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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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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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In-Depth
Cassatt Corporation's star-studded brain trust offers server consolidation solutions.
03/08/2006
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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Winternals releases network security solution Protection Manager.
03/06/2006
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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 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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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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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 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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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 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
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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
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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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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
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Visual FoxPro developers got access to the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft's "Sedna" project this week.
03/02/2006
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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
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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
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Figure out which Service Pack you have running on your machines with this tool tip from Don.
03/01/2006
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Users say Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 -- and the 2006 version -- significantly ease enterprise application integration.
03/01/2006
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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
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NetChk Protect combines the functionality of Shavlik's patching and anti-spyware tools in a single console.
03/01/2006
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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
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Why the latest version of Windows may not be as secure as you think.
03/01/2006
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Security Advisor
Taking an isolationist approach is sometimes good -- especially for securing your domains and servers.
03/01/2006
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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
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Massachusetts reaffirms its open format vision with new CIO.
03/01/2006
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Microsoft joins the supercomputing race with Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
03/01/2006
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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
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Foley on Microsoft
All indications show that the software giant has finally succumbed.
03/01/2006
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Windows Insider
Use Microsoft's least-understood Office tool to create XML-based forms.
03/01/2006
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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
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Hackers sold the WMF zero-day exploit for as much as $4,000 on Russian black market Web sites.
03/01/2006