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Update: BEA to buy portal maker Plumtree for $200 million

BEA to add collaboration software to its lineup

Life after Grokster: Music CEO asks for tech help

Warner Music Group's Edgar Bronfman Jr. announces an "e-label" to release music online

BEA drops pricing premium for dual-core CPUs

Users to be billed the same as for single-core deployments

Univa’s $8M to help speed its commercial grid software

Open-source startup to use venture capital backing to keep Globus moving forward

Google updates desktop search

Google Desktop 2.0 has Sidebar feature that offers access to e-mail, news, syndicated Web site feeds

IBM, users work to attract young mainframers

User group Share teams with Big Blue to support young people interested in mainframe computing

MSDN users to get early access to Visual Studio 2005 tools

Third beta release is planned for group development component

VC’s Back Univa for Enterprise Grid Push

Vendors struggle to offer coherent SOA stacks

Technology Review on R&D in 2005

BEA upgrading business process integration package

BPEL, links to network management consoles, B2B are highlighted

Open source, IT jobs and BI

Microsoft and Artemis settle trademark lawsuit

Artemis retains rights to its BioCert trademark and dismisses its suit against Microsoft

Fujitsu sues Nanya over memory chip patent

Suit covers patent for technology that improves speed of DDR SDRAM memory chips

Microsoft offers RFID system for postal services

Technology tracks packages, sends alerts via MSN Messenger or mobile phone SMS upon delivery

Product previews

EMC bolsters collaboration, Linux e-mail server readied, WatchGuard Aims SSL VPN at SMBs, LogicLibrary Boosts Software Development Asset Management

Apache kick-starts open source Web services

Synapse  project aims to deliver a scalable, distributed services broker based on Web services standards

VeriSign eyes seamless Wi-Fi cellular roaming

Acrylic paints the Avalon dream

Microsoft previews graphics tool; XAML support deemed critical for Windows Vista

Intel takes cool to the core

IDF will spotlight a new chip architecture designed to control power consumption and reduce heat

Access CICS applications with Spring

JCA support provides the key to connection

Oracle/IBM battle beyond the database

Oracle expands middleware portfolio

Sun releases DRM project as open source

DReaM Project to be available under Sun's CDDL

IBM to offer virtual training for startups

Big Blue to let developers access virtual workshops on IBM hardware and software

IBM sets up VC advisory council to boost partnerships

Goal is to help IBM identify potential partners

IAnywhere readies ‘Jasper’ database

Improvements to mobile database include performance, data protection and developer productivity

Eclipse upgrades C/C++ tools

Open source organization is not only about Java, official says

Text messages driving activism at concerts

Concet-goers will be able to sign petition during Coldplay concert

Moveable Type blog tool to get a face lift

SSA Global’s midmarket empire dreams

Vendor is amassing an eclectic portfolio

Grid Credit Where Credit is Due

Meet the Meter

SHARE – 50 and still going strong

A Q&A with Robert Rosen, president of the user group

Microsoft dons butterfly suit to hawk local search

Video promotes Virtual Earth product

Microsoft demos RSS features in IE 7

Mainstream use of feed subscriptions is an important design goal of the new browser

Telstra to launch 3G service Sept. 5

Australian telecom to offer high speed services

Apple replaces head of China office

Simon Hong is new managing director

Is IT to blame for its lack of credibility?

U.S. government IPv6 testing must go on

Defense Department testing next-generation protocol to meet 2008 compatibility target

Two new columnists debut this morning

German government launches national IT security plan

Plan establishes a computer emergency response center to deal with attacks on public and private IT systems

Wyse readies thin-client monitor, software improvements

Device will be tintroduced later this year

IE flaw affects Office, Visual Studio users

The vulnerability is not patched yet

Microsoft offers tool to combine .Net assemblies

ILMerge utility provides integration when developers use different languages

Wireless broadband unlikely to push 3G aside

Mobile mewcomers most likely to deploy wireless broadband

Sun exec takes control of open source projects

Sun has never viewed open source as being in a single silo, but Simon Phipps will coordinate a unified effort

Wall Street Beat: Google to raise additional billions

Hewlett-Packard's share price surges

Intel kicks off global wireless networking initiative

Digital Communities helps design, develop, and deploy municipal wireless networking projects

Finns urge better Wi-Fi security after bank break-in

Finland calls on its citizens to secure their Wi-Fi networks

RSA survey: Consumers care about authentication