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Oracle snaps up Hyperion but will customers bite?

The enterprise wants performance management as a separate solution from ERP. Did Oracle read the cards wrong?

Adobe to launch Apollo beta later this month

Program would allow users to run Web apps while offline

Dell beats earnings mark despite sinking profits

Earnings are up, but revenue and profits are down as Dell readjusts to life under Michael Dell and deals with an ongoing SEC investigation

Apple Sets Wi-Fi on Fire

IAC beefs up local search with Insider Pages

Company adds Insider Pages' city guides and user reviews to complement its own Citysearch to bolster its standing in the growing local search arena

IBM aims for midmarket with BI appliance server

Big Blue teams up with Business Objects to deliver a single-disk-install software stack aimed at midmarket servers and businesses

U.S. bill proposes e-health records incentives

Proposed legislation would give doctors $3 for every patient they move to e-health records in an attempt to push for more widespread adoption

Software Vulnerability Index making progress

Officials with the Common Weakness Enumeration project say they are rapidly achieving their goal of creating a catalog of software vulnerabilities for use by developers

Berners-Lee: Congress should consider net neutrality

The Web's inventor appears before a House Subcommittee to speak in favor of net neutrality and more lenient DRM

Software folks are hardware people

Update: Lenovo recalls 205,000 notebook batteries

Lenovo finds a different problem from the one that led to massive recall of Sony batteries

‘Turkey’ worm looks for Solaris Telnet flaw

Worm brings ASCII drawings including a turkey and offensive material

Microsoft, EU fight intensifies

EU says Microsoft failed to provide interoperability information

Update: Oracle to buy Hyperion for $3 billion

Acquisition of Hyperion's BI products could give Oracle a leg up against rivals SAP, IBM

In Brief: Dell opens second Philippines call center

NEC, Sify to push thin-client computing in India

NEC to build virtual PC centers in India to push cost-effective computing

3tera’s Grid University

Deutsche Telekom to expand mobile phone business

Deutsche Telekom may pursue acquisitions as part of its expansion strategy

TI to partner with Asian foundries on chip R&D

TI joins trend of outsourcing of chip production development and focusing instead on chip design

Update: EU slams Microsoft interoperability efforts again

Redmond has four weeks to respond to the Commissions objections or face further daily fines

Nokia venture pushes phone payments

Joint venture wants to sell mobile payment services for NFC phones

Asustek ups the ante on laptop displays

Asustek to launch business notebook with LED backlights for sharp pictures, vivid colors

Download DVD specification gets approval

Services that let consumers legally download and burn movies are unlikely to appear quickly

Toshiba says 51GB HD DVD still under development

Toshiba disputes reports that disc with room for 7 hours of hi-def video has been submitted to DVD Forum for approval

India’s outsourcers face higher taxation

Prices that outsourcers charge their customers are unlikely to go up but profit margins will suffer

Intel invests in Taiwanese chip packager

Flash memory maker Powertech to receive $65 million in latest round of financing

Security crisis? Keep your cool, expert says

Trying to educate CIOs in a panic mode will complicate how an attack is countered, says Microsoft security official

The dawn of a new DST

Google to enhance tools to fight click fraud

Google will allow its advertisers to 'blacklist' certain IP addresses

India first with phones using a single Qualcomm chip

Roll-outs in other emerging markets to follow

Lawmakers working to ban hacked RFID door cards

U.S. lawmakers say the debate over the use of RFID technologies is far from over

War of words erupts between figures in HP scandal

The attorney for former HP chair Patricia Dunn responds to criticisms of Dunn made by board rival Thomas Perkins

Apps not ‘certified’ for Vista may still work on the OS

Many apps do work for Vista but aren't listed as 'Vista compatible' yet due to the long certification process

Black Hat dispute stirs RFID security awareness

DHS will investigate vulnerabilities in proximity cards

SpikeSource’s Polese faces the heat

In a Q&A, SpikeSource CEO Kim Polese discusses joining forces with small open-source companies, competing with big names, and more

Groups kick off DTV transition efforts

Broadcasters and vendors seek to educate the U.S. populace about the DTV switchover happening in February of 2009

Black Hat RFID talk goes forward after all

Chris Paget of IOActive goes forward with parts of his presentation after legal wrangling with HID Corp., a secure card vendor.

VMware rolls in the FUD

Symantec offers mixed grades for Vista security

The security software maker has issued a set of Vista security assessments highlighting improvements but also noting ongoing weak points

Update: AMD releases PC chip set with ATI graphics

PCs based on the AMD chip set will not require an add-in graphics card

RIAA opposes new fair use bill

New bill would let customers make limited numbers of copies of copyrighted works

Another gap-toothed Black Hat Briefings

More Black Hat Briefings left on the cutting room floor.

Sony adds HDTV output to digital cameras

Sony readies new Cybershot cameras with high-definition capability

Germany puts antiterror data law in place

Security officials will amass a comprehensive pool of personal data to aid in fight against terrorist attacks

IBM aims to make computing clusters easier

Big Blue launches initiatives to help SMBs integrate servers into clusters for high-performance computing tasks

Report: Google to establish R&D center in Singapore

Google tries to back away from reports, despite job listing for new center on its Web site

ITU approves HomePNA standard

Spec approved for high-speed communications over phone wiring, coaxial cable in homes

Microsoft tackles ‘false positives’ in antipiracy tool

Updated version of WGA gives customers the benefit of the doubt

Former McAfee lawyer indicted for backdating

Kent Roberts joins growing list of IT execs charged with improperly backdating stock options

The Joe Namath of technology