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China surpasses U.S. as top IT goods supplier, OECD says

China exported $180 billion in ICT goods last year compared to U.S. exports of $149 billion

Storage software market up again in Q3, IDC says

EMC leads the industry with 30 percent of the storage software market

BellSouth, 8×8 team up on VoIP

Residential VoIP will be rolled out to BellSouth's whole service area over the next few months

Cisco eyes the application layer

With its new Service-Oriented Network Architecture, Cisco wants to expand its role in application integration

IBM adds muscle to Open Document Format

An uprising against proprietary document formats is growing, but can Office be dethroned?

SAP brewing SOA, on-demand moves

CRM as a service, Enterprise Services Architecture on the way

Salesforce.com to launch full production test bed

Sandbox offers enterprise customers a mirror image of production environment and data

Product Previews

HP to add new look to OpenView, Software AG boosts XML business processes, Mindreef Coral eases Web services collaboration, Arena PLM gains compliance tools

BEA lays out road map to unify its portal products

BEA to unify WebLogic Portal and AquaLogic Interaction products

Integration with external information systems

Points to consider while designing a robust B2B integration solution

ServiceMix as an enterprise service bus

Use ServiceMix 2.0 as a service-oriented message routing framework

FCC sets rules for some in-flight radio auctions

Services could include voice, data services and broadband Internet access

2005 – The IT year in quotes

The IT great and good did let slip a fair number of quote-worthy nuggets

Update: Yahoo buys social bookmarking firm Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us team will work "in close proximity" with Flickr, Yahoo's photo-sharing service

EEye to enter antivirus business

A beta version of the software will be made available to Blink users in early in 2006

InfoSpace joins Ingenio pay-per-call network

Deal called big milestone by Ingenio

Slug Grid

Microsoft launches talent hunt in India

Winner of Code 4 Bill contest will get to join Gates' Technical Assistants team for a year

U.S. Air Force’s new mission: Fighting in cyberspace

New mission statement vows to defend U.S. 'in Air, Space, and Cyberspace'

Pirate software dealer sold $5 million in goods

U.K. company sold counterfeit copies of software on eBay

One way to kill software piracy

Taiwanese exec ordered to pay fine for China investment

Taiwan's government continues its drive to curb illegal chip sector investment in China

Panasonic to kill GSM phones for 3G Linux handsets

Panasonic is the first major cell-phone maker to discontinue its second-generation handset

Gateway wins ITC patent appeal over HP

Trade Commission finds no literal patent infringement by Gateway

Chip sales break 2000 record year, Gartner says

Intel holds onto the No. 1 spot for revenue in 2005

Interview: Lenovo’s chairman on future growth

Chairman Yang Yuanqing discusses Lenovo's SMB plans

Spam campaign uses Princess Diana lure

Latest spam e-mail campaign promises recipients a sizable grant from Diana memorial fund

Lenovo wants to take on new markets in 2006

Lenovo to focus on SMB customers in the U.S. and Europe

Tom Ridge, security guru disagree on national ID card

Counterpane CTO Bruce Schneier says ID card is a bad idea

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 to hit Japan on Saturday

Previous Xbox console never gained much traction in country

Siebel offers CRM services for BEA-based SOA

Similar offering for Oracle platform is likely to be on the agenda

Mozilla claims Firefox 1.5 hole poses minor risk

Organization will repair hole in next browser version when it is released in January or February

Intel narrows Q4 revenue guidance within prior range

Revenue is expected to decline between $10.4 billion and $10.6 billion during the quarter

Wall Street Beat: Chip forecasts fail to excite

Main reason for share-price slippage appears to be energy worries

Electronic Arts to buy mobile game vendor

Jamdat Mobile is snapped up for $680 million

Companies to build IPv6 test center

The center will be used to test networks and products for IPv6 compatibility, and will focus on serving government agencies

Ecma moves ahead with OpenXML standards process

Committee is expected to evaluate OpenXML and submit the format to the International Standards Organization

Sprint Nextel aims at professional services

Mobility-focused professional services grow in importance as mobile data technology emerges from its infancy

Top predictions for 2006

Big changes are in store for Google, Microsoft AOL, RIM and others

SAP charges forward with SOA plans

Enterprise Services Architecture was SAP's top focus at its annual meeting this week in Las Vegas with industry analysts

RIM and NTP trying to mediate their dispute

Parties are expected to convene in next few weeks for hearings

Study: Big benefits from reduction of software piracy

Curbing global software piracy would create million of jobs and boost economic growth

Gmail gains ‘Web clips’ feature

Google adds feature to let users display links to various Web content

Gartner: CIOs should prepare for ‘second’ Internet

CIO need to pay attention to innovations using technologies such as blogging, podcasting

The awful truth about compliance

Icahn warns Time Warner not to scorch AOL

Billionaire investor opposes any move to sell or spin off AOL too cheaply

Greenpeace protests at HP China over electronic waste

Activists highlight harmful environmental impact of waste from PC electronics

Intel announces $230 million expansion in Malaysia

Intel announces second significant investment in Asia

IEEE approves mobile WiMax spec

Mobile wireless networks will enble customers to wirelessly access the Net anywhere in a city

Tools wrap: NextApp, Compuware to unveil products

Offerings for AJAX and application quality management are on the way