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New tools aim to help companies protect sensitive data

Tablus and rival Palisade Systems release updated versions of their products

Fall brings a bumper crop of Apple gear

Company releases a slew of new hardware and software products

Microsoft, users hail product launches

But company acknowledges some users dissatisfied

Microsoft to bundle free adapters with BizTalk

Company will include software adapters for free

McGovern Institute for Brain Research welcomed

The institute will house more than 500 staff, making it one of the largest neuroscience centers in the world

IP phones help ‘Top Gun’ mogul get to ‘Action!’

Bruckheimer Films deploys new VoIP system

Grokster shuttered in court settlement

Settlement follows a U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing the entertainment industry to sue Grokster

Ballmer eyes enterprise with new products

The company focuses on security and scalability issues with database, tools and integration server products

Grid Computing and Clustering — the next OS battleground?

Qualcomm files patent infringement suit against Nokia

Suit alleges infringement of 11 patents related to GSM, GPRS and EDGE standards

SOA: The dream of a common language

Merrill Lynch's chief technology architect gives real-world SOA advice

CA spins Ingres off to independent company

Private equity firm forms new company to develop and market the open-source database

Annan: UN has no plans to ‘take over’ the Internet

Secretary General refocuses on goal of providing poorer countries with technology advancements

Equity firm buys Geac for $1B, Infor gets ERP software

New business groups planned

The ultimate guide to implementing SOA

Google launches downloadable mobile application

Mobile phone users can access maps, directions

McAfee’s end-point security beta on the way

McAfee Policy Enforcer makes sure computers have up-to-date patches, security software before allowing network access

XO cuts the wires to start a wireless business

Company aims to eliminate debt, focus on wireless broadband

Update: Sony DRM patch might crash Windows

Risk is small, but fix could crash OS during installation

Good puts security management on the air

Company to detail Good Mobile Defense, based on the SureWave technology Good acquired earlier this year by purchasing JP Mobile

HP turns to AMD for new blade PCs

Microsoft also clarifies its position on software licensing, allowing blade PC users to buy one license per user

Juniper hires Cisco hacker

Michael Lynn picked up just months after revealing holes in Cisco IOS at Black Hat conference

Mobile data usage is on the rise

Number of people that use mobile e-mail or access Internet via wireless phones is up 20 percent

Lifting the Curtain on SQL Server, VS 2005

Database and IDE updates add muscle to Microsoft's apps ambitions

Conference showcases open source startups

Sixteen open source companies strut before VCs, CIO

What’s wrong with Dell?

Changing market and increased competition inflict financial havoc on Dell

Microsoft goes live with Windows, Office

With Live Software  Microsoft dips its toe in the software services water

Competing network-management rivals unfurl faster, smarter wares

Network General and Network Instruments enhance solutions to keep pace with bandwidth-hungry apps like VOIP

BEA releases “Blended Environment” for developers

Company rebrands M7 offering

Incremental and fast builds using Ant

Enable your Ant builds to perform faster and more optimized builds

Sun looks to boost Java-.Net interoperability

Web services specifications are key to effort

Don’t sweat unit tests

Learn how to easily test external resources

Sony DRM patch might crash Windows

Security expert says design flaw in patch theoretically could crash a computer as software is installed

At long last, Visual Studio 2005 set to arrive

Beta users happy; Microsoft makes "minimal" changes between beta and shipping versions

Nsite to launch Ajax-enabled SaaS applications

Company plans to unveil a Universal WSDL parsing engine next year

FrontRange goes private in $200 million takeover

Company competes in the SMB applications market

Novell not to release Q4 results until Dec. 1

Company announced plans to lay off 600 of its 5,800-strong workforce earlier this week

US Senate approves H-1B visa increase

A House version of the budget bill does not increase the number of visas

AMD’s Spansion sets price for IPO

Company makes flash memory used in mobile phones, PDAs, and MP3 players to store data

Santa Cruz Networks adds video to Google Talk

Festoon video plug-in software lets IM users see who they're talking to

U.S. Senate sets DTV transition date

Senate sets 2009 deadline for switch to digital broadcasts, freeing up spectrum for wireless broadband

Autonomy acquires Verity for $500 million

Search technology developers combine to take on rivals Google, Microsoft

Microsoft moves to digitize British Library

MSN Book Search site to offer 25 million pages from the British Library's collection next year

Two Internet tycoons make list of China’s richest

Forbes releases list of 10 richest people in China with estimated worth of $1 billion or more

Hitachi subcontracts to offer services from India

Hitachi Global Solutions Center to increase its staff in India from 200 to 1,000 over next two years

Fujitsu to sell PrimeQuest servers through EDS

EDS to sell Fujitsu's Itanium 2-based PrimeQuest servers as well as its Tablet PCs

Easing chip set shortage should relieve PC market

Intel believes the chip set shortage may not abate until early next year

Palmisano visit underscores India’s importance for IBM

CEO's visit to India is part of IBM's focus on strategically important emerging markets

ObjectWeb teams with Chinese group for middleware

Consortium teams with Orientware to build a common open-source middleware platform

Commission looks to push e-health record adoption

Goal is a nationwide standard