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Rex Farrance 1948 – 2007

SOA, meet BPM — again

Intel files countersuit in Transmeta patent case

Claims Transmeta was dishonest in describing its own patents and violated several Intel patents

FCC Chairman talks around net neutrality

Chair hints at favoring net neutrality, but the FCC has no official position

Enterprises take a back seat at MacWorld

Emphasis on consumer products doesn't mean enterprise is out of the picture, though, Apple says

Lack of interoperability stunts powerline networking

Incompatible powerline networking standards make service providers leery of distributing the products

VCs track emerging technologies

Consumer trends can give venture capitalists early jump on good investments

HP investigator faces identity-theft charge

Bryan Wagner faces prison time and fines for his role in HP's board leak probe

‘Wireless power’ could save the day

Fulton Innovations' eCoupled technology could do away with the need for power cords

Infosys posts strong revenue, profit growth

India’s popularity as an offshore outsourcing destination is on the upswing

IBM leads in year of record patent approvals

Big Blue holds on to No. 1 spot in patents awarded for 14th year

Sophos buys Endforce for network access control

Deal is a sign that NAC is coming of age

Matsushita plans world’s largest plasma display plant

Facility in Japan will have production capacity of 1 million 42-inch panels per month

Survey: Offshoring does not cost developer jobs

Lack of engineers in U.S. is cited by software companies as reason for increasing offshore work

UWB, Wi-Fi, and powerline vie for position

Networking vendors battle over which technology will prevail in the connected home of the future

Google irks Web site owners over malware alerts

Organizations flagged by Google are complaining their sites do not contain malicious software

Unique gadgets dispensed at CES

From the cool to the oddball, there are gadgets galore at CES

Tibco backs BPEL 2.0 in ESB

BusinessWorks 5.4 also adds security, 64-bit boosts

In Brief: EBay buys ticket site StubHub

IT budgets will increase slightly in 2007

Outsourcer Infosys predicts a larger proportion of IT budgets will move offshore

A DBA in full

Talkback: Offshoring not costing developer jobs?

iPhone faces uncertain market

Market for high-end smart phones is relatively small and Apple's price is higher than average

Update: Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name

The companies had been negotiating as recently as Monday night, but no deal was struck

Microsoft drives move to digital-enabled cars

Consumers to get interactive screens at the gas pump

New PayPal key to help thwart phishers

Additional password-generating security measure should be opened to beta users within the next month

Apple has urge to converge

Mac is prologue, the iPhone is the future

W3C moves on speech synthesis

Two charged with hacking LA traffic lights

Traffic Surveillance Center engineers hacked control computers and disrupted the traffic control system for four days

Live from CES

Senators: US gov’t data mining needs oversight

New Congress wants increased scrutiny of controversial programs

OLPC test drives $130 laptop at CES

Project still hopes to whittle to $100 the cost of its laptops aimed at school children in developing countries

Apple iPhone roils world handset stocks

Blackberry shares dropped 7.7 percent, Palm down 5.7

Microsoft boosts Virtual Earth’s imagery

Move intended to improve company's position in burgeoning local search market

Support is strong for gov’t use of biometric IDs

Overwhelming number of Americans favor biometrics use in passports, driver's licenses, Social Security cards

Talkback: Concerned over NSA involvement with Vista security?

Warner launches dual-form DVD disc

Total Hi Def discs that support both HD DVD and Blu-ray will be available in second half of 2007

TI sees under-$20 mobiles by year end

Company is developing chips for low cost handsets including $35 GPRS phones with a camera and music player

Vodafone CEO visits India to smooth market entry

Vondafone's bid for majority stake in Indian mobile services operator Hutchison Essar meets competition

Tibco taps AJAX for SOA

U.S. commerce secretary slaps China for 3G stance

Commerce secretary says China is thwarting global technology innovation by not embracing standards

Mobile devices and security problems

Kagermann expected to stay on as SAP’s CEO

SAP's CEO is expected to renew his contract for another year after it expires in December

Liberty Alliance, Microsoft discuss identity protocols

New president of Liberty Alliance says the rival standards will likely converge

Update: Microsoft fixes Office, Outlook, Windows flaws

Top-priority patches address issues in Office and Windows VPL security

NSA helped Microsoft make Vista secure

Revelations about NSA's involvement in Vista's development raise concerns about possible 'back-door' access to data by the spy agency

Asus Debuts Backward Laptop at CES

The year head: The shift to scripting and agility

Agile scripting: Bigger bang for app-dev bucks

Vendors push multimedia connectivity for the masses

Main aim of the biggest of the 2,700 exhibitors at CES this year is to make it easier to transmit and manage multimedia data across many types of devices

Can Apple pick up the iPhone name?

Apple is calling its new device the iPhone, but it doesn't have the rights to that name free and clear just yet