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Update: Cisco buys another social-networking firm

Check Point adds new NAC capabilities

VPN-1 firewalls paired with Intel NICs to protect endpoints

Ruiz blames production for AMD revenue shortfall

Vista activation crack a ‘joke,’ says hacker

Senator introduces US ‘competitiveness’ bill

Hurd says HP’s cost structure still too high

Intel pitches plan to beat chip glut

Novell ships translator for OpenXML as fruit of Microsoft partnership

The pair are developing translators for OpenXML and the Open Document Format (ODF).

Animal logic and 2,000 blade servers wins an Oscar

DOT gov’t department bans Microsoft upgrades for now

Update: Intel may have lost e-mails related to AMD case

Global stock turmoil hits Gates’ Microsoft share sale

Acer expands US sales through Best Buy

The skills that reap pay premiums

Employers increase compensation for expertise in security, storage and convergence

Rivals launch dueling virtualization products

Finally from Sony, a video Walkman

Sanyo and Lenovo may share cost of battery recall

BenQ to launch 65-inch LCD TV, researching LEDs

European retailer embeds RFID chips in shoes

Researchers say they peeled The Onion Router

Sun releases Java Enterprise System 5.0

One Alcatel-Lucent claim against Microsoft dismissed

Oracle purchase of Hyperion may lead to more acquisitions of BI vendors

Business Objects, Cognos could be next.

Telco customers at risk for online privacy breach

But group finds they are getting more respect, interaction.

Analysts: Outlook grim for Microsoft online business

Italian minister buys Second Life island

Tool cracks Vista activation for the ultrapatient

Mancini to boost eBay’s innovation

IBM lands HR outsourcing deal with American

Dell beats earnings mark despite sinking profits

Microsoft: Five years support for Vista Home, Ultimate

India’s outsourcers face higher taxation

Google to enhance tools to fight click fraud

Intel invests in Taiwanese chip packager

Singapore’s Temasek makes $1.6B bid for chip company

Oracle will buy Hyperion for $3.3 billion

Deutsche Telekom to expand int’l mobile phone business

WORLDBEAT – Japan’s Foreign Ministry a hit online

Lenovo recalls 205,000 notebook batteries

Q&A: CareGroup CIO advances standards for healthcare IT

John Halamka is steering industry efforts to create specifications for healthcare content such as medications, labs, demographics and more

Microsoft, EU interoperability fight intensifies

Massachusetts man accused of million-dollar warranty fraud against Cisco

Scam involved reselling replacement gear ordered via Cisco's SMARTnet program

Attack of the Pod Penguins 7: Encoding with lame

Tune your spoken-word podcast for quick download, or your music podcast for a high-quality listening experience. We survey your MP3 options.

Berners-Lee: Congress should consider ‘Net neutrality

Here’s why your Web apps are sitting ducks

Honeypot researchers blame poor code, search-based hacks for security troubles

California lining up to consider open document formats as state standard

Joins Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas to introduce legislation that would push the adoption of open and extensible file formats

CEBIT – IBM aims for midmarket with business-intelligence appliance server

Adobe to launch Apollo beta later this month

U.K. local gov’t staff may face identity theft

Demand building for IPv6 but where are the security products?

Cisco, Juniper and others still hammering out details of IPv6 security