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Study: Microsoft still leads in e-mail

Exchange's push wireless e-mail will keep attracting users to Microsoft, Radicati predicts

AMD goes live with digital home strategy

AMD-based PCs to be designed specifically for home media networking

HP unveils new AMD Turion-based multimedia notebooks

Intel expected to its keep mobile performance lead by unveiling its first dual-core mobile chip this week at CES

WMF attacks on the rise

Malware spread through e-mail images, online ads, IM

VoIP users getting more options

Vonage, Skype among providers tapping small, midsize businesses

‘Pay-per-call’ ads a good option for service providers

Ingenio, Verizon among those testing the approach

Symantec buys instant message security vendor

IMLogic brings to the mix security and content inspection capabilities

Update: Microsoft says ‘wait for us’ as WMF threat climbs

Microsoft wants Windows users to wait a week for patch, even though the number of users potentially at risk is high

Tech groups press for R&D tax credit extension

Support for temporary extensions of the program is strong, but Congress has yet to act

Adobe releases new Flash software for mobile devices

New software lets users of mobile phones, electronic devices view Web sites that use Flash

Nasdaq to cut Mercury in wake of accounting mess

Loss of listing will hinder Mercury's recovery as it works to restate several years' worth of financial results

AMD signs $75M patent license agreement with Rambus

License covers patents for memory and logic controller interfaces

India’s knowledge society attacked, says prime minister

Police arrest suspect in attack on Indian Institute of Science

Cornice to launch 8GB, 10GB small hard drives

New drive is 40 percent smaller than Cornice's 4GB drive

Google to be default search on Opera mobile browsers

Opera Mini to launch this month with a Google search bar

WMF flaw can’t wait for Microsoft fix, researchers say

Windows users should install an unofficial security patch

Vocera brings Star Trek to the enterprise

Once a sci-fi dream, wearable wireless communication devices are being put to use in hospitals, hotels

Software as a service interrupted

Salesforce.com, TypePad, and del.ico.us all experience outages in December

Product Previews

Foundry drives VoIP with FastIron switch, Alcatel expands WAN options, NetScout gets smart about network performance, MetricStream boosts SOX compliance

Tips ‘N Tricks: Debug with anonymous inner classes

Use anonymous inner classes for easy debugging

Middleware finds its mojo again

SOAs and ESBs key to advancing middleware in 2005

EMC closes acquisition of Captiva

Plans include integrating Captiva's InputAccel software into EMC's Documentum enterprise management suite

Indian IS depts of multinationals manage offshoring too

CIOs of Indian companies taking on software development, other IT tasks for their parent companies

“Intel Inside” out, “Leap ahead” in for new year

New logo and tagline will be formally announced on Jan. 3

UMC chairman to resign over spat with government

Robert Tsao claims government meddling and scrutiny of company's buisness affairs as reasons for leaving

CSC grabs $575 million in government contracts

Computer Sciences Corp. has signed 96 federal government contacts and subcontracts in Q4 alone

Trump and free iPods top AOL’s 2005 list of spam lures

Although spam volume increased in 2005, less of it is getting through to AOL's subscribers

Onyx fields buyout bid from CDC

CDC has assembled a global portfolio of enterprise applications. Is Onyx next?

New regulations loom large in 2006

The compliance juggernaut rolls on, requiring IT to address privacy, data retention, and product lifecycle issues

Gunman attack unnerves Bangalore outsourcing industry

One person was killed, four injured and Bangalore police cannot confirm whether attack was by terrorists

Vocera brings ‘Star Trek’ to the enterprise

Hands-free, voice-activated devices are no longer science fiction fantasy

Covad settles antitrust suit against Verizon

The settlement agreement ended all litigation between the companies

Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?

Update: Malicious hackers busy exploiting zero-day Windows flaw

Even fully-patched systems can be susceptible

Microsoft to offer VOIP services with Japanese partners

Trials will begin in second quarter of 2006

A look at MySQL 5.0, and key backer of open source resigns

Europe’s first Galileo navigation satellite lifts off

Giove-A complements the U.S.-operated GPS

Toshiba, Hitachi, Renesas mull joint chip foundry

Semiconductor plant would offer advanced manufacturing to all three companies

CIO who brought OpenOffice to Massachusetts resigns

Whether Peter Quinn's departure helps or hinders state's move away from Microsoft remains to be seen

CES: Latest and greatest gadgets head for Vegas

High-definition, portable video and home networking among the technologies to be shown

Update: Virkel virus hits MSN Messenger beta

Beware of a sneak peak of the latest version of Microsoft's instant messaging client

Automation pioneer John Diebold dies at 79

Visionary penned book in 1952 to explain how programmable devices would alter all business operations

Nortel acquires Tasman Networks

Company to add acquired IP routers into its lineup

A 2006 free of benchmark battles?

Hardware vendors not likely to leave those benchmarks behind anytime soon

IT projects doomed to failure

Pioneer to launch Blu-ray Disc drive in January

Company to unveil drive at CES

Japanese IT production dropped in 2005, says survey

Manufacturing of electronics and IT products to rise again in 2006

Japanese library to use palm-vein for book check-out

Already adopted as a biometric replacement to four-digit PINs for bank ATMs, palm-vein security moves to library sevices

2006 in Congress: Full plate for tech, telecom

Communications law reform, data privacy will be top issues

Eclipse touts Web, JEE development in tools release

Open source organization also has lofty plans for 2006