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.Asia domains start sale Tuesday

.Asia joins .eu as the only other regional, non-nation-specific domain name

The truth about military- style IT management

Taiwan group expects PRAM chips in three years

Magnetoresistive RAM, another rival to DRAM, may be available by the end of 2008

DRAM price falls 25 percent

Users will benefit from lower DRAM prices, which fell to new low for the year on sluggish demand due to a holiday in China

3Com waiting for details of Bain/Huawei acquisition bid

Bain and Huawei have offered little insight into their future plans for 3Com and how the company will be structured after the acquisition

Sun delivers first UltraSparc T2-based servers

Sun's UltraSparc T2-based servers deliver double the performance and capacity of its predecessor and could cut the number of servers required in datacenters

Update: Sprint chief Forsee resigns

Gary Forsee has resigned as chairman, president, and CEO of Sprint Nextel, effective immediately, as subscribers and revenue for the third quarter decline

Woman ordered to pay for file-sharing will appeal

Jammie Thomas, who was ordered to pay $220,000 for downloading and sharing copyrighted music files, is appealing the case

Gateway plans to buy Packard Bell

The move will be funded by Acer as part of its planned acquisition of Gateway

McAfee to buy SafeBoot for $350M

The acquisition lets McAfee use SafeBoot's encryption products to make further inroads into the 'highly underpenetrated' data protection market, including targeting SMBs

Hacker breaks into eBay server, locks out users

According to eBay, perpetrator was unable to access sensitive information, affected users have been notified, and servers have been restored

Google, IBM promote ‘cloud’ computing at universities

The two tech giants seek to move the large-scale development practice into universities, helping students get experience working on Internet-scale apps

SAP and Business Objects explain strategy shifts

SAP has traditionally shied away from big-ticket purchases, and Business Objects has long maintained its independence, so why did both companies break character today?

When SOAs fail

IT trainer offers master’s degree for hackers

EC-Council University's security science program aimed at helping qualified IT professionals advance their skills and take on high-level industry jobs

VMware to release SMB virtualization kits by year end

The three kits, which VMware is calling 'acceleration kits,' are based on VMware Infrastructure 3 and are designed to be easy to use

Vonage settles Sprint’s patent claim

Dispute resolved, Sprint will license VoIP portfolio to Vonage

Yahoo holds Open Hack Day in India

Developer contest helps search company generate new business ideas

Update: SAP to buy Business Objects for $6.78 billion

Apps vendor will integrate acquired BI tools to enable customers to analyze large amounts of data

MSNBC buys participatory news site Newsvine

Company looking to involve more users by letting them contribute to site

Security is all about information

Merchants: eBay ad programs drive buyers away

Online auction site's revenue nearly doubled but sellers take issue with ads they have to compete against

Japan’s Ceatec ends with record attendance

Show brought in a total of 205,859 people to Makuhari Messe in Chiba

Motorola wins major Taiwanese WiMax contract

Far EasTone tries to best local rivals by taking to the air

iPod Nano catches fire in man’s pocket

Atlanta airport worker says glossy paper may have shielded him from burns

Financial institutions spending on security, governance

Deloitte & Touche's annual survey has found that 98 percent of financial institutions are putting more emphasis — and money — on IT security and governance

Global computer usage, cell phone ownership jump

A new study finds that across the globe, more people are acquiring and using computers and cell phones, though some worry about the down sides to globalization

Despite lawsuits, P-to-P use still growing

Even large jury settlements and the ever-present threat of litigation can't deter people from sharing music as p-to-p site use has grown 8 percent

Visual Studio code analysis heightened

T-shirt shows off Wi-Fi muscle

ThinkGeek is selling a T-shirt with a built-in, battery-powered Wi-Fi signal detector that lights up like a cell phone signal strength indicator when it detects a nearby network

Update: Hackers at Microsoft?! Now wait a minute….

A Microsoft blogger named Techjunkie started a blog dedicated to the white-hat hackers at the company but has since renamed it due to the stigma attached to the word 'hacker'

Plug-in defends against complex Java code

Microsoft offers IE7 to all, pirates included

Microsoft used to run a WGA validation test so that only those with legitimate copies of Windows could download Explorer, but the download is now open to all

Microsoft spins off Bungie Studios

Microsoft will retain an undisclosed equity interest in Bungie, which developed the record-setting Halo 3 video game

Finding an IT mentor

Retail group takes a swipe at PCI

The National retail Federation has fired off a terse letter to the payment card industry regarding disagreements on how to handle credit card data

The top 10 reasons Web sites get hacked

Experts say the people who actually build Web applications aren't paying much attention to security; a non-profit group is trying to solve that

PCI and other breach laws under assault

The National Retail Federation finally ripped the payment card industry's data security standard in public on Thursday, and some experts feel that other pending breach laws are still very much up-for-grabs.

Security analysts closer to improved antivirus software test

Proposal for new testing guidelines, supported by antivirus vendors, will be presented at a conference next month

America’s second techiest city may surprise some

U.S. Census Bureau's annual survey reveals how 'techie' a region's overall workforce is; Silicon Valley and the Washington metro area top the list

France kicks off nationwide spam fight

French government funds development of an open-source toolbar for Microsoft's Outlook and Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail programs that people can use to report suspected spam

RIM targets consumer market with new Blackberry products

Research In Motion reaches out to consumers with its BlackBerry Unite mobile collaboration software and BlackBerry Pearl smartphone

Apple acknowledges iMac graphics glitch; my suggested workarounds

Orange aims to improve GSM coverage for businesses

Orange plans to offer a business version of its mobile-over-DSL technology

The greening of storage

DoCoMo flirts with e-paper for phones

DoCoMo shows off prototypes of a phone with an e-paper keypad that changes icons depending on which application is being used

Defendant found guilty in RIAA suit, hit with $220,000 fine

The RIAA wins in its first digital music file sharing case — an indication it may come out victorious on more of the over 20,000 copyright infringement lawsuits it has filed

Japanese phone features outshine the iPhone

Apple and other handset makers outside Japan have some catching up to do to match the features of KDDI's new Infobar 2 cell phone

Microsoft plays ‘Detective’ to determine phishing frequency

Microsoft's Phish Detective add-on tracks password reuse and finds that about 0.4 percent of Web users per year give up information to phishing sites

IBM product launch eyes smaller businesses

Development and IT management tools are geared to companies with fewer than 1,000 employees