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VOIP is step toward open IT

SOA can help make communications simpler, more open

Saddam Hussein photo retouched?

Yahoo to offer Internet telephony in India

Yahoo to begin offering voice services to users of its instant messenger in India

Vodafone chooses Microsoft as third phone platform

Windows Mobile joins Symbian and Linux as the OSes of choice to drive Vodafone's phones

Via brings the Internet to poor nations

Interview: Via execs talk about building energy-efficient computers powered by the sun and wind

Quote of the day: Botnets driving spam

Microsoft, Novell team on Linux

Windows integration with Suse, PHP show new Openness

IBM Global Services introduces packaged model

Company will use VMware and portal-based access for reusable services

Skirting Microsoft’s Maginot Line

Authentium CEO: We won't wait for PatchGuard fix

IT industry hopes for change after midterms

IT lobbyists hope for end to legislative logjam

Is your code ready for the next wave in commodity computing? Part 2

Measure the speed-up (or slow-down!) delivered by parallel hardware for your application

DriveSentry takes ‘firewall’ to storage drives

CTO says low-level drivers basically intercept the drive traffic to make storage 'firewall'

Starbucks spills 60K personal files

Critics: E-voting problems still there

Experts say the system has not improved from the 2004 elections, leaving a "significant concern about the potential for error"

Voices of dissent: Microsoft’s Linux pact with Novell

Update: Red Hat spins Novell-Microsoft deal in its favor

Linux distributor says 'the best technology has been acknowledged'

FTC settles with adware company

Zango will give up $3M in 'ill-gotten gains' for deceptive downloads that displayed pop-up ads

Adware firm Zango settles for $3M

The FTC fines adware firm Zango $3 million for its bad boy behavior. That's good news — too bad it couldn't have happened three years ago!

ITU meeting will tackle key Internet issues

Government officials to discuss key issues such as cybercrime and Internet oversight

Global chip sales hit record high in September

Demand for mobile phones, music players, and PCs boosts chip sales to $21.37 billion

BenQ unveils Vista-approved LCD monitors

BenQ will ship the new flat-panel monitors in early December

Oracle buys SPL WorldGroup

Latest Oracle purchase targets public sector businesses

Zend hails PHP for Microsoft, IBM

Interview: Zend cofounder  Andi Gutmans also waxes on Java, Oracle

Oracle to acquire Stellent for $440 million

content management vendor becomes Oracle's latest buy

Sun’s CEO cites OS as differentiator

Oracle, Microsoft Linux deals point up the importance of an OS, Schwartz says

Security threat changing, says Symantec CEO

Attacks today are more silent and more targeted to create 'true financial harm,' Thompson says

HP offers cluster computing on Windows

The company's HPC portfolio can now run on Windows CCS 2003

Quote of the day: VCs and open source

Linux advocates wary of Novell-Microsoft tie

Linux community is concerned the deal may violate Linux's software license and may lead to future patent lawsuits

Q&A: Salesforce.com to be on-demand computing platform

Benioff takes a different approach than former boss, Oracle's Ellison, believing on-demand apps are the future

Update: Microsoft, Novell strike Linux deal

Companies ink broad pact to make it easier for users to run both Suse Linux and Microsoft Windows on their computers

Wall Street Beat: Forecasts dampen good news

A firecasted slowdown would have a direct effect on technology

Recommind searches for experts

Enterprise search system indexes employee-related information from a variety of data repositories

Three reasons why Microsoft will put Linux on their desktop

Microsoft’s Forefront group eying compliance market

Company's previously internal network-scanning technology is now available to its services group, with wider release planned

MIT will train students to build a better Web

The Web Science Research Initiative plans interdisciplinary course addressing the growing amount of online information and the rules to moderate it

Update: Former CA CEO sent to prison

Sanjay Kumar gets 12-year sentence, $8 million fine

Microsoft trims support for SQL Server 2005

Decision seen as a means to move people off of older databases

Internet forum participants clash

IGF touches on several issues, including Internet governance, multilingualism

Nokia opens California research center

Company enters three-year agreement with Stanford University

HP completes much-delayed tender offer for Mercury

HP set to acquire Mercury in 'several days'

Craig Barrett woos rural India

Intel chairman inaugurates Baramati's first 'digital hospital' and WiMax network

Mozilla pledges to fix Firefox 2.0 bug

Minor bug found in browser shouldn't cause many problems in meantime, Mozilla says

Google translates services to new languages

Google makes its e-mail, IM, and calendaring services available in 17 new languages

Nvidia to take $150 million charge in options probe

Graphics chip maker will restate earnings to correct accounting errors related to stock options

Google preps mobile app for Gmail

Google launches new downloadable app that improves access to Gmail in mobile devices

‘Free’ mobile phone service to launch next year

Blyk to launch advertising-based business model

IBM introduces virtualization dashboard

New tool manages different portions of a datacenter as one whole system

Users grow impatient with Google’s Blogger

Some users frustrated by Blogger's recent outages and erratic performance are looking to competitors' platforms

Symantec encouraged by MS moves on Vista

CEO John Thompson is waiting for Microsoft to follow through on recent statements and provide security companies with access to Vista's kernel