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Telelogic eyes SOA with developer release

Tau 3.0 geared for building multiple types of enterprise applications

UK schools spooked by effects of Wi-Fi on health

Headaches, nausea drive some to disarm wireless networks

To Microsoft: Hurry up, please, it’s time

UN summit to address issue of growing e-waste

Delegates to discuss reducing the use of toxic substances

Q&A: Linux hot, standards not with China, Taiwan

Roger Liao of Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association on what has been achieved thus far

Google as SOA company

Google reaches accord with two Belgian press groups

Agreement enables Google to use content in new ways that go beyond what copyright laws allow

Infor CEO ready to fight SAP

Jim Schaper claims Infor is twice the size of SAP in the midmarket

Salesforce.com to deliver back-end integration tools

ApexConnect will allow on demand to talk to standalone apps

Check Point not sour on U.S. companies:

After PointSec buy, CEO says U.S. firms still tempting

‘Peanut butter’ memo reveals sticky situation at Yahoo

Company spread too thin, one exec calls for focus

Another 15 years of Java

JBoss's Fleury on the GPL and IBM's reaction

Telelogic eyes SOA with developer release

Tau 3.0 geared for building multiple types of enterprise applications

Google News finds more trouble in Europe

Adding to its woes in Belgium, the search behemoth is facing copyright challenges throughout Europe

Season ending on high note

Google's strong stock price and Dell's strong earnings report bode well for optimism

Open source Java presents world of opportunities

Developers, others hail move, but some unimpressed

Ethernet knows where it’s going: 100 Gigabits

IEEE agrees on target for the next generation of the ubiquitous data networking technology

Firefox vulnerable to password-stealing attack

User-created pages pose easy targets for cybercriminals who want to steal information

Server unit growth slows but revenue stays strong

Server revenue grew by 3.5 percent from the year-earlier quarter to $12.9 billion, but unit sales growth slowed due to use of virtualization software

Spam migrating to P2P networks

Spammers are increasingly using P2P networks to reach their marks.

UK firm crosses pond to sell preowned Microsoft licenses

Disclic has closed its first deal selling licenses it procured from companies going out of business in the U.K. to a company in the U.S.

AOL names Ron Grant president, COO

Grant was Time Warner's senior vice president of business affairs and development

Alexa.com suffers availability problems

Alexa's Web site has been down for over 18 hours this month, with the most serious problems experienced since Nov. 16

Palm starts selling low-end Treo

Smartphone features internal antenna, slimmer form factor, plays videos such as those found on YouTube

Cisco opens R&D center in west of Ireland

Facility to focus on unified communications products

Alibaba, China Post join forces for online shopping

New deal to ease shipping, payment aims to woo wary Chinese online shoppers

EU pursues public-private approach to R&D

New strategy for funding technology research pools resources from private industry and EU member states

Mobile phone sales grow — except in Japan

Gartner predicts sales for 2006 will near one billion phones, driven by growth in India and China

Thieves steal chips worth millions

Raid on an air cargo terminal in Malaysia nets gang of thieves nearly $13M in computer chips

IBM, Cray win DARPA supercomputer contracts

Big Blue, Cray beat out Sun for $494M in government contracts to design a new generation supercomputer

Virtualization takes toll on physical server sales

Analyst says server sales still growing, but with virtualization, customers don't have to buy as many servers

Update: PS3 able to run Office?

Microsoft licenses Office UI for free

Developers may use Office 2007 as a platform but Redmond gets to protect its investment

Castle built for .Net

Open source project looks to assist developers

Google adds indexing tools for News portal

Publishers and webmasters will use a site map to indicate the articles they want Google News to index

Google explores separate test network in SF

Search giant and EarthLink will collaborate on building free Wi-Fi network for the city

Annual charges now the rule with AV software

Automatic renewals may be convenient for vendors but often a headache for consumers and small businesses

Experts agree: Yahoo is spread too thin

Company's senior VP urges more focus, less spreading like "peanut butter"

Google News gets on the (site)map

Microsoft: No shutdown switch for Office 2007

Antipiracy feature may emerge as an add-on

Vodafone moves to boost mobile enterprise offerings

Vodafone makes two acquisitions to move beyond its traditional mobile phone operations

School shoot-out spurs debate on violent PC games

Germany debates banning violent computer games after teenager shoots five people at school

Citibank debuts biometric pay system

Citibank lets credit-card holders make payments using their fingerprints instead of credit cards

JBoss signs research, services deal with Bull

Red Hat will also work with Bull on future development and extension of ObjectWeb

Tacos-for-life for a PlayStation 3

Company barters for a console for the teen center of the Taco Bell Foundation Boys & Girls Club

A technology tongue-twister

Quote of the day: Year of virtualization, or not?

Hyper-threaded Java

Use the Java concurrency API to speed up time-consuming tasks

JBoss joins ESB fray

Company also prepares app server upgrade

Borland’s CodeGear upgrades Java IDE

Eclipse-friendly JBuilder 2007 is set