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  21 Jan 06, 13:01

  Google Rebuffs Feds on Search Request
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet's leading search engine — a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:02

  Microsoft Data Collection Troubles Some Users
  
  Microsoft routinely and remotely monitors the security health of PCs running its OneCare Live security service by collecting a wide range of information from users' computers, including a machine-specific identifier.
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  21 Jan 06, 13:03

  Microsoft looks beyond Vista, sees Vienna
  
  Although Microsoft is hard at work trying to ship Windows Vista this year, the company is beginning to set its sights on the next horizon, Vienna.
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  21 Jan 06, 13:04

  Super Bowl Advertisers Make Online Tie-Ins
  
  NEW YORK - If Miss Piggy is dressing up like Jessica Simpson, monkeys are rampaging around office cubicles and networking druids are yammering into cell phones, it can only mean one thing: Super Bowl ads are on the way.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:06

  IBM Opens More Innovation Shops
  
  IBM opened its 96th Business Partner Innovation Center last week and plans to add up to 40 more this year as part of its “innovation” strategy to keep solution providers developing new opportunities.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:08

  FCC boss sees wireless auction starting in June
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An auction of U.S. airwaves that could be used for wireless video and high-speed Internet access will likely go ahead in June,
  Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said on Friday.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:09

  VARs Chime In On Tech DataÂ’s CEO Search
  
  Tech DataÂ’s next CEO should follow the same channel trail Steve Raymund has blazed over the past 25 years, solution providers say.
  
  Raymund announced last week that he plans to step down as CEO after a successor is chosen, likely within four to six months, but will retain the chairman title of the Clearwater, Fla.-based distributor.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:10

  This week in Windows Vista
  
  Microsoft brought a little more focus to its upcoming operating systems as it gave developers access to a key piece of Windows Vista this week.
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  21 Jan 06, 13:14

  Sony Trade-In Offer Puts Bull's-Eye On Dell Laptops
  
  In a move to take market share away from Dell and boost its presence in the channel at the same time, Sony has begun offering $500 “trade-in” bonuses on Dell notebooks and paying solution providers additional spifs.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:15

  This week in earnings
  
  Silicon Valley gave mixed messages on the health of the tech industry this week.
  
  Lower prices and lower-than-expected processor shipments dented Intel's earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter. The company also forecast slower growth in 2006.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:17

  Google case boosts furor over US privacy threats
  
  NEW YORK (AFP) - A legal standoff between the US Justice Department and internet search giant Google has added fuel to an already heated debate over the government's right of access to potentially personal data.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:19

  Oracle Says Fusion Convergence Is Near
  
  Oracle is well on its way to its goal of unified middleware for all Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel applications. At least, thatÂ’s what Oracle executives say.
  
  Addressing a packed house Wednesday night in San Francisco, Oracle Co-president Charles Phillips said the work to incorporate elements of applications from PeopleSoft and JD Edwards has reached the midway point.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:21

  HP deal for CSC not on the table, source says
  
  Despite media reports that Hewlett-Packard and private equity firm Blackstone Group were in preliminary discussions to acquire Computer Sciences Corp., such a deal never made it on the radar of HP executives and directors, said an HP source.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:22

  Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - What 'Web 2.0' means to us
  
  There has been a subtle yet incredibly important change with the way the Internet is used. It's been going on for at least a couple of years, but lately we're beginning to feel the enormous cumulative effects.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:24

  Microsoft, IBM Execs On Collaboration
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  21 Jan 06, 13:26

  Seagate sees TV as biggest opportunity
  
  Seagate Technology, the world's largest maker of computer hard-disk drives, said its biggest revenue driver in the next 18 months will be digital set-top boxes that record TV shows, Chief Executive Bill Watkins said Thursday.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:27

  Microsoft Ready to Pull Office Live Beta Trigger
  
  Microsoft is readying a beta of its Office Live hosted service as new details emerged about an e-mail service the company plans to release as part of the offering.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:29

  German Wikipedia Back Up Amid Lawsuit
  
  FRANKFURT, Germany - The German version of Wikipedia returned to the Internet on Friday after three days offline, a blackout prompted by a lawsuit in which the parents of a dead hacker objected to the site's use of his real name.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:30

  Novell Plans Corporate Licensing Overhaul
  
  Novell plans to move to a new licensing model that could impact partners serving corporate accounts.
  
  Key to the new model, effective March 1, is the elimination of the Waltham, Mass., companyÂ’s Corporate Licensing Agreement (CLA) and the addition of a new option that allows customers to buy on a per-named-user or per-device basis.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:31

  Nasdaq suffers trading glitch
  
  A technical glitch at the Nasdaq Stock Market meant that closing prices for a number of New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks traded through Nasdaq were incorrect on Wednesday.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:33

  New pests target Symbian-based gadgets
  
  Several Trojan horses that target mobile phones have been discovered since the start of the year, but the threat level remains low.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:34

  GPLv3 Proposal Extends Compatibility
  
  The first draft of the GNU General Public License version 3 is less controversial and more commercial-friendly than some expected.
  
  The Free Software FoundationÂ’s much anticipated GPLv3 extends license compatibility to open-source licenses such as Apache and Eclipse. But it also is designed to prevent commercial firms from imposing unfair patent and digital rights restrictions on free software and removes loopholes that could enable commercial vendors to hijack the GPL for their own purposes.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:34

  Noose tightens around Japan's IT wonder kid
  
  TOKYO (AFP) - Prosecutors have begun grilling executives at Livedoor, the once high-flying Internet firm at the centre of recent market pandemonium in Japan, reports said, as pressure grew on its whiz-kid founder.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:36

  KDE flaws put Linux, Unix systems at risk
  
  A serious vulnerability has been found in the popular KDE open-source software bundle. The flaw, deemed "critical" by the research outfit the French Security Incident Response Team, could allow a remote attacker to gain control over vulnerable systems. KDE is a desktop software package for Linux and Unix systems and includes the Konqueror Web browser and other applications.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  21 Jan 06, 13:37

  More Britons Did Christmas Shopping Online
  
  LONDON - More consumers in Britain logged on to do their holiday shopping this year, with Internet buying rising 50 percent from a year ago, a retail group said Friday.