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US agencies tap ActivIdentity smart cards

Government deadline for using new identity cards is nearing

Nokia enables Oracle apps on phones

Mobile workers can now access some Oracle apps while out of the office using Eseries phones

Alcatel and Lucent report rising revenue

Companies coordinate their earnings announcements ahead of planned year-end merger

Microsoft releases antispyware tool

Rivals continue to bicker over their access to Windows Vista to build competing products

BenQ posts huge Q3 loss

Company expects further losses from its BenQ Mobile write-down

Ultra-low-cost handset market taking off

TI expects trend toward low-cost mobile phones to hurt overall sales

Dell talks up being green, upcoming quad cores

Dell will roll out computers using Intel's Xeon quad-core chip within the next few weeks

Google readies custom search engine service

New service lets site publishers build their own Google-powered search engine in minutes

HP, Oracle, Intel eye mainframe migrations

Application Modernization Initiative features SOA, grid

Gateway to replace Sony-made batteries

Gateway's exchange program will cover 35,000 batteries that have shipped in lapatops since September 2005

Forking open source

Sony details battery problems

Manufacturing problems with stray metallic particles are expected to lead to the replacement of 9.6 million laptop batteries

City Wi-Fi coverage put to the test

Uptown Services figures out if wireless networks deliver on the promise of connectivity everywhere

Update: IBM sues Amazon.com over patents

Big Blue claims the online retailer knowingly exploited its IP and refused to engage in licensing negotiations

Firefox 2.0 released a day early

AMD CEO envisions users, not vendors, in control of IT

At Oracle OpenWorld, Hector Ruiz emphasizes consumers' power to impact IT, particularly making health care safer and more efficient

SAS launches model manager product

Application audits and tracks models for version control

Microsoft adds Sender ID to list of free specs

Redmond adds format for fighting spoof e-mail to a list of specifications that can be used freely for development

EMC refreshes storage line

Symmetrix, Clariion lines get new models

Sun’s Rich Green: Open source Java due in late-2006, 2007

Executive also discusses CEO shift

Interview with a DOJ security expert

German railway tests biometric technology

Special biometric facial recognition software will make it easier to distinguish terrorists from commuters

Oracle offers $219 million for MetaSolv

Oracle to extend the range of software it offers telecommunications operators

MS bringing Ruby expert aboard

Trial challenging Child Online Protection Act begins

Trial will explore whether commercially available blocking software is as effective as the banned law in blocking "harmful" material from minors

Microsoft moves on AJAX

Company releases beta of former Atlas technology

Open-source ERP vendor hustles in SAP’s backyard

Synerpy's product has 40 percent of what larger vendors offer, but company says it has a lot to provide customers

Cybercrime cooperation advances

Interview: DOJ's security expert Christopher Painter discusses steps the G8 countries are taking to fight burgeoning computer crime

AT&T’s net income, revenue up in Q3

Reported net income of $2.2B outpaces AT&T and SBC's combined net incomes prior to merger

Push intensifies for personal data rules change

Companies are plagued by legal uncertainties sparked by the very different approach to data privacy in the U.S. and Europe

Antivirus vendors splitting over Vista

Antivirus vendor Sophos issued a statement supporting PatchGuard, Microsoft's controversial kernel protection technology. The statement runs contrary to claims by McAfee and Symantec that the technology is stifles innovation.

China Mobile on track to reach 300M users by year end

China Mobile already has more subscribers than the entire U.S.

Cisco helps meetings go widescreen

Videoconferencing system delivers life-size images of conference participants in real time

BlueTie provides free hosted collaboration to SMBs

Company unveils new 'featuretisements' plan for generating revenue

O2 complains about roaming charge probe

O2 claims the European Commission denied it its rights of defense in the ongoing investigation

AmberPoint improves SOA policy execution

Agentless architecture is unveiled

$100 laptops to roll off production lines in Q2

Quanta is gearing up to produce 10 million of the low-cost devices next year for the One Laptop Per Child initiative

IBM, 3Com team up on IP telephony for SMBs

Collaboration aims to help SMBs make phone calls more cheaply without adding extra servers to their networks

Oracle president defends acquisition policy

Oracle will continue its strategy of acquiring companies as a means of quickly extending its technologies, Phillips says

Government agencies gear up for HSPD 12

Vendor mosh pit forms around presidential directive for common ID

Microsoft gives ground on multiple fronts

Concessions on APIs, virtualization may be sign of evolution

Motorola readies WiMax devices

Licensed spectrum to supplant Wi-Fi outdoors

Study: Data-breach costs on the rise

Diebold source code leaked again

Maryland state legislator receives anonymous disks containing code for electronic voting machines

IBM completes ISS buy

In its fifth largest acquisition ever, Big Blue scores a major spot in the security services market

MSDN Canada site: Vista, Office 2007 launch event Nov. 23

The site says MS will hold events to introduce Vista and Office 2007 to Canadian business customers, but no U.S. launch has been indicated

On heels of IE 7, Mozilla readies Firefox 2.0

Mozilla aims to steal IE7s glow by releasing new versions with advanced features such as page restore after crashes

NetBeans IDE upgrade readied for SOA

Sun also ponders Java language, platform differentiations

Fed gets D+ for weak data security

Bloggers speak out on IE 7