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Nokia licenses location-based patents

Nokia gets exclusive right to sublicense Trimble Navigation patents to other wireless companies

Ceatec to showcase the latest gadgets

Japan's largest electronics show opens Tuesday

MTI hits fuel cell milestone

Company demonstrates a prototype DMFC to the U.S. military

European airlines in legal limbo as data talks collapse

No disruption of flights has been reported but airlines face being sued if the legal void continues

Tibco to open source, upgrade AJAX toolkit

General Interface gets Firefox 1.5 support

Sun says OpenSparc is gaining traction

Sun set to report its open-source architecture is gaining market share from IBM's Power and Intel's Itanium

Fujitsu details battery exchange plans

Company announces it will take part in Sony's global battery exchange program

Acer in talks with Sony about battery recall

Acer may join the voluntary battery recall even though none of its users have reported problems so far

Quote of the day: Obsolete operating systems and a false sense of security

Microsoft battles Internet Explorer exploits

VML vulnerability was just the beginning of Internet Explorer woes

WebEx offers SOA-based integration platform

Service allows developers to integrate software with collaboration offerings

VaporStream offers no-trace e-mail

Exploding e-mail, Windows iPods, and other stories from Demofall

Tools wrap: Borland unveils Gauntlet apps tester

Borland, CollabNet, Electric Cloud focus on application lifecycle management, collaboration

Following Verizon, Cingular sues HP investigators

Company claims investigators used pretexting to get info on CNET journalist

MS: Patching obsolete OSes gives ‘false sense of security’

Microsoft is responding to the latest effort by a group of security researchers to patch a hole it its unsupported Windows products.

Microsoft bullish on Vista business adoption

But analysts think most users will wait until 2007 or 2008

Update: US gov’t retains ICANN oversight

Commerce Dept. will retain ICANN oversight for three more years with an 18-month review

MySQL monitoring service in the works

Under development at MySQL for 22 months, Merlin is due to debut late in the fourth quarter, a source has said

Pretexting legislation may move ahead in Congress

The full House could vote on Prevention of Fraudulent Access to Phone Records Act as soon as late Friday or Saturday

ZERT patches unsupported Windows

The Zero Day Emergency Response Team (ZERT) has issued patch for the Vector Markup Language (VML) vulnerability that works for unsupported versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 right up through Windows 2000, SP3.

Intel and Symantec push security into firmware

Companies create virtual security solution to slow virus and malware attacks

Verizon sues pretexters in HP case

Suit alleges that HP investigators faked identities to obtain phone records

EU commissioner outlines software patent plans

Two-track approach to European patent system wins plaudits from some erstwhile opponents

MS offers Orcas CTP

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Talkback: MS anti-malware biz a conflict of interest?

Experts warn Congress of e-voting woes

Committee missed chance of ensuring November's elections will produce auditable results, expert says

Yahoo China sues rival portal

Lawsuit claims Qihoo.com reports the Yahoo Toolbar as malware and urges users to uninstall it

IBM’s German lab bucks outsourcing trend

IBM exec says Big Blue 'will not exit high-cost regions such as Europe and the U.S.'

Trouble ahead as BlackBerry tops 6M users?

IDC: RIM faces growing competition in a relatively untapped market for converged mobile devices

Microsoft, BBC collaborate on content delivery

Companies to partner on search, site navigation, and distribution

Dell expands battery recall, Fujitsu considers action

Dell says 'new information' caused it to increase its recall of Sony batteries

Sierra adds 3G to Intel’s UMPC platform

Intel's ultra mobile PC platform gains new ways to connect to the Internet

HP buys VoodooPC

HP also launches its first HD-DVD drive for PCs, unveils new Pavilion notebook and desktops

Microsoft targets manufacturers with Office suite

Microsoft hopes to grab a piece of a growing market for IT spending by technology manufacturers

IBM gets into karaoke

IBM partners with Xing to develop a wireless karaoke controller that uses a Wi-Fi network to cue songs

PayPal pays $5.2 million to settle lawsuits

Consumers claimed PayPal did not make clear its policies on certain types of transactions

Open source by any other name

BEA offers glimpse of SOA tool set

BEA demonstrates a prototype of its upcoming WorkSpace 360 tool

Judge says Morpheus encourages piracy

Ruling in copyright infringement case is another blow to peer-to-peer file sharing

Microsoft still scrambling to patch July bugs

Redmond is investigating new public reports of a critical bug in Windows more than two months after sample code was posted

Quote of the day: How grid resembles Linux

Ultramobile PC to boast everything from GPS to Breathalyzer interfaces

Black Diamond's first offering to run Windows XP Pro for starters.

Microsoft to offer no-strings attached access to Windows Datacenter Server

Try on Derby for size

Get started using the Apache Derby database

BEA focuses on flexible, collaborative SOA

SOA 360, a platform for SOA deployment, launched at BEAWorld

Google turns over Orkut data to Brazilian authorities

The company has provided data about Orkut users in response to 30 court orders

Update: Lawmakers grill Dunn, Hurd over pretexting

CEO Hurd testifies he did not read a March report describing the use of pretexting

Update: Lenovo recalls 526,000 ThinkPads

Company will offer free replacements

Wall Street Beat: Ill winds for open source?

Analysts say Red Hat's financial woes are probably temporary — not so for Novell's