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SMIC countersues TSMC

The legal battle widens as SMIC seeks damages from TSMC for alleged breach of contract

Salesforce.com highlights analytics

Next release of Salesforce.com's on-demand CRM software will offer 'unlimited customization'

The hard disk drive turns 50

IBM's RAMAC disk drive system is the guest of honor at a Computer History Museum celebration

Quote of the day: SOA governance

Update: Microsoft patches new Office flaw

Patch critical for Publisher 2000 but remains unfixed in Word

China’s ZTE seen lagging hometown rival Huawei

International sales to blame

Mac Pro testing notes

Update: Dems snagged Guv’s tape

Africa ICT protocol to speed network building

Framework should speed implementation of the continent's biggest broadband networks

Eclipse exec cites dynamic language inclusion, .Net rivalry

Participation from Sun Microsystems still not on the horizon, Milinkovich says

SAP’s ERP 2005 ‘stable core’ for five years

New strategy comes in response to customer demands, says company

Microsoft, EC tangle over Vista security

The European Commission has again warned Microsoft Vista’s ship date is threatened by antitrust concerns

SAP launches enterprise search application

Company seeks to make enterprise search accessible to nontechnical users

Man involved with BitTorrent pleads guilty to copyright theft

The latest conviction is the third in a federal crackdown against providers of pirated works to the Elite Torrents P-to-P network

Dell spurns Intel on desktops

Company will go with AMD processors for several models

CoreStreet releases mobile smart card reader

Handheld complies with the U.S. government's secure credential FIPS 201

MBS leader Burgum to leave Microsoft

Satya Nadella steps into senior vice president of MBS role

Grids help eBay do big business

Massive computing grid helps eBay make changes to its auction site on the fly while maintaining up time

HP’s head of global operations to leave

Gilles Bouchard to leave HP following the closure of the global operations group

EMC plans new Web content management tool

EMC's Documentum Page Builder handles content layout as well as management

Update: HP’s Dunn to step down in January

CEO Mark Hurd to assume the chairman of the board post

Samsung samples new type of flash memory

moviNAND devices could make it easier to increase the storage capacity of mobile phones

Intel takes on AMD in Chinese Internet cafes

Intel teams up with Taiwanese motherboard vendor

Update: Red Hat users invited to test RHEL 5

It remains unclear whether the OS upgrade, which includes virtualization technologies, will make its year end target ship date

Serena expands ALM focus with change governance

Dimensions 10 platform features multiple functions

Elpida CEO visits Taiwan seeking chip plant incentives

Elpida is considering building a chip factory in either China, Japan, Singapore, or Taiwan

Chinese spending on chip plants to rise

Spending on cutting-edge factories will top $9.8B over the next two years

Update: Microsoft’s new search engine exits beta

Live Search now the underlying search tool at its MSN.com portal

Proofpoint launches virtual security beta

Product is aimed at reducing amount of hardware in enterprise datacenters

Lucent speeds up firewalls

New VPN firewalls offer more, cost less

AmberPoint extends SOA management to SAP

NetWeaver, ABAP covered in cooperation agreement

Governator hack investigated

Intel sells optical networking business to Cortina

Sale will allow company to focus on its core products

Update: DOJ asking about HP spying allegations

Company is cooperating with inquires about the use of "pretexting" to search phone records

SAP targets business process experts

Emerging worker category act as bridge between IT and business sides of organizations

Microsoft moves up shipment of AJAX technologies

Atlas components now planned for around the end of the year

McAfee apologizes for bugs in Falcon roll out

Client protection software users may experience problems with recent updates

And the SOA consolidation continues…

Dell may have to restate earnings

Company under investigation by both SEC and New York State

EU and Blinkx provide searchable news

Video search engine now including historical content from the European Commission

German police seize ‘anonymizing’ Tor servers

Police block an undisclosed number of servers during a crackdown on Internet pornography

WebMethods makes another SOA buy

WebMethods purchases Infravio for $38 million

In Brief: GE picks India’s HCL for development centers

EU and US still haggling over passenger data

An agreement to share passenger info is set to expire this month

Alibaba ready to ride Internet’s ‘third wave’

CEO sees e-commerce as the next big opportunity for the Internet in China

NTT DoCoMo to invest in fuel-cell developer

Japanese cellular telephone company will acquire 36.5 percent of Aquafairy

Samsung: PRAM to replace NOR flash memory

New chip combines faster data transfer speeds with ability to retain data after power is shut off

ClearApp, formerly Acsera, unveils app management

Java, SOA, portals are focus of QuickVision product

Xerox refreshes product line, expands services

Company aims for scanning, imaging services to account for 50 percent of revenue in future

Samsung unveils 32Gb flash made from 40nm technology

Samsung's first 40nm chip brings company to the forefront of chip production