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Setting the ground for ILM

NTT builds networks through touch

System uses the body's electrical field to create a high-speed computer network

Cisco to acquire Sheer Networks for $97 million

Cisco pays $97 million for vendor that makes software for managing complex networks

Taiwan stays cautious on Chinese tech investments

Taiwanese president says investment by China will continue to be restricted in key technology areas

TSMC Q2 revenue drops, prices remain soft

TSMC expects demand for chips to rise throughout the rest of 2005

Motorola, Microsoft unveil slim Windows smart phone

Mobile music deal with Apple still on tap for Motorola's Q smart phone

Microsoft requires Windows piracy checks

Users must validate they are running legitimate copies of Windows before downloading updates

Linksys simplifies WLAN security setup

SecureEasySetup technology aims to make it easier to set up secure wireless LANs

Yahoo goes beyond the browser with widget buy

Microsoft Virtual Earth will go head to head with Google Maps

Microsoft could face trademark challenge over ‘Vista’

Custom application and services provider company named Vista is mulling legal action against Microsoft

Yahoo snags widget tool Konfabulator

Widget engine lets developers create and run mini applications

Security gets smarter

3Com, VeriSign, Arbor add intelligence to wares

HP customers digest layoffs and reorganization

Company says sales and services will remain intact

Black Hat: Oracle’s crypto not secure, researcher says

At the Black Hat security conference a German researcher shows how Oracle's encryption can be broken

Intel plans new 300mm manufacturing plant for Arizona

The $3 billion Fab 32 to also produce 45-nanometer chips

EMC adds to high end array line

3Com offers bug bounty to hackers, researchers

EMC announces Symmetrix 7, rebrands as DMX-3

High-end storage-array system will ship in early September

Industry group identifies grid security risks

Some of the security issues discussed in paper are unique to grids

Flexible chips to let phones do it all

Startup claims vendors could build multimode handsets using single programmable chip

WebSphere Commerce soups up search spidering

New search engine optimization feature helps product work better with Google

Will Nexus save Siebel?

Company places hopes on custom development to rejuvenate CRM sales

News Briefs

HP, Altiris cozy up with software suites

Companies release two co-developed client management software bundles

Microsoft takes on Google with Virtual Earth

MSN Virtual Earth will go head to head with Google Maps

NTT advances quantum crypto key distribution

Japanese lab sends quantum keys through optical switch designed for normal optical communications

India’s Wipro loses yet another senior executive

Company's head of America sales resigns from his position

Hook on to Jakarta Commons Chain

New Commons framework implements the Chain of Responsibility pattern

Java Pro Programming: Printing

Learn how to use the print service API

Google countersues Microsoft in battle over executive

Apache OK to use Web services spec

The power of the blogosphere

Microsoft shows solid profit but growth slows

EMC to unveil Symmetrix 7 arrays

Systems could offer as much as a half a petabyte of storage

Microsoft changes Longhorn’s name to Vista

Linksys to buy Danish entertainment gear vendor

Cisco division leaps into home networked entertainment, paying $61 million for KISS

Web services chugging along

Impediments remain, but are being addressed

CEOs are faking it, Stanford professor says

CEOs deserve less credit for their company's fortunes than they receive

Indian outsourcer Wipro posts 29 percent revenue growth

Company is shifting focus from call center services to nonvoice transaction processing services

Hacker Mitnick preaches social engineering awareness

Mitnick says people are the weakest link and organizations must build 'human firewall'

Analysis: Chinese currency move won’t affect PC costs

Currency revaluation should not impact end-user prices for IT goods

Update: Microsoft Q4 growth stemmed from servers, Xbox

Strength in servers and rapid customer adoption of SQL Server fuel growth

Wall Street Beat: Tech fuels rally, then tapers off

Nasdaq index reached its highest point in four years this week

Update: Google’s Q2 revenue shoots through the roof

Q2 2005 revenue up 98 percent compared with 2004's second quarter

HP cuts four research projects from R&D budget

Projects killed include next-gen Internet OS and high-density portable storage devices

Microsoft releases BizTalk Server 2006 beta

Mozilla: more fixes for Firefox, Thunderbird

Developers petition IBM to open source OS/2

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