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IT may not top agenda at US-India tech trade meeting

Trade between the two countries in IT is already stable

EDS settles with UK tax agency for failed system

EDS pays $122.7 million to settle dispute over an IT system that tracked tax credits

Juniper to double technical staff in India

Center in Bangalore works on software and hardware development

Windows leads as server market booms

Worldwide server revenue grew 5.6 percent during the third quarter

DRAM price collapse not a sign of PC problems

PC sales are still in line to meet high expectations

Fear of identity theft bad for business

Companies are likely to lose business if they fail to handle customer information securely, survey finds

Browser makers to give trusted sites a green look

Developers would like to improve security by making make the address bar turn green when browsers visit popular Web sites

Update: Google supports Library of Congress online effort

Google makes $3 million donation to the World Digital Library project

Semantic Web eyed to link health care information

W3C forms interest group

San Francisco gets Wi-Fi feet wet with ‘hot zones’

Wireless mesh network gear maker MetroFi sets up three zones in the city

E-mail scammers posing as FBI, CIA

Operation attempts to trick users into installing a variant of the Sober worm

Court OKs Ellison $22 million shareholder settlement

Judge rejected the original settlement because Oracle would have paid plaintiffs' legal fees

Power Mac G5 Quad: An introduction

Trade group praises tech training tax credit

House bill would allow a credit of up to $2,500 credit for IT-training

Interwoven to expand development in India

Company plans to increase Bangalore staff to more than 80

Study: Quarter of corporate e-mail is personal

Workers frequently forward jokes, photos, video and other nonwork related messages

MySQL AB to counter Oracle buy of Innobase

Alternative to the open-source InnoDB database engine is in the works

Novell appoints former IBM, Lucent exec as new CTO

Jeffrey Jaffe will head up Novell's technology direction

AOL eyes Web video market with publishing partnership

AOL strikes deal to bring Brightcove's video self-publishing system to AOL.com

AOL launches new IM software

AOL updates its service with online address book, ability to send text messages to cellphones

Open content opens doors to opportunity

Group launches portal that provides access to free educational courses offered by MIT, Johns Hopkins, others

Microsoft: Community computing is on the way

Microsoft's CTO envisions a new technological environment that will soon replace personal computing

Microsoft and the misperception of open standards

Mobile phone sales jumped 22 percent in Q3, study finds

Worldwide mobile phone sales could climb to 810 million this year

Security concerns dog U.S. online shoppers says survey

Consumers shopping online fear their personal information will be sold to third party

Google to hold programming competition in China

Google hopes to attract talented Chinese programmers to its planned R&D center

AirMagnet’s WLAN analyzer goes remote

Laptop Analyzer 6.0 enables users to study activity on an enterprise wireless LAN

SANS: Cyber attackers found green fields in 2005

Hackers are switching their focus to network devices, backup software

Microsoft worker gets four years for software theft

Former employee netted $2.3 million in illegal software sales

Update: Microsoft to open Office document format

Massachusetts proposal requiring compliance with OpenDocument for government documents is seen as a spur

RIM jumps to 3G on Verizon Wireless

BlackBerry 7130e offers a speed boost

RSA releases government compliance product

Smart card management product to help U.S. government agencies comply with Homeland Security mandate

IBM looks to make middleware SMILE

Streams-based technology is in development

The funny side of data protection

Dell’s interest in AMD old story with new twist

The perennial report comes at a time when both companies are at a turning point

Blogmania

Hackers publish code for critical IE bug

All users of Internet Explorer version 5.5 and 6.x are affected by the vulnerability, security experts say

Verizon expands broadband television coverage

Service puts the company in competition with incumbent cable operator Comcast

IBM’s master plan for data: information services

Microsoft adds e-mail, IM hosting to Windows Live

More services will follow later this year

Sonicwall buys two companies to expand SMB line

Company acquires Lasoo Logic and EnKoo for data backup, remote access technology, respectively

Update: Google Analytics subscriptions suspended

Company unable to keep up with demand for free service

Intel, Micron team up on NAND memory manufacture

IM Flash signs up Apple as its first major customer for NAND flash memory

Chinese Internet users finding political voice online

Survey says Chinese people see more opportunities to criticize their government

Identity specification gains speed, group says

Liberty Alliance says SAML 2.0 is becoming 'de facto standard' for enterprises seeking to federate identities

Toshiba plans faster flash memory

Toshiba plans to double the read/write speed of its NAND flash chips in the next year

CollabNet expanding in Asia with new datacenter

CollabNet seeing growing interest in its collaborative software development platform in Asia

Microsoft shows prominently at Supercomputing ’05

Microsoft enters HPC fray, with a splashy booth and beta release of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003

IBM’s master plan for data

Big Blue takes its time stitching together three acquisitions to create a master-data offering

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