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What’s wrong with Dell?

Investors sent the company's stock down 8.28 percent Tuesday

A new frontier for CIOs in corporate ops

Prospects for those who wish to take on a broader management role are improving

Outsourcing’s image problem

Most respondents said outsourcing is good for the world economy and bad for the United States

New Microsoft app platform chief takes reins

Guggenheimer touts Nov. 7 product rollout

Intel’s new dual-core Xeon targets four-chip servers

Company now offers dual-core processors across all of its x86 server products.

Update: Gates, Ozzie go ‘Live’ with Microsoft services

Windows Live and Office Live start with a Web portal for Web-based services for Windows and Office

The Lenovo effect

IBM buys search developer iPhrase

Big Blue plans to incorporate iPhrase's technology into its information management software portfolio

Worm with rootkit hits AOL chat service

An attacker can monitor a user's computer and upload or download files

Google to restart book scanning

Two copyright infringement lawsuits will not deter Google Print initiative

IBM taps Neterion for Ethernet adapters

IBM is first major vendor to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet in its Intel-based servers

Red Hat sees virtualization as route for 2006

Next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will include a server virtualization capability

Avaya, SAP partner to deliver integrated applications

Supply chain solution will transmit shipping news to relevant managers

Borland eyes development services as IDE revenue drops

Impact of open source Eclipse environment on commercial rivals is recognized

People’s Bank of China puts cap on Internet payments

Chinese central bank says individuals can only spend $123 per transaction online

Analysis: 2005 a bad memory for DDR2

DDR2 is main DRAM for servers, notebooks but has failed to win over desktop users

Sanyo develops ready-to-use rechargeable battery

Sanyo's NiMH cells lose energy slowly so users won't have to charge them right out the box

Update: FCC okays telecom mergers with conditions

Verizon, SBC get approval to proceed providing they hold rates steady and offer 'naked' DSL

HP brings Unix to blades with Itanium

HP's dual-processor BL60p can also run Windows or Linux

Lenovo beats profit forecasts on strong demand

Lenovo is very strong in China but weaker in markets such as the U.S. where it faces tough competition

Software glitch halts Tokyo Stock Exchange

Problem appears to have been caused by a software error related to a system upgrade

Motorola, Nortel settle Zafirovski dispute

Nortel picked Zafirovski to be its new chief executive officer earlier this month

Dell to miss Q3 financial targets

Shortfall due to missed sales targets in the company's U.S. consumer business and its U.K. business

SAP files protest over Air Force deal with Oracle

Written evaluation favored SAP, according to German softweare vendor

BMC links batch systems to Web services, Java

Company unveils extension to Control-M system

Alfresco releases open-source content management software

Company's first U.S. employee as he starts work Tuesday

Monster mergers

Purisma launches customer ID management application

Tool correlates all data to a single customer view

Sprint debuts wireless music download service

Company's $2.50 per-song price more than doubles Apple's iTunes Music Store

Black Duck expands enterprise offering

Startup unveils upgrade to software compliance management suite

Steve Case resigns from Time Warner board

Resignation marks another step in symbolic dismantling of Time Warner-AOL merger

Telefónica takes (last?) stab at pan-Europe

Telefónica aims to become major cross-border telecommunications provider before it risks being gobbled up in turn

Oracle prepares free database

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition aims to attract new developers, shore up business at low end of corporate database market

Sun to put Java security upgrade to the test

Sandbox model to get overhaul

Firms to offer first open-source compliance insurance

Organizations offer maximum coverage of $10 million to companies using open source apps

Update: Telefónica to buy Britain’s O2 for $31.4 billion

Mobile phone group O2had been courted by several operators

Data hubs target top line growth

Data integration and hubs that unify customer data can encourage cross selling and upselling

PMC-Sierra to buy Agilent chip arm for $425 million

Acquisition strengthens PMC-Sierra's position in the storage semiconductor market

Continuent launches database cluster middleware

Emic Networks renames itself Continuent, offers new version of m/cluster

Virtual Iron widens support with 2.0

Startup adds support for AMD's Opteron chip and IBM's BladeCenter blade servers

ObjectWeb adds BI platform to open-source stack

SpagoBI works with multiple databases and application servers

Trend Micro to sell enterprise anti-spyware

Security vendor announces enhanced anti-virus, anti-spyware products

Intel’s dual-core delay really hurts

Itanium miss may cause Intel and its OEMs to miss out on high-performance computing purchases

Product previews

Juniper Jumps into access control, Fast personalizes enterprise desktop search, MySQL overhauls open source database, Systinet eases Web services construction

IBM leads charge for open source storage

Aperi consortium's aim is to develop common storage software to manage different vendors' systems

Taking a hard look at BPEL

Add automatic link detection to your Swing apps

Extend JEditorPane functionality

Java Enterprise System 4 now available

Sun's Java middleware to support Windows, HP-UX

Use a distributed cache to cluster your Spring remoting services

Add automatic discovery and clustering to Spring remoting

Gates, Ozzie seen unveiling hosted services next week

A hosted document data-sharing service and hosted CRM may be addressed