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Demand soars in Asia for notebook PCs

Gartner says shipments are up 40 percent

Study: Dell customer rating plunges, Apple leads pack

Respondents complained about the quality of Dell's customer service rather than its products

Hot Chips: IBM, Toshiba present Cell details

Processor is expected to be used in the Playstation 3 game console

McAfee readies home Wi-Fi security tool

Software is designed to keep out others who want to freeload on a broadband Internet connection

Microsoft posts new Acrylic design tool preview

XAML backing is deemed critical addition for Windows Vista users

Microsoft exec defends RSS rebranding

Others decry proposal, saying the software giant is trying to recast the technology in its own image

Symantec patches Veritas bug

Bug affects a wider range of software than first thought

Zotob worm exploits Windows 2000 Plug and Play

Trend Micro reported two variants of the worm

OASIS drafts blueprints for SOA

A new set of license-free blueprints will help enterprises plan SOA implementations using carefully crafted examples

Hacker found guilty in massive data theft case

Scott Levine may have stolen more than 1.6 billion customer records from Acxiom

Analytics helps Siebel win Sierra Health deal

CRM maker focusing more on analytics

Dirty words of the IT pro

Linux, chips and dotcoms in China

Zotob worm spreading via Windows

Agilent sells chip business for $2.6 billion

Company will focus on its core test and measurement business

Apps vendors attack midmarket

NetSuite, RightNow, Salesforce.com, Salesnet, Siebel, and SugarCRM all update wares

Progress Software joins Eclipse

Application infrastructure provider becomes open source tools organization's newest member

SCO CEO promises survival

McBride says a cap on legal expenses and a profitable Unix business mean SCO is poised for sustainability

Stars align for open source

LinuxWorld showcases partnerships and community wares

Neon Systems offers mainframe ESB

Company tackles integration issues

Mobile viruses could score big at soccer World Cup

Malicious activity at World Athletics Championships could be precursor to future events

Intel Capital invests in three Chinese companies

Intel invested in semiconductor design, chip maker and broadband entertainment companies

China’s Netease, 99Bill offer online payment service

Customers will be able to use pre-paid cards to purchase goods online

Component costs rising, but PC prices won’t

Average cost of personal computers still dropping, analysts say

Simplify enterprise Java development with EJB 3.0, Part 1

Use annotations to develop POJO services

IBM updates WebSphere Extended Deployment

IBM offers gridlike workload management

Manage the agile team with XPlanner

How can XPlanner assist your agile team to achieve peak performance?

HP to resell Emulex HBAs with its blades

HP wilto integrate Emulex's HBA management tools into its Systems Insight Manager

Attacks reported for critical Veritas Backup Exec flaw

Flaw is discovered in Network Data Management Protocol agent

Microsoft tool to simplify Vista deployment

Windows Automated Installation Kit expected to help in deployment

Exploits on the loose for latest Microsoft bugs

French Security Incident Response Team publishes information on vulnerability

Pirated version of MacOS for x86 available for install

Hackers figure out ways to bypass security chip

Sprint, Nextel close merger deal

New company will compete with industry giants Cingular and Verizon Wireless

Developers seek third beta release for Visual Studio 2005

Beta testers cite bugs, but Microsoft is sticking to November 7 release date for final product

Update: Firefox lost market share in July to IE

Microsoft IE regains lost ground

US H1-B visa limits already reached for 2006

Government will not process applications received after Wednesday

Update: Google provides opt-out for publishers

Company to stop scanning copyrighted library books for a few months so publishers can decide whether or not to participate

Cabir mobile worm tracking through phones

Software AG acquires rich client development tools

Company buys Casabac, gains J2EE infrastructure product

SAP promises new type of hosted CRM service

New model will blend hosted, on-demand computing

HP to buy Israeli printer maker Scitex Vision for $230M

Through acquisition, HP gains wide and super-wise format printer technologies

Intel to unveil ‘next-generation architecture’

CEO Paul Otellini to detail Meron, Conroe and Woodcrest, due in late 2006

Qualcomm-Flarion deal may rock wireless world

Merged company could compete with emerging WiMax efforts

Red Hat mulls Exchange competitor

Company owns Netscape Messaging Server

Wall Street Beat: M&A, earnings, IPO stir tech trading

Yahoo shares rise in advance of purchase of Chinese e-commerce company

Midnight Coders adds AJAX to rich Internet apps platform

Company upgrades its WebORB Presentation Server

Dell misses Q2 revenue expectations on lower prices

But profit for the quarter rises 28 percent

Update: Dell misses Q2 revenue guidance on lower prices

Revenue was still up 15 percent over last year

Amazon resolves patent lawsuits to tune of $40m

Soverain, an e-commerce company, initiated legal action

AOL to give away spammer loot

Cash and a Hummer are part of assets recovered from New Hampshire man