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Customers prefer offshoring to multiple locations

To decrease risk, companies diversify in multiple places such as India, Eastern Europe

Access announces new Linux Palm OS

Platform includes Linux, database engine, streaming media framework

Microsoft demos Windows Live for mobile

Ballmer shows Windows Live Mobile Search to find a bar

Update: Oracle buys Sleepycat open-source database vendor

Oracle strengthens its hand in the embedded database market

Executives: mobile content not here yet

Mobile phone users probably won't download significant amounts of content any time soon

MacBook Pro follow-up

Broadcom aims for clearer calls on crowded networks

M-Stream technology lets mobile networks support twice as many calls without changes to infrastructure

Mobile e-mail market heats up

Nokia is trying to grow the mobile market to reach users of all phones

Update: Microsoft confident on eve of EU deadline

Decision on fines will take months if Microsoft is found to have not complied with antitrust ruling

ISS announces new security products

New products help administrators spot network anomalies

Google partners with BearingPoint

Google's enterprise search products will be bundled with BearingPoint services

CA’s Project SOA tackles Web services security

New software designed to help secure, manage systems using Web services software

MacBook Pro ships with killer specs, I want it, and you probably do, too

MicroStrategy supports open-source databases

Latest version of MicroStrategy's BI software works with MySQL and PostgreSQL

Chip maker UMC doubles Q4 profit

UMC's net profits soared to $95M as shipments increased, prices rose

Nokia, Sanyo agree to combine CDMA businesses

Merged company aims to be No. 1 in the CDMA handset market

Livedoor’s Horie, other executives indicted

Japanese Internet portal execs indicted for securities law violations

OSBC: BEA open-sourcing former SolarMetric technology

Palamida expands code library

Ultra-low cost mobile phones a hit

GSMA to extend the program aimed at selling ultra-low cost mobile phones to poor nations

AOL offers beta version of Chinese-language Web site

AOL targets the Chinese-speaking community in the U.S.

Yahoo committed to openness but will follow laws

U.S. Congress set to investigate how U.S. Internet companies operate in China

Gartner: Flash saved DRAM from collapse in 2005

Chip manufacturers survived because of the ease of switching production from DRAM to NAND flash

Microsoft sweetens license model with SugarCRM

Open-source vendor will release its Sugar Suite 4.5 under one of Microsoft's Shared Source licenses

Microsoft to offer first look at Office Live

Microsoft plans to offer the collection of Web-based services in three versions

Nortel spins off blade server switch business

New company, Blade Network Technologies, will compete with Cisco Systems

Salesnet moves closer to full CRM suite functionality

Increased functionality should help Salesnet compete head-to-head with Salesforce.com

App support upstarts promise lower costs

Third-party support services firms say having maintenance work turned over to them could shrink IT bills by as much as 50 percent

Motorola: Expect more Razr phones

A wider variety of the popular handphone are on the way, but industry watchers say staying on the cutting edge means Motorola must look beyond the Razr

Ellison on why JBoss would be a good buy

HP creates separate handheld division

Company to focus more on converged handheld market

Drag-and-drop flaw in Explorer reported

Browser vulnerability could allow hacker to take over control of a computer

Sun to end Trusted Solaris

Sun will instead offer Solaris Trusted Extensions as an add-on to its Solaris OS

Borland unveils IT management/governance combo

Company plans to address core ALM processes

Conference propels open source into business

OSBC to feature open source legal info, vendor products and services

Gmail breaks out of consumer space

Google hopes to extend its Web mail service to businesses, universities

IIPA piracy petition criticizes Russia

U.S. trade associations calls for possible sanctions against Russia for serious copyright violations

Ellison suggests rationale for JBoss acquisition

Oracle reportedly in talks to buy JBoss and two other open-source companies

Intel, SAP among VCs investing $18.5M in MySQL

Venture capitalists are falling over each other to invest in open-source companies

Microsoft acquires MotionBridge

Microsoft will combine MotionBridge's mobile phone search engine with its own mobile search technology

HP to bolster ProCurve switch family

HP rolls out new Ethernet switches that allow for faster performance

Cingular PC Card enables worldwide mobile Net access

Cingular customers will need only a single PC Card to operate in different parts of the world

AJAX, agile programming are highlighted by Tibco, Rally

Low-cost version of General Interface is readied

Ericsson to offer hosted Napster service

Napster Mobile will be available to mobile operators in the first half of this year

Carriers to offer free upgrades for Direct Push

Several handset makers also announce support for Microsoft's push e-mail technology

Winbond’s $1.5 billion chip plant in production

Increased production will help keep prices of DRAM and flash memory from rising too much

Seagate plans 12GB cellphone drive in Q3

New smaller drive also consumes a third less power and has greater shock resistance

Yahoo’s role in Li Zhi case overblown, critic says

U.S. House of Representatives to investigate how U.S. Internet companies operate in China

Product Previews

Certeon appliances smooth WAN traffic, Borland zeros in on governance, SWsoft eEases virtual server management, X1 digs deeper into the enterprise desktop

Blogs, wikis make a home in the enterprise

ECM vendors Stellent, iUpload tackle thorny security, compliance issues posed by blogs and wikis

RSA Conference gets the NAC

Annual security show will be abuzz with access control, event management, and compliance solutions