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IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life
IBM is issuing guidelines governing employee behavior in Second Life as the virtual online world increasingly becomes a platform for doing business. Expect others to follow suit.
Networkiest moments on ‘The Simpsons’
In honor of the new Simpsons movie, a look back at the best bits from the network world of ‘The Simpsons.’
With Black Hat approaching, a rush to patch iPhone
With security researchers set to reveal details of a critical security flaw in the iPhone at the Black Hat 2007 conference next week, Apple now has fewer than seven days to patch a critical vulnerability in the product.
P-to-P users expose U.S. government secrets
Contractors and U.S. government employees are sharing hundreds of secret documents on peer-to-peer networks, in many cases overriding the default security settings on their P-to-P software to do so, according to a company that monitors the networks.
Show your SysAdmins a little love today
Annual appreciation day is now linked to yearly contest that calls out exemplary IT professionals and showers them with gifts.
Making sense of AMD’s processor road map
Advanced Micro Devices Thursday gave journalists and analysts a peek at its road map of upcoming processors, including more details on the company’s quad-core processors and plans for a family of server chips with 16 cores.
Cisco to acquire equity stake in VMware
Cisco plans to acquire a 1.6% equity stake in virtualization software player VMware, mirroring a step Intel took earlier this month.
Storm worm gets smarter
Newer variants of the widespread Storm worm have introduced a new technique for evading security experts — detecting when they are running in a virtual environment and changing their behavior if they are.
Riverbed software optimizes traffic from laptops to data centers
Riverbed is announcing WAN acceleration software for personal computers so users can optimize WAN connections with an appliance at data centers without installing a device at every other location.
SOX: Five years of headaches
Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to prevent Enron-like scandals, the law has forced large public companies to clean up their accounting. But it has been so costly that some foreign companies are dropping out of U.S. stock exchanges, and …
