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Improve availability in Java enterprise applications

Best practices for designing highly available Java enterprise applications

Close of Level 3-WilTel deal caps big buyout year

Addition of WilTel gives Level 3 about 3,000 more route miles and access to 50 new markets

Vonage lets users track Santa’s progress

IP telephony subscribers, or their children, can get updates as to Santa's whereabouts

Feeding the CIO’s narcissism

Update: Salesforce.com class-action suit dismissed

Plaintiffs failed to prove claims that CEO Marc Benioff violated Security Exchange Act of 1934

Unilever signs seven-year services contract with IBM

Deal to cover outsourcing of major financial transactional services

Google to hold AOL stake in new company

New company will be able to register for an IPO as of July 1, 2008

Nortel demonstrates 3.6Mbps HSDPA

High-Speed Downlink Packet Access technology being used by some operators to upgrade 3G networks

San Francisco calls for Wi-Fi proposals

City plans to start start negotiations next year

Gartner warns of metadata troubles with Vista OS

Documents with embarrassing data could be revealed to partners or customers, analyst firm says

P-to-P amendment delays French copyright bill

Bill no longer seen as so urgent it must be passed by year's end, vote postponed until next parliamentary session

SCO sees revenue slide in Q4

Revenue drop due to lower sales of Unix-based software, company says

Microsoft, Google reach settlement over Lee dispute

Terms of the agreement are kept confidential

Wall Street Beat: IT M&A stir market before holiday

IBM shares rose after it announced it would purchase network management software vendor Micromuse

India’s Wipro to acquire MasterCard’s service providers

Wipro plans to sell its other services to MasterCard, including infrastructure services and BPO

Intel, others, back new interface for displays

New group hopes to facilitate connection that can accommodate high-end video content

Update: Microsoft eyeing Internet deal to rival Google-AOL

Exec, in blog post, says he has met with "some senior players at another Tier 1 Internet company"

Speedev enhances application lifecycle offering

Customization, SOAP API are featured

A present for Ellison, but not for Gates

French race to pass copyright law hits trouble

Critics say government is using fast-track to sneak in provisions

Lucent to take $300 million charge on lawsuit ruling

Fine comes in bankruptcy proceedings of Winstar

Microsoft lashes out at European Commission

Software giant's top lawyer says EU 'moves goal post and demands another change'

Vendors look to strike gold with NY transit hype

3 a.m. labs, Laplink and WebEx offer free remote access and Web conferencing trials

Monitoring and Discovery in Grid environments

Red Hat nearly doubles profit in third quarter

Company says investments in personnel and infrastructure paid off

Motorola launches handset made in India

C115 is a mass market phone based on the sub $40 handset category for emerging markets

We can’t CAN-SPAM as easily as the FTC might hope

Juniper sues over message-board posts

Comments alleged that Juniper executives were bribing attorneys to cover up a scandal

Update: Microsoft faces fine over EU antitrust deadline

Court says Microsoft must comply with its ruling regarding workgroup server interoperability, or face daily fine of $2.4 million

Festoon links Google Talk and Skype via video

Software will let users of Skype and IM products talk to each other

Santa delivers more Christmas malware

Trojan horse comes in e-mail and encourages users to open attachment

Debian Project updates its Linux distribution

Fixes include security patches and corrections to serious problems

NTT offers consumer IPv6 service

First-of-its-kind service costs $2.50 per month

Serious flaw reported in Symantec antivirus software

Symantec Antivirus Library can be overwhelmed by "heap overflows" while decompressing an RAR file

Venture capitalists track enterprise trends

The software industry retained its position as the largest single industry category receiving venture capital money

WiMax Forum to deliver certifications a bit late

First certifications of WiMax products to be announced in mid-January

Week of crashes highlights on-demand peril

Problems with Salesforce.com raise questions for hosted service providers

Partners needed to help Windows Live succeed

Microsoft must create a platform allowing third parties to develop, build and sell applications, report says

Another merger today: IBM grabs Micromuse

AOL tests improved Web mail, new Firefox toolbar

Toolbar for Firefox will provide shortcuts to AOL content and services

Vendors, users dispute FTC report on spam

Some are claiming that spam remains at an all-time high

Fujitsu Siemens to buy Siemens unit

Acquisition means that customers can get infrastructure, maintenance and other services from one company

Next Explorer version will support int’l domains

IE 7 to use APIs to convert domain names

Acxiom drawing headlines in hostile takeover scenario

Microsoft auctions beta invites for Live IM client

Windows Live Messenger testing is by invitation only

IBM to buy Micromuse for $865 million

Acquired technologies will help IBM customers handle mixed traffic in their networks

Proxim, NEC supply 20,000 access points in Japan

Companies hope to pursue similar deployments in other parts of the world

Spanish bank extends EDS deal valued at $240M

EDS will develop new banking and insurance software as part of deal

NTT DoCoMo to take stake in Japanese TV network

Japan to begin digital television broadcasting aimed at cell phones in April

Lenovo replaces CEO with Dell executive

William Amelio, former president of Asia-Pacific region for Dell, takes the helm at Lenovo