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VeriSign Inc. has separated its domain registrar services from its infrastructure offerings, pooling them under the Network Solutions brand and relaunching them with a host of new marketing deals and retooled packages.

Renegade software vendor Lindows.com Inc. has unleashed its new Linux-based operating system, promising an affordable Linux offering for the mass market that is compatible with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows file formats.

Internet users may start typing three new suffixes into their Web browsers next year, as the group that oversees the Internet's addressing system has recently said that it will be calling for proposals to create new top level domains (TLDs).

Palm Inc. is licensing keyboard technology from Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices, for inclusion in its new line of Tungsten W high-end wireless handhelds.

E-business technology provider Progress Software Corp. is purchasing XML (Extensible Markup Language) toolmaker eXcelon Corp. in a move that will allow the company to expand its e-business application integration products.

Shares of Motorola Inc. plummeted over 21 percent after the company curbed its fourth-quarter and 2003 earnings outlook.

Yahoo Inc. is rolling out a corporate instant messaging (IM) client that it hopes will elbow out fierce market competitors by offering interoperability with its popular consumer IM product, Yahoo Messenger.

Coming as a one-two punch at the piracy-plagued music industry, Sharman Networks Ltd. Monday released a new version of its popular peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file-swapping software Kazaa.