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Google-AOL deal has silver lining for Microsoft

Analysis: Existing Google customers could become disenchanted and move to Microsoft

Update: Google pays $1 billion for 5 percent of AOL

AOL now can sell search advertising directly to advertisers on AOL-owned properties

Salesforce.com outage cuts users off

Extent of the outage was not immediately clear

Progress to buy Neon for push into mainframe market

Neon is slated to become part of Progress operating unit, DataDirect Technologies, which specializes in data connectivity

Sprint Nextel to buy Nextel Partners

The acquisition is priced at about $6.5 billion

IDC: 2006 PC growth to slow, but still above 10 percent

PC demand remains strong as desktop users convert to notebooks

An early look at the Power Mac G5 Quad

Oracle turns to Fortify to secure source code

Oracle to use startups tools to find problems in database and middleware

Nortel to lose another executive

Chief marketing officer Clent Richardson to leave in March

Yahoo’s hosting clients get blogging software

Customers will now be able to use WordPress

Update: FTC says computer users seeing less spam

Agency cites CAN-SPAM Act as reason for reduction in unsolicited e-mail

Sun offers 60-day Niagara server trial

Promotion period is shorter than Sun had previously suggested it might be

Best practices are key in IBM software portfolio tool

Integration with Rational offerings also is critical

IBM buys portal software maker Bowstreet

Acquired products will enable customers to make custom and integrated portals

Perot offers infrastructure services from India

Indian business units will soon employ one-third of company staff

Oracle outlines new multicore pricing policy

Not all cores are equal when it comes to licensing

NHS support focuses on servers, Novell says

Organization tapping open source to lower cost of revamping IT systems

Opera Mini quietly available worldwide

Browser is designed to improve on the limited WAP surfing of most phones

NEC announces Yonah laptop plans

Notebook to contain dual-core mobile processor

HP extends support for OpenLDAP

Open source identity management and directory services software will be available across all HP servers

Global DSL subscriptions up 40M in year, says survey

There are now 125 million worldwide DSL users

Powering up a new breed of batteries

More and more vendors get into the fuel cell game

RIM goes on offensive in patent dispute with NTP

Patent and Trademark Office questions NTP's claims

Microsoft changes anti-spyware name in Vista OS preview

Security, other features are enhanced

SF leaders voice concerns about Wi-Fi project

More public input is sought before a decision on a vendor is made

US House approves budget bill, DTV transition

Negotiators set Feb. 17, 2009, as the transition date to DTV

Top 10 IT moments in 2005

Happy Web 2.0 holidays from Google

A reporter attends Google's holiday party, and comes away somewhat disappointed

IBM deepens Alphablox integration with WebSphere

Analytics software tied more closely to Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Portal Server

IT vendors, universities agree on collaboration

Group including Cisco, HP and Intel adopts research guidelines that take intellectual property into account

Has Google sold its soul?

Eclipse touts Web, J2EE development in tools release

Open source organization also has lofty plans for 2006

Broadband power line service is coming to Texas

Services to include data, VOIP and digital quality video streaming

Patch causes glitches with beta version of IE browser

Links come up blank, multiple windows open when the browser is started or IE hangs, wrote a Microsoft official in a blog

Siebel sees components

Siebel Component Assembly breaks up CRM for deployment on BEA WebLogic  Server 9.0

VC firms spot enterprise trends

Talk to the money men, and they'll tell you software as a service and open source are all the rage

2005’s top 10 moments in IT

A look at the major events of the year

BCE to sell stake in Canadian IT service provider CGI

Move will help BCE sharpen focus on core telecommunications business

Easily switch from Visual Basic to a Swing-based platform

AbaGUIBuilder: An open source GUI builder for the Delphi and VB developer

Sun adds support for open source Java database

Java DB now part of Sun Java Enterprise System

Add Zing to your unit tests

Introducing a framework for generic, productive, reliable, and maintenance-free unit tests

Samsung to deploy Mobile WiMax in Venezuela

Company to deploy network in third-quarter of 2006

UMC fined for late reporting of accounting error

Planned revisions showed dramatic difference from previously stated earnings

Gates, wife and Bono named Time’s persons of the year

Trio awarded for their charitable work

HP no longer feeling blue, to support HD-DVD

Company backed HD-DVD after the Blu-ray Disc Association declined to support a home networking technology HP advocated

FTC to report on CAN-SPAM’s effectiveness

Government officials will also announce "criminal law enforcement initiatives targeting illegal spam operations"

Spansion takes in $506M in flash memory IPO

Spansion's former parent company, AMD, made the decision to take the company public

VOIP a wake-up call for global phone competition

If trends continue from the first six months of 2005, the full year should see international VOIP use increase 38 percent

Sun releases delayed Linux code for Solaris

The software, formerly called Project Janus, but now rewritten and renamed BrandZ

Microsoft, IBM, SAP discontinue UDDI registry effort

Project based on Web services standard said to be no longer necessary