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Microsoft, Sun to talk about cooperation

Companies collaborating as part of April agreement

SAP expands offshore to cater to growth markets

Staff at centers in India and China will be increased

Judge rejects PeopleSoft class action settlement

Legal wrangling is expected to continue into 2005

Phishing on the increase, group says

Financial services is primary target

Intel bolsters support for Linux in Asia

Linux server sales top $1 billion in Q3

IBM remains the No. 1 server vendor, followed by HP, Sun, and fast-growing Dell

Intel ramps up support for Linux in Asia

Intel releases Quick Start Kit for Linux to system integrators in China and India

Torvalds comes out against EU patent directive

Authors of MySQL, PHP also oppose measure

Enterprise grid group adds Dell, two others

Investment bank, value-added reseller also participating

Update: AMD releases Mobile Sempron ahead of 2005 mobile push

But chip probably won't overcome Intel's noetebook lead

Microsoft management wares trickle out

MOM, Virtual Server products released

Citrix buying VPN company Net6 for $50 million

Acquisition boosts secure remote access wares

Observers find 201 e-voting problems in Maryland

About 6 percent of precincts are affected

VCR death not proud

EU judge calls meeting in Microsoft antitrust case

Action comes after Novell and Computer & Communications Industry Association withdraw

IBM to acquire life insurance processing, admin company

LIS will become a new IBM subsidiary focused on life insurance and annuity processing, admin

Thomson, VeriSign to build content security service

Service will secure delivery of content from online retailers, telecommunications firms, technology companies

Queen’s Speech sets out plan for U.K. biometric ID card

High-tech ID cards with biometric identifiers will be linked to a 'secure national database'

IBM software executive to become CA CEO

John Swainson will take over as CE's CEO after a transition period of four to six months

IBM introduces Workplace Resource Center

New online site gives programmers links to articles, whitepapers, code

Congress ups high-tech visa cap by 20,000

High-tech businesses win increase in number of H-1B visas

Update: Thomson joins takeover bid for ContentGuard

Thomson joins Microsoft and Time Warner in trying to over DRM company

HP quietly begins Web log experiment

HP aims to foster communication with developers and managers through blogs

Law may snag Philadelphia Wi-Fi rollout

Newly approved bill would ban government from offering broadband for a fee

Report: IBM software executive to become CA CEO

John Swainson formerly lead IBM's applications and integration middleware division

Oracle, PeopleSoft standoff likely to linger

PeopleSoft's board is confident shareholders will back its plan to resist takeover

Digital gear: Biometrics ease password security

Microsoft fingerprint reader is one of several new gadgets now available

The PeopleSoft Poison Pill – what is it?

Skulls Trojan attacks Symbian mobile phones

Malicious code deactivates all links to Symbian system apps such as e-mail and calendar

PeopleSoft makes managed service play

Reducing complexity, not cost, is the big driver

Dell sharpens its blades

New servers, software deal show desire to cut deeper into the datacenter

Euro Web sites spread Bofra worm via banner ads

Computers running SP2 are not vulnerable to the attacks

U.S. security critic sues Japanese gov’t for censorship

Security expert says Japanese gov't violated his freedom of speech, asks for punitive damages

PeopleSoft board won’t negotiate takeover with Oracle

Letter to Larry Ellison re-iterates the board's opposition to an acquisition by Oracle

ICQ joins Web mail battles with new service

Instant messaging provider to offer fee-based service

Sun previews next version of Java

Mustang release to feature Web services, performance, ease-of-development

Gain SQL SELECT functionality in Java

Select, filter, and sort collections or arrays of objects with a simple mechanism

Gates: Most Spammed Man Alive

FCC approves first software-defined radio

Wireless networks could benefit

Tools wrap: Sybase, Cape Clear eye data modeling, BPEL

Java, Web services also focus of new wares from multiple vendors

Microsoft touts DSI vision, management tools

Reduced complexity, automated management in spotlight at IT Forum

Enterprises warm up to open source

Commercial software vendors challenged to address shift

E-mail gains new armor against spam, virus attacks

IronPort, MailFrontier, Symantec unleash security offerings

Barrett: Good business models vary widely

Intel CEO cites music industry "stonewalling" of Internet file distribution

Firefox lights up Web browser world

Open source offering prompts responses

Nvidia signs chipset license with Intel

Companies have not worked together for years

Internet tax moratorium clears Congress

Compromise would extend tax ban for three years

Novell follows the Linux path to profit

MS strategy pushes it to cross-platform support

Gates touts Dynamic Systems Initiative

Intel spends $40M on India design unit

Funds will go to develop next-generation chipsets