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Judge: Rambus can take lower damages or have new trial

The $306.9 million awarded to Rambus is unjustifiably high, judge says

Oracle singles out five growth areas

In year ahead, database company looking to expand in security, content management, others

Update: Microsoft, Nortel join on unified comms

Companies partner to eliminate barriers between telephony, voice mail, e-mail and IM

StrataVia automates database management

Data Palette enables users to create flows of administration tasks

Nuance claims speech recognition breakthrough

Company brags of a 99 percent recognition rate, without training session

Paint-by-numbers project management

Special Report: SOA gets real

Researcher posts Google-based malware

'Malware Search' tool uses engine to find knows viruses and worms

NTT DoCoMo adds search

I-mode service links to nine search engines, just not Google or Yahoo

Microsoft sues resellers for piracy

Software giant files 26 suits in seven U.S. states

Update: Google News still indexing AFP content

Despite suit, Google links to stories and images from Agence France Presse

Sun CTO: Incremental open-sourcing of Java is the way

Java virtual machine, runtime environment, and Web services stack given as examples of components that could be incrementally open sourced

BEA offers Workshop tool upgrade

Server vendors optimistic about Itanium 2

Montecito chips are expected to boost sales

Microsoft releases major Windows Vista beta update

Build 5472 reflects final performance and quality tweaking Microsoft has made as it prepares Release Candidate 1, which is due by Aug. 31

Internet pioneers debate net neutrality

David Farber and Vinton Cerf squared off at a Center for American Progress-sponsored debate

Cingular rolls out first HSDPA phone

The LG CU500 is the first phone to tap the carrier's fastest wireless network

ISS finds bugs in Asterisk VOIP software

Users of the open-source VOIP software are advised to upgrade

Reformed adware vendor still under fire

Critics say hackers are still pushing installs of Zango modified to run without user consent

HP hails Memory Spot chips to extend content access

Wireless technology could supplement photos, passports, printers, other objects

Around the Horn: Analyst Discussions Around Grid

How hackers learn from open source

Outsourcer Achievo buys German firm

Inproware will operate as a division of Achievo, which specializes in Java, .Net and embedded apps development

GSM, WiMax battle over spectrum in Europe

The GSM Association calls on EC not to lift spectrum restrictions

Novell unveils Suse Linux Enterprise 10

Vendor adds Xen virtualization in upgrade

IBM backs Xen

Low-end servers, middleware to support Xen virtualization since it's in Novell's new Suse Linux Enterprise 10

Hackers learn from open source

McAfee says the same techniques that made Apache and Linux successful are being applied to hacking

This week in print

Oracle touts Fusion link, SOA in PeopleTools upgrade

The tools can be used to deploy apps with Oracle's application server and other Oracle middleware

Borland set to sell IDE business

JBuilder, Delphi sales likely this quarter

Salesforce.com syncs into SAP R/3

Hosted CRM provider issues 20th generation of its service

Taiwan operators prep for BlackBerry arrival

Mobile providers are building their own push e-mail services to take on BlackBerry

Notes on Linux: One small step

IBM Chipping away at Windows' Value

Salesforce introduces partner management

Benioff predicts delays for Microsoft CRM Live

Microsoft’s Vista, Office delays complicate partner plans

Company uses purse, perks to woo partners

OMBs encryption deadline hinges on enforcement

August Deadline could stop more VA-like Losses

Juniper, Cisco focus on access control

Company updates Odyssey, deals proxy wares

Clash of the Java rule titans

Blaze Advisor vs. JRules

Use JBI components for integration

An introduction to Java Business Integration components

Ruby for the Java world

Script your Java applications and efficiently reuse your Java libraries with this dynamic language

SOA Link gets more members

Google PageRank suit faces hard fight

The judge granted Google's motion to dismiss a suit by KinderStart.com, but only pending amendments to its complaint

Intel set to launch ‘Montecito’ server chip

Expected on Tuesday, the dual-core Itanium server chip is an improvement, but Sun’s Sparc or IBM’s Power series chips still have an edge, one analyst said

In the darkness: A bright future for open source

Talkback: Desktop lockdown pros, cons

Your favorite stories this week

Dance to senator saying ‘Net is ‘series of tubes’

Ted Stevens remarks catalyze a flurry of parodies

Phishing with two factors — What’s really changed?

Phishers are trying to crack two factor authentication — run for the hills!!!

Update: Chinese company says it reverse engineered Skype

VoIP provider dismisses claim

Sony, Samsung team on LCD factory