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WAN accelerator breaks the Gig barrier

The Silver Peak NX-9000 is able to optimize, de-duplicate, compress, and encrypt 1Gbps of WAN traffic

New open source DNS server released

Unbound 1.0 is an open source alternative to the BIND-DNS software that provides better performance and security

EMC appliance discovers virtual resources

EMC's Application Discovery Manager 6.0 can find and manage virtual resources alongside physical servers

Gartner: Top 30 offshore locations for 2008

Report: Google holds meeting on revived Microsoft-Yahoo deal

Google execs met to discuss strategy options for Microsoft's interest in buying some of Yahoo's assets

Mashups are exploding and SOA is along for the ride

Daily news beat for May 20, 2008

Good IT integration gone wrong

Windows 7 will look a lot like Vista

Bangalore’s IT industry faces new hurdle with airport move

Air travellers working in India's outsourcing industry may have to spend two to four hours on Bangalore congested roads to get to and from the airport

WiMax promises to shake up wireless data market

WiMax has two advantages over LTE: It's available today and is free from the hefty royalty charges required for 3G mobile devices and equipment.

First call completed on North Korea’s 3G network

Full commercial 3G service is scheduled to begin in North Korea in the second half of the year

Diamondville-based motherboard on sale for $104

Tranquil touts its Atom-based motherboards as a powerful upgrade to Mini-ITX boards based on Via's rival C7 processor

Application acceleration goes virtual

Certeon unveils an application-acceleration platform designed to run on servers virtualized with VMware and with Microsoft's upcoming Hyper-V technology

Startup launches ‘Internet-scale’ database

Aster Data Systems' nCluster breaks up the various components of a data-analysis workload into multiple tiers, providing greater efficiency

Open source code examined

Coverity finds improvements during project to examine more than 55 million lines of code

Partial Microsoft-Yahoo deal won’t appease investors

Experts say unhappy Yahoo investors bet too much money on MS acquisition of the beleaguered Web company

McAfee anti-fraud researcher charged with fraud

Former VP now facing 11 counts of securities fraud in transactions allegedly totaling more than $1 million

Microsoft’s Ballmer attacked by egg-tosser

Hungarian student hurled insults and eggs at the CEO at a university in Budapest

SEC goes after eight former AOL executives in fraud case

Scheme allowed AOL to fund its own advertising revenue by giving companies money to buy online ads

Use a fake name, go to jail

Center for Democracy and Technology says MySpace cyberbully prosecution goes too far

Google starts third-party tracking on its ad network

Ad servers, rich media ad agencies and research firms can now go through a certification process to make sure their ads comply with Google's standards

Backbase links AJAX, Java

Framework lets Java developers leverage existing skills

Update: Microsoft urges users not to misunderstand UAC, other Vista features

A Microsoft posting attempted to explain the most 'misunderstood' features of Vista: UAC, Image Management, Display Driver Model, Windows Search, and 64-bit architecture

Popular open source spam filter gets boost

New tool from SpamAssassin slows down the transmission of spam into corporate e-mail systems

PayPal plugs cross-site scripting vulnerability

Finnish researcher's discovery finds that even SSL certificate was no guarantee of security

Users report more trouble with Windows XP SP3

Service pack affects remote desktop access feature of Windows Home Server

VMware makes thin client moves

Certification program, new integrated desktop solution are among the company's planned changes

Three virtualization lessons learned

Reduced costs and improved efficiencies were among the benefits gleaned by one company

5 components of an IT economic model

Windows XP Service Pack 3 won’t be available to AMD PCs

AMD's use of disk image created on an Intel-based machine causes problems

Workday revs on-demand ERP

Workday 4.0 gains major new payroll component

Microsoft launches SharePoint planning services

Software Assurance program gives enterprises deployment help for the company's fastest growing server product

Can you trust your data to storage cloud providers?

Amazon, Nirvanix, and others promise easy data storage and infinite scalability for Web companies, but perils such as service outages and security breaches can’t be overlooked

Drop a wiki into a Web page with Wetpaint

Wetpaint lets Web sites embed wikis in their pages, making it possible for anyone to contribute and add content directly on a Web page

Mozilla launches Firefox 3.0 RC1 early

Open-source browser moves a step closer to its first major overhaul in nearly 19 months

Daily news beat for May 19, 2008

38 in U.S., Romania charged in phishing schemes

Complicated Internet phishing schemes were used to steal thousands of credit and debit card numbers

Could Google’s ‘dataspaces’ reshape search?

'Dataspaces' concept, which stems from the work of Google researcher Alon Halevy, could take search technology and content processing to another level, analyst claims

The future of enterprise search

Future search systems will get to know the user as much as the content they crawl, analyzes, and indexes

Update: Mass SQL injection attack targets Chinese Web sites

Attack has implanted malware in thousands of Web sites in China and Taiwan

Review: Dell and HP workstations

Fujitsu security system targets employee tailgating

Video surveillance system will not allow a second person to tailgate authorized employees into secure areas without authentication

InfoWorld’s top 10 tech startups

Researchers find new ways to steal data

Clear Shot analyzes video of hand movements on a computer keyboard and transcribes them into text, giving hackers new tools

You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master

Google defends helping police nab defamer

Google gave police information about a user who allegedly posted vulgar content about one of India's top political leaders on Google's Orkut social networking site

Analysts: Microsoft likely eyeing Yahoo search assets

Microsoft seems to have rethought its plan to buy all of Yahoo

‘Tukwila’ Itanium servers due early next year, Intel said

Quad-core processor will roughly double the performance of Intel's current, dual-core version of Itanium

EDS buy could give HP edge over Dell, analysts say

HP's acquisition of EDS could affect Dell's chances of getting larger services contracts because EDS' operations will be geared more toward HP's hardware offerings