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HP pledges to connect with customers

On the heels of boardroom espionage scandal and layoff announcements, CEO Mark Hurd promises better, quicker response to customers needs

VeriSign, critics gear up for ICANN hearing

Network Solutions claims ICANN has yet to address security issues in latest proposals for top-level domains

Pokerbot: It knows when to hold ’em

Algorithm reduces 26 million Texas Hold 'Em possibilities to 2,465 strategically similar hands

Spammers cashing in on free hosters

Enterprising spammers have begun selling each other free Web pages, McAfee says

CA chief: 2007 to be year of execution

CEO Swainson hopes to grow CA from a $4 billion company to $6 billion by 2009 via "unification and simplification"

Ubiquitous and wearable computing

Court to Google: Hands off Belgian newspapers’ material

Search engine must remove from Google News all French and German newspapers published in Belgium

IUpload boosts blog management

Upgrade is designed to let companies deploy both internal and external blogs

Sandisk, RealNetworks partner on iPod/iTunes rival

Sansa music players come bundled with RealNetworks Rhapsody music service

Silicon laser could replace copper wiring in PCs

Low-cost 'laser chips' could move data around PCs at much higher speeds than copper wire

SAP extends relationship with CA

SAP to use CA's Introscope application performance management software

MS’s Allchin touts Vista for developers

Gartner forecasts trouble with rootkits, ID theft

Research firm releases list of threats facing IT professionals over the next two years

HP spying went deeper than previously detailed

Reports say HP's internal investigation included physical, e-mail tracking

Security costs fall with good policies

Businesses will need new IT strategies to defend themselves against cybercime, Gartner says

Telecom Italia to acquire AOL’s German ISP

Telecom Italia makes $853.5 million purchase amidst reorganization

Board scandal the focus at HP event

User conference overshadowed by prospect of criminal charges in HP's boardroom spying scandal

EMC launches new data management software

Infoscape is designed to organize unstructured computer files in an enterprise computer system

Apple’s new iPods priced for profits, not market share

Lack of aggressive pricing on new models could boost Apple's rivals

Startup tackles high-performance apps for multicore chips

PeakStream features former Sun, VMware executives

Asustek, Samsung ultra mobile PCs to be out soon

Samsung UMPC to use Via Technologies chips

Adobe releases Acrobat 8, updates Creative Suite

Creative Suite 2.3 Premium is now integrated with Acrobat 8

Security measures seen doing more harm than good

Steps taken since 9/11 have been used to strengthen control over citizens, and erode democratic freedoms, security expert says

Quote of the day: Sun’s open source silicon

Infravio latest SOA player to fall

X-Registry strengthens webMethods' SOA story

BEA looks to tap Web 2.0 for Enterprise

Carges to talk tagging, wikis in BEA World speech

HP “pretexting” scandal keeps chugging

Reverberations from phone account hacking will continue

AjaxChat: Chatting the AJAX Way, Part 2

Start building your own AJAX-based chat room

Genuitec brightens up Eclipse

MyEclipse 5.0 gives developers broad, but not deep, toolset for building Java apps

A Java database framework: Maintaining control of the development environment

Protect your data with a Java database framework

BEA, HP tout SOA capabilities with repository, services

Flashline product acquired by BEA gets upgrade

Hands-on details on Mac Pro (long)

Linking Cobol to SOA made easier

Update: Company sues Microsoft over ‘Forefront’ name

Redmond declined request to stop using name, prompting suit

Fast Search develops search app for enterprise desktops

Tool retrieves data from users' PCs, internal servers, and the Web

In-flight broadband inches skyward

Competition likely to spur Wi-Fi on airplanes to happen sooner rather than later

Dallas area launches interoperable emergency network

Service allows emergency-response officials to use a variety of communications devices

Social networking sites: The next big thing in politics

Controlled, broadcasting method of information distribution is obsolete, say experts

CA drives home hands-free cell law

New Firefox fix patches security bugs

Flaws rated as 'highly-critical' by security firm Secunia

Survey: Data breaches yield few ID thefts

Off-line causes are more likely to result in ID theft and fraud

AOL leader to scale back involvement

Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis will shed his day-to-day management duties in January

Google’s servers go phishing

A software developer named Eric Farraro has discovered a vulnerability in Google Public Service Search that could enable scammers to host phishing sites on Google's domain. Yikes!

German music download store uses watermarks, not DRM

Akuma hopes to break into crowded market by taking softer approach to copyright protection

Ericsson to reorganize in multimedia push

Company will hire 500 engineers to better meet demand for multimedia products, services

F-Secure’s former COO returns to become CEO

Kimmo Alkio returns to the Finnish security vendor after 18 months at Nokia

In Brief: Yahoo China sued for copyright violation

Microsoft betas dev tools for Office 2007

China’s BLX takes Godson-2 processor to 1GHz

New MIPS-based chip will enter production this year and will be cheaper than Pentium 4

Toshiba, Micron settle patent dispute

Toshiba to pay $288 million to Micron in return for patents and licenses