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Google To Unveil Spreadsheet Program

Google Inc. will introduce a spreadsheet program Tuesday, continuing the Internet search leader's expansion into territory long dominated by Microsoft Corp.

BizTalk Server 2006 'R2' Feature Set Divulged

Microsoft this week disclosed new features coming in BizTalk Server 2006 Release 2 (R2), including integrated support for radio frequency identification (RFID) devices.

Swedish File Sharers Protest Police Shutdown of Pirate Bay Web Site

Hundreds of people waving picket signs and skull-and-crossbones pirate flags demonstrated in Stockholm on Saturday against a police crackdown on a popular file-sharing Web site that had millions of users worldwide.

Spam King Settles With Texas, Microsoft

One of the world's most notorious spammers has settled lawsuits with the state of Texas and Microsoft Corp. that cost him at least $1 million, took away most of his assets and forced him to stop sending the nuisance e-mails.

Storage Demands Fuel Hard Drive, Flash Memory Industries

The senior vice president of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. whipped out a tiny hard drive about the size of a Wheat Thin. The drive's label claimed a capacity of 1,000 gigabytes -- more than 100 times greater than today's models that can hold 8,000 photos or 2,000 songs.

Microsoft To Offer Premium Exchange Server License

Microsoft Corp. will offer a premium license for the upcoming version of its Exchange e-mail server.

Microsoft, Adobe Continue Spat Over Office Integration

Microsoft Corp. said it has canceled plans to include an automatic way to save documents in the popular PDF format in the next version of its Office software, amid an ongoing dispute with Adobe Systems Inc.

IT Weekly Roundup, June 2

From the business wires this week: a Windows auditing and reporting solution, a database development app for SQL and Microsoft highlights.

AMD Unveils New Dual-Core Chips

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in the market for microprocessors that act as the brains of personal computers, unveiled plans for new products it said would deliver improved performance and efficiency.

New Version of Ubuntu Software Coming

A new version of the Ubuntu software package, a flavor of the freely distributed Linux operating system, is due out Thursday.

Users Speak Out on IE 7

Long-awaited browser gets mixed reviews.

Microsoft Revamps Office Group

Microsoft said this week it will split the Office business unit in two to better reflect the suite's continuing evolution, and has appointed two veteran insiders to head the new groups.

Squall Line

Microsoft produced a cloudburst of product releases in 2006. Now a second shower is approaching. What's the forecast?

Cap on High-Tech Visas for 2007 Already Met

The government has already reached the limit on high-tech worker visas for 2007 even though the fiscal year doesn't start until Oct. 1, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Thursday.

NetIQ To Ship Analysis Center Update

Enterprise management software vendor NetIQ will ship its new Analysis Center 2.5 package on June 22, the company says.

Analyst: AMD Considering Acquisition of Graphics Chip Maker ATI

Shares of ATI Technologies Inc. jumped more than 9.5 percent Wednesday after a Wall Street analyst said the graphics chip maker may be acquired by Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the PC microprocessor maker that's been taking market share from Intel Corp.

Free Microsoft Tool Tests Corporate Apps for Vista Compatibility

Microsoft has released a tool to help IT shops and developers determine if changes are needed to users’ applications in order to run under Windows Vista.

Microsoft To Release Visual Studio for Database Developers

Microsoft says it's hard at work on a Visual Studio edition product targeted specifically at database developers and that it plans to ship it by year's end.

Sun Plans To Cut Up to 5,000 Jobs

Computer server maker Sun Microsystems Inc., whose revenue has declined four years in a row, said Wednesday it planned to cut 4,000 to 5,000 jobs in an effort to return to consistent profitability.

Google Unlikely To Make Own Web Browser

Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt on Wednesday told industry analysts the online search engine leader is unlikely to create its own Web browser, even though the company remains worried about being slighted by the next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.

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