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EarthLink, SK Telecom create virtual mobile operator

Newly formed SK-EarthLink will offer wireless voice and data services as well as handsets

Microsoft to require Windows piracy check

Windows XP and 2000 users will have to validate their copy of OS before downloading software

Update: Acqusitions help CA show Q3 revenue growth

Subscription software sales rose

Sun introduces OpenSolaris, releases 1,670 patents

McNealy says the company is likely the world’s largest code donor

Update: Earthlink claims victory in another spam case

Defendants pay cash settlement to Earthlink and agree to court order that forces them to stop spamming

IBM’s Lotus jumps ahead with Notes Domino 7

Rambus expands patent claims to DDR2 memory

Company files lawsuit against several chips manufacturers

Coalition supports RIAA, MPAA in Grokster case

The Dixie Chicks and other artists sign supporting briefs

Google turns on TV search

Q&A: Ex-HP Executives Form Startup To Deliver Itanium Technologies

W3C addresses Web services bandwidth

Standards body issues three specifications that focus on binary files, XML

Sybase revenue up

Net income down in Q4

BlowSearch to launch IM service featuring encryption

For a ticket of $9.95 per quarter, subscribers get 4096-bit encryption

Google launches video search engine

Company has indexed thousands of television shows for new service

Trial of WorldCom’s Ebbers begins in New York

Ex-CEO accused of falsifying books, faces counts that could carry prison sentences

Computer scientists identify future IT challenges

Goals for IT include harnessing the power of quantum physics, building systems that can't go wrong

Open Source Database Market Share Breakdown

SBC aligns with California to Create Wireless State Parks — No Thank You

IBM to buy Corio for $182 million

Big Blue strengthens its application services offerings with acquisition

IBM Lotus plots future of Notes and Domino

Lotus also unveils enhancements to its developer tools at Lotusphere

IBM goes silent on Linux desktop effort

Big Blue mum about progress of the company's move to open source clients

Gadget site resolves Microsoft secrets dispute

Microsoft cracking down on sites that use content the company considers proprietary

Sun lays groundwork for OpenSolaris community

First component, DTrace performance analysis software, to be released on Tuesday

PalmOne CEO Todd Bradley to resign

Company losing share as PDA market declines

Good launches wireless application access

GoodAccess products builds on mobile messaging platform

HP introduces life cycle tools

Wares aim to reduce maintenance

Nokia to produce single-chip mobile phone from Texas Instruments

Microsoft takes aim at Zambia piracy

Software giant pushes for country to enact Information and Communication Technology policy to prosecute pirates

Globus Consortium grid pact forged by IBM, Sun, Intel

Technology groups file brief in Grokster case

Five organizations ask Supreme Court to uphold 1984 Sony Betamax ruling

Viruses Go Airborne and Take to Mobile Phones

Sony licenses Transmeta power-saving technology

Chipmaker looks to licensing to reach profitability

Datapower adds virtualization with XS40 update

Customers will be able to create virtual XML security gateways on a single device

Poland holds up software patent issue, again

Country asks for more time to analyze directive

Compuware, Borland boost development wares

Java, application processes come into focus in separate initiatives

McAfee updates IntruShield line

Two new IntruShield appliances aimed at large enterprises and ISPs

Microsoft backs off appeal on EU sanctions

Company will still try to overturn the Commission's sanctions as part of longer-term appeal

CA CEO-to-be begins revamp

Incoming CEO John Swainson shuffles CA's top executives

Analyst fuels talk of Google telephony service

Google may be planning to offer VOIP service

Update: HP may farm out Fiorina’s job duties, says report

Board unhappy with HP's uneven performance, may redistribute some of CEO's responsibilities

Mobile malware kills Symbian service

New Trojan horse renders some Symbian mobile phones useless

Oki tests ZigBee network in Japan

Five day experiment will test whether ZigBee wireless sensor networks can transmit data in real-life scenarios

Low-cost PowerOpen servers roll from IBM

New machines go after Hewlett-Packard, Sun

Sun rolls out Identity Auditor

Software applies identity management for repeatable compliance

Symantec shows e-mail security appliance

New products use the acquired Brightmail anti-spam technology

HP, IBM, Sun boost enterprise grids

Globus Toolkit is focus of consortium

VeriSign upgrades its managed e-mail service

VeriSign adds spam filtering options and expanded administration tools to its Email Security Service

Compuware, Infragistics bolster dev tool interfaces

Vendors unveil development products for Java, .Net

Nortel, LG to establish network equipment venture

Nortel also enters 3G telecommunication equipment joint venture with China's Putian

Compuware adds tools for app life cycle

New Vantage Analyzer for J2EE will manage Java application performance