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Microsoft talks up countermeasures to fend off IE attacks

Lenovo goes shopping for PC makers

Microsoft improves IE8 for disabled users

Virtual data center brings cost, efficiency benefits to Kronos

Software vendor taps VMware for server virtualization project

Top execs would roll up sleeves to fight cyber war, according to think tank study

Energy, finance, government and IT/communications organizations are key

U.K. Wikipedia blacklisting dropped

Verizon aims for LTE deployment in 2009

Inside Tsubame – the Nvidia GPU supercomputer

Google Flu Trends spreads privacy concern

Sun takes another swing at cloud computing

Three years on, Xbox 360 slowly gaining in Japan

Intel completes work on 32nm chip technology

PlayStation Home arriving as open beta from Thursday

Cisco is big tease about ‘Big Bang’ switch upgrade

VP only says switches will get greener; mum on blade server plans

Survey: One in four IT jobs moving offshore

BlackBerry Storm firmware updated two weeks after launch

What Obama’s Appointment of a U.S. CTO Means

Nortel mulls bankruptcy

The company seeks counsel on restructuring, but sticks to cost-cutting plan

Le Web 08: Startups plan ‘Facebookification’ of the Web

Heads begin to roll at Yahoo

The seven deadly sins of network security

Microsoft Research develops map search for unstructured data

HP gets cost-conscious with management software, licensing

Adds to SaaS offerings, offers zero-percent financing.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 adds speed and privacy

How To Know A Software Development Project Is Doomed

Sometimes, Security Theater Really Works

FTC, court halt ‘scareware’ advertising operations

Virtual management start-up grabs $4 million in VC cash

Embotics completes Series B financing round, plans to invest in virtualization management technology.

Zune phone makes sense, but politics could prevent it

US IT employment falls, hiring may be stalled for months

Microsoft snaps up identity expert

Identity 2.0 advocate Dick Hardt to help Microsoft build identity platform

Tech industry’s biggest M&A deals of 2008

HP only company to show up twice near top of mergers and acquisitions list

Red Hat invests in open-source BI vendor JasperSoft

Cisco to broaden unified communications package

The 2009 release will enable intercompany collaboration among business partners, suppliers and customers

Microsoft unveils Thumbtack for sharing Web snippets

Ineffective law enforcement, bad economy fueling cybercrime

Cybercriminals exploiting the recession, banking crisis to prey upon jittery consumers

IT fugitive Stein Bagger will be sent back to Denmark

Dell, EMC extend storage partnership to 2013

MySpace vows to boost data portability efforts

VeriSign, NeuStar and others team on DNS security

Coalition of top-level domain operators seeks protection against the Kaminsky bug

Forrester slashes IT spending forecast as recession deepens

U.S. tech growth will slow to 1.6% in 2009, Forrester predicts

Microsoft will discard search data sooner if rivals do same

Cybercrime ’09: Too Late to Save Facebook?

Get ready for CIO musical chairs, consultancy warns

Web 2.0 adds a twist to job search strategies

Startup debuts free, ad-supported Microsoft Exchange replacement

Novatel touts MiFi modem for mobile hot-spot capability

Civil liberties group asks Obama for tech changes

14 more companies sign up to Open Handset Alliance

Spam levels climb as criminals replace crippled botnets