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Rambus sets up design center in India

Company will hire 50 employees there to work on memory technologies

Fujitsu to launch new PrimeQuest Itanium servers

Slated to be announced April 5, PrimeQuest will be company's first high-end Itanium 2 systems

EU clears Symantec takeover of Veritas

Shareholder vote will follow pending SEC review

Holy Father on rootkit writing for fun, profit

Rootkit author discusses efforts to highlight weaknesses in software security

Semiconductor firms call for more federal R&D spending

Semiconductor Industry Association warns the U.S. risks losing its technological edge unless its government increases funding for research and development (R&D) and reforms the nation's education system.

HP Labs unveils RFID solutions

Sun readies scripting for NetBeans IDE

Sun hopes to improve productivity for NetBeans users and draw additional developers to the tools platform.

RIM and NTP resolve patent litigation

Companies to enter licensing agreement

Sun tweaks Java licensing but does not go open source

Company also offers update on forthcoming Mustang version of the platform

Bush names Martin new FCC chairman

Former special assistant to Bush appointed to replace departing chairman Michael Powell

Akamai to acquire Speedera

McAfee offers management tool for SMB suites

ProtectionPilot helps centrally deploy and manage security updates

Update: Google expands access to Gmail

Google ramps up user base by offering Gmail accounts to random visitors on Google.com

Microsoft gives Indigo preview

Indigo aims to make it easier for developers to build secure, reliable Web services

Google reaches out to local businesses

Enhancement to Google Local index lets business owners add or edit their company info

EU court admits Microsoft intervenors

European court releases list of players who will voice their opinions for and against the rulings

Chip industry straining at the limits of technology

Semiconductor makers must replace pure silicon wafers to keep pace with advances in chip making

Cost of Intel’s lead-free move hits $100M, and counting

Chip maker hopes to be completely lead-free within five years

Microsoft developing its own paid search program

Company has no official launch date yet for its entry into paid-search market

IT manager sentenced to prison in hacking case

Worker pled guilty to hacking into his previous employer's computer network

Companies lining up to root out rootkits

Malicious programs gaining in popularity

SOA emphasized by IBM exec

Businesses are now operating in distributed fashion

Hacker gets jail time for WebTV virus

AutoCAD turns 20.0

Flagship software of AutoDesk celebrated with release of a new version

U.S. lawmakers push for data privacy legislation

Security lapses ChoicePoint and others prompt concern

Ebbers found guilty of WorldCom fraud

Sentencing is set for June 13

Vendors store all things great and small

Products introduced at Cebit show span the gamut, size-wise, from half-height tape drive to multiterabyte storage switch

Microsoft considering WinFS support in Windows XP

The new file system technology was originally slated to ship as part of Longhorn

Skype is enjoying the hype

CEO Zennström says his company's VoIP offering is much better than traditional phone service

Personnel issues cloud software development

'Agile programming' discussion draws varied opinions from panelists

More bomb hoaxes ruffle Bangalore

Headquarters of outsourcers Wipro and Infosys are evacuated following bomb warnings

Intel to upgrade Xeon MP processors later this month

'Trueland' platform ready for launch

Mozilla stays focused on Firefox

Man sentenced to 6 months for sending 911 virus

E-mail attachment reporgrammed WebTV boxes to dial emergency services

AT&T exec: WiMax is the 4G wireless technology

New contracts point to the trend, says CTO Hossein Eslambolchi

Networking titans build out SAN, MAN wares

Cisco, Foundry, Juniper, and McData, foster wares for bigger, broader networks

Bush hands out technology awards

Bob Metcalfe, former InfoWorld chief executive and columnist, is among the recipients

FTC tackles spyware growth

Interest in VOIP grows at Cebit

Slow to get off the ground, perhaps, but the VOIP market is now picking up momentum

Perot plans acquisitions to add capacity worldwide

Global delivery is the only way to satisfy staffing demands of U.S. corporations, Perot says

Update: Burst, Microsoft reach settlement

Microsoft to pay $60 million to settle patent-infringement, antitrust claims

Update: IBM to buy Ascential for $1.1 billion

Acquisition will strengthen IBM's information integration offerings

SOA Software gains messaging technology

Company buys event-based messaging company ThoughtDigital

BI vendors tout integration tools

Oracle, Information Builders, Spotfire help customers get to data sources

HP to ship first servers with smaller SAS hard drives

Customers will have option of buying less expensive Serial ATA drives with their systems

AOL unveils set of new mobile services

New services increase AOL users' access to functionality and content from their mobile devices

Workers protest IBM ‘layoffs on demand’

German employees protest outsourcing of support jobs

IBM, Sun to extend developer platforms

Test tools, grid offering slated

Choosing a Java scripting language: Round two

If you are considering hooking a scripting interpreter into your Java application, the hardest part is choosing which one to use

Create an application-wide user session for J2EE

Span components from Web applications and J2EE clients to EJB components