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CA shuffles exec ranks, passes CTO job to Barrenechea

Former CTO Yogesh Gupta now senior vice president of business development

Page shows Google.com may get makeover

Some Web users are seeing a reformatted Google results page that changes the site's famous uncluttered look

Update: Microsoft to license code to avoid EU fines

By licensing source code for communications protocols Microsoft avoids $2.43M-a-day fine

LAMP may be just what Grid is looking for

Java developer tool backs AJAX

Sun Java Studio Creator 2 readied

SAP reports one of its best years ever

Program to lure former PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards customers away from Oracle resulted in around 200 businesses switching to SAP

Open source IDS/IPS

Tokyo Stock Exchange names new CIO

World's second-largest stock market taps former NTT exec to oversee IT strategy

Microsoft takes aim as RIM battles in court

Microsoft ready to exploit Blackberry's possible shutdown with its own push e-mail offering

Google to launch censored China search service

Google's site will block results of Internet searches likely to offend Beijing

SAP: 2006 software revenue to increase up to 17 percent

Business applications vendor offers optimistic outlook while reporting Q4 revenue increase

Beta 2 of Windows Vista due in April

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer blogger also reveals Feb. 21 release date for another Vista CTP

Microsoft defends decision to give up search data

Company says it cooperated with government subpoena, but did so in a way so it would not violate customers' privacy

CA profit up as revenue inches upward

Third-quarter revenue up 5 percent over year-ago period

Dell’Oro: faster gear to drive Wi-Fi market

Research firm predicts WLAN market resurgence in 2006 for enterprises

FirstGov.gov revamps search functionality

Users can access more than 40 million government documents and Web pages

U.S. Department of Justice blasts Microsoft on compliance

Microsoft is said to have fallen behind in meeting some requirements of antitrust agreement

Update: Ask.com changes its image search service’s lens

Ask Jeeves' new image search engine uses internally developed index and technology

Microsoft readies design tool previews

Expression technologies getting refreshed with features similar to Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw

EMC: Profit dips in Q4 due to one-time charges

Data-storage company's revenue tops 10 consecutive quarters of double-digit growth

Lucent reports loss of $104M on revenue of $2B

Lucent's revenue fell in all segments except multimedia networks

Competition pressures Vodafone results

Growth in emerging markets helps mobile operator's results

Livedoor Horie’s house begins to fall

Livedoor group companies are moving to distance themselves from the troubles

Opera to launch Mini worldwide

Opera debuts its hosted mobile phone browsing service and application

Via aims processors at emerging markets

Via hopes to differentiate itself from rivals by offering components that consume less power

Judge rules two MicroStrategy patents invalid

Pretrial ruling says Business Objects did not infringe a third patent

Google founders, CEO keep $1 salaries

The three executives were all listed among Forbes' richest people in the world last year

Tokyo exchange takes step towards Livedoor delisting

Hard-hit portal company is attempting to continue business-as-usual

Botnet hacker pleads guilty, faces prison term

Hacker convicted for making money from creating malicious code could face 25 years in prison

Google News emerges from beta with new features

Users can sign up for Personalized Search, browse most popular recent stories

SpikeSource’s Polese cites open source complexities

CEO also comments on Java, outsourcing

Update: Supreme Court won’t hear RIM case

An injunction could force RIM to shut down its BlackBerry service

Verizon Business launches with new wireless services

Features target large businesses

Update: Consumer group files complaint against ‘adware’ firm

Civil liberties group accuses 180 solutions of unfair and deceptive business practices

Survey: CIOs strive to improve business processes

Findings also reveal that IT budgets expected to increase in 2006

Two new worms and a Linux patch

IBM revamps Sametime enterprise IM platform

Sametime 7.5 integrates with IM services from AOL, Yahoo, and Google

451’s William Fellows: Grids to Disappear Into Stack

Yahoo extends research efforts to Europe, Latin America

Yahoo announces new centers in Chile, Spain

GPL 3 draft draws mostly positive response

Major update of GNU GPL does raise some concern about software patent protection, DRM

Nokia seeks patent for mobile emergency feature

Nokia developing mobile phone capable of sending a covert emergency message

Microsoft offers new small-business resources

Small Business Plus aims to provide better access to software, support and services

In India, Via focuses on emerging economies

Chip maker is setting up an innovation center in India

Update: Livedoor CEO, other execs arrested

Livedoor execs arrested for violations of Japan's Securities and Exchange Law

Licensing terms cloudy in GPL version 3.0

New Trojan horses threaten cell phones

Three malicious programs spreading via Bluetooth or multimedia messages can affect Symbian phones

New Adobe software turns 3-D images to PDFs

Adobe Acrobat 3D makes it much easier to share designs from CAD apps

Red Hat, Suse patch critical KDE security hole

KDE hole is rated critical and affects the JavaScript engine used in KDE

Google, Apple top 2005 poll of most influential brands

VoIP vendor Skype breaks into the list at third place, outdistancing coffee house Starbucks

Tokyo Stock Exchange adds trading capacity

Some critics say the bourse should have raised capacity even more