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China denies cyber spy network charges

A network used to attack computers worldwide appears to be based in the country

Cloud Security Alliance formed to promote best practices

eBay and ING are among founding members

Google goes against the tide, launches VC company

Windows 7 Waiting Game: Reasons It Will Be Home for Holidays

IT spending drop-off worse than after dot.com bust, Gartner reports

IT spending forecasts plummet sharply for hardware, declines further for software, IT services and telecom

Legislation would curtail warrantless information demands

New bill would make changes to secretive National Security Letter program at FBI

Highly anticipated open-source releases coming in ’09

Siemens launches cloud experiment at VoiceCon

Communications applications are hosted in Amazon.com's cloud

EU lawmakers agree on new telecom super regulator

The move strengthens the European Commission in its fight against national regulator favoritism of local firms

New Missouri town goes wireless

Zend Technologies readies a new PHP application server

Zend Server will target software appliances and virtualized environments, unlike Zend Platform, aimed at server clusters

FAQ: Conficker clock ticks toward April 1 deadline

Fedora 11 beta posted with new security, developer features

The free Linux OS shows a glimpse of technologies that may end up in a future version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Wozniak stinks, says Dancing judge

Microsoft moves to bring high fashion to Windows phones

Data Center Energy Beast: Tamers Needed

5 best router and switch features you never use

Built-in 802.1x, NetFlow and IPv6 among features often overlooked

New Quadro GPUs add virtualization option for Nvidia users

Cloud computing vendors converge on standard definition, goals

Google bans tethering app from Android Market

The application runs foul of operator terms of service, the search giant said

Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking

For CIOs: Marketing IT, Avoiding Jet Lag, To-Do Lists

Advanced uses of unified communication apps shine at VoiceCon

IE8 cuts into IE7’s market share, Firefox unscathed

Conficker.c infects small number of U.S. PCs, IBM says

Skype for iPhone available everywhere but Canada

Blocking Conficker domain names: Will it work?

Over 100 top-level domain providers are trying to block the registration of tens of thousands of domain names

Lawmakers: Let’s be sure we’re collecting VoIP tax

A proposal would allow states to tax calls based on a customer's residence

AT&T to resell Cisco telepresence gear to feds

Dept. of Veterans Affairs is early customer for high-end, room-based systems.

Microsoft-TomTom settlement doesn’t end war

Kaiser fires workers for snooping in octuplet mom’s records

Critics slam $11M in federal stimulus for Microsoft overpass

US Airways Flight 1549 passenger grateful for life, and data

Ericsson claims fastest 3G ever

Special techniques to be demonstrated at CTIA will deliver 56Mb per second

Some UltraDNS customers knocked offline by attack

NeuStar confirms 'significant' denial of service attack on Tuesday morning

Grassley, Durbin plan to renew H-1B fight in Senate

HP unveils Nehalem-based servers, touts energy efficiency

Power needs cut in half in new ProLiant servers, HP says

Does a computer science degree matter anymore?

Some argue that computer science is crucial to U.S. competitiveness, others say business skills are more relevant today

Class of 2009: Computer science majors still in demand

Top 10 technology skills

Jobs are still available if you have expertise and certifications in these areas

EC to probe online profiling by Web sites and ISPs

Consumer affairs commissioner won't accept a "world wild west" when it comes to people's online data

GhostNet highlights evolving threat environment

Attacks are increasingly sophisticated and targeted, making them difficult to defend against.

Fujitsu hopes to almost double server sales in two years

The company will target the Intel-based server market and merge global product units to achieve the goal.

Mozilla patches Firefox’s critical Pwn2Own bug

Ships 'fire-drill' security update 5 days early, beats Microsoft, Apple to the patch punch

Pirate Bay adds feature to share torrents on Facebook

"Share on Facebook" button could mean wider distribution of content with copyright restrictions

Preparing for the Pre: Palm and Sprint must get it right

EC wants IT to reduce carbon footprint by 20%

A European commissioner calls for a "new green deal" for Europe, with the IT industry playing a large role

A Futurist Weighs in on Techies’ Tomorrows

Dr. James Canton of the Institute of Global Futures tells what IT folks should be doing to lead the future

3 Ways Pen Testing Helps DLP (and 2 Ways It Doesn’t)

Google launches Gmail Labs in 49 languages

Expansion of the email tools worldwide coincides with Gmail's fifth anniversary