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NeuStar confirmed that some of its UltraDNS managed DNS service customers were knocked offline for several hours Tuesday morning by a distributed denial of service attack. Also, global IT spending is expected to decline nearly 4% in 2009 over the previous year as industry watchers confirm the current recession will see more losses than the dot-com bust in 2001, Gartner reports. (6:14)
* UltraDNS service knocked offline by attack
* IT spending drop-off worse than after dot.com bust, Gartner reports
* Conficker activation passes quietly, but threat isn't over
* HP may offer Android in netbooks over Windows
* AMD readying 'very low power' Shanghai processors
* Wikia Search bites the dust, fails as a Google alternative
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