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Data theft has become the raison d'etre for malware on the Internet, according to the latest figures released by security vendor Symantec ...

In his keynote address at Microsoft's Convergence 2007 conference in San Diego last week, CEO Steve Ballmer included a preview of the company's upcoming Dynamics CRM application, code-named "Titan." ...

For some time there has been a drive to smooth the process of building applications over existing call platforms. Also, more and more PBX operators have been moving platforms to open source -- Cisco Call Manager 5.0, for instance, is Linux based. Now the next step in developing robust open source unified communications is apparently here: an open source desktop client...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered some harsh criticism of Google, widely considered to be the software giant's primary rival, in comments made to students at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business ...

SAP has ratcheted up its campaign to increase its middle market customer base with the rollout of several new applications. At the CeBIT trade fair now taking place in Hannover, Germany, the company introduced an enhanced All-In-One application that offers some 80 micro verticals and is componentized even further for rapid redevelopment by partners and deployment by customers...

Cisco has agreed to pay a pretty penny for WebEx. By any measure, the US$3.2 billion -- in cash -- represents a hefty premium. The company obviously has big plans for this product line. Either that, or it wanted to take WebEx off the market so no one else would acquire it. Or both ...

FrontRange has acquiredEnteo, a privately held Germany-based company, at undisclosed terms. The firm's product offerings include applications for patch management, distribution of operating systems and applications, license management and compliance, and configuration management. It has 1,200 customers ...

Taking direct aim at Microsoft, Cisco plans to acquireWebEx Communications for US$3.2 billion. Under the agreement, Cisco will purchase all of the outstanding shares of WebEx for $57 per share. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2007 ...

Microsoft on Wednesday confirmed that it plans to acquire Tellme, a privately held speech recognition vendor. The deal gives Microsoft functionality in Tellme's core competencies: voice-activated nationwide directory assistance, enterprise customer service and voice-enabled mobile search ...

The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration is setting aside close to US$1 billion to help consumers who will be forced to migrate to digital television after Feb. 17, 2009 -- when analog broadcasting is scheduled to cease ...

Without a doubt, adoption and use of radio frequency identification (RFID) accelerated dramatically when Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense (DoD) gave their respective suppliers marching orders to implement the technology ...

Cisco and IBM are expanding their long-standing partnership with the extension of their Global Services Alliance into 46 new countries ...

Microsoft is introducing a number of productivity tools to its Dynamics product line that should extend ERP (enterprise resource planning) functionality and data throughout the enterprise using the familiar user interface (UI) and productivity tools in the Microsoft Office system ...

Sun Microsystems, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, announced it would open source its online game server platform, called "Project Darkstar," which is written entirely in Java technology ...

As part of its crackdown on fraudulent e-mails promoting bogus investments, the Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended securities trading of 35 companies that have been the subject of such e-mails ...

One of the editors in charge of monitoring Wikipedia's content has been discovered to be a fraud ...

SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source CRM software, is expanding its reach to Europe -- an essential step for any small, high growth software company more than a few years old ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has launched a pilot project designed to facilitate the patent approval process. While the efficiency benefit of this is obvious -- PTO examiners are overburdened and the process can take many years -- critics are concerned that the system could lead to manipulation and a playing field that is tilted to large companies such as IBM or Microsoft...

Last year, when Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced plans to launch a new search engine in the first half of 2007, everyday users of this now ubiquitous tool wondered what Wales could do that Google couldn't ...

Avaya is moving further into the communications collaboration space with its latest tool, Communications Enabled Business Processes (CEBP) ...