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Update: CA picks SAP for ERP rollout

Accenture will help with implementation

Intel planning Centrino-like brand for desktops

New desktop marketing strategy will include two separate brands, one for the digital home and one for the digital office.

Unix lawsuit agreement raises questions for SCO

A 10-year-old settlement agreement grants developers the right to redistribute much of the Unix source code that SCO claims to own.

IBM gives CICS a boost

New version is designed to work with SOAs

Lycos’ anti-spam screensaver: Fleeting revenge is not the answer

MCI offers disk-based backup services

Other outsourcers pushing disk services

Reunion City

Gartner: Half of U.S. IT operations jobs to vanish

Productivity improvements will lead to a major shift in skill needs, researchers say

IBM scores $1B in Danish contracts

Big Blue strengthens its position in Europe with new outsourcing deals

Apache may hire full-time, paid staff

Open source project's increase in size makes it difficult to operate solely on volunteer work

Lycos’ anti-spam screensaver draws fire

Screensaver that offers to 'spam the spammers' has already been downloaded over 90,000 times

Nokia earmarks millions to build new plant in India

Nokia to employ 2,000 in Indian plant to manufacture the company's full range of handsets

Microsoft to open research lab in India

New research facility will focus on developing computing technologies for emerging markets

Microsoft investigates Windows Server flaw

Hole in WINS could allow attacker to gain complete control over systems running Windows Server

Microsoft, BT team on software as services

Companies target SMB market

Microsoft finds new front in software piracy battle

Files lawsuits against eight resellers over allegedly fraudulent Certificates of Authenticity

Cingular maps out U.S. 3G rollout in 2005, 2006

Company will build network with equipment from a variety of vendors

HP fine-tunes security management

OpenView Select Federation focuses on identity 

Sun: 1.9 million downloads of Java fix

No actual attacks reported based on security vulnerability

HP to release Virus Throttler for Windows in 2005

Technology will give IT administrators time to take corrective action

Cisco switches add 10GigE features

Even phones join high bandwidth trend

New Netscape browser supports Internet Explorer

AOL product is based on Firefox

Q&A: OMG member talks up UML 2.0

Bran Selic of IBM and OMG touts first major revision of model-driven development standard

Gates: Software tycoon to ambassador?

Microsoft chairman meets with French President Jacques Chirac, director of Unesco, others, while in Paris

LTO – tale of the tape

IBM, Fujitsu Promote Autonomic Standards

A new title in IT: Chief Blogging Officer

IBM to market Sybase Linux database

Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise to run on Big Blue's eServer OpenPower Linux servers

Sony to launch its first MP3 hard-disk music player

Company to also offer software upgrades for earlier players

Sony to pay $40 million to Ampex

Companies end patent dispute

DoCoMo, mmO2 confirm I-mode deal

Carrier to launch versions of I-mode in Ireland and the U.K.

Sun acquisition to boost IT services portfolio

Move helps company support operating systems in addition to Solaris

IBM invigorates LTO tape storage 

Certance, IBM deliver storage drives based on third-generation LTO technology

U.S. denied visas for Chinese WLAN standard group

Chinese delegation files complaint over action

SCO Web site hack is like breaking in

Wi-Fi Planet highlights multichannel access points

Performance gain is the target of most Wi-Fi equipment unveiled at the conference

New file system constrains Treo 650 storage capacity

Amount of memory users can access is actually reduced by problem

U.K.’s Blair tries to allay fears over ID card database

U.K. Prime Minster threatens jail time for anyone who tampers with ID database

SCO Web site hack mocks company’s legal claims

Hackers compromise SCO's site twice in as many days

IBM opens on demand tech center

New center focuses on Tivoli strategies

Penguin extends servers to 64-bit

Xeon-based systems designed for data-intensive apps

Sony, IBM, and Toshiba reveal more plans for Cell chip

Powerful new processor offers substantial bandwidth, flexible I/O system, real-time resource management

U.K. government hit with another large computer failure

Crash disrupts 100,000 machines in network run by Microsoft and EDS

Microsoft and Sun plan Webcast to detail cooperation

Companies announce month-long interoperability Webcast series

Satellite failure hits U.S. broadband services

StarBand attempting to provide temporary dial-up service to customers affected by outage

A well-behaved Jetspeed portlet

Design and construct a Jetspeed portlet that plays well with others

Java Product News (updated November 29, 2004)

Sun announces JSE 7, DataSource introduces Jetson 1.0, and more

On-demand apps demand a richer browser

For Web applications to be wholly successful, we need new thin client technology

Firefox lights up Web browser world

Open source offering prompts industry response

Oracle readies integration splash

Company will back BPEL, SOA, ebXML with new package