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Comcast, BitTorrent to work together on network management

After drawing criticism for slowing down customers' connections to P-to-P services, Comcast will work with BitTorrent to devise a better network management strategy

Microsoft vs. Apple: Who patches zero-days faster?

Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have found that Apple lags behind Microsoft when it comes to patching zero-day flaws

Eyewitness to H-1B scammers

Daily news beat for March 27, 2008

5 green ways to recession-proof your business and reap ROI

SPARC’s still got some kick

Dirty little secret of multi-core chips

Ethical hacker group to counter ‘black PR’

GNU Citizens antiblack PR project rivals its work on security research, spokesperson says

Professor: Computers plus people equals risk

Ian O. Angell says to expect uncertainty and be careful while crunching data

SAS snags Teragram

BI vendor gets natural language processing, linguistic technology

Man sentenced for theft of drive with 1 million bank records

In one of largest bank breaches to date, accessed gets prison sentence, is ordered to pay back fradulent withdrawals

AMD introduces new Phenom chips

Chipmaker details first triple-core processor

India’s entertainment industry laments piracy losses

Groups call for tighter controls, government refuses to meet industry demands

Hacker Super Bowl pits Mac OS vs. Linux, Vista

To garner the $20,000 purse, hackers have to win with a zero-day attack that's never been seen before

Adobe releases free Web-based Photoshop beta

Flex-based Photoshop Express brings ease-of-use features

Amazon adds resilience to cloud computing service

Two new features make failover, address management easier

Asustek’s new Eee PC to sport multitouch trackpad

First editions will hit some markets by June

ESB alternative cited for SOA

Resource-oriented architecture touted

Rambus wins memory patent trial

An appeals court has ruled that Rambus did not engage in anticompetitive behavior or violate antitrust laws related to on-chip memory technology

Motorola to go broad with CTIA debuts

Motorola's expected product announcements at the CTIA Wireless trade show will be for both Wi-Fi and WiMax

Researcher: Apple to weather recession better than rivals

Consumers are slowing down PC purchasing, but Apple will not see the drop in market percentage that other manufacturers are likely to face

Update: Microsoft prepares ‘Albany’ to compete with Google Docs

Albany will combine Office, Office Live Workspaces, Windows Live OneCare, and the Windows Live suite of services as a package of productivity and hosted apps

Java performance improvements touted

Technologists acknowledge previous shortcomings but point out that Java's performance now equals or tops apps developed in C

IT leaders’ pay increases, but job satisfaction plummets

Research from the latest Harvey Nash CIO survey also reveals IT leaders feel less influential inside their companies

Leveraging Web 2.0 safely in the enterprise

Many employees have turned to Web 2.0 services to help complete their work, but the integration of Web 2.0 into workflow must be done carefully

Service aims to mine social networks for consumer insight

Networked Insights crunches social network data to draw insights into factors ranging from its customers' brand recognition and reputation to a user's relative 'influence'

Startup secures virtual machine traffic

Montego Networks' technology creates a firewall-like effect for filtering traffic between virtual machines

Microsoft SharePoint taking business by storm

The versatile Microsoft server may not be perfect, but it is attracting interest as tool to address anything from collaboration to process management

Verizon: Cable operators slowing switch to FiOS

Verizon accuses cable operators of not meeting standards when transferring phone numbers and not allowing competitors to file disconnect notices for consumers

Attacks pushing Web controls

With the sheer number of attacks looming on the Web, more customers than ever are shutting down access to non-work sites and applications

Hello, gorgeous! Meet the laptop you’ll use in 2015

We'll still carry laptop computers in the year 2015, but they might look significantly different, and their innovations and capabilities will surprise and delight you

Selling management on unlocked desktops

Daily news beat for March 26, 2008

Cable companies in talks to fund WiMAX

Time Warner, Comcast investing in company to create nationwide 3G network, according to reports

Test Center review: Ultimus Adaptive BPM Suite 8

CIOs warn that hosted software is not a panacea

Tech leaders call for same due dilligence, evaluation IT would give traditional software

AMD is ready to scale you up

AMD is ready to scale you up

Nokia and Samsung winners with Motorola split

Analyst says that in the long run, Motorola can stage a comeback

Source: Nvidia to make graphics chip sets for Via processors

Teaming with Nvidia gives Via access to cutting-edge graphics

Oracle offers clustering for Linux

Oracle Clusterware for Unbreakable Linux is being separated from company's RAC product for databases

Hackers seize on Excel vulnerability

Web server is hosting malicious file, infected users could get redirected to it

Update: Motorola to split in two

Reorganization mirrors moves Nokia, Ericsson have made

IBM pushes cloud computing to universities

Big Blue aligns with Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University on autonomic initiative

Vyatta unveils open source appliance for SMBs

The Vyatta 514 is a networking appliance that combines the company's open source routing and security software with a small-form-factor hardware platform

Microsoft admits it knew about, but didn’t patch, bugs

Microsoft's security team acknowledged that it knew of bugs in its Jet Database Engine as far bask as 2005 but did not patch the problems because of other fixes in place

Red Hat: Open source benefits from U.S. unpopularity

Foreign countries do not want to pay U.S. 'IP taxes,' Red Hat President/CEO Jim Whitehurst says

Pumped-up beta of Blist’s online database goes public

Blist's Excel-like, SQL-inspired online database is designed for users who are unfamiliar with relational databases and features many new ease-of-use features

Citigroup: Microsoft likely to raise bid for Yahoo

A Citigroup Investment Research analysts believes that rather than let the deal fall apart, Microsoft will increase its buyout offer for Yahoo

Amazon’s cloud computing service fuels startup’s launch

Elastra's software for building database management systems will be deployed on top of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service