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Husband, wife team arrested for allegedly stealing $23M from Cisco

Alleged scam involved using fake companies to obtain replacement parts from Cisco

Survey: Nine out of 10 of corporate PCs can run Windows 7

With only 3% of North American PCs on Vista, they may be ripe for upgrade, says Softchoice

With botnets everywhere, DDoS attacks get cheaper

$30 will buy a one-day DDoS attack now

Study backs open access to broadband networks

A global survey of broadband sought by the FCC suggests open access to wired networks has led to successes

Google using ‘double talk’ on cloud security, says L.A. consumer group

Google says group being paid to target Apps

Indian provider launches Twitter by SMS

The service is offered by India's Bharti Airtel

Microsoft pushes Bing in China with mobile portal

Bing has not caught on in China and Microsoft has done little to promote it so far

China’s Taobao fights piracy as it courts foreign partners

Company parent Alibaba Group has increasingly eyed expansion overseas

Mac sales ‘defy all logic,’ says analyst

Apple's sales up 7% to 12% last quarter, handily beat industry average, say IDC, Gartner

Stockholders may block Cisco’s purchase of Tandberg

They want more money or a bid from another company, according to broker SEB Enskilda

Acer reveals specs of Android smartphone

Liquid sports a 3.5-inch touchscreen, has a 5-megapixel camera and a 3.5mm audio jack

How data security can vaporize in the cloud

IT managers should consider security, legal issues before signing up for hosted storage services

Outsourcer Cognizant acquiring UBS’ Indian subsidiary

UBS decides to outsource IT and back office work rather than run its own subsidiary

I don’t want to sell Twitter, says Biz Stone

Twitter co-founder says the micro-blogging service isn't up for sale

iPhone apps enable ‘supercomputer-class’ image rendering

University of Utah becoming hotbed of high-definition iPhone image apps

Microsoft apologizes, recovers most Sidekick data

Microsoft apologizes to T-Mobile Sidekick customers for service disruption, threatened data loss

Five Problems Keeping Legacy Apps Out of the Cloud

Five Lessons from a Data Center’s Crisis of Capacity

Reduce radio wave exposure, warns French government agency

The dangers aren't proven, says Afsset, but we should take precautions nonetheless

Reporter’s Notebook: Oracle OpenWorld 2009

Corporate PCs up to task of Windows 7, but age could be mitigating factor

Survey shows corporate computers capable of handling new OS

Mozilla will let rival browsers run Firefox security tool

Plans to open new plug-in checker to users running other browsers

Windows 7 to go: New portables for the new OS

Exciting, innovative notebooks and netbooks are being built around Microsoft's latest operating system. Here's a preview.

Why Security Matters Now

BlackBerry Storm2, Bold 9700 Get November Releases

Microsoft Sidekick Debacle & the Cloud: Lessons Learned

BlackBerry: Create MMS Audio, Video, Slide Shows

Camera-Less BlackBerry Bold 9000 Coming to AT&T Oct. 16

JetBrains readies open source version of its Java IDE

Google dives into online bookstore business

Watch out, Amazon! Google to sell e-books that can be read on multiple devices

Companies, lawmakers tell FCC to dump net neutrality

A group of 44 companies says net neutrality rules would hurt the Internet

NASA network security torched

GAO says NASA has been successfully hit by cyber attacks 1,120 times in the past two years and significant holes still remain

Sidekick’s lessons: Why backup for mobile phones is crucial

But cloud services will continue to grow, even as they pose risks, analysts agree

Apple bucks netbook trend, Gartner says

Apple didn't need the help of netbooks, like HP or Acer did, to increase shipments

Fugitive hacker headed back to U.S. for arraignment

Edwin Pena faces 20 federal charges related to hacking and wire fraud in VoIP theft scam

How to royally foul-up an IT outsourcing project

Interim audit of Virginia’s $2B outsourcing contract with Northrop Grumman finds major failures at almost every point.

IBM boosts earnings estimate, but revenue drops

Mainframe revenue dropped 26 percent year-over-year and IBM's Unix business was down 10 percent

Cisco backpedals on WiMAX with Starent buy

'Future is LTE,' says new leader of company's Mobile Internet Group; WiMAX now a footnote?

BlackBerry Storm sequel seen keeping click screen

Verizon, RIM hoping for a 'do-over'

Twitter helped quash injunction, UK newspaper says

The Guardian says online supporters helped reverse an injunction that hampered its reporting of Parliament

Benioff plays nice to Oracle at OpenWorld

The Salesforce.com CEO decided against any return fire after Larry Ellison's recent mocking

Samsung quietly testing mini SSD for laptops, netbooks

Netbook makers currently testing Samsung's mini-SATA drive (see image, below)

Dell slams netbooks, says Windows 7 is our savior

The CEO was answering questions on stage at a Silicon valley dinner Tuesday night

Acer debuts Liquid Android smartphone, new netbook

Acer Liquid will run Android version 1.6, formerly codenamed Donut

Intel says growth has returned

Intel results come the same week a survey of economic forecasters declares recession is over

SNW: IT managers put data dedupe at the top of their future tech list

Being able to address data management through consolidation is key

Delta Air Lines sued over alleged e-mail hacking

Executive director of a passenger rights organization alleges her AOL e-mails were improperly redirected

IE, GDI flaws good place for IT to start Patch Tuesday cleanup, experts say

Two patches highlighted for breadth of deployment across networks

How green IT saves Citizens Bank $500,000 a year

Power inefficiency targeted at financial institution

The Patch Tuesday Survival Guide