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New Orleans CIO vows to keep city Wi-Fi at high speeds

New think tank advocates broadband incentives

New laws should create tax incentives for companies to roll out new broadband networks to help increase the use of broadband in the home, says think tank.

H&R Block points to IT savings with virtualization

H&R Block says it saved $1 million on hardware purchases since rolling out virtualization in 2005.

Don’t know much biology? Security researcher says it’s time to learn

University of New Mexico prof says diversity could be key to beating back computer attacks.

IP lawyers: Injunction possible in Lucent Xbox suit

IE patch breaks Siebel client

Microsoft's IE patch can cause Siebel 7 client software to become unusable; Microsoft to release a 'compatibility patch' to address the issue.

AMD seeks Microsoft documents in Intel case

China’s second biggest PC maker to push Windows

Google launches calendar service

Sharp to build LCD TV module plant in Poland

Ciena opens India R&D lab, scales back outsourcing

CA ups stake in mainframe management with Cybermation acquisition

CA announces plans to acquire job scheduling and software change management vendor Cybermation.

Microsoft to end support for Windows 98, ME in July

Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows ME.

SAN helps chemical firm keep oil wells pumping

Benmark Energy Products puts storage-area networks into good use.

Mobile domain hopes to dominate mobile Internet

MTLD Top Level Domain next week to issue .mobi Internet domain names aimed at mobile devices.

Buffalo ships pre-standard 802.11n WLAN gear

Buffalo ships WLAN products based on draft IEEE 802.11n standard.

IBM aims to encourage IT careers

Q&A: Massachusetts CIO offers update on ODF plans

Symantec exec: ‘There is no Veritas and Symantec, there’s only Symantec’

Symantec Senior Vice President of Enterprise Security and Data Management Jeremy Burton on merging Symantec with Veritas and where the company is headed with messaging management.

Tokyo taxis to start accepting e-money payment

Case against ex-UMC executives heads to court

Will Singapore’s ban on political blogs work?

NetApp expands design center in India

Nokia news may mean new markets buy pricey phones

Sun launches new thin clients, ships Niagara server

Oracle to buy Portal Software for $220 million

Oracle looking to make another vertical-market acquisition.

PolyServe helps consolidate SQL Server systems

EBay invests $2 million in social networking site

Copyright group: China talks yield ‘modest’ success

Critics hit SF Wi-Fi plan on privacy, interference

Critics say San Francisco citywide Wi-Fi could interfere with user privacy and other radio signals.

FCC sets wireless auction rules

FCC sets rules for its June 29 auction of wireless spectrun licenses to promote competition and efficiency in the auction.

ActivIdentity upgrades single sign-on product to support smart cards

ActivIdentity releases version 6.0 of ActivIdentity SecureLogin Single Sign-On with integrated support for smart cards.

Qualcomm chipset could triple wireless bandwidth

TD Ameritrade CIO talks up encryption, storage

Q&A with TD Ameritrade CIO about storage and encryption.

Fleury: JBoss to scale its business

JBoss CEO Marc Fleury speaks out about planned merger with Red Hat.

Europe’s domain registry being hijacked, GoDaddy says

Red Hat deal is bad news for ObjectWeb, analysts say

HP: Enterprises struggling with privacy management

Google buys search tech from Australian university

Microsoft’s Google Scholar rival set to go Live

Microsoft releases critical Internet Explorer patch

Microsoft releases much anticipated patches for IE bugs.

SPML 2.0 ratified as a standard for managing user access

AMD releases final single-core Opteron chip

AMD releases last scheduled upgrade to its single-core Opteron processors; Sun, IBM, HP plan to add the chips to their hardware.

Australian researchers confirm RFID DoS attacks

This year’s hottest jobs in IT

Employers look for well-rounded tech talent with application-development and infrastructure skills, as well as vertical experience.

Open source portal software controls security

Goodwill Industries helped drive the security overhaul of open source portal software.

VeriSign embracing mobile services

Liferay overhauls open source portal

Liferay security framework adds greater access control.

Microsoft revamps SharePoint server

SharePoint Portal Server will be renamed as Office SharePoint Server 2007.

In brief: HP to release business notebook PC later this year