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(InfoWorld) - Google has acquired Measure Map, a company that provides usage and traffic analysis for blogs, for an undisclosed amount.

(InfoWorld) - Sun Microsystems on Wednesday is releasing a beta version of the next desktop version of Java, codenamed Project Mustang and officially known as Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6).

(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has appointed former MSNBC chief John Nicol to infuse the company's MSN portal with more multimedia content and make it more appealing to online advertisers. But with MSN rapidly being overshadowed by the company's Web-based services branded under the name "Live," some analysts are scratching their heads as to what exactly lies ahead for the MSN portal.

(InfoWorld) - VeriSign Inc. is rolling out a new beta service for financial institutions to help protect online bankers against the growing threat of identity theft, officials said Thursday.

(InfoWorld) - Avanquest Software is adding fuel to the burgeoning iPod accessory market with the launch of six new software titles designed to provide multimedia editing and content, as well as organizational tools to a growing number of users.

(InfoWorld) - Though the new head of Microsoft's MSN division has been calling the company's MSN portal "MSN Media Network" internally, Microsoft has no formal plans to rebrand the site, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Thursday.

(InfoWorld) - The Internet industry needs to create "self-regulatory regimes" and come up with new technologies to battle online dangers such as spyware, said Deborah Platt Majoras, chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday.

(InfoWorld) - Amazon.com Inc. is considering adding a sponsored links element to its affiliates program, a move by the giant online retailer into the world of paid search, the ad market that has fueled Google Inc.'s astronomical revenue growth in the past several years.

(InfoWorld) - A Microsoft contest to guess Windows Vista's ship date hints that the product's release date could be Dec. 1, though the company itself is remaining characteristically mum on the topic.

(InfoWorld) - Blogs and wikis have moved past the flashy tech bling phase and are now settling in as core elements of the enterprise collaboration infrastructure. Two enterprise content management vendors are helping drive this evolution, bolstering their platforms with security and auditing functions designed to preserve the sparkle of blogs and wikis while making the content safe for the enterprise.

(InfoWorld) - Broadband providers need the right to enter into commercial agreements that allow some Web sites to perform better than rival sites, a BellSouth Corp. executive said Wednesday.

(InfoWorld) - With new U.S. federal guidelines looming, the Liberty Alliance says that it is months away from explaining the role it will play in developing stronger online authentication specifications. The identity standards consortium now says that the first public documents from its recently formed Strong Authentication Expert Group are expected by the end of September.

(InfoWorld) - BMW denied that it used misleading practices on its German Web site and criticized Google Inc. for removing the German BMW Web site from its index, despite the re-inclusion of the site late Tuesday.