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Smart tag use is expected to rise sharply in China

China's smart tag market is projected to grow 33 percent per year

Update: New Apple notebook and iMac unveiled

Six months ahead of the schedule, new Macs use Intel's Core Duo processor

VoIP gear highlighted at CES

Companies showed off handsets, peripherals that make it easier to connect to free voice calls

Connexion to adjust in-flight Internet service prices

The Boeing Co. will also offer direct access to Yahoo's portal

Update: AOL buys video search engine

AOL will integrate Truveo's 'Visual Crawler' technology into its video search services

USPTO upholds Microsoft FAT patents

USPTO's final decision means Microsoft can continue to license FAT to third parties for a fee

Oracle, Sun chiefs take the stage together

Ellison, McNealy stress common ground, mix in jokes, potshots

Analyst predicts Dell Opteron servers in 2006

Piper Jaffray's Les Santiago reports that servers likely to appear as early as the second half of this year.

Target to standardize retail stores on Windows, .Net

Retail giant to migrate legacy systems of its 1,400 U.S. stores to Microsoft infrastructure

SAP expects software license revenue to exceed growth targets

Preliminary figures suggest full-year revenue up 18 percent as U.S. business grew

Why knowledge workers are expensive

New Apple products exceed expectations, put pros first

Vendors hope to speak with single Ethernet voice

Intel, Sun, and 3Com among founding vendors of Ethernet Alliance

Univa – hot Enterprise Grid vendor to watch in ’06

Novell kicks off Linux app security project

Novell unveils AppArmor

IBM leads program to improve patent quality

Vendors team with USPTO on initiative to speed up patent approval process, improve quality of patents

Publishing giant Murdoch predicts decline of portals

Murdoch says News Corp. is bullish on building 'social networking' sites

IBM expert warns of short life span for burned CDs

Burned CDs have a life span of between two to five years, storage expert says

MySQL gets U.S. gov’t stamp of approval

Five-year contract makes it easy for government customers to buy MySQL open source products

Oracle to increase staff in India to 10,000

Oracle has spent nearly $2 billion in India on development centers, investments in companies

Accton developing Wi-Fi VoIP phone

Accton aiming to launch two wireless handsets by late in the second quarter

Top UMC executives indicted in Taiwan

Execs who resigned this week now charged with alleged illegal investments in China

Microsoft Research India to work on cryptography

Microsoft taps India's leading academic institutions for students with complex mathematical skills

Developers put OpenSolaris on PowerPC

PowerPC kernel released; full-featured port of OpenSolaris to PowerPC still at least nine months away

China-based DVD pirate pleads guilty in U.S.

U.S. citizen Randolph Hobson Guthrie III agrees to forfeit US$823,833 in profit to the U.S. government

Windows Media Center to go mainstream in Vista

Next comsumer client version planned for later this year

Learning how to secure those tapes

Mercury buys Systinet in SOA governance play

$105 million deal adds registry, other products to Mercury fold

Yahoo, Sheraton team up on Wi-Fi

Yahoo Link @ Sheraton enriches Wi-Fi with 'virtual concierge' Web portal

Update: JotSpot has wiki take on Microsoft’s Excel

Startup's service lets users log into a secure Web site and work collaboratively on an Excel spreadsheet

Two new WMF bugs found

Security experts say latest vulerabilities less serious than the one Microsoft patched last week

Online SaaS directory launched

Two new sites from ThinkStrategies will list SaaS and managed service providers

Microsoft offers free ‘Elixir’ for unified CRM GUI

Project aims to merge contact information through Outlook

Linux for device software optimization

EMC beefs up services team with acquisition

EMC buys specialist in managed services for Microsoft systems and applications

TI sells sensors business for $3 billion

TI retains it RFID operation and moves it into semiconductor group

Eleksen offers wireless fabric keyboard

Fabric laptop-size keyboard connects with handheld devices using Bluetooth technology

Pfizer to tag Viagra with RFID to control fakes

FDA is promoting the use of RFID to cut down on counterfeit drugs

Adobe document management software to support Office

Adobe acquires DRM division from CAD maker Navisware

Court gives first nod to Sony BMG settlement

People who bought copy protected CDs would be entitled to cash payment, free album download

Fight between Blu-ray, HD-DVD bad for everyone

Best Buy CEO speaks out against format war and its damage for companies, users

Skype 2.0 with video feature is now available

Latest version of VoIP software also offers better call quality

Sony’s CEO seeks balance for copy-protection

Howard Stringer discusses the controversy over Sony's rootkit copy protection techniques

Google’s Page launches video download service

Google VideoStore let consumers buy video content from providers from its Web site

Eclipse rises victorious

Open source tools platform sheds IBM's shadow to emerge as an independent app dev success

Handicapping Macworld Expo

Conference likely to show the first Intel-based Mac

x86 Mac makes Microsoft’s life exciting again

Macworld Expo, brought to you by your remote control

Start saddling up for Mustang

Explore some of the new features in Java SE 6

CA to acquire Wily Technology

Introscope technology will boost CA's app management software offerings