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Google Rebuffs Feds on Search Request

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet's leading search engine a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance.

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Microsoft Data Collection Troubles Some Users

Microsoft routinely and remotely monitors the security health of PCs running its OneCare Live security service by collecting a wide range of information from users' computers, including a machine-specific identifier.

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Microsoft looks beyond Vista, sees Vienna

Although Microsoft is hard at work trying to ship Windows Vista this year, the company is beginning to set its sights on the next horizon, Vienna.

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Super Bowl Advertisers Make Online Tie-Ins

NEW YORK - If Miss Piggy is dressing up like Jessica Simpson, monkeys are rampaging around office cubicles and networking druids are yammering into cell phones, it can only mean one thing: Super Bowl ads are on the way.

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IBM Opens More Innovation Shops

IBM opened its 96th Business Partner Innovation Center last week and plans to add up to 40 more this year as part of its innovation strategy to keep solution providers developing new opportunities.

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FCC boss sees wireless auction starting in June

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An auction of U.S. airwaves that could be used for wireless video and high-speed Internet access will likely go ahead in June,
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said on Friday.

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VARs Chime In On Tech Datas CEO Search

Tech Datas next CEO should follow the same channel trail Steve Raymund has blazed over the past 25 years, solution providers say.

Raymund announced last week that he plans to step down as CEO after a successor is chosen, likely within four to six months, but will retain the chairman title of the Clearwater, Fla.-based distributor.

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This week in Windows Vista

Microsoft brought a little more focus to its upcoming operating systems as it gave developers access to a key piece of Windows Vista this week.

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Sony Trade-In Offer Puts Bull's-Eye On Dell Laptops

In a move to take market share away from Dell and boost its presence in the channel at the same time, Sony has begun offering $500 trade-in bonuses on Dell notebooks and paying solution providers additional spifs.

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This week in earnings

Silicon Valley gave mixed messages on the health of the tech industry this week.

Lower prices and lower-than-expected processor shipments dented Intel's earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter. The company also forecast slower growth in 2006.

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Google case boosts furor over US privacy threats

NEW YORK (AFP) - A legal standoff between the US Justice Department and internet search giant Google has added fuel to an already heated debate over the government's right of access to potentially personal data.

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Oracle Says Fusion Convergence Is Near

Oracle is well on its way to its goal of unified middleware for all Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel applications. At least, thats what Oracle executives say.

Addressing a packed house Wednesday night in San Francisco, Oracle Co-president Charles Phillips said the work to incorporate elements of applications from PeopleSoft and JD Edwards has reached the midway point.

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HP deal for CSC not on the table, source says

Despite media reports that Hewlett-Packard and private equity firm Blackstone Group were in preliminary discussions to acquire Computer Sciences Corp., such a deal never made it on the radar of HP executives and directors, said an HP source.

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Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - What 'Web 2.0' means to us

There has been a subtle yet incredibly important change with the way the Internet is used. It's been going on for at least a couple of years, but lately we're beginning to feel the enormous cumulative effects.

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Microsoft, IBM Execs On Collaboration

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Seagate sees TV as biggest opportunity

Seagate Technology, the world's largest maker of computer hard-disk drives, said its biggest revenue driver in the next 18 months will be digital set-top boxes that record TV shows, Chief Executive Bill Watkins said Thursday.

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Microsoft Ready to Pull Office Live Beta Trigger

Microsoft is readying a beta of its Office Live hosted service as new details emerged about an e-mail service the company plans to release as part of the offering.

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German Wikipedia Back Up Amid Lawsuit

FRANKFURT, Germany - The German version of Wikipedia returned to the Internet on Friday after three days offline, a blackout prompted by a lawsuit in which the parents of a dead hacker objected to the site's use of his real name.

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Novell Plans Corporate Licensing Overhaul

Novell plans to move to a new licensing model that could impact partners serving corporate accounts.

Key to the new model, effective March 1, is the elimination of the Waltham, Mass., companys Corporate Licensing Agreement (CLA) and the addition of a new option that allows customers to buy on a per-named-user or per-device basis.

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Nasdaq suffers trading glitch

A technical glitch at the Nasdaq Stock Market meant that closing prices for a number of New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks traded through Nasdaq were incorrect on Wednesday.

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