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Darwine baby steps toward Windows app execution on OS X

Wall Street Beat: Strong earnings point to growth

Hardware sales helped HP and Dell report stronger-than-expected results this week

Dell exceeds revenue, earnings forecast in Q4

Company sees strong sales of enterprise products and services

Bill would bar US firms from putting servers in China

Global Online Freedom Act would also prohibit U.S. search engine companies from altering the results of searches in Internet-restricting countries

World Cup passes on smart soccer ball

High-tech ball sends a radio signal to a referee's watch when the ball crosses the goal line

Intel compilers, Xcode and Objective-C

IBM launches info-management software, services

New software incorporates technology from Ascential, iPhrase acquisitions

OSBC: Professional open source grows up

Consolidation threatens to consume more established companies that led the first-wave of open source

Dell’Oro: Lower end switches drive Ethernet growth

An earlier class of switches that dominated the market in the late 1990s is still used in most LANs today

Downsizing ILM

Dell adds Cisco connectivity to blades

The Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3030 for Dell's PowerEdge 1855 blade has an embedded device manager for easing configuration

European study shows fast, loose approach to e-mail

IT managers, users are confused about how their e-mail is stored and managed

Microsoft launches U.K. antipiracy campaign

Program aimed at cutting pirate software in the U.K will include 'house calls' to retailers

IBM opens lab in India for advanced IT deployments

Big Blue unveils High Performance on Demand Solutions Lab in Bangalore

Cisco CIO: Going mobile is tough for enterprises

Wireless industry is not giving enterprises the tools they need to access corporate data from mobile devices

Death of the software salesman?

Eclipse executive director questions need for the role

UMC fined over China chip investment

Small size of fine signals Taiwan government may want to end its spat with the contract chip maker

Toshiba to consider R&D center in Russia

Company announces a major expansion of its business activities in Russia

It’s official: Office 12 to become Office 2007

Microsoft to unveil on Thursday packaging and pricing for the next version of Office

Oracle to buy communications software vendor HotSip

Oracle continues its string of acquisitions by buying Swedish vendor of telecommunications infrastructure software

Update: HP revenue rises in Q1

Company saw increase in hardware and software sales, dip in revenue from services

Orange targets SMBs with mobile apps

Portal offers downloads of CRM, sales force automation, and project management apps for mobile use

RSA – FBI director: Cyber threats ‘fluid and far-reaching’

Feds will increasingly collaborate with corporations and international law enforcement to combat online criminal acts

Update: Frank Moss named MIT Media Lab director

Moss looks to changes in academics, research, and sponsorhship

OSBC: SAP exec cites IT consolidation wave

SpikeSource's Polese touts open source effects

US lawmakers scold tech companies for China censorship

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco criticized for choosing profits rather than helping bring free speech to China

Mobile phones infringe Rambus patents, CEO says

Chip makers, manufacturers may have to license the technology

Directory to provide Longhorn’s ID management

Longhorn to be released in 2007

Sleepycat VP says Oracle buy is not about MySQL

Oracle looking to become a bigger player in the embedded database market

New version of Java for mobile expected this year

Handsets with new Java already in the works

Players jockey for role in mobile IM

Announcements include the GSM community offering a fee-based IM service

Google charts blog analytics path with Measure Map

Google buys company that provides usage and traffic analysis for blogs

Microsoft responds to EC complaints

Microsoft makes last attempt to stave off million-dollar-a-day fines

“Grid Computing for Developers” hits the shelves …

Mobile operating systems vie for position

Handset makers moving toward standardizing on just a few open platforms

Linux will reach mass-market phones

MontaVista exec says Linux is ideal for low-end handsets

Sun set to release Mustang Java beta on Wednesday

Scripting, Web services, and diagnostics are improved in next desktop version of Java

Tata faces employee lawsuit in the U.S.

Suit charges that Tata's non-U.S.-citizen employees are being required to sign over their tax refund checks

TI’s new mobile phone chip aims for all-in-one

Chip aims to transform handsets into all-in-one devices with camera, music player, computer, and phone

TI sees $20 mobile phones out this year

TI's LoCosto chip helps with drive to provide ultra-low-cost phones to people in poor nations

FSF hopes to release final GPL v3 by Jan. 1

Current draft of GPL v3 needs significant clarification before the open-source community will adopt it

RSA: RSA puts a token into a browser toolbar

Token designed to electronically sign online transactions

Microsoft releases seven software patches

Releases include patches for Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player

OSBC: Sun seeks to woo HP to Solaris

Microsoft exec touts "coopetition"

RSA survey shows security confidence low, but people buy anyway

IT businesses most concerned about losing transactions due to downtime

Update: Sun to further promote Linux use on its servers

Sun releases two specs to make it easier to run non-Solaris OSes on servers powered by UltraSparc T1

RSA: Gates outlines ID management for Vista, XP

InfoCard stores password, identity information

Cingular launches global 3G data plan

Service will eliminate exorbitant roaming charges

Oracle to sell off Siebel’s OnTarget consultancy

OnTarget said to not be crucial to future business strategy

3GSM: Skype, Hutchison 3G partner on VOIP

First commercial VOIP service for mobile phones could be a possibility