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Let’s learn from Katrina

Update: Apple intros smaller iPod, partners with Motorola

Cost is $249 for a device that is thinner than a #2 pencil

Gates talks up mid-market business apps

Stresses tight integration with Office, role-based interfaces

Europe initiative plans next generation middleware

Leading companies join for research project

CA opens access to 14 patents, announces deal with IBM

Company now encourages other vendors to open patents

Katrina disaster noted by Microsoft’s Gates

ARM’s Jazelle to speed DoCoMo handsets

Technology designed to speed up Java apps

Suse Linux 10.0 to hit stores in early October

New software emphasizes ease of use

Microsoft lodges new appeal of EC ruling

Microsoft wants court to focus on issue of licenses for the source code of communication protocols

Microsoft readies small business accounting package

Links to Office are stressed

Barriers exist to business traveler Wi-Fi use

Gartner study indicates Wi-Fi market is still early in its evolution

Update: Oracle portals target SMB customers across Europe

Oracle rolls out Web portals for 17 European countries

Seven things an SOA team should not say

Munich delays Linux rollout to extend tests

City officials now expect the migration to happen a year later

Update: Yahoo helped put Chinese journalist in jail, group says

Watch group says Yahoo gave Chinese government access to e-mails sent from a personal Web account

Symbol, Intermec settle RFID dispute

Each vendor will license technology from the other under their settlement

Sun begins replacement of iForce partner program

New program is more global in nature

Microsoft sharpens mid-market apps focus

ERP offerings for companies with 50 to 1,000 employees

LG. Philips to build LCD factory in Poland

Company plans to invest $538 million by 2011

New Trojan swaps porn for Koran

The Trojan, called Yusufali-A, monitors Web surfing habits

Microsoft, Google spar in Kai-Fu Lee case

Hearing in dispute is expected to conclude this week

FSF looking to raise $500,000 for GPL 3 evangelizing

Internationalizing the public license is an important task in drafting GPL 3

Intel invests in Czech security company

Grisoft s.r.o. has 25 million customers

IT job insecurity and open source patents

Sage puts Act on annual upgrade path, releases Act 2006

Software features better integration with Lotus Notes

Borland upgrading IDE while preparing for Eclipse future

Open source Eclipse is growing at the expense of commercial IDEs

Companies launch networked software research initiative

NESSI initiative aims to help Europe develop a 'knowledge-based economy'

Kazaa loses copyright case in Australia

Australian judge orders significant changes be made to how Kazaa service works

Cell operators work to restore networks in New Orleans

T-Mobile appears to have the most coverage in city that is still under water

Microsoft revamps keyboards and mice

Revamped split keyboard includes improved ergonomic features, other new functionality

Apple’s Jobs cancels keynote

CA makes next storage management move

BrightStor r11.5 supports additional devices, apps and streamlines disk and tape backups

Skype, Tom Online to launch Chinese joint venture

Joint venture will develop and deliver premium VoIP services in China

Borland upgrades IDE as open source alternatives loom

JBuilder features collaboration

Indians face offshoring competition from multinationals

U.S. services companies are setting up operations in India to take advantage of low costs

Three U.S. think-tanks ask to help Microsoft with EU antitrust appeal

U.S. think-tanks claim the Commission's ruling will impair property protection around the world

Sun plans Galaxy launch on Sept. 12

Galaxy servers will be based on dual-core Opteron processors

Cisco’s new IOS brings true process modularity to the core

Software upgrade aims to reduce core switch downtime

Product Previews

Oracle, Zend to ship PHP tool; McAfee offers secure messaging services; Serena enhances requirements management; GoldenGate finds database discrepancies

Conventional software vs. software as a service

Lines redrawn in battle between browser-based and traditional software services

Implement complicated data transformations with SAX and XSLT

Standard Java API provides powerful tools for XML data transformations

OO, XML, and GML: Are angle brackets a flexible modeling material?

Using XML comfortably among objects

IT companies step up to help Hurricane Katrina victims

Congress looks to pass data breach law

Tough New York law will take effect in December

AMD v Intel: Intel doth protest too much

Plumtree preps new portal version

Upgrade will include broad support for different system configurations

Microsoft unveils focus for Longhorn Itanium

Version to be optimized for database, custom apps and line-of-business apps

Jabber to roll out IM appliance next week

JabberNow lets companies deploy secure IM in 15 minutes

Sun releases open-source JavaServer Faces code

Exec claims move will make it easier to get contributed technologies into the software

IDC: Global disk storage market reached $5.6B in Q2

Growth rate was highest of last 8 quarters, analyst firm said