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Yahoo Shopping gets ‘social commerce’ features

New features designed to let users create, find, and share product information

Microsoft releases Great Plains update

Rebranded Dynamics ERP suite sports more than 170 new features

Microsoft offers enterprise desktop search app

Enterprise version of Windows Desktop Search can index, retrieve over 200 types of files

Sun looks to turn back time with T1 processor

Sun hopes to recapture users by focusing on multithreading and power consumption

Velocity Java engine picks up speed

Apache effort adds improved tools

Penguin going portable with clustering

The Portable Penguin cluster system is aimed at one to 10 users

Microsoft to root out Sony spyware

Company offers tools to remove the software

Linux Networx shows off LS Series

The company is using "supersystem" to describe the midrange machine

DOJ asks court to keep Blackberry service on

Department argues government workers would lose an important tool if BlackBerry devices not available

World Summit on the Information Society hopes to bridge the digital divide

What if talks whizz by with no accord?

WSIS: US envoy faces hot debate

Governments could break from the US and form their own root file system to manage core Internet components

eBay drops some API fees for developers

Effort intended to boost front ends to auctioneer's site

ANTs offers MySQL, Informix compatibility

ANTs Data Server now offers compatibility with six databases

IBM, ClearCube to extend relationship

Companies unveil hardware/software bundle aimed at the banking industry

IBM holds on to Top500 supercomputer lead

IBM had the most supercomputers on the list, followed by HP

Update: Google’s Web analytics service now free

Urchin on Demand service used to cost $199 per month

Intel brings virtualization to desktop chips

Support for Intel's virtualization technology expected from software companies by beginning of 2006

Sun paints Niagara green for launch

Sun talks up talks up the new UltraSparc T1 chip's eco-friendly design

Computer Associates rebrands as CEO speaks of ‘new CA’

Software vendor wants to be known only by its nickname, 'CA'

New mobile Linux group launches

LiPS Forum aims to foster the use of Linux on mobile devices

Product previews

McAfee Tailors Anti-spyware to Fit, Lucid8 Backs Up Exchange Data, Ruby Developers Get IDE with Komodo, ShoreTel Unveils IP Phone system for SMBs

CA seeks revival at user show

Struggling CA will attempt to regain customer trust at its CA World show this week

Next-gen Wi-Fi standard showdown

Vendors race to market with non-standard implementations of high speed 802.11n

SOA comes down to earth

Veterans of SOA projects impart lessons learned

Servlet-based Google Earth tours

The art of communication between client and servlet

Azul answers e-commerce workload woes

Company announces CentiCore

J2EE project execution: Some best practices

Template code, a developer's handbook, and automated code reviews can improve project execution

SC05 – Microsoft to talk up Windows for clusters

Company faces challenge in market dominated by Unix, Linux

Microsoft offers workflow software for Visual Studio 2005

Beta release of technology also works with Office 12 suite

Data breach bills unlikely to pass before 2006

For security breaches, encryption and consumer notification among topics holding up decisions

iPods are no longer cool, but Stephen Hawking sure is

EBay adds RSS to stores, introduces research tool

EBay Stores gives buyers new way to receive information about items for sale

Update: Private equity firm to buy Serena Software

Silver Lake Partners acquires enterprise change management vendor in $1.2 billion deal

Where open source is waiting to boom

Hong Kong startup plans free PC program in India

Free PCs offered only to middle-class people with purchasing power so as to attract vendor sponsors

Via puts PadLock on Java applications

Free software add-on gives desktop, online Java programs the ability to access AES encryption

Wall Street Beat

Dell and Cisco disappoint investors

Taiwan’s Accton planning Skype-compatible products

New products will let customers use VoIP software without a PC

Microsoft settles with Daum for $30M

Agreement won't end investigation into Microsoft by Korea’s Fair Trade Commission

Pay cuts follow Tokyo Stock Exchange IT trouble

Exchange's president will receive half pay for six months after bug in Fujitsu upgrade causes shutdown

US PC retailer devotes floor space to Linux

Micro Center will sell desktops and laptops running Linspire Linux OS

Google Automat seen as sign of classified ads move

The patent application is for a "system and method for providing online user-assisted Web-based advertising"

Despite hype, Microsoft lacks Web 2.0 savvy

Company has a long way to go to make its services strategy successful, analysts say

Update: Dell confirms disappointing Q3 results

Company continued to strengthen its services business, a top priority this year

SuSE founder leaves Novell

Hubert Mantel was one of four founders of SuSE

SBC management will lead the new AT&T

SBC Chairman and CEO Edward Whitacre Jr. will keep titles

Yes, You Can Benefit Today From 10-GbE In iSCSI Solutions

Microsoft, Cisco support ICE for VoIP

Companies will promote standard to allow VoIP traffic to be exchanged between devices on NATs-enabled networks

Why cancer researchers care about Grid computing

Tech giants join to purchase, protect Linux patents