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U.K. police: You’ve been hacked

The U.K. Metropolitan police sent out notices to 3,000 British citizens today that their personal data had been stolen from hacked computers, but the story's even bigger than that…

Update: McAfee president fired in wake of stock scandal

Investigation leads to big changes at security software vendor

Coghead unveils beta of hosted Web platform

Startup aims to engage more users in Web application development

McAfee, CNET join options scandal

McAfee and CNET are stung in options backdating scandal. Who's next?

IBM and Oracle team with i-flex on banking software

I-flex's Flexcube will now be available on the IBM System z mainframe platform

IBM adds enterprise blogging to Lotus Notes

Big Blue gives enterprise users a secure infrastructure within Notes for creating internal, external blogs

Qualcomm, Broadcom split ruling in patent case

All of Broadcom's patents declared valid, but Qualcomm phone imports cannot be blocked

Sun strengthens storage partnerships

Sun enhances its ties to the 10 partners in its StorageTek Ready program

Google combines Writely and Spreadsheets

Google gives its spreadsheet, word processing apps a common platform, uniform UI

Update: Microsoft patches Windows, Office, .Net

Six of the 10 updates are rated critical

Build an SOA application from exisiting services

Put heterogeneous services together with the Petals ESB

Lowering AJAX’s barrier to entry

Opera CTO talks future Web standards

H&aring;kon Wium Lie, CTO of Opera Software, visited the <i>InfoWorld</i> offices last week to discuss the Web, the future of HTML, and the latest features of his company's Opera browser.

Nortel claims a fatter WiMax pipe

The company is demonstrating WiMax products that use multiple antennas, for a tripling of speed and doubling of capacity

Symantec taps VeriSign, Accenture for security boost

Company announces partnership with VeriSign to support authentication program; Accenture for 1000-staff strong security infrastructure

French gov’t aims for 4 million on fiber by 2012

Minister says he will have little difficulty persuading French telecomoperators to help him reach goal

YouTube buy lends more weight to media deals

Without Google, YouTube would have likely faced an impossible task in negotiating similar deals with all of the major content producers

Toshiba ties with LG.Philips for LCDs

Japanese company will invest about $46.2M for a stake in LG.Philips LCD Poland Sp., which is building a new LCD module plant

Oracle: Partners key to our success

Indirect sales continue to be very important for Oracle, says VP ahead of OpenWorld conference

Update: Google’s official blog hacked

Hacker exploited a bug in Blogger, the Google Web log publishing service on which Google Blog is hosted

EU patent chief hits back at criticism

European parliamentarians will vote Wednesday on whether to support a single patent regime for the whole of the EU

Microsoft partners on IPTV set-top box launch

Single chip set-top box aims to spur IPTV rollout

Motorola takes Indian service provider to court

Motorola was disqualified on technical grounds in its bid for a large GSM and 3g contract

Linksys acquires DSL software vendor

Ashley Laurent purchase is part of Linksys' plan to offer more sophisticated gateways and capitalize on new multimedia services

SOA unified communications

Former Novell CEO Noorda dies

Ray Noorda helped build the NetWare OS into a multibillion dollar business

Microsoft denies BayStar connection

Redmond says it made no investment guarantee to SCO during the start of its legal battles with IBM and other Linux users

Quote of the day: Hints of open source desperation at BEA

Sun, Laszlo take Java into Orbit for devices

AJAX-style platform getting link to mobile environment

Iona upgrades ESB with SOA management, orchestration

Artix 4.1 can integrate with AmberPoint system

Confirmed: Google to buy YouTube in $1.65B stock deal

CEO Chad Hurley had insisted YouTube wasn't for sale, but changed his mind because Google will allow YouTube to operate independently

HP’s e-mail tracer in widespread use

Web bug tech is widely used in e-mail newsletters, and in law enforcement in investigations, security experts say

Grid Applications and Contests

US court threatens Spamhaus with shut down

Spamhaus's spammer blacklist is used by several technology vendors, including Microsoft

A kinder, greener datacenter

Sun debunks Java-Vista clash

Google, YouTube sign music video deals

Agreements with big record labels is move to avoid copyright infringement litigation

SAP to simplify banking communications

Enhancements to mySAP ERP software help enterprises better manage payments with banks

Microsoft Germany CEO leaves over differences with HQ

Exec complained of Redmond imposing restrictions on the German operations and showing little interest in local requirements

Motorola invests in video WLAN startup

Ruckus Wireless announces MediaFlex NG for remote management, easier deployment of multimedia content

Exec says Microsoft ‘guaranteed’ SCO investment

Microsoft denies the involvement reported by BayStar execs in their court filing

In Brief: RIM signs new BlackBerry partner in India

Flaws found in European voting machines

Researchers detail serious vulnerabilities 'strikingly similar' to those found in U.S. e-voting machines

The coming security tipping point event

Salesforce.com opens up its development tools

Apex platform will be available to users of Salesforce.com's on-demand apps

Microsoft revokes MVP status of adware distributor

Microsoft award recognized the creator of Messenger Plus, which is also used to distribute the Lop adware program

HP’s Dunn, Fiorina blame Perkins for downfall

Perkins reportedly talked to the DOJ and California Attorney General's office to complain about tactics used in the leak investigation

Quote of the day: Linux desktop ready for business

TippingPoint Releases Anti-phishing Tool

Monkeyspaw open source tool fingerprints phish sites

IBM making $1 billion bet on SOA

WebSphere registry repository is key to SOA strategy