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Update lets Zune play duet with Vista

Microsoft names three takers for its Linux support

Credit Suisse is among those opting to work with Novell under the new agreement

Foreign Internet firms struggle in China

EBay's announcement Wednesday that it will move from stand-alone ownership in China caps three-year slide

ObjectWeb embarks on risky transition

Group to become independent nonprofit, reliant on membership fees

Poll: Next Bill Gates coming from outside US

Respondents see China producing next wildly successful entrepreneur

Update: eBay to replace Chinese auction site

Company inks joint venture with Tom Online, which will run the site

SOA development gets faster

Citrix buys Ardence

Acquisition to bring on-demand provisioning to Citrix's application delivery offering

Germany distances itself from Quaero search consortium

Strategic and cultural differences causing cracks in partnership

Talking R&D with HP’s CTO

Shane Robison discusses convergence, R&D, and the roles of regions such as China and India

Fiber-optic Internet connections hit 7 million in Japan

Fiber-optic service drives expansion in broadband market

SOA predictions for 2007

Outsourcer Sutherland expands in the Philippines

Company to boost staff to 3,000 in region during the next year

Ericsson scoops up Redback for $2.1 billion

Edge router maker to be wholly-owned subsidiary

Q&A: Cobol lives on

Month of security bugs set to bite Apple

Two hackers plan to disclose bugs in the Mac OS X kernel, Safari, iTunes, iPhoto and QuickTime

Mozilla’s first Firefox 2.0 update fixes bugs

Five of the eight flaws were rated as critical, according to Firefox team

Intel to launch Core 2 Quad in January

Move to keep it ahead of AMD on the next-generation processor family

Sony pays $1.5M to settle rootkit suits

Settlements with the California and Texas attorneys general were announced Tuesday

EFF sues agency over travel data-mining

The EFF asks court for expedited release of records related to the DHS Automated Targeting System

FedEx seeks improved software testing

Package shipper involved in research project with university

Google dials in to phones?

Cascading Style Sheets turn 10

Zune patch to add Vista link

A Microsoft blog says a Zune patch that will make the player compatible with Windows is due out Tuesday.

Indian operator offers BlackBerry rival

Idea Cellular introduces Easy Mail service

Verizon Wireless president moves to parent company

Denny Strigl takes responsibility for all of the company's network-based businesses

SAP co-founder brings ‘design thinking’ to Europe

Hasso Plattner Institute aims to encourage interdisciplinary teamwork among European software engineers

Net evolves: Meet interactive elf

Oracle simplifies pricing model

Oracle offers a range of licensing models to make pricing more consistent across its portfolio of products

Polar Rose applies 3D to photo search

Swedish company's search technology uses 3D modeling to find photos of people

Check Point buys NFR Security for $20M

Check Point snaps up Israeli company for its intrusion detection and prevention technologies

Yahoo Japan begins offering WLAN service

Yahoo Japan jumps into the Wi-Fi hotspot business

Dell to stick with direct sales in China

Dell declines to comment on reports it is in talks to buy Chinese PC maker Founder Technology

Reports: eBay to close China site

Auction site in discussions with Tom Online to create a replacement

Falco memo confirms AOL senior exec departures

Five high-level execs are leaving who reported directly to AOL's former CEO

Tech lobby to renew visa reform push

TechNet will push for legislation to allow more highly skilled foreign workers to come to the U.S.

Taiwan to allow three chip makers into China

Taiwan eases regulations to let Powerchip and ProMOS build factories in China and ASE to invest in a Chinese rival

Jaxtr gives voice to Web

Oracle software revenue shows signs of weakness

CEO Ellison says growth in the retail sector will begin to have a noticeable effect on software revenue

Attributor cashes up to deliver new DRM system

Company received $10M in new funding and plans to release product in early 2007

Myspace goes mobile with Cingular

Cingular subscribers can download a Java application that lets them blog, upload photos and update their MySpace profiles

Vista could sap notebook PC battery life

Some of the new operating system's flashy graphics may require heftier batteries to cope

Trend Micro: Windows zero-day exploit for sale

Hackers claim to have software that makes the most of an unpatched bug in Windows Vista

Update: Google to put NASA data on the Web

Space Act Agreement calls for better weather visualization and forecasting data, high-resolution 3-D maps of the moon and Mars and track, in real time

Google buys Endoxon

Company to give Google Earth a European mapping boost

Malware: Quality drops but quantity rises

Kaspersky: Ever-increasing amounts of malware are taxing the resources of security companies

Deutsche Telekom heads for clash with EU

Deutsche Telekom decides to keep rival operators off its new high-speed broadband network

BenQ to close handset R&D center in Beijing

Company will shift work to other centers due to rising losses

Autodesk, PTC make their CAD software interoperate

Agreement will help decrease the costs of running multi-CAD environments

In Brief: LG Electronics names new CEO