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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

Edify gets VoiceXML certification

Voice activation apps system is approved

IBM, AMD detail new use of strained silicon

Performance improvements may show up early next year

PARC signs multiyear research deal with Fujitsu

Companies to develop technologies for ubiquitous computing

Grid pioneers launch company

Globus creators involved in venture

Update – Microsoft releases desktop search suite to testers

MSN Toolbar Suite available for free download

Computer virus Netsky’s day off

Oracle faces daunting challenges integrating PeopleSoft

But IBM seen as most harmed by deal

Gartner predicts significant drop in IT jobs

3Com to buy Tippingpoint

Networking vendor scoops up IPS provider for $430 million

Mazu scores VC lifeblood from Symantec, others

Network intrusion prevention company gets $12 million in funding

Update: Oracle to buy PeopleSoft for $10.3B

Definitive agreement ends acrimonious takeover battle that lasted more than 18 months

Siemens to decide fate of mobile phone unit in January

Siemens denies reports that claim mobile phone business is being sold to Chinese company

Update: Software revenue pushes Oracle earnings higher in Q2

Earnings beat analyst expectations, increase by 10 percent over last-year's quarter

HP shifts focus for HP-UX

HP drops plans to beef up OS with new high availability and clustering technology

Supreme Court to hear Grokster case

Case will decide if P-to-P vendors will be penalized for unauthorized file trading when their software is used

A first look at Apache Geronimo

Start developing and deploying J2EE apps on Apache's open source J2EE server

Oracle readies major app server upgrade

Java, Web services, ID management, RFID highlighted

Getting around JSF: The role of JSP

Learn how to use JavaServer Pages with JavaServer Faces

Longhorn Server to have one version for many roles

Users can configure the OS to specific tasks

Sun eyes home users with Sun Ray update

Product moves from LAN to WAN, company says

Congress fails to act on copyright bills

Senate takes no action on measure that would have allowed prison sentences for violations

HP shifts focus for HP-UX

With Tru64 integration scuttled, future of OS remains unclear

Oracle upgrades key products

Database, app server, Java tool improved

IBM Sells PC Unit to Lenovo

Companies say customers will see no change in product availability and support during transition

Phishing Web sites grew by 33 percent in November

Number had dropped in previous months

Search heads toward enterprise desktops

Autonomy, Google, ISYS, Microsoft aim to address corporate security, privacy concerns

Serena boosts IDEs, collaboration in change management

ChangeMan Dimensions 9 is unveiled

Grokster case set for Supreme Court

Lower courts have favored P-to-P companies

Yahoo adds fuel to desktop search rush

Cape Clear boosts business processes in ESB

Web services messaging specification, Eclipse also enabled

JBoss set to shine with JEMS middleware stack

Open source vendor seeks to fill out product line

IBM launches virtualization assault on EMC

New product broadens storage options for EMC users

Sun executive reveals NAS strategy

New NAS products to support utility computing, ZFS, and possibly a deep archiving technology

Desktop search avalanche set to hit

Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves are ready jump into desktop search after Internet search leader Google

Vodafone to link with Boeing in-flight Internet

Vodafone Internet roaming trials start this month with Connexion by Boeing

Daredevil Oracle quietly raises app server price

AMD cuts power on 90nm Opteron processors

Chip maker reduced the maximum thermal output of its new processors by 25 percent compared to the previous generation

Update: Microsoft readies Windows Server 2003 R2 beta

Interim release aims to fill the gap between Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server Longhorn, due in 2007

OpenWorld: Oracle to deliver VMware-ready software

Oracle plans to distribute and support versions of its software designed to run in the VMware virtual server environment

China’s Huawei deploys its first U.S. mobile network

The company's FutureWei Technologies unit will launch flat-rate voice and data services under the Clear Talk brand

Microsoft to court: Eolas didn’t invent patented tech

Lawyer claims patented browsing functionality was demonstrated five years before patent was granted

Fraud, Feds top concerns as CSOs meet in New York

More than 85 information security experts gather at conference

Symantec to buy intrusion detection software company Platform Logic

Technology will add behavioral analysis and blocking capabilities

New GNOME version is available for Linux users

Enhancements include a new file manager and automated recognition of removable storage devices