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Lenovo’s CEO impatient’ with revamp efforts

Amelio says efforts to improve Lenovo's supply chain are not yet where he wants them to be

Adobe Systems CFO resigns

Randy Furr's departure after only six months on the job is 'unrelated to his work performed at Adobe'

Apple Xserve: The final review

Microsoft/Novell deal violates GPL?

Microsoft and Novell have described their recent partnership as a historic effort to "bridge the divide" between open source and proprietary software. But is it legal? According to Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center, the deal be

Ruby on Rails stakes out Java’s turf

Theme of Ruby on Rails Camp event was using Ruby in business applications, but topics ranged from Rails security to deploying it to abate global warming

Greenspan calls SarBox a nightmare

Open Source holds up in court

Wall Street Beat: Elections, Cisco spur IT

As the repercussions of the midterm elections sank in, the Nasdaq closed Wednesday at 2384.94, its highest close since Feb. 16, 2001

Online shoppers crave speed, value

Intel drafts privacy license for mobile device software

License requires vendors to inform the end-user what information is recorded and how long it is stored

MySQL wants to build ‘database in the sky’

Data repository would make structured data available to application developers and Internet entrepreneurs

Dell jumps on the RDX train too

Tech groups say they can work with Democrats

Democrats may spend less time on military issues, leaving them free to work on technology concerns

Yahoo, Linksys unveil VOIP/cordless phone

A handset from Linksys marries Yahoo's instant messaging service and supports conventional voice as well as data traffic

Microsoft releases Sony rootkit hunter’s tools

Windows Sysinternals offers assorted software to keep hackers at bay

Forrester: Consumers won’t rush to Vista

Analysts don't see consumers as early adopters of anything, let alone the latest Microsoft OS

Former Federal Reserve head riffs on Sarbanes-Oxley

Greenspan uses "extremely costly" and "a nightmare" to describe the bill that sailed through Congress too easily in 2002

Bringing .Net to a Linux desktop near you

Data Portability and Virtualization

Opinion: More than just a bow

Critics say the Sony CEO's bow during a news conference was confirmation the company wasn't really sorry for the battery woes

Music publisher to profit from Zune sales

Microsoft will give Universal a per-player fee in addition to a share of revenue from music downloads, report says

Open source startups speak out

Forum gives entrepreneurs the chance to present their business ideas to venture capitalists

Baidu, eBay expand partnership in China

Companies expand their cooperation in bid to compete with rival Alibaba

Mono upgrade targets Linux desktop

Novell says latest edition makes it easier to move .Net applications to Linux

Consumers to lose $2.8B to phishers in 2006

Gartner says fewer, but bigger, attacks will gain more for criminals

PC motherboard sales slide further ahead of Vista

Analyst cites slowing demand for PCs as cause, says PC bargains could emerge

Google filing reveals video lawsuit

Copyright infringement claims have been filed against Google Video, News and Book Search

Ask, MS conjure ways to best Google

Companies speak of potential to improve the user experience for search

AOL wanted to buy YouTube, CEO says

Jonathan Miller says company still doing well in transition to advertising-supported model

Quote of the day: Those tech support blues

Google-YouTube no threat to MySpace

Exec says it doesn't impact MySpace's relationship with Google

Google Checkout free for the holidays

Unit test Struts applications with mock objects and AOP

How AOP complements OOP to bridge the integration gap

Update: Cisco profit, revenue surge ahead in Q1

Expansion of business into security, telephony and videoconferencing attributed to strong growth

Update: Nvidia unveils GPU technology

New computing architecture to benefit math-heavy applications in numerical computations

Update: Windows Vista released to manufacturers

Microsoft Co-president Jim Allchin announced Wednesday that Vista had left Redmond

Is DRM good or bad for consumers?

Experts debate the benefits and drawback of limited use, lower prices, and copyright law

IBM clips RFID’s wings to stop private data’s flight

Clipped Tags, to ship this week, allow consumers to control range of RFID tags, reducing privacy concerns

Chizen: Adobe walks fine line with open source

Company has to find "right balance between openness and commercial principles"

HP sues over its ink patents

Company alleges that InkTec Corp.-branded "do-it-yourself" cartridge refill kits violate patents

No e-voting backup required in Virginia

Despite using direct-recording electronic voting machines in most jurisdictions, state has paper trail validation methods in place

Bezos can’t get enough muck

Developers are flocking to Amazon's hosted IT offerings and company is ready to provide more

A post-election rant

SAP’s open source secrets

Apps vendor is keeping a close eye on open source community, but not revealing intentions

Wyse seeks thin-client partners

Company wraps its technology into NetClient system-on-chip

FIC debuts open Linux-based smartphone

Company aims to encourage app development with new open-source mobile phone platform

NetApp offers $160M for storage software firm

Acquisition of Topio will enable NetApp customers to replicate their data on any vendor's system

TSMC plans two new 12-inch chip plants

Contract chip maker hopes to build two new state-of-the-art chip factories in 2007

Open-source ventures: Where’s the money?

Venture capitalists are cautious about investing in open-source startups after the lessons learned from dot-com bust

Seagate cans distributor for blocking third-party audit

Seagate ends relationship with its largest distributor after Singapore company refuses to open its books