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Microsoft ‘white spaces’ prototype shuts down, again

Wireless device designed to use vacant frequencies has stopped working and been taken out of the FCC testing process

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Adobe joins Linux Foundation, develops AIR for Linux

Adobe also releases Flex Builder Linux alpha 3, allowing developers to build Flex applications using Linux

Balloting ends for close OOXML ratification vote

Results have not yet been officially announced in the vote to decide whether Office Open XML should become an international document standard

With Vista breached, Linux remains unbeaten in hacking contest

Linux running on a Sony Vaio remained undefeated in a three-way computer hacking challenge that pitted Mac OS vs. Linux and Vista

Top 10 reasons to be paranoid

Every bit of your virtual existence is being monitored — get scared accordingly

WSO2 boosts Spring developers with Web services

Open source framework offered

IBM project seeks privacy controls for users

IBM PrimeLife is researching technologies that would build privacy controls into identity technologies and social networking sites

Hannaford: Malware planted on store servers stole card data

The malware intercepted payment card data as the information was being transmitted from Hannaford's point-of-sale systems and sent overseas

Could worry over Oracle earnings mean deals for customers?

Oracle recently fell short of earnings expectations and its stock price has dropped — factors that could help potential clients at the bargaining table

Enterasys to unveil distributed intrusion prevention package

Distributed IPS will extend IPS capabilities to LAN edge and WLAN 802.11 frequencies to detect threats and mitigate or stop attacks

10 things IT needs to know about Ajax

As Ajax becomes more popular, IT shops will need to watch for security, network performance issues in new Ajax applications

HP’s security plans right on track

Since it has re-branded many of its security products and services as Secure Advantage, HP has seen strong growth in its security business

Web frameworks debated at TheServerSide Java Symposium

Panelists talk up different technologies at conference, citing sweet spots of each

Major Web sites hit with growing Web attack

USAToday.com, Target.com, and Walmart.com among those affected by hackers using Web programming errors to inject malicious code into sites' search results pages

Mac easiest to hack, says $10,000 winner

Charlie Miller, who hacked a MacBook Air in two minutes at CanSecWest, says he attacked the Mac OS because it's more vulnerable than Windows or Linux

Researchers: GSM mobile security on the ropes

At the Black Hat conference, two researchers showed how encryption on a GSM mobile phone call can be broken using cheap off-the-shelf equipment

Top 10: Moto split, Mac hack, Microsoft secrets

This week's roundup of the top 10 IT stories includes Microsoft's ambition to take on Google Apps, a MacBook Air getting hacked in two minutes at CanSecWest, and more

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Votes roll in for ballot on OOXML standard

In ballot due to close on Saturday, 87 national standards bodies have chance to vote on adoption of Microsoft's OOXML as an international standard for office documents

Is the Intel vs. AMD chip war back on?

AMD, pushing out new products this month, is once again showing signs of life, analysts say

A smaller, greener drive

JavaFX Script bringing RIAs to Java

Technology cited for elegance, ease-of-use compared to Swing

How a whitelist can save personal computing

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Microsoft renames CRM Live to ‘CRM Online’

Name change separates consumer line from business offerings

NTT DoCoMo steps towards bio-sensing cell phones

Researchers demonstrate technology that could eventually enable phones to monitor owner's health

Analyst: Money will fuel mobile spying programs

Programs could ultimately become harder to detect, speaker at Black Hat says

Report: Taiwan company in talks to make new iPhone

Apple discussing next-generation device with Han Hoi

SAP retires overlapping BI products

Analyst commends SAP for taking decisive actions, says more is likely to follow

Time to bury big-drive “diskosaurs”

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Utilities explore energy-saving incentives for IT

With datacenter power consumption surging, utility companies are trying to come up with ways to encourage enterprises to go green as much as possible

Programming language renaissance hailed

Speaker at TheServerSide Java Symposium urges developers to try something new

The many overlaps of politics and technology

The realms of technology and politics not only have intersections, they are completely entwined in many ways

Ericsson to boost the H in HSPA

At the CTIA Wireless trade show, Ericsson will demonstrate HSPA Evolution, a speed upgrade from HSUPA

Study sees Microsoft brand in sharp decline

A recent study by CoreBrand shows that Microsoft is rapidly losing credibility and mindshare with business users

Vontu chief touts Symantec deal

Vontu's founder says the DLP company's acquisition by Symantec has not stunted its growth and innovation thanks to merger preconditions

Spring to get upgraded with REST

Due in late summer, next version will also feature unification in programming model between Spring Web Flow and Spring MVC

Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest

CanSecWest's PWN 2 OWN contest was won in 2 minutes — after the rules were relaxed a bit — as Charlie Miller hacked a MacBook Air

Comcast/BitTorrent agreement raises questions

Though some FCC members praise announcement, net neutrality proponents are more skeptical of the partnership

Universities build open-source enterprise applications

Several universities have teamed together to build mission-critical software, which has long been the domain of proprietary apps, on open-source platforms

Oracle buying Web app test tools from Empirix

Oracle plans to make Empirix's e-TEST Web applications testing suite a core component of its Enterprise Manager product

Sun ships servers open to attack

Sun has shipped SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers with disk images that contain unsafe configurations that could allow remote attackers to hijack the machines

GSM gets a bandwidth boost

Dual Carrier EDGE will double the bandwidth GSM base stations offer — but consumers will need new devices to take advantage of the speed boost

Google: Web sites slow to fix serious Flash flaws

At CanSecWest, Google security engineer reveals that hundreds of thousands of Web pages serve up buggy Shockwave Flash files, which could be exploited by hackers

Alcatel routers get terabit upgrade

Alcatel's in-house-developed FP2 chipset will increase the capacity of its routers tenfold

Waste Management sues SAP over ERP implementation

Waste Management alleges that SAP execs' fraudulent sales scheme has cost the trash-disposal giant more than $100 million