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Evan Schuman: Microsoft to Start Selling Vista at Retail Jan. 30

News: RFID Maker Licenses IBM's Clipped Tag Technology

News: eBay in Pact with Baidu to Fend Off Chinese Rivals

News: AOL Buys Financial News Search Company Relegence

News: HP, SAP Ink Deal to Better Optimize Apps on Hardware

News: 'YooTube' Videos Pack Zango Adware Punch

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Evan Schuman: Retail Industry Update
Microsoft to Start Selling Vista at Retail Jan. 30
Microsoft to Start Selling Vista at Retail Jan. 30 Microsoft's Windows Vista, the software giant's first major upgrade of its operating system in five years, is complete and will be available to retail customers Jan. 30, a senior executive said. Plagued by a series of development delays, Windows Vista is front and center of a new product cycle at the world's largest software maker that includes a new version of its Office business software suite.

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News: RFID Maker Licenses IBM's Clipped Tag Technology
Paul Moskowitz, a Ph.D. researcher at IBM's Watson Research Center, believes security is definitely an issue with RFID-tagged goods. Along with his colleagues, Moskowitz has invented what's referred to as Clipped Tag technology to help solve some of those basic security issues. IBM, commercializing Moskowitz's work, announced Nov. 8 that it will license the Clipped Tag technology to RFID tag and label manufacturer Marnlen RFiD--the first manufacturer to license IBM's technology, which was announced earlier this summer. Marnlen will began producing and marketing the technology immediately. Get the details

News: eBay in Pact with Baidu to Fend Off Chinese Rivals
Chinese Web search leader Baidu and Eachnet, the Chinese auction site of eBay, said they had expanded their partnership, one of three such alliances in the world's second biggest Internet market. Under the agreement, Baidu will promote PayPal Beibao, the online payments service of eBay in China, and will become the exclusive provider of text-based search advertising on the Eachnet auction site. Learn more

News: AOL Buys Financial News Search Company Relegence
AOL said it has purchased Relegence, a company specializing in financial news and information search technology. Privately held Relegence offers subscription services that provide readers with real-time notification and delivery of financial information to their desktop computers. The company was founded in 1999 and has 60 employees in offices in New York, London and Tel Aviv. Read the story

News: HP, SAP Ink Deal to Better Optimize Apps on Hardware
What do "Shrek 2" and SAP have in common? A lot, according to Hewlett-Packard. The infrastructure hardware company announced that it will collaborate with SAP on research aimed at improving the efficiency of HP systems running SAP software--or software components, as the case may be. HP Labs developed technology to help DreamWorks, the studio that created the "Shrek" movies, scale its rendering capabilities by moving the necessary computing resources off-site to HP Labs. Rendering for "Shrek 2"--the process that converts animators' computer-generated wire models into finished frames by adding details like color, light and texture--required a data center with 500 HP servers connected to the DreamWorks studio. Find out more

News: 'YooTube' Videos Pack Zango Adware Punch
Just days after announcing a $3 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, adware firm Zango is again facing scrutiny for shady installation practices. The company, born out of a merger between Hotbar and the heavily criticized 180 Solutions, is being linked to fake adult-themed YouTube videos floating around the MySpace social network. Check it out

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