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Dutch spyware makers fined $1.45 million

Websense touts data-leak prevention endpoint control

Microsoft to hand over Windows secrets to Samba team

Cisco’s Giancarlo leaving company

Cisco CEO Chambers' heir apparent instead joining private equity firm

NetBooks aims at ‘S’ of SMB

Advocate fears privacy woes from Google-DoubleClick

Forget the U.K.: What happens here if the IRS loses our data?

Microsoft deal gives Samba access to Windows protocol documentation

Open-source proponents, including Samba, strike deal with Microsoft for Windows server code licensing

ComScore: Online sales heat up this week

Poll: IT workers mostly male, well-off, concerned about Iraq

App support could spoil the virtualization bash

Soundbuzz offers lossless downloads in Singapore

French e-voting study highlights hidden costs

How to build a data center in 6 months for $800,000

Home healthcare firm built data center that saves on space, power, cooling and IT effort

Many small companies look to bid in 700MHz auction

YEAR END – The year of the new mobile operating system

YEAR END – Microsoft to heat up battle vs. Flash in ’08

YEAR END – AIR and RIAs raise Adobe’s profile

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo settle gambling charges

Data center nearly restored for New Orleans schools

Microsoft to release IE 8 beta 1 in first half of 2008

Wi-Fi mesh lights up Mecca for Hajj

Collaboration plug-in for Outlook unveiled

Google Toolbar flaw opens door for phishers

15 must-have Firefox tricks

YEAR END – Congress slow on tech issues in ’07

Intel goes open source with ‘Fibre Channel over Ethernet’ package

Intel program could help users consolidate LAN and SAN traffic

Privacy groups: FTC has obligation in Google deal

IT pros lean ‘independent’ politically, survey says

Internap extends uptime SLA to CDN services

CDNs will employ Internap's patented route-optimization software, company says

New Sprint chief Hesse faces a big inbox

IBM tool adds visualization to social networks at work

IE, Gmail bugs allow hijacking of accounts on public PCs

MPAA wins copyright case against TorrentSpy

YEAR END – New mobile approaches got a reality check

Microsoft security update cripples IE

Almost half of U.S. Internet users ‘Google’ themselves

BGP bug bites Juniper software

Bug lends itself to remote exploitation, could open way for denial-of-service attacks

Sprint Nextel names former Embarq chief Hesse as new CEO

New CEO was CEO of AT&T Wireless from 1997 to 2000

How feds are dropping the ball on IPv6

Six months shy of an IPv6 deadline, few agencies are running the new protocol

IPv6 guru predicts last-minute switch to protocol

Asks: Do you have enough public IPv4 addresses to sustain you?

IPv6 vs. Y2K and GOSIP

IPv6 upgrade has more in common with old GOSIP program than Year 2000 efforts

Software tracks messages sent to and from BlackBerrys

Outsourcers take services south of the border in 2008

Indian offshore providers look to Central and South America for outsourcing facilities to keep U.S. customers happy

VoIP vulnerabilities increasing, but not exploits

Close attention to security mitigates the risk

Commtouch takes aim at zombie machines

New service detects, blocks messages from zombie computers, company says

Successful phishing attacks up, online survey shows

Sun server/storage exec: Virtualization has customers confused

Sun hardware guru previews storage, server plans for 2008

New company encourages phone applications

Privacy, data breaches still run rampant, shows survey of IT pros