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Palm Inc. laid off about 50 people at its hardware unit on Thursday in response to declining demand for handheld computers, a company spokesperson said Friday.

A Dutch company, hoping to capitalize on a year-old Dutch court ruling that legitimized file-swapping services in the Netherlands, plans to offer software and a home base to file-sharing service providers. However, experts wonder if the Netherlands is really a file-sharing haven.

As part of a marketing campaign for its upcoming Centrino brand for mobile PCs, Intel Corp. will promote wireless Internet access at Marriott International Inc. hotels together with the hotelier, Intel and Marriott said Thursday.

Oracle Corp.'s 9i Application Server is the first to meet compatibility standards for electronic sharing of business data as set by the RosettaNet consortium, Oracle said Wednesday.

Microsoft Corp. posted the second beta of Office 2003 to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site on Wednesday, only to pull it a few hours later.

Microsoft Corp. must take an approach that favours and embraces the diversity of open source software or face oblivion, David Stutz, a departing Microsoft executive wrote in his farewell letter to the company.

Oracle Corp. is patching four security flaws in its database software and two in its application server, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to take complete control of a system running the software, experts warned

Oracle Corp. is patching four security flaws in its database software and two in its application server, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to take complete control of a system running the software, experts warned.