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Microsoft brings DSI plan into focus

Company extends systems management beyond Windows

Acer founder promotes India, Taiwan cooperation

Taiwanese government emphasizing India as place for Taiwanese companies to seek engineering talent

Trend Micro antivirus update slows PCs worldwide

Faulty data file causes PCs to slow down or stop working

MCI’s board considers revised Qwest offer superior

MCI board decides revised offer from Qwest is superior to deal from Verizon

Java Product News (updated April 25, 2005)

IBM unveils self-managing autonomic technology; Versant proposes O/R mapping project for Eclipse; and more

Add a simple rule engine to your Spring-based applications

Use Spring built-in facilities to capture business logic

Dual-core rivalry between AMD and Intel includes HP

(Momentary) Rain on Sun’s Java parade

Qwest offer for MCI ups the ante

Oracle re-brands middleware, lays out PeopleSoft road map

Apps to be certified in 2005, 2006

RFID hooks ride on German mass transit

German e-ticketing system combines smart card with RFID

New features, new price for Sun’s JES

Update features support for HP-UX and Windows

Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings bring some relief

Upbeat company news comes from the processor, telecommunications, storage and Internet sectors

Microsoft plans joint research center with French gov’t

Research lab specializing in IT security and scientific computing will open within six months

India’s Wipro reports 58 percent profit growth

Outsourcing company faces challenges including growing salary demands and employee attrition

Blinkx allows sharing of Smart Folders

Blinkx turns its Web and PC search software into an online content distribution tool

Forgent sues Microsoft over JPEG patent

Forgent adds Microsoft to long list of companies sued for infringing on data compression patent

Ballmer, McNealy to give update on Sun-Microsoft pact

Critics have claimed the collaboration has not shown tangile results

IBM changes dual-core pricing for new AMD chips

Big Blue says it will charge the same price for licenses for single-core and dual-core AMD systems

Mono in focus

Google delivers robust Q1 growth

Strong sales of online advertising boosts revenue

Public Windows Server 2003 R2 beta set for next week

Second beta cycle will run until the fourth quarter, when the final version will ship

AMD offers preview of dual-core desktop chips

Starting in June, PCs will be available from AMD's partners with the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor

Web services standards efforts controlled, says Bosworth

Former BEA executive, now at Google, lashes out at IBM, Microsoft

Hynix to pay $185 million DRAM fine

Company took part in international conspiracy to fix DRMA prices

Vodafone pushing e-mail service

Experts urge wireless security integration

Technology managers must defend wired network against new threats from the wireless world

Update: SAP increases Q1 profit on strong U.S. sales

SAP's U.S. sales up 27 percent as company moves to win business from rival Oracle

AMD does dual-core dance

Update: Nokia’s first-quarter profit jumps 18 percent

Handset maker reports $1.1 billion in net profits

Sony, Toshiba discussing joint HD disc standard

Discussions on a single format for HD optical discs are at an early stage

German hospital tests RFID

Pilot project uses RFID chips embedded in wristbands to contain patients' data

Vodafone plans ‘push’ e-mail service

Vodafone set to take on RIM's Blackberry device

Army of zombies invades China

CipherTrust reports 20 percent of new zombies are in China

Taiwan fines chip maker UMC over Chinese company

Investigation ongoing into UMC's alleged illegal investments in Chinese semiconductor company

AMD marks two years of Opteron with dual-core launch

AMD's first dual-core Opterons will ship over the next few weeks in HP and Sun servers

Legal issues cloud but don’t stop open source

Ballmer says Microsoft will embrace virtualization

Slow down the WiMax hype

Cyber attack early warning center begins pilot project

The initiative is funded by the Department of Homelamd Security

Google service compiles users’ search history

My Search History let users recall searches by date or through a query box

MySQL marks 10 years; future IPO likely

House subcommittee elevates cybersecurity position

Bill would create a high-level position in Department of Homeland Security

Ballmer: We want to help you manage all of your IT

He oversees a MOM demo at Las Vegas management show

John Galt and shipping software

MySQL CEO touts open source as an alternative

Mickos cites shrinking IT budgets as motivating factor

Microsoft preparing Windows XP thin clients

Forthcoming operating systems to cost less than XP Professional, contain same management features

IBM unwraps new WebSphere MQ

Version 6.0 features new ESB support

Toshiba resurrects the Libretto

Toshiba brings back its Libretto compact laptop after a three-year absence

MySQL readies database clustering improvements

Tables, replication, partitioning to be highlighted