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IBM opens up Portal to mainframes

WebSphere Portal now available on zSeries mainframe and iSeries midrange servers

EMC stresses end-to-end security

CEO Joe Tucci also says storage giant will be injecting more intelligence into its product lineup

Apache group releases upgrade to Derby database

Open source database targeted at departmental-level or SMB applications

India’s Infosys plans huge expansion in China

Outsourcer to grow its staff in China from 250 to 6,000 during next five years

SingTel’s profit rises on strong mobile growth

Wireless phone subscribers grew to 71.1 million, company said

Taiwanese DRAM maker ups equipment spending

ProMOS to spend $850 million on new plants

Free software center will ‘breed’ lawyers

Group aims to spawn software lawyers

Japanese auto makers connect to iPod

Nissan, Mazda and Daihatsu next year will feature car stereos that can be hooked up to the iPod

GPL 3 likely to appear in early 2007

Author of draft says license needs to be globalized

Dell’Oro sees enterprise WLANs booming

Wi-Fi, VoIP gaining prevalence as equipment security and management costs subside, analyst firm says

Novell to open source Suse

Exec says goal is to make open source OS usable by non-technical people

Yahoo, Microsoft challenge Google’s ad success

Both companies release new features

Court orders CardSystems to retain breach information

Lawsuit says company and others were negligent in maintaining consumer credit data

SSA Global to buy Epiphany

SOA underpinnings make for a good match

Google’s bad manners

SSA Global to buy Epiphany for $329 million

Acquired technology will be added to SSA's line of sales and marketing applications

Technology talent war rages on

Intel to temporarily reduce desktop chipset production

Company is adjusting manufacturing lines to meet demand

Dear IT graduate, just one word — mainframes

Mainframes are once again gaining traction in some quarters, but finding young mainframe talent can be difficult

Alien unveils next-generation RFID reader

Company also to partner with IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle

BMC raises financial forecast as revamp continues

Company also reported a loss

Time Warner settles shareholder suit, posts loss

Time Warner establishes $3 billion reserve fund to cover securities litigation

Mozilla creates profit arm

Penguin adds new 64-bit BladeRunners

Penguin will show off the blades at LinuxWorld show next week

SourceLabs, others, detail new open source stacks

‘Car Whisperer’ puts hackers in the driver’s seat

Software makes it possible to eavesdrop on and send audio clips to cars using Bluetooth

Indian outsourcer Infosys expands in China

Infosys to invest $10 million in Shanghai software development center

Taiwan LCD maker sees rising screen prices

Optronics projects laptop screen prices could rise more than $20 each in next few months

Startups vie to make Linux more attractive with bundled offerings

Greenplum, ActiveGrid, SourceLabs offer prebuilt configurations to ease integration of open source applications

Chip group commissions cancer risk study

SIA asks Vanderbilt University to study whether chip factories increase the risk of cancer

Mozilla creates money-making subsidiary

Group says its main objective is to sustain the development of Firefox

RFID experts launch new software company

TrueDemand Software to deliver suite of RFID applications

Chip industry growth outpacing forecasts so far

Chip revenues are up 6.5 percent over the same period last year

Gartner: Bank card fraud too easy for phishers

Ease of use for customers has eroded security procedures

Charity blogging event stumbles but lives on

Coordinators hopeful for Blogathon's future

Gartner’s Q2 view of PDA market lifted by wireless

PDAs with wireless radio the current "hot item"

Shoplifters get bad rap and other RFID trivia

Vonage, wireless carrier to sell together

Partnership represents an alliance of upstarts against the incumbent telecommunications carriers

Microsoft to integrate speech into Exchange

Move part of company's unified messaging strategy

Appeals court denies RIM a rehearing of NTP case

NTP plans to seek injunction against U.S. sales of the BlackBerry

Rail-thin security

U.S. lawmakers are pushing bills to improve railroad security

IBM buys customer data hub maker DWL

Purchase of data integration software maker should boost IBM's information management middleware

Update: Oracle to buy stake in Indian banking software company

Oracle moves into industry-specific software with $909 million i-flex Solutions acquisition

NTT DoCoMo to launch push-service for new phones

I-Channel service aimed at users who don't frequently access DoCoMo's I-mode wireless Internet service

Google now a hacker’s tool

Google's massive database contains information that wasn't intended to lie unexposed on the Web, and hackers are using it as a resource for intrusion

Microsoft aims to host regular hacker meetings

Making company's offerings more secure is goal for Blue Hat events

Black Hat – Leaked Cisco slides pulled after legal threats

Internet Security Systems pushes to suppress information about a security vulnerability in Cisco's routers

WebEx to buy Intranets.com for $45 million

Acquisition expected to close within a month

Intel extends Centrino certification to the skies

Company's Wireless Verification Program and Boeing team up for in-flight hot spots

BellSouth launches wireless broadband

New offering touted as alternative to DSL