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Vodafone’s emerging markets drive growth

Vodafone still face challenges attracting customers in saturated European market

Gemalto sees online safety in USB smart card

New device gives online shoppers an easy way to log on to their accounts

Turbolinux preps multimedia player with bootable Linux

Wizpy contains a bootable version of Linux that enables users to access their files on any PC

Vista and its many pain points

Microsoft and AirAsia promote desktop gadgets for Vista

Widget lets Vista users manage travel itineraries and access services online

Oracle’s ‘Web 2.0’ interface coming

Oracle will release WebCenter, a tool for building user interfaces that include Web 2.0 tools like blogs and wikis

Coast Guard searching for missing Microsoft researcher

Man failed to return from a sailing trip, prompting a search of 4,000 square miles of ocean

Microsoft abandons IDE patent application

Technology in question came from the BlueJ project

As Vista launches, Allchin exits

Though the plans were first announced in 2005, the day has finally come. Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's Platform Products and Services Group, is retiring. His departure tomorrow leaves Kevin Johnson in charge of the division responsibl

IBM, Cisco soft launch IPTV in Europe

This 'beta version' of the end-to-end product, which can be integrated with existing cable and IPTV services, is a preview of the full rollout, anticipated in March

Kenya project set to produce cheap PCs

Government project brings together vendors and universities to produce and assemble low-cost computers

Porn marketer settles spam charges with FTC

Under the agreement, a fine and operating restrictions will be levied against spam-sending company TJ Web Productions

Adobe’s Narayen sees growth in video, mobile

Interview: Adobe's president discusses the importance of providing developers with tools that work across several platforms

Germany to curb commercial satellite data

As a national security measure, the proposed legislation would restrict companies' ability to create and distribute 'militarily relevant' data attained by satellites

Bill Gates given a grilling by NPR’s Alex Chadwick about Vista and OS X

New software allows Wi-Fi access even on browserless devices

Program will automatically enter log-in/password for Wi-Fi enabled phones, game consoles, and other devices, expanding Wi-Fi access beyond devices with built-in browsers

Graphics standard OK’d

Microsoft will change Vista to meet EU requirements

Company complies with EU demands for changes involving Vista's search and security functions as well as fixed document formats

Boston-Power’s new battery immune to power fade

New lithium-ion battery suffers less fade and can recharge to 80 percent in thirty minutes

SailPoint charts compliance waters

New company aims to reduce business risk and improve complicance by better understanding identity data

Peugeot Citroën revs up 20,000 Suse Linux desktops

Car manufacturer opts to go open-source in what analysts suspect could be indicative of companies seeking to cut costs by eschewing the overly powerful Vista OS

The ongoing IT gender crisis

EU rules against France Télécom in antitrust case

Court rejects company's appeal, determining it had deliberately sold service at a loss to shut competitors out of the high-speed Internet market

Microsoft talks up Vista security in DC

Exec says 'every time we had a trade-off between compatability or security, we went with security'

Sony settles with FTC on rootkit fracas

Company to disclose the limits it imposes on use of CDs, pay $150 for each damaged system

Seagate unveils wireless portable storage

Device enable users to store and share digital files between mobile phones, PCs, and other mobile platforms

Intel opens health-care research project in Dublin

Intel launches world's largest research initiative on technologies for the elderly

Gates brings Vista and Office 2007 to Europe

Round-the-world event brings Microsoft's new OS, software suite to 70 countries in 19 languages

PS3 price cut pulls down Sony profits

Sony profits more than doubled but couldn't offset price cuts to its game console

Cingular, Priceline, Travelocity settle adware suit

Companies agree to pay fines and take steps to help keep adware off users' PCs

Report: Shanghai launches trial of 4G mobile network

China begins testing home-grown 4G network when it hasn't even decided on standards for 3G

At long last: Vista

Dopod U1000: more than an ultramobile PC

Device performs like a laptop and mobile phone with camera, speakers, GPS receiver, and more

Google upgrades Mini workplace search device

Mini gains some features present in the more sophisticated and powerful Google Search Appliance

Hitachi provides liquid-cooling system for HP machine

New cooling system will reduce the noise generated by the computer

Talkback: Should AMD be worried?

Demo 07 conference: 70 companies hope to please VCs

Consumer, enterprise, and enabling technologies demonstrated for the first time at the annual show

Triumfant’s tool seeks out IT system problems

Resolution Manager uses analytics to automatically detect and repair a number of IT system glitches

Nuvoiz aims to be Skype of the enterprise

Nuvoiz SoftPhone and Nuvoiz VOIP Network Controller aim to facilitate the integration of VOIP in the enterprise

The Op Framework: A better Java database framework

A holistic approach to database access with debugging, testing, tracing and usage reporting

AMD undaunted by Intel moves

Company not sweating rival's 45nm plans, Sun deal

State drops charges against HP spying defendant

California drops charges against private investigator Bryan Wagner because he has already pled guilty to similar federal charges

Gates: Vista key to multimedia computing era

Microsoft chairman connects the importance of Vista in today's multimedia climate to the importance of Windows 95 in ushering in the Internet era

Eclipse, Novell near ‘Big Bang’ for identity

Will divided vendor allegiances keep us in the dark?

JasperSoft’s open-source BI goes international

Partnership with French open-source startup Talend the first step toward establishing a strong presence in Europe and Asia

Fast offers search alternative to data warehouses

New tools cut down on implementation cost and complexity while allowing for the creation of a master index for all data regardless of location

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Hardware vendors launch powerful Vista PCs

Manufacturers look to soup up their offerings so that consumers can take full advantage of Vista's features

AT&T has trouble with Microsoft TV software

MS IPTV issues forced delays in the service's rollout in Europe and the U.S., 'fine tuning' still needed to smooth out communication between the platform and set-top boxes

Virus located in TomTom GPS systems

Low-risk malware was pre-installed on some devices that were manufactured during a single week of October, 2006