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PC World - Microsoft is now a sponsor of the Open Source Census, an effort to track open-source installations worldwide.

Reuters - The chief executive of Internet calling company Skype reiterated Monday that his unit enjoyed the full support of parent firm eBay and expressed optimism about the company's potential.

Refined but bloated

The Eclipse Foundation's annual code blitz - this year under the name Ganymede - kicks off at the end of this month with 24 Eclipse projects co-ordinating their new releases.…

Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is expected to support the $5 billion merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio, according to published reports.

Reuters - IBM has joined forces with semiconductor process company Tokyo Ohka Kogyo (TOK) (4186.T) to develop more efficient solar power technologies to cut the cost of the clean energy source, the companies said on Monday.

Mozilla is preparing for the official release of Firefox 3, which will land on June 17. Ars looks at add-on compatibility and some early plans for Firefox 3.1.

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If you're apt to believe it, supposedly a regional HTC GM by the name of Kevin Chen flapped his lips about the first Windows Mobile 7 devices launching in Q109 -- so between six and nine months from now. We reached HTC, which had no (further) comment on the matter, but everything we've seen about 7 so far kind of leads us to believe that 7-based devices launching before next year's Mobile World Congress sounds a bit premature, even if that doesn't necessarily jibe with the MWg roadmap (which promised devices possibly even later this year).

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PC World - EBay will for the first time open up its Selling Manager tool to outside developers at its developers conference this week.