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As Microsoft releases its Silverlight 2.0 media player tomorrow, it is claiming strong momentum for its free, would-be Adobe Flash-killer.

Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 processor, which should give a performance boost to the Sparc Enterprise Servers that Fujitsu jointly develops with Sun Microsystems.

For a long time, Google has led a largely blissful existence, fostering a widespread perception -- sometimes in direct contradiction to the facts -- that it can do no wrong. Yet the company's controversial Android mobile platform venture threatens to seriously dent this notion, at least with some of the people it needs most.

At the Last Hope hackers conference in New York City it was clear that hackers can be artists, too.

Big news from Nintendo and Sony dominates day two at E3

For three health care centers, the challenge was clear: Find a way to improve internal communications by expanding e-mail accounts to all employees, including doctors, nurses, security staffers, dietary workers and others, without breaking their IT budgets.

After a nine-month, 422-million-mile trip from Earth that began last August, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will catch up to the red planet within hours to begin its three-month science mission.

Meet this year's JavaOne spotlight technology, the same as last year's JavaOne spotlight technology.

Skype has announced a flat rate for international calls, further showing how difficult it is to make money from telephony, according to analysts.

Electronic paper in Japan, Google Maps host videos, divorce via YouTube, NEC's Lui PC, Apple's iPhone comes down in price, Willcom creates the first device based on Intel's Atom, the Library of Congress goes digital experience and Sony recycles TVs.

Notorious open source advocate and author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond brings colorful acumen to any open source discussion. Here's how Raymond views the continually evolving open source landscape.