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Dealing with the unimaginable

Panel discusses the importance of communications and picturing the worst scenarios that might occur

Low power is future for high-powered servers

Electricity consumed by a server over its lifetime can cost as much as the server itself

Motorola’s Zander says Razr problem is history

Motorola is once again shipping the Razr handset after fixing a faulty component

Cisco to let partner software, services bloom

Cisco announces it will incorporate 'lifecycle services' content into training programs

Update: Microsoft patches up Office

Reports say five of the bugs have to do with Excel, and one vulnerability affects a range of Office apps

Unisys to sell stake in Japanese affiliate

The sale, which is due to be completed next week, is expected to bring in more then $350 million for the company

Amazon provides storage for developers

The S3 service, aimed at software d runs on top of the storage infrastructure on which Amazon runs its own Web sites and offers 99.99 percent availability

Court likely to rule Google must give up data

Judge is reportedly leaning toward ordering Google to provide data on random Web sites found on its search engine index

Update: Google subpoena debated in court

Judge must decide whether a DOJ subpoena for search records is justified or if it is overreaching and compromises the privacy of users

Red Hat outlines virtualization road map

The company will provide a preview of these technologies with the release of Fedora Core 5 this month

Judge rules PlayStation copyright case will go on

If Sony loses its appeal, it will have to pay a $90 million fine and buy a license for the technology

Stupid human network tricks contest

Debate on French copyright bill moves into final stages

Bill would limit 'fair use' for digital works

Liberty Alliance helps fuel use of identity specs

Group anticipates that the number of people and devices that use specifications it endorses to top one billion this year

Cisco pushes channel toward one-stop shopping

Certified partners will have to broaden their expertise

Cisco blazes trails at sandwich shops

Subway stores in Arizona puts IP phones in place for managing employee hours and daily bank deposits

Symantec tackles connectivity in pcAnywhere 12.0

This release goes back to the basics, exec says

Amazon to sell a Web of storage

Alcatel adds satellite to mobile TV picture

Company looks to overcome lack of spectrum

TeliaSonera prunes outsourcing partnerships

To reduce costs and improve IT, telecom provider slashes the number of outsourcers it uses

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Microsoft unwraps software, financing for SMBs

Company holding its first Small Business Summit on Tuesday

Top SAP executives oppose workers’ council

Chairman Hasso Plattner expresses concern over impact union would have on SAP's 'start-up culture'

Lower roaming fees catching on in Europe

Two operators end roaming charges between Ireland and the U.K., similar moves expected across Europe

McAfee names new president, COO

Kevin Weiss becomes president, former CFO Eric Brown assumes COO role

Verisign to acquire Kontiki for $62 million

Purchase helps Verisign move into broadband content services

IBM to open 40 more innovation centers

Big Blue to increase annual investment to $250 million in facilities for testing, training and support

Fujitsu extends Opteron-based blades

Latest blades can be linked together into eight-socket system

IBM letting partners into SMB consulting

Big Blue to provide services under its Express brand

Update: NetSuite aims hosted apps at software vendors

The company may have carved itself a niche against on-demand CRM leader Salesforce.com

Hitachi shakes up management team

Company names new chairman, president

RIM hopes to launch BlackBerry in China

Company says it's in talks with Chinese mobile operator

Singapore considers year of free wireless broadband

Providers may be required to offer free Internet access for 12 months

Chinese group vents anger over ‘unfair’ WAPI vote

Broadband IP Wireless Standards Working Group says it is unwilling to accept the decision

Update: ISO rejects China’s WAPI wireless security protocol

ISO turned down the Chinese technology, called WAPI in voting to adopt the IEEE 802.11i security specification

Agile programming has fallen short, conference told

Author Steve McConnell says while intended to focus on individuals and interactions, agile seems to be mostly about processes and tools now

New testing follows faulty McAfee update

Update mistakenly prompted users to delete files from popular desktop software

Socially engineered breach highlights security weakness

Free CDs likely skirted an array of IT security systems in place to prevent malicious code from being installed

BEA rides Java to SOA

Open Source Identity Management and the Grid

Univa Names New CEO

Security hole found in crypto program GPG

Attackers could sneak malicious code into e-mails

Moving beyond NAS

Analyst: Vodafone strategy change may be near

Company's future direction at heart of internal battle that has seen executives retire

Mobile VOIP needs high-speed uplink

Commercial offerings not likely until operators perpare their networks

New SOA tools abound

Update: Singaporean company charged over pirated software

Interior design company PDM allegedly used 51 copies of pirated software for 'commercial advantage'

Update: Carriers pull Razr due to glitch

Bug causes mobile phones to drop calls

Iran nurtures contacts for growing IT industry

Group of Iranian firms display products at Cebit

Shuttle’s X100 mini PC will launch at midyear

New system rivals Apple's Mac mini