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Building a view to Vista

Pieces of Microsoft's forthcoming OS, due late 2006, are falling into place

Getting a grip on mixed Linux, Windows administration

Centeris  aims to smooth wrinkles in managing mixed environments

Eclipse focuses on reports in new business intelligence tool

PHP also is emphasized

Silicon Valley employment outlook brightens

After four years of job losses, tech sector sees uptick

Product previews

Clearwell extracts smarts from e-mail, Data Domain builds on backup box, Google extends Mini search appliance, Mozilla ships Thunderbird 1.5 e-mail client

SaaS providers tap third-party apps

NetSuite, Salesforce.com extend services to verticals

Business logic in a hurry

How to get business experts to play in the IT sandbox

ObjectWeb seeks legal status to aid its growth

Open source group hopes to further its expansion internationally

Improve the usability of search-results pages

Add sophisticated but easy-to-use filtering and sorting controls

First Mobile WiMax chip sets ready to ship

Beceem Communications claims 30Mbps peak performance

Subpoena of search engine records irks users

Some Internet users back AOL, MSN, and Yahoo's compliance with the government; others back Google's resistance

CDC pulls Onyx bid, buys hosted SCM developer

Reasons for reversal include Onyx's resistance to further negotiations and climbing share price

AccuRev gives software configuration system global focus

Version 4.0 of product is readied; company also working on Eclipse project

LiveJournal makes changes to counteract security threat

The Weblog service moves to protect user account information

Microsoft hopes to MIX in with Web designers

The first-ever MIX conference in March will showcase Microsoft technologies, with a Web-based twist

Microsoft to bolster Software Assurance program

Company says several enhancements coming in March

Some European mobile users ready to ditch landlines

Study shows 19 percent of homes in Western Europe exclusively use cellular phones

Oracle exec says users get enough flaw info

Interview: Senior director of security assurance talks about Oracle's patching policies

Update: Tokyo Stock Exchange mulls earlier system upgrade

New system will increase the trading capacity at the Exchange

EBay China decides ‘free’ is a business model

EBay stops charging sellers a transaction fee on its Chinese Web site

Questions increase over Livedoor business practices

Japanese portal company under investigation for wrongdoing related to six acquisitions

Motorola makes fat profit from slim phone

Mobile phone company posts positive results in a sharp turnaround of the company's market postion

WiMax focuses on business

Vendors see businesses being the first to sign up for wireless broadband services

Japan to impose tariff on Hynix DRAM chips

Japan alleges South Korean chip maker received unfair subsidies from state-controlled banks

German court shuts down Wikipedia.de

Court orders content removed from site after family of hacker filed lawsuit against Wikimedia

FBI: Security improving but threats rising

Computer Crime Survey showed 87 percent of organizations reported computer security breach last year

Wall Street Beat: Earnings bring mixed results

IBM, Intel, and Yahoo disappoint, while Apple, eBay, and PayPal show solid numbers

Update: U.S. government wrestles Google for search records

Attorney general seeks porn search data to bolster defense in ACLU lawsuit

Senate panel warns Internet porn vendors

Sex sites must create ratings system akin to those used for movies and video games

Microsoft closes UMT deal

Chairman and CEO Ballmer announces plans to purchase software and other assets from UMT

Cisco patches a number of products

Security vulnerabilities affect routers and Call Manager software

Microsoft ready to pull Office Live beta trigger

Office Live Mail e-mail service to be included in release

WiMax Forum certifies first batch of gear

Approved products include base stations, a base station reference design, and a customer equipment reference

The curse of convenience

Oracle offers Fusion road map

Fusion will create an SOA-based enterprise application suite

Botnets shrinking in size, harder to trace

Criminal hackers increasingly launch extortion schemes backed by the muscle of botnets

Chairman promises bill prohibiting sale of phone logs

U.S. Congressman to introduce legislation outlawing the sale of telephone call logs

LogLogic integrates log management with EMC Smarts

Integration of log technology should increase security visibility in enterprise systems

ObjectWeb seeks legal status to aid its growth

Move to become nonprofit legal entity could help the open-source group expand internationally

SAP CEO: German IT sector needs special treatment

Kagermann says globalization is good thing but German companies need help competing in world markets

Riya photo search site open to public February

Service identifies and tags people and text in digital photos

Rapid jump in ‘net trading seen behind Tokyo’s woes

Tokyo Stock Exchange admits it is having difficulty keeping up with market volumes

Study: Google users more frustrated in China

Study findings underscores differences in the versions of the search engine used in U.S. and China

Update: PC market achieved double-digit growth in 2005

Dell and HP lead the list of top-selling PC vendors

Spansion launches ORNAND memory for mobile phones

ORNAND chip combines ability to store huge amounts of data, run software quickly

Update: AMD turns profit following jump in chip sales

Microprocessor sales increase nearly 80 percent

Microsoft releases JDBC driver for SQL Server 2005

Java tool will help Microsoft promote wider use of its database in the enterprise

Update: Apple’s iPod sales fuel record quarter

Company ships more than 14 million of the devices

WiMax group acts to head off surprises

IEEE task group asked to put off clarifications

Collaborative development package adds wikis

VA Software upgrades SourceForge Enterprise Edition