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Update on 64-bit MacBook Pro, octo-core Mac Pro, quad-core Xeon Xserve

Signiant offers remote office data solution

Tape data backup problems? Take the tape out of the mix, says this Boston-based vendor

Senator authors bill to increase research spending

Bipartisan bill would increase funding for research and for math, science and technology education

Microsoft offers early fix for critical IE bug

Growing VML vulnerability makes patch necessary sooner rather than later

Microsoft: Vista won’t support older Visual Studio versions

Developers will be forced to upgrade to Visual Studio 2005

Analog camera makers seek digital niche

Copmanies seek to counter the market dominance of Asian manufacturers

Yahoo imposes unpaid winter break

WebEx to launch AppExchange rival

Nokia introduces multimedia phones

Nokia also unveils a music recommendation service that may presage a full-blown music store

Wikipedia to fight vandals in Germany

Online encyclopedia unveils plan to root out pranksters and flag correct entries

Lime Wire turns tables, sues record companies

P-to-p file-sharing software developer accuses record companies of anticompetitive behavior

Wallop says its social network packs a punch

Microsoft spin-off announces new social networking platform based on Adobe's Flash

San Francisco to study city-owned Wi-Fi

City to consider non-profit-run Wi-Fi as alternative to EarthLink-Google plan

Digital home devices to shine in 2007

Acer chairman one missing link for the digital home market is the lack of an industry standard for DRM software

Intel invests $40M in Chinese software vendor

Neusoft Group will optimize its products for Intel microprocessors

IBM begins major revamp of services business

Big Blue moves away from providing customized services and rolls out first two standardized offerings

Quote of the day: Putting old PCs to rest

Oracle to support Itanium platform

Intel's beleaguered processor family picks up a needed endorsement

Big-name sites outted for XSS holes

AOL members sue over search data release

Plaintiffs seek monetary relief as well as changes to AOL's privacy practices

IBM alphaWorks milestone features weather forecast demo

10th anniversary of experimental technologies site is hailed

Pressure mounts for Microsoft to patch IE flaw

Security Response Center Operations Manager Scott Deacon has said only that Microsoft is increasingly confident in its ability to release an early patch

Helmi open-sourcing AJAX platform

Net advertising up 37 percent in 2006’s first half

Ads delivered via search engines account for 40 percent of increase

Will Tiger help you birdie SOA?

Criminals spread Windows exploit via Web host

Cpanel hack marks growing sophistication of attacks

Symantec assesses security

Novell to do virtual Red Hat

Novell's CTO uses the InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum to announce that his company will support customers running virtualized SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and RHEL 4 running on top of SLES 10. Virtualized Netware on SLES 10 is coming.

Microsoft aligns ad strategy across company

The Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions team gives customers one group within for all advertising

MS sticks to WinFX renaming guns

Talkback: Is SaaS a money sieve?

Your iPod as your Next PC?

You love your iPod for playing music — why not make it your next PC?

Oracle releases new piece in telecom platform

Oracle's Virtual PBX aims to offer telecom developers a J2EE-based platform for building new services

Skype readies enterprise-friendly VOIP software

Update will give sys admins new enterprise management functions

Klir Analytics shares IT management advice

Klir beta lets IT userspublish and share their favorite fixes using SAAS model

Breach Security acquires rival firewall ModSecurity

Breach buys Thinking Stone, the company that develops the open-source Web application firewall

Trend Micro launches anti-botnet service

InterCloud helps ISPs combat networks of zombie machines

Outsourcers Induslogic, Bonus Technology merge

Combined company plans to double the number of staff in the Ukraine, India

China boasts 7.7 million active bloggers

CNNIC says the number of active bloggers in China will hit 10 million before year end

SF claims progress in Wi-Fi negotiations

City analyst says talks with Google, EarthLink on their operation of a citywide Wi-Fi network have made progress

Symantec: ‘There is no safe browser’

Internet Security Threat Report finds the number of browser bugs surging in 2006

HP lawyer gives blow-by-blow of leak probe

Independent investigator determines Dunn authorized two separate investigations into leaks

BEA’s 360 vision still fuzzy

Good idea, but questions unanswered

Motorola hatching big plans for Symbol

RFID, Wi-Fi, and Wi-Max technologies seen as a good match

Demofall to highlight Java Wares

Startups demo diverse wares they hope will shape the future technology landscape

Demofall to highlight Java wares

More than 50 percent of featured products are based on Java

Under the sea

Explore an "under the sea" application and its animation engine

Integrate advanced search functionalities into your apps

Implement powerful multi-criteria search criteria and filters with Lucene

Black Duck spruces up UI in software compliance system

SDK also is added

WinFX name change protest renewed