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Open source steps into ECM shoes

Former co-founder of Documentum  readies a new open source content management venture called Alfresco

Googlebombing, and Microsoft as Cerberus

Cisco to buy network memory vendor Nemo Systems

Nemo technology will enable Cisco customers to scale network systems and line card bandwidth

E.U. irks U.S. with shift from ‘status quo’

Agreements on issue of Internet governance likely will be postponed until November

U.K. town a global contender in bot battle

Small town of Winsford has the world's highest rate of infected computers

U.S. p-to-p companies will disappear, exec says

MetaMachine president tells Senate committee that file-sharing companies must become more like iTunes

Linux gain is Windows loss

Mobile industry focuses on handsets for the poor

3GSM Congress reduces cost of a mobile phone to below $30, aims to halve that price

Update: Lenovo gets ready for big India push

Lenovo creates division to focus exclusively on India, announces new organizational moves

Hackers fail to break into Via’s StrongBox

Company gathers valuable feedback from hacker competition participants

New low-power chip company to debut in October

P.A. Semi is led by industry veteran Dan Dobberpuhl

European Commission foresees spectrum trading

Aim is to create a pan-European market for trading in spectrum licences by 2010

BEA dev tool upgrade poses challenges

Lack of binary compatibility is cited

Wall Street Beat: Valuation questions arise

General market optimism continues with deals

E-Trade buys JP Morgan’s online brokerage for $1.6B

Deal will bring $29 billion in additional assets to E-Trade

Experts: US electronic health records still a way off

Government faces an "enormous challenge" getting electronic records to patients

How open source really works

Skype update adds call forwarding and ringtones

VoIP service upgrade includes customization service

Media companies, telecom rapidly converging

Consumers want cheap prices, more services, and personalized content

The hurricane that never was

RIM’s revenue growth slows in Q2

Legal trouble, gap between new products seen as causing dip in growth

Microsoft opens Belgrade development center

New center will focus on developing software for recognizing handwriting on portable computers

Infineon, Nanya deepen DRAM partnership

Partners aim to development costs on 60-nanometer production technologies

Microsoft gets hacker feedback on IE7 Beta 2

Microsoft aims to engage the 'security research community' more in the future

India’s Karvy diversifies into outsourcing

India's leading financial services company moves into BPO and research services

Dell bypasses Germany for new European factory

Poland, the Czech Republic, or Hungary rumored to be most likely to win new factory

Microsoft’s Ballmer to meet EC antitrust chief

Microsoft CEO will discuss general competition issues with EU's competition commissioner

Google and NASA plan R&D partnership

Future research projects will pool the computing knowledge of both organizations

Bangalore backs IT companies’ job quota opposition

Government agrees with local IT companies that recruitment should be decided on merit

GAO report knocks FAA info security efforts

Lack of controls cited for network security, on passwords, user accounts and user privileges

Dell aims high with new XPS PCs, services

Compant targets well-to-do technology users who are starting to equip their homes

Mobile world just opening up, media execs say

Investors take interest in multimedia on handsets

BEA World hints at trials ahead for Java vendor

Company now competes in a market becoming commoditized by open source

Cisco rolls out datacenter architecture for utility computing

VFrame combines InfiniBand-based server fabric switches with VFrame virtualization software

M7 acquisition is intended to boost BEA blending efforts

Open source and commercial software combo touted

MIT to launch $100 laptop prototype in November

Notebook is intended for school children around the world

IBM launches workforce consulting services

Big Blue helps businesses prepare for baby boomers' retirement

Cisco: Intelligence in the Network … AND the Datacenter

China Mobile looks to upgrade services

Company to beef up its offerings with mobile TV, games, and location services

Gartner: Emerging markets hungry for used PCs

Demand is exceeding supply for secondary market PCs

Destructive power of mobile viruses could rise fast

Security threats increasing as more gadgets become connected to the Internet

The magical open source community myth

World soccer body warns of phishing scam

Lottery companies requesting personal data in FIFA's name in latest global scam

Vendors push for enterprise mobility

Microsoft showcases push-to-talk device at CTIA

Minister: Netherlands to be digital gateway to Europe

Netherlands is poised to overtake South Korea as the most wired nation

Twinhead uses Via CPU in new notebook PC

Via notches a design win in rivalry with Intel and AMD

Update: SanDisk puts DRM on flash cards

TrustedFlash is expected to be rolled out in Q4 2005

Report: Google gets 1,000 resumes for 50 jobs in China

Google's Kai-Fu Lee begins setting up R&D center while awaiting trial with Microsoft

F-Secure integrates antispyware into new releases

Software can also manage children's Internet use

Via offers $5,000 reward to break its StrongBox

Via challenges hackers to overcome the app's encryption and read a document stored inside