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India’s HCL bags Autodesk outsourcing contract

HCL to provide offshore application and datacenter services in deal worth $50 million

NTT to absorb Verio operations into regional units

NTT aims to provide one-stop shopping service for networking and hosting services

Toshiba, NEC to collaborate on 45nm chip technology

Toshiba has similar plans to work with Sony to share costs, cut development time

IBM, Sony, Red Hat join others in Linux patent venture

Open Invention Network will acquire patents and offer them royalty free

Update: Cisco posts solid Q1 gains

Switching and routing product lines both had order gains of at least 10 percent, while advanced technologies grew in the mid-20s

Ozzie memo shows Microsoft rolling with punches

Note reinforces company's strategic move toward Web 2.0

CA opens a new chapter — again

CEO John Swainson gets chance to discuss plans at user conference

Borland lays out road map for Windows developer tools

Company to compete with, complement Visual Studio 2005

Verizon sues private investigation firm

Wireless customer data is being gathered improperly, carrier says

Google Earth to be linked with enterprise search tools

Two versions of the product now under Google's enterprise unit are Google Earth Pro and Earth Enterprise.

Telecom reform bill meets opposition

Some complain draft favors incumbent telecommunications carriers over competitors

IBM releases Cell software developer’s kit

Big Blue's aim is to help developers write software and games for the multicore Cell processor

Paging your blocks of data

IBM trying to promote internal cycle of growth

Big Blue using On Demand Workplace portal to foster collaboration, innovation

Microsoft works on tune ups for Visual Studio

Service packs on tap for next year for both Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005

SAP CEO: Learning to live with co-opetition

Interview: Henning Kagermann discusses the challenges facing SAP

Gartner: IT groups shrinking, changing

IT organizations in midsize and large companies will be 30 percent smaller by 2010

Ex-Oracle CFO Maffei moves to Liberty Media as CEO

Appointment helps explain Maffei's hurried departure from Oracle after just four months

McNealy: Galaxy servers to ship in volume soon

McNealy also says Sun Grid Compute Utility initiative hopes to launch this month

U.S. mobile lifts Deutsche Telekom Q3 results

Deutsche Telekom's mobile phone revenue rose nearly 11 percent in Q3

Update: Gates memo puts services at the heart of Microsoft

Microsoft chairman calls on his company to focus more sharply on Internet services

The human side of SOA

Life Squared shows Microsoft’s vision

Project demonstrates how Microsoft wants you to work and play using its products

HP upgrades print management software and drivers

Web Jetadmin 8.0 adds the ability to assign privileges to individual users

Sun to offer enterprise developer tool for free

Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 is readied

Lucent’s latest IMS deal could speed dual-mode services

BellSouth partners with Lucent to buy its IMS products and its integration, maintenance and support services

Qualcomm develops Scorpion mobile phone processor

Scorpion uses Arm's ARMv7 instruction set as the base for the processor

Palm CEO reiterates commitment to Palm OS

Ed Colligan responds to questions about Windows' Mobile-based Treo

Team led by IBM, Sun formalizes OpenDocument support

Group also considers putting together an industry coalition to promote use of OpenDocument

Vendor charges Microsoft with ‘predator pricing’

Swedian company complaisn to European Union about pricing strategy for Windows XP Media Center Edition

Study: AMD chips edge past Intel in retail PC sales

In October, AMD processors were in 49.8 percent of the PCs those retailers sold, compared with a 48.5 percent share for Intel

IBM releases second set of NAS arrays

The series is targeted at remote offices or enterprises with distributed environments

FCC backs off E911 requirement for VOIP providers

VoIP providers do not have to cut off customers if they have not met an FCC deadline

Keeping an eye on Apple’s Grid computing efforts …

Update: Google goes after clients of enterprise search rivals

New trade-in program aimed at fostering adoption of Google's Search Appliance

Borland taps ex-Oracle exec as new CEO

New Borland CEO Tod Nielsen was previously senior vice president at Oracle

Azul answers e-commerce workload woes

Azul's CentiCore helps handle heavy e-commerce transaction spikes

Lucid8 adds data protection to app lineup for Exchange

DigiVault disk-based backup helps protect e-mail stored in Microsoft Exchange

Lupper worm targets Linux systems

Worm spreads by exploiting Web servers hosting vulnerable PHP/CGI scripts

Survey: Security concerns over IP convergence

Executives believe biggest threat to security comes from people inside their company

Linspire offers to license all Korean PCs for $5M

Linux company makes offer after Microsoft warns it may stop selling Windows in South Korea

Microsoft renames anti-spyware product

Anti-spyware will be called Windows Defender when it becomes available next year

Hiding UDDI from the user, and SOA heroes

Tata acquires Chilean BPO company

India's largest software and services outsourcing company increases its presence in BPO

November’s coolest gadgets

Wireless communications technologies are making cables a thing of the past in electronics

NTT DoCoMo to offer credit-card payments by handset

DoCoMo embeds contactless smart card technology in its latest cellphones

U.S. company hopes to block Skype in China

Verso's filter is designed to block VoIP calls as well as other peer-to-peer apps

Remarked Pentium M processors surface in China

Relatively small number of engineering samples not intended for end-users have been resold

IBM to acquire Indian services company

Acquisition aims to strengthen IBM's networking, managed services business in India

FDA to drug makers: Submit labels electronically

New reg allows health care providers and the public to more easily access product and prescribing information