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Sun to shine on AJAX

Projects afoot to accommodate JavaScript in Java

Analysts: HP’s business unlikely to be tainted

Scandal may be an embarrassment, but it isn’t likely to affect value of products and services

Sony plans battery replacement program

Company will work the U.S. and governments in other countries to replace lithium-ion batteries

HP approves $3.7M severance package for top lawyer

Ann Baskins resigned Thursday just before a U.S. Congress subcommittee hearing on HP's investigation methods into boardroom leaks

SAP hires external candidate as CIO

New CIO will also hold position on the company's board of directors

BEA CTO: Open-source projects out of sync with users

BEA taking a more blended approach to please community as well as users

GE brings data leak trend to light

eBay, Grids and Standards

Computer crime laws worry security pros

Hacking programs can be used for good as well as evil, so where should line be drawn by government?

Dawn of the open source database

Open-source firm enters Web content management

Startup Alfresco Software preps final piece of its ECM software suite

MS antisphishing tool wins MS bakeoff

Microsoft sponsors an antiphishing technology bake-off. Guess who wins…

Microsoft’s Zune will ship Nov. 14

Microsoft's music player will be priced at $249, in line with rival iPod

Committed to China? Prove it

Opinion: In order to succeeed, Fortune 500 companies must do more than pay lip service to China

BenQ Mobile to file for bankruptcy in Germany

BenQ will continue to develop and market BenQ-Siemens brand mobile phones

Update: HP general counsel quits, takes 5th

HP veteran Ann Baskins has resigned and has refused to testify before the panel regarding the company pretexting

AMD signs processor deal with China’s Founder

AMD gets a new Chinese partner for desktops, notebooks, and servers

Update: Intel mobile platform slated for first-half of 2007

Santa Rosa notebooks will employ a NAND flash-based disk cache and sport 802.11N

Can SOA save our government?

IBM licenses technology for water-cooled servers

Big Blue claims water-cooled system reduces heat output in datacenters by 55 percent compared to air-cooled technology

HP CEO: Pretexting probe a ‘rogue’

In an advance copy of his testimony, Hurd said the end came to justify the means

In Brief: Sun buys into identity management with Neogent

Six charged in breakup of AOL identity theft ring

Men are accused of harvesting AOL e-mail addresses and infecting victims' PCs with malicious software

Demofall: Security, PC-sharing, nanotechnology touted

Anti-botnet appliance among multiple offerings taking the stage

Update: Attackers targeting new PowerPoint bug

Trojan found in Microsoft's presentation software, says McAfee

Update: Court dismisses part of AMD’s case against Intel

Claims that Intel business practices affected AMD's chip sales are dismissed

Oracle promises tighter security for SOAs

Company focusing on access control, data privacy, and compliance

Dell preps 5 new servers for SMBs

New boxes house dual-core chips, run multiple applications

IBM opens venture-capital center in Dublin

Big Blue is also opening an Innovation Center aimed at helping local software developers

UK gov’t security expert: Balance cybersecurity risks

Protecting global information infrastructure called one of the top challenges for governments, developers and providers

CEO: AOL, peers have staying power in media market

"The big companies will stay big companies," says CEO Jonathan Miller

Bezos gives a look at ‘hidden Amazon’

Amazon CEO details the company's move into developing Web services

Day-trade grid-style with Gstock

Taiwan companies find profit, growth in China

Advantech and others are aggressively investing in China despite opposition by Taiwanese officials

Outsourcer addresses concerns about IP protection

Interview: Achievo's CEO Robert Lee discusses outsourcing to China and intellectual property concerns

Sony to sell e-book reader

Sony opens a dedicated online bookstore for its new reader

Vodafone to offer exclusively self-branded phone

New Vodafone-branded mobile phones will likely target 3G users

Microsoft files lawsuit against DRM hackers

Redmond seeks permanent injunction, compensation against those who released FairUse4WM program

Why isn’t China biting Apples?

Opinion: Apple's pricing and availability are not geared toward attracting Chinese consumers

Oracle unveils first core Berkeley DB release

Release 4.5 of the embedded database offers improved performance, availability, and ease of use

Update: Intel to ship quad-core chips in November

Thirteen vendors have already announced plans to sell quad-core based PCs for the high-end enthusiast market

Intel displays prototype teraflop chip

Intel will keep chasing chip speed, says CEO Otellini at IDF

Quote of the day: Step 10 of 12 to SOA

W3C boosts Web access for disabled

IBM to open up patent filings

Policy is intended to make IBM applicants responsible for the quality and clarity of their applications and establish ownership

DRM holds key to the digital home

License sharing could keep people out of a single company's back pocket, but DRM is becoming a weapon to lock users in

VirtualLogix supports multiple OSs

Company changes name and realigns products into three veritcal market segments

Microsoft issues emergency patch for VML hole

Microsoft released an emergency patch, MS06-055 for the Vector Markup Language hole in IE today.

Demofall ’06: Self-destructing message service hailed

VaporStream eliminates traces of correspondence

Fewer ‘new’ products launch at imaging show

Vendors can't wait for Photokina show in Cologne — announce products well in advance of it