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YAPPS (Yet Another Phone Phishing Scam)

There's a report of yet another phone phishing scam. This one targeting customers of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust.

Net neutrality lobbying intensifies

Tech companies and consumer groups continue their efforts to strengthen Net neutrality provisions in broadband bill

AT&T says it owns your personal info

TorrentSpy names hacker and details attack

Company asks court to require MPAA to hand over documents

EMC opens software center in China

The center is part of the company's $1.2 billion investment in global research and development, which will linclude $500 million spent in China

Pervasive follows Apple out of India

Personnel costs, management complexities lead to Pervasive's decision

Increasing deal size, number boosted Oracle’s Q4

Oracle's Siebel business doubled expectations at $81 million

Google to test video, display ads

Ads on Google Video is another step in the search giant's exploration of graphical ads on its own services, say sources familiar with the plans

Wall Street Beat: Games serious business

Despite warning signals, online gaming looks as if it's gaining traction

Lawmaker: VA’s offer of credit monitoring not enough

U.S. veterans left vulnerable to serious identity theft repurcussions

AT&T claims subscribers’ data as its own

Effective Friday, an AT&T privacy policy will recognize account information as business records

Tech worker group files complaints over H-1B job ads

Complaints accuse U.S. companies of violating U.S. Immigration and Naturality Act

Qualcomm won’t cut royalty on handsets for India

CDMA technology in India growing

French copyright law advances

Opposition lawmakers walk out, allowing compromise draft to advance for a vote

Google testing cost-per-action ads

Google seeking an ad model that isn't vulnerable to click fraud

Update: Novell CEO ousted by the board

Jack Messman gets the boot as former COO Ron Hovsepian is given the CEO title

New Intel fab tips balance in favor of 65nm

More than half of Intel's PC and server chips are now made using 65nm technology

WiMax gets off to a slow start

Motorola is betting on WiMax to spur the roll out of broadband wireless services

Motorola joins Eclipse to boost mobile Linux apps

The company will contribute software, engineering resources and expertise to help produce a development environment for mobile Linux platforms

Execs debate the ‘open source effect’

Panelists from SpikeSource, JBoss, and Sun share their opinions on open source's impact

Common sense the key to managing IM

IT managers need to think about policies and standards, not about keeping IM out of their networks

RIM to launch BlackBerry in Taiwan

Company vague about launch date for BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service

UMC finds more 65-nanometer chip customers

UMC expects to have chips from 10 customers in 65nm production by the end of the third quarter

Samsung to put WiMax into cell phones

Samsung expects to push downlink speeds for mobile WiMax to nearly 40Mbps by 2007

Researchers hack Wi-Fi driver to breach laptop

One of many flaws found allowed them to take over a laptop by exploiting a bug in an 802.11 wireless driver

VMware does Intel ASAP

Update: Third Microsoft Excel attack posted

The latest attack takes advantage of Adobe Systems's Flash technology, which can be used to provide graphics and animation to Excel documents

Adobe to distribute Google’s toolbar

Adobe expects the deal to generate a "significant" amount of additional revenue

Microsoft touts Entities to link business, data

The technology allows developers to define complex mapping to relational data, the company says

Microsoft to link with Live for single sign-on

Windows Live ID will be used to develop the single sign-on for apps and services

CTO: Large-scale acquisitions likely over for CA

The company has spent more than $1.7 billion in acquiring companies over the past 18-plus months

Nortel class-action deal moves forward

The company is trying to dig its way out from under years of accounting problems that led to the firing of its CEO, CFO and controller in 2004

Opera 9 released in browser war broadside

The Norwegian browser company launched Opera 9 at an event in rival Microsoft's backyard on Wednesday

Sun offers Java beta release

Company also announces database functionality and PC distribution agreements

Antivirus market jumped 13.6 percent last year

Growth in malicious software drives revenue totaling $4 billion for anti-virus companies

Samsung ships thinnest cell phone yet

Samsung shows off the third in its series of thin-body 'Ultra' cell phone handsets

Oracle finally takes over Portal

Oracle wins hard-fought battle to acquire billing and revenue-management software vendor

Around the horn: Grid community discussions around SOA this week

Taiwan investment to China up 46% in 2006

Government program to curb investment to the mainland having little effect

Tracking sites halted after MySpace warnings

Legal action threatened against two entrepreneurs who track the relationship status of MySpace users

Cognizant to hire thousands more in India

CEO says Cognizant will continue to expand its offshore services delivery hub in India

Korean firm to invest $1B in China’s mobile market

SK Telecom to purchase $1 billion stake in China Unicom

Push-to-talk standard approved

Standard will enable cell 'walkie-talkies' to work across a multivendor network

Cyber-budget lets citizens run the economy

Game educates French citizens by letting them run the country's finances for three years

Search battle just starting, Yahoo says

Yahoo betting on social search, other advances in search technology to wrest control of market

Microsoft, Lessig launch new copyright tool

Tool lets Microsoft Office users create Creative Commons licenses within documents

Anti-Linux leader leaves Microsoft

Martin Taylor, best known for his "Get the Facts" campaign, abruptly leaves Microsoft

PC demand down ahead of anticipated Intel price cuts

Speculation abounds that Intel will announce reductions in chip prices in July

Showering after Linux

Power Mac G5 Quad: Shifting into hybrid drive