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Without a publisher, San Francisco man takes to Twitter to get his book out
New Proxim Wireless gear adds capacity for video, other traffic
Middleware chief Thomas Kurian will take over from Charles Rozwat
IBM will provide business continuity and disaster recovery services to help the DSE meet financial industry regulations and guidelines
App allows users to make calls, send SMS via Google Voice directly from their smartphone
They're slated to become available Oct. 1
Rival says IE8's off-switch won't restore competition
Automation, virtualization management capabilities help customers track IT elements in the cloud
At a quarter of a billion users, Facebook continues push to be most popular Web site
'The door is very open for us,' Dell exec says
Shipments were buoyed by consumer sales, though weak enterprise spending dragged down the overall market
Lower-level execs more likely to fear the worst from attacks on corporate data
Netbook shipments will take a larger chunk of worldwide laptop shipments as mainstream laptop shipments flatten.
TechNet, MSDN subscribers must wait a 'few weeks' after RTM to get code
Analysis contradicts assertions made by some governments of North Korean involvement
Handset maker "showed no interest" in fixing software driver, researcher says
The attack was apparently retaliation for Turkish criticism of China after deadly ethnic riots
Export growth may drop to below 10 percent from 29 percent two years ago
Windows Server machines most improved, but still suffer high downtime
Microsoft online apps an adjunct for corporations
Consumers are confident but arguably somewhat naive about computer security, a survey shows
FireMon 5.0 software creates audit logs, follows rules from cradle to grave
The cloud-computing platform is available for free now, but Microsoft will begin charging in November
NASA, Northrop Grumman others looking to protect space as number of debris as small as half an inch exceeds 300,000
Dell is looking to acquire storage and services companies geared to the enterprise
Researchers disagree on attack intensity, but say zero-day ActiveX bug is a big threat
Migration tool targets move to Google Apps
Two of the updates 'buck the trend,' notes security researcher
Moving workloads from Amazon cloud to Rackspace will be possible
Users of the SaaS ERP suite can tap Google, Business Wire and others with "one click"
British authorities are investigating a critical server used in the attacks, which is pinpointed to Miami
Broadband access becoming more of a necessity for households
McKinnon's attorney today says extradition could cause psychotic breakdown, suicide
Roadrunner is world's fastest, but fourth most efficient
Two zero-days and critical font bug quashed; no fix for Monday's ActiveX vulnerability
Critics say the federal system is still prone to mistakes due to bad data
RIVA the robot is ready with an IV and the right dosage
Cisco security report names rogue anti-virus the cybercrime product of the year
But over the long-term, AT&T gets more subscribers
Safeware's policy, two years in the making, covers the unsubsidized cost of the device
Odds are you have hidden tunnels on your network carrying IPv6 traffic--and possibly IPv6-based attacks
