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Nortel CFO to step down by end of April

Peter Curie, who helped the telecom company recover from an accounting scandal and years of underperformance, is moving on to take on 'new challenges'

An open source licensing riddle

Microsoft pledges support for OpenID

Company will integrate OpenID, CardSpace, to help reduce man-in-the-middle attacks

Wal-Mart embraces digital video with HP service

Retail giant uses HP's new Video Merchant to sell both hard copies downloads of movies and TV shows and looks to future on-demand DVD manufacturing

Leapin’ Leopards! Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference scheduled for June 11-15.

Analysis: Cisco’s transformation still a work in progress

NACs a tough sell, enterprise demands cooperation

Sony Ericsson launches new Walkman phones

Sony responds to demand for ultra-thin designs with its latest Walkman music phone

Hitachi Data Systems confirms Archivas purchase

Archivas buy is aimed at strengthening HDS' content services business

Oracle submits identity framework to Liberty Alliance

IGF will be used to develop standards for how identity information is shared across systems

Mobile companies line up video deals

Three new deals bring media companies deeper into mobile video business

Chinese PC maker offers $129 system

PC maker introduces low-cost PC aimed at users in rural China

Gorbachev asks Microsoft for leniency in piracy case

Former leader of Soviet Union intervenes on behalf of school principal accused of software piracy

EFF to fight for digital rights in Europe

U.S. nonprofit group is opening a Brussels office

ITU, GSMA collaborate on developing markets

telecommunication vendors team up to boost mobile phone access in developing countries

YouTube offers concession to Japanese copyright group

YouTube agrees to display in Japanese warning against uploading copyright content

Indian user companies losing staff to outsourcers

Indian organizations are finding it difficult to attract and retain technical staff

Hitachi Data set to buy storage vendor Archivas

HDS plans to purchase vendor of online storage management

Cisco to enhance range of security products

Cisco will focus on integrating the security products it has acquired over the years

FaceTime to offer Skype management

GEM software will let security-conscious IT admins turn off Skype features such as file-sharing

Vista: look before you leap

Lenovo signs end-user services deal with IBM

IBM, Lenovo sign a 5-year support deal worth up to $245 million

IBM sells part of its stake in Lenovo

Big Blue unloads a 3.5 percent stake in Lenovo for $123 million

Introducing the Vista Virgin, a Mac user’s journey into Microsoft’s new world

Java Fun and Games: It’s contest time

Create a tiny game and win an entertaining prize

Unisys, Oracle home in on Linux conversions

Companies target mainframe, Unix users

Analyst: March update should help Red Hat

Company will release Enterprise Linux 5 in March as it continues to fend off competition from Oracle and Microsoft/Novell

Bugs in Blogger prompt user complaints

Users who migrated to the new Blogger platform report a multitude of problems with the migration process as well as the new version

CA executive surfaces at Application Security

Toby Weiss, who had managed CA's eTrust security software line, assumes the title of president and CEO at Application Security

Narus brings carrier security system to IBM blades

As IP networks and their traffic grows, company's software will detect IP (Internet Protocol) attacks on carrier networks

Akamai to acquire Netli

Deal for 3.2 million shares of Akamai stock will help push Akamai near the top of the Web application acceleration field

Dell describes cost cuts in leaked memo

Memo from Michael Dell speaks of cutting bureaucracy and focusing on the SMB sector as well as enterprise servers and storage

VA investigating another missing hard drive

Latest missing drive contained personal records of 48,000 military veterans

Oracle ships new BI product, Data Integrator

Tool compiles data from different sources in one place and has support for many data applications from third-party vendors

EU telecom regulators face deadline

Telecom commissioner says the national authorities must submit European telecom regulation plans by February 16 or cede control to the E.C.

Bangalore outsourcers may be affected by dispute

Feud over river waters has led to violence in the past and could cause problems for Bangalore-based outsourcing firms

Update: FTC forces Rambus to license memory chips

Government regulators will cap the royalty fees Rambus can charge DRAM manufacturers

Apple settles long-standing trademark dispute

No word whether Apple will sell The Beatles' music through iTunes now that the suit is ended

European operators mull mobile ad collaboration

Vondafone, T-Mobile deny plans to develop phone search that would compete with Google, Yahoo

Study: Users ignore bank security features

New technologies can't completely protect Internet users from scams, phishing

Virtualization vendors target smaller businesses

VMware introduces a low-cost virtualization service plan

Google Earth to address Indian security concerns

Indian government concerned that Google Earth shows high-res images of defense installations

German court bans police from spying on PCs

Landmark decision bans police from installing spyware on computers of suspected criminals

HP to acquire Bristol Technology

Hewlett-Packard aims to beef up its business technology optimization offerings with latest acquisition

TSMC to set up office in India

TSMC joins Intel and TI in trend toward setting up design centers in India

Transmeta turns to technology licensing

Chip company will stop offering engineering services and focus instead on licensing IP

NTT DoCoMo 3G network hit by problems

3G network experiences 17-hour trouble in Tokyo

Verizon Business makes firewall more flexible

Verizon lets enterprise customers tune its firewall features to meet their specific needs

New from Sony: an iPod accessory

Sony launches an iPod docking station

IBM names new manager for x86 server business

Company veteran Richard Hume replaces the retiring Susan Whitney as general manager

Startup launches its first power-efficient chip

P.A. Semi offers dual-core, 64-bit chip that it claims is 300% more efficient than comparable processors