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Getting into the Groove

Test Center guide: Mail security appliances

Rumors swirl of Citrix takeover by IBM or Cisco

Citrix's stock is trading heavily amid rumors that IBM or Cisco will purchase the application delivery vendor

Yahoo acquires IndexTools’ Web analytics business

Yahoo makes its second significant move of the week amid Microsoft's continued takeover attempt

Microsoft: A security force to be reckoned with?

Feds tout slow cyber-security gains

Congress, White House eliminate some barriers, but several issues remain unaddressed

Yahoo adds video to Flickr

Video on Flickr provides an easy solution for users to share videos, shot by still cameras, camcorders, and camera phones, as well as photos

Intel creates $500M investment fund for China

Intel Capital's new fund will invest in Chinese companies across a range of sectors, including wireless broadband, media, and telecommunications

Adobe debuts Media Player, video content

Adobe becomes the latest player to get into the online video space

Microsoft’s really tough strategic challenge, and the straitjacket it created for itself

As Storm fades, botnet fight goes on

RSA panelist says the botnet problem is worse than ever, despite the FBI's war against cybercrime

Eclipse promotes innovation networks

Partners, customers, competitors would work together as a research and development team, official says

Chertoff: DHS project will lock down federal computers

At the RSA conference, DHS head Michael Chertoff discussed the 'reverse Manhattan Project' to secure U.S. government computer systems

Microsoft: Smarter IDs needed for Net gains

Company says it can't solve the electronic world's ills alone and must have broader support from IT and Internet communities to speed up improvements in online security

Microsoft patches critical bugs in Windows graphics system

This month's security bulletin includes five critical patches for Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office

Web users in malware crosshairs

As online malware grows in sophistication, it is being run more like an industry — an increase in efficiency that means more malware is produced now than legitimate code

Update: EMC to buy Iomega for $213 million

Iomega will form the core of a new consumer and small-business products division at EMC

Tips for social computing in the enterprise

Implementing Web 2.0 tools can lead to better collaboration and productivity at your business and can help you attract the next generation of workers

Microsoft’s strategic challenge

Multicore, clouds, social nets top disruptive list

At Gartner's Symposium ITxpo, analysts are presenting a list of the top 10 'disruptive technologies' that will reshape the IT landscape between 2008 and 2012

U.S. reaches 2009 H-1B visa cap

The H-1B cap for fiscal 2009 was reached one week after the USCIS started accepting applications

Microsoft security maturing fast

With release of its Stirling security management platform, company officials and industry watchers say Microsoft is proving itself a force to be reckoned with in the sector

Google, IBM, Sun cite developer outreach

But Sun official emphasizes caution in being open

Tech companies, One Economy launch broadband program

Project's backers say broadband can bring educational and business opportunities to low-income areas

Microsoft: Let’s talk about trust

At the RSA conference, Microsoft laid out a road map for the next generation of secure systems but said it needs industry-wide cooperation to make it happen

The message Yahoo’s not getting

Daily news beat April 8, 2008

Microsoft releases some of promised Office documentation

Preliminary documentation on Microsoft Developer Network shows how several Office business products interact with each other

DHS to offer backdoor increase to H-1B visas?

Final rules from Homeland Security could be a way around H-1B visa cap

Microsoft builds first major container-based datacenter

Containers filled with preconfigured, ready-to-run servers are being touted as a quicker, more modular way to expand datacenters on the fly

On laptop abuses and follies

Powerchip breaks ground on $8.23 billion chip plants

Powerchip moves ahead with two new advanced factories for DRAM and flash memory chip production despite an ongoing chip glut

Changing of the SaaS guard

Struggling to find an XP PC? Consider these options

I didn't want Vista — I see no need to learn the new interface or have any of my apps stop working — so my choices were limited. And I didn't want to play the downgrade game.

LG teases latest ‘Black Label’ cell phone ahead of launch

The latest style-focused LG product is a slider-type handset with a 5-megapixel camera that will launch April 24

Mainsoft supports Microsoft technology for Java, Linux

Visual C# and Visual Basic developers can use ASP.Net 2.0 components from Microsoft to build Java pages

IBM confident of victory in patent spat with Asustek

IBM claims its patents have been infringed by Asustek has asked the ITC for an injunction banning the importation of certain Asustek equipment

DLP goes ‘lite’

When roses won’t do, e-mail a fragrance

NTT Communications will test a service that allows users to send fragrances from their cell phones

Cisco, EMC extend security partnership

Cisco and EMC plan to jointly develop integrated products, services, and best practices to ensure the security of sensitive enterprise data

HP unveils application modernization tools

Hewlett-Packard beefs up its set of modernization tools for visualizing the composition of legacy code and announces a 'Modernization Factory' program

IBM’s project Phantom to lock down virtual machines

New attack prevention project aims to lock down the hypervisor software that IBM systems use to manage virtual machines

IBM updates high-end servers, returns to water-cooling

Big Blue's most powerful Unix server to date will be based on a new Power6 processor

Google offers to host services for free on App Engine

Google's App Engine will compete with similar services such as Amazon's EC2 and Salesforce's AppExchange

HP ships ultraportable laptop with Via, not Intel, inside

HP says it chose Via's C7-M processor because it met the thermal requirements needed for the Compaq 2133 laptop — and because it was ready

Google launches app-hosting service

Microsoft to resume Vista ‘endless reboot’ update Tuesday

Microsoft will resume automatic distribution of the Windows Vista update using a corrected version that eliminates the rebooting issues

Web page can take over your router

At the RSA conference, researcher Dan Kaminsky will show how a Web-based attack could be used to get behind the firewall and seize control of widely-used routers

Amazon Web Services has another outage

Amazon's cloud computing service was down for more than an hour Monday morning, and the company moved quickly to placate users and restore the service

Nokia readies iPhone response

Company's 'Tube' device would be touch-based and feature Java support