to start his own company

Microsoft moves closer to Dynamics platform

Interface, other enhancements coming at Convergence conference

IBM starts producing Cell chip at 65nm

Gaming chip also used in blade servers moves on from 90nm

Six New Globus Incubator Projects

IBM’s Handy on managing Linux

Vendor's internal team will support any distribution that gains traction

GoDaddy hit with denial-of-service attack

Hosting company's service intermittent for hours on Sunday

Otellini e-mail among those missing in AMD case

Even top officials involved with deleted messages, AMD lawyer told court

War games for IT execs

Desktop Java faces off against AJAX

Desktop Matters conference features comparisons, contrasts between desktop and Web apps

Intel to release more efficient quad-core Xeons

Intel takes on rival chip maker AMD and meets customer demands with more energy efficient quad-core server products

GoDaddy tells client its servers don’t need DST fix

Arizona-based company says that no patch needed in state that doesn't observe Daylight Saving. Cutomers aren't so sure.

Java Swing technologies highlighted

Desktop Matters conference notes multitude of projects

Verizon ruling could be hard on Vonage

The settlement fines Vonage about as much as it loses each quarter, and it could also end up costing the company subscribers

Microsoft:  DoT Vista snub won’t ripple

Software giant maintains it can convince the Dept of Transportation and other federal agencies to move to Vista, but experts believe it may be a while before government moves

Lawmakers: Additional pretexting legislation needed

Congress moves to make more stringent anti-pretexting laws, though telecom companies object that the proposed regulations are too harsh

Third-party AV products outperform OneCare

In a head-to-head test against 14 other antivirus suite providers, Microsoft finished last at detecting threats

NASA backs quantum computing claim

Engineers at NASA's Microdevices Lab manufactured a quantum chip for Canadian outfit D-Wave, which claims it will start renting time on the quantum computer in 2008

A final DST checklist

Judge dismisses portion of Intel antitrust suit

Foreign consumers will continue pressing the civil-action case

Who says that vendors are always biased?