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2004 was good and bad for IT security

A look back at the year in security

Linux can gain from the Firefox ad

Siebel to acquire edocs for $115 million

Siebel aims to provide broader range of front office apps with its CRM suite

IBM BladeCenter specification picks up speed

Company signs up 115 developers

Boeing casts eyes on live TV over Connexion service

Customers will able to view up to four channels of live TV in-flight over their laptops

Cisco to open R&D center in Japan next February

New R&D center will focus on Internet software and routing technologies

IBM researchers eye 100TB tape drive

Big Blue developing 'nanopatterning' techniques that boost capacity of tape storage devices by 250 times

U.S. companies ordered to expense options

Companies will be required to report cost of stock options in financial statements beginning next year

Borland folding C++Builder into Delphi

Company unifying Windows development tools

What’s all the fuss about desktop search?

Legal questions dog Microsoft antispyware buy

Purchase of Giant Company Software code at issue

P-to-P backers propose new distribution models

FCC workshop brings out calls for change

Multicore designs might force Intel off its bus

Integrated memory controllers may loom large in future designs

RIAA files 754 new file-trading lawsuits

Many defendants are users of university networks

HP drops Itanium development

Design team will move to Intel

W3C publishes Web architecture

Organization looks to codify principles

Linux market grows unabated

More questions than answers in Symantec, Veritas deal

It remains unclear what connections the companies will draw between their product lines

Gartner issues 10 CIO resolutions for 2005

Analyst firm predicts many changes to come in 2005

IBM offers developers modeling transition tool

Framework forged on alphaWorks site

Update: Symantec will buy Veritas for $13.5B in stock

Combined company keeps the Symantec name, aims to help enterprise customers better secure their information

Infineon designs smallest nonvolatile flash memory chip

New memory cell could increase by eight times the capacity of chips currently available

Judge: Maryland’s anti-spam law is unconstitutional

Judge dismisses the anti-spam case against an e-mail marketing company

Samsung targets 100M mobile phone shipments in 2005

Handset maker ranks No. 2 in shipments behind Nokia

Yahoo launches video search site

Service enables users to search file formats including AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, Windows Media and Real

NEC develops CD, DVD, HD-DVD drive prototype

DVD drives will support three different recording standards

A hill of NetBeans

FCC adopts new network-sharing rules

Decision eases phone-leasing rules

IDC predicts Linux market worth $35 billion by 2008

Strong packaged software growth expected

FCC to consider allowing cell phones on planes

Decision would allow voice and data communications aloft.

Startup takes new approach to server virtualization

Katana Technology will release product in April

IBM, others push for greater U.S. innovation

Corporate research and development is in decline, reports says

Sprint, Nextel herald ‘future of communications’

New powerhouse will compete with Verizon and Cingular

NEC, Toshiba claim MRAM breakthroughs

Magnetorestitive RAM could replace flash memory and DRAM by as early as 2010

SAP offers new security service

SAP Security Optimization gives customers a detailed analysis of security gaps and vulnerabilities

SAP prepares for R&D expansion in China

Company expects to add 250 software developers in China next year

Sprint, Nextel agree to ‘merger of equals’

Sprint Nextel will be the third largest mobile phone operator in the U.S with more than 35 million customers

WaveSat claims to ship first true WiMax chip

Wireless chip should begin shipping in systems by the second quarter of 2005

Update: Court lifts RIM injunction, but finds infringement

Federal judge upholds a decision that patents of NTP were infringed

Oracle says PeopleSoft merger ready to roll by January

Work begins immediately, says Oracle President Charles Phillips

Microsoft issues five bulletins on Windows flaws

Company designates issues as 'important'

Sun refreshes development tools line

Java Studio Creator, NetBeans, Java Studio Enterprise improvements cited

Ask Jeeves to boost search site with portal features

Company inventories assets to determine which are suitable for integration

Google partners with libraries

Cognos launches financial consolidation applications

Modules include templates for best practices

Oracle user group to welcome PeopleSoft users

OAUG in midst of planning how to help

Ask Jeeves to unveil desktop search tool

Tool can index and retrieve a variety of files

Zafi variant hides behind Christmas cheer

Worm arrives in e-mail titled Merry Christmas

Cisco branches out with WAF services

Products result of Actona acquisition

Update: Symantec may buy Veritas for over $13 billion

Negotiations said to be almost complete