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IBM expands BI alliance with Business Objects

Companies will collaborate more closely on joint development projects, tighter product integration

HP: Hurd can’t recall probe meeting details

CEO says he wishes he could have been more "focused" during meetings with private investigators

Bangalore to become Bengaluru

Just when American tech businesses were getting comfortable with the idea of outsourcing in India, they now have another change to contend with. The government of Bangalore, the city sometimes called India's Silicon Valley, has announced that it

Dell launches first AMD-based notebook

After years of loyalty to Intel, company is now offering processors made by both chipmakers

Win CE 6.0 ships with source code

Microsoft officially <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-01MSKernelPR.mspx">shipped Windows CE 6.0</a> today. The latest release of Microsoft's embedded OS brings a number of improvements, includ

Internet hits 100M Web sites

Microsoft database leader to step down

VP Paul Flessner will leave in January but will continue to work part-time for company

Groups call for investigation of Microsoft ad service

Consumer advocates charge that company's adCenter data collection practices are deceptive and unfair to users

Microsoft enlists partners to ease Vista compatibility

ACF initiative gives partners 'a red phone to Microsoft' to help ensure customers' apps will work with the upcoming OS

Sun finalizes open-source Java plans

Both Java SE and Java ME will become freely available in 'the November time frame'

EMC to buy Avamar for $165 million

Acquisition will increase EMC customers' disk backup options

TechExcel touts unified ALM

Company launches suite of products with unified approach to lifecycle management

Cicero supports Wi-Fi cellular roaming on Nokia phones

CiceroPhone software supports the handoff of voice calls between Wi-Fi and cellular networks

IronPort to buy Postx

IronPort aims to expand its security appliance offerings with acquisition of e-mail encryption vendor

Hitachi maps out 2.5-inch hard disk roadmap

HGST plans a 200GB 7,200rpm drive in the first half of 2007

Notebook demand brisk despite Vista delay

Quanta warns that shortages of components could affect shipments through year end

First $100 laptops to roll out this year

Former McAfee exec settles with SEC

Former senior financial officer to pay over $757,000 to settle fraud charges

Sony kicks off push into business PC market

Company launches the Vaio Business brand and a lightweight laptop with a Carbon body

Motorola to build open source Java ME community

Company plans to use Apache 2.0 in initiative to promote a unified mobile Java platform

Hackers break into water system network

Attackers believed to be operating outside the U.S. gain access to computers at a Pennsylvania water treatment plant

Vulnerability found in Visual Studio 2005

Secunia rates vulnerability in an Active X control as 'extremely critical'

Xserve Xeon review: Cooling and noise baselines

Which open source CI tool is best suited for your application’s environment?

A comparative review of four open source continuous integration tools

Xserve Xeon review: Introduction and rationale for testing power, noise and cooling

PHP road map revealed

Security, internationalization improvements planned

Google accused of CIA ties

US intelligence community’s wiki aids info sharing

Wikipedia-like app allows free-flowing discussion about intelligence on topics such as terrorism and Al Qaeda

PHP event: Open source accommodation emphasized

Sun's Bray: Market preferences are clear

Vista licensing also limits benchmarking

Users can't disclose benchmarking results unless they comply with conditions found at a currently nonworking Microsoft Web site

Update: AMD asks court to consider Intel’s worldwide activities

Chip maker asks that documents relating to international activities be disclosed

Apps player Infor aims at $3B business within 12 months

Aggressive purchasing puts company in third place behind Oracle

A new brand of tech toga party

Google buys JotSpot

Search engine to offer wiki pages

Ingres preps database-Linux package

Project Icebreaker combines Ingres' open-source database with rPath's version of Linux

SMIC’s bid for profitability falls short

China's largest chip maker reports $35.1 million loss for the third quarter

Update: French publishers join Google booksearch lawsuit

Groups say Google illegally copied works and included them in Google Book Search

Microsoft, Zend boost PHP for Windows

Server deployments enabled by interface, other efforts

Swisscom launches delayed Microsoft IPTV service

After working out technical problems, Swisscom rolls out Microsoft TV IPTV Edition and offers customers a choice between ADSL and VDSL

Symantec to double Beijing lab staff

Security vendor adding 300 more jobs at R&D facility

Chinese dissident slams Internet companies

Western Internet companies are serious threat to free speech in China, Wei says

Lenovo CEO: Emerging markets is where the action is

Brazil, India, Russia, and China will account for 49 percent of expected rise in PC shipments between now and 2010

Nokia aims to ease converged phone use

Nokia's Service Suite automatically chooses the lowest cost, highest speed network

Microsoft licenses technology to Chinese companies

Redmond's move is a vote of confidence in China's ability to protect IP

IBM sets up SOA shops in China, India

Centers to create SOA services that can be reused

Office Live to emerge from beta Nov. 15

Microsoft to introduce new service to let users buy online ads

Group to study virtualization benchmarks

SPEC.org forming working group to create benchmarks for virtualization software

Richard Edelman discusses the Wal-Mart blog

The man behind the mammoth retailer's "Wal-Marting Across America" blog opens up about how it all went wrong

HP looks to simplify SANs for the little guy

Company's first c-Class line of storage devices using the blade form factor will be introduced at Storage Networking World

Sony’s woes continue with PS3 delay