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    China's Wireless Encryption Standard Rejected

    The world industrial-standards association has rejected China's controversial wireless encryption standard for global use, news reports said Monday, dealing a blow to Beijing's effort to promote its own standards for computers and telecoms. 03/13/2006

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    Newspaper Finds Covert CIA Workplaces, Employees via Internet Searches

    The identities of 2,600 Central Intelligence Agency employees and the locations of two dozen of the agency's covert workplaces in the United States can be found easily through Internet searches, according to an investigation by the Chicago Tribune. 03/13/2006

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    China Promises Tax Breaks To Encourage Tech-Based Economy

    China will offer tax breaks to technologically innovative companies and boost spending to promote scientific breakthroughs as part of a new program to create an "innovation-oriented country," an official said Friday. 03/10/2006

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, Mar. 10

    From the business wires this week: a network security solution for Windows systems, Exchange protection, Microsoft's Origami and Onfolio announcements, more. 03/10/2006

  • News

    Pilot Program Teaches Network Security To High Schoolers

    A group of students at Rome Catholic School are learning how to become the future defenders of cyberspace through a pilot program that officials say is the first of its kind in the country. 03/10/2006

  • News

    BlackBerry Maker Acquires Ascendent

    The maker of BlackBerry e-mail devices, fresh from settling a lawsuit that threatened its very business, is buying a company that will allow it to marry BlackBerries with corporate phone systems. 03/10/2006

  • News

    EU Sends Microsoft Compliance Warning

    The European Commission told Microsoft Corp. on Friday that it was "still not in compliance" with a 2004 antitrust ruling that ordered it to share information with rivals to make their software work with Microsoft servers. 03/10/2006

  • News

    Google Offers $90M To Settle 'Click Fraud' Case

    Google Inc. has agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the online search engine leader overcharged thousands of advertisers who paid for bogus sales referrals generated through a ruse known as "click fraud." 03/09/2006

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    Microsoft Has 2 Security Bulletins on Tap for Next Week

    Microsoft plans to release two security bulletins next week addressing a critical vulnerability in Office and an important flaw in Windows. 03/09/2006

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    Laing to Head Windows Server Division

    Microsoft has promoted Scotsman Bill Laing to lead its Windows Server division after having moved the last executive to hold the post, Bob Muglia, up to be senior vice president of the Server and Tools business. 03/09/2006

  • News

    France Reconsiders Legal File-Sharing Bill

    The French government, bowing to pressure from lawmakers, revived a measure legalizing file-sharing and submitted it to debate Thursday as part of a larger draft law on fighting piracy. 03/09/2006

  • News

    Microsoft Reveals Origami Mini-PC

    Microsoft Corp. finally took the wraps off its mysterious Project Origami on Thursday, unveiling a computer that's about the size of a large paperback book but runs a full version of the Windows XP operating system. 03/09/2006

  • News

    Acquisition Adds RSS Feeds to Windows Live Toolbar

    Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has purchased Cambridge, Mass.-based Onfolio and has incorporated its end-user information collection tool as an add-in to its Windows Live Toolbar. 03/08/2006

  • News

    Stratus Claims Fault Tolerance for Under $10K

    How do you get five “9”s of server reliability by spending only four “9”s in acquisition costs? That’s the hook that Maynard, Mass.-based Stratus is tossing out with its new entry level ftServer W Series 2400 line of fault-tolerant Windows servers, which it introduced this week. 03/08/2006

  • In-Depth

    Profile: Virtualizing Server Solutions

    Cassatt Corporation's star-studded brain trust offers server consolidation solutions. 03/08/2006

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    Google Tells Investors To Disregard Leak

    Google Inc. on Tuesday advised investors to disregard an internal financial forecast mistakenly posted on its Web site -- a mix up that included a reference to management's concerns about the online search engine leader's profits narrowing amid tougher competition. 03/07/2006

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    Microsoft Launches Windows Live Search Engine

    In its latest bid to catch up with rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. is launching a revamped Internet search engine it says will help computer users find information faster, view it more easily and organize it better. 03/07/2006

  • News

    NetIQ to Ship Change Administration Tool

    NetIQ says it will ship next week a new Windows-based tool aimed at simplifying user change administration. 03/07/2006

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    Intel Unveils Details of 'Core' Chip Design

    Hoping to leap ahead of smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp. unveiled details of a next-generation chip design that it claims will perform better -- and consume less power -- than today's Pentium 4. 03/07/2006

  • News

    Hitachi Unveils Roving Security Robot

    Hitachi is working on an R2D2-like security robot on wheels that can map out its surroundings using infrared sensors and a camera to detect missing items, suspicious packages and intruders. 03/07/2006

  • News

    Intel, Microsoft Collaborate Virtually

    Intel and Microsoft lifted the veil on further collaborations around the chipmaker’s virtualization technologies, including efforts to let two of the companies’ key management products interoperate. 03/07/2006

  • News

    Partner Watch, March 6

    Winternals releases network security solution Protection Manager. 03/06/2006

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    AOL To Pay Bulk E-Mail Fees for Nonprofits

    Less than a week after interest groups complained about a proposed bulk-e-mailing fee, America Online Inc. said nonprofit organizations will not have to pay to send mass messages to their members after all. 03/06/2006

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    Cisco, Microsoft To Collaborate on Communication Tools

