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Microsoft takes Internet kiosks to rural India

Program offers localized content and applications

Time Warner grows revenue but loses AOL subscribers

Executives still upbeat about the future

Update: Senegal goes open source to cut software costs

State's IT agency opts to avoid commercial software license fees

Novell demonstrates its Linux Desktop 10 in Paris

Company shows OS exchanging music and photos with an iPod and digital camera, touts business features

Infineon produces its first 65-nanometer sample chips

Company plans to develop chips for low-power, high-performance devices

Vendors unite to promote AJAX tool development

Open AJAX group backed by BEA, IBM, Google, Oracle, Mozilla, Red Hat, Eclipse, and more

EFF sues AT&T over U.S. wiretapping program

Group files suit against AT&T for giving NSA direct access to its database of communications records

NTT DoCoMo develops HSDPA handsets

Company aims for 2006 launch

PortalPlayer offers ‘always-on’ laptop interface

Feature lets users peek inside their notebooks without booting up

Bush proposes tech funding

President also defends wiretapping

Windows or Linux on iMac or MacBook Pro

Symantec snags Oracle CIO

David Thompson was senior vice president and CIO with Oracle

Google tastes Wall Street’s wrath for the first time

Although revenue rose, the company missed the consensus earnings-per-share forecast of financial analysts

Allchin: Services, software will coexist

Despite a strong push into services, Microsoft's software licensing will not go away anytime soon

Complexity stifles Web services

Too many standards, not enough end-user involvement, say speakers at industry event

Microsoft to introduce licensing tool in Canada, Europe

The MPLA was launched in November as a way of walking customers through the process of choosing product licenses

Google denies Napster tie-up, music store plan

Search company says it will stick to offering music-related info via its search engine and links to third-party stores

Skype lines up audioconferencing service

VoIP service to expand to conferences with as many as 500 callers

Microsoft warns of file-trashing worm

Called Nyxem, Blackdoom, and Kama Sutra, the worm is set to erupt on the third day of every month

ComPiere to offer ERP suite on Derby database

Users will have option to run suite on open source database for the first time

Update: Microsoft revamps blogging policy

Outrage over its censoring of a Chinese blogger prompts Microsoft to formulate new policy

Good Technology faces patent suit over push e-mail

Lawsuit alleges Good's push e-mail services contain patented Visto technology

EC head says IT initiative not working

Europe still lags behind the U.S. in innovation, despite detailed plan to increase competitiveness

Evite.com broadens scope of online services

Evite.com to offer suite of event planning tools

FCC proposes to fine AT&T for missing privacy report

AT&T faces $100,000 fine for failing to detail its compliance with customer privacy-protection rules

Salesforce.com crashes again

Hosted CRM service experiences widespread outage for the second time in recent weeks

Broadband, services drive Ericsson sales

Ericsson's sales were up 15 percent in 2005

Red Hat officially commits to MIT’s $100 laptop

Red Hat becomes founding corporate member of the One Laptop Per Child organization

Nokia kicks Python for S60 to open source

Japan’s Livedoor case could take years

Case against the portal company's former execs expected to go to the Supreme Court

Accenture to double staff in India, China, Philippines

IT services and outsourcing company to add 26,000 employees over the next three years

Nokia releases code to open source community

Nokia opens source code for Python for S60 phones

Symantec readies ‘Genesis’ subscription service

Genesis will integrate security, PC tuning, and backup software into service accessible over the Net

Fortinet, Trend Micro settle dispute

Fortinet now allowed to use technology covered by the patent

Microsoft expands IP licensing program

35 technologies now part of IP Ventures

Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server represents a shift to collaborative-centric focus

Planned Orcas release of Visual Studio toolset also is touted at conference

Microsoft merges enterprise IM and Exchange groups

The Unified Communications Group to bring together company's work on e-mail, other communication systems

Hackers lurk in AMD Web site

WMF flaw being exploited on customer support discussion forums

Silicon Valley group pushes for local wireless network

The plan includes public service enhancements

HP weighs in further on data center heat issues

Rapidly increasing loads on data centers prompt users to look for power management solutions

Japanese firm pleads guilty to DRAM price fixing

U.S. Department of Justice investigation has led four companies to plead guilty

Grid’s about data management, not just CPU horsepower

Microsoft improves MSN Spaces blogging service

Company improves search, revenue generating options

Qlusters unveils open-source systems management

openQRM eases management of disparate components at Linux-based datacenters

Downloadable book aims to ease wireless networking

Free book aims to instruct people in remote area on how to build wireless Internet connections

IAnywhere puts more brains in RFID readers

IAnywhere releases software that can be embedded to increase the capabilities in RFID readers

Sun unwraps new range of grid-ready Ultra workstations

New family of workstations come bundled with Sun's grid software

SAP CEO: India is getting expensive

Escalating personnel costs are leading SAP to look elsewhere for skilled programmers

Systinet tackles SOA governance

A new suite of applications addresses the knotty problem of policy management for services

IBM tool aids development of specialized systems

UML support is featured in Rational offering