Seems searchasaurus Google has an eye on every business opportunity under the sun. We've already learned that the company is shooting for the moon; now, according to Guardian Unlimited, the company is in talks with mobile-phone maker Orange to spawn a mobile device primed for performing search from anywhere.

According to the report, in which anonymous sources are cited: "their plans centre on a branded Google phone, which would probably also carry Orange's logo. The device would not be revolutionary: manufactured by HTC, a Taiwanese firm specialising in smart phones and Personal Data Assistants (PDAs), it might have a screen similar to a video iPod. But it would have built-in Google software which would dramatically improve on the slow and cumbersome experience of surfing the web from a mobile handset."

Credit Suisse is among those opting to work with Novell under the new agreement

Two banks and an insurance company have accepted Microsoft's offer of technical support for Novell Inc.'s Suse Enterprise Linux.

One of the three, Credit Suisse Group, does not yet use Suse Linux, spokeswomen for the two software vendors said.

Hackers are distributing a file that spoofs the KMS activation tool process

Hackers are distributing a file that they say lets users of the corporate version of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system get around the software's anti-piracy mechanisms.

Windows Vista must be "activated," or authorized by Microsoft, before it will work on a particular machine.

This article in the American Mathematical Society describes Google's PageRank algorithm and how it returns pages from the web's collection of 25 billion documents that match search criteria so well that "google" has become a widely used verb.

Google's PageRank algorithm assesses the importance of web pages without human evaluation of the content. In fact, Google feels that the value of its service is largely in its ability to provide unbiased results to search queries; Google claims, "the heart of our software is PageRank." As we'll see, the trick is to ask the web itself to rank the importance of pages.

According to an unconfirmed report on Web site Ynews, Yahoo Inc. may be in discussions to buy Israeli based Video sharing site MetaCafe for a reported $200 to $300 million. Yahoo representatives contacted by InfoWorld declined to comment on the report, which was opined about on TechCrunch, saying they don't comment on rumor and speculation.

During a presentation at the IEEE Globecom 2006 Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday, Alan Crouch, director and general manager at Intel's Communications Technology Lab told the audience to expect Intel to put a pre-standard version of IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi into its Centrino chips by next year.

New family of chips is Marvell's first rendition of the XScale processor it acquired from Intel

Marvell Technology Group launched a family of chips Wednesday that could speed Web browsing on cell phones, marking the company's first rendition of the XScale processor it acquired from Intel.

IGF aims for consistent identity data across applications

Oracle on Wednesday announced a new project to tackle one of the thorniest problems facing enterprises: the proliferation of sensitive identity information across enterprise networks. Free IT resource

AOL offers new tools for providing PC-to-PC voice communications, adds Java support

AOL is expanding the developer program for its AIM instant messaging network with new tools for providing PC-to-PC voice communications, creating IM robots and detecting users' geographic location, the Dulles, Virginia, company will announce Monday.

San Francisco - After almost two years of testing, IBM says it is finally pulling the covers off DB2 Version 9, the next iteration of its flagship database server, on July 28.

Formerly known by the code name “Viper,” the new version is the result of a five-year effort to re-engineer DB2 to support XML and relational data natively.

Google Browser Sync gives a boost to Mozilla's browser against Microsoft's IE

In another boost to Mozilla, Google has created a tool that lets users synchronize the settings of their Firefox browsers across multiple computers.

New social networking features and support for its lightweight applications called Gadgets are being tested by MSN Spaces users in Australia and the Netherlands

Microsoft plans to give its MSN Spaces blog publishing and hosting service new social networking features, as well as support for the company's lightweight applications called Gadgets..

Changing the chip could lower the price, making it more appropriate for Samsung's target market of students, health-care workers and traveling businessmen

Samsung Electronics America Inc. plans to change the processor in its Q1 Ultra Mobile PC, replacing a chip from Intel Corp. with one from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), according to a published account.

Intel is set to raise AMD's ante by shipping four-core chips in mid-2007, so AMD is still in the main game with this move
 
 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will ship four-core processors for servers, workstations and high-end desktops by mid-2007, company Chief Technology Officer Phil Hester said Thursday.

Office Ultimate 2007 added to Office 2007 lineup

Microsoft Corp. executives often use the word "super" to describe how excited they get about new products, but the company is opting for "ultimate" as the descriptor of choice for new editions of key software releases.Microsoft this week confirmed it has added an Office Ultimate 2007 edition to its list of Office 2007 packages.

OneCare includes software for antivirus, PC tuning, and backup
 
Microsoft Corp. will complete its entry into the desktop security market next week with the general release of its Windows Live OneCare antivirus software.

Microsoft on Tuesday made the WinFX Beta 2 release available with a Go Live license, giving the green light for early adopters to deploy applications in production environments using the WinFX managed APIs.

A Go Live license also is featured for the Windows Presentation Foundation presentation subsystem that is part of WinFX.

The new logo program allows hardware and software companies to label their products "certified" to work with Vista

Microsoft unveiled new programs and technologies Tuesday to allow partners to prepare products to run on Windows Vista once it is available.

Microsoft's money is on releasing all the beta products at once to allow customers to see how the products can be used together

In an unprecedented move, Microsoft simultaneously placed its bet on the release on Tuesday of beta versions of its three major upcoming software releases -- Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Windows Server, code-named Longhorn.

In a meeting with financial analysts about what's next for Yahoo, company executives said it will incorporate user contributions, and extending its reach beyond the PC

In the coming years Yahoo Inc. will focus on seeking and adopting new technologies, incorporating user contributions into its services and sites, and extending its reach beyond the PC.

 

New chips offer high performance with low power consumption

Infineon Technologies moved a step closer to addressing the needs of increasingly feature-rich mobile devices by successfully testing cell phone chips it created using an advanced, 65-nanometer manufacturing technology, the company said on Friday.

The chips, which Infineon says offer high performance with low power consumption, will be available by the end of the year.

Eich reflects on JavaScript's beginnings and its future during keynote presentation at the AJAX Experience conference
 
As it evolves, JavaScript will take its cues from the Python language, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, said at The AJAX Experience conference on Friday afternoon.

There are a number of reasons a site can be banned from Google's increasingly make-or-break indexing.
 
The worst thing is not knowing why? SEOJunkie.com has made freely available its web crawl/analysis tool Google

New ultralight, cellular-connected models sound out HP's mobility push
 
Hewlett-Packard unveiled on Tuesday five business notebooks and initiatives to help corporate users stay connected everywhere they go.