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Intel bets on Woodcrest Chip

Company launches Woodcrest, deals unit

Adobe pumps up rich Internet apps with Flex 2

Tiered pricing plan with no cost for entry-level deployments could make Flex a companion or popular alternative to Ajax

Mustang: The fast track to Web services

Java SE eases Web services development and consumption

Develop enterprise Java applications with <em>POJOs in Action</em>

Avoid the problems associated with EJB by working with plain-old Java objects and lightweight frameworks

Google argues for page-rank suit’s dismissal

The search giant says its search rankings are opinions and entitled to free-speech protection

Microsoft readies Team Foundation Server service pack

Service Pack 1 will include fixes and improvements, such as basic authentication support

The trouble with “try another distribution” for uncooperative Linux

White House pushes on H-1Bs, R&D credit

Bush urges permanent R&D tax credit, increase in yearly cap on H-1B visas

French law affects copyright, DRM, Apple

New copyright law could profoundly impact open-source programmers, desktop Linux users, and P-to-P file sharers

BT makes call to women engineers

BT's Openreach unit launches campaign to expand its potential talent pool by combatting 'macho culture' on the job

RIM subscriber numbers rising now lawsuit is over

RIM revenue higher than expected on resurgence in sales for the BlackBerry

Microsoft faces class action suit over WGA tool

Lawsuit alleges the anti-piracy program violates consumer protection laws against spyware

In Brief: LG tops Q1 plasma display panel ranking

Quote of the day: The last real copy of XP

Update: EMC to buy RSA Security for $2.1 billion

Information-centric security strategy is cited

Wall Street Beat: Networking under pressure

One of the biggest tech losers of the week was enterprise networking software maker Neoware, which focuses on the thin-computing

Lawmakers: Two other VA data breaches

The House Veterans Affairs Committee has learned of two other laptop incidents last year

Interview: Black Duck swims in IP waters

Company president/CEO cites enterprise software development issues

Microsoft loses veteran GM to Google

Tech evangelist Vic Gundotra jumps ship in latest personnel migration from software giant to search stalwart

Unisys will push Microsoft Biztalk for border controls

Unisys taps Microsoft server to help link national police databases in E.U.

Update: Veterans Affairs laptop recovered

FBI says the personal data on the hardware was not accessed by thieves

Two men sentenced to prison on piracy charges

Men receive 12- and 18-month prison terms for online software piracy

Google: Checkout not a ‘PayPal killer’

Google Checkout solves a different problem, Google VP says

Update: Red Hat inherits patent suit from JBoss

FireStar patent claim could affect other companies as well

India stays cool to open source

Less than 2 percent of India's developers contribute to open-source projects

Local products dominate Indian PC market

Indian PC brands and locally assembled unbranded PCs capture 65 percent of market

Orange aims to extend reach of mobile push e-mail

Orange Mail designed to appeal to small businesses

Researcher details of Amazon.com, MSN holes

Researcher publishes flaws that could be used to gain access to Amazon.com and MSN accounts

Google debuts Checkout payments system

Checkout streamlines e-commerce transactions by letting buyers store their purchasing information with Google

EU may seek to split telco monopolies

Commissioner considers separating operators into service and infrastructure divisions

Update: Net neutrality rejected in tie-vote by panel

Senate Democrats could lead filibuster to prevent telecom bill from coming to a vote without net neutrality requirements

Quote of the day: Inventing everything

Symantec may owe IRS $1 billion

IRS seeking back taxes for Symantec's handling of an Irish subsidiary's licensing fees

RSA confirms acquisition rumors

EMC rumored suitor for security mainstay

Microsoft ponders Windows successor

Future OS expected to better leverage multicore chips

Google changes tune on SF Wi-Fi tracking

No e-mail address or single identity is required now, but it is not clear of privacy pressure led to the decision

Intel exec cites importance of innovation

Presentation at The Venture Forum emphasizes ideas such as Netflix and hybrid vehicles

Red Hat revenue on the rise

The company reported $84 million for the quarter, with subscriptions up 45 percent from the year before

Adesso gets in sync, new CEO

John Van Siclen will drive the company's intelligent synchronization-as-a-service strategy

Palm pays Xerox $22.5M in patent suit

Graffiti infringed a Xerox patent known as Unistrokes, but Palm has already moved on to Graffiti 2, so the settlement won't affect current products

Google goes to court to defend its ranking methods

KinderStart alleges it suffered crippling financial harm after its Web site was dropped from Google's index

Dell improves IT services with Google Maps

Dell extends big-company perks to midrange businesses

How to destroy a hard drive in five seconds

Research scientists develop 'Guard Dog' device for quickly erasing hard drives

For spammers, a picture is better than 1,000 words

Spam is on the rise as a flood of hard-to-block junk images has been crafted to trick e-mail filters

Symantec CEO: Microsoft has ‘long way to go’

Interview: CEO John Thompson tells why he is not worried about competing with Microsoft

Quote of the day: A kludge is just a kludge

Adobe pumps up rich Internet apps with Flex 2

Tiered pricing plan with no cost for entry-level deployments could make Flex a companion or popular alternative to AJAX

Google Desktop out of beta

Will open sourcing of Java cause it to fork?

IBM, ClearSpeed team up on supercomputing

The extra speed will give IBM an advantage in selling to high-end users in the fields of finance, oil and gas exploration, and life sciences