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Mozilla downplays first Firefox 2.0 bug reports

Mozilla engineer says vulnerabilities reported since the browser's release were a couple false starts

Scottish school is first to use palm-vein biometrics

Cafeteria goes cashless with infrared system that uses palm-vein scanner from Fujitsu

IBM teaches English skills in India

Web-based tool uses advanced speech processing techniques to teach staff at call centers and BPO companies

Orange to sell 3G ExpressCard

New 3G modem card fits in a laptop's ExpressCard slot and takes advantage of HSDPA's higher data rate

SAP cofounder backs new Open Source Forum

SAP teams with IBM, Deutsche Telekom to give open source entrepreneurs a forum for presenting ideas to venture capitalists

EMC and the debate over power efficiency

Capgemini to acquire IT services firm Kanbay

Capgemini boosts its services delivery from India with another acquisition

Rambus sees opportunity in Intel/AMD fight

CEO Harold Hughes discusses prospects in the memory market and an upcoming court case against global DRAM makers

First impressions of Cisco’s TelePresence

Cisco's videoconferencing system stands out –with a sky-high price tag to match

Six Apart preps blogging service for newbies

Vox lets users set different privacy levels to their blog's content

Batteries push Sony to Q2 operating loss

Sony's operations for the quarter go into the red despite a jump in sales

Cisco acquires Orative for $31 million

Cisco continues its buying spree with purchase of mobile telephony software company

Oracle-Ubuntu rumor fizzles

Oracle move a worry for Red Hat

Don't call it Oracle Linux! The database vendor won't be packaging its own distribution of the open source OS, but Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced at Oracle OpenWorld this afternoon that his company will be offering full support for Linu

Oracle to push Red Hat from support chair

Company will offer full support for Red Hat's Linux distribution, even to non-Oracle customers

Oracle touts Fusion, other apps lines

Company will keep upgrading existing platforms

Microsoft push Vista RTM back to Nov. 8 following critical bug find

Delay due to a bug that would "totally crash the system," according to quality assurance team

New rules open the way to eDiscovery

New rules that govern how, when, and whether evidence can be presented to a jury, will soon take effect

Sun CEO sets open source Java time frame

Announcement set for 30 to 60 days

Verizon unveils Flash Lite for mobiles

Company leading the pack in U.S. for introducing multimedia into mobile phones

BT buys Counterpane

Multi-million dollar deal closed on Tuesday

Xserve Xeon review Part 2: Beyond Intel

Update: AMD plans ‘Fusion’ of CPU and GPU

Packagin the main and graphics processors on one chip will net power savings, AMD said as it announced its merger with ATI

Groups launch Digital Freedom campaign

EFF, Public Knowledge and the Consumer Electronics Association aim to 'restore balance' to digital works

Xen founder predicts project will stay on top

Xen will develop more quickly than competitors Microsoft and VMware, says Ian Pratt

Voice system could make in-car equipment safer

IBM and Pioneer team up on voice recognition device

Xserve Xeon review Part 1: Introduction

LG inks deal to enhance optics in its cell phones

LG Electronics to collaborate with German lens maker

3G for mobile broadband? Think again

The cost of 3G and HSDPA is too high in most countries to make it attractive for heavy data access

Acer vows to topple Lenovo next year

Acer celebrates its 30th anniversary and expresses confidence it can take the No. 3 slot

Cisco CEO preaches networks, collaboration

Cisco's John Chambers maintains major change is needed for companies to remain globally competitive

WiMax: a closed club?

BenQ Mobile bankruptcy forces Infineon layoffs

Chip maker to cut 400 jobs, take $100M in charges to make up the gap left by BenQ Mobile

Quote of the day: Skills that make a good DBA

Update: T-Mobile merges Wi-Fi, cellular

HotSpot @Home lets customers use one phone to place calls on cellular or via Wi-fi, offering some users better indoors reception

Sun: Open source Java due in late ’06, ’07

Executive also discusses CEO shift

Authentium: Vista kernel cracked

It’s official: Mozilla releases Firefox 2.0

New features include a spell checker for Web forms, antiphishing warnings, and improved search and tabbed browsing capabilities

HP looks to shed strategic partners

At Oracle OpenWorld, CEO Mark Hurd discusses streamlining HP's operations to better serve customers

Mozilla: Party for people, not browser

Cisco names Rebecca Jacoby new CIO

Eleven-year Cisco veteran will manage companywide IT strategy and operations

OASIS approves SOA reference model

Groups call for net neutrality rules in AT&T merger

Concerns raised that the FCC policy statement isn't strong enough to keep the broadband carrier from inhibiting Internet content from competitors

Oracle pitches SOA at conference

Company’s Fusion Middleware positioned as platform for services

Microsoft comforts PC vendors with Vista upgrade

Coupon available to consumers who want to upgrade

Administrators concerned that XP SP3 will be axed

The ship date, delayed to 2008, puts Service Pack 3 rollout within months of cut-off date for mainstream support

Motorola on Wi-Fi: Stay the course

UK police count 8,500 victims in data theft

Sprawling operation also snagged personal information from people in 60 other countries

Munich mayor: Full speed ahead to open source

City migrating away from Windows and Office to Linux on the desktop

Platform Computing and “Virtualocity”