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MIT digitizes its courses, throws them online, and asks ‘What now?”

MIT completes five-year OpenCourseWare project

Infineon-Siemens joint venture gets green light from EU

Can Verizon really change its stripes?

Hoist with their own FUD: an old marketing tactic is backfiring

Mozilla scrambles to patch Firefox for second time this week

Report: AT&T CEO says faster 3G version of iPhone due in ’08

Cisco confirms ability to eavesdrop on remote calls using its VoIP phones

Micron exec: SSDs to reach portable devices in 2008

Panelists: Content management, meet social networking

Orange to offer unlocked iPhone for €649 in France

Client side attacks on the rise, SANS says

Annual vulnerability report points to application exploits, warns about future VoIP threats

What does Verizon’s open-access network option mean for you?

OLPC sued for patent infringement

Verizon unveils eBonding Toolkit

Designed to simplify the eBonding process for beginner users

Lotus Notes vulnerable to e-mail attack

EU telecom lobby group blasts regulatory laggards

Microsoft capacity planning tool set for year-end release

Tool works with Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint

Cisco’s NAC Guest Server eases Numis Securities network administrative burden

Cisco NAC Guest Server is based on Perfigo admission-control software

Google service uses cell towers to locate users

Business Objects to help SAP in new class of applications

Google locates mobile phone users by tracking cell towers

Google Maps adds GPS-like features to smartphones

First large-scale 802.11n wireless LAN now operational

Morrisville State College has 720 access points that create a pervasive, reliable, high-throughput wireless LAN

Verizon Wireless’ open network earns praise

One-third of major online retailers were unprepared for holiday rush, study finds

Toys “R” Us, Lowe’s, Costco suffered Web site problems after Thanksgiving

Yahoo to offer structured Web search

Optinuity overhauls automation software

Run-book automation player expands its technology to tackle autonomic policy management.

Motorola slides to third in mobile phones, study says

Oracle to VMware users: We still support you, kind of

Enterasys secures virtual data centers

Enterasys Secure Networks for Virtual Data Centers software enforces access control policies, compliance

IBM loses server market share to rivals HP, Dell, Sun

Server market grows 8.7% worldwide, Gartner says

Which certifications are worth your time?

Project management certs in vogue; tech less so, but security, storage certifications have pull

NAC saves college time and admin headaches

Tipping Point gear cleans up student machines quickly

New legal guidelines proposed for online games

IT gains as the EU goes back to business

EU approves SAP, Vodafone acquisitions

EU wants more information on IBM’s Telelogic buy

IBM to ship Sametime 8, new entry-level version

FTC: 8.3 million US victims of ID theft in 2005

Verizon’s move called an opening for industry

Microsoft won’t confirm proxy configuration flaw, impending patch

Survey: A quarter of US workers telecommute regularly

Open source’s future: More Microsoft, bigger talent shortages

Open source analyst says systems integrators to play bigger role in 2008 too

Kernel space: E-paper support for Linux

Gmail works fine on iPhone, blanks on Windows Mobile

Client virtualization, blade PCs gain popularity

Server-based computing still most popular alternative PC technology

Gartner: x86 servers gain as Unix shipments fall

China Mobile testing 3G Windows Mobile handset

Online holiday shopping starts strong in the United States

U.K. iPhone users complain of weak signal

Study finds young gov’t IT workers say tech is dated