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SAP first-quarter profit climbs 10 percent

OLPC laptop shipments delayed until third quarter

Emerging markets want more value from vendors

EPIC, CDD ask FTC to block Google-DoubleClick merger

Group pushes to monitor UK e-voting next month

Epic.org domain renewal comes at a bad time

Brocade ships SAN access gateway

Software enables interoperability between Brocade bladed SAN switches and products from other SAN switch makers

UPDATE – EPIC, CDD ask FTC to block Google-DoubleClick buy

Linux this year and next

Ad trade group challenges Web statistics providers

Qwest, Nacchio: A study in contrasts

Carrier continues to move past former CEO’s misdeeds, conviction

Google exec says content management systems lacking

Fiercer competition would lead to more user-friendly products in the enterprise, he says

Court filings: Kickbacks on gov’t contracts widespread

Intuit to refund $15M after TurboTax e-filing fiasco

Nacchio’s defense as cocky as he?

Experts say ex-Qwest CEO’s hubris spilled over onto attorneys

Hacker breaks into Mac at security conference

Security experts warn satellite navigation users

PC vendors seek profits in recycling

Google buys video conferencing software

From consultant to senior IT executive

SAP project leads to successful career at Tesoro

Next ITIL upgrade promises more how-to guidance

Consultants, vendors and users refresh the best practice library with more specific how-to advice

Next OpenOffice release to include Pentaho BI

Microsoft, Samsung sign broad patent accord

UPDATE – Salesforce.com to provide CRM apps to Japan Post

Microsoft plans $3 suite for emerging markets

Sony reviewing PlayStation 3 pricing

Gates launches developing world tech initiative

Yahoo sued over jailing of Chinese dissident

Avici kills core router development

Carrier service-level agreement products is new focus

EU police data-sharing plan draws criticism

FAQ: ITIL origins, Version 3 explained

Open-source group takes first interoperability steps

University taps ITIL to build open source CMDB

Brigham Young University uses best practices to centralize and share data internally and with parent organization

HP Services led by the other John McCain

ITIL shapes help-desk overhaul at JPMorgan Chase

Financial services firm reduces the number of help desk tools in use from 47 to seven as part of makeover

Lenovo cuts 5 percent of workforce

Toyota unit gets ITIL right second time around

Toyota Financial Services made two efforts to make the best practices laid out in ITIL work

New attack puts routers, cell phones at risk

Lawmakers grill U.S. agencies on cyberattacks

Samsung executive pleads guilty to DRAM price fixing

DOJ joins lawsuits alleging HP, Sun kickbacks

Microsoft, Unisys launch Exchange test drive

AMD posts $611 million loss, slow chip sales

Wall Street Beat: Earnings spark concern

UPDATE – US DOJ joins lawsuits alleging HP, Sun kickbacks

Ballmer: Citigroup to upgrade 500,000 PCs to Vista

Protecting the Earth and the bottom line

UPDATE – Nacchio found guilty of insider trading

Lawmakers call for e-voting paper trails

Kernel space: Linux runs into a scalability problem