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Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will take the next crucial step in a four-year-long battle over software patents within the European Union (E.U.) on Wednesday, when they hold a decisive vote on a proposed E.U. law, or directive, on computer-implemented inventions (CII). The proposal has been dubbed the "software patent directive" by its opponents.

Sleepycat Software is looking seriously at setting up operations in Asia and has ambitious hopes for its XML (Extensible Markup Language) and Java embedded open-source databases. The company introduced version 2.0 of its Berkeley DB Java Edition (JE) Monday.

Juniper's Infranet Initiative has been dissolved, replaced by another council staffed and funded by its members, including Cisco and Alcatel, that seeks to develop a business-friendly IP service infrastructure.

The European Commission has no plans to withdraw a controversial proposal on the patents for computer-implemented inventions, Commissioner for the Information Society Viviane Reding said Wednesday.

The Hungarian man sentenced to three years in prison for industrial espionage after hacking Ericsson and Sony Ericsson intranets last week appealed that sentence.

MySQL plans improvements in areas such as tables, replication, and partitioning with upcoming versions of the its database clustering product, a company consultant said at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 event in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday.

Swedish authorities formally charged a 26-year-old Hungarian man with industrial espionage on Tuesday, charging him with hacking into the Sony Ericsson and Ericsson intranets.

The 3G Partnership Project - a consortium of 200 wireless vendors and operators - has begun a study to determine the feasibility of defining a standard that supports wireless downlink speeds as high as 100Mbps.

After launching two of the world's first Linux smart phones, China's E28 is now offering handset manufacturers the opportunity to license its software and hardware designs based on the increasingly popular open-source operating system.

IT services and hardware vendor Unisys has joined the nonprofit Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a move that comes as the company continues to expand its involvement in Linux and open-source products. The OSDL is a global consortium working to accelerate the adoption of Linux in corporate computing.

IBM has announced a new software strategy, with accompanying products, designed to circumvent Microsoft's lock on operating systems and productivity applications.