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In Brief: Qualcomm, Samsung invest in Chinese equipment maker

Palm brings its Treo to China

Palm opens R&D center in China as PDAs begin to gain in local acceptance

Swift for Grid Workflow Management

IBM, Cisco launch joint Unified Communications platform

Companies hope a single platform will kick start application development

HTC in race to ship first Windows Mobile 6 handset

Rivals such as Samsung Electronics could beat HTC to the punch

W3C plans HTML upgrade

China tightening control over Net access, U.S. says

Report says Chinese government employs 'tens of thousands' of people to monitor the Internet

AppleTV, iPhone are game-changers, CFO says

Oppenheimer says AppleTV will change the way people gather and purchase digital content

Liberty Alliance offers guide for identity roll-out

Primer outlines legal issues around the use of federated identity technology

Google updates desktop search tool

Google Desktop 5 offers new preview feature and security enhancements to combat phishing

Ingres, Wipro team on open source enterprise software

Wipro aims to provide alternative to enterprises in India, where open source adoption is accelerating

IBM surpasses HP in storage hardware sales

Storage leader EMC's market share continued to grow in 2006

VMware ACE as bad idea

Microsoft TechFest provides glimpse of future

Microsoft Research demonstrates several projects that aim to improve Internet search

Samsung ships its first hybrid disk drive

New HDD combining conventional magnetic storage with flash memory uses less power

Windows Mobile handsets get Yahoo Go

Deal with HTC to preload Yahoo Go 2.0 on millions of devices puts Yahoo ahead of its rivals

Public beta due soon for new Microsoft VOIP server

Office, Exchange 2007 are integrated with the new Office Communications Server 2007

Eclipse upgrade eyed

Sony to delay release of full-year financial results

Due to the more stringent rules created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the company will push back the release of its yearly earnings report by three weeks

Microsoft offers Vista fixes for Visual Studio

McAfee ushers in new CEO

After watching its boardroom partially emptied by a stock options backdating scandal, McAfee reloads with a new CEO: former EMC and Documentum executive David DeWalt

“Dilbert” creator charms at EclipseCon

Eclipse executive chides Microsoft on interoperability

OSGi also a big topic at EclipseCon event

Update: Mozilla issues fix for critical flaw

'Critical' JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and SeaMonkey app suite has been fixed

HP piles up PC sales lead over Dell

At current rate of growth, HP could take over top spot in global PC market

Schwartz says Solaris is the key to Sun’s growth

Company's CEO credits Sun's good economic performance to widespread adoption of the Solaris 10 OS

Oracle increases involvement in Eclipse Foundation

Vendor increases its presence in the open-source community by becoming an Eclipse Foundation board member and offering its TopLink Java framework for free

My Yahoo upgrade coming soon

Yahoo CEO promises new personalization tools for users

Making SOA your career

Update: Microsoft hits Google over book search model

Microsoft attorney says Google Book Search abuses copyright protection and fair use

Cebit wrestles with ‘image crisis’

Exhibitor's question ROI of buying presence as show straddles enterprise, consumer interests

Google expected dMarc founders to leave

Chad Steelberg and Ryan Steelberg leave to start work on next project, CEO Schmidt says

Univa Shows Its Open Source Chops

France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence

Law could lead to imprisonment of amateur videographers and Web site operators who publish their images

Update: Security expert cracks RFID chip in U.K. passport

Consultant's demonstration raises new concerns about the security of data in RFID chips

Nokia, Cambridge team on nanotechnology research

Nokia joins other high-tech companies seeking to use the British university's scientific know-how

Microsoft readies Forecaster 7.0

Major update to Microsoft's midmarket budgeting and planning app will ship in early April

Ruiz blames production for AMD revenue shortfall

CEO says AMD's success in gaining market share from Intel led to distribution problems

Dell sees strong growth in Asian markets

Dell will focus on enterprise services, software, and peripherals to grow market share

Chinese government bans new Internet cafes

Chinese government moves to strengthen its control over Internet access

HP returns to Japan’s consumer market after 4-year absence

Company launches three new desktops and a laptop in renewed consumer push

Google launches book search for China

Google so far has scanned 1 million books for new service that lets users read the full text of books

Update: EMC’s DeWalt named new McAfee chief

Tech industry vet Dave DeWalt will take over for Dale Fuller in April

BEA flies Eclipse flag

Products recast as plug-ins

Update: Cisco buys another social-networking firm

Cisco acquires selected assets of Utah Street Networks, Tribe.net parent company

Convincing business to trust IT

Vista PCs get cool response in Japan

Market watchers thought the long-awaited OS' launch would give the PC market more of a kick

Intel may have lost e-mails related to AMD case

Intel blames human error for lost e-mails that were generated 'primarily' after AMD filed suit

Java Fun and Games: Puzzlemania

Puzzle yourself with the HiddenWords puzzle-game applet

A Mac user’s view of Vista: Introduction