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E.U. telecom law set to enshrine the right to information

Efforts to clamp down on illegal downloaders appear to have lost out to citizens' rights champions in a telecom law debate

VMware Bucks Microsoft’s Cheaper is Better Mantra

Quick Tips for Negotiating a Severance Agreement

Researchers can ID anonymous Twitterers

They have discovered a way to identify people using supposedly anonymous data from social networks, phone call databases

Apple slates dates for WWDC, touts Snow Leopard, iPhone 3.0

Wall Street Beat: Glimmers of confidence buoy tech

The Nasdaq surges as HP, Intel and RIM shares lead the way

Former MS exec blasts into space in Russian Soyuz capsule

New Zealand telco denies hiring botnet operator

Windows Geeks Warm to Macs

Wozniak urges geeks to vote for him on ‘Dancing’

Salesforce.com’s Social Media Smarts Could Help You

Mafiaboy to headline IT 360

Open-source firms urged to go on legal offensive

They should make wider use of patent re-examinations to protect their businesses, a lawyer advised

Nortel set to unveil health care offerings, ROI tool

Author of ‘cloud manifesto’ surprised by Microsoft protest

Companies, including startup Enomaly, aim to unveil the Open Cloud Manifesto on Monday

Avaya’s new CEO sets three top goals for company

Q&A with Kevin Kennedy as he preps for VoiceCon keynote.

Dell workstations tap Intel’s Nehalem architecture

Multi-threading, power efficiency improvements on tap from Intel

Intel raises the bar in server chips with Nehalem

Analysts consider the new Xeon chip a massive upgrade over chips based on past microarchitectures

Dell adds SSDs in updated EqualLogic line

Part of a broad data-center rollout, the PS6000 Series adds higher performance and deep support for Microsoft's Hyper-V

Microsoft sees growing SaaS opportunity among SMBs

A survey shows companies are ready to move on deploying hosted services for collaboration and e-mail.

Asian countries must spur domestic IT consumption

The export model that has been partly responsible for the global crash is just simply not sustainable, Obama advisor says

Put more IT spending in stimulus plans, Obama advisor says

Governments will get better economic returns from investments in technology than other kinds of stimulus programs.

High demand for virtualization in China, VMware says

The firm counts government ministries and some of China's biggest companies among its clients.

Biggest mistake for IPv6: It’s not backwards compatible, developers admit

Standards body scrambles to create new tools to fix transition problems.

EU close to agreement on telecoms law changes

Late night talks made progress after negotiations appeared blocked earlier this month, Commissionner Viviane Reding said

U.S. isn’t falling behind in broadband

U.K. police to track e-crime, fraud down to the last pence

The National Fraud Reporting Center will help investigators study international e-crime gangsters

H-1B lottery approaches, experts mull TARP effect

Legal experts, IT professionals weigh in on the current state of the U.S. H-1B visa program.

4 Telecommuting Security Mistakes

With limited resources, UK vows to battle e-crime

Police can't handle every e-crime case, but a new investigation unit will put more pressure on cybercriminals

10 operating systems the world left behind

Pixazza plans to profit from pictures with Google funds

The new service will at first target the fashion industry, linking photos to online stores

Expert cites “major problem” with security policy compliance

SecureWorld Boston speaker calls for going back to basics, moving toward automation

Attorney offers tips in case of IBM-Sun merger

Now would be a really good time to negotiate a deal with Sun, Diana McKenzie says

Verizon settles lawsuit over telemarketing on cell phones

Obama and IT

How Xcel Energy Plans to Help Customers Cut Electric Bills

Scaling Back in the Economic Downturn

Wozniak staves off Dancing elimination, credits fans

Geer: Risk Management Should Change the Future

Fairpoint Internet outage affects all of New Hampshire

Hot Jobs: .Net Developer

How NBC Universal Puts BPM To Work

Adobe details secret PDF patches

Dish Network charged with do-not-call violations

Two U.S. agencies ask a court to stop the company from robocalling and calling consumers on the list

Cisco security updates squash router bugs

The networking company has released its twice-yearly IOS patches, posting eight updates

Microsoft extends RIA push with Silverlight 3 beta

Google lawyers seek transfer of Milan privacy trial

The case involves a bullying video and an alleged failure to update misinformation

Sun chief forges ahead as IBM rumors swirl

Schwartz gave a business-as-usual speech about opportunities in open-source software and the cloud

Enterprises Struggle to Adopt Social Networking