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The U.S. government-funded TeraGrid project has received the green light to move forward with another stage, one that calls for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh to join the grid, which already links computer centers at four other research facilities and universities.

Government IT workers in the U.S. outscore their private sector counterparts on knowledge of Unix, Linux and Microsoft Corp. software but still lag in networking, databases and Internet technologies, according to a study conducted by a company that tests IT skills online.

Akamai Technologies Inc. announced Wednesday an extension of its service agreement with Yahoo Inc. under which the Internet portal site will continue to use a number of Akamai's e-business infrastructure services.

Novell Inc. on Tuesday announced discount license pricing for businesses and government agencies that use Novell's software to provide Web services to customers and citizens.

A U.S. federal court in Baltimore Tuesday set Oct. 1 as the date for a hearing on whether more than 100 antitrust suits filed by consumers against Microsoft Corp. should be grouped together as a class action suit, according to people who attended the hearing.

Microsoft Corp. has opened key components of Windows by making 289 application programming interfaces (APIs) available for free at the Microsoft Developer Network Web site as the company takes steps to comply with the proposed antitrust settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and nine states.