Technology Industry

EBay adds RSS to stores, introduces research tool

EBay Stores gives buyers new way to receive information about items for sale

Update: Private equity firm to buy Serena Software

Silver Lake Partners acquires enterprise change management vendor in $1.2 billion deal

Where open source is waiting to boom

Hong Kong startup plans free PC program in India

Free PCs offered only to middle-class people with purchasing power so as to attract vendor sponsors

Wall Street Beat

Dell and Cisco disappoint investors

Taiwan’s Accton planning Skype-compatible products

New products will let customers use VoIP software without a PC

Microsoft settles with Daum for $30M

Agreement won't end investigation into Microsoft by Korea’s Fair Trade Commission

Losing its cool, Apple iPod gets ROI; plus auto industry avoids RFID

Coolness no longer sole reason to buy iPod; plus RFID foot-dragging in supply chain

US PC retailer devotes floor space to Linux

Micro Center will sell desktops and laptops running Linspire Linux OS

Google Automat seen as sign of classified ads move

The patent application is for a "system and method for providing online user-assisted Web-based advertising"