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Sun Niagara 2: The eight-core sequel

Sun calls its new processor, which features eight cores supporting 64 threads of processing capacity and chip multithreading, a 'server system on a chip'

Mozilla: 10-day patch guarantee ‘not our policy’

Browser maker rescinds executive's pledge made during late-night festivities at Black Hat conference

Amazon invests in music service Amie Street

Looking toward the launch of its own digital music store later this year, online retailer invests in Amie Street, which sells DRM-free music on the Web

FTC to examine targeted advertising

An open house on the security and business practices of targeted advertising is scheduled for November 1-2

Microsoft, NASA offer 3D photos of Endeavour

NASA gave Microsoft 'unprecedented' access to the space shuttle, allowing the company to take pictures that will then be used in Photosynth 3D renderings

Running Windows on Macs becomes a race with VMware Fusion out of the gates

Desktop virtualization leader VMware takes aim at main Windows-on-Mac rival Parallels

Separating data from the UI

Apple plans iMac desktop upgrade

Apple is expected to announce a new generation of iMacs with a slimmer design, industry watchers say

Wipro to acquire US services provider Infocrossing

Indian outsourcer to pay $600 million to provide better hosted and managed IT infrastructure services

Nokia Siemens joins Linux Foundation

Nokia Siemens joins Linux Foundation

NY Times reveals Forbes editor as ‘Fake Steve Jobs’

Senior editor with Forbes magazine posed as Apple CEO for more than a year on a popular satirical blog

Impact of Samsung power outage less than feared

Production lines are back up, easing fears of disruption in supply of NAND flash memory chips to iPhones and other devices

Wikiversity eyes strong growth over next few years

Wikimedia Foundation project is creating a free learning community that provides educational materials and courses online

Wikipedia: Baidu may be worst copyright violator

Wikimedia has no plans to sue Baidu, but is asking the Chinese search company more publicly to respect its copyright license

Lenovo to sell $198 PC in China

New Lenovo PCs are designed to make computer ownership available to 3 million new, rural Chinese users

Nokia to use Microsoft’s PlayReady DRM software

By licensing Microsoft's latest DRM software, Nokia gives its service providers a greater choice of copy protection

Mozilla vows to patch any critical flaws in 10 days

Security experts say Mozilla may find it difficult to keep the 10-day promise

IBM Information Server Blade does data integration

Appliance-like blade system with Information Server reconciles and integrates data from multiple sources

Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist

Congressional committee to investigate whether Yahoo lied during testimony over its role in a human rights case in China

Should you ever take a pay cut?

Websense lures Web 2.0 attackers with HoneyJax

Threat detection system is designed to root out attacks on social networking sites, blogs, and wikis soon after they are launched

Open source lands in the enterprise with both feet

Major business applications on Linux turns OS into a  commodity

California tightens security rules on e-voting machines

California's Secretary of State officially decertified three voting systems, then recertified them with a number of conditions added

Update: Dateline NBC ‘mole’ outed, booted at Defcon

In a story of betrayal worthy of an episode of Dateline NBC, undercover producer Michelle Madigan was exposed and forced out of the conference on Friday

Defcon hacking conference infiltrated by ‘media mole’

Defcon organizer Dark Tangent claims that a producer from Dateline NBC is at the conference with a hidden camera

Texas company files suit against Microsoft, Adobe

Aloft Media is suing Microsoft and Adobe for infringing on patents related to the GUI that displays URLs in a Web browser

Kittens — the solution to spam?

In an effort to stay ahead of spammers, Microsoft is experimenting with technology that asks users to identify a picture subject before they can create a Hotmail account

Mozilla shares scanning tool, Firefox 3 features

Company reps highlight measures against malware contained in both releases, but also cite goal of fostering more secure coding practices among programmers

Data leak products have security risks

At the Black Hat conference, Matasano researchers presented research showing that many security products introduce new flaws to a system

Study: IRS security vulnerable to social engineering

Sixty percent of IRS employees fell for a 'social hack' in which a caller pretends to be a help desk worker and asks the employee to change their password

IBM to buy Princeton Softech

IBM will add Princeton Softech's data archiving and privacy compliance monitoring software to its data management arsenal, expanding its Information on Demand strategy

Companies of all sizes going green

Green IT practices are taking hold everywhere from big bellwether companies like Xerox to SMBs like Useful Corp.

The realities of green computing

Many companies are touting their green business practices, and while e-cycling and other green programs are increasing, e-waste remains a major global issue

Cringe: MS is millipede of software makers

SIA: Price cuts hurt chip revenue in first half of year

Semiconducter revenue growth was just 2.1 percent for the first half of 2007 as price cuts ans excess inventory benefit consumers but hurt vendors

Business Objects tries Web 2.0, gets mixed reviews

BI 2.0 prototype tools seen as creative, just not necessarily valuable

IBM to bury BlackIce by next year

Big Blue says it will stop offering desktop and server protection for consumers

U.S. man sentenced to two years on copyright violations

Timothy Hall also gets $1,200 fine

Black Hat tilts toward business users

Corporate IT managers comprise an estimated 42 percent of hacker confab attendees

EC lists roaming slowpokes

Not all of the European Union's mobile phone operators have complied with a price cap on cross-border phone calls

iPhone memory chip supply could be disrupted by power outage at Samsung plant

Power outage halts Samsung production and could lead to a severe shortage of NAND chips, analysts say

Nissan turns to high-tech to stop drunk driving

Prototype high-tech sensors are part of Nissan's Vision 2015 plan to halve deaths in accidents that occur involving its vehicles

IT can’t help users

Acer trails in China despite global growth

Acer has gained ground against top competitors in Europe and North America, but its revenue in China declined 16 percent

Virus attack on single e-voting machine could tilt election

Review of Deibold's source code shows an attacker with access to a one electronic voting machine could change the outcome of an election using viruses

Update: Microsoft cuts Windows Vista price in China

Chinese users have long complained that Microsoft's software prices were unrealistically high, given local incomes

Open source joins the mainstream

LinuxWorld Conference attendees are judging open source software by the same criteria they judge proprietary software, opening up more opportunities

Google phone won’t be about “voice ads”

VCs see tight market for security startups

According to Black Hat Conference attendees, security had been a hot market, but overcrowding and less-than-anticipated return on investment have cooled investors