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Microsoft buys startup to boost Web, mobile services

French auction regulator sues to close down eBay France

IT managers warned not to buy consumer-class PCs

Russia’s SUP buys LiveJournal

Activision hopes Blizzard merger can take it online

WAN optimization gear a triple threat

Silver Peak says appliance software upgrade improves WAN efficiency

Serena to ship enterprise mashup platform

Facebook admits Beacon tracks logged-off users

Mixx.com: Diary of a (pretty) early adopter

Digging the buzziest new community

Stratus’ fault-tolerant, RHEL juggernaut

Juniper ‘Hurricane’ in the forecast

Analyst expects wide ranging enterprise switch launch in early 2008

CA: Beacon’s reach extends to non-Facebook users

Salvation Army implements CRM for fundraising operations

Server virtualization in two-thirds of enterprises by ’09, Forrester predicts

IBM, HP, Microsoft urged to upgrade virtualization tools

AT&T to quit pay-phone business

700MHz filing deadline: What’s next?

Silver Peak WAN optimization cuts Toshiba’s bandwidth needs

Cutting the size of corporate connections means a 14-month ROI

CIOs with MBA degrees want to jump to other jobs

Verizon’s 4G move may signal consolidation

Sprint nixes SK Telecom investment offer, report says

Two telecom firms have been linked by rumor for months

Bloggers speculate on Microsoft’s sacked CIO scandal

Silver Peak software upgrade improves WAN efficiency

Appliances deal with error correction and out of order packets

Beyond AJAX: Software development two years from now

Look out Lenovo: Dell to expand in China

Google to bid for 700MHz spectrum

Privacy concerns prompt U-turn at Facebook

Comcast continues to block peer-to-peer, EFF reports

Cloudsmith service pushes ‘virtual distros’

Project shows big differences in mobile Internet performance

CA: Facebook’s Beacon more intrusive than previously thought

Code search in action

A special-purpose search engine that can parse code can come in handy. Here are three real-world examples.

The convergence of desktop, Web and mobile clients

FRCP: One legal pro’s tips for complying with federal rules

One year after new discovery rules take effect, one legal pro discusses what companies do right and wrong.

Police raid botmaster blamed for 1 million infections

Zonbu launches barebones subscription laptops

Advertiser settles ‘test it, keep it’ charges for $650,000

As ISPs choke file-sharing, users look elsewhere

Sprint, don’t give up on WiMAX, analyst says

Says WiMAX gamble should pay off eventually

Government-sponsored cyberattacks on the rise, McAfee says

The future holds more cyber-espionage, attacks against government systems

Photo-sharing lawsuit against Creative Commons dropped

Spyware new champ among IT security worries: survey

CompTIA study finds that organizations perceive spyware as a bigger security threat than worms, viruses and browser-based attacks

Senator questions two U.S. agencies hiring H-1B workers

Silverlight 2.0 to launch early next year

Microsoft makes Exchange 2007 SP1 available

Cisco’s legal problems in Brazil: a timeline

Cisco's Thanksgiving Day firing most recent event

Insider charged with hacking California canal system

Verizon Wireless will use LTE for 4G

Nortel bolsters security, business process gear

Fosters NAC interoperability with Microsoft

Outsourcing moves closer to home

Offshore service providers consider nearshore locations as cost and cultural issues challenge the success and diminish the ROI of client contracts

Wall Street Beat: Stormy ride for tech