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New click-fraud suit for Google

Pennsylvania man needs judge to certify new suit to make it a class-action case

Microsoft looks to accommodate dynamic languages

Executive cites community efforts as lynchpin

Dell batteries head for landfills

Environmental impact of recall should be minimal; company intends to recycle

Google adds overlay feature to mobile Maps

Feature will let developers create place markers to highlight points on Google Maps accessible by mobile phones, handhelds

Good News For Open Source Grid

Lawsuit alleges programmer visa abuses

IT workers group sues companies who advertise jobs targeting foreign workers with H-1B visas

China Mobile subscribers near 300M

World's largest mobile phone operator is adding 4.29M new subscribers per month

Finding talent a challenge for China tech firms

Employers complain of a lack of skills and creativity, breaches of business ethics

Apple finds few violations at Chinese iPod factory

Apple plans to conduct similar audits at all of its Mac and iPod suppliers

Qualcomm to acquire Qualphone

Qualcomm will pay $18 million in cash for Qualphone

Update: Dell reveals SEC investigation, profit drops 51 percent

Company also announces extended AMD partnership

Microsoft: Asia will lead global innovation

Asia's importance as an R&D center will continue to grow, Microsoft exec says

XenSource to ship XenEnterprise next week

AOL security tools raise adware questions

Active Virus Shield's license agreement would allow AOL to send spam or serve up adware

Boeing scraps in-flight Internet

IT investors see hope

Nasdaq shows gains, and the PC industry holds steady

Privacy group files FTC complaint against AOL

World Privacy Forum joins EFF in taking action against AOL for releasing search records

Judge: Government wiretapping program illegal

The judge ordered that the NSA's so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program be halted

Biz world data leaks abound

Meet new Salesforce CFO, the same as the old one

Steve Cakebread withdraws resignation

Service Pack for Visual Studio out

W3C improving XML

Survey: U.S. firms frequently lose sensitive data

Dangers to data include networks, employees' and contractors' laptops, and other portable storage devices

Tropos expands municipal wireless options

New routers may combine Wi-Fi with WiMax metropolitan-area wireless and 3G

Dell expanding its AMD partnership

Yahoo Photos and Flickr may grow closer

Lenovo snags more Dell execs

Lenovo names new presidents for its Asia-Pacific and Japan operations

Taiwan Q2 chip industry revenue surges 34 percent

Taiwan far outpaced global chip industry growth

Update: Boeing grounds in-flight Wi-Fi

The company said the market for the service never took off like had been expected

ActiveGrid to move tools to Eclipse

LAMP proponent also will become member of open source organization

Rocky road for mobile Linux

Industry experts say Linux users more excited by gadgets than software platforms

JBoss making SOA play with BPEL, ESB

Parent company Red Hat, meanwhile, readies Linux upgrade

Yahoo plugs Web mail security hole

Measures now in place to foil potential security breach posed by e-mail attachments

Smart card vendors talk privacy

Secure ID Coaltion formed to communicate security features of contactless smart cards

Chevron springs data leak

EBay to test changes to search results pages

EBay search results pages to contain more information, sport new look and layout

Vonage E911 availability nears 85 percent

VOIP company says it continues to have problems in areas served by AT&T

Yahoo, Go2 will display mobile ads

Partnership enables businesses to sponsor ads alongside search results on mobile phones

Google launches free Wi-Fi network

Google provides free broadband wireless access to residents in its home city of Mountain View

SAP’s Zimmer: China just starting to embrace IT

Interview: SAP's CEO says Chinese companies must change or they cannot compete on the world market

SAP makes first NetWeaver Fund investment

SAP invests in intelligent device management software vendor Questra

RealPlayer to support Windows Media on Linux

Novell to distribute upgraded RealPlayer with Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

Digital watermarks could combat trademark theft

Web search system helps companies hunt down trademark violators on the Internet

Update: IBM expands beyond Linux

Big Blue will leverage Eclipse development platform through open source opportunities

Cisco can’t reproduce Black Hat flaw

Cisco is still testing its security appliances for a possible vulnerability

Update: Search satisfaction on the wane

U.S. residents less happy with Google, Yahoo, MSN but happier with Web portals like AOL

The ennui of SOA

Quote of the day: Sun and open source? Wait and see

Picture my face, Google

Google buys photo company

Company acquires Neven Vision to boost its photo management software service