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NEC licenses Bluetooth from Indian company

NEC licenses protocol stack, other software from MindTree

Update: Alexa opens up Web search database and API

Amazon subsidiary offers to host apps that build on its database

Microsoft offers first beta of Exchange 12

First beta of Exchange 12 will be released in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions

Top 10 stories of 2005

Google’s Blogger gets blocked again in China

Survey finds widespread support among Chinese users for controlling Internet content

NATO upgrades and expands RFID network

Solution will improve NATO's supply chain management

Quanta to build Negroponte’s $100 laptop

Non-profit group to ship initial 7 million ultra-low-cost laptops next year

Update: Microsoft fixes critical IE problems

Although attacks are not widespread, it is important users install the patch, experts say

Sun adds support for open-source Java database

Java DB will be incorporated into the Sun Java Enterprise System

Security a money-motivated concern in 2005

Hackers working for cash emerged, employing quieter, more precise techniques

Salesforce.com pushes AppExchange for partners

Company will give partners a business opportunity around its subscription-based CRM service

Intel’s ’06 resolution: improve notebooks, home PCs

Napa, the third generation of Centrino mobile technology, is almost ready for a formal unveiling

The top 10 stories of 2005

Companies that have failed to meet the challenges of the new millennium are cleaning house

Del.icio.us users concerned about Yahoo acquisition

Worries are that Yahoo will wallpaper the service with banner ads, force users to obtain a Yahoo ID and change the user interface

The year in software: Oracle rules the roost

"Software-as-a-service" doesn't have a good buzzword, but it does have a lot of interested buyers

What is SEO?

To improve a Web site's search rank, marketers are turning to search engine optimization

Virtualization catches on with servers and storage in 2005

VMware and XenSource compete in growing market

Microsoft uses Ajax to Web-enable corporate IM

Product is called Office Communicator Web Access

EU proposes extending TV rules to online film and video

New rules criticized by the European Internet Service Providers Association

Vonage and partner release dual VOIP/Wi-Fi phone

Phone will let Vonage customers detach from broadband wirelines and wander in Wi-Fi hotspots

Cybersecurity group knocks US government efforts

Department of Homeland Security has failed to hire an assistant secretary for cybersecurity

HP CEO: Focus for 2006 on growth, efficiency

Mark Hurd says company was effective at developing technology, but tripped in sales efforts

Test-driven SOA

HP to consolidate data marts into single warehouse

Warehouse will contain 762 data marts from around the world

SAP to resell business technology optimization software

Company to offer Mercury LoadRunner load-testing software

U.K. company offers expiring text message service

StealthText service is designed to prevent the forwarding or sharing of message by recipients

Researchers work on low-cost 4G

Bell Labs teams up to explore new applications for 4G mobile phone technology

Vodafone buys Telsim for $4.5 billion

Vodafone acquires Turkish mobile phone operator

Update: AOL testing PC remote access service based on WebEx

New service, called LinktoPC, is now available

Fujitsu turns to carbon nanotubes as heatsinks

Tiny tubes could one day be used for heat dissipation in LSI or processor chips

JBoss extends partner training program

JBoss to certify third parties to offer training courses for all of its products

December’s coolest gadgets

Microsoft, MCI join forces to tackle SkypeOut

Microsoft-MCI VoIP service will allow users to call from a PC to almost any phone in the world

MySQL, Business Objects team for bundled offerings

New BI bundles give users access to MySQL's database technology

New attack targets known Mozilla bug

The exploit takes advantage of a known bug in the way that Firefox processes Javascript

Microsoft cuts price, still lags in hosted CRM

Company initiative is essentially a cosmetic one

Software-quality tools focus on concurrency, ease of use

Coverity, Worksoft ready product boosts

Mergers, security shaped networking year

High-speed mobile data networks hit the streets

HP, Dreamworks promote virtual meetings with Halo

Conferencing system seeks to eliminate latency

New Pointsec product improves smart-card integration

Company's software can encrypt the contents of notebooks or desktop computers

64-bit applications are ready, are you?

India’s outsourcing valued at $60 billion by 2010

Industry could face a shortage of half a million workers

Steve Case: Break up Time Warner, free AOL

'Association with Time Warner has weighed AOL down,' Case writes

Forrester index finds US tech sector healthy for now

Firm finds technology industry is as healthy as its been in about three years

Lack of consolidation in Grid standards concerns enterprise end users

Watson search engine is free to download

Intellext releases ad-sponsored version of its contextual search software

VMware releases Player, teams up with Mozilla

Player lets users run, assess, share software in virtual machine on a PC running Windows or Linux

Aviva to expand outsourcing in India

British insurance company to double the staff offering BPO and call center services

IT Quotes of the Year

3Com’s European HQ damaged in oil depot blast

Authorities have ruled out the possibility of a terrorist attack as the cause of the explosion