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Open source ID mgm’t touted

Virtualization merger disguised as itself

Lack of spectrum blamed for WiMax delay in India

Typical WiMax frequency bands are still being held — and used, in some cases — by the Indian government, hampering the spread of the wireless broadband standard

Vodafone to launch video service

Company says users will be able to profit from sharing videos

US Attorney’s office: Turnover won’t affect Apple probe

SAP looks to better serve information workers

SAP aims to give users entry points into its CRM and ERP apps through various interfaces, devices

Oracle’s ‘Web 2.0’ interface coming this month

WebCenter Suite helps in building apps that incorporate Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, VOIP

Community-run sites: Idealistic but not ideal

Debate about Microsoft's offer to pay for changes to Wikipedia pages reveals challenges of community-run sites

Publishers strike wrong chord with musicians

Online Guitar Archive forced to shut down for alleged copyright violations

Microsoft already gearing up for Vista service pack

Microsoft is taking feedback from testers for features to go in the first service pack, but has not released a date

Sony, Bandai team up on Cell entertainment content

Joint venture will focus on new entertainment products optimized for the powerful Cell chip

Fon simplifies community Wi-Fi access

Spotigo make it easier for users with Wi-Fi-enabled phones to connect to Fon's hotspots

SAP to offer hosted suite of midmarket apps

SAP's set of on-demand apps is likely to include CRM and ERP

Stock plan leads to speculation of UMC buyout

World's second largest contract chip maker denies it's up for sale

SAP to boost investments in midmarket

SAP reports slower growth in revenue for Q4, looks to untapped opportunities in midmarket

Broadcom takes massive $2.24B backdating charge

Restatement of financial results is triple the amount Broadcom originally expected

Update: ATI buyout eats into AMD’s Q4

Despite rising revenue, AMD suffers fourth-quarter loss of $574 million

Toshiba preps 2GB NAND flash memory chips

Toshiba's higher capacity chips are based on new 56-nanometer production process

Carriers say cell phone transmitters pose no danger

WCDMA signals 10 times more powerful than the maximum allowed in Japan had no harmful effects, report says

Update: Sun returns to black after five red-ink quarters

Company's prediction-topping return to profit credited to strong server sales and effective restructuring

The pointy-haired boss and you

FTC clears Brocade-McData deal

Companies expect to complete Brocade's acquisition of McData by Jan. 29

Apple patches security flaw in QuickTime

Vulnerability with QuickTime's buffer overflow could open door for hackers to run harmful code

Talkback: Is new media all that?

iPhone and Apple TV for Enterprise Mac readers

Wal-Mart cites legal fears in Novell move

Smile, Sydney: You’re on Google Maps!

Vendors demonstrate e-health record network

Four vendors showed off their prototypes to the Department of Health and Human Services

Yahoo tops revenue, earnings expectations in Q4

Web portal showed a 13 percent increase over the same quarter in 2005

Metro Wi-Fi rates high in study

Tests in 14 cities found Wi-Fi beats WiMax and 3G cellular for speed

Microsoft makes AJAX technology available

Using ASP.Net AJAX 1.0, developers can build interfaces with reusable AJAX components, enhance sites with controls

African telecom gateway costs to come down

UN agency intervenes to reduce prohibitively expensive international gateway license fees in order to lower the overall cost of telecommunications in Africa

Intel’s Centrino adopts 802.11 draft N

Notebook PC users will be able to use 802.11n to share five times the data at twice the range of 802.11a/g cards

Beating IT burnout

Google.de domain gets kidnapped

The search engine's German portal had its Web address and page name nabbed and switched to a new ISP

OpenOffice, Office 2007 ready to rumble on rival document formats

New tools support building apps for competing file formats, productivity suites

Spy scandal keeps pressure on Telecom Italia

Company's image and consumer confidence take a big hit; chairman's open letter claims personal innocence

SaaS continues to smash on premise

SuccessFactors boasts 2 million subscribers and Kana makes on premise, on demand

EU may regulate roaming charges

Germany, currently the president of the EU, seeks to cap wholesale prices and reign in roaming charges

Macraigor joins Eclipse

Microsoft, Infosys team on software engineering

The collaboration will primarily examine ways to solve problems in software engineering, and the results will be public domain rather than proprietary

McNealy: Intel deal gives customers options

Sun's CEO calls the deal a major step toward wider adoption of Solaris in government agencies and large businesses

Portal aids development of identity-based apps

OpenLiberty offers tools, libraries to build apps using Web services standards endorsed by Liberty Alliance

HP reorganizes storage, server software

HP announces the new ESS Software unit to consolidate storage and server offerings

EMC reports strong Q4, full-year results

Strong growth by RSA Security and VMware subsidiary result in record EMC revenue

Microsoft pays for Wikipedia edits

Software engineer was reportedly offered a contract by Microsoft to edit online entries about ODF and OOXML

Alcatel-Lucent expects poor Q4 results

Uncertainty surrounding the recent merger of Alcatel and Lucent dragged down Q4 revenue

“Grand Theft Auto” publisher crashes in options probe

Investigation finds evidence of stock options backdating at Take-Two Interactive Software

China Internet market grows to 137 million users

Majority of Chinese users access the Internet primarily from home

Solaris’ superiority over Linux