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Forgotten passwords top help-desk calls

Intel pitches plan to beat chip glut

With lots of processors on the market and lower-than-expected demand, Intel seeks to stay on top by accelerating its product refresh calendar

Hurd says HP’s cost structure still too high

Despite posting solid numbers, including revenue figures that top those of rival IBM, the company still has a lot of room for improvement, says CEO

Senator introduces U.S. “competitiveness” bill

Legislation aims to pump more money into math and science education for children

Company offers boost for Vista security

BeyondTrust Privilege Manager helps close up some of the security holes in Windows Vista, including ones in the User Account COntrol feature

Partners prompt Oracle’s multicore price change

Company is simplifying its pricing structure for low-end multicore servers in order to better compete in the SMB-targeted server market

Open source software by another name

Symantec’s Vista research not so damning after all

Symantec is publishing some of its initial research into Vista security and the results don't paint such a bad picture of Microsoft's latest technologies.

RIM to restate results, get new chairman

CEO Jim Balsillie steps down from board chair after stock-option scandal that will cost RIM $250 million

Microsoft readies Vista tools update

Zend ships Windows-ready PHP

Parity seen between apps deployment on Linux and Microsoft platform

Lawson enters hosting market with IBM

Lawson also expands its SOA technology partnership with Big Blue

SugarCRM expands into Europe

Open source software provider plants roots in Dublin

Red Hat looks to entice developers

Exadel partnership leverages JBoss

Report: Palm discussing strategic options with bankers

Company considering being acquired, seeking VC funding, or buying another company

Update: Microsoft Japan names former HP man to COO

Yasuyuki Higuchi takes control of commercial and enterprise business

Virtualization in a USB drive

VMware sends ACE 2 Enterprise Edition into public beta; Virtual Iron upgrades its wares

BBC taps IBM’s new video search

Big Blue's system to help broadcaster analyze images and video, categorize content

Translating proprietary software licenses

Avaya Talks Up Voice as a Service

New VoIP offering melds voice, SOA

Privacy laws could hurt the little guy

Whitfield Diffie discusses security and public key cryptography

Eclipse focuses on AJAX at conference

Dynamic scripting languages get open source tools group's attention

Toshiba hastens NAND production

New 56-nanometer production means chips can be made smaller, cheaper and will use less power

Singapore approves bidders for broadband project

In total 30 companies qualify to offer their services

Acer expands through Best Buy

Five Acer laptops now available via retailer

Update: Stock turmoil strikes Gates

Microsoft chairman sold nearly 1 million shares on worst day market has seen in years

Month of PHP bugs now underway

NYT: Cisco will buy social network Tribe.net

The New York Times is reporting that Cisco Systems will announce that it purchased the technology assets of Tribe.net this week.

IBM lands HR outsourcing deal with American

The airline hires Big Blue to take management of personnel functions, including training, recruitment, and staffing, to the tune of $217 million

Mancini to boost eBay’s innovation

Max Mancini, eBay's senior director of platform and innovation, discusses the importance of third-party developers and his new Disruptive Innovation team

FCC: Local telephone carriers must connect to VOIP

Government body says rural carriers in South Carolina and Nebraska misinterpreted its rules

Data seepage: the biggest security threat

Analysts: Outlook grim for Microsoft online business

Despite a stated strategy of 'chipping away' at the ad revenue market until it takes the top spot, Microsoft is underperforming and even losing ground to competitors

FTC sets deadline for filing SkyBiz.com claims

Consumers harmed by pyramid scheme have until March 30 to file claim for repayment

Update: One Alcatel-Lucent claim against Microsoft dismissed

Judge rules Microsoft does not infringe patent for speech-recognition, but other claims remain

Sun releases Java Enterprise System 5.0

Major update of Java ES subscription-based middleware is more modular

Sony finally launches its video Walkman

Sony debuts digital video player 18 months after rival Apple's video iPod

Researchers peel The Onion Router

Researchers show how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Web surfers

YouTube to offer BBC news and entertainment videos

BBC will create its own advertising-funded commercial 'channels' on YouTube

BenQ to launch 65-inch LCD TV

Company is also researching the use of LED backlights in some desktop displays

The real RFID holes

European retailer embeds RFID chips in shoes

Shoe company plans to use RFID technology to track products, speed checkout inside its stores

Rivals launch dueling virtualization products

VMware, Parallels unveil updates that enable user to switch from Mac to Windows without rebooting

Sanyo and Lenovo to share cost of battery recall

Recalled battery packs have faulty design but are not dangerous unless dropped or damaged

Sun releases Java Enterprise System 5.0

A new version of Sun's Java Enterprise System subscription-based middleware is now available

Ruby brightens the NetBeans platform

Sun extending Java IDE to scripting language

Slashdot to turn Firehose on Digg

New interface lets readers see all the news articles that flow into site for evaluation by editors

Nokia-Palm buyout reports baffle some experts

Recent rumors that Nokia is in talks to buy Palm raise suspicion, though Palm is viewed as ripe for a buyout or a move from publically held to private ownership

Black Hat hears of data leak dangers

Security experts at the Black Hat DC conference warn of data seepage and the risks for PCs, handhelds, and corporate networks

Wall Street Beat: Market jitters slam tech

Biggest market decline since 9/11 brings about fears of a tech market slump, but many signs point to the drop being a correction, not a harbinger of doom