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Xdrive launches wireless access to online storage

Service will allow users to send files via e-mail or fax

Level 3 withdraws VOIP petition before FCC

Company cites leadership change at FCC as reason for rescinding its petition

Update: IBM releases FairUCE antispam technology

New technology helps identify online scams such as phishing attacks and e-mail spoofing

Phishing, hacking attacks increase

Update: IBM reaches $400 million settlement deal with Compuware

Companies settle patent-infringement lawsuit

One bidding war over, another still underway

Symbian licenses Microsoft ActiveSync protocol

Symbian-based mobile phones will be able to synchronize e-mail, other data with servers running Exchange Server 2003

Update: Oracle overcomes SAP to acquire Retek

SAP bows out of bidding war, opting to practice 'financial discipline'

Novell ZENworks 7 targets cross-platform management

Systems management suite facilitates management of Windows workstations from Linux platform

Novell touts identity-driven computing

Two identity architecture SDKs released

Novell plans small business Linux product

Offering will include GroupWise collaboration software

Novell to add more open source to exteNd

Company will co-develop the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite of open source software

Rambus, Infineon end DRAM dispute, sign licensing deal

The deal is not a framework for future arrangements with any other vendors, Rambus says

Packeteer, Visual Networks aim for large networks

Application management gains traction

Time Warner pays $300 million to settle SEC charges

Fine is one of the largest handed out by the SEC

HP aims blades at small businesses

HP expands its Smart Office initiative with program for blade servers

IAC to acquire Ask Jeeves

Deal to buy search and portal Web site operator valued at around $1.85 billion

CERN readies world’s biggest science grid

Computing network now encompasses more than 100 sites in 31 countries

Microsoft sets Visual Studio 2005 pricing

Developer subscriptions are being encouraged with new pricing plan

Hosted apps vendors clash over the great ASP debate

Epiphany, NetSuite, Salesforce.com, and Siebel debate industry-specific vs. customization

IBM buys Ascential

Big Blue to add acquired technology to its information integration family

Symantec: spam, phishing grow, botnets shrink in ’04

Online criminals getting more sophisticated about spoofing legitimate e-mail

EU gives Microsoft two weeks to comply

Microsoft faces possibility of financial penalties of about $5 million a day

Microsoft shares code with Eastern Europe

Microsoft expands its Shared Source Initiative

Reports: IAC to acquire Ask Jeeves for about $2B

Deal could be announced as early as Monday

ICQ upgrades IM service with new voice features

ICQ 5 gains two types of voice communication and improved video transmission

Sun loses open source diva to Intel

Danese Cooper had been long-time proponent of open source software within Sun

Patch an exception-handling framework

Decide at runtime how to handle exceptions

Sun readies scripting for NetBeans IDE

Coyote lets developers write code in scripting languages

Novell’s CTO to exit

Users not worried about latest personnel move

Sun, Microsoft look to appease developers

Java, Visual Basic in focus

Dell sees red light for white boxes

Unbranded PCs found not as attractive as those bearing company name

Iona heats up ESB market with Artix 3.0

Features will include mobile support

Google’s Blogger faces performance problems

Google takes steps to correct performance problems slowing down its Blogger service

IBM plans service job cuts across Western Europe

Big Blue eliminates jobs in Germany and Sweden while eyeing cuts in France as well

EU rejects Microsoft protocol license terms

European Commission shoots down Microsoft's $600 per-server licensing proposal

Turbolinux turns profitable, looks to India

Government contracts in China, Japan have raised Turbolinux's profile, leading to expansion plans

Competition heats up for Dell in China’s PC market

Dell is losing ground to competitors even as its PC shipments in China rose by 29 percent

Oracle CFO jumps ship to head BearingPoint

Harry You held the Oracle post for just eight months

Customization comes to low-end CRM

NetSuite, Salesforce.com move toward flexibility

Wall Street Beat: Merger mania continues

Acquisitions are bright spot in a depressed tech investment market

Intel: Hardware helps Web services become reality

Features built into Intel chips can help software developers create better mobile apps, exec says

Google improves AdSense with Ad Links

New feature boosts the relevance between ads and a Web page's content

Update: Google reaches out to open source community

Google Code site offers the search company's source code for free

Microsoft jumps into paid search ad competition

Ballmer announces beta of service at Strategic Account Summit

RFID crack raises spectre of weak encryption

Johns Hopkins and RSA Labs report points to serious flaws in a kind of cryptographic security used with RFID

Microsoft “marketing” bashed at tech conference

Will Longhorn be short on features?

Microsoft's much anticipated and frequently postponed OS may ultimately lack compelling reasons for customers to upgrade

Google France loses appeal in AdWords trademark dispute

Other search engines have also been impacted by same law

Interview: SAP exec talks about RFID

SAP aims at RFID standards development