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News: JBoss signs research, services deal with Bull
News: Alcatel sues Microsoft over digital video patents
News: Dell to report Q3 results today despite accounting woes
News: School shoot-out spurs debate on violent PC games
Windows Tip: Robocopy just got better
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: Party like it's 1999
NEWS UPDATES
JBoss signs research, services deal with Bull
French systems and services provider Bull SA has formed a broad partnership with JBoss that could see the Red Hat Inc. subsidiary's open-source middleware used more widely in Europe.
Alcatel sues Microsoft over digital video patents
Alcatel SA has accused Microsoft Corp. of infringing seven of its U.S. patents. The patents describe how to implement fast-forward and rewind functions in digital video streams, among other things.
Dell to report Q3 results today despite accounting woes
Dell Inc. plans to report its third quarter financial results later today once the U.S. stock market closes, after delaying the announcement by nearly a week due to accounting troubles.
School shoot-out spurs debate on violent PC games
A long-simmering debate in Germany about banning violent computer games is burning again after an aloof teenager on Monday stormed his former high school, shot five people and later killed himself.
Akamai to buy Nine Systems for media control
Online delivery service company Akamai Technologies Inc. is buying Nine Systems Corp., a multimedia management service provider, expanding its toolset for online content.
GSM operators team on near field communications
Several mobile phone operators are collaborating on an initiative aimed at achieving a common approach to short-range wireless technology in mobile phones that can be used for contactless applications such as ticketing and billing.
PSP software update coming Wednesday
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. will begin offering a software update for the PlayStation Portable on Wednesday that allows it to interoperate with the recently launched PlayStation 3.
Tacos-for-life for a PlayStation 3
People have pushed and shoved for it, queued overnight in the rain for it and its been sold online at great profit. Now the Taco Bell fastfood chain is offering a "lifetime" of tacos in exchange for a PlayStation 3.
WINDOWS TIP
Robocopy just got better
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises
If you're an IT pro you probably have a few favorite tools that you always rely on. One of my favorites is Robocopy, which has been around at least since the Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit and probably earlier (except my brain is too shot right now to remember -- occupational hazard of being in IT).
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HP offers personalized PC support over the Internet ... Microsoft steps up software-as-service efforts ... Toshiba to ship 8GB SD card
ITWHIRLED
Party like it's 1999
Clear your calendar. Dotcom-style company holiday parties are making a comeback, according to the annual holiday party survey released by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Among the survey's findings: spending will increase an average of 16%, with the additional funds going to alcohol and offsite venues.
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