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Short movie envisions the growing Google ‘EPIC’

Movie portrays growing Google as the death knell for Fourth Estate

Microsoft to collaborate on research with India’s C-DAC

Redmond will collaborate with government-run center on multilingual issues

VeriSign buys Weblogs.com for $2.3 million

VeriSign will continue to operate Weblogs.com as an 'openly available service'

U.S. won’t lose its tech edge, says Microsoft’s Mundie

CTO says India faces challenges in commercializing its inventions

Engineers show fuel cell progress

Companies now shooting for 2007 to put DMFC-based laptops on sale

AOL CEO quiet on Microsoft rumors

AOL is in a business model transition, says CEO Jonathan Miller at Web 2.0 conference

How Harry met Sally on our identity management test bed

We tasked each solution vendor with a series of test scenarios based on a common business plot revolving around a simulated employee lifecycle

Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine has serious bug

Company advises users to upgrade their software

Wall Street Beat: Sun hypes, Lexmark implodes

Sun's stock is up after it detailed partnership with Google, Lexmark cites lower demand for supplies, aggressive pricing competition

Microsoft expects nine security fixes in October

One of them is rated as 'critical'

EU Internet governance proposal raises US objections

European Union wants to create new body to oversee Internet

Ex-PeopleSoft CEO joins Salesforce.com board

Craig Conway brought in to help ASP compete with Oracle

Compuware backs Eclipse, Microsoft

Tools maker accommodating both camps

Semel defends actions in Chinese journalist case

He says Yahoo has to respect local laws

ISP spat blacks out Net connections

Level 3, Cogent have financial dispute

IBM to unwrap first dual-core Xeon ‘Paxville’ servers

Intel set to launch dual-core processor Monday

MCI shareholders approve Verizon deal

Telecommunications deal valued at $8.4 billion is on track to close by early 2006

Nokia puts Symantec on its mobile phones

Mobile Security will come preinstalled on Series 60 smart phones

Wi-Fi by the Bay

Many important policy issues surround municipal proposals to provide free, ubiquitous Wi-Fi

Rural India to get PCs that can run on car batteries

Intel will introduce Community PC in India later this year

IBM, Mercury team up on Cell-based blade server

Two-chip blade server will be the first product available using the Cell processor

Macromedia expanding rich Internet apps development

Flex upgrade features low-cost option

IAC chief has faith in Ask Jeeves

Newly acquired search engine can gain market share against Google, IAC CEO says

Google seeks talks with Taiwan over Maps

Google working to resolve dispute over Taiwan's listing in Google Maps

Microsoft adapting to Web platform, execs say

Every aspect of what drives Microsoft's business is changing, says CTO Ray Ozzie

Microsoft to roll virus, spyware protection into one

Redmond makes its entry into the antivirus market with Microsoft Client Protection

Researchers: SMS attacks could cripple cell phones

Hackers could bring down cellular service by flooding phones with unwanted text messages

Motorola confirms layoff of 1,900 employees

Company will continue consolidating supply chain operations to cut costs

Windows XP SP3 preview surfaces on Web

An "unofficial" preview pack of Windows XP service pack 3 (SP3) is available

Oracle finds supply chain niche for PeopleSoft

Version 8.9 will target wholesale distribution

Imation morphs drives into tapes

Visa CEO calls for data protection laws, incentives

John Coghlan calls for laws to increase penalties for credit card and data fraud

FTC asks court to halt alleged spyware site

Odysseusmarketing.com is named by the commission

Indian telecom to require local equipment manufacture

Government aims to bring broadband to 10 million by the end of 2007

Sprint Nextel sues VOIP carriers over patents

Vonage and others allegedly violated patents for delivering packetized voice and data

News analysis: The Google and Sun buddy movie preview

Overhyped collaboration bears little fruit, but excitement points to thirst for change in desktop computing

Socialtext to open source bulk of its software

Wikiwyg wiki editing tool will be Socialtext's first product to go open source

Microsoft: No Office software for Linux

Microsoft is 100 percent focused on Windows, exec says at LinuxWorld

IBM has first Grid and Grow app partners

SAS Institute and Absoft to support IBM's Grid and Grow bundle of software, hardware, and services

Still more questions than answers with Grid…

Hard disks anything but gone, says Seagate

Seagate exec refutes predictions that flash memory will replace other forms of data storage

Maspro pushes Wi-Fi 5 kilometers

Japanese manufacturer offers high-gain antennas for remote monitoring, security apps

Update: EU appoints academic to monitor Microsoft

British expert in computer security to oversee Microsoft's compliance with antitrust ruling

Web 2.0 spotlights risk, opportunities on the Internet

Conference brings together industry powerhouses, startups to focus on Internet as a business

WLAN quality-of-service specification approved

IEEE approves 802.11e specification

Sony updates Vaio X with 2 models

Vaio X Living brings together Windows XP PC and video recording capability

Taiwan protests Google Maps reference to China

Taiwanese government plans to lodge second formal complaint against Google

Update: EarthLink selected for Philadelphia Wi-Fi network

EarthLink to finance, build and manage network, then share revenue with Wireless Philadelphia initiative

Google, Sun tout software deal, hint at services

Schmidt, McNealy only hint at things to come from the partnership

Copan readying new storage Revolutions

Company plans three new products and links with other storage players