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Fortify buys Secure Software

Acquisition to enhance Fortify's integration with IBM's Rational Unified Process framework

US DOJ: Surveillance program now court-approved

NSA wiretapping program to be replaced by a FISA program that requires court approval

Microsoft, Nortel unveil ICA’s first products

Joint venture's offerings aim to integrate telephony and digital communication

Cisco’s iPhone violates GPL, expert says

Company has failed to publish some of the coding it has developed, placing it in violation of its open-source licensing agreement

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Talkback: iPhone up to BlackBerry e-mail challenge?

Q&A: Second Life preps improved search, audio

Linden Lab's Joe Miller says company is convinced its virtual world is a credible vehicle for social interactions, commerce and entertainment

Brightcove lands $59 million in VC

NY Times Co. among investors whose funds will be used to expand Internet TV startup

Google, Yahoo gain search share

Dutch prosecutors seek jail terms for botnet gang

Two men charged in a large-scale computer hacking schemes

Avanquest acquires software publisher Nova

With the acquisition, Avanquest becomes one of the top five consumer software companies in the U.S.

Cognos acquires dashboard specialist

Cognos aims to attract more mid-market users with purchase of BI company Celequest

EU closer to antitrust charges against Intel

Officials working on the case have reportedly advised the EU to proceed with legal action

Digital music sales double in 2006

Research shows only 14% of portable device owners get their content from legal sites

India’s Wipro posts strong growth in revenue, profits

Indian outsourcing companies continue trend of robust results for the quarter

Germany seeks common EU rules on violent video games

Call for a clampdown could lead to violent video games being outlawed across the EU

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NXP to exit chip alliance, forge closer ties with TSMC

NXP will farm out more chip production to TSMC so it can focus on advanced chip design

Symantec unveils SONAR to find zero-day attacks

New security software looks at behavior of programs to decide whether they are malicious

HP continues to put software house in order

HP announces two new units focusing on BI and information management

Adobe delivers Flash Player 9 for Linux

Linux site developers gain access to Flex 2, Adobe's rich Internet app dev environment

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AOL Phisher faces 101 years under CAN SPAM

A California man faces 101 years in prison for running an AOL phishing scam.

Sun undercuts Red Hat on support pricing

Performance upgrades, lower customer support prices fuel new Solaris 10 OS update

Hit by reorganization, Intel profit falls 39 percent

Record sales of microprocessors not enough to offset reorganizational costs and slow sales of chipsets and motherboards

Verizon spins off New England local exchanges

FairPoint will assume control of Verizon's telephone and DSL customers in three states

Sun ponders Solaris GPL

Microsoft adds IBMer

Symantec warns of faltering storage sales

Lower sales of Veritas storage products, higher-than-expected costs for implementation of new ERP revise expectations for the last quarter downward

Dell enters rugged notebook market

New notebook shares plenty of common parts with the Latitude D620 but is designed to take a licking and keep on ticking

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Salesforce.com encourages imitators

In a bid for ubiquity, Salesforce's latest release of hosted CRM software includes its platform, Apex, enabling additional development by third parties

U.S. doctors to get free e-prescribing software

Initiative aims to get all U.S. doctors, pharmacies to use e-prescribing and eliminate prescription errors

Salesforce.com launches Winter 07 release

Apex programming language still not available

BEA plans to show off Runner and Graffiti

New software for tagging and searching enterprise data will be demoed in March

UK proposes sharing data among gov’t agencies

Critics denounce the proposal as another move toward a 'big brother' state

Skype founders rename their video venture

New online TV service is now officially called Joost

UK chip maker promises low-cost GPS

Cambridge Silicon Radio buys two software firms to drive down cost down of putting GPS in mobile devices

Germany wants EU police to share personal data

Proposed EU measures could give security forces unprecedented access to individuals' data

Netflix launches direct download service for PCs

Netflix aims to roll out online movie viewing to all users by the end of June

Renesas, Powerchip form memory chip venture

Vantel will specialize in design of advanced memory devices

Seven pass latest Liberty Alliance conformance tests

HP, NTT, and Symlabs among those who pass test of identify management services

Vendors court the retail industry at New York show

Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle see opportunities for big growth as retailers expand their online initiatives

Symbian annouces support for Posix

Company encourages developers to offer more desktop apps on mobile phones

Toshiba plans HD DVD-R laptop for Vista launch

Toshiba upgrades its hefty Qosmio G30 entertainment laptop

Intel selling Israeli flash fab

Buyer of Intel fab said to be French-Italian chip design company ST Microelectronics

3 introduces new roaming policies

New policy that lets users pay their home rate while in other countries formed as a response to a European Commission drive to force lower roaming charges

NetMax device secures user Wi-Fi

DataTurf system uses an encrypted VPN to secure mobile Internet access

Sony aims at the living room with new Vaio PC

New Vaio PC looks less like a computer and more like a consumer electronics product

Zend readies PHP for Windows

Arrangement with Microsoft bears fruit