    Cisco Systems Inc., the world's largest network equipment maker, said on Monday it's partnering with Microsoft Corp. to create a package of communications tools geared for businesses. 03/06/2006

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    Chinese Gov't Sets Up Blogs for Lawmakers

    China's government is trying to boost public interest in its figurehead parliament and its companion advisory body by setting up Web logs for members as they meet this week. 03/05/2006

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    BlackBerry Patent Battle Ends with $612.5 Million Settlement

    Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device, Friday announced it has settled its long-running patent dispute with a small Virginia-based firm, averting a possible court-ordered shutdown of the BlackBerry system. 03/03/2006

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    Microsoft Asks U.S. Courts To Force Rivals To Surrender Documents

    Microsoft Corp. is asking U.S. courts to compel Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Oracle Corp. and Novell Inc. to hand over correspondence with EU regulators on Microsoft's antitrust battle in Europe. 03/03/2006

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    IT Weekly Roundup, March 3

    From the business wires this week: a file transfer client/server for heterogenous environments, SQL Server and Exchange backup solutions, and a site for SOA resources. 03/03/2006

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    Google Execs Paint Bright Picture, Say Microsoft Is Biggest Rival

    Google Inc. provided stock market analysts with more color about its secretive operations Thursday, painting a bright picture that appeared aimed at defusing growth concerns raised by the search engine leader's chief financial officer earlier this week. 03/03/2006

  • News

    Microsoft Says EU Colluded with Rivals

    Microsoft Corp. filed a formal complaint with EU antitrust regulators Thursday, alleging that the European Commission withheld documents and secretly colluded with Microsoft opponents shortly before the EU charged the company with failing to obey an earlier ruling. 03/02/2006

  • News

    MCP Program Certifies 1.6 Million

    Microsoft's Learning Group updates MCP numbers on its Web site; new titles are not included in MCP census. 03/02/2006

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    U.S. Objects to Snort Purchase by Israel-Based Check Point

    The same Bush administration review panel that approved a ports deal involving the United Arab Emirates has notified a leading Israeli software company that it faces a rare, full-blown investigation over its plans to buy a smaller rival. 03/02/2006

  • News

    'Sedna' CTP Out for Visual FoxPro Developers

    Visual FoxPro developers got access to the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft's "Sedna" project this week. 03/02/2006

  • News

    Microsoft's Origami: A Paperback-Sized PC

    Let's start with what the much-hyped Microsoft Corp. project code-named Origami is not. It's not a music player designed to take on Apple Computer Inc.'s mega-popular iPod. And it's not a portable version of Microsoft's Xbox videogame console. And it won't -- at least not yet -- replace your cellular phone or your regular computer. 03/02/2006

  • News

    Is Vista Rollout Gala Set for Early October?

    Microsoft is calling "speculation" a report that the company will have its highly anticipated grand gala to roll out Windows Vista in the first week of October. 03/02/2006

  • Service Pack It Up

    Figure out which Service Pack you have running on your machines with this tool tip from Don. 03/01/2006

  • In-Depth

    BizTalk Server: Getting Better All the Time

    Users say Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 -- and the 2006 version -- significantly ease enterprise application integration. 03/01/2006

  • News

    Microsoft Research Steps It Up

    Do you have one of those wildly popular Dance Dance Revolution dance pads at home? Ever think of using it to do e-mail? That could happen if a technology demonstration at Microsoft on Tuesday escapes into the wild. 03/01/2006

  • Kill Two Birds with One Stone

    NetChk Protect combines the functionality of Shavlik's patching and anti-spyware tools in a single console. 03/01/2006

  • News

    Microsoft Updates Web Search Offering

    Microsoft Corp. unveiled several new online technologies Tuesday, including early versions of an Internet classified service and a local search function that provides extremely detailed pictures of local streets. 03/01/2006

  • News

    Vista Security: Worth Paying For

    Why the latest version of Windows may not be as secure as you think. 03/01/2006

  • Security Advisor

    That Isolated Feeling

    Taking an isolationist approach is sometimes good -- especially for securing your domains and servers. 03/01/2006

  • News

    Exchange 12 Begins Community Tech Preview

    Microsoft began shipping the first community technology preview (CTP) of Exchange 12 on Wednesday, marking the beginning of its first widespread testing. 03/01/2006

  • News

    Next Chapter Opens for Open Formats

    Massachusetts reaffirms its open format vision with new CIO. 03/01/2006

  • Windows Goes High Performance

    Microsoft joins the supercomputing race with Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. 03/01/2006

  • News

    Gateway Pays To Settle HP Patent Suits

    Gateway Inc. has agreed to pay $47 million to rival computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. to settle a series of lawsuits over patents. 03/01/2006

  • Foley on Microsoft

    Is Microsoft Buying into the Web 2.0 Hype?

    All indications show that the software giant has finally succumbed. 03/01/2006

  • Windows Insider

    Down the Winding InfoPath

    Use Microsoft's least-understood Office tool to create XML-based forms. 03/01/2006

  • News

    Deal Reached on .Com Domain Price Hikes

    The board of the Internet's main oversight agency has approved a deal under which VeriSign Inc. must meet some conditions in order to raise fees for ".com" domain names. 03/01/2006

  • News

    Windows Vulnerabilities for Sale

    Hackers sold the WMF zero-day exploit for as much as $4,000 on Russian black market Web sites. 03/01/2006

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