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    Global Knowledge Expands Microsoft Training Network in Europe

    The IT training provider deepens its European operations in 12 countries. 03/16/2006

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    Researchers Warn of Powerful New DoS Attacks

    Security researchers are warning about a new variety of unusually powerful denial of service attacks. 03/16/2006

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    Microsoft Sues Online Auction Scofflaws for Piracy

    Microsoft has sued eight people for selling counterfeit copies of its software through online auction site eBay, the company said this week. 03/16/2006

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    Microsoft Spending $500 Million on 'Largest Ever' Business Marketing Campaign

    Microsoft Corp. announced a $500 million marketing initiative Thursday aimed at competing with IBM Corp. for corporate spending on information technology. 03/16/2006

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    Google To Close AOL Investment in 2Q

    Google Inc. said Thursday it expects to complete its $1 billion investment in America Online during the second quarter, slightly later than the two popular Web sites originally anticipated. 03/16/2006

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    Microsoft To Ship BI Tool for SMBs

    Microsoft this week announced it will ship in June an operational analytics application for decision makers designed to work with its Dynamics brand of software for small and mid-size businesses. 03/16/2006

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    Gates Says Microsoft Committed To Bridging Digital Divide

    Cell phones doing more; computer, TV technology converging closer, says Microsoft chairman 03/16/2006

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    Music Web Site: Breach Exposed Accounts

    Credit card data on Bananas.com music and gear Web site compromised, with several victims coming forward. 03/16/2006

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    Exams 70-447, 70-536 Now Available

    New exam provides MCDBAs with short path to MCITP; new developer exams for application developers now available 03/16/2006

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    Gates Says Microsoft Committed To Bridging Digital Divide

    Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates sketched out a vision for the future in which a cell phone will become a "digital wallet," able to get e-mail and even scan business cards, while computers and TVs will merge. 03/15/2006

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    Computer Researchers Warn of Net Attacks

    New Internet attacks targeting computers that manage global Internet traffic has potential to overwhelm popular Web sites and disrupt e-mails 03/15/2006

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    Microsoft Licenses Live Communications Server Extensions

    Microsoft is turning to a third-party firm to make Microsoft Live Communications Server more interoperable with other communications products based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). 03/15/2006

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    ICANN To Test Non-English Domain Names

    The Internet's key oversight agency has outlined a plan for testing domain names entirely in non-English characters, bringing closer to reality a change highly sought by Asian and Arabic Internet users. 03/15/2006

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    Judge To Order Some Access to Google Database

    Google Inc.'s legal showdown with the Bush administration over the right to protect the privacy of its audience and trade secrets appears to be tilting in the Internet search engine's favor, even though a federal judge has signaled he will order the company to turn over some records to the government. 03/15/2006

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    Microsoft Community Release for SQL Server Service Pack

    Microsoft Wednesday delivered the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2005, including the data mirroring technologies that missed last fall’s release of the big update to Microsoft’s flagship database product. 03/15/2006

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    Microsoft Says EU Refused Open Antitrust Hearing Request

    Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that the European Commission has refused its request for an open antitrust hearing later this month -- hearings the EU said are never open to the public. 03/14/2006

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    New Office Bulletin Fixes 6 Critical Flaws

    Flaws allowing remote code execution in Microsoft Office and elevation of privilege in Windows were the source for two security bulletins posted by the software giant on Tuesday. 03/14/2006

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    Microsoft Plays to Small Business

    Microsoft this week continues its quest to bring more small business customers into the software fold with its first Small Business Summit, where officials announced options aimed at making it easier for smaller customers to obtain financing. 03/14/2006

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    Best Buy is First National Retailer to Get Gold Certified

    Best Buy became the first national retailer to achieve Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status, the companies said Tuesday. 03/14/2006

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    The Rumors Spread -- Has Vista Slipped?

    An overzealous Microsoft employee may have inadvertently let the cat out of the bag as to when the company plans to release Windows Vista, when he posted to a Microsoft blog on Monday stating it will come out in November. 03/14/2006

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    FBI Computer Project May Hit $500 Million

    The FBI plans to spend up to $500 million building the final piece of its delayed, troubled technology upgrade, yet risks a repeat of earlier missteps that led to excessive costs, according to a government report released Monday. 03/13/2006

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    U.S., Google To Face Off in Court

    The Bush administration will renew its effort to find out what people have been looking for on Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine, continuing a legal showdown over how much of the Web's vast databases should be shared with the government. 03/13/2006

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    Partner Watch, March 13

    Sanbolic releases updated file system and volume manager solutions for SAN storage systems. 03/13/2006

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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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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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    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

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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

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    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

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    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

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    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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