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Need DRAM? The best prices are still to come

Prices for DRAM chips have fallen by more than 40 percent so far this year

Microsoft set to release patching tool, service in June

Service will be aimed mostly at small businesses and consumers

Update: Notebook processors lift Intel’s Q1 results

Overall chip shipments remainded flat

Sprint sees advertising-supported mobile services

Delivery methods are still in the planning stages

Yahoo exceeds Wall St. estimates in Q1 2005

Online advertising growth drives sales

Adobe adds Macromedia to form a multimedia giant

Web services reliable messaging spec submitted to OASIS

BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Tibco seek standard status for proposal

AtlasIPM maps data for compliance

Policy management suite enforces information retention and disposal rules across multiple systems

After controversy, Torvalds begins work on “git”

Software project will help him manage Linux kernel

Red Hat exec criticizes software patents, Microsoft

Shared Source program called into question

New Siebel CEO to receive $1 million annual salary

Geirge Shaheen can get more if he exceeds goals

Microsoft outlines management software road map

New releases are unveiled at Las Vegas show

MCI to acquire digital media software from TWI

MCI forms Digital Media Technologies group focused on digital media products

MySQL updates beta of database migration tool

MySQL takes aim at Oracle, Microsoft with open-source database tool

Lucent reorganizes as profits rise

Lucent merges units into renamed Network Solutions Group

Two open source object-relational projects afoot in Eclipse

Versant unveiling follows Oracle effort

China was third largest semiconductor market in 2004

China expected to grow at twice the pace of the entire semiconductor industry over the next five years

New Sober variant tricks users in German

Mass mailer worm harvests e-mail addresses that enable the worm to spread

With chips, Moore’s Law is not the problem

Problem of diminishing returns is compounded by rising costs

Security in new Opera browser fights phishing

Opera 8 gains features for tighter security, ability to surf the Web with voice commands

Future looking bright for OLED displays

Technology becoming screen of choice for smaller gadgets but will not be mainstream for notebook PCs this decade

Microsoft ties LCS to mobile devices

Microsoft provides enterprise instant messaging to wireless users

Vendors, carriers join Intel with WiMax plans

Intel launches its Pro/Wireless 5116 WiMax wireless broadband chip

Verity launches search-injected BPM

LiquidOffice 4.0 searches in-process content

Tibco launches complex event processing application

Software maps business processes and expected outcomes

Intel ships WiMax chip for wireless broadband

Azul unveils Java compute appliance

Hardware boosts Web-based apps

AT&T pushing legacy services onto MPLS net

Vendor seeks audio and video conferencing boosts

Cognizant acquires consulting company

Deal strengthens vendor's telecom, financial services offerings

Oracle execs talk up Fusion plans

Database support question is raised

Truth test is true marketing

Update: Adobe to buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion

Deal puts Adobe squarely in the path of rival Microsoft and its plans for Avalon

McAfee firewall updated to secure mobile workers

McAfee Desktop Firewall 8.5 lets administrators control access for travelling and remote workers

An open source BI partnership-to-be?

Softricity debuts on demand provisioning

New application virtually powered

Microsoft ships second Visual Studio 2005 beta

April preview of SQL Server 2005 database also set

Skype launches new premium services, plans more

SkypeIn lets non-Skype users reach registered customers; new services planned for SMBs

Greenplum, JasperSoft focus on open source

Startups step into the BI game

Borland offers UML for Microsoft developers

Together suite features role-based tools

BI startups aim to undercut bigwigs

Armed with a blend of open source and commercial tools, JasperSoft and Greenplum hope lower price point will attract customers

Despite dual core, AMD still out with Dell

Customers could benefit from choice of chips, but would Dell?

SugarCRM preps next version of open-source apps

Sugar Suite update gains e-mail marketing and forecasting components

SOA wrap: webMethods, Jacada, Systinet make moves

Business processes, composite apps, governance in focus

Automatically implement design guidelines in your code

Add Hammurapi, a design-compliance solution, to your toolbox

Microsoft changes System Center plans

Bundle is canceled but name will be used as an overall systems management brand

Intel’s WiMax chip starts shipping in volume

Wireless broadband vendors gearing up for certified products by year's end

Intel’s dual-core Extreme Edition to ship on Monday

AMD will follow with its own version Thursday

Israel search startup finds niche to challenge giants

Develops book search, price comparison engine

ID Theft Then and Now

Q1 PC shipments strong in Europe, weak in US

Dell expands market share over HP