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Schwalbs do the shuffle
Joel Schwalb has reduced his stake in Volante Group, withdrawing from one shareholding directorship to make way for his son, Ehoud Schwalb. More...

Microsoft signs popular Japanese video-game maker
Microsoft last week said it has hired the creator of the popular "Final Fantasy" video game to develop games exclusively for the next Xbox. More...

IBM ups open-source efforts
IBM Software is turning up the noise on its open-source contributions. More...

Opera to beef up browser security
Opera Software last week released the second beta version of the next release of its desktop browser, which includes a new anti-spoofing feature. More...

WLAN market was red hot in 2004: report
The worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) equipment market was red-hot in 2004, according to new research from Infonetics, with 36.1 million units shipped, up 51 percent over 2003. More...

Thunderbird, Mozilla updates next in line
On the heels of the release of Firefox 1.0.1, officials at Mozilla Foundation last week laid out the near-term roadmap for updates to that browser, as well as the Mozilla suite and the Thunderbird email client. More...