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An industry analyst forecast has Linux shipments slipping a bit more percentage-wise than Microsoft's Windows Server, but Microsoft is feeling the pain of the economy, too, said an analyst who worked on the report.

An Apple online store is set to take preorders of new Xserve servers carrying Intel#39;s new Xeon chips, hinting at launch of the devices in the near future.

iTKO on Thursday is offering an upgrade to its Lisa product for services testing, validation and governance, touting capabilities for Web 2.0 applications and virtualization.

Biomedical informatics researchers at IBM and the Mayo Clinic have launched a new open source consortium focused on natural language processing (NLP), in an effort to help doctors share diagnosis and treatment information.

Platform-as-a-service provider Longjump announced this week that its on-demand Business Applications Platform can now be licensed and used within a customer's four walls.

Amazon.com has launched a hosted service designed to simplify for developers the use of the Hadoop implementation of the MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets in processor clusters.

Hoping to score new business among a rival#39;s customer base, SaaS ERP vendor NetSuite on Thursday pushed its ability to integrate with on-demand CRM vendor Salesforce.com.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini joined a call on Thursday for Group of Twenty (G-20) finance ministers and central bank governors to implement policies that encourage investment in environmentally friendly technologies and agree on a more effective climate treaty, the only head of a major high-technology to sign the letter drafted by the Copenhagen Climate Council.

Satellite launches are a noisy affair especially for the satellite atop the rocket. Vibration and noise, unless compensated, could render it useless before it reaches orbit so researchers spend a lot of time on complex computer simulations that help them insulate the delicate craft. Now those simulations are about to get much more accurate thanks to a new supercomputer that began work this week in Japan.

What was billed as a roundtable discussion for members of the new Symbian Foundation turned into an opportunity for them to lay out the challenges and threats to their fledgling group.

Rackable Systems said Wednesday it plans to buy the assets of bankrupt SGI (Silicon Graphics) for roughly $25 million in cash, and will also assume certain liabilities.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b8832e11c32691a011873b1c06902e91p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b8832e11c32691a011873b1c06902e91p=1//a

Verizon Wireless will join the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) created by China Mobile, Softbank, and Vodafone to help standardize mobile application development and get new software out to mobile users more quickly.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=37115ef07cd114873c44aa6dec026ab2p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=37115ef07cd114873c44aa6dec026ab2p=1//a

Intel on Thursday plans to turn over the reins of its Moblin Linux-based platform project to the Linux Foundation, putting the work in neutral territory in the hopes of attracting more community support for it.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=76caf4dac7be486b40ba0b8759734a32p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=76caf4dac7be486b40ba0b8759734a32p=1//a

As expected, Microsoft Wednesday introduced a version of its Windows Server OS for small businesses with 15 users or less, filling in what the company sees as a gap in its server offerings.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=5a620874e3b5976666b434cf354e4da4p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=5a620874e3b5976666b434cf354e4da4p=1//a

Alcatel-Lucent on Wednesday was set to introduce its Evolved Packet Core (EPC), a set of network components that will help to power the LTE network of Verizon Wireless and other mobile operators.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=04dcfabac4a413cd05ceabe242336d6ap=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=04dcfabac4a413cd05ceabe242336d6ap=1//a

Skype unveiled its iPhone and BlackBerry applications at the CTIA Wireless trade show on Tuesday, taking its VoIP capability into the inner sanctum of mobile operators that still depend on voice minutes for most of their revenue.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3ee1c623373d61afd0862e42fe2527e6p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3ee1c623373d61afd0862e42fe2527e6p=1//a

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it would release quot;very low-powerquot; Shanghai processors within three months, a move that could intensify its ongoing chip battle with rival Intel.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=521faba9490d576c809bd69659e08962p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=521faba9490d576c809bd69659e08962p=1//a

Hewlett-Packard confirmed Tuesday that it is testing Google#39;s Android operating system as a possible alternative to Windows in some of its netbook computers.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=01bc3c84e1660f7a20be6fcf96cd1c55p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=01bc3c84e1660f7a20be6fcf96cd1c55p=1//a

The Fedora Project released a beta of the next version of its free Linux OS with new security, desktop, and developer features that provide a glimpse of the direction Red Hat could take with its enterprise Linux distribution.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=89b274f0e6f3e815eb273aec01870cb4p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=89b274f0e6f3e815eb273aec01870cb4p=1//a

Web 2.0 Expo kicks off Tuesday with the motto quot;the power of less,quot; hoping that thousands of developers, entrepreneurs, managers, and investors in attendance will see Internet technology opportunities within current budget and resource constraints.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=21d4314ff9f99e2bef953e69bfbb5570p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=21d4314ff9f99e2bef953e69bfbb5570p=1//a