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Broadcom reduces 11n wireless to one chip

Chip maker targets consumer electronics along with WLAN vendors

Avaya shareholders approve $8.2 billion private equity buyout

Users pry XP reprieve from Microsoft

The company said Windows XP SP2, first released in Sept. 2004, will now be available until June 30, 2008

Web 2.0 start-up targets enterprise customers

360Hubs offers social networking, collaboration Web content management

Internet tax moratorium bill stalls

Microsoft gives OEMs five more months to install XP

Disney drops special family mobile service

Nortel takes its place in WiMAX universe

Patent threat to 802.11n may be overblown

EBay: Phishing likely to blame for members’ data theft

Microsoft, others protest Google’s DoubleClick deal

Google, Microsoft execs to testify on DoubleClick deal

Palm rolls out new smart-phone brand

Verizon reverses decision to block text messages

France drags its feet on online security

HP offers archive system for legal discovery

Google picks ex-IBMer to lead expansion in Europe

Sony adds TV to video Walkman players

Panasonic plans new Toughbook PCs, expects big growth

Live Search plays to its base

‘Radical rethinking’ of Internet routing under way

Cisco, Juniper and others consider big changes to Internet’s core routers

Verizon reverses decision on abortion text messages

Says original decision to block abortion rights group's messages was "incorrect"

MIT pranksters give Harvard the Halo 3 treatment

New Microsoft Xbox 360 video game at root of MIT gag

Compliance pushing identity management in new directions

Trend given rise to identity-based risk management, auditing and policy enforcement tools from vendors such as Aveksa, Sailpoint and Vaau

Fifth Third Bank deal combines TEM rollout with eBonding services

Verizon’s automated order-processing system will be installed along with Rivermine TEM software at Fifth Third Bank

Standards bodies vow to resolve MPLS flap

IETF, ITU will work together on new transport protocol

Enterprises warned to approach Web 2.0 with caution

Web 2.0 security risks are serious, but manageable, experts say

A generic tracing API for Linux

3Com switches link wireless/wireline networks

3Com 4210 family available in PoE, non-PoE flavors and 9- , 18-port and 26-port models

WiMAX startups aim to boost radio speeds, network deployments

MIT officially launches Kerberos Consortium

Goal is to promote Kerberos for commercial, mobile use

Internet bubble could burst on Facebook speculation

Questions remain about eBay members’ info theft

Five ways that software vendors can boost security

5 things I’ve learned about privacy

Gmail zero-day flaw allows attackers to steal messages

IBM: Symphony downloaded 100,000 times in first week

Too few manners at work

Tapping IT to fight terrorism, deal with hurricanes

IBM begins another wave of SOA releases

Fraud police buckling under mountains of data

MontaVista releases new mobile OS

Sharp shows new Blu-ray Disc recorders

Oracle-SAP court fight gets February 2009 trial date

Branches’ bigger role drives Cisco roll outs

Security experts pitch ‘culture of data’

Unauthorized iPhone apps market flourishes

How to build iPhone applications main topic at Ajax conference

Cisco rolls out branch office router, LAN switch, security gear

Cisco broadens unified communications line, too

Red Hat faces stiff challenges to move beyond its core technology

Red Hat wants to build a developer base and collect a critical mass of partners as it looks to the future

Sophos software blocks remote connection tools

Plugs security threat to corporate networks