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Novell to support Open XML in office suite in January

Software will translate word processing, spreadsheets and presentations back and forth between Novell's OpenOffice and Microsoft Office

Nortel opens network management center in India

Nortel hopes to sign up more customers in India’s booming telecommunications market

China Mobile offers push e-mail on Windows devices

China's largest mobile operator to offer Microsoft's push e-mail service in addition to BlackBerry

Microsoft advancing design tools platform

Expression Studio to feature digital asset management

EU Commissioner suggests new regulatory approach

EU official touts need for a competitive telecom market in Telecom World keynote

IBM aims security bundle, new blade at telecom space

Big Blue hopes its network management offerings will appeal to established carriers and new entrants alike

Update: LSI Logic acquires Agere for $4 billion

LSI Logic doubles its size with purchase of Agere

M1 CEO: Mobile data prices need to come down

Mobile operators must rethink pricing of their 3G plans to compete with fixed-line broadband services

3 Group sets limits on ‘unlimited’ mobile plan

Operators offering flat-rate plans are under fire for placing limits on their unlimited plans

MySpace worm exploits QuickTime feature

'Virulent' attack steals log-ins and spreads spam that promotes adware sites

DOJ subpoenas Nvidia

DOJ widens its investigation into price fixing in the graphics chip market

IAnywhere beefs up RFID software

RFID Anywhere 3.0 boasts new location tracking capabilities, support for wider range of sensor technologies

Cisco’s CEO wants partnersip with Huawei

John Chambers says he would welcome an opportunity to team up with Cisco's Chinese rival

AmberPoint extends SOA management platform

New Tibco offering amongst products now accommodated

Qualcomm buys WLAN and Bluetooth technologies

Qualcomm buys aim to ease development of products with built-in Bluetooth and WLAN capabilities

Microsoft supports developers of mobile mashups

Connected Services Sandbox offer tools to develop applications for mobile devices

Dell claims new servers save on electric bill

Dell set to introduce the PowerEdge Energy Smart servers

Microsoft, Belkin settle patent dispute

Microsoft claimed Belkin infringed on a Microsoft patent for peripheral device technology

SOA Software launches Workbench governance solution

Integration with Service Manager closes enforcement loop

Vista launch more whimper than bang for businesses

Microsoft still optimistic about deployments, adoption

BEA touts folder feature in tools update

Company's Workshop Studio 3.3 is released

Vega 2 increases the horsepower of server appliances

Azul Systems has introduced a new network computing appliance series

Iona open source ESB melds multiple technologies

Celtix Enterprise is readied

StreamBase looks to entice developers

Complex event processing vendor leverages Eclipse

Tibco will use virtualization for SOA deployments

ActiveMatrix a bold fix for large-scale SOA deployments

Google bewilders observers with subpoenas to rivals

Move viewed as aggressive, unusual and ultimately ineffective by some, part of standard defense by others

Jihadists publish cyber security magazine

Publication will cover issues such as concealing one's identity on the Internet and how to set up a jihadi Web site

Al-Qaeda ‘Battle of Guantanamo’ cyberattack a no-show

The attack, alerted by the Department of Homeland Security, had been scheduled to start Friday

WAN appliance underdog Exinda pushes open standard

Australian company iset to propose standard Unified Performance Management standard for integrating tools

Update: AMD receives DOJ subpoena over graphics processing

DOJ's antitrust investigation into the graphics chip market could be about price fixing

Fake MySpace friends for sale

The IT year in quotes

Roundup: Some of the most quote-worthy artifacts of the past year

HP sets up SOA shop in India

Bangalore center to concentrate on SOA competency

Al-Qaeda threatens cyberattack on U.S. banks

US-CERT cautions US banks and financial institutions about possible threat to Web sites

Will a ‘conscious’ machine ever be built?

Scientists at MIT debate whether machines will ever be capable of human intelligence

RSA’s Coviello making good on billion-dollar promise

Former RSA CEO says the honeymoon's still on at EMC

Singapore’s free Wi-Fi service goes live

Free Wireless@SG service is seen as a way to boost wireless Internet usage in Singapore

Business Objects acquires SaaS firm Nsite

Acquisition will allow Business Objects to release more of its BI software in the form of services

Taipei city government turns on VOIP system

Taiwan capital continues to push the technology envelope with move away from traditional phone lines

Storage spending jumps 10 percent in Q3

Revenue for external disk storage systems jumps nearly 10 percent over last year

Gates Foundation expands digital divide initiative

Foundation to invest $328M on computer and Internet services for public libraries in developing nations

Quote of the day: Never even knew SOA 1.0

SOA centers take apps apart to put them back together

IBM's SOA centers in India and China are driving nimble services

Webify is central to IBM’s SOA Center Plans

Industry Specific Tools, Frameworks act as Foundation

Set your Java clocks for the new DST

Solutions for adjusting your Java clock during time changes

A global communications giant is born: Alcatel-Lucent deal done

The company will begin trading on the Euronext Paris exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ALU on Friday

Wall Street Beat: Intuit, 3Com raise M&A issues

This year is expected to yield 3,945 M&A deals, up from 3,455 in 2005 and the highest number ever, said one investing company's managing director

Commerce Department extends .com contract with VeriSign

Deal comes despite strong objections from GoDaddy and Network Solutions about pricing and security

Oracle: On-demand world the future

Oracle's on-demand chief Juergen Rottler talks SaaS with IDG News Service

U.S. agency recommends e-voting paper trail

At least one e-voting critic praises the report