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Microsoft Pursues Cross-Licensing Deals

As Microsoft Corp. pursues its goal of signing cross-licensing agreements with the approximately 40 global companies that hold the most technology patents, it is...

Spammers New Tactic Upends DNS

Although some ISPs and legislators are crediting the year-old CAN-SPAM Act and better technology for recent gains in the war on spam, many in...

IBM, NetApp Ease Storage Integration

Impeccable housekeeping and extraordinary customer service are the traditional marks of a four-star hotel. For many, internal IT operations receive that same level of...

Thunderbird Gets Messages Out

The Mozilla Foundations Thunderbird 1.0 is a serviceable messaging application, albeit one without the group calendaring features of IBMs Lotus Notes or Microsoft Corp.s...

WebSurveyor Fine-Tunes Surveys

The latest release of WebSurveyor Corp.s namesake product makes conducting online surveys even easier. With the implementation of a new user interface that features...

Thunderbird: Not Quite Ready for Business

I love Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundations standalone e-mail client. I mean I really, really like it a lot. I use it on my Windows XP...

Oracle Ousts Its Own Execs

In the midst of swapping out executives at recently acquired PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp. is also making some internal adjustments. The company quietly replaced...

Oracle-PeopleSoft: The Deal Is Done

Finally, after 18 bitter months of battle, with 97 percent of outstanding stock in hand, Oracle Corp. on Friday will seal the deal on...

IBM Buys Identity Company to Nail Down Whos Who

You have a Richard Smith of Maple Street who once ripped off your casino. Now, Dick Smith of Maple Avenue wants a job as...

Adobe Reader 7 Beta Hits Linux Desktops

Adobe Systems has released an update to its popular, freely available document reader software. The newly renamed "Adobe Reader 7.0" now allows users to...