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While declaring that open source has limitations, Sun Microsystems nevertheless is moving to capitalize on the method's popularity, saying it will develop an open-source desktop environment that is a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to Microsoft Windows. ...

Leading Linux vendor Red Hat has filed suit against The SCO Group, aiming to prove that Red Hat software does not infringe on SCO patents and to stop SCO from making what it called "untrue" statements. ...

Newsflash: Apple is the market leader in digital music downloading, with more than 6 million song tracks sold in less than four months through its iTunes Music Store. That's good news for the computer company, which usually has to resort to the cold comfort of knowing that while people think its products rock, they don't buy them in nearly the numbers they do competitors' inferior machines.

IBM has become the latest computer services giant to score a billion-dollar outsourcing deal, signing a 10-year, US$1.1 billion agreement to handle the computer infrastructure needs of Switzerland-based power-services company ABB. In the race to ink high-profile services deals, this is just the latest in a string of victories for IBM's Global Services division...

Saying their combined assets can drive down the cost of deploying real-time collaboration software, Sun Microsystems and Oracle have announced plans to work together to spread the word about the benefits of their alternatives to Microsoft's dominant Office suite ...

Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly US$7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States, as it pushes toward what it sees as a bright future for software despite the tech downturn. ...

Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly US$7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States, as it pushes toward what it sees as a bright future for software despite the tech downturn. ...

Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly US$7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States, as it pushes toward what it sees as a bright future for software despite the tech downturn. ...

Hewlett-Packard has purchased a Swedish software firm that specializes in interactive voice solutions, saying it will roll the smaller company's VoiceXML-based products into its own OpenCall offerings, which are geared toward the telecom industry. ...

Pity the people with summer birthdays or anniversaries. Their milestones often go overlooked amid the rush to beat traffic to the beach or get the barbecue fired up. ...

Offering a reminder of just how quickly things can change in the world of business, AOL Time Warner booked a US$1 billion profit for the second quarter -- just six months after posting the largest-ever one-year loss by a U.S. firm. ...

While enterprises face all kinds of security risks, including vulnerabilities that must be patched and viruses that bombard corporate firewalls, the threats that strike the most fear into the hearts of chief security officers and their employees are the ones nobody has thought of yet. ...

Chipmaker Intel has forged an alliance with Linksys, the home and small office networking provider recently acquired by Cisco as part of that company's push into emerging markets. ...

Microsoft plans to announce that the two largest cable television providers in the United States, Time Warner Cable and Comcast, will test its interactive program guide (IPG) software in their set-top boxes in limited markets. ...

Nothing Microsoft does goes unnoticed or underanalyzed -- and, true to form, the company's purchase of an obscure but well-regarded Romanian antivirus firm last month has sparked a torrent of speculation about its intentions in the security arena. ...

With server software sales booming, Microsoft recorded a 26 percent gain in earnings, to US$1.92 billion, for its recently ended fourth quarter -- but the software giant also posted a rare miss of analysts' profit targets. ...

Apple Computer outpaced expectations with its latest earnings, posting a profit as strong sales of non-desktop machines led the company to its best revenue-generating quarter in more than two years. ...

In a sign that one of the main combatants in the browser wars is ready to lay down its arms, AOL has cut workers from its already shrunken Netscape division and has cut loose the Mozilla open source browser project ...

The tech world's pie-eyed optimists want us to believe that the helter-skelter past few weeks on the mergers-and-acquisitions front is a good omen, a sign of great things to come for the economy in general and technology in particular. ...

No. 2 chipmaker AMD has unveiled a joint venture with Japan-based Fujitsu, creating a US$3 billion global company bent on mastering the market for flash memory products. ...