Google cancels party after eBay yanks ads ... Sun's Schwartz wants sit-down with Torvalds ... Linspire signs patent deal with Microsoft

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News: Global chip sales growth sputters, estimate slashed
News: Linspire signs Linux patent deal with Microsoft
News: Sony Ericsson to unveil 9GB Walkman mobile phone
News: Azul turbocharges its 'computing appliance'
News: Gartner: Two-year timebomb for ad-hoc multisourcing
News: Schwartz to Torvalds: Dinner at my place?
News: After eBay pulls ads, Google cancels offending party
News: McAfee readies enterprise e-mail, Web appliances
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Global chip sales growth sputters, estimate slashed
The global chip market is suffering from falling prices in microprocessors and memory chips, bad news for companies but great for users.

Linspire signs Linux patent deal with Microsoft
Linspire Inc. has signed an intellectual-property agreement with Microsoft Corp. that shields the Linux company's customers from patent claims.

Sony Ericsson to unveil 9GB Walkman mobile phone
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB will launch late Thursday in Berlin six new phones, including a high-end Walkman-branded handset with around 9G bytes of internal Flash memory, according to a company spokeswoman.

Azul turbocharges its 'computing appliance'
Azul Systems Inc. is doubling the capacity of its "computing appliance," a device that uses multiple multicore processors and is a departure from the typical server-based approach to large scale computing.

Gartner: Two-year timebomb for ad-hoc multisourcing
Australian organizations are sitting on multisourcing time bombs as they manage at least six concurrent outsourcing contracts at any given time that were created on an ad-hoc basis.

Schwartz to Torvalds: Dinner at my place?
A day after Linux creator Linus Torvalds publicly questioned the authenticity of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s interest in serving the open-source community, Sun Chief Executive Officer and President Jonathan Schwartz invited Torvalds for a sit-down over dinner to discuss how Sun and the overseers of the Linux kernel can join forces.

After eBay pulls ads, Google cancels offending party
A contrite and repentant Google Inc. canceled a party that irked eBay Inc. and that a source said led eBay to remove all of its ads from Google's U.S. network earlier this week.

McAfee readies enterprise e-mail, Web appliances
McAfee Inc. plans to deliver more scalable versions of its e-mail and Web security appliances, designed for enterprise users.


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