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AMD: Quad-core Opterons by 2007

The new server processor design is similar to the core used by Opteron  and Athlon  64 chips

First look: Office 12 shows a bright new face

Users will soon be able to customize Office to their heart's content — and save documents to several new file formats.

More questions raised as Sony starts rootkit exchange

Security researchers say there are new problems in the software Sony is giving users

Key ruling in Blackberry dispute could come next week

A federal judge in Virginia is expected to consider two motions in the case

Microsoft to beef up legal training

Plan is mandated by terms of antitrust settlement

Firefox 1.5 creeps toward release

Test version is available for download

Google Base launched with security hole

Cross-site scripting vulnerability fixed early Friday

Study: Security still top IT spending priority

Overall IT spending will decrease slightly, Goldman, Sachs predicts

California approves telecom mergers

SBC closes deal with AT&T

New BEA CTO says app server business is still growing

Executive will seek to drive innovation

Startup aims to simplify x64 Exchange upgrades

Azaleos seeks to eliminate costs for organizations upgrading 32-bit hardware

Senate panel approves data-breach bill

Personal Data Privacy and Security Act would require companies to notify customers of security leaks

Cisco not expecting layoffs from Scientific-Atlanta buy

Scientific-Atlanta will become a division of Cisco's routing and service provider technology group under Mike Volpi

Top 5 reasons why SOA fails

Paris accelerates move to open source

City to evaluate the real cost of switching to open-source alternatives

Sun exec calls for a Net summit of engineers

Sun co-founder John Gage says the voices of the people building the Internet need to be heard

Yahoo names new head of ’emerging search’

Research fellow Andrei Broder charged with 'finding new and more relevant ways to search the Web'

MicroStrategy gets ruling over employee conduct

MicroStrategy wins appeal on employees who went to work for rival Business Objects

Update: Cisco buys Scientific-Atlanta for $6.9 billion

Deal expected to help Cisco push into the digital home market

Taking outsourcing to the extreme: Webshoring

Indian company ventures into mobile phone manufacture

Spice follows Nokia, Motorola in move to manufacture phones in India

Nanya says it has no plans to invest in Infineon DRAM

Exec says Infineon's DRAM business is 'too big' to consider an acquisition

Sanyo reports big first-half loss

Troubled company reports net loss of $1.3 billion for first half

Cisco may buy Scientific-Atlanta, say reports

Cisco may spend as much as $7 billion to establish itself in home media center market

Open-source groups back India’s free software program

Government's program to distribute software for free includes some proprietary software

Want to buy a re-marked 3.6GHz Pentium 4 chip for $78?

Chinese company is openly selling re-marked Intel chips through a major Web site

Wall Street Beat: Google cracks $400 in upbeat market

Hewlett-Packard, others show gains

Spammers pay fines to settle FTC complaint

Defendants sold access to sexually explicit Web sites through unsolicited e-mail, or spam

HP Q4 revenue up, profits fall on layoff charges

Blade server revenue rose 65 percent during the period

Sun boosts Solaris with open source database

Company also details other improvements

IBM lands major Chinese server deal

Installation for State Administration of Taxation will rank it among company's top 10 largest Unix customers

Fast Search aims to steal Verity customers, partners

There is uncertainty over what will happen to Verity products after it is aquired by Autonomy

Microsoft seeks new MBS group leader

Doug Burgum assumes a new role

Intel readying new Extreme Edition processor for Q1

Extreme Edition 955 appears to be the first iteration of the Presler core

Consumer groups question flat-rate telecom tax proposal

Keep Universal Service Fund Fair Coalition says tax is regressive

‘Net will enable interactivity with common objects

Report points to four technologies that will enable ubiquitous network connectivity

Blaming shoddy software on the geek set

Microsoft partners to beef up antiphishing tools

Three companies will add phishing monitoring, detection to MSN Search Toolbar and IE 7

Infineon to spin out DRAM business

Company also considering taking the unit public

Google Print gets new name

Controversial Google Print offering is now called Google Book Search

Cicero software supports Wi-Fi/cellular roaming

Platform lets smart phone users roam between hotspots, cellular networks without dropping voice calls

Prototype $100 laptop unveiled

Hand-cranked laptop intended for schoolchildren in developing countries

India’s HCL sets up PowerPC design center

Indian outsourcing company to focus on embedded designs

Source code management issues are aired

Companies offer different perspectives

Sony, NEC to combine optical drive businesses

Companies will launch the as-yet-unnamed company next April

Intel’s latest flash chip runs faster with more storage

Intel's new M18 flash memory chip writes information three times faster than its older L18 chip

Global chip sales to reach $309 billion in 2008

SIA says chip industry is set to enjoy three years of stable sales growth

Via drops Intel front side bus from CPUs

Via will begin selling only CPUs with self-designed front side bus by the end of March

Update: Google wins approval to give home city Wi-Fi access

Mountain View approves plan letting company use streetlight poles for access points

Software developers get paid more in China than India

Developers in China earn 30 percent more than their counterparts in India