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Yahoo IM worm installs bogus browser

'Safety Browser' leads users to pages mined with adware and viruses, security experts warn

Microsoft to trial pay-as-you-go PCs

FlexGo enables PCs to be used on a pay-as-you-go basis like wireless phones

SSA buy spawns new software giant

Chairman Schaper says SOA platform will be non-proprietary

Verizon-NSA case puts companies on notice

Legal questions dog NSA data requests

Enterprise Search goes after BI

OneBox has Bigger Vendors talking BI, too

Why open source Java?

Is Sun hoping to boost Java's slowing momentum?

Manage your business processes with JBoss jBPM

Get started using JBoss's business process management tool

Speak your own programming language with Web scripting

An introduction to JSR 223's Web scripting framework

Sun to cut as many as 5,000 jobs

Is Sun priming the company for sale?

Search driving 80 percent of Google traffic

Internet research firm NetRatings estimates there were nearly 3 billion Google searches in March 2006, putting it in a clear lead

Trillian dumped from Google Pack

The exclusion comes at a critical time for Cerulean Studios, which is gearing up for the release of Trillian's newest upgrade

Three sentenced for ‘warez’ activities

three men were sentenced Friday on copyright-infringement charges for being leading members of warez groups, the DOJ said

San Francisco Wi-Fi plan to face more heat

Privacy advocates and activists aim to affect what goes into that deal — or make the city change course and adopt a municipally-owned network

Apple responds to my “proprietary OS X kernel” column

Blue Security: Spam victim, or just a really bad idea?

Spam the Spammer operation Blue Security threw in the towel earlier this week. Is it a victory for the spam kings, or just the death of a bad idea?

Java, Java everywhere

Vista Get Ready program falls short, for some

Many analysts and users still aren't clear what kind of PC to buy to get ready for upcoming OS

Sun’s McNealy urges developers to change the world

Former CEO, now chairman, calls on developers to bridge the worldwide digital divide through Java, Web services, thin clients

Study: Software outsourcing surges 44% in China

No single software outsourcing service provider in China dominates the still-maturing market

SAP: More on-demand, new prices coming

Despite SAP's early reluctance to provide its business applications on a subscription-based on-demand model, the company is now catching up fast

Launching Linux on a Windows box

Researchers: spend to protect against one attack, not many

Model to be proposed next month is based on minimizing risk defined by probability of a breach

AOL e-mail addresses get personal

Program will let members customize their mail address with the domain name of their choice

SAP: Google a rival to-be

Co-founder Hasso Plattner says search giant or a Chinese company could be next competitor

EC blasts Europe for weak IT performance

Europe continues to lag behind competitors, investing about half as much as the U.S.

Update: Lawmakers introduce net neutrality bill

Stand-alone bill aims to prohibit broadband providers from slowing access to online competitors

State Department limits use of Lenovo PCs

Concerns about Lenovo's Chinese government ties leads to U.S. ban on classified networks

E-mail attacks target unpatched Word hole

Antivirus companies issue warning about sophisticated phishing attacks

Motorola cites Java cell phone opportunities

IronPort upgrades outbound e-mail content filters

IronPort filters help companies stay compliant with regulations

Update: HP shines amid market slump

HP closing in on Dell's global PC market share

Scientists build a world of ‘software beings’

Research project will study social interactions between millions of virtual human beings

Does China need to innovate?

Opinion: Chinese companies' biggest challenge may be identifying companies to buy, not innovating on home soil

Google searching for users’ trust

Trust is key to opening the way for location-based search services, says Google exec

Via aims at bridging digital divide in Vietnam

Via becomes the latest company to announce a PC center in developing countries

China Mobile talks search with Google

Execs are discussing how to make Internet search capabilities available to mobile-phone users

Update: Dell plans AMD servers

Surprise news that it will use AMD's Opteron processors in its high-end, multiprocessor servers by the end of the year came as Dell announced disappointing earnings for Q1 of 2007

Startup seeks spectrum for free network

M2Z aims to provide affordable U.S. broadband

Java gets REST

Ecma publishes first draft of Open XML spec

Microsoft hopes Office Open XML will become international standard

AOL buys video ad company Lightningcast

Lightningcast to become part of AOL's Advertising.com division

Net neutrality debate makes for strange allies

Christian Coalition, rockers Moby and R.E.M. voice support of Net neutrality bill

Senate panel debates its own net neutrality bill

Lawmakers say they will take the time to get the bill right

Sun makes partial Eclipse move

IBM details Jazz team collaboration project at JavaOne

Microsoft releases Vista’s minimum requirements

Company launches "Get Ready" Web site to address requirements for low-end, high-end versions of Vista

Wind River releases device management suite

Wind River Systems enhances its embedded OS to monitor software on remote devices

Update: Google sued for directing users to pirated software

Google faces lawsuit from small Belgian company over Suggest search feature

SAP demos new Muse user interface

SAP will roll out the interface across its high-end apps in the coming months

Sun Grid Seeking Application Developers

Open source still raises enterprise eyebrows