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Sun says open-source Java possible in ‘months’

Logistics such as maintaining compatibility still being worked out

Windows Genuine program revised following uproar

Microsoft has bowed to public pressure, releasing a version of WGA that no longer validates Windows using a server-side configuration

Microsoft’s olive branch to open source

W3C: How to design for mobile devices

Standards body publishes best practices for building Web pages to be displayed on handhelds

Update: Intel sells comms unit to Marvell for $600 million

Intel continues effort to shore up its core business in the face of increasing competition from AMD

Google to kick off GBuy online payment service

GBuy puts Google on potential collision course with eBay's PayPal

SugarCRM to unveil commercial portal in July

SugarExchange set to launch in early July

Survey: Eclipse trails other IDEs in features

Blinkx makes amateur clips focus of video search

Blinkx introduces special channel for users only interested in finding amateur video clips

Nortel to cut pensions and jobs in search of profit

Nortel to cut 1,100 jobs worldwide, trim US pensions in effort to improve operating margins by $1.5B

Mobile phones will get tactile touchscreens

Immersion technology makes virtual buttons on cellphone screens

Taipei’s city-wide Wi-Fi passes test

Taipei rolls out Wi-Fi network boasting over 4,000 hot spots

Nokia joint venture to secure electronic payments

Nokia teams with smart card vendor to secure payments that use short-range wireless technology

Sony to outfit smallest Vaio with flash-disk

Sony to launch a new model of its Vaio U laptop next week

Microsoft unveils code-sharing Web site

CodePlex forum extends an olive branch to developers in the open-source camp

EU may fine Microsoft $2.5 million a day

Commission's top antitrust regulator will propose a new negative ruling and a new fine against Microsoft

Update: CompUSA to sell NetSuite’s hosted software

Retailer will offer NetSuite's on-demand business software in first-of-its-kind deal

Microsoft opens Office 2007 for online test drive

Testing Office 2007 through a browser eliminates the problem of incompatibility with earlier versions of Office

Consumer groups, states question telecom bill

They protest the removal of state consumer protection powers in a recent draft of the Consumers' Choice and Broadband Deployment Act

WinFS to find a home in SQL Server

WinFS will be included in the next version of Microsoft's SQL Server database, code-named Katmai

Gartner: Notebooks prone to hardware failure

Fifteen percent of laptops will break within a year, and 22 percent within four years

Microsoft warns of exploit code for dial-up bug

Exploit code targets a vulnerability in the Remote Access Connection Manager service

Grid standard groups unite to form Open Grid Forum

Merger undertaken in hopes of fueling grid technology adoption

VPN cavalry coming to Windows smartphones

Microsoft certifies NetMotion Mobility XE for use with its OS for advanced mobile phones

In Brief: UBS opens services center in India

Desktop Linux could take off at airports

Unisys sees an opening for Linux on self-service check-in terminals at airports

Spam project pits humans vs. machines

Spam fighter's new project asks people to donate time to classify e-mail messages and test the accuracy of spam filters

Prospects fading for European patent agreement

Industry groups urging the EC to abandon its push to adopt the Community patent regime

EBay retreats from Taiwan

EBay to lay off workforce in Taiwan, turn over operations to a Taiwanese partner

In Brief: BT, KDDI form managed services venture

LANDesk jumps into BPM market

LANDesk offers low-cost alternative to sophisticated BPM products

Intel fund invests in four more China companies

Intel Capital adds to string of over 50 investments in Chinese companies

MessageLabs upgrades security services

MessageLabs adds 'Skeptic' technology to detect viruses, Trojans, spam, phishing attacks

ClearCube challenges HP with new PC blades

Two new blade servers improve on shared computing in the enterprise

U.S., AT&T try to shut down spying suit

DOJ argues for wiretapping case to be dismissed because it would expose info to Al-Qaeda

Oracle releases PeopleSoft version 9

Oracle appoints new general manager to run its PeopleSoft Enterprise wing

Warren Buffett pledges $30.7B to Gates Foundation

Famed investor's donation will nearly double the size of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's assets

Card industry cracking down on Payment App Security

After CardSystems and OfficeMax, protecting magnetic-strip data has become a PCI priority

IBM to integrate IM into Microsoft Office

Next version of Sametime will also plug into Outlook and SharePoint

Callisto Project to launch 10 releases

Actuate tuning OS project for its own ends

Symantec preparing to enter anti-fraud space

Norton Confidential technology destined for enterprise

Salesforce.com extends its CRM reach to partners

The on-demand software provider will launch Partnerforce, a PRM (partner relationship management) service, next month

Java generates jingles in Sun’s pockets

Schwartz to reveal how much money Sun makes from Java

Java-XML mapping made easy with JAXB 2.0

The new Java Architecture for XML Binding makes it easy to incorporate XML data and processing into Java applications

Keep JMS simple with Spring and MantaRay

Create a simple, distributed application framework

Eclipse sheds light on Callisto benefits

AMD to open $3.2B chip plant in New York

The new plant will mark AMD's only U.S.-based chip fabrication facility

Identity thieves lurking in P-to-P

Medical records, financial information and router passwords have all popped up on P-to-P networks, researchers say

Investors tune in to spintronics radio tech for next-gen microprocessors

The researchers are interested in applying spintronics to the transmission of information, not its storage or manipulation, as has been the case

Symantec to exit security appliance business

About 80 staff were laid off as SGS and SNS appliances were said to be discontinued