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Edge Dynamics launches new breed of enterprise app

Hybrid software crosses ERP with BI

IBM gives a kick to CICS

New version works with Web services

Enterprises pushing 10GigE to edge

Cisco, Foundry detail 10-Gigabit Ethernet wares

Former Sun, BEA execs forge grid venture

Cassatt aims to automate IT, leverage commodity systems

Samsung to make $24B chip investment by 2010

Investment in new semiconductor production lines expected to create up to 10,000 new jobs

Trend Micro gives away mobile antivirus software

Trend Micro to provide protection against mobile phone viruses and spam

IBM in deal to overhaul Spanish health service

Agreement, worth $34.3 million, to ease management across 14 hospitals

Use XML databases to empower Java Web services

Integrate a native XML operational data store into your enterprise application

Users see slow progress on Microsoft-Sun alliance

Some wonder if collaboration will ever produce results

Getting started with test-driven development

The right tools will get you on the right track with TDD

HP fine-tunes security management 

Company pushes enterprise ID management, SMB security

Transmeta licenses low-power technology to Fujitsu

Fujitsu is second customer to license LongRun2 power management technology

Microsoft rolls out blogging service

Update: AOL to adapt WebEx services for AIM consumers

Companies are considering extending online presentations, VOIP, video conferencing to non-business IM users

Update: TheGlobe.com subsidiary guns for IM interoperability

GloConnect enables users to exchange messages across four major IM networks

IBM to leave PC legacy to Chinese company?

U.S. Supreme Court to review cable Internet case

Appeals court last year ruled that cable operators should allow competing ISPs on their networks

Microsoft, Sun tout interoperability progress

Cooperation efforts target Web services, identity, storage

Q&A: OMG talks UML 2.0

Bran  Selic on the pending spec for model-driven

Sun submits mystery license to open source group

New license could be used for the open-source release of Sun's Unix OS

Lycos pulls the plug on anti-spam screensaver

Bush signs Internet tax moratorium

New law extends Internet tax ban for three more years

Sun closer to open source Solaris with draft license

Mobile phones: An ear full of worms

Experts worry that mobile viruses could be a whole lot worse than their PC predecessors

Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site

Site posts 'Stay Tuned' message, no longer offers controversial program

Update: Four Infineon executives jailed for DRAM price-fixing

Execs pled guilty for scheme that illegally set pricing for PC memory chips

HP drops plans to put Compaq technology into HP-UX

HP partners with Veritas Software on new file system and clustering capabilities

Update: IBM’s PC business up for sale

IBM is reportedly discussing selling its PC business to Lenovo Group, China's largest maker of PCs

ESPN to enter US mobile market

Service to run on Sprint network

Oracle to tout business intelligence, content management

Vendor show set for next week

W3C focuses on future at 10th anniversary meeting

Luminaries gather

Deepnet browser guards against phishing

Company claims its browser is more secure than IE or Firefox

IDC: IT spending to grow 6 percent in 2005

Analyst firm predicts that businesses will move more toward  'Dynamic IT'

Microsoft files suits against smut spammers

Defendants violated U.S. CAN-SPAM law, company argues

Former cybersecurity czar: Code-checking tools needed

Amit Yoran says today's developers lack discipline and training in terms of what leads to flaws or bugs

Object database goes open source

Startup db4objects sets dual-licensing scheme

Lycos, spammers trade blows over screensaver

Make Love, Not Spam tool draws charges that Lycos is launching a distributed denial of service attack of its own

Infineon execs get jail time in price-fixing case

Four execs to pay fine and serve time in plea bargain over conspiracy to fix DRAM chip prices

EU moves closer to biometric passports

Data may include fingerprints by 2008

BT will switch its call center network to VOIP

Transition will be a boon to customer service, telecom provider claims

Highlights of IDC’s Tech Predictions for 2005

Opsware to acquire Rendition Networks

Network device configuration management technology rounds out Opsware's IT automation platform

Managers misuse tech to control workers, study says

Using mobile technology to keep tabs on employees is reducing workers' productivity

Dell signs big desktop contract with Philips

Dell to provide hardware and managed desktop services to Dutch electronics giant

Mozilla gives sneak peek of Thunderbird e-mail app

E-mail management software frees users from having to deal with ads and spam

NEC develops multicore cell phone processor

New processor improves the multimedia capabilities of cell phones

Google opens Tokyo research center

Google looking to hire 'really smart people' to take on new problems in new domains

IBM launches industry consortium for Power processors

Power.org gives IBM's partners a say in where the architecture is going

Verizon deal lets Philadelphia move ahead with wireless plan

Citywide deployment of Wi-Fi to move ahead despite new law that lets carriers block such projects

Microsoft, Sun tout progress on interoperability

Vendors provide updates on Web services, Java, hardware cooperation