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Microsoft tries to sell two-tiered grand vision

$100 laptops? … Not yet

One Laptop Per Child project forging ahead, despite growing pains.

Sony unveils new Walkman phones

Microsoft’s Hotmail problems clear up in China

Microsoft to trial pay-as-you-go PCs

Rootkits wreak havoc on Australian companies

India’s IT industry opposes caste quotas

Microsoft’s Commerce Server upgrade due in August

Polycom uncrates new products, upgrades at partner conference

Q&A: Stop wasting your money on Gigabit Ethernet

Gartner’s top enterprise network analyst lays out the argument against bigger bandwidth in the LAN.

Radvision upgrades MCU line

SAP aims to ‘compete like gentlemen’

SAP looks to replicate U.S. success

Company reports 14th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth here.

Microsoft nabs Softricity in virtualization push

Microsoft: Word zero-day patch by June

Rising copper prices add to Gigabit Ethernet cost

Cybercrime prosecutors need guidance

Motorola introduces Q smart-phone at last

Settlement ends Sony rootkit case

Vedior takes precautions for software-as-a-service

Company uses SLAs, has disaster-recovery plan in case problems arise with hosted applications.

Betting on software-as-a-service

Staffing firm Vedior handed over core systems to a hosted software provider.

Trust is key for location-based search, says Google exec

Scientists build a world of ‘software beings’

BellSouth demands retraction of NSA spying story

BellSouth is demanding USA Today retract NSA spying story.

China, Google could be SAP’s new rivals

Research paper shows holes in security approaches

SAP: More on-demand, new prices are coming

Start-ups zero in on Microsoft backup, storage

New companies targeting SMBs.

Vista Get Ready program falls short, for some

Military awards $7 million RFID deal to ODIN technologies

New Trojan targets Word

San Francisco Wi-Fi plan to face more heat

F5 tweaks SSL VPN software for easier use, management

F5 adds single sign-on to FirePass 6.0; gets rid of confusing pop-ups.

JavaOne: Sun’s McNealy asks coders to change the world

Oracle cleared for Portal software buy

Japan’s KDDI to use Google search for mobile Web

Skype seeks bulk to avoid VoIP blocks

Negroponte’s $100 laptop sputters along

Google faces lawsuit over search suggestions

Another chip maker quits the DRAM business

BT boosts Q4 revenue on strong broadband sales

IBM to acquire Rembo Technology

Big Blue to add automated software distribution technology to Tivoli provisioning and change management software, as well as IBM's Virtualization Engine portfolio.

SAP demos new Muse user interface

Microsoft to buy SSL VPN vendor Whale

AMD challenges Intel with notebook chip

Plantronics debuts VoIP Bluetooth headset

Microsoft puts search functions as top mission

High-tech Ireland

Government agency, Enterprise Ireland, invests in future of start-ups

HP to consolidate its data centers

CEO Mark Hurd pushes consolidation as part of massive restructuring.

Vendors set emergency remote access rates

Array Networks, Aventail and Citrix introduce flexible licensing plans for emergency situations.