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On January 12, 2009, AOL will permanently close the Xdrive Online Storage Service. Please go to www.xdrive.com and save your valuable data

A war is looming between companies to sign up top IT managers and tech-savvy staff, according to industry consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers. *news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-6132786.html

It's been five years in the making as Microsoft rolls out the business version of Windows Vista. The real question: Is business ready for Vista? Oh, and Microsoft is also releasing Office 2007 and Exchange 2007, too. *news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6138458.html

Jeremy Allison, a high-profile open-source programmer, has resigned from Novell because of objections over its patent deal with Microsoft and is moving to Google. *news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6145615.html

Giveaway triggers debate over ethics and whether the companies are really offering bribes. The ensuing publicity reportedly has prompted Microsoft and AMD to reconsider the gift. *informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=QLRMBAVGIW5ZMQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=196702467

Principled Technologies, which conducted the research for Microsoft, is offering a download of the report. *informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=14W1K2D35B2NOQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=196800080

AMD had already announced that its first native quad-core offering will come out in the middle of next year. That will be followed by "Shanghai" in the first half of 2008, which will feature HyperTransport 3.0 *informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196604355

The new phone support is available only to North American users of Vista Beta 2, RC1, and RC2. *informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196604254

The service covers 7 million patents granted by the USPTO since the 1790s, but at the moment does not include patents filed over the last few months. *informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196604305

As people grow wise to e-mail scams, criminal gangs will find new ways to commit online fraud, sell fake goods, or steal corporate secrets. "The attacks are becoming more sophisticated," said Dave Rand of Internet security firm Trend Micro. "It's all about making money. And they're making a...

recently came into possession of a manuscript called the Vista Study Group Report. Don't ask me how I got it: Let's just say it involved a parking garage, a cigarette-smoking man, and a code name inspired by a Robert Redford movie. The Vista Study Group Report is a brutally honest assessment...

Mozilla Corp. has released the first preview of Firefox 3.0 to developers, although a final version may be as much as a year away. The Firefox 3.0 alpha, code named "Gran Paradiso," targets Web application developers and Mozilla's testing community, the company said on its site. It was...

Firefox 2 only launched six weeks ago, but there appear to be no plans for a Firefox 2.5 with the alpha, developer version of Firefox just made available on Friday. With the majority of web surfers still using a version of Internet Explorer, Microsoft had better be working quickly on IE8...

HONG KONG - Shooting video with a mobile phone may seem cool today, but imagine a phone that could capture the smell of a foreign country to bring home and release to your friends. Or what about a mobile that never needs to be charged because of solar cells hidden under its surface...

SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are the only two companies with pockets deep enough to fight the arms race for Web audience market share, the head of Microsoft's Internet arm said on Thursday. Web pioneer Yahoo Inc. may end up on the outside looking in on the coming competition for...

BANGALORE: IT bellwether Infosys Technologies becomes part of coveted Nasdaq 100 club.With this, Infosys has now become part of the elite group comprising of Amazon.com, Google, Cisco, Red Hat, Autodesk, eBay, Juniper Networks, Yahoo, Netscapes, Oracle and Apple Corporation. The NASDAQ-100...

Oracle boosted its offer for Indian banking software provider i-flex Solutions to $1.3 billion, driving up i-flex shares 17 percent to a record high. Oracle, the world's biggest maker of database software, said it wanted to take its stake in i-flex to 90 percent and raised the price it is...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plan to present research on transistor technology next week that they hope will jumpstart a new development phase in tiny electronics beyond the iPod and the cell phone. MIT engineers estimate that silicon transistors, essential to...

Microsoft has released its Microsoft Developer Network Wiki for developers. ADVERTISEMENT In a blog post on Dec. 7, S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft's developer division, said Microsoft has unveiled a release candidate of MSDN Wiki, which is part of the MSDN...

LONDON—Organized gangs have adopted "KGB-style" tactics to hire high-flying computer students to commit Internet crime, a report said on Friday. Criminals are targeting universities, computer clubs and online forums to find undergraduates, according to Internet security firm McAfee. Some...