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The proposed acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe is not a done deal. Both companies are under the scrutiny of the SEC, and it must also be approved by stockholders.

While Macromedia/Adobe gives this process three to nine months, some industry analysts feel that is being overly optimistic.
But assuming that all is goes as planned, Macromedia will cease to exist. Everything will be in the Adobe name and with the Adobe interface.

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"The vast majority of Internet users have had to deal with a slow and insecure browser for too long," says Hakon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera Software, as Opera today announced the highly anticipated new version of its browser, Opera 8 for Windows and Linux.

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MySQL Version 5.0 promises more features that make it much more palatable for database traditionalists, and likely making it more welcome in IT departments, alongside Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase SQL Anywhere. A conference in Santa Clara, CA last week shed more light on how it functions within LAMP as a serious development tool.

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Last week witnessed another case of offshore programmer taking a U.S. company Web site hostage and demanding ransom money. A U.S. company contracted with an offshore programmer to write a corporate Web site received a "final" email from the programmer on Friday who stated that he wanted more money and if not paid he will be disappearing for another two week vacation.

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The Internet is doing many things for which it was not originally intended. Now, IPTV is among the latest ideas transforming the way people receive information and entertainment. But is IPTV the real story here?

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"The product line-up was mature and few new products were launched during the period," Sony Ericsson conceded, as it announced today its Q1 results, including a 61% fall in net profit for the quarter, year-on-year.

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Sun's revenues for the third quarter were $2.625 billion, a decrease of 1.0
percent as compared with $2.651 billion for the third quarter of fiscal 2004. "Break even is a huge move forward from the loss we experienced a year
ago," said Scott McNealy, adding: "We've made over a $1BN improvement in Net Income on a year to date three quarter comparison."

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After dipping from 2.2 million surfers in January to 1.6 million in February, web traffic at the Mozilla website rose 62.5% to 2.6 million in March. This according to the latest Nielsen/NetRatings. It is now estimated that the Firefox browser has a 5% share of the browser market.

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SpikeSource CEO Kim Polese presented a keynote entitled "Coping with Commodities in the IT Marketplace" at the recent Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco. In her speech, she took the "radical" view that software commodization puts power into the hands of more people--and that's a good thing.

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Adobe decided to slight Linux in version 6 of its popular Reader program, which enables millions worldwide to view .pdf files. But Linux support is back in Version 7, according to reports, which is a smart political move if not particularly profitable.