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Sales growth was slower than expected -- and inflated by the depressed dollar overseas -- at IBM last quarter. So Big Blue is reorganizing a bit ...

Mountain View, California-based Stretch, a fabless semiconductor developer, this week debuted a new family of process that can be configured by software, making this the first design to embed powerful programmable logic within an off-the-shelf processor. ...

A memorandum from Microsoft argues against the European Commission's antitrust decision, stating that Brussels is creating legal precedents that inflict long-term damage on the software developer's business model. ...

Two leading U.S.-based technology developers -- IBM and Stanford University -- are partnering to launch an advanced research project to create new high-performance, low-power electronics in the emerging field of nanotechnology called "spintronics." ...

A Philippines-based software developer this week released software that enables Windows-based programs to run on computers using archrival Linux ...

Sun Microsystems on Thursday revealed it has forged 21 deals with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) during the last four months. The massive announcement provides an objective sign of growth in open-source technologies, according to the company ...

The Better Business Bureau this week issued a national warning about 321 Studios, a developer of DVD copying, backup and repair software that is causing controversy in U.S. federal courts and in Hollywood ...

The SCO Group late Friday disclosed that one of its investors is extremely unhappy -- and wants its money back. But the Lindon, Utah-based Unix provider apparently isn't going to resolve the legal controversy without a fight, at least for now ...

A new study released this week indicates that nearly 28 "spyware" items infest each PC, demonstrating the broad proliferation of the secret software, researchers said ...

Court papers filed this week demonstrate that the U.S. Department of Justice is asking Microsoft to reveal more to rivals who license essential Windows computer code as part of the company's ongoing antitrust settlement. ...

Last week, a national controversy over Linux in the defense marketplace was generated by remarks made at a conference in Washington, D.C. (See Gene J. Koprowski, "Expert Says Linux a 'Threat' to US National Security," LinuxInsider, April 9, 2004.) The risk to national security...

The developer of one of the world's most high-profile, open-source databases, Sweden's MySQL AB, this week launched MySQL Cluster, a new open-source database clustering technology for applications that need continuous availability. ...

An investigative report by a government agency in the United Kingdom has revealed many disabled users find online chores that are routine for most people to be Herculean for them, as they "find it impossible to book a holiday, open a bank account or buy theater tickets online." ...

A filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the regulatory body that monitors publicly traded companies, indicates that Dell last year generated most of its new jobs overseas, in the fastest-growing markets there, including China. Dell's disclosure confirms the pattern in global IT spending growth last year, but business analysts said the outsourcing numbers need to be placed in context...

Earlier today, at a developer's forum in Taipei, Taiwan, chipmaker Intel disclosed that it has developed two new, low-priced Itanium processors targeted toward the server market. Servers employing the new processors will be about 28 percent lower in price and up to 25 percent faster than earlier Itanium 2-based servers, the company said ...

Think that viruses and worms sent by e-mail are an IT security nightmare? Wait until you experience the next assault hackers are unleashing -- the browser-based attack. ...

It may be a one-time fluke or a sign of the broader economic recovery, but domestic music sales in the first quarter of this year increased dramatically for U.S. record labels. ...

Public comments are due today at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding a policy proposal instigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to bolster government surveillance of the Internet ...

Listening to some Linux critics, you might think that the open-source operating system is more of a threat to U.S. national security than a gaggle of Islamic jihadis lugging rocket-propelled grenade launchers around Fallujah, or mad Pakistani nuclear scientists selling secrets to rogue states ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is ratcheting up the computer industry establishment's pressure on hackers, meeting this week in Washington, D.C., with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and IT industry leaders to decry Internet crime ...