Microsoft hinted that it might keep the software and hosted architecture built by Danger, the mobile company that designed the software behind the Sidekick. The software giant announced the completion of its acquisition of the mobile developer on Tuesday.

Sun pushed out a "near final" version of MySQL 5.1 on Tuesday, but is holding back the production release of the open-source database until it irons out some remaining bugs, officials said Tuesday.

Three lawmakers complained Tuesday that Google "maneuvered" its way into an open wireless network without having to come up with a winning bid in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) recently completed 700MHz spectrum auction.

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Microsoft's system to thwart automatic registrations of e-mail accounts leads to "a false sense of security," according to two researchers who have developed a low-cost way to break the security mechanism.

Curl plans to unveil next week a beta version of a runtime tool that it said will help large organizations extend RIAs (rich Internet applications) to run on the desktop.