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Apple, Cisco reach agreement on iPhone name

Dell receptive to customer input, could reintroduce Linux

IT skeptical about Google hosted apps

Mozilla working on fix for Firefox flaw

Yahoo!7 hunts for new mail users

90 percent of email will be spam by year end

Microsoft hit with US$1.52 billion in damages in Alcatel-Lucent patent suit

Nintendo Wii takes the lead in console war

Google sees video anti-piracy tools as priority

Apple-Cisco iPhone deal positions firms to jointly pursue Wi-Fi and VoIP

Cisco IP phone flaws show vulnerabilities of 'Vo-Fi'

Consumer Electronic Spending Slowed In 2006

Despite government data losses, security education spending not growing

Google continues to gain search market share

Translation software bridges linguistic divide

Friday, 23rd February 2007

Headlines

	Apple, Cisco reach agreement on iPhone name
	Dell receptive to customer input, could reintroduce Linux
	IT skeptical about Google hosted apps
	Mozilla working on fix for Firefox flaw
	Yahoo!7 hunts for new mail users
	90 percent of email will be spam by year end
	Microsoft hit with US$1.52 billion in damages in Alcatel-Lucent patent suit
	Nintendo Wii takes the lead in console war
	Google sees video anti-piracy tools as priority
	Apple-Cisco iPhone deal positions firms to jointly pursue Wi-Fi and VoIP
	Cisco IP phone flaws show vulnerabilities of 'Vo-Fi'
	Consumer Electronic Spending Slowed In 2006
	Despite government data losses, security education spending not growing
	Google continues to gain search market share
	Translation software bridges linguistic divide

Tim Lohman,
Editor

This afternoon, Dell's new IdeaStorm site lets people submit and vote on ideas the company should consider. So far, Linux is the leader.

Also making news, enterprise issues are multi-faceted when considering SaaS applications like Google's new "office-like" suite.

Mail your comments on this afternoon’s news:

editor@itnews.com.au

Breaking News

Telco/ISP

Apple, Cisco reach agreement on iPhone name
Network equipment maker Cisco Systems and Apple said on Wednesday they had reached an agreement that allows both to use the "iPhone" name, after
Cisco sued the iPod maker for using it for a new multimedia phone.
By Staff writers

Operating Systems

Dell receptive to customer input, could reintroduce Linux
Dell's new IdeaStorm site lets people submit and vote on ideas the company should consider. So far, Linux is the leader.
By Staff writers

Applications

IT skeptical about Google hosted apps
Enterprise issues are multi-faceted when considering SaaS applications like Google's new "office-like" suite.
By Staff writers

Security

Mozilla working on fix for Firefox flaw
Mozilla has pushed back its next security update for Firefox so it will include a fix for a vulnerability that allows malicious Web sites to manipulate authentication cookies.
By Staff writers

Internet

Yahoo!7 hunts for new mail users
Yahoo!7 has ramped up its email offering in an effort to win over users of rival products such as G-Mail and Hotmail.

By Tim Lohman

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Security

90 percent of email will be spam by year end
A flood of spam coming out of China and South Korea is fueling a 30% jump in spam levels in just the past week.
By Staff writers

Government/Law

Microsoft hit with US$1.52 billion in damages in Alcatel-Lucent patent suit
A US federal jury found that Microsoft infringed audio patents held by
Alcatel-Lucent and should pay US$1.52 billion in damages, Microsoft said Thursday.
By Staff writers

Hardware

Nintendo Wii takes the lead in console war
Wii outselling PSP and Xbox by a 50 percent margin.
By Tom Sanders

Applications

Google sees video anti-piracy tools as priority
Google, racing to head off a media industry backlash over its video website YouTube, will soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all copyright holders thwart unauthorised video sharing, its chief executive has said.
By Staff writers

Telco/ISP

Apple-Cisco iPhone deal positions firms to jointly pursue Wi-Fi and VoIP
Scheduled for delivery in June, Apple's iPhone will have Wi-Fi capability -- a mobile phone feature that is likely to roil the entire mobile phone landscape..
By Staff writers

Security

Cisco IP phone flaws show vulnerabilities of 'Vo-Fi'
Vendor says flaw could leave a handful of phones at risk of an attack by those able to skirt normal user name and password protections.
By Staff writers

Finance

Consumer Electronic Spending Slowed In 2006
Spending on technology products hit $111 billion in 2006, or 3.6 % more than the year before. But spending in 2005 rose by 7.2% over 2004, the NPD Group said..
By Staff writers

Research/Trends

Despite government data losses, security education spending not growing
Out of an annual IT security budget of US$5.6 billion, the US is spending US$140 million to US$150 million annually on security awareness and training.
By Staff writers

Internet

Google continues to gain search market share
During the same period, Yahoo and Ask lost search market share while Microsoft and AOL gained.
By Staff writers

Applications

Translation software bridges linguistic divide
Converser for Healthcare aims to help those with limited English-speaking ability communicate with English-speaking caregivers in real-time, without an interpreter..
By Staff writers