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Amazon’s metered virtual server farm

Vietnam’s Communist Party gets help from Intel

Intel will set up a lab in Vietnam for testing and developing open-source software

Update: Apple recalls 1.8 million laptop batteries

Company notes nine instances of minor burns as a result of Sony-built batteries

Judge penalizes Microsoft $25 million in patent case

In additino to the latest fine, Microsoft must pay z4 Technologies for lawyer fees, damages

Microsoft finally re-issues botched IE patch

New patch purports to "fully resolve" security bug noted in original Aug. 8 update

Get your (Net)War On!

Preparations for a Digital Pearl Harbor are a costly distraction, according to Foreign Affairs. Instead, the U.S. needs to realign its intelligence community to fight a "netwar" against terrorist groups who use the Internet to communicate,

MS rolls out biz-primed IE7 RC1

Whatever happened to the ‘A’ in SOA?

IDC: Smartphones losing out to feature phones

Users prefer enhanced functions on feature phones over more expensive and often larger smartphones

Investigator: Report cybercrime

U.S. Air Force special agent says 75 percent of DDoS victims do not report the attacks

IE 7 for XP first release candidate available

IE 7 is expected to be released in its final form in the last quarter of the year

Oracle gains more analytics with Sigma buy

Acquisition of Sigma's intellectual property assets will enable Oracle to add real-time predictive analytics to its apps

China hits 432 million mobile phone users

China now has the most mobile phone users of any single country in the world

Businesses to spend big on wireless data

Study says businesses in Western Europe will spend $12.7B on wireless data services by 2010

BenQ to spin off manufacturing operations

BenQ takes a page from Acer's book and plans reorg to help combat its decline in performance

Provenance and configuration

BEA to make India its R&D hub

Company plans to add 350 development staff in Bangalore as soon as possible

UK teen pleads guilty to DOS e-mail attack

Man who flooded his former employer's server with five million e-mails is sentenced to two months' curfew

IBM beefs up array of Unix servers

Big Blue adds new four-core processing capability to its low-end Unix servers

Mozilla: MS invitation accepted?

Sun open-sources mobile dev tools

Apple reaches Creative resolution

Screeching solution to cell phone theft

Grid Adoption Metrics

EFF: Patent ruling hurts open-source software

Electronic Frontier Foundation asks court to overturn decision on inventions

WinFX name change found irksome; petition circulates

Microsoft has re-branded the technology as .Net Framework 3.0. Now, some want the old name back

Sophos offers free rootkit detection tool

Anti-Rootkit to remove wide range of malware for PCs

Microsoft tests Wi-Fi management service

Beta version of Office 2007 identifies hot spots worldwide

Update: Microsoft fights cyber-sex predators

BEA buys repository maker Flashline

Company to add metadata repository to AquaLogic family

IBM’s bid for ISS to broaden security portfolio

Latest acquisiton offer exemplifies Big Blue's plan to grown its product offerings

Nexaweb enhancing ‘Enterprise Web 2.0’ apps

Eclipse-based environment lessens hand-coding needs

Brazil threatens to shut down Google.br

Prosecutors consider measures against Google Brazil for failing to turn over customer records

Video pirates: Watch out for fingerprints

Bootlegs will be more readily identifiable when compared against a master database of originals

Nortel sets up design center in India

New center will work on advanced routers, Ethernet switching, security, and VOIP

Prices for LCD monitors are on the rise

Companies are expected to expand production again as prices rise

Microsoft signs ad deal with Facebook

Deal is sign of Microsoft's urgency in securing online ad revenue to combat Google

Step 5 of 12 to SOA

Microsoft complies with Korea fair trade ruling

Microsoft will release two versions of Windows XP in Korea

Sony moves on Web video with Grouper acquisition

Sony's $65M purchase could enable users to combine Sony-owned content with their own video material

Sun gets boost from new server share report

Sun reclaims third place from rival Dell in the latest rankings but lags far behind IBM and HP

Update: Microsoft’s August IE patch contains security bug

Browser crashes suggest hole that attackers could use to run unauthorized software

Microsoft, Nortel partnership moves forward

Execs give an update on the progress of their ICA unified communications project

Quote of the day: A paramedic’s approach to upgrading Exchange

Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X?

Update: US government lab offers grid computing toolkit

Programs will share video, audio, data, and text for real-time collaboration for users worldwide

Partners encourage Microsoft to ease Vista transition

As holiday season approaches, lost sales opportunities concern vendors and retailers

Java upgrades: Animals no more

Microsoft courts Mozilla

Microsoft campaign goes after ‘cybersquatters’

Citing trademark infringement, company sues pay-per-click advertisers