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HP case expands with charges of insider stock trading

CEO Mark Hurd and seven other company executives are accused of selling stock at "inflated prices" shortly before the scandal broke

AMD chases Intel with quad-core Opteron chips

AMD expects vendors to adopt the technology for their servers in 2007, but none have announced such plans

CollabNet offers online community

The truth about anti-phishing toolbars

Carnegie Mellon's CyLab studies anti-phishing toolbars. Conclusion: They all stink.

Microsoft celebrates launch of Vista, Office 2007

Microsoft splashes out on its highly anticipated product launch, but customers may adapt a wait-and-see attitude toward Vista

Intuit to buy Digital Insight for $1.4 billion

Companies will build closer ties between their software and services in bid to improve online banking

AMD launches quad-core motherboard

AMD keeps pace with Intel in quad-core race

ASE plans $60M investment in China factory

Taiwanese chip assembler also weighing a possible $5.5 billion buyout deal

Existing malware could affect Vista users

Sophos identifies three viruses that can infect Vista customers who use a third party Web e-mail client

Software AG: The XML – oops – SOA company

Interview: Peter Kürpick talks about Software AG's move into products and services for building an SOA infrastructure

Europe gets an extra version of Vista

Despite EU's antitrust ruling there has been little support from PC makers for the 'N' versions of Windows

Nvidia options probe ends in $127 million charge

Graphics chip maker restates its earnings after finding irregularities in stock-based compensation

HP takes workstations out from under the desk

HP adds the Blade Workstation to its ProLiant line of servers

Quote of the day: Kicking Google’s tires

Spyware Slayer vendor settles false advertising suit

Washington State Attorney General says that deceptive ads for security software are becoming more common — more charges loom

Broadcom buys network-gear software maker

Company will buy LVL7 Systems to help it get new products out more quickly and enter new technology areas

Doing business in Second Life

Corel to fully support ODF, Open XML

WordPerfect stradles both sides of document format debate

Oracle launches identity governance project

IGF aims for consistent identity data across applications

Marvell chips could speed mobile Web browsing

New family of chips is Marvell's first rendition of the XScale processor it acquired from Intel

Nokia hedges bets on VOIP services

Nokia is rolling out services to let users make free calls while also helping operators limit those services

Microsoft aims for clarity with latest antipiracy tool

Criticism leads Microsoft to plan new version of WGA Notifications tool for XP

BT touts all-IP network benefits to enterprises

BT's 21CN project aims to offer more flexible services to enterprise customers

EMC looks to get back on track

EMC execs look to turn around the company's lackluster performance in Asia

No more replies from Google Answers

Google's fee-based research service never achieved the popularity of free rival offering Yahoo Answers

HP Labs offers server cooling advances

HP's Dynamic Smart Cooling technology claims to deliver up to 45 percent savings in energy costs

Novell pulls plug on Hula collaboration server project

Novell ends efforts to build an open source collaborative mail platform just months from a first release

SOA for the real world

Transform your SOA experiment into an enterprise-grade implementation

Novell Zenworks aims to manage virtualization

Zenworks Virtual Machine Management will work in data centers using disparate virtualization systems

Word processor simplifies bilingual publishing

Project team took care to make their code changes useful to other bilingual communities than English-Welsh

Intel to put pre-standard 802.11n in Centrino

Chipmaker sees wide acceptance of multimedia WiFi

Apple patches AirPort wireless bug

Problem discovered by hackers earlier this month has been remedied, says Apple

US Supreme Court case could change patent law

Four-decade-old approach for determining the "obviousness" of a patent is under scrutiny

Symantec flaw figures in botnet hit

Botnet attack on college and university networks uses Symantec AV flaw.

Coversant pushes collaborative apps

Motorola seeks new users for simple Motofone

Newbies are the target of the company's latest, simple handset phones

PKI will grow, but policy problems remain

Windows Vista has the potential to 'enable the market for everyone' says analyst, but framework not yet in place

Analysts: iPod nothing to fear from Zune

Microsoft has not stirred much interest in its music player thus far, even among retail stores

BT connects first customers to all-IP network

BT's next-gen telecom network goes live in ambitious move to offer consumers 'triple play' services

IBM to buy Vallent for telecom expertise

Big Blue announces plans to purchase network performance monitoring software vendor

New trend in emerging markets to drive growth at Nokia

Growth being fueled by phone users in emerging markets who are trading up for higher-priced models

Printer ink makers, vendors settle with Epson

Third-party companies agree to end their business in Epson-compatible cartridges

Q1 and ‘secret exhibit’ stand out at China show

Shanghai electronics show drew unwanted attention with exhibit marked 'No Foreigners Allowed'

Trolltech aims to speed Linux phone development

Suite aims to unify disjointed development environment by bundling apps and tools from a variety of vendors

Taipei may rethink China policy due to ASE offer

Foreign takeovers would remove political pressures and put China investments on the fast track

Newest Opera Mini eases mobile photo uploading

Mobile phone browser gains features that boost its social networking capabilities

Patent ruling threatens Microsoft Office

Microsoft may have to pull Office from shelves in South Korea after losing a patent lawsuit

Sun exec departs over Java move

Au revoir, Windows; bonjour, Linux

T-Mobile USA picks Nokia, Ericsson for 3G

With the company's recent radio space bid, it will obtain approximately 120 frequencies around the country