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How to segregate virtual servers

Protecting virtual servers from each other requires a unique set of security mechanisms

Researchers provide a chill to fan-cooled PCs

Ionic wind engines would work with fans and heat sinks for better air flow and dissipation of heat in laptops

Blindsided! Career disasters I never saw coming

IT pros tell about the backstabbers, career dead ends, and megatrends they never saw coming

High Court: Novell case against Microsoft can go forward

The U.S. Supreme Court denies request by Microsoft to halt an antitrust suit that Novell filed against the company for anticompetitive behavior

Appeals court gives Qwest’s Nacchio a new trial

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that the trial judge erred in preventing a witness from testifying about Nacchio's stockt rading patterns

Primary databases getting bloated

A recent Enterprise Strategy Group study found that most databases are growing at double-digit rates per year and may contain large amounts of inactive data

ValueClick to pay $2.9 million to settle spam complaint

ValueClick agrees to record settlement in FTC complaint that it sent deceptive advertising claims in spam and failed to secure consumers' financial information

Legal challenges to virtual machines

Daily news beat for March 17, 2008

HP airs datacenter makeover plan

HP servers, software, services aimed at energy-efficient, virtualized datacenters

Sweden once again hotbed for file-sharing debate

Swedish Pirate Party says proposed law that would force ISPs to turn over IP addresses to copyright holders 'threatens Swedish rule of law'

iPhone as a platform?

Elpida, UMC team up on chips

Elpida will use UMC production technology to offer contract chipmaking services to other companies in Japan, in direct competition with Toshiba

eBay to take over affiliate program’s management

eBay will migrate roughly 100,000 affiliates away from ValueClick's Commission Junction to its new in-house platform

Update: BMC to buy BladeLogic for $800 million

BMC acquires the maker of datacenter automation software to expand its business service management portfolio

Top 10 security land mines

IBM India develops customer service tool

IBM's new ProAct software technology uses math algorithms to extract business insights from the information gathered during customer service calls and other interactions

‘King of spam’ pleads guilty, faces 26 years in prison

Robert Soloway has avoided fines in the past when found guilty of spam charges, but this time around he may not be so lucky

Update: Google News, YouTube blocked in China amid Tibet riots

China's decision to block access to Google News, YouTube follows similar government censorship of protests by Myanmar

Windows Mobile to get Flash, PDF support

Microsoft licenses Adobe Flash Lite, a rival to its own Silverlight, so Windows Mobile phone users can view Flash content in the Internet Explorer Mobile browser

100,000 customers tell Microsoft to save XP

Executive Editor Galen Gruman explains the real intent of InfoWorld's Save Windows XP campaign and the stakes involved for business and home users. Will Microsoft listen to 100,000 customers?

SpringSource offers SpringSource Tool Suite for Java

Company also joins Eclipse Foundation for open source tooling and development of Eclipse ecosystem

NetBeans beta IDE to ship

Sun cites JavaScript, MySQL links as new features available in NetBeans 6.1

Eclipse to stress component, runtime efforts

Open source foundation's conference this week also to feature Eclipse holdout Microsoft, which is expected to announce a collaboration arrangement

Mono dev tool offered

Sun’s plan for Java on iPhone could hit roadblock

iPhone SDK agreement conditions could prevent use of a Java Virtual Machine on the handheld

Enterprises warm up to SaaS, but concerns remain

A Forrester Research study shows that more companies are ebracing SaaS, but many are still wary of security, cost, and integration issues

House passes surveillance bill without immunity

The Restore Act would re-authorize surveillance programs but would not grant retroactive immunity from lawsuits to telecom companies

Discussing the role of enterprise wikis

In an interview, Socialtext co-founder Ross Mayfield discusses the ways enterprise wikis can help boost productivity and enhance worker communication and collaboration

Straight talk for security pros

At the Source Boston 2008 conference, security professionals debated the best way to communicate security needs and handle upstream problems that may emerge

Top 10: Spitzer falls, Bebo goes to AOL, Gates to D.C.

A look back at this week's biggest stories in case you missed them

Bill would double cap on H-1B visas

Innovation Employment Act would raise number of H-1B visas allowed each year, while also increasing penalties for H-1B fraud

Zend PHP framework upgraded

Zend Framework 1.5 will feature support for Nirvanix, OpenID and InfoCard, Ubuntu Linux, and YouTube

Microsoft OOXML SDK renews standards debate

Are adherents on both sides making the wrong arguments?

9 items to consider about services and orchestration

Infiniband: Back from the dead once again

Just-patched Excel makes calculation mistakes

One of the patches issued Tuesday causes Excel to make incorrect calculations when a Real Time Data source is used

Daily news beat for March 14, 2008

Geek week in review: AOL and Spitzer

InfoWorld News Quiz: A bizarre week

Lawsuit could force RIAA to reveal investigation techniques

The hunted becomes the hunter in Atlantic v Anderson

Motorola wireless LAN adds mesh to indoor networks

Motorola airs 802.11n access point, plus wireless controller

Solving the unsolvable security problem

Microsoft to buy Rapt for ad management tools

Microsoft plans to incorporate Rapt's ad yield management tools and consultancy business into its Atlas Publisher Suite

MySpace apps gallery opens up in test mode

Test version of application gallery gives developers a first look at how their apps behave in the real world in the hands of MySpace members

India may stop short of BlackBerry ban over security

RIM has not commented on the Indian government's demand for easier access to BlackBerry e-mail

Trend Micro hit by massive Web hack

Security vendor Trend Micro removed pages from its Web site and took corrective action after it was the victim of a hack attack that has affected tens of thousands of sites

Report: Microsoft, Yahoo enter tentative discussions

Microsoft and Yahoo execs met for the first time this week to discuss Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid

Infiniband: Back from the dead again?

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