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Microsoft’s MSN, with its lifestyle articles and ad-supported tools like Messenger and Spaces, seems worlds away from the company’s buttoned-up enterprise server business. But the two are steadily converging behind the scenes, with a plan to link them via Exchange. Executives at Microsoft’s Financial Analysts Meeting, held Thursday in Redmond, Wash., said the company wants […]

UPDATED: Round two to Microsoft. Over to you Google. Microsoft won a temporary restraining order to keep high-level search researcher Dr. Kai-Fu Lee from defecting to search rival Google . The latest legal maneuver keeps Redmond’s search trade secrets and China business strategy out of the hands of its rival — for now. On Wednesday, […]

·  Wireless Philadelphia has picked three finalists to provide the 135 square mile citywide Wi-Fi network for the city. All include a company doing mesh networking. They are: ·  AT&T working with Lucent and BelAirNetworks ·  HP with Aptilo Networks, Alvarion, Business Information Group and Tropos Networks ·  Earthlink with Motorola Canopy and Tropos […]

July 22, 2005 Atheros says that Lenovo Networks—a division of the same company that now owns the ThinkPad line of notebook computers—is putting out an 802.11g router called the LSA 800R to bundle with the company’s Yang Tian series of desktop PCs for sale at retail in China. The unit will use Atheros’ single chip […]

U.S. companies aren’t alone in worrying whether they’ll be able to hire enough specialized IT workers to fill their cubicles. Europeans are bracing for a double whammy — a spike in retirees plus a drop in IT graduates — that could leave them scrambling for help as early as next year, according to a new […]

Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning that XP users could be at risk from a DoS due to a vulnerability in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Tom Ferris of SP (security-protocols) Research Labs. In a post on the Security-Protocols site, “badpack3t” wrote that they notified Microsoft about the […]

Consumers in China will now be able to buy PCs based on AMD’s Sempron 64-bit architecture. Lenovo Group has announced it will begin shipping systems based on AMD’s 64-bit Sempron processor today. AMD designed the Sempron for budget-priced systems aimed at consumers and other cost-conscious buyers. Lenovo Group is China’s largest PC company. Earliest this […]

Amid an ongoing expansion of its third-generation network, Verizon Wireless today introduced a new handset for its multimedia VCast service. Motorola’s E815 features a 1.3 mega-pixel camera with Bluetooth wireless technology for data-synching with PCs and wireless connections with headsets. The phone sells for $149.99 after a $50 rebate and two-year service contract and will […]

Telenor will use equipment from Siemens and Juniper to upgrade its broadband network, the Norwegian carrier announced today. Under the contract, Siemens will install Juniper core and edge routers that will allow Telenor to provide integrated data, voice and video on a single multi-protocol label switching network based on Internet Protocol standards. Telenor, and other carriers, are moving […]

June 27-30, 2005 The non-profit Corridor Free Wireless Project (cFree) will be turning on the wireless cFree network in the Iowa Corridor cities of Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, and Coralville soon and using multi-radio equipment from Strix Systems to do it, working with regional WISP Avalon Networks and integrator Communications Engineering Company. Access will be […]

Software maker Computer Associates filed a delayed annual report Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, admitting two material weaknesses in its previous financial reporting. The latest accounting disclosures came as the U.S. government filed an amended indictment against former CA boss Sanjay Kumar, accusing him of paying $3.7 million to a vendor […]