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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

Vodafone whets appetite for mobile Internet

Vendors seek unity on identity protocols

COMPUTEX – Hands on with Asustek’s $199 Eee PC

IBM to acquire Watchfire

China supports DNS, root servers on agenda for talks

Management vendors grab more than $21M in VC funding

Transaction management vendor OpTier and open source management software maker Hyperic separately rake in the cash.

Cisco’s Linksys One brings SMB-focused gear tied to services

Linksys One gear includes Linksys One Service Router, Wireless Services Router, Gigabit Smart Switch and the Cisco Service Node for Linksys One XA Series

Researchers: Maybe IIS issues not Microsoft’s fault

Barcelona delay could hurt AMD earnings

Shoppers willing to pay extra for privacy confidence, study finds

Lessig on censorship and software battles

UTS tags podcasting as future teaching tool

Vendors virtualize Microsoft environments

Symantec's Altiris unit updates software to virtualize and stream Windows operating systems; Trigence expands platform to support Windows.

TECH ED – Microsoft set to upgrade Web-conferencing service

The Live Meeting service is core part part of Microsoft’s content-management, collaboration, search and business-intelligence efforts

The Avaya sale: Tech buyouts bear risks for customers, too

Private equity firms seek quick profits diminishing focus on products

Google: Attack code more likely on Microsoft IIS

Guaranteeing uptime at world’s largest particle physics lab

CERN improves monitoring and control of technical infrastructure

Search optimizers turn to social sites

Q&A: Avaya’s COO on what’s next

Avaya COO Thurk says he wouldn't be surprised to see more companies going private.

Ask.com revamps search engine

IBM borrows Power6 design for telephony chips

Salesforce.com, Google release first joint product