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Online abuse by workers rampant in the UK, study says

Cost of Internet misuse is relatively low compared to other types of security breaches

Surviving your boss’s bad decisions

Office delay won’t affect Mendocino, SAP says

Mendocino will ship as scheduled toward the end of the second quarter

Samsung elbows its way into chip foundry business

Samsung aims to rival foundry industry leaders TSMC and UMC

Piracy worries still a thorn in Sino-U.S. relations

Visit to Beijing by U.S. Commerce Secretary to focus on protecting IP rights in China

Microsoft faces another lawsuit in South Korea

Microsoft joins group key to ODF standards adoption

Critics say the move could stall adoption of the OpenDocument Format

Two new Web sites let users find and report phishing

Sites represent a growing movement to fight back against growing security problem

ICANN’s 3-year plan under scrutiny at meeting

The draft addresses 10 key challenges ICANN faces

Former networking execs indicted for securities fraud

Former Clarent execs face possible fines, prison sentences

GarageBand for pro use: Introduction

Jabber creator launches online identity project

MicroID utility gives authors a way to prove identity of blog postings

Cognos to launch enterprise search engine

Technology to search deeper than a mere report title

Nortel expands services to carriers

Newly introduced offerings include IPTV, VoIP, security consulting services, and hosted services.

LogicBlaze’s open-source Fuse SOA stack debuts

Company also to redistribute and support IBM's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition as a component of a Fuse version.

Microsoft hands BizTalk Server 2006 to manufacturers

Enterprise edition almost $5,000 more per CPU, compared with BizTalk Server 2004.

On Robinson Crusoe and open source

Gates lays out future for enterprise apps

Microsoft chairman discusses vision of smart tables that function as screens for mobile devices

Guide aims to plug security holes for small business

Program aimed at companies with fewer than 500 employees

Wireless chipset market jumps on consumer demand

Manufacturers expected to show growth above 50 percent

EDS gets $3B U.S. Navy contract extension

Controversial NMCI project has experienced numerous delays

BMC buys apps management vendor for $150 million

BMC acquires Isreali vendor Identify Software for $150 million in cash

User trends drove Microsoft to Windows Live, exec says

Microsoft has woken up to the fact that advertising is a major force, exec says

Sonic upgrades ESB, touts SOA benefits

Workbench, business process improvements are touted

Researcher: DRM technology fails in practice

Cambridge-MIT researcher says business models need changing, not the technology

Update: Microsoft tests fix for IE bug as exploits appear

Microsoft hopes to include a fix for Internet Explorer security hole by April 11

Chinese prefer mobile phones over landlines

Gap between those with mobiles versus landlines continues to widen

In Brief: Siemens winds down chip manufacturing investments

Microsoft tweaks CRM to improve hosting

Redmond releases a new version of Dynamics CRM 3.0 software

SAP plans to triple staff at Shanghai R&D lab

Vendor plans to invest $100 million in China over the next two years

IAnywhere’s Afaria now manages Blackberrys, too

Upgrade makes it easier for administrators to manage wireless devices

Big retailer backs NTT DoCoMo’s phone payments

Phone-based credit card system will make it easier to charge small purchases

The hidden challenges of federated identity

Taiwan warns chip maker UMC on compliance

Vice premier of Taiwan says UMC needs to show improvement in complying with fine, remedies

Hughes launches managed service for businesses

Hughes will provide broadband networks to large businesses and government

Lenovo rejects security concerns over U.S. gov’t contract

Commission raised concerns that Lenovo's involvement will allow China to spy on the State Department

Lycos to enter ‘Net phone fray

Lycos takes on Yahoo, Skype with the launch of its first VoIP application

Microsoft: Business apps keeping up with road map

Microsoft reassures partners and users that its strategy remains on track despite Vista's delay

Microsoft reveals Web app dev strategy — and Vista delay

Gates admits letting IE languish was a mistake, looks ahead at a brave new world of Web apps with or without Vista

IBM pushes new governance tools and practices

A new initiative goes beyond managing service assets in a registry

Java Product News (updated March 27, 2006)

Instantiations introduces Java desktop development tool, JRules 6 now available, and more

Simplify XML processing with VTD-XML

A new option that overcomes the problems of DOM and SAX

Java facing pressures from dynamic languages

Conference panelists cite need for improvements, also discuss open source issues

Open source SOAP stacks getting revamped

XFire, Apache tout new wares

Offshoring cited in Florida data leak

The state estimates that 108,000 employees may be affected by the data breach

Palm rides Treo sales to strong quarter

Thanks to strong sales of its Treo smart phone, Palm beat analyst expectations for quarterly profits

10 tips on making agile programming work

Russian Web site offered eBay account info for $5

EBay helps shut down site that was offering stolen customer account information

U.K. police deploy searchable palm print database

Biometric system has made more than 500 matches of prints to crime scenes in past two weeks

Alcatel-Lucent could boost enterprise profile

Merger of the companies could propel their products in the enterprise market