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The whole truth about Apple’s 802.11n Enabler

JBoss head Fleury quits Red Hat

Marc Fleury, the lively founder of JBoss, is to leave Red Hat, which acquired his company less than a year ago

Google loses dMarc radio ad experts

The chairman/CEO and the president of the radio ad company have abruptly left Google, leaving the question of who is running Google's ad operation up in the air

Xerox works deal with startup to rival Google

Company's Palo Alto Research Center is working in conjunction with startup Powerset to create a natural language search engine

Virtualization gaining traction, Forrester report shows

Survey finds that 51 percent of U.S. businesses, from small to large, have either implemented virtualization or are testing it

Open source helps housing effort

5 ways to commit career suicide

Lawmakers introduce breach notification bills

Flurry of new tech-related bills also include legislation targeting pre-texting and spyware

Report: Apple’s Jobs backdated Pixar options

Practice is not technically illegal, but there are SEC regulations on accounting and disclosure of it

Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009

VP of development hints at possible features, code name for Microsoft's next client OS

IPhone likely uses Arm processors, analysts say

Arm exec stirs up speculation by hinting Apple's iPhone will use his company's IP

Ericsson offers home GSM, Wi-Fi base station

Ericsson device helps users improve the quality of cellphone calls made in their homes

Mobile VOIP is on the march

Startups beat Skype to the punch in offering mobile VOIP services

JBoss founder quits Red Hat

Merger puts Taiwan’s AU in running for LCD title

New competition should ensure LCD makers continue to lower prices

Alcatel-Lucent fourth-quarter results disappoint

Merged company plans to cut 12,500 jobs and optimize its supply chain to effect savings

NTT DoCoMo comes close to 5Gbps in 4G trial

Commercialization of 4G technology remains some way off

Vodafone launches YouTube mobile

New service will enable Vodafone mobile users to view and upload videos to YouTube

All those silly Microsoft CTPs

New U.S. cybersecurity chief lays out guidance

Cybersecurity czar takes 'carrot and stick' approach to getting private sector to secure critical infrastructure

Cisco buys social networking vendor

Cisco will use Five Across technology to help enterprises better connect with customers

A first look at Windows Mobile 6

Improved speed and added features make Microsoft's new smart phone software worth a closer look

QEDWiki: Collaborating on Mashups

SMBs to boost IT spending less this year

Despite being much more optimistic about their outlook for the year, most SMBs only plan an very small increases in their IT spending

Premium Vista PCs fare well in first week

Overall U.S. PC sales jumped 173 percent for the week ended Feb. 3, and 70 percent of sales were of PCs with Vista Premium preinstalled

New pretexting bill introduced in U.S. Congress

Bipartisan proposal would give the FTC the authority to investigate and prosecute pretexters

Wall Street Beat: Vendor creativity rewarded

Even as market indices start to decline, IT analysts and investors give favorable views of companies that are able to come up with new ways to boost revenue

Massive ID theft scam used Mortgage, Escrow Cos

A massive ID theft scam in Washington used insiders at mortgage and escrow companies to steal sensitive data. Net: around $300K.

Emergency responders ask for more spectrum

Police and firefighter organizations want 30MHz of spectrum instead of the 24MHz they're due; Congress weighs the request versus auctioning off the additional 6MHz

10 brief notes on Vista

Big set of Microsoft security patches coming Tuesday

Set of patches primarily addresses vulnerabilities in Windows and Office

Mike Volpi, head of Cisco’s routing business, resigns

Departure comes amid reorganization but company insists they just happened at the same time

Yahoo tests RSS mashup for masses

'Pipes' service enables users to 'assemble personalized information sources out of existing Web services and data feeds'

Taiwan Mobile, MasterCard test mobile payments

The goal is to let users make small payments via their wireless handsets

Kodak restructuring could cut 7,000 jobs

Kodak will partner with Mozilla to improve its online photo gallery

A Vista on storage – restore woes

When is a Machine not a Machine

Operators, manufacturers to collaborate on 3G phones

Group will jointly develop 3G platform in an effort to reduce phone development time and costs

Lycos adds video playlist service

Lycos Mix users will be able to select video from YouTube, Google Video, MySpace to create playlists

VeriSign invests in DNS improvements

VeriSign to spend $100M to expand the infrastructure tenfold and make DNS more resistant to attacks

Biofuels to power mobile networks in India

LM Ericsson starts project to develop biofuels to power rural India's wireless networks

Mobile ads: The next Internet gold rush?

Mobile phone ad spending is expected to more than double in 2007 to $1.5 billion

HP appoints new general counsel

Mike Holston succeeds Ann Baskins, who resigned in September amidst HP's leak probe scandal

Operators in India and China await 3G approval

Long-delayed government approval for 3G licenses continues to hold up 3G mobile services

Satyam sets up new facility in China

Indian outsourcer continues strategy of expanding alternate locations to serve its global clients

Low-cost CDMA handsets hit $30

Industry group hopes cheaper handsets will spur subscriber growth in emerging countries

Pop-up blocker problem found in Firefox

Flaw that could let attackers access local files does not affect the latest version of the open-source browser

Microsoft offering SaaS guidance

Sample application is featured to illustrate the underlying architecture

India must look beyond cheaper staff

Experts say Indian outsourcing companies have to offer complete services to stay competitive

Samsung next with touchpanel cellphone

Samsung takes on Apple's iPhone in latest trend of putting touchscreen displays on mobile phones