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Germany adds digital fingerprints to passports

Microsoft’s Bill Gates: Harvard commencement speech transcript

Gates jokes to Harvard grads: “I’m a bad influence”

Horizons expanding for IT execs, says forum speaker

Wireless power made real by MIT researchers

WiTricity could run, recharge notebooks, handhelds

IBM donates pandemic modeling software to Eclipse

TJX lists mounting costs of data-breach debacle

Some say spyware bill too broad, others say too weak

Auditor: Security picture grim in U.S. federal agencies

Marriott exec shares converged network “horror story”

Hotel chain wants each property to have one network for guests, staff

EU countries scrap Galileo’s private sector partnership

Dell pushes Texas e-cycling law

Tech groups urge return of immigration reform bill

State’s move to open formats not a mass migration

IBM undeterred by setbacks to ODF adoption

Talking paper seeks cheap printing to be viable

COMPUTEX – Asus, MSI laptops double as HD players

WORLDBEAT – It takes a wired village

Where eight network management vendors stand on IPv6

COMPUTEX – Intel shows more advanced ultraportable

E.U. gives final OK to legislation to cut roaming costs

Vista not playing well with IPv6

Microsoft acknowledges some “compatibility issues,” but calls operating system its best ever

Dell denies plan to exit LCD TV business

New York takes a gander at open document formats

ODF is at the heart of many foreign and state governments seeking alternatives to Microsoft’s proprietary Office file formats

Latest storage sales numbers show HP-IBM tie

India’s Tata to hire 5000 staff in Mexico

COMPUTEX – Solid-state disks coming on strong

IP address depletion looms, ARIN warns

IPv6 management tools lacking

Experts fear it’ll be twice the work to run IPv4-IPv6 networks

CEO: Sun’s open-source software will help sell blades

Wall Street Beat: Buyouts rock IT

Symantec to test major revamp of corporate AV client

Xandros CEO doesn’t agree that Linux is patent violator

Bill seeks study of open document formats in New York

Microsoft buys data management vendor

US agency bars some Qualcomm imports

Bill Gates delivers a call to arms on global inequities

Retailers fume over PCI security rules

COMPUTEX – Flash guys show certified ReadyBoost drives

COMPUTEX – Chipsets to survive integration with CPU

Telecom groups put aside differences, launch new event

AT&T’s Stephenson, Cisco’s Chambers to headline this month’s show

U.S. agency bars some Qualcomm imports

Microsoft makes LG Electronics latest cross-licensing patent partner

Slideshow: Top 15 USB geek gadgets

Sun launches first blades from new Intel deal

Slab defragmentation

Adobe, FedEx Kinko’s pair up to ease document printing

COMPUTEX – iPhone to ignite smart-phone use, ARM chief says

File system, power and instrumentation: Can Linux close its technical gaps?

Linux developers are pointing out three major technical holes that will take serious development effort to close.

Seven things every IT person should know about storage

Avoid performance problems with these new tricks

Microsoft-sponsored study says Vista improves TCP/IP performance