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Fewer chief information officers (CIOs) expect to expand their IT staffs in the fourth quarter of this year, as businesses continue to look for signs of a sustained economic recovery before hiring more full-time employees, a new survey reveals.

Palm Inc. plans to call its handheld computing company PalmOne Inc., following the anticipated spin-off of its OS business later this year.

The U.S. recording industry received a setback in its nation-wide campaign to quash music piracy on the Internet Friday when a federal judge ruled that two universities did not have to comply with subpoenas requesting that they hand over the identities of students who could be illegally sharing music online.

Intel Corp. has been notified that it may have to pay approximately US$600 million in back taxes, plus interest, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Wednesday.

The European Commission (EC) said Wednesday that it is giving Microsoft Corp. a final opportunity to comment before it makes a ruling in its four-year antitrust probe of the software maker.

Members of a European mobile alliance said Friday that they were offering their first new services under the agreement by allowing prepaid mobile phone customers to access voice mail and other home services across a variety of countries.

British mobile phone developer Sendo Holdings PLC said Tuesday that it has dropped its lawsuit against Orange SA regarding disputed smart phone circuit board patents, after reaching a licensing agreement with Orange supplier Texas Instruments Inc. (TI).

Oracle Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming together to offer companies more news and trade information for their corporate portals, intranets and extranets, saying that it is more cost efficient for companies to provide relevant business information in a centralized place.