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Report: AT&T may scale back Yahoo partnership

Analyst says market conditions that created the union are fading

Q&A: SAP chief developer heads ‘clouds’

Vishal Sikka discusses company's first on-demand app, SaaS, search in enterprise software, Web services

Wikia targets Q4 unveiling of open-source search engine

Founder says we should be concerned about search being a 'secretive black box'

Supercharging Your Cluster With Univa Globus

Symantec: Image spam climbs

Gambling-related spam is also on the rise, but adult content spam is at its lowest point ever

Chip giant TSMC reports worst revenue in 20 months

Analyst firm says chip industry won't recover until second half of this year

Wikipedia founder speaks on the Essjay controversy

Policy under discussion would require contributors to backup credential claims

Fon lands $13 million more for community Wi-fi

Company doubled its access points in last two months

Q&A: Shred data to defend it

IBM's chief scientist Jeff Jonas discusses anonymization, and how it helps to protect personal data

Cursing Vista’s lead developer

Desktop Java faces off against AJAX

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

SEC suspends trading of pump-and-dump spam companies

SEC rolls out Operation Spamalot, investigates 35 suspected firms

Jury finds Vonage infringed on Verizon patents

Ruling declares that Vonage violated Verizon's packet-based calling technology patent and must pay a fine plus a 5.5 percent royalty rate

Despite market jitters, IT vendors get upgraded

Considering last week's market plunge a correction, many analysts are predicting solid growth for the tech sector and are upgrading their company assessments

UPDATE: Jury finds former Gateway execs manipulated earnings

CFO concealed important information about company's business success from investors

Security deemed a tough task

IBM Safari to help developers navigate languages

Project to be offered to Eclipse

No Microsoft security updates coming next week

Though the company will release some high-priority nonsecurity patches, there will be no security update for the first time since September, 2005

Clearwire shares soar at IPO

The IPO raised about $600 million for the WiMax provider, though the stock fell back down to about its original price by the end of the day

SEC shuts down trading for 35 companies

Companies that have benefitted from e-mail spam hyping their stocks have had all trading suspended for 10 business days as part of the SEC's anti-spam crackdown

Yahoo tests social network component for Answers

As part of its aggressive social strategy for Web 2.0, Yahoo is adding social networking to its popular Yahoo Answers question-and-answer service

Reports: Microsoft search chief leaving

Chris Payne, corporate VP of the 'underperforming' Windows Live, is reportedly leaving Microsoft to head up his own undetermined online venture

EBay: More cooperation needed on cybersecurity

Auction site's CEO argues that better communication among banks, online vendors, and payment services will help minimize the damage of phishing and fraud

First-time VoIP buyers’ most common mistakes

‘Winfixer’ mystery slowly unravels

California attorney claims he uncovered a fraud that thus far has escaped law enforcement

Software, services to carry European IT

Report warns of sluggish performance in telecommunications sector

Lefkowitz cites open source oddities

Update: Google mobile phone in the works?

Job opening posted on Google's Web site seems to confirm rumors the company is designing its own phone

AU Optronics sees LCD rebound

Third biggest LCD maker says demand for notebooks and digital cameras has picked up

Hutchison Essar charged with breaking investment rules

Watchdog group alleges mobile services operator's foreign shareholding is in breach of India's regulations

Avaya adds IP phones, gateways, SIP

Avaya is gearing up its products to handle the increasing adoption of IP telephony

Yahoo apologizes to Indian housewife

Recipes from blog were used without permission on Yahoo India's new Web portal

Microsoft signs first EU protocol licensee

Quest and Microsoft ink deal the same day that EC publishes objections to WSPP's price

Qimonda invests $525M on chip facilities in Asia

German company will double the capacity of its memory chip assembly plant in China

Update: VMware questions rivals’ virtualization strategies

Company's president makes the case that third-party virtualization is superior to virtualization built into an OS

3M sues Sony, Lenovo, others over battery patents

3M alleges the companies violated two patents related to lithium-ion battery technology

Why IT ought to grasp power and cooling

Microsoft moves to replace JPEG with HD Photo

Microsoft claims its lightweight algorithm creates higher-quality images that are half the size of JPEG

Gates calls for new privacy law

Microsoft chairman says consumers should be given control over how their personal info is used

AJAX IDE called good idea

Eclipse panelists ponder need

Otellini’s famous last words

Analysis: Intel’s CEO squirms as the buck gets harder to pass

Opsware plus iConclude: Automate the automation

The enterprise DST checklist

Think you're ready for daylight-saving time? Read this first.

Online ad spending had healthy growth in 2006

Spending grew 34 percent compared to last year as more effective online advertising encourages companies to increase their Web ad budget

DOJ, states concerned about Vista antitrust docs

Agencies worry that Microsoft is revising the deadlines for releasing Vista documentation that were agreed upon as part of the antitrust settlement of 2003

Year’s best vendor

Visa summit will counter data breach hype

D.C. event will argue breach fallout not that widespread

Worldbeat: Now it’s the ads that zap viewers

Bluetooth billboards gather steam, unless users elect invisibility

Strong growth expected for local search advertising

New advertisers, bigger budgets, better targeting to catalyze increase, study says

Gates: Tech needs more immigrant visas

Microsoft chairman tells Congress the country's economic future depends on raising the cap on skilled-worker visas