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EU Council Set to Approve Patent Proposal

The EUs controversial proposal on patenting "computer-implemented inventions" has unexpectedly cleared a major hurdle, with the Council of the European Union set to give...

IBM Storage Bricks Build Toward Petabyte Level

IBM has made progress over the past year in developing a new water-cooled, modular mass storage system designed to be highly fault-tolerant and make...

Holes Found in Cisco, Veritas, Samba Products

Thursday was a big day for vulnerability announcements, but not necessarily for big vulnerabilities. Cisco on Thursday announced two problems with its products, one...

With Non-Critical Bugs Like These, Who Needs the Real Thing?

It sure caught me by surprise. After Microsofts early warning indicated that the five vulnerability disclosures this week would be no more than "Important"—as...

Oracle Launches Low-Cost Storage Initiative

Oracle Corp. is using the same "tie together cheap boxes" mindset that it cooked up for its Database 10g push, but this time, its...

Autodesk, Microsoft Ink Cross-Licensing Deal

Autodesk Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have entered into a cross-licensing agreement that gives both companies access to a broad range of one anothers patent...

Will Microsofts Spyware Buy Cast a Giant Shadow?

Microsofts sudden acquisition of highly rated anti-spyware startup Giant Company Software has set the cat among the pigeons. As competitors rush to spin the news...

MySQL Lures Open-Source Newbies with Consulting Deals

MySQL AB is offering consulting packages and GUI tools for those who want to jump into open-source technology but lack in-house gurus and are...

Google Moves into Product Reviews

Google Inc. is combining online reviews into its Froogle shopping-search service, but rather than eliciting new opinions it is aggregating reviews and ratings from...

IDC: Linux Market to Top $35B by 2008

The Open Source Development Labs on Wednesday unveiled key findings from a newly completed IDC market study, projecting that the overall revenue for desktops,...