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Google Talk Opens Up to GAIM, Other IM Services

Google has announced it has opened up its new instant messaging service, Google Talk, to all other IM networks that utilize the XMPP protocol,...

UWB Standards Group Calls It Quits

Unable to resolve a deadlock between two competing proposals, the IEEE working group responsible for the ultrawideband technology threw in the towel Thursday. The Institute...

AMD Announces Strong Fourth-Quarter Results

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. posted strong fourth-quarter and year-end numbers and stole more market share from industry leader Intel Corp. The fourth-quarter 2005...

Oracle Plugs 82 Database, Server Holes

Oracle Corp. has released a "moderately critical" batch of patches to plug a total of 82 security vulnerabilities in several database and server products. As...

IBM, Sun Aim to Enhance Retail Experience

IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. are targeting the retail industry with new hardware and software packages designed to enable companies to offer enhanced in-store...

Salesforce.coms AppExchange Brokers Software

Salesforce.com Inc. is hosting a virtual software bazaar in hopes of encouraging more businesses to make use of software on demand. The San Francisco-based CRM...

SPI Tool Measures Web App Security Risk

SPI Dynamics Inc. unveiled Monday a management platform for measuring Web application security risk. AMP (Assessment Management Platform) 2.0 consolidates network scanning across enterprise networks...

Intels 2005 Revenue Undercuts Expectations

The problem of chip-set sales haunted Intel Corp. during the fourth quarter. Despite putting out record shipments of desktop, notebook and server processors during the...

StreamBase Revs Its Real-Time Engine to 64 Bit

StreamBase Systems Inc. has greased the gears of its real-time processing engine, announcing on Monday that its flagship Stream Processing Engine is now 64-bit...

Law Firm Locks Down E-Mail Storage

With Microsoft Corp. Exchange mailboxes growing to criminally high levels, IT staffers at law firm Perkins Coie LLP had to overhaul their storage infrastructure...