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Alcatel pushes 10 Gigabit Ethernet for the enterprise

OmniSwitch 9000 switches keep an eye on the future with IPv4, IPv6, multicast support

Microsoft to test feature-complete Vista by early 2006

Company is on track to make Windows Vista generally available in the second half of 2006

Security expert: More sophisticated attacks likely

Terroists groups and criminal organizations are possible perpetrators

Venture capitalist to startups: Don’t pursue acquisition by Microsoft

Industry event is held to guide new companies on partnering with software giant

Microsoft tweaks security partner program

The specialty is for partners that do technology-agnostic security work spanning a variety of systems

HP unveils utility services for flexible computing

Offerings provide extra computing power to users who don't wish to deploy servers just to handle temporary demand surges

Google appoints Hollywood longtimer to board

Finance specialist Ann Mather to chair Google's audit committee

Report: New Orleans to get free public Wi-Fi service

New Orleans is latest city to announce free wireless plans

Update: Competitor files suit over ICANN-Verisign settlement

Lobbying group asks court to invalidate the settlement, alleging antitrust violations

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Anti-offshoring legislation heats up

Lobbying efforts to pass legislation severely limiting or stopping outsourcing practices is intensifying

Users, peers lead firms to consider desktop Linux

Lack of applications remains the biggest hurdle for the OS

Foxconn may make $2B mobile phone investment in India

Government-owned telecommunications company mandates its suppliers to locally manufacture mobile phones

Eclipse developers to get AJAX access

Genuitec offers tools upgrade

Trolltech supports VoIP on Linux phones

Trolltech releases support for voice over Wi-Fi in its Qtopia Phone

TI upgrades 3G smart phone processors

TI's new processors improve performance of multimedia applications in phones

NEC, Philips plan enterprise telecom venture

NEC acquires 60 percent stake in Philips' business communications unit

InMage adds new features to disaster recovery software

DR-Scout suite can now automatically start recovery from bookmarked business event

Nanya plans $1.5 billion chip plant investment

Production at Nanya's first advanced 300mm chip factory to begin by the middle of 2007

Orange, Cingular team on corporate cellular service

Web-based portal will monitor key usage and billing data for multinational companies

Mozilla to release Firefox 1.5 Tuesday

New features include faster navigation and a redesigned Options/Preferences window

Sun urges Massachusetts to reject Open XML

Official says it would be a "mistake" to support Open XML based on "a single vendor's promise to submit a new product to a standards body at some point in the future."

Supreme Court to hear eBay patent case

Case could have far-reaching implications for the software and pharmaceutical industries, both of which rely heavily on patents

Check Point unveils small business appliances

One-box security appliances is due from SofaWare Technologies subsidiary

Microsoft partner offers offline SharePoint access

Colligo Networks product gives offline users access to SharePoint-based portal sites

Dell unloading old PCs through retail stores

Long-time reluctance to use retail channels is changing as the worldwide leader in PC shipments experiences growing pains

No kidding: TiVo service to encourage skipping to the ads

Subscribers who choose to use the search service can create a profile intended to tailor ads to their interests

Update: Google tests pay per call ads

Phone icon has begun to appear with some ads

Microsoft tried to remove free software reference

Briefing paper at Internet summit omits reference to free software model, after Microsoft request

Netgear settles lawsuit on Wi-Fi speed claims

Netgear agrees to pay $700,000 to settle class-action lawsuit

Government says yes, then no to Swisscom expansion

Swiss telephone company has been trying for several years to expand outside its home base

Microsoft upgrades hosted suite for SMBs

Upgrade technology for pushing company e-mail seamlessly to Windows Mobile devices

Judge orders Kazaa to install keyword filter

File-sharing service has until Dec. 5 to screen out copyright material or face being shut down

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Dutch company starts new Internet address system

New addressing service does away with top-level domains such as .com and .edu

CA, Oracle renew identity suites

After falling silent, both vendors appear to be accelerating ID management efforts

Windows Live takes a breath

Free e-mail and IM services launched; other services to follow later this year

SOA for B2B commerce

Implement more flexible and dynamic IT connections

Java Card goes contactless

Sun Microsystems has introduced a version of its Java Card platform for contactless smart cards

EU seeks to limit data retention rules to one year

European Parliament wants telcos and ISPs to hold on to call data for a year

Samsung may face probe on Apple memory deal

Memory chip maker faces investigation over Apple deal

Mitrix lands first customer for hosted SCM system

Kawasaki Motors USA taps company to organize North American inventory and distribution

Wall Street Beat: Tech rallies as holidays arrive

The week saw several acquisition deals

Sun executive riffs on Solaris, OpenSolaris

A Q&A with John Loiacono

Verizon files suit alleging text-message spam

Travel company is named in court action

IBM employees play with podcasting

Use mushrooms after company drafted a liberal podcasting policy similar to the corporate blogging policy

WSIS – Net governance: Will anything change?

The Tunis agreement leaves much open for interpretation

Microsoft making RSS a two-way street

RSS 2.0 to become a multidimensional publishing system, for use across different applications

EU lawyer says passenger data transfer to U.S. is illegal

Final verdict on whether to continue complying with U.S. Homeland Security request due next spring

VoIP use to soar in Asia, In-Stat says

Market for VoIP in Asia expected to grow to $10 billion by 2009 as number of users more than doubles