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Oracle Combines Its Identity Management Offerings

Oracle Corp. is merging its entire identity management product portfolio under one umbrella, featuring a single licensing model to spearhead the introduction of the...

Instant Messengers Choose Sides

A significant instant messaging project between Google Inc. and America Online is now underway. Google and AOL plan to let their respective instant messaging features...

Sun Kicks Off Try-and-Buy Program

Sun Microsystems Inc. has begun offering customers a new UltraSPARC T1-based system for free in a 60-day try-and-buy program. Users get two months to evaluate...

Santa IM Worm Installs Rootkit Payload

A new Christmas-themed worm attack is underway, delivering an offensive rootkit payload over the AOL, MSN, Windows Messenger, ICQ and Yahoo instant messaging networks. The...

Sun: No Rush to Open Software

Those who hope Sun Microsystems Inc. will open-source all of its software products anytime soon are in for a big disappointment. Sun executives, including president...

U.S. Patent Office Sides with RIM

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has indicated that it will formally and finally reject the patents at the heart of a lawsuit in...

At Last, Oracle Smartens Up on Multicore

Finally, Oracle is doing the right thing on multicore chip licensing. The company announced on Monday that, while it will keep treating each core as...

Google Grabs 5 Percent Solution

Google Inc.: 1, Microsoft Corp.: 0. The two tech behemoths have had their first significant head-to-head battle, and Google has emerged a winner. In doing so,...

OpenSolaris Gets Linux

After over a years delay, Solaris is getting some interoperability with Linux and other Unix systems. Sun Microsystems Inc. has promised Linux binary application compatibility...

PC Shipment Growth to Slow in 06, Report Shows

Notebook PCs will help drive double-digit unit gains in PC shipments during 2006, a new report by International Data Corp. says. Despite a dip in...