Company says growth rate for cell phone shipments next year will be about 10 percent–half the rate expected for 2006.

Reuters - International Business Machines Corp.
said on Tuesday that it agreed to buy privately held
software maker Vallent Corp. to boost its line of software
offerings.

Star Trek veteran screenwriter says tech is helping game makers “match the look of film and high-definition TV.”

Images: Star Trek warps into Xbox

Saying mobile calls need to be monitored, military leader calls cell service operators “dangerous to the state.”

PC Magazine - The company is launching a blade server with embedded virtualization software and which can use either Intel’s Xeon or Itanium processors.

TechWeb - Developers from the University of Toronto plan to release software this week that will allow residents in restrictive countries to gain uncensored Internet access through friends’ and family members’ home computers.

Oxy Systems says its software allows users to wirelessly sync their PC music collections with their cell phones.

New features of programming language to give customers more connections with other vendors’ applications.

NewsFactor - Microsoft might be forced to stop selling its top software products in South Korea as a result of a patent-infringement ruling made over the weekend against the company.

Study by technology services company convinces the National Assembly that the switch will be cost-effective.

Oracle’s honeymoon with users of the JD Edwards and PeopleSoft software applications is over, according to a new study.

InfoWorld - You can’t blame check point Software Technologies CEO Gil Shwed for looking outside the United States for his company’s latest technology acquisition: Swedish firm Protect Data AB.

AFP - The European Union could be operating a system with a common tax base across member state borders in five years, EU Tax Commissioner Laszlo Kovacs said in an interview with the Financial Times.

AFP - US software giant Microsoft has lost a legal battle with a South Korean firm over its flagship Office software, officials have said.

AP - Bill Hartnett got accustomed to the screaming. As Microsoft Corp.’s manager of software sales to financial services companies, Hartnett used to get pelted with complaints about the security and reliability of Microsoft’s products.

AP - European Union regulators said Microsoft Corp. handed in on time to meet a Thursday deadline information about its Windows operating software that should help other software companies.

City of Birmingham pulls plug on open-source desktop project, but Redmond says it didn’t offer special Windows XP discounts.

Reuters - Quest Software Inc. said on
Friday that its senior vice president of corporate development
resigned after he declined to be interviewed by the special
committee investigating the company’s stock options dating
practices.

Reuters - Mapuche Indians in Chile are
trying to take global software giant Microsoft to
court in a legal battle which raises the question of whether
anyone can ever “own” the language they speak.

AP - European Union regulators said Microsoft Corp. handed in on time to meet a Thursday deadline information about its Windows operating software that should help other software companies.

Carriers and other service providers are poised to give consumers cheap, easy access to personal e-mail on their regular phones.

AFP - The European Commission said that Microsoft has met a key deadline in its antitrust standoff with the US software giant, staving off the threat of further fines.

The one thing I can always count on happening each and every year, besides Nic Cage releasing a movie I hate (congratulations go out to the 2006 entry, Wicker Man… shudder), is going to the movies on Thanksgiving. It’s a family tradition. Big eats and a big movie; a perfect holiday combination. […]

AFP - Vietnam’s leading information technology group FPT has received the green light to list on the communist country’s stock exchange, just days after teaming up with software giant Microsoft.

AP - Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday.

TechWeb - Security researchers have disclosed flaws in the Mac OS X operating system that allow attackers to crash the computer and possibly hijack it.

Reuters - Microsoft is helping law enforcers
hunt down criminals who try to steal bank account details on
the Internet and has initiated 129 lawsuits in Europe and the
Middle East, the software company said.

TechWeb - The peer-to-peer service specializes in sidestepping the attachment size restrictions of many Internet service providers, e-mail services, and e-mail software.

First-round winners in competition, nicknamed the student software-development Olympics, will face off in Seoul.

PC Magazine - Symantec has released the beta version of its newest security software, Norton 360, to help protect consumers from Internet threats, online scams and identity theft.