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Skype on Palm OS, finally

Wall Street Beat: Traders eye chip wars, M&A

AMD's positive earnings announcement after the market closed Wednesday was overshadowed by doubts about the rest of the year

Firefox update does Mac on Intel

Mozilla's new version of its Firefox browser adds native support for Apple's Mac OS X running on Intel chips

Sprint GPS phone tracks kids

Sprint Family Locator uses GPS to pinpoint the location and display it on an interactive map

Mobile Internet boost coming with .mobi rollout

In a move to drive uptake of mobile services, mTLD Top Level Domain will begin to issue .mobi Internet domain names for devices, and a set of design standards

Take steady, balanced approach to SOA, execs say

Helvetia Patria Group eBusiness Center chief Didier Beck said it's vital to ensure a balance between business and technology needs from the get-go

Buffalo ships early 802.11n WLAN gear

The company announced a pre-standard router, a PC Card for notebooks and a PCI adapter for desktops

Intel rides PC demand to top of semiconductor market

The company's comparatively stodgy 13 percent growth lead to an 86 percent market share worth $27.5 billion

DOJ charges Qualcomm with antitrust actions in merger

Qualcomm and Flarion Technologies violated U.S. antitrust law by violating premerger waiting period requirements, the DOJ said

Microsoft to end support for Windows 98, ME in July

On July 11, all public and technical support — and security updates — for the products will be suspended

The real cost of implementing Linux

Web 2.0: First of all, what is it?

IT officials offer definitions, predictions

Update: Sony Ericsson profits surge

Strong phone sales, new products boost Sony Ericsson's first-quarter profits

Getting the Internet Ready for TV …

Helio bundles Yahoo into phones

Helio is latest mobile operator to ink a deal incorporating search, content on phones

Computing project targets bird flu

Research institute harnesses distributed computing to investigate drug treatments for avian influenza

Ciena opens India R&D lab

Networking technology provider scales back on outsourcing

BlackBerry debuts on Treo 650

SingTel is first operator to offer access to the e-mail service for Treo 650 smart phone users

Google launches calendar service

Google Calendar initially will be integrated with the Gmail e-mail service

BlackBerry to debut in China by late May

RIM working with world's largest cellphone service provider to launch its push e-mail service in China

Update: Strong Opteron sales boost AMD revenues

Chip company's earnings far exceeded analyst estimates

Intel, Baidu to jointly develop search apps

Google rival aims to let users to access Baidu search services on handsets and home devices

Samsung to launch Origami PC in May

Q1 ultra mobile PC runs a tablet version of Windows XP

Fleury: JBoss to scale its business

Executive also denies BEA claim of acquisition of opportunity

FIFA criticizes World Cup data gathering

Organizers have required fans to provide data such as name, date of birth and passport number, but they are mum on what data will appear on RFID tags

ActivIdentity’s single sign-on software gets smart

Version 6.0 of the ActivIdentity SecureLogin Single Sign-On software allows large companies to store names and passwords for PC access on employee smart cards

Critics hit SF Wi-Fi plan on privacy, interference

Google has said it will erase the user's Web-surfing data after using it to target ads, but privacy watchdogs say it represents a bad trade-off for users

Sun partly opens dev tool source

Prefound.com to wed social networks, search

The company plans to host a Kentucky Derby event it hopes will help build a critical mass of users for its search engine by leveraging popular social networks

Laughing at open source applications

EBay eyes crossover with MeetUp

Auction site invests $2 million in social networking site

Metavante puts BPO on services roster

Financial services company also acquires stake in ICICI OneSource

UK business continuity drill calls for communication

Report says financial institutions that prepared for disaster benefited the most

NEC-Philips venture takes off

Companies extend joint work on IP communications

EMC adds services to manage storage flow

On-site EMC Managed Services includes utility, storage management

China trade talks yield modest success

China makes 'incremental' commitments to reduce IP infringements, copyright group says

PolyServe consolidates SQL Server systems

Utility makes it easier for enterprises to cluster database servers for better performance

Oracle to buy Portal Software

Oracle will pay $220M for maker of billing and revenue management software

Exigen taps growing services market

Interview: Exigen Group founder Alec Miloslavsky discusses plans to take a bigger slice of the growing European IT services market

Sun rolls out new Sun Ray thin clients

Company also ships second server based on its Niagara UltraSparc T1 chip

Why are storage folks not blogging?

U.S. lags in high-speed Internet

Pricey phones do well even in developing markets

Nokia finds people in developing countries don't want only the cheapest phones

Free as in data, and a new Storage Sprawl podcast

Free as in data, and a new Storage Sprawl podcast

Free as in data, and a new Storage Sprawl podcast

BlackBerry, meet China’s RedBerry

China Unicom introduces a rival push e-mail service with a very similar name to RIM's

NetApp expands design center in India

Network storage company plans to spend more than $150M in India over the next two years

Tokyo taxis to accept e-money

BitWallet system will enable passengers to pay using electronic money starting in August

Ex-UMC executives heads to court

Case of execs accused of helping establish a Chinese semiconductor company will begin in May