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AOL extends AIM developer program

AOL offers new tools for providing PC-to-PC voice communications, adds Java support

MessageLabs launches encrypted IM software

Enterprise Instant Messenger targets companies that use IM for collaboration, document sharing

TechEd: Microsoft touts multifaceted ‘People-Ready’ plan

'24' TV actress is onstage between presentations focused on software enhancements

Intel: More efficient chips on the way

Researchers use tri-gate transistors to increase speed, reduce power consumption

Microsoft embraces SaaS

Ozzie: Microsoft to ease customers' transition to a new services-based model of computing

Microsoft security becomes ‘Forefront’

Microsoft brands its security portfolio Forefront to kick off the Tech Ed conference

Computex: Intel puts chip set on the table

Key component of vPro platform due in July

Reactivity adds Auto-Discovery

New tools streamline SOA Services

IBM set to unveil DB2 Viper after five years in the making

Native XML support lays foundation for hybrid apps

Google gets Groove-y with Spreadsheet

Invite-only Alpha Software is no Excel killer … yet

Add dynamic Java code to your application

Write code that can respond to changes at runtime

Fit for analysts and developers

Test-first development from the user perspective

WS02 offers open source app server sans J2EE stack

Tungsten is built on the Apache Axis2 Web services foundation

Cisco buyouts may ease voice integration

The big payoff is likely to come from a common application development interface for Unified Communications that Cisco aims to create by combining technology from the two acquisitions

Web-oriented architecture in focus

Windows 98, ME sent to pasture with critical flaw

Microsoft had promised a critical patch for Windows 98 and ME but put the flaw in the too-hard basket before retiring the operating systems, leaving many computers worldwide at risk

Microsoft rebrands WinFX as .Net Framework 3.0

Company seeks clarity with renaming; launches developer documentation wiki

Microsoft publishes Vista User Account Control pr0n

Microsoft published a video on Vista's controversial User Account Control (UAC) feature. Warning: Contains acronyms, depictions of violence against desktop icons.

McAfee SiteAdvisor to add site blocking, extend ratings beyond Web

The new features will be added to SiteAdvisor over the next year, starting with a "protected safe search" capability

Windows OneCare doesn’t fit all

Go open source or go under

Alcatel-Lucent merger gains U.S. government approval

Deal on course toward full acceptance by April 2007

Sacramento Wi-Fi sent to scrapyard

City was unable to come to terms about how network should be offered to users

Capgemini makes India hub for services

Outsourcing company to increase its staff in India to 10,000 by the end of next year

U.S. House defeats net neutrality provision

House passes wide-ranging broadband bill that will speed rollout of television over IP

Prepare for the coming of RFID

SAP exec says the question is not if but when RFID will dominate the supply chain

Microsoft takes on Google in book search

Microsoft finds partners for expanded book search project

Intel’s development center in India under cost scrutiny

Intel reviews spending in effort to cut $1B; expects to have fewer employees worldwide

Intel gets in a branding pickle

Intel's marketing department has a challenge keeping its new chips' branding in order

ClearCube readies new PC blade tools

The company took the wraps off a new addition to its line of I/Port user access devices that it said will improve video and audio quality

Intel eggheads push network envelope

Still-visionary projects such as wireless LAN chip, a multifunction personal sensor device and a new method of securing VOIP have been unveiled by Intel researchers

Wall Street Beat: Chips take a dip

Intel and AMD's share prices slid Thursday in the wake of Citigroup downgrading them, citing prospects of a weakening market

Microsoft set to patch Word, ActiveX

On Tuesday the company plans to release a whopping twelve security patches for its products

SOA: Concept gains traction, lacks understanding

Microsoft: Windows antipiracy tool not spyware

The defense follows groups noticing that its Windows Genuine Advantage tool repeatedly attempts to contact Microsoft every time a PC is booted

Nvidia bets on Windows smartphones with new tools

The rapid development kit will allow handset makers to get their new products out faster, the company said

Public Internet Channel project launched

The Web site will include centralized access to such information as emergency services, finding jobs, social services, educational opportunities and starting small businesses

Indian outsourcers to grade job applicants

Nasscom introduces test to screen out those who lack skills needed for call centers, BPO, and software services

Google develops browser sync tool for Firefox

Google Browser Sync gives a boost to Mozilla's browser against Microsoft's IE

UBS employee stands trial for detonating ‘computer bomb’

Systems admin allegedly infected UBS's network with malicious code that cost the company millions of dollars

Humans key to World Cup security

Event will be monitored by 20 agencies

Linux an innovation ground for Grid networking

Wipro adds to its string of aquisitions

Wipro's purchase of Finnish design company Saraware is its sixth acquisition in six months

Sage buys German business software vendor

Sage aquisition of Bäurer bolsters its plans to expand further in Europe

Airbus flies on Web services

Deployment of SAP's travel management app is first step in Airbus' migration to SOA

EDS acquires majority of outsourcer MphasiS

Majority stake gives EDS access to 11,000 additional staff in India

Typhoon billed as ‘personal supercomputer’

Tyan's server offers big computing power in a small box

Pressure mounts against Apple DRM

Opposition to Apple's iTunes music store policies is growing in Europe

WS02 offers open source app server sans J2EE stack

Tungsten is built on the Apache Axis2  Web services foundation, which WSO2 helped develop.

Taiwan’s FIC shows off tiny computer

FIC's GE2 computer rivals Apple's Mini Mac for size and weight