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Update: Windows Vista release pushed back to January 2007

Microsoft will release Vista to business partners in November

Dell expands product design work in China

China is growing beyond just a center of low-cost manufacturing

Report identifies Kazaa, SpyAxe as ‘badware’

StopBadware.org releases its first report identifying four programs as badware

Microsoft to update IE after bugs

Update could come out as early as April

Microsoft escalates ODF fight with OpenXML group

About 40 technology companies have joined in the effort to learn how to use and support OpenXML on any platform

Microsoft: Gadgets offer developer opportunity

Joe Belfiore, vice president of Microsoft's eHome division, said developers can build Gadgets for hardware OEMs to pre-install on computers running Vista once it ships this year

Sun releases processor designs as open source

The strategy is part of Sun's OpenSparc Initiative, a move to create the world's first multicore, multithreaded ecosystem

Eclipse: Sun still welcome to join

Sun rebuffs invitation; IBM, Compuware unveil wares

Red Hat releases Fedora Core 5

FC 5 includes a preview of the open-source Xen virtualization technology it plans to integrate into the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

OpenVZ to release kernel for Suse Linux Enterprise 10

Software enables users to create isolated, virtual private servers on a single machine

Microsoft readying PSP challenger, reports say

Company working on handheld gaming device

Extensity hopes to be $1B firm within three years

Financial applications company plans to expand through acquisitions, increased R&D

In Brief: Infravio partners with Layer 7 on SOA governance interoperability

In Brief: Sun announces C/C++ support for NetBeans IDE

First alpha release of Firefox 2.0 is imminent

Mozilla's open-source browser has feature that makes it easier to return to recently visited Web pages

Samsung offering flash-based disk to customers

Introduction of SSD technology could have sweeping consequences in the technology industry

Hutchison’s 3 signs deal with Microsoft for 3G services

3 Group makes MSN Messenger and Hotmail services available to its 3G mobile subscribers

Deutsche Telekom tunes in to Microsoft TV

Microsoft wins its largest IPTV deal in Europe

Unisys sells stake in Japanese unit, begins layoffs

Unisys plans to lay off around 3,600 employees worldwide

Update: Microsoft eyes XAML to wed designers, developers

Microsoft bills WPF/E as a more flexible alternative to Adobe's Macromedia Flash

Google launches financial Web site

Google Finance will compete with Yahoo Finance and Microsoft's MSN Money

Samsung sees Q1 chip revenue steady

Operating profits at the chip division are down compared to the fourth quarter

Panel explores roots of spyware, adware

Legal experts, government officials and technology professionals gathered Monday to discuss unwanted software programs that track Internet users' behavior

In Brief: Exadel VCP eases development complexity

IRS, security vendors warn of tax phishers

The tax agency has been increasingly focused on the phishing threat

Web publisher sues over Google index exclusion

If KinderStart.com prevails, the lawsuit could have significant repercussions on the way Google decides to remove Web sites from its index

Novell CEO opens up road map

He acknowledged that "additional work is needed to close the gap" on the desktop side, but said that the open-source community is "working hard" to do that

Sprint Nextel files third phone-records lawsuit

The company accuses San Marco & Associates of using fraudulent tactics such as pretexting, the practice of obtaining personal information under false pretenses

IE at core of Microsoft’s next-generation Web plan

Microsoft's lackluster attention to the browser allowed Mozilla with Firefox to challenge IE's dominance, but Microsoft is now answering, Chairman Bill Gates said

HP beefs up server line with AMD chips

Dual-core chips from AMD land in three blades, three standalone servers

Cray to unite scalar, vector computer architectures

Company creating a new supercomputing platform

Grid and Virtualization finding common ground in Linux

SRS releases new document-cleaning software

Document Detective removes sensitive content hidden in electronic documents

Microsoft to preview IE, Atlas at MIX 06

MIX 06 is aimed at showing Web designers how they can use Microsoft technologies

In Brief: Sun, Genuitec preview NetBeans GUI Builder for MyEclipse

Salesforce.com will join Eclipse

SugarCRM also climbs aboard; Borland buys Gauntlet

Eclipse conference features ALM, rich-client technologies

Multiple projects move in various stages

Wavecom to acquire Sony Ericsson’s M-to-M business

Deal is a sign of consolidation in the machine-to-machine communications market

Sony Online subs open-source for Oracle

Sony Online signs deal to use database software from EnterpriseDB

Chinese Internet dissident gets 10-year sentence

Chinese man sentenced for posting an anti-government article on the Internet

Baidu, Nokia team up for mobile search in China

Deal pairs China's top search engine with its largest supplier of mobile phones

Dell will double staff in India to 20,000

Company plans to double the number of engineers doing product development in India

Does agile programming lack agility?

Software exec notes that agile seems to be mostly about processes and tools instead of individuals

EclipseCon reflects IDE’s rise as plug-in platform of choice

But no one said it would be easy: Transitioning can bring undesirable complexities

McAfee vows to help after faulty software release

Staff in overdrive, helping enterprise customers restore utility files deleted March 10

Red Hat aims to simplify CPU virtualization

Linux vendor is integrating Xen virtualization technologies into the next version of its OS

EclipseCon reflects the rise of IDE

Popularity of open source IDE continues to grow

Querying for persistent objects without a query language

A powerful combination of Hibernate and JavaServer Faces

Get creative with <em>Wicked Cool Java</em>

Peek inside a Java book that presents 101 exciting and cool code bits, open source projects, and project ideas

Judge: Google must give govt index data, not queries

Google must provide the government with 50,000 Web addresses in its search engine index, but not with sample of users' queries.