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HP Unveils Automated Operations Suite

HP Software has further developed its business technology optimization</a> (BTO) solutions. The company's bundle of BTO solutions just got easier to use with a new product integration milestone. The announcement came from the HP Software Universe users' conference in Barcelona, Spain.

With Windows 2008 Come New MCP Benefits

Microsoft Learning improves MCP benefits package with access to Microsoft Partner-level support articles and improved transcript and certification manager.

Software Piracy Fight Makes Enemies

An analysis by The Associated Press reveals that targeting small businesses is a lucrative strategy for the Business Software Alliance, the main global copyright-enforcement watchdog for such companies as Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc. and Symantec Corp.

Microsoft Not Giving Thanks for Vulnerabilities

Microsoft finds itself continuing to fend off two security threats, both coming about during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Anti-Copying Programs May Slow Piracy

If the experience of the world's largest software vendor is any guide, the industry's best hope for reducing piracy rests with anti-copying technologies rather than in policing the legalistic user agreements that restrict how software can be used.

Rails Yet To Make Dent in the Enterprise

The eardrum-rupturing buzz around Ruby on Rails (RoR or just "Rails") among Web developers is understandable. So why is this free, open, easy-to-use, passionately advocated Web-app framework having such a hard time gaining serious traction in the enterprise?

How the BSA Nets Piracy Suspects

The Business Software Alliance collects tens of millions of dollars in settlements from companies it accuses of software piracy, but it doesn't have to file lawsuits to do it. Instead the BSA usually gets companies to convict themselves through a "self audit."

IBM and Mainsoft Ink Deal To Integrate .NET Apps

It just got a little easier for developers using Microsoft's .NET Framework technology and SharePoint to integrate their .NET applications with IBM's Java-based portal technology. In a global reseller deal, IBM agreed to sell Mainsoft Corp.'s .NET Extensions solution with the IBM WebSphere Portal solution.

Coming: Virtualization Validation Program From Microsoft

Microsoft hopes to have validation testing services available when its long-awaited Windows Server virtualization technology comes online next year.

Symantec: Elections, Mobile Computing Among 2008 Security Threats

If it's time for Christmas music in Wal-Mart, it must the season for that other time-honored tradition: year-end lists. To that end, IT security Goliath Symantec has released a list of the biggest security stories of the year.

Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 to MSDN customers for downloading, making it the first of the "big three" platforms of the coming "Global Launch Wave."

America Ships Electronic Waste Overseas

Most Americans think they're helping the earth when they recycle their old computers, televisions and cell phones. But chances are they're contributing to a global trade in electronic trash that endangers workers and pollutes the environment overseas.

Philly Wi-Fi Network Hits Snags, Delays

Alfred Zaccaria was finally going to leave the world of dial-up for high-speed access to the Internet without having to pay a lot more for service.

U.S. Control of Internet Remains Issue

A U.N.-sponsored Internet conference ended Thursday with little to show in closing the issue of U.S. control over how people around the world access e-mail and Web sites.

TV Spectrum Opening for Wireless Devices

A U.N. telecoms meeting decided Thursday to give mobile service providers access to bandwidth currently reserved for terrestrial television broadcasts, offering the promise of high-speed Internet access on-the-move anywhere in the world by 2015.

Former Lotus Exec Now Hatching Ideas for Microsoft

Microsoft recently tapped Reed Sturtevant, a Lotus, Radnet and Idealab vet, to spearhead concept development in its spiffy new Cambridge, Mass. facility.

Top 10 Internet Security Trends for 2007

Data breaches, ongoing integrity concerns about the Windows Vista operating system and spam, which reached record levels this year, topped Symantec's Top 10 Internet security trends of 2007 list.

Ellison: Oracle Unlikely To Pursue BEA

Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison told analysts Wednesday that the business software maker is more likely to pursue other takeover targets instead of renewing its recent $6.7 billion bid for rival BEA Systems Inc.

Brazil Web Forum Takes on Cybercrime

The Internet is a powerful tool for free expression and dissent, but those freedoms have also helped child pornographers, predators, terrorists and other cybercriminals.

Microsoft Updates Windows Embedded CE

Microsoft today launched an updated version of its Windows Embedded CE platform with a release that will let developers build new devices that take advantage of some of the APIs and Web services interfaces available on Windows Vista and the company’s forthcoming Windows Server 2008.

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