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Talkback: Is Mac with virtual Windows hard to resist?

iAnywhere adds IM to mobile management suite

iAnywhere's wireless IM component works with several chat apps but not AOL's AIM

Report: Chinese Gmail rebuffs Google offer to buy domain name

Chinese company behind the Gmail.cn e-mail service is staying mum on the rumors

CEO: ‘Salesforce.com 2.0’ to take on Microsoft

Benioff outlines plans to build on prior successes and expand AppExchange into the realm of development platform provider

Researchers: Worms not heading underground

New variants of the Storm Worm prove that the time-honored malware delivery model hasn't faded as attackers find new ways propagate threats

Dell to Linux users: Not so fast

Despite consumer demand, company isn't ready to commit to selling laptops with Linux pre-installed

YouTube reaches deals for music, sports content

Video site enters a partnership with Win-up Records and the NBA to offer legitimate music videos and NBA basketball footage

Tech forum questions if pretexting ban will work

Tech Policy Forum participants wonder if pretexting can ever be eliminated

Symantec: US data breach legislation needed

Company sees a need for a single set of regulations detailing required security standards

Star Trek-style health care envisioned

JDSU to buy optical network vendor Picolight

Move is an attempt to have a bigger footprint in the market for high-speed connections in data centers, enterprises, and metropolitan networks

Firefox 3.0 opens door to Web apps, Mozilla says

Offline support for Web apps and updates to the bookmark and search features headline the list of upgrades and improvements for the popular browser

Server market revenue highest since 2000

Demand for midrange and high-end servers pushes best revenue since the market peaked seven years ago, though unit shipments slumped

DRM doesn’t work

Google sharpens malware alerts

Company now points webmasters to specific offending pages

Ingres cracks champagne on Project Icebreaker

Database-Linux combination is Ingres' first new product since its spin-off from CA

Lawsuits, patent claims silence Black Hat talk

RFID hacking demo pulled after HID threatens legal action

Patent reform tops list of tech concerns

Tech execs urge Congress to reintroduce legislation aimed at speeding the patent process

Black Hat presentation pulled after patent infringement threats

A security researcher is pulling a presentation of RFID security from the Black Hat Briefings following legal threats of patent infringement from a company whose proximity cards he showed to be vulnerable to attack.

MySQL, JasperSoft sign joint reselling agreement

Deal will help developers incorporate BI reporting capabilities into apps built on top of MySQL database

OpenMake frees up Mojo for process automation

Application lifecycle tool to be released as free Eclipse plug-in

Faster LCD panels are next front in TV battle

Latest buzz in LCDs is around technology that doubles the rate at which images are displayed

Salesforce puts Bloomberg in its sights with Wealth Management Edition

Will SaaS crush the last bastion of proprietary technology?

Outsourcing provider Achievo raises $24 million

Company plans to expand further through acquisition

In Brief: Electronic Arts changes CEOs

When your IT job disappears

Acer sees strong Q1 PC sales on Vista, CPU war

Acer predicts PC shipments will grow by as much as 40 percent in 2007

Corel releases public beta of WordPerfect Lightning

Corel's word processor also offers online collaboration and storage features

HP moves to simplify datacenter setup

HP's new Virtual Connect management tool makes it easier to add blade servers to a network

Group radio buttons inside a JSF dataTable component

Write a custom JSF tag for enhancing radio button behavior

HP to buy storage software vendor PolyServe

Acquisition means HP can run PolyServe software on NAS blade servers

Battle brewing over RFID chip-hacking demo

Card maker HID calls foul over Black Hat presentation

Serena gets new CEO

HP launches SMB storage products

New system will save the data from as many as four servers

US agency CIOs: IT security remains top concern

Officials tell inquiring trade group that their agencies are making progress integrating security into their information architecture, instead of adding it later

Linksys brings storage, stackables to SMBs

Cisco division seeks to bring features of enterprise storage, such as virtualization and backup power, to SMB NAS products

Tiny open-source company tackles e-mail exchange

Open-Xchange uses a disruptive pricing model to compete with bigger companies and proprietary technology

Oracle offers users lifecycle management tool

New tool addresses the need to find lower costs for storing ever-increasing amounts of data by maximizing efficiency in moving and archiving

US immigration reform bill could pass by July

An increase in the allowed number of H1-B visas could be among the reforms

Microsoft jumps into medical search via acquisition

Company announces plans to purchase Medstory, a health care data search engine, and details several other initiatives attempts to increase its footprint in the medical sector

U.K. launches open-source policy group

The National Open Center will be the U.K.'s first organization dedicated to studying open-source software issues

Paving open source’s road to verticals

Microsoft injects Vista with BPEL

Company also forms Business Process Alliance to promote the OASIS standard

IBM simulates new transistor

Big Blue plans to build chips based on new mixture by 2008

Study: Yahoo benefits from search ad system

Click-through rate increases 5 percent

New report: Congressional Web sites ‘disappointing’

Nonprofit group rates congressional leadership Web sites poorly for user friendliness

Diffie: Privacy laws could hurt the little guy

Interiew: Sun's Whitfield Diffie, co-inventor of public key cryptography, shares his views on Microsoft, security, and privacy

JotSpot users give Google mixed reviews

Some users complain about availability problems since Google acquired the hosted wiki service

BenQ Mobile to be split up and sold

Negotiations to sell bankrupt mobile phone maker in one piece fall through

BitTorrent to open online store for digital media

BitTorrent debuts music, movie download service to rival Apple and Amazon.com