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Long lines, pillaged food stations– Welcome to Black Hat!!

Black Hats, White Togas. The hacker con's 10th anniverary in Vegas runs into Caesars Palace's 40th anniversary. Chaos ensues.

Update: Purchase-hungry Infor makes two more buys

Apps vendor Infor aims at market leaders Oracle and SAP with its acquisitions of Extensity, SU

In Brief: Yahoo invests in matrimonial portal

Ericsson sues Samsung over patents

Suit charges Samsung with infringing on Ericsson mobile phone patents

FTC: Rambus illegally monopolized markets

FTC did not decide in its ruling how Rambus should pay for its unlawful conduct

Vanco offers wide-area Ethernet

Ethernet Engaged offers quick, relatively inexpensive way to connect remote sites over high-speed links

Update: IBM makes third SOA buy

Big Blue will integrate Webify's technology into WebSphere

RealNetworks to distribute Google, Mozilla apps

Three companies team up to better compete with Microsoft's media player, browser

Lycos revamps free Webmail service

New Webmail service will have 3GB of storage space, no size limit on file attachments

Microsoft promotes research careers in India

Microsoft announces doctoral fellowships in India to encourage students in computer science

Germany hopes to establish ‘Linux Valley’

New business campus near Nuremberg will focus on open source innovation

Researcher creates net neutrality test

Software can tell if computers are treating some types of TCP/IP traffic better than others

Quote of the day: Apple backs away from open source

Microsoft eyes high-octane Windows for growth

With Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Microsoft aims to compete against Unix and Linux server clusters

Microsoft shuffles more Windows execs

One executive will move to its Platforms and Services Division and three will leave the group once Windows Vista is released

CA concludes stock options probe, finalizes results

After two delays, restated annual report results filed with SEC

Verizon stops collecting telecom tax

108-year-old excise tax is now history

Wells Fargo sets up technology subsidiary in India

Locallly staffed facility to have no effect on company's U.S. employment levels

The Killer (Antifraud) App?

AirMagnet unleashes Wi-Fi voice analyzer

Company software analyzes a wireless LAN's fitness to carry voice calls

Update: Microsoft smacks Belkin with patent complaint

Software giant alleges that Belkin imported products that infringe on Microsoft patents for peripheral devices

Update: IBM injects more servers with AMD chips

New systems to use AMD's 'Rev F' processor

Booting Windows to iSCSI

Update: CA names new head of Unicenter unit

Former Symantec CTO tapped to lead CA's enterprise systems management business

Verizon net revenue down $500M

Verizon execs blame costs of rolling out fiber-optic broadband, drop in number of switched access lines

Datacenter failure pinches UK health service

No data lost when patient administration system failed during CSC installation of a new system

Palm sees trouble ahead for Palm OS

Access reportedly is experiencing delays in developing a new version of the OS for Palm

McAfee to issue patch for vulnerability

Vulnerability in SecurityCenter app could allow unauthorized user to run code on a remote machine

Likewise manages mixed Windows/Linux shops

Product helps SMBs manage Windows and Linux servers from a common Windows console

Step 2 of 12 toward SOA

Apple responds to iTunes DRM complaints

Apple meets deadline set by Scandanavian consumer agencies

BT dumps contractor for NHS overhaul

UK's 10-year health services IT upgrade has been beset with delays

Quote of the day: Who owns the software you buy?

Via execs acquitted in industrial espionage case

Lawsuit by Taiwan's D-Link alleged theft of chip testing simulation software

Sun changes CIOs

Bill Vass will be president and COO of Sun Microsystems Federal, and Robert Worrall will take over the CIO role

Dell on fire again: Laptop ignites

Craigslist Craig’s news play named

Glitch sends Google stock tumbling

Vista voice-recognition feature needs work

During a demo last week, it failed on several occasions, with the results inspiring laughter from Analysts and journalists

MyHeritage.com puts a new face on face recognition

Boston wants citywide Wi-Fi run by nonprofit

It would deliver citywide Wi-Fi at wholesale prices and let other service providers offer end users access, either for free or for pay

Tapped by Boeing, Wind River shares the wealth

Ten major vendors team up on SML

Joining Microsoft and IBM in work on the draft are BEA Systems, BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Sun Microsystems

Verizon’s Chocolate cell phone aims to challenge iPod

Chocolate uses wireless links both to download and to play music

Another Grid / Linux Tie In

Users mix open-source, Windows for server apps

Growing wave of 'WAMP users' want the best of both worlds

Banks face Web security deadline

Majority of banks are unprepared to meet Dec. 31 deadline for complying with guidelines

Talkback: Does Apple moving away from open source matter?

Giving Windows a boot to iSCSI