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Black Duck makes service free until year-end

Tool helps companies ensure open source code used in software projects meets licensing obligations

Washington demands Internet status quo

Lawmakers speak out against efforts to force the U.S. to give up control over key Internet functions

Size no longer everything in flat panels

Industry has reached the point where making bigger and bigger displays no longer makes sense

Trojan calls on Skype users

E-mail claiming to contain Version 1.4 of Skype's VoIP software contains variant of IRCbot Trojan horse

Google rebrands U.K. e-mail service after dispute

Trademark challenge leads Google to offer e-mail addresses @googlemail.com instead of @gmail.com

88 Oracle holes

IBM replacing Rational Process Workbench

New offering supports collaborative development

IBM inks deal with VMware for virtual desktops

Single BladeCenter can handle as many as 168 virtual desktops

Samsung shows 7-megapixel cameraphone for China

Samsung offering its most advanced products outside South Korea for first time

India’s Wipro posts strong growth in revenue, profit

Wipro's R&D services accounted for 33 percent of its export revenues

Oracle patches 89 holes in quarterly security update

Patches affect versions of its database software from 8i onwards

Intel posts strong Q3 earnings

Several catergories, including microprocessors and chipsets, set sales records

Yahoo’s Q3 EPS stay flat, revenue grows

Portal saw strong sales of both brand ads, such as banner ads, and paid search ads

Senator calls for quicker digital TV transition

McCain says people died after Hurricane Katrina due to inadequate radio spectrum

Opteron to keep performance lead in 2006, HP managers say

Competitive balance between AMD and Intel is discussed at the HP Technology Forum 2005

Siebel launches component software, delays 8.0 update

Company launches Siebel Component Assembly (SCA), a new line of CRM software building blocks

Open source needs governance

Update: IBM buys DataPower in SOA power play

XML appliance maker joins Big Blue fold

Siebel CEO: Analytics biz would have fueled turnaround

George Shaheen called analytics 'my secret ticket back to the promised land'

Microsoft researcher, wiki creator joins Eclipse

Ward Cunningham's role will be to improve collaborative efforts at the open-source community

India’s Tata wins business from U.K.’s Pearl Group

Pearl staff will not lose their jobs as a result of the outsourcing but will move to TCS in the U.K.

Open Source Virtualization and the Grid

Sun official says open source needs governance

Sun's chief open-source officer says standards must be promoted

New Wi-Fi mobility system comes to Europe

Allied Telesyn is using proprietary technology developed and deployed in Asia

O’Reilly: Network has become the platform

New classes of companies have been built on open-source software

India concerned about Google Maps

Indian president says the service's detailed maps can be misused by terrorists

On the street with Samsung’s sat-TV phone

Gap filler network provides strong-enough signal to watch TV without interruption on streets of Seoul

HP brings hw6500 iPaqs to U.S. with Cingular

PDA companies dial into the phone market with new class of devices

Intel lauds Chinese CPU development

Intel exec says the Godson-2 chip shows fast uptake in design prowess by the Chinese

Encompass moves forward with Interex, HP

HP's major hardware user group is focused on helping HP users manage technology transitions

Epson hits another third-party ink retailer

Epson settles out-of-court with CybaHouse

Microsoft updates Windows Vista beta

New diagnostic software will be able to resolve problems in the computer's memory or on the hard drive.

IDC, Gartner find Q3 PC shipment increases

Aggressive pricing led to shipments higher than expected in the desktop market

Update: IBM income down slightly from Q3 2004

Excluding IBM's divested PC business, revenue increased 4 percent from a year ago

T-Mobile launches world’s first Flash-OFDM service

The network went live this week

Cox Communications focuses on customer support

Instant Answers costs Cox less than using service representatives

Update: Cingular to deploy Lucent network service

Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem defines how an IP network handle voice calls and data sessions

Linux phone drive

Security concerns weigh on HP, users

Company says it will build security into hardware and software to reduce complexity

Siebel execs pledge Siebel vision will thrive at Oracle

Annual show shadowed by users' uncertainty about Siebel's future after acquisition

Nortel replaces CEO Bill Owens

Owens will be replaced by Motorola President Mark Zafirovski

Virtualization and Grid computing heading in similar directions

Blobjects guide globetrotters

Spanish city develops electrical sightseeing cars equipped with navigational computers

Indian bank branches out to Linux

Canara Bank opts for RHEL as platform to automate more than 1,000 branches across India

OSDL plans Linux phone drive

Motorola, PalmSource among those suppporting the use of Linux on cell phones

Borland buys IT governance technology for ALM

Legadero offering feature software demand management

Treo 650 to get BlackBerry software

Palm will install push e-mail software on Treo 650 starting early next year

Taiwan aims to be largest WiMax test ground

Taiwanese government inks deal with Intel to work together on wireless broadband technology

Acer laptop includes VoIP phone inside

Acer shows off laptop model sporting Bluetooth card with speaker that unfolds for users to talk into