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Security

Microsoft Corp. proposed a new structure for self-regulation of online advertising, submitting to the Federal Trade Commission a proposal for a five-tiered system to protect consumers’ privacy. www.microsoft.com

Secure Computing Corporation and Riverbed Technology announced a multi-phased partnership that will provide customers with best-of-breed, comprehensive, and cost-effective technology solutions that enable customers to deliver accelerated data access to enterprise users while protecting critical information and infrastructure from security threats. www.securecomputing.com / www.riverbed.com

Archiving and Compliance

Oracle announced the introduction of Oracle Universal Online Archive, a part of the Oracle Enterprise Content Management product family. www.oracle.com

Wireless

Microsoft Corp. unveiled Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile — a lightweight platform for a variety of mobile devices, which simplifies the development of mobile applications that expose relevant, real-time business information. www.microsoft.com

Portalify and Rohill announced a technology partnership to ensure seamless interoperability between Portalify's data messaging solutions and Rohill's TETRA networks. www.portalify.com / www.rohill.com

Microsoft Corp. has completed its acquisition of Danger, Inc., the company announced. Danger’s expertise in building great, intuitive client software for mobile handsets connected to powerful hosted back-end services fosters rich consumer experiences in communication, media sharing, entertainment and personalization. www.microsoft.com

Miscellaneous

IBM announced first-quarter 2008 diluted earnings of $1.65 per share from continuing operations compared with diluted earnings of $1.21 per share in the first quarter of 2007, an increase of 36 percent as reported. www.ibm.com

NaviSite, Inc. announced an alliance with Intel Corporation to offer a suite of managed services sold through Intel’s value added reseller (VAR) community. www.navisite.com

Linksys entered into an agreement with IBM under which Linksys will incorporate IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files software into the Linksys by Cisco growing small business solutions product and services portfolio. www.ibm.com / www.linksys.com

Microsoft Corp. laid out the next phase in its strategy for the Windows Embedded Business, providing a strategic road map outlining the renaming of its family of products and plans for new solutions in key device categories. www.microsoft.com

Novell announced simplified pricing and discounts throughout 2008 for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM's System z mainframes. www.novell.com

Novell announced the creation of the SUSE(R) Appliance Program to enable independent software vendors (ISVs) to create appliances combining their applications with the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform in one integrated package for end-customer deployment. www.novell.com

Salesforce.com and Google expanded their global strategic alliance to make it easy for companies of all sizes to run their business in the cloud with Salesforce for Google Apps. www.google.com / www.salesforce.com