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ARM unveils new Cortex chip core for mobile devices

Faster versions of the A8 core will deliver enough performance to run consumer home media devices like DVD players

Siebel deepens Microsoft Office integration in SMB software

Company's product road map and pricing is somewhat uncertain

Firefox advocacy site hacked again

Attackers sought to exploit a bug in the TWiki collaboration software

Microsoft loves open source now

Sun, Google partner on Java, OpenOffice

Google Toolbar to be an option in desktop version of Sun's Java runtime environment

Google, Sun to bring StarOffice to Web

Sun to help Google build a network to compete with common rival Microsoft

Blu-ray support hinges on disc copy, says Intel

Intel is open to also supporting the rival Blu-ray Disc format , exec says

Business Objects plans to buy Infommersion for $40M

Infommersion's technology will enhance the way Business Objects' software presents data

Archaeology, astronomy and salary negotiation

HD-DVD, Blu-ray prototypes square off at Ceatec

Electronics companies unveil their latest prototype players and PC drives

Hong Kong firm offers $6 a month VoIP

2b Broadband Phone only works with Hong Kong phone numbers

Click fraud is growing concern

Fraud in pay-per-click advertising is considered problem by 70 percent of online advertisers

IBM to target SMBs with first Power5+ servers

IBM releases first servers based on its new 64-bit Power5+ processors

Google’s plan for city signals Wi-Fi ambitions

Company submitting proposal for providing wireless Net access throughout San Francisco

Lycos to test new social networking service

Company says the new service, dubbed Planet, is deigned with the non-technically savvy in mind

New California law will make phishing illegal

Anti-Phishing Act of 2005 is among the first antiphishing laws to be enacted in the U.S

Netscape to ship on HP PCs in 2006

HP is working out its plans for alternative browsers in other regions of the world

Chief Microsoft gamer Bach talks Xbox 360

Company says it will unveil what it is calling its most impressive launch line-up ever

Edge Dynamics offers anti-counterfeiting application to pharmaceutical industry

Release 3.0 aggregates and analyzes channel shipments

BMC expands ID management suite

Product addresses compliance, authorized access, and application security

Microsoft adds native PDF support to Office 12

Users will be able to save Excel, Word, PowerPoint documents as PDFs

Yahoo-backed group plans online library of books, film

Adobe and HP to will supply software for online library

HP to buy blade management expert RLX

HP plugs holes in its enterprise management portfolio via acquisition

Trojan uses unpatched Microsoft Office hole

Backdoor.Hesive can allow an unauthorized user access

Blinkx improves multimedia search engine

Online library lets users upload videos for viewing to Web searchers

Lenovo makes a push in Africa

PCs sold in Africa will cost $400 without monitors

Symantec buys BindView Development for $209 million

BindView's software takes agentless approach to ensuring compliance with security policies

The open source image problem, and one way to solve it

Japan’s Ceatec opens on Tuesday

Japan's largest annual IT show to showcase latest products and prototypes of devices

Paramount to offer movies on HD-DVD and Blu-ray

Paramount becomes first major content provider to publically support both formats

New BenQ, Siemens mobile phone company opens

Products using the new combined brand name will be introduced in the spring

IBM, Univa partner on grids

Bib Blue to license Globus middleware

Microsoft, JBoss unite in unlikely pairing

Companies will work together to align software

Palm-Microsoft deal sends ripple effects through the enterprise

Third-party developers may be seeing double, but enterprise IT will welcome Windows anything

Open source software steps into ECM shoes

Alfresco next month will release its open source platform for ECM

Product previews

Enterasys adds intrusion prevention to Dragon Defense, Flashline sheds light on SOA construction; Lockdown enforces switch-level security; ISYS boosts intranet and portal search

New California law will make phishing illegal

Anti-Phishing Act of 2005 is among the first antiphishing laws to be enacted in the U.S.

Enerjy tool tracks developer coding behaviors

Goal is to correct problems early

BEA World hints at trials ahead for Java vendor

Software vendor must reinvent itself in a market it once pioneered

Design an MVC framework using annotations

Annotations can help decouple your application components

Intel’s Xeon ready to enter dual-core era

HP Proliant servers will be featured in an Oct. 10 event

NetBeans open source tools getting refreshed

Eclipse rival fitted with GUI-building improvements

SAP to offer major SCM upgrades in Release 5.0

Supply-chain solution will focus on analytics

The Psychology of Early Grid Adopters

Moore’s Law sprung from backyard bombs

He says he had no idea how pervasive his law would become

Philips to add development staff in India

Group will grow to 2,500 employees by the end of 2007

Old computers increasingly find new life

Technology Renewal Center repairs damaged goods

Microsoft woos hobbyist, child programmers

Aim is to make Windows development easy and fun

China boasts nearly 373 million mobile phone users

India lags far behind in number of users

SAP’s VC arm invests in wiki company

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