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Windows OneCare update coming worldwide Jan. 30

OneCare upgrade offers unified virus, spyware scanning and support for Vista

India’s outsourcing industry to grow by 32.6 percent

Nasscom says India is on course to achieve $60 billion in exports by 2010

Latest McAfee upgrade jams up Lotus Notes

VirusScan Enterprise upgrade is interfering with the operation of R6, R7 versions of Notes

Taiwan loosens up on China investments

Tech companies can invest in China provided they make equal or better investments at home

Majority of Americans prefer computer to spouse

Survey shows 65 percent spend more time with their home computer than their significant other

Symantec: Storm Trojan worst outbreak since 2005

The malicious spam e-mail messages have now infected about 300,000 computers

SingTel to divest from India-Singapore cable network

Company will sell its 49.99 percent share in Network i2i to the other co-owner, Indian telecom provider Bharti Airtel

Container-less SOA

Speed up SOA/ESB software development with a "container-less" technique

Identity theft pays, just ask Martha Coakley

Citing her own experience, the new Massachusetts Attorney General for acknowledges that most identity thieves manage to dodge legal consequences

Sun: SPARC lives on

Hackers to target mobile banking, study says

As banking and payment via smartphone spreads, the appeal to hackers–and number of hacks–is projected to rise accordingly

Symantec: Storm Worm intensifies

Spammers are blasting inboxes with the Storm Worm Trojan.

PSI sues IBM for right to share System z

Countersuit claims that IBM is engaging in monopolistic business practices

Sunny day for Solaris in Intel pact?

Intel chips are back in favor at Sun Microsystems once again. At a press conference held in San Francisco this morning, Sun announced a line of Intel-based servers, beginning with a dual-Xeon model to be available in June. In return, Intel will elev

Silicon Valley would get mixed wireless network

Consortium of IT vendors and nonprofit agencies looks to avoid the bugaboos that have plagued municipal Wi-Fi projects in other areas

Google antiphishing site exposes private user data

Info was inadvertently trasmitted via the Google toolbar in Firefox

Survey: Gov’t managers don’t see support for telework

Just over one third surveyed believe telecommuting is supported, although there is a law that requires agencies to have telework options

IEEE 802.11n working group approves draft 2.0

Latest version is stable and will require only firmware upgrade for existing products

Parallels acknowledges ownership by SWSoft

Company had been feted as a startup success story until revelations of SWsoft's ownership crashed the party

IBM stresses collaboration integration

In what the company calls its largest expansion ever, the upcoming offerings previewed at Lotusphere emphasize many forms of collaboration

Sun to sell Intel-powered servers again

Alliance to bring about closer collaboration between the companies, promote Solaris as a top-tier OS

European consumer groups unit to pressure iTunes

Groups in four countries unite against Apple's practice of tying music bought from iTunes to the iPod player

“Today is Sun Day,” Intel says

Tech affecting your conscience?

China Mobile buys stake in Pakistani wireless firm

World's largest mobile phone service provider takes its first major step outside China

Update: Sun server deal with Intel likely

Sun will reportedly start buying Intel chips, allowing it to push Solaris to a wider market

Oracle introduces Linux management software

Oracle's move seen as another direct attack on one of Red Hat's key revenue streams

MySpace files law suit against ‘Spam King’

Lawsuit seeks permanent injunction barring spammer from using the social networking site

NewsGator preps hosted RSS manager

NewsGator aims hosted version of its RSS management server at SMBs, departments within large enterrpises

Unisys untangles chargeback mess in IT

New suite automates the process of billing departments for computing time in a virtual environment

HP to open research lab in Russia

New HP lab will focus on information management

AMD adds another Chinese PC partner

AMD scores another victory against Intel in China, signing Hedy to launch AMD-powered PCs, laptops

Nissan’s car navigation to offer fuel-saving tips

Carwings system combines driving tips with recommendations on nearby restaurants, cheap gas

China Mobile subscribers top U.S. population

Companies are targeting the millions of potential subscribers still untapped in China, India

OSDL, Free Standards Group to merge

Newly formed Linux Foundation aims to help the Linux community more effectively compete with Microsoft

Vendors seek Web code of conduct

CDT brings together groups in support of privacy, freedom of expression on the Internet

Rioting in Bangalore leaves outsourcers unaffected

Riots between Muslims and Hindus did not affect operations of IT companies in the Indian city

We need a new Internet

Microsoft offers Vista preview to fight piracy

Vista test drive also assesses users' hardware and evaluates what upgrades need to be made

Microsoft’s Allchin proposed support for iPod

Documents from Iowa antitrust case reveal MS exec considered calling Steve Jobs in 2003

Cisco admits iPhone license violation

Cisco is working on fixing GPL compliance issue with the use of Linux code in one of its iPhones

Salesforce ups the ante

Apex language gives developers a new way to compete with the big players

Earnings woes threaten Intel, Symantec

Companies join SAP, AMD in earnings hole

Sun jumps on

To join Oracle and Microsoft in challenging Red Hat’s open source dominance

Japan’s Willcom links with Sling Media, Benetton

New handsets feature flat-rate data service and Slingbox satellite TV service

Researcher: PatchGuard hotfix stitches up benefit to Microsoft

Microsoft has violated its own policy on making exceptions to PatchGuard's kernel restrictions to the benefit of its own product, security researcher says

Motorola cuts 3,500 jobs as profit drops sharply

Company looks to internal reorganization and a surge in the mobile communications market to bolster sagging profits

Telecom Italia embroiled in new espionage scandal

Cloak-and-dagger story of hacking and spying brings four arrests, including the company's head of information security

AOL to open up shop in Second Life

Company joins IBM, Dell, and others in promoting itself within Second Life's virtual world

Imagini shows novel way to finding like-minded friends

Company creates profiles based on responses to images rather than text, then matches up similar profiles