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Over 50% of companies fire workers for e-mail, ‘Net abuse

Public-safety spectrum auction DOA, Yankee Group predicts

"Horrendous" ownership costs doomed D-Block auction from start

FTC data: Telcos, banks are top targets for ID theft

Wall Street Beat: Net, telecom sectors spook IT investors

Open source software and recycled gear equals PCs for needy schools

Installfest for Schools in California's Bay Area couples recycled desktops with Linux community volunteers to donate PCs to schools

LinkedIn users question Gates query

Linux for the SMB market: slow? steady? or both?

Yahoo aims to lasso the ‘Buzz’ with Digg clone

Microsoft has high expectations for Windows Server 2008

Server revenue could slow in 2008, after strong 2007

Google ad drop may not signal problems

Sony shows off concept hand-powered gadgets for kids

Microsoft fined another €899 million by EU for antitrust abuse

EU fines Microsoft another $1.3B for antitrust abuse

Mobile phone sales have blockbuster year

Security skills of IT workforce lacking, survey finds

CompTIA's most recent survey reveals wide gap between IT security skills wanted and those workers bring to the job.

IT salaries biggest in Big Apple

IT salaries in the New York area expected to increase by more then 5% in 2008.

OOXML vote won’t affect public sector, Denmark says

Debate on OOXML standard continues behind closed doors

Lawmakers debate mobile consumer rights bill

Nortel cutting 2,100 jobs

Nortel blames lower carrier spending for revenue shortfall

Microsoft revels in new Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio packages

Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer says platform will lead company into next generation of enterprise computing

Inside Google’s mobile future

EBay aims to help security officers through Red Team confab

VMware opens hypervisor to security vendors

VMsafe APIs will let partners build more robust security products, VMware says

WORLDBEAT – Technology could ease commuting hassles

Healthcare organizations feeling cyberattacks growing

The other pressure: The surprise HIPAA security audit from the feds

Bill would give special designation to ISPs that block porn

Lenovo unveils ultrathin ThinkPad X300 laptop

YouTube outage underscores big Internet problem

Sharp, Sony to team on advanced LCD panel production

BlackBerry stumbles over words in Taiwan

India’s Wipro plans big expansion in China

US judge pokes hole in file-sharing lawsuit

IBM launches z10 mainframe

Network Solutions sued over domain name policy

Lost laptops, mobile devices account for most U.K. data leaks

Comcast takes lumps at FCC panel

ISP defends traffic management practices from charges of anticompetitive behavior

IBM boosts performance, energy efficiency of new mainframe

IBM’s z10 mainframe optimized for CPU-intensive jobs, virtualization security

HP, Dell, IBM, Fujitsu and Siemens to embed slim VMware hypervisor

The VMware ESX 3i is a 32MB hypervisor on a USB stick

Sun’s CEO talks up buy as MySQL deal closes

Yahoo releases APIs for more detailed search results

Ruckus Wireless unveils 11n Wi-Fi gear for net operators

Retailers’ No. 1 tech priority is business intelligence

EMC plans to release online services software after Pi buy

West Palm Beach touts new wireless cameras for curbing crime

How to Spot a Bad CIO

HP aims to simplify midsize company life with storage array

National Science Foundation taps into IBM-Google computer cluster

Cluster created last year to support academic parallel computing initiative

Tech group urges increase in US gov’t research funding