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Consumers returned to their spending ways in July, providing a dose of hope that the economy will rev up again after a summer lull ...

Circuit City and Verizon Wireless have signed an agreement to create a Verizon Wireless store within each of more than 570 Circuit City stores around the country ...

Plans were announced today for the Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Organization to become part of the global OASIS standards consortium. Through this shift in proprietorship, the DCML Organization could benefit from the OASIS membership base -- more than 3,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members across 100 countries...

FrontBridge Technologies today announced the acquisition of MessageRite to broaden the company's service portfolio to include e-mail and instant message archiving. FrontBridge's existing technologies include inbox management tools such as perimeter-based spam filtering, virus scanning, secure e-mail, policy enforcement and disaster recovery ...

New research from Forrester predicts that spending on IT goods, services and staff will grow 7 percent in 2005 and continue at a similar pace through 2008 -- only slightly faster than overall economic growth. This finding is consistent with the cyclical nature of IT spending, where periods of digestion and refinement follow periods of heavy technology investment...

Aruba Wireless and Ortronics announced they have developed a WiFi wall outlet. Financial details of the development agreement were not disclosed ...

Orion Multisystems has announced two models of the Orion Cluster Workstation, a computing platform for engineering and scientific professionals who need to solve computationally complex problems ...

Ciber today reported that it has signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire, subject to approval by German antitrust authorities, approximately 67 percent of the net outstanding shares of Novasoft AG, a Heidelberg, Germany, international consultancy specializing in implementation of SAP's products ...

Offshore outsourcing of IT infrastructure management is likely to be the next big wave, according to results of a recent survey conducted by Wipro Technologies ...

Microsoft announced it will target broad availability of the Windows client operating system codenamed "Longhorn" in 2006, and make key elements of the Windows WinFX developer platform, which Longhorn provides, available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 ...

The U.S. economy continued to expand in the second quarter, although at a slightly slower rate, and consumer confidence has held up better than expected, according to two reports issued Friday that helped stocks end the week on a positive note ...

ICANN confirmed today that Judge A. Howard Matz of the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, has issued an order dismissing VeriSign's antitrust claims against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- with prejudice. In dismissing VeriSign's antitrust claims, Judge Matz noted that VeriSign had failed in its first amended complaint to sufficiently allege an antitrust claim...

Sprint and SBC Communications today announced a reciprocal WiFi roaming agreement that will provide their customers access to each other's public WiFi networks ...

The Thomson Corporation and KnowledgeNet, a privately held company, have signed an agreement under which Thomson will acquire KnowledgeNet and merge it with its enterprise learning business, Thomson NETg ...

TiVo reported today that it added approximately 288,000 total subscriptions in the second quarter, more than triple the number it added in Q2 of last year. According to TiVo, the company's total installed base has more than doubled to approximately 1.9 million in the past twelve months ...

A spike in initial jobless claims and downbeat earnings news from some companies were enough to keep investors on the sidelines Thursday as Wall Street seemed content to stand pat ...

Finnish telecom provider Nokia announced on Thursday that it had, together with the UK telecom operator Vodafone, formed a mobile service architecture initiative ...

IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Venetica, a privately held company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter. Financial details were not disclosed ...

European antitrust regulators said they will conduct an in-depth review of the proposed acquisition of digital rights management company Contentguard by Microsoft and Time Warner ...

Oil continued its late summer retreat from record price levels Wednesday, falling nearly 4 percent to its lowest price levels in two weeks ...