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New Windows attack can kill firewall

Windows XP machines running Windows Internet Connection Service could be vulnerable to attack

FCC 811 mandate: Pandora’s box?

AJAX vendor joins Eclipse

Toshiba to offer HD-DVD players in Australia

Company to offer the players in Europe by end of year

Laptop vendors seek better battery standard

Association Connecting Electronics Industries formed after onslaught of battery fires prompted recalls

Tricky new malware challenges vendors

Worm propagates via e-mail, can then download new versions of itself every 30 minutes

Net governance forum: Hot air or hot opinions?

Meeting to focus on security, multilingualism and Internet governance

Verizon revenue up

Telecom cites strong results in wireless, data services

$6 billion deal creates global power supply company

Schneider Electric acquisition of American Power Conversion Corp. will create a worldwide developer of critical power products

Betting on the future of storage

Fujitsu: Problem with Sony battery

User reports that sparks flew from the replacement battery pack

Motorola sets up R&D shop in India

New facility to focus on creating cutting-edge software

Microsoft offers free small-business software

Company offers two versions of accounting software

Seagate tries again with encrypted drive

Chip to block reading data on the disk without authentication

Oracle zeros in on Red Hat

Ellison makes war not love at OpenWorld, targets RHEL Support

Windows XP SP3 suffers uncertain future

XP update pushed back to 2008

Juniper unveils branch-office strategy

J-Series routers combine security, VoIP, acceleration

MediaTek expands mobile phone business

Company's communications chips to be used with Pollex Mobile Software's offerings

Sun readies NetBeans boost

Partner program, new IDE set for release

Politicians just don’t get IT

Red Hat defends support, buys back stock

Board seeks to shore up its share price following a 24 percent decline on back of news Oracle would compete with Red Hat

Supreme Court to review AT&T vs. Microsoft patent case

The review will examine if Microsoft infringed on international patent laws

More chairs fly over PatchGuard

First Blue Pill, then Authentium. Now even small fry are talking smack about PatchGuard. Is this technology DOA?

Phishing attack targets MySpace users

Nefarious user took advantage of the social networking site's URL organization to get access to user information

MySpace used in phishing attack

MySpace is hosting a phishing page targeted at its own users, according to NetCraft.

Government IT spending to drop, new firm predicts

Government Futures relies on the "collective intelligence" of online participation and community to issue its reports

Amnesty tools highlight censored blogs

Amnesty is seeking to raise attention to censorship ahead of the Internet Governance Forum, on from Monday in Athens

New Everex laptop to be sold at Wal-Mart

Energy-efficient laptop sports a Via CPU inside and a price tag under $500

Singaporean company settles with BSA over piracy

PDM International, caught using pirated software, settles landmark copyright infringement case

Quote of the day: Agility vs. reuse

Wall Street Beat: Net, software buoys Nasdaq

Encouraging trends are emerging in the Internet and software sectors

Intel to close Cambridge research lab

Intel shuts lab focused on wireless and optical networking technology in cost-cutting move

Public key cryptography celebrates anniversary

Computer security dignitaries hail the security technology's birth, tied to November 1976 paper

SAP competitors throw in towel

Two small suppliers of ERP software give up the competition with industry giants SAP, Oracle and announce bankruptcy

A series of unfortunate events hobble Blogger

Google is testing a new version of Blogger that runs on a more stable platform

Authentication the message for next round in spam fight

Microsoft, Sendmail kick off efforts to bolster e-mail authentication

Update: Sun Microsystems narrows loss significantly

Though still operating at a loss, analysts believe strong sales of the company's Solaris 10 operating system helped boost revenue

Zillow opens up real estate APIs

Company wants its property valuation and home details made available to other Web sites

Microsoft clarifies Vista licensing; users still irked

Redmond cites improvements but users complain that the rules may be prevent people from upgrading before they absolutely have to

Software, Xbox sales lift Microsoft to strong Q1

Company lowered its full-year guidance for EPS by a penny, which could be related to Vista delay

Visual Studio users get agile programming link

Fall release of VersionOne platform is set

Web site offers to fix elections — for a price

Thirty political campaigns reps have already inquired about the services from the seemingly satirical site

Ubuntu releases new distribution

Improvements in interface aimed at expanding user base and running more major applications

US government biometric smart-card deadline looms

IT security and smart-card vendors are looking at the directive as a boon to business

Microsoft Office antipiracy checks to become mandatory

After Friday, any Office Online templates downloaded from within the Office 2007 Microsoft Office System applications will require validation of legitimacy

EPA sets strict rules for Energy Star 4.0

New rules to take effect in July 2007 but won't apply to certain servers, thin clients and blades, or handhelds and PDAs

Business Objects ‘not up for sale’

CEO Schwarz maintains that company is still independent, primarily because customers want it that way

Symantec looks to restore ‘swagger’

CEO singles out Europe as the soft spot in Symantec's dominance of the global antivirus market

IBM researchers find new way to cool chips

Thin paste draws twice as much heat off hard-working computer chips, Big Blue says

TSMC’s Q3 profits hit by chip glut

Chip maker remains pessimistic about chip demand for the next few quarters