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Microsoft hits rough patches with managed services

Senior VP Muglia says move into managed services has highlighted shortcomings of Microsoft's software

HP brings its quad-core servers to market

HP introduces three new models using Intel's Xeon 5300 processor

SOA semantics and ontologies week

Quote of the day: The Java trap

IBM holds lead on Top 500 Supercomputers List

Big Blue maintains its lead in the industry's ranking system for speed as well as energy efficiency

Apache: We’d take Java

Update: Cisco to buy Ethernet chipmaker Greenfield

Greenfield will allow the company to add metro Ethernet to its offerings

High-tech T-shirt does air guitar

Update: Google gives ‘start’ page to hosted apps suite

Start page lets organizations package links to Google Apps services and other content

Microsoft’s Zune player to hit stores Tuesday

Despite comparable cost, analysts don't expect that the player will threaten the iPod's popularity

Lycos tries to mesh social networking and online video

Innovative "watch and chat" video service seeks to provide a communal move-watching experience

It’s real: open source Java

After a seemingly endless series of pre-announcements and forward-looking briefings, Sun Microsystems has finally begun the process of making Java open source. Better still, it's doing it for real: The code will be released under the GNU GPL (Ge

Sun CEO: Open source Java is “momentous”

Company still to maintain commercial variant

Court shuts down alleged spyware operation

ERG Ventures and an affiliate accused of tricking customers into downloading spyware

The emergence of open source ESBs

Open Text readies Livelink ECM 10

ECM vendor plans to further integrate its products with apps from Oracle, Microsoft, SAP

Motorola to use Qualcomm chips in UMTS phones

Deal helps Qualcomm make headway in patent licensing dispute against Nokia

Former head of T-Mobile to lead Deutsche Telekom

One of the new CEO's first challenges will be to stop the flow of customers to rivals

US government IT leaders feel more secure

Cisco survey finds 58 percent feel their agencies are more secure

Samba team slams Novell-Microsoft deal

Novell ally calls the deal 'divisive' and counter to the goals of open source

Microsoft partner to offer hosted software in India

Telecom provider Bharti Airtel will offer 'pay-as-you-go' software to SMBs in India

Tibco, Savvion, Cape Clear tout BPM, BAM

Free tool offered by Tibco

Deutsche Telekom CEO steps down

CEO reduced DT's debt but was unable to stop declining revenue in its landline business

DRAM demand to remain strong in 2007

Samsung predicts demand for DRAM will be boosted by the release of Vista

Son of Adobe India CEO is kidnapped

IT professionals in India are targets as the boom in outsourcing has created a large economic divide and resentment

Quote of the day: Zen and the art of SOA

Sun open sources Java under GPL

Sun may add another open-source license if there is not a rapid uptake of Java under GPL

Vista’s completion shifts focus to deployment

OS sent to manufacturers, but deployments may lag

Juniper releases Version 2 of NAC product

Completes integration of Funk, 802.1x

Google puts a face on Google Apps

Start Page to aggregate e-mail, calendar, and IM

Web 2.0 Conference celebrates Web app vision

Bezos, Schmidt hail Web-based apps, services

Eclipse moves on device software

It’s official: Sun open sources Java

Sun is open sourcing its Java SE and Java ME Monday under the GPLv2 license

Open source directions: IBM’s Bob Sutor on best practices

Comments on Microsoft-Novell lovefest, Oracle’s recent open source moves

Xcalia assists with service access

Intermediation technology is featured

Update: Microsoft’s Novell deal not exclusive, just sales perks

Redmond says it's open to deal with Red Hat, but 70,000 coupons is the sticky part

Motorola acquires Good Technology

Seeking new growth opportunities, Motorola buys the mobile app company to woo mobile professionals

Microsoft slowly begins IE 7 auto-upgrade

The company is allowing three months to roll out the automatic updates to all users

Florida e-voting: 18,000 ‘missing’ votes in close race

Government watchdog group has received many complaints about lost votes and missing candidate names on ballots

Users offer SOA advice: Start small

Wholesale changes can damage more than just a company's technology

Congress sets Alcatel-Lucent hearings

Companies to go in front of U.S. House Armed Services Committee next Tuesday

Programmers Guild fears lame duck Congress will pass the Skil Bill

What Makes a Standard

Web 2.0 Summit in review: Long tails, forgotten trails

Who’s-who Web community does group hug, bucks get lucky mentality of Web 1.0

Emirates to offer in-flight mobile phone service

Dubai airline also plans to add Internet access using GPRS in late 2007

Mobile subscribers to reach 2.6B this year

iSuppli predicts the number of subscribers will reach 4 billion by 2010

Symbol waves good-bye to Palm OS

Symbol to discontinue its Palm-based devices but hasn't ruled out future products based on the OS

Hacker goes to prison for Trojan blackmail

Hacker sentenced to 10 years in prison in England

Via adds Hitachi to list of processor customers

Via scores another big win in rivalry with Intel and AMD

Google downplays video lawsuit

Infringement case fuels speculation Google might become target of expensive lawsuits after it acquires YouTube