Monday, June 04, 2007

EMC buys authentication service provider Verid; Silicon Valley wireless vision taking time

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EMC buys authentication service provider Verid
Looking to extend its RSA division's authentication product line, EMC has purchased identity verification services vendor Verid.

Silicon Valley wireless vision taking time
Silicon Valley's municipal wireless project is one of the most ambitious ever attempted, but good things take time -- more than proponents thought, in this case.

Apple's iPhone coming on June 29
Apple will launch its iPhone in the U.S. on June 29, it said in TV commercials that began airing on Sunday.

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Survey: Corporate IT spending growth to slow in Q3
Businesses are planning to scale back their IT spending in the third quarter of 2007, according to a survey released Friday by an investment research firm.

Sneak peek at the notebooks of 2008
What will they put in notebook PCs next? At Intel's recent Developer Forum conference in Beijing, the company revealed it's working on quad-core processing to go.

Patent Office reopens Microsoft-Eolas case
Just when it seemed certain Microsoft Corp. had lost its now 8-year-old patent dispute with Eolas Technologies Inc., the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has reopened the case, giving Microsoft a chance to prove that Eolas' patent for ...

Groups call for competitive spectrum auction
New broadband providers should be given a better chance of winning pieces of valuable wireless spectrum to be auctioned by early next year, several groups said Friday.

Oracle adds copyright charges to SAP complaint
Oracle has added new claims to its ongoing lawsuit against software rival SAP .

Blogs

Buzzblog: Learning that technology can cut both ways
An industry long known to be a trail-blazer for bleeding-edge technology is now seeing its profits threatened by cheap gear, ubiquitous broadband and lowered barriers to entry. Which one? Aw, c'mon, we're all adults here.

Microsoft vs. Linux
The news, the opinions, the readers reaction. Here’s your one-stop source for it all including The Top 10 things Microsoft loves/hates about open source; John Obeto’s blog: Microsoft isn’t the bad guy; Reader’s reaction: Microsoft and karma.

Answers to your tricky Microsoft questions
Our newest Microsoft Subnet blogger, Tyson Kopczynski, has issued a challenge. Bring him your toughest, trickiest Microsoft-technology question and if he can't answer it, he will find someone who will. Read his blog and drop him a question.

